The Britpop one hundred hall of joy!

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OK, If you can manage this:

Rules:

1) Post your BEST britpop tracks. (It's easy if you try)
2) No slagging of tracks allowed, (I wonder if you can... ) Just post better ones...

OK, Starting with

100) Common People - Pulp

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 12 January 2004 12:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh yeah, there'll be nooooo slagging

99) 'Hanging Around' Me Me Me

― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 12 January 2004 12:23 (twenty-two years ago)

99) Suede: Asphalt World (live in 1995, oh god, that killed me right there)

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Monday, 12 January 2004 12:24 (twenty-two years ago)

97] Blur: To The End (as gone into on the Sleeper/Public Enemy TS thread)

― Tom May (Tom May), Monday, 12 January 2004 12:25 (twenty-two years ago)

96) Supergrass : Mansize Rooster

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 12 January 2004 12:26 (twenty-two years ago)

95) Pulp - Ansaphone

Lots of Pulp in this I suspect.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 12 January 2004 12:28 (twenty-two years ago)

94) Echobelly: I Can't Imagine The World Without Me

― j0e (j0e), Monday, 12 January 2004 12:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I think "To The End" appeals because it shows what so much of it could have been like (crucially, it is not unsubtly parochial or adopting stereotypically English characters or tones; and as I said, it has that French ambience to it), and it clearly is 'britpop' as that phase roughly covers 1994-early 1997, and "Parklife" indeed was one of its propelling releases.

― Tom May (Tom May), Monday, 12 January 2004 12:28 (twenty-two years ago)

93) Menswe@r - I'll Manage Somehow

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 12 January 2004 12:31 (twenty-two years ago)

92) My Life Story - Angel

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 12 January 2004 12:32 (twenty-two years ago)

*mustnotslagmustnotslagmustnotslag*

91) Elastica - 'Never Here'

― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 12 January 2004 12:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Echobelly... crikey, a name from t' dim and distant past there! ;-) Yeah, there's bound to be a lot of Pulp in this, though it would be good to try and bring as much of the obscurer stuff in as possible. A question of definitions has to be asked: would the likes of Black Grape, Saint Etienne or Divine Comedy, say, be included... I mean, "He's On The Phone" was British and it was Pop - a single in 1995 - and I know they were at the time briefly bracketed as part of britpop. If Pulp, why not them? I guess, for me it would be that I didn't really hear them at the time, and now really associate them with albums outside Britpop's time period, like "So Tough", "Sound of Water" and "Finisterre".
How are we exactly defining britpop then?

― Tom May (Tom May), Monday, 12 January 2004 12:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Enrique I know what you're thinking but "Angel" is terrific - the seven-minute string monster at the end of their first album, very London and very good, one of the times they actually achieved their ludicrously overstated ambitions!

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 12 January 2004 12:37 (twenty-two years ago)

90) Oasis 'Slide Away'

i just really like it okay?

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 12 January 2004 12:37 (twenty-two years ago)

That's my favourite Oasis song too.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 12 January 2004 12:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh yeah, there'll be nooooo slagging

99) 'Hanging Around' Me Me Me

*grits teeth*

89. Echobelly - King of The Kerb

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Monday, 12 January 2004 12:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Tico -- my lady's pet 'embarrassing record' is My Life Story's LP. I'll ask her, I'm sure she'll back you over me here (but then in her opinion all my Dylan records want burning) (and it's a no-acid house house).

Mencap -- I'm just breaking your chops!

― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 12 January 2004 12:40 (twenty-two years ago)

88)The Auteurs 'New French girlfriend'

― Michael B, Monday, 12 January 2004 12:41 (twenty-two years ago)

89] Supergrass: Alright (obvious... but it really is smashing stuff)

88] Oasis: Live Forever (probably my favourite Oasis song... some others that I don't recall that are on "Definitely Maybe" are good... :))

― Tom May (Tom May), Monday, 12 January 2004 12:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Whoops those last two should be 87 and 86 :/

― Tom May (Tom May), Monday, 12 January 2004 12:42 (twenty-two years ago)

85) Mansun 'Wide Open Space'

84) Space 'Female Of The Species'

83) Pulp 'Mis-Shapes'

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 12 January 2004 12:44 (twenty-two years ago)

82. The Verve - This Is Music
81. Pulp - Pink Glove
80. Blur - Popscene

― Jason J, Monday, 12 January 2004 12:45 (twenty-two years ago)

79) Oasis - 'Acquiesce'
78) St Et - 'you're in a bad way' (i don't actually like this much, but what the fuck, it's mo' britpop than 'avenue', which is the single greatest piece of music in history)

btw seminal select article on britpop in 1993 say britpop = suede, pulp, blur, st et, felt, erm, auteurs, etc. and those guys what sampled nirvana.

― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 12 January 2004 12:46 (twenty-two years ago)

"New French Gilfriend": YES! (Haines wanted Paradis to guest on that single didn't he? :)) Though is it britpop...? If in the earlier definition that contained Suede, Saint Etienne, Disco Inferno (I've still never heard them :() and more, then certainly... Was the term actually bandied about in 1993?

― Tom May (Tom May), Monday, 12 January 2004 12:46 (twenty-two years ago)

77. The Nubiles - "Layabout" (Justine Frischmann's favourite record of 1994, as I recall, and one of mine too)

76. Shed Seven - "This Is My House"

75. Saint Etienne - "Who Do You Think You Are?"

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 12 January 2004 12:47 (twenty-two years ago)

77) Blur - "For Tomorrow" (long version obv)

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 12 January 2004 12:47 (twenty-two years ago)

73. Denim - "Job Centre"

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 12 January 2004 12:48 (twenty-two years ago)

72) Stone Roses 'Love Spreads'
71) Stone Roses 'Begging You'

'Second Coming' got a raw deal

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 12 January 2004 12:48 (twenty-two years ago)

tico 'obvious' bastard. want!

― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 12 January 2004 12:48 (twenty-two years ago)

70. The Stone Roses - "How Do You Sleep?" (on the same tip)

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 12 January 2004 12:49 (twenty-two years ago)

72) Blur - "This is a Low" (nb if this is actually a ranking-type list, I'd rate this as the best britpop number)

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 12 January 2004 12:49 (twenty-two years ago)

68) Chemical Brothers 'Life Is Sweet' (cos i'm not sure i can get away with posting a Charlatans song itself)

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 12 January 2004 12:49 (twenty-two years ago)

67) The Bluetones - Slight Return
66) The Charlatans - Can't Get Out of Bed
65) Sleeper - Inbetweener

Credit to the Nation were Britpop?

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 12 January 2004 12:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Ah, ok.
Yeah, actually I do recall liking that very Mansun song! Grandiose, overreaching absurdity... very worthwhile really.

67] Pulp: Babies

― Tom May (Tom May), Monday, 12 January 2004 12:50 (twenty-two years ago)

88) St Et - 'you're in a bad way' (i don't actually like this much, but what the fuck, it's mo' britpop than 'avenue', which is the single greatest piece of music in history

i've always thought of it as more reminiscent of a certain strand of 60s pop - but then that's what britpop was all about wasn't it?
that's my favourite saint etienne moment (hmm...maybe hobart paving...hmmm...maybe 'i buy american records'...hmmm...maybe....no i'll stop there) . unlike most people, i prefer their 'fluffy' stuff that you're not (really) supposed to like - largely because they do it so damn well.

i could chuck about ten of their tracks in, but instead

64. elastica - waking up

sure, it was a rip off, but it was a good one.

63. pulp - she's a lady

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Monday, 12 January 2004 12:51 (twenty-two years ago)

69) Blur - "This is a Low" (nb if this is actually a ranking-type list, I'd rate this as the best britpop number)

Definitely.

66. The Boo Radleys - Wake Up Boo

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Monday, 12 January 2004 12:52 (twenty-two years ago)

i think Dom Joly has just come

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 12 January 2004 12:52 (twenty-two years ago)

60] The Auteurs: Unsolved Child Murder (scornfully set against what was happening in defined 'britpop' by 1996).

― Tom May (Tom May), Monday, 12 January 2004 12:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Was the term actually bandied about in 1993?
-- Tom May (joycean_cha...), January 12th, 2004.

Ya-ha. April 1993 in select was the big article/cover (by stuart maconie i think). circa 'modern life' and 'suede'

77. The Nubiles - "Layabout" (Justine Frischmann's favourite record of 1994, as I recall, and one of mine too)

=first band i ever saw (supporting blur)

Credit to the Nation were Britpop?

yeah, why not?

― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 12 January 2004 12:53 (twenty-two years ago)

The long version was on the single Enrique, it's not hard to find I don't think.

59. The Divine Comedy - Something For The Weekend

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 12 January 2004 12:53 (twenty-two years ago)

stop pretending!
59) Oasis: Rock'n'Roll Star

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Monday, 12 January 2004 12:53 (twenty-two years ago)

58) Lightning Seeds 'Life's Too Short'

actually from '99 and quite dancey and perhaps not really in the same meld as much else here, but it's the best single they ever did imo

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 12 January 2004 12:54 (twenty-two years ago)

56. Lightning Seeds feat Baddiel and Skinner - "Three Lions"

It gets no more Britpop surely.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 12 January 2004 12:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Re Credit to the Nation, I saw them live twice and both times also involved Chumbawumba. This, for some reason, made me think not of Britpop at all.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 12 January 2004 12:57 (twenty-two years ago)

56. Lightning Seeds feat Baddiel and Skinner - "Three Lions"
It gets no more Britpop surely.

Eng-pop surely?

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 12 January 2004 12:58 (twenty-two years ago)

55. suede - stay together

especially the long version with the funny whale noises on the end.

no, really.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Monday, 12 January 2004 12:58 (twenty-two years ago)

The long version was on the single Enrique, it's not hard to find I don't think.

well phshaw, i'm finding it hard to find it, even after all this time.

57) Fat Les 'Vindaloo'

― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 12 January 2004 12:58 (twenty-two years ago)

57a) Kula Shaker 'Tattva' (absolutely loathed it then and now, but it is seminal)

― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 12 January 2004 12:59 (twenty-two years ago)

56) echobelly - insomniac

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 12 January 2004 12:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Chumbawamba were Britpop whether they liked it or not.

53. Chumbawamba - Someone's Always Telling You How To Behave

B-b-but Ailsa a part pretending it's speaking for the whole is the entire POINT of Britpop!

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 12 January 2004 12:59 (twenty-two years ago)

50. Sleeper 'Vegas'
49. Garbage 'Queer' (c'mon it's okay)
48. Suede 'We Are The Pigs' (flithy)

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:00 (twenty-two years ago)

47. Denim - "It Fell Off The Back Of A Lorry"

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:01 (twenty-two years ago)

46. Suede: The Chemistry Between Us (really evocative I always thought)

― Tom May (Tom May), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:01 (twenty-two years ago)

do The Wannadies count and if so should 'You & Me Song' be in this?

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Re Three Lions , I just have a chip on my shoulder about the fact that England not only qualify for more tournaments but they have better songs when they do.

I am also peeved because I wrote a big long post about how Tattva was great despite Kula Shaker's general odiousness, but didn't post it for fear of being sniggered at. So cheers, Enrique, I'm glad it's not just me.

45) Catatonia "You've Got a Lot to Answer For"

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:03 (twenty-two years ago)

44. The Divine Comedy - "I'm All You Need"

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:03 (twenty-two years ago)

55. suede - stay together
especially the long version with the funny whale noises on the end.

no, really.

did they include this on the singles comp? i had the 12"

44) Northern Uproar 'Rollercoaster' (I'm sorry, you can disregard all mychoices, I hate them too, I'm just trying to keep it representative of the truth)

No Ailsa, it is just you, JS are the WORST BAND IN HISTORY

― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:04 (twenty-two years ago)

eek...this'll be unpopular

44. vanessa paradis - be my baby
43. catatonia - mulder and scully (the first time i heard that voice - affected, of course, but somehow still kind of cool. i still like her.)

and aisla....? i have to admit i liked tattva too.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd say so... c.f. Wannadies. I sort of bracket that in my memories with britpop. Good single, in memory at least.
Though it seems quite close to things like those early Cardigans singles.

― Tom May (Tom May), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:04 (twenty-two years ago)

surely Paradis is not allowed, as great as it is - it's more Francopop than Britpop non?

