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Old 12-03-2015, 19:01
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Oasis- Whatever
Charlatans- Tellin Stories
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Old 12-03-2015, 21:46
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So how come you've nominated two?

There's only one contender anyway: This World & Body by Marion. Light years in front of anything else of that period.
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Old 12-03-2015, 21:50
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Song: Alright by Supergrass
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Old 12-03-2015, 22:00
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Track - Song 2
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Old 12-03-2015, 22:44
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So how come you've nominated two?

There's only one contender anyway: This World & Body by Marion. Light years in front of anything else of that period.
I'd agree with that, but always slightly distressing that they got lumped in with the whole Britpop thing.
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Old 12-03-2015, 23:35
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Track - Just Looking
Album - Performance & Cocktails
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Live Forever/Definetly Maybe & Lucky Man/Urban Hymns by Oasis & The Verve respectively were a close second.
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Old 13-03-2015, 03:45
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Track - Common People
Album - Different Class
Artist - Pulp
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Sorry but bloody hell I love that album.
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Old 13-03-2015, 09:30
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Disco 2000 - Pulp.
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Old 13-03-2015, 10:27
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Track - The Universal by Blur
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Old 13-03-2015, 10:29
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Different Class by Pulp is the correct answer. Well done to all those who got that at home.

You can pick any song from it.
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Old 13-03-2015, 10:55
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I'm really struggling with this because I think the best British album of the the 90s was probably OK Computer but I'm not sure if it qualifies really. Radiohead's first album was '93 so they were right in there at the time but it's still hard to put them as Britpop.

My original thought was Suede's first album, then Mansun, then Vision Incision by Lo Fidelity Allstars as a single but that was '98 and post all that, I suppose. Then I started questioning what Britpop was and who it included and suddenly Radiohead popped in my head.

Bowie's albums around then were really good as well - Black Tie White Noise for one. Better now than I realised at the time, I think.

Sorry for the long rambling answer when you wanted a name but I'm struggling.

If it's allowable then my answer is OK Computer and Vision Incision but those were really on the back of Britpop rather than bang in the middle. (I always think of the height of Britpop as being when Oasis and Blur were battling for number 1 in '95, the start being Suede's first breakthrough album and the media coining the term, and the end being....not sure).
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Old 13-03-2015, 11:06
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Song : I Am The Resurrection by The Stone Roses.
Album : The Holy Bible by The Manic Street Preachers*

* I don't really care for Britpop - I found the Seattle sound of the early 90's far more interesting, so I'm not really sure if the Manics class as Britpop or not - but they seemed to get (unfairly) lumped into the genre. Can I also cast a vote for The Verve being the most overrated band in the history of music? Well I'm going too anyway.
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Old 13-03-2015, 12:30
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Old 13-03-2015, 12:36
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track - dark therapy - echobelly
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Old 13-03-2015, 12:37
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Beautiful Ones - Suede

Coming Up - Suede
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Old 13-03-2015, 12:55
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Old 13-03-2015, 19:40
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I'm really struggling with this because I think the best British album of the the 90s was probably OK Computer but I'm not sure if it qualifies really. Radiohead's first album was '93 so they were right in there at the time but it's still hard to put them as Britpop.

My original thought was Suede's first album, then Mansun, then Vision Incision by Lo Fidelity Allstars as a single but that was '98 and post all that, I suppose. Then I started questioning what Britpop was and who it included and suddenly Radiohead popped in my head.

Bowie's albums around then were really good as well - Black Tie White Noise for one. Better now than I realised at the time, I think.

Sorry for the long rambling answer when you wanted a name but I'm struggling.

If it's allowable then my answer is OK Computer and Vision Incision but those were really on the back of Britpop rather than bang in the middle. (I always think of the height of Britpop as being when Oasis and Blur were battling for number 1 in '95, the start being Suede's first breakthrough album and the media coining the term, and the end being....not sure).
Radiohead were considered part of whatever Britpop exactly was during the nineties by many critics, and Thom kind of played up to it around the time of The Bends.
So, yeah, go with OK Computer! (I absolutely love Let Down in particular)
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Old 13-03-2015, 19:43
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Song : I Am The Resurrection by The Stone Roses.
Album : The Holy Bible by The Manic Street Preachers*

* I don't really care for Britpop - I found the Seattle sound of the early 90's far more interesting, so I'm not really sure if the Manics class as Britpop or not - but they seemed to get (unfairly) lumped into the genre. Can I also cast a vote for The Verve being the most overrated band in the history of music? Well I'm going too anyway.
With Everything Must Go, The Manics definitely made a play for being part of the Britpop bandwagon, so you can quite easily plump for them.
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Old 14-03-2015, 20:24
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I love Britpop stuff, the soundtrack of my youth!

Album - Elastica's self titled debut
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Old 14-03-2015, 20:33
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Do Portishead count? If so I'll pick Roads.
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Old 15-03-2015, 00:07
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Song Oasis Cigarettes and Alcohol. Still remember hearing this on the radio for the first time and howling with laughter at the blatant T-Rex rip off. Then Liam started singing and I stopped laughing, Sat down very hard and phoned everyone I knew to say 'Have you heard THIS???'
Album Supergrass In it For The Money. Every song - every single one - is a stone cold classic. Why weren't that band huge??
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Old 15-03-2015, 16:25
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With Everything Must Go, The Manics definitely made a play for being part of the Britpop bandwagon, so you can quite easily plump for them.
Nope, it wasn't Britpop at all.
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Old 15-03-2015, 17:29
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Nope, it wasn't Britpop at all.
For many, it was. Plenty of music critics of the time and later have included it as a Britpop album, and I fully agree. The Manics always wanted chart success, so it was very convenient for them to tweak their image and appeal to a whole new crowd.
Besides, Britpop wasn't one particular sound, as evidenced by the contrast between, say, Elastica and Cast. Damon Albarn, a prime instigator of whatever Britpop really was, always felt acts like Massive Attack and The Prodigy were a part of his version of Britpop, but many music journalists of the time decreed to be a guitars-only scene.
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Old 15-03-2015, 21:23
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Song: Common People - Pulp
Album: (What's The Story) Morning Glory?
Personality: Damon Albarn
Gig: Ocean Colour Scene - Stirling Castle '98

I'd say The end of Britpop was towards the end of '97. Oasis stalled with the over ambitious coke fuelled "Be Here Now" and Blur moved into a more Lo-Fi American sound with "Blur". A lot of the 2nd tier Britpop bands started to get dropped as they released albums that weren't as big as ones released at the height of the scene.

There's been a lot of good stuff mentioned so far in the thread though. I had a lot of these albums on tape cassette like Parklife, The Great Escape, Morning Glory and Different Class. It was around the time I changed over to CD so I also had Everything Must Go, Tellin' Stories and Blur on CD.
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Old 16-03-2015, 00:00
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Oasis What's the story

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