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My dad (who is 71) was talking about the Gallagher brothers the other day and we got on to talking about Britpop as a 90s thing and Ocean Colour Scene, Oasis, Pulp, Dodgy and so on.
My dad didn't get the "Britpop" thing saying it was nothing new, Britpop started in the 60s with all the Swinging 60s/Carnaby Street stuff. "It was all there in our day, nothing different at all, just jumping on a bandwagon"
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Its true many of the Brit Pop bands were influenced by 60s bands like The Kinks and Small Faces especially Blur and Ocean Colour Scene
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I hate the term "Britpop" as most of the bands were Indie rock.
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I hate the term "Britpop" as most of the bands were Indie rock.
A better label might be Cool Britannia. There seemed to be something of a harping back to the 60s/70s, particularly in the music of Oasis. It helped remind people how good Britain is at making pop music. Just like Adele is doing at the moment. |
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I loved Britpop, it was a shame it died out so quickly, after it became a pastiche of itself. I was about 13 when it started.
So many great albums from that time that I still listen today: Blur's Parklife Sleeper's The It Girl Elastica's self titled debut Oasis' Definitely Maybe Your dad's right though, it really wasn't anything new and most of the bands were heavily influenced from the bands of the 60s (and 70s in Elastica's case). Such great music
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I loved Britpop, it was a shame it died out so quickly, after it became a pastiche of itself. I was about 13 when it started.
So many great albums from that time that I still listen today: Blur's Parklife Sleeper's The It Girl Elastica's self titled debut Oasis' Definitely Maybe Your dad's right though, it really wasn't anything new and most of the bands were heavily influenced from the bands of the 60s (and 70s in Elastica's case). Such great music ![]() |
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People moan about Britpop and retro guitar sounds but is any of the electronic music that is now pushed on the likes of Radio 1 above "retro" guitar bands in any way original either? Whether it be through lazy unoriginal samples of old songs or just recycling old sounds.
Case of point over the past year or so I have heard Radio 1 play at least 3 utterly sh*te songs that seem to have ripped off the "House Organ" sound from Show Me Love by Robin S and have barely even changed the notes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGxwoITmrYY I would love to have also linked the rip offs but they were all so crap my brain seems to have purged them from my mind. But you know the riff: Doo-diddly-do-do-do...etc. Flip me, when I first heard that ditty all those years ago it really wasn't something I though 20 odd years later I would be hearing again...and again...and it appears... again. I'm sure some other talentless d*ckhead DJ is working on yet another rehash as I type this. Remember kids: unoriginality sells. The whole thing that makes me laugh is Radio 1 have that ridiculous policy that they wont play music that isn't "modern" enough for their target 12 year old audience...and yet most of the electronic sounds they push come across to me as sounds routed in the 90's club and hip hop scene that their 40+ bosses would have gone to in their youth. Not that I am suggesting in any way at all that their own personal tastes have a great bias over what music they chose to play on the station, no no, not at all. |
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I was in my early-mid teens during Britpop so too young to enjoy it in pubs and clubs (legally at least) but the right age to hide away in my room taking it all in.
I loved it, and continue to. The Oasis v Blur thing, although blown out of all proportion by the press was the most exciting thing, and bands like Pulp, Space, Bluetones, Sleeper...loved it. There were other factors to it. Euro 96, Chris Evans & Tony Blair were all a big part of it. It just felt like things we going well in Britain. Nothing new though, as the OP says. This had all happened with The Beatles, The Stones, The Kinks etc in the 60s. |
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Well it's 2016 and England (Wales, Norn Irn and the Rep of Ireland) are in the Euros again.
One of them will do well....probably Wales....pity we don't have the music to go with it. |
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I hate the term "Britpop" as most of the bands were Indie rock.
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My dad (who is 71) was talking about the Gallagher brothers the other day and we got on to talking about Britpop as a 90s thing and Ocean Colour Scene, Oasis, Pulp, Dodgy and so on.