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:05 (twenty-two years ago)

41) Babybird 'The F Word'

but if anyone mentions 'You're Gorgeous' i will kill them

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:06 (twenty-two years ago)

No Black Grape yet, which feels a massive oversight. So:

42. Reverend Black Grape.

Will anyone be brave enough to add Ocean Colour Scene? I feel like 'The Riverboat Song' deserves to be here through its sheer omnipresence at the time, but frankly I just can't quite bring myself to do it.

― Jason J, Monday, 12 January 2004 13:06 (twenty-two years ago)

44. vanessa paradis - be my baby

hmmm... vanessa paradis = not very british, innit.

ignore that one, then..

although it SOUNDS like britpop.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Wannadies = not very British either

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:07 (twenty-two years ago)

No Dodgy yet, eh... anyone? ;-)

― Tom May (Tom May), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:07 (twenty-two years ago)

surely Paradis is not allowed, as great as it is - it's more Francopop than Britpop non?

point taken...

what the hell, then, let's shove some saint etienne in there...

44. saint etienne - hobart paving... just because..

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:08 (twenty-two years ago)

40) Ocean Colour Scene 'The Day We Caught the Train'

I read your mind Jae

― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought the idea was good tracks not 'representative' ones!

42. Bubonique - "Oi Copper"

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:08 (twenty-two years ago)

39. Powder - 20th Century Gods

― (jg) ((jg)), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:09 (twenty-two years ago)

38] Black Grape: Kelly's Heroes (the first one I really heard at the time; loved it)

― Tom May (Tom May), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:09 (twenty-two years ago)

55. suede - stay together
especially the long version with the funny whale noises on the end.
no, really.

did they include this on the singles comp? i had the 12"

it was the last track on the cd single. i haven't seen the singles comp. - wasn't keen on a lot of their recent output.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Wannadies were NME favourites, and it has a britpop 'feel' about it; they are Swedish though... it is honorary britpop at least.

― Tom May (Tom May), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha Bubonique were great!

The Wannadies moved to London didn't they? So I think they're allowed.

37. Shampoo - Trouble

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:12 (twenty-two years ago)

35] Sleeper: Lie Detector (one of their best; really breathless and giddy quick pop)

― Tom May (Tom May), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:13 (twenty-two years ago)

36) Julianne Regan's Mice - "Matt's Prozac" (haha beat that)

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:13 (twenty-two years ago)

20th century gods
you're so irrelevant
20th century gods
you'll follow anyone

indeed

black grape fucking ruled, but britpop??

36) Underworld 'Born Slippy' = dance music it's okay to shout along to. Tico, this is serious sociological work: don't let you subjective sense-impressions fool you!

Mencap: WORD!

― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:14 (twenty-two years ago)

34] The Wannadies: You and Me Song, allowed then? :)

― Tom May (Tom May), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Are Romo tracks allowed?

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:14 (twenty-two years ago)

100) Common People - Pulp
99) 'Hanging Around' Me Me Me
98) Suede: Asphalt World
97] Blur: To The End
96) Supergrass : Mansize Rooster
95) Pulp - Ansaphone
94) Echobelly: I Can't Imagine The World Without Me
93) Menswe@r - I'll Manage Somehow
92) My Life Story - Angel
91) Elastica - 'Never Here'
90) Oasis 'Slide Away'
89. Echobelly - King of The Kerb
88)The Auteurs 'New French girlfriend'
87] Supergrass: Alright
86] Oasis: Live Forever
85) Mansun 'Wide Open Space'
84) Space 'Female Of The Species'
83) Pulp 'Mis-Shapes'
82. The Verve - This Is Music
81. Pulp - Pink Glove
80. Blur - Popscene
79) Oasis - 'Acquiesce'
78) St Et - 'you're in a bad way'
77. The Nubiles - "Layabout"
76. Shed Seven - "This Is My House"
75. Saint Etienne - "Who Do You Think You Are?"
74) Blur - "For Tomorrow" (long version obv)
73. Denim - "Job Centre"
72) Stone Roses 'Love Spreads'
71) Stone Roses 'Begging You'
70. The Stone Roses - "How Do You Sleep?"
69) Blur - "This is a Low"
68) Chemical Brothers 'Life Is Sweet'
67) The Bluetones - Slight Return
66) The Charlatans - Can't Get Out of Bed
65) Sleeper - Inbetweener
64] Pulp: Babies
63. elastica - waking up
62. pulp - she's a lady
61. The Boo Radleys - Wake Up Boo
60] The Auteurs: Unsolved Child Murder
59. The Divine Comedy - Something For The Weekend
58) Oasis: Rock'n'Roll Star
57) Lightning Seeds 'Life's Too Short'
56. Lightning Seeds feat Baddiel and Skinner - "Three Lions"
55. suede - stay together
54) Fat Les 'Vindaloo'
53) Kula Shaker 'Tattva'
52) echobelly - insomniac
51. Chumbawamba - Someone's Always Telling You How To Behave
50. Sleeper 'Vegas'
49. Garbage 'Queer'
48. Suede 'We Are The Pigs'
47. Denim - "It Fell Off The Back Of A Lorry"
46. Suede: The Chemistry Between Us
45) Catatonia "You've Got a Lot to Answer For"
44. The Divine Comedy - "I'm All You Need"
43) Northern Uproar 'Rollercoaster'
42. saint etienne - hobart paving
41. catatonia - mulder and scully
40) Babybird 'The F Word'
39. Reverend Black Grape
38) Ocean Colour Scene 'The Day We Caught the Train'
37. Bubonique - "Oi Copper"
36. Powder - 20th Century Gods
35] Black Grape: Kelly's Heroes
34. Shampoo - Trouble
33] Sleeper: Lie Detector
32) Julianne Regan's Mice - "Matt's Prozac"
31) Underworld 'Born Slippy'
30] The Wannadies: You and Me Song

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:15 (twenty-two years ago)

29. Sexus - "How Do You Kiss?"

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:15 (twenty-two years ago)

28. Denim - Summer Smash

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:16 (twenty-two years ago)

27. Hollywood - Apocalypse Kiss

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:16 (twenty-two years ago)

26. Super Furry Animals 'Northern Lights'

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:16 (twenty-two years ago)

25] Gene: Still Can't Find The Phone (ah, I had to pick at least one of theirs! "Olympian" is actually quite good... though the others really aren't)

― Tom May (Tom May), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:17 (twenty-two years ago)

25. Blur - Best Days

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:17 (twenty-two years ago)

26. Bis - Kandy Pop

― pete b. (pete b.), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:17 (twenty-two years ago)

no slagging, no...

j u s t t u r n s a w a y

and * w e e p s *

― mullygrubber (gaz), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:17 (twenty-two years ago)

22. The Sundays 'Summertime'

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:17 (twenty-two years ago)

26. Tricky - Black Steel

In what way are Black Grape *not* Britpop? To me, in all honesty, they feel like one of the front-runners.

― Jason J, Monday, 12 January 2004 13:18 (twenty-two years ago)

21) Salad: Drink The Elixir

― j0e (j0e), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:18 (twenty-two years ago)

19. Blur - Stereotypes (compellingly brash)

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I can barely name a romo track. a few bands interviewed by Pricey or Parkes, but other'n that, the memories can't wait.

25) Arab Strap 'First Big Weekend of the Summer' *SO* '96 it hurts.

sometimes you eat the paradigm, sometimes the paradigm eats you

― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:19 (twenty-two years ago)

17) Bennet - Mum's Gone To Iceland
16) Tiger - On The Rose
15) The Bluetones - Bluetonic

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:19 (twenty-two years ago)

14. The Verve 'Sonnet'

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Stop being ironic Steve.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:20 (twenty-two years ago)

argh (x-post)

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:20 (twenty-two years ago)

13) 'Under Canvas Under Wraps - delgados (for WBS of course)

― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:20 (twenty-two years ago)

13) Tiny Monroe: Cream Bun

― j0e (j0e), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:20 (twenty-two years ago)

i am not ironic in my love of U2's 'One' remember

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:21 (twenty-two years ago)

41) Babybird 'The F Word'
but if anyone mentions 'You're Gorgeous' i will kill them

i'll mention

13. BabyBird - "Goodnight"

instead then.

12. Rialto - "When We're Together"

ha.

Tiger! Go Tiger!