My dad didn't get the "Britpop" thing saying it was nothing new, Britpop started in the 60s with all the Swinging 60s/Carnaby Street stuff. "It was all there in our day, nothing different at all, just jumping on a bandwagon" ![]() but so what? when new groups raid retro styles and do it well, it revives a great style and gives it new meaning to a new generation Quote:
I hate the term "Britpop" as most of the bands were Indie rock.
i find people who want to seperate indie/alternative from guitar based pop are mostly snobs whi imagine their tastes are somehow superior. |
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I still regard Marion's This World and Body as one of the best albums ever made and singer Jaime Harding to be the finest vocalist of that entire era.
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I always preferred trip hop but it was nice to see the UK having a moment.
Of all the Britpop acts there were two that slipped through the net who did 2 songs I adore - Railway Children - So Right and The Milltown Brothers - Nationality. |
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disagree.... indie is just another form of britpop, or 60's beat/mod music. theres nothing stylistically different in indie/alternative from the great original guitar bands of the 60's. they were called pop groups, so britpop is actually a very apt term whether you like it or not! i find people who want to seperate indie/alternative from guitar based pop are mostly snobs whi imagine their tastes are somehow superior. |
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Nonsense , "Indie" used to mean the distribution, Red Rhino, Rough Trade whatever , Joy Division , Crispy Ambulance, This Heat, Instant Automatons, Danny and the Dressmakers, Throbbing Gristle , Lemon Kittens,Fad Gadget, Whitehouse , Frankie Paul used to make the Indie charts
interestingly SAW were possibly the most successful true indie producers! |
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Marion - Time (live at Glastonbury).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJn5Lq9yWAs Fallen Through (live in London 1995) www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwsWfITPq-k All for love (from the same show as above) www.youtube.com/watch?v=7t8lNTtmzE4 Miyako Hideaway (promo video) www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_8Kh48_AVs And my favourite of all: Sparkle - but I couldn't find a video for it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBJ2W1FBALA |
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what people call indie now is just plain straightforeward guitar based pop. in fact it was then too, the only difference was the record label the acts recorded on. musically there was no difference
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true... but that definition died out 30 years ago... and what people call indie now is just plain straightforeward guitar based pop. in fact it was then too, the only difference was the record label the acts recorded on. musically there was no difference
interestingly SAW were possibly the most successful true indie producers! |
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Nonsense, Spiral Scratch and The Desperate Bicycles probably started the UK indie scene and were Krautrock / Canterbury scene influenced stuffed , I'd describe it as anti-pop
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Do you think Coldplay and Swell Maps are comparable?
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... but musically how are they different from any other guitar based act?
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Lyrically, melodically, production values...
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Loved it at the time (as a yoof!)....listening back now it's complete and utter tosh.
I worshipped Oasis, but nowadays I just think the songs are a collection of rhyming words, and don't even get me started on Noel Gallagher or Graham Coxon being counted as 'great' 'guitarists'.... I've been on Spotify in recent weeks trying to relive some of my younger days and very few of the indie bands I loved stand up to the test of time (ie..Ride, Candyskins, Shack, Bluetones, Hurricane #1, Charlatans, Dodgy)...It's soul destroying hearing it all again. |
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true... but that definition died out 30 years ago... and what people call indie now is just plain straightforeward guitar based pop. in fact it was then too, the only difference was the record label the acts recorded on. musically there was no difference
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Loved it at the time (as a yoof!)....listening back now it's complete and utter tosh.
I worshipped Oasis, but nowadays I just think the songs are a collection of rhyming words, and don't even get me started on Noel Gallagher or Graham Coxon being counted as 'great' 'guitarists'.... I've been on Spotify in recent weeks trying to relive some of my younger days and very few of the indie bands I loved stand up to the test of time (ie..Ride, Candyskins, Shack, Bluetones, Hurricane #1, Charlatans, Dodgy)...It's soul destroying hearing it all again. It's not musically complicated but the tunes are great and that's more important to me. |
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I still think most of it is great guitar music.
. (unless you have time to search for it of course!) |
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