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:21 (twenty-two years ago)

11. Saint Etienne - He's On The Phone (look I'm sorry it IS Britpop!)

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:21 (twenty-two years ago)

9) Pulp 'Sorted For E's And Whizz'

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:22 (twenty-two years ago)

11] Super Furry Animals: Hometown Unicorn

― Tom May (Tom May), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:22 (twenty-two years ago)

26. Super Furry Animals 'Northern Lights'
= 1999 -- u sure?

― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:22 (twenty-two years ago)

hang on....1996....

that'd mean stuff from TIGERMILK can go on it, wouldn't it?

no, perhaps it wouldn't.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:22 (twenty-two years ago)

7) Ocean Colour Scene - Hundred Mile High City

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:22 (twenty-two years ago)

WE'RE ON SIX

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:22 (twenty-two years ago)

10. Embassy - Box Star AM

BEAT THAT

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:22 (twenty-two years ago)

FOUR

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Wot no Catch?

― j0e (j0e), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:23 (twenty-two years ago)

4. Blur - Girls And Boys

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:23 (twenty-two years ago)

How many are you missing?

Limiting myself to singles here...

37) Being Brave - Menswe@ar
36) Hug my Soul - Saint Etienne
35) Girl From Mars - Ash
34) Bluetonic - The Bluetones
33) If Yoy'll be Mine - Babybird
32) Something for the Weekend - Super Furry Animals
31) Frog Princess - The Divine Comedy
30) Alice in Vain - Sleeper
29) Whatever - Oasis
28) Yes - McAlmont and Butler
27) Stutter - Elastica
26) What do I do Now? - Sleeper
25) Mis-Shapes - Pulp
24) Filmstar - Suede
23) Stay - Bernard Butler
22) Lazy - Suede
21) Lipgloss - Pulp
20) Saturday Night - Suede

P.S. Animal Nitrate is going to be number 1 surely, with Common People are number 2?

― C-Man (C-Man), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:23 (twenty-two years ago)

hahahahaha

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Today I've gravitated between threads abt Public Enemy, Black Flag and this one, it's been grate

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:23 (twenty-two years ago)

and surely the pastels released something over this period?

sadly, i am unable to think what that might have been.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Oops, so many posts got in there... last 4

2) Common People - Pulp
1) Animal Nitrate - Suede

― C-Man (C-Man), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Pastels released 'Yoga' at least

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:24 (twenty-two years ago)

?] Geneva: Tranquilizer (late britpop... Aug. 1997)

― Tom May (Tom May), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:24 (twenty-two years ago)

i think it's safe to say now of c-man's counted as a few of them were already in and he was LATE TO HIS OWN PARTY

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:24 (twenty-two years ago)

1 (cos we had common ppl!)

Pulp - I Spy

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:24 (twenty-two years ago)

now = none

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:25 (twenty-two years ago)

3) Yes - McAlmont & Butler

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:25 (twenty-two years ago)

How many are you missing?
Limiting myself to singles here...
37) Being Brave - Menswe@ar
36) Hug my Soul - Saint Etienne
35) Girl From Mars - Ash
34) Bluetonic - The Bluetones
33) If Yoy'll be Mine - Babybird
32) Something for the Weekend - Super Furry Animals
31) Frog Princess - The Divine Comedy
30) Alice in Vain - Sleeper
29) Whatever - Oasis
28) Yes - McAlmont and Butler
27) Stutter - Elastica
26) What do I do Now? - Sleeper
25) Mis-Shapes - Pulp
24) Filmstar - Suede
23) Stay - Bernard Butler
22) Lazy - Suede
21) Lipgloss - Pulp
20) Saturday Night - Suede

P.S. Animal Nitrate is going to be number 1 surely, with Common People are number 2?

you haven't got the hang of this, have you?

mind you, the mcalmont and butler choice is a good one. we appear to have missed five, six and eight so put it somewhere there, please..

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:25 (twenty-two years ago)

no Cast then?

― daarkbee, Monday, 12 January 2004 13:25 (twenty-two years ago)

8. "Sandstorm" Cast

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:27 (twenty-two years ago)

(I didn't even read C-man's post when I suggested McAlmont & Butler)

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:27 (twenty-two years ago)

we appear to have missed five, six and eight so put it somewhere there, please..

or indeed at number three, where ailsa had already put it (i'm sure that message wasn't there when i clicked 'check new messages')

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Did you have?

Hug my Soul - St Etienne
Stay - Bernard Butler
Girl from Mars - Ash
Do you Remember the First Time - Pulp
What do I do Now? - Sleeper

― C-Man (C-Man), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Were The Bluetones Britpop? I always thought they were the band that killed Bripop.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Hmm, there's no Ash in the list, which seems like an oversight. And I think Calum was right to tip Oasis' 'Whatever', too. Any space for that?

― Jason J, Monday, 12 January 2004 13:27 (twenty-two years ago)

No we didnt have any of them - thats the only good Sleeper track too, shame.

I am pleased and proud for ILM that there is no Ash.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:28 (twenty-two years ago)

29. Sexus - "How Do You Kiss?"
28. Denim - Summer Smash
27. Hollywood - Apocalypse Kiss
26. Super Furry Animals 'Northern Lights'
25] Gene: Still Can't Find The Phone
24. Blur - Best Days
23. Bis - Kandy Pop
22. The Sundays 'Summertime'
21. Tricky - Black Steel
20) Salad: Drink The Elixir
19. Blur - Stereotypes
18) Arab Strap 'First Big Weekend of the Summer'
17) Bennet - Mum's Gone To Iceland
16) Tiger - On The Rose
15) The Bluetones - Bluetonic
14. The Verve 'Sonnet'
13) 'Under Canvas Under Wraps - delgados
12) Tiny Monroe: Cream Bun
11. BabyBird - "Goodnight"
10. Rialto - "When We're Together"
9. Saint Etienne - He's On The Phone
8) Pulp 'Sorted For E's And Whizz'
7] Super Furry Animals: Hometown Unicorn
6) Ocean Colour Scene - Hundred Mile High City
5. Embassy - Box Star AM
4. Blur - Girls And Boys
3) Animal Nitrate - Suede
2] Geneva: Tranquilizer
1) Pulp - I Spy

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:28 (twenty-two years ago)

NO JAMES

YAY

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:29 (twenty-two years ago)

the top 10 went a bit awry, didn't it?

how would a top 100 'tunes that some people say are twee, and some don't but are nice anyway' list go down, do you think? (i think the genre i'm groping for is 'indiepop')

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I am pleased and proud for ILM that there is no Ash.

Hah, myself and the boy Ewing have common ground!

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:30 (twenty-two years ago)

the only way these things can ever work is if you say 3-5 choices MAXIMUM per poster

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:30 (twenty-two years ago)

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:31 (twenty-two years ago)

so much for 'classics only' eh?

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:32 (twenty-two years ago)

No Dodgy...? Even no Shed 7...?!

― Tom May (Tom May), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:32 (twenty-two years ago)

i was tempted to put 'In A Room' and 'Dolphin' in, LUCKY YOU

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:33 (twenty-two years ago)

No Oasis 'Supersonic'. Father Ted at 11. Demand a recount.

― pete s, Monday, 12 January 2004 13:33 (twenty-two years ago)

so much for 'classics only' eh? OTM, rialto, gene, feh.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:34 (twenty-two years ago)

"In a room, there's no other species".

Wise words.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:34 (twenty-two years ago)

no 'Tubthumping' is the big shock isn't it? i don't mind it really

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I would have put it Stevem but I thought it was a bit late.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:35 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm pleased i got 'Summertime' and 'Sonnet' in there though, tho i know there are better songs by both bands in question

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I would have put it Stevem but I thought it was a bit late.

as in 1996 or as in 'shit we're into the 20s already'?

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:36 (twenty-two years ago)

If you're doing only classics then the top 100 is going to be predominantly Suede and Pulp, with some Blur and Oasis thrown in and a couple of Sleeper tracks. Oh yeah, and Insomniac and Yes.

― C-Man (C-Man), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:36 (twenty-two years ago)

so World of Twist didn't make it in then. would have expected them to. oh well.

― mark e (mark e), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:38 (twenty-two years ago)

2] Geneva: Tranquilizer

like WHAT-EVA d00d!

c-man was right re: mcalmont & butler, 'yes' wd be my no. 1.

― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:42 (twenty-two years ago)

yeh but their '1990-1992' era was overlooked generally as that's not considered part of the Britpop phase (not that '99 is either really, oh well) - hence no 'There She Goes'

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Wow!

I started this thread before lunch, came back and it's up, full and completed.

Well impressed by the adherance to the "No Slagging" rule.

I started this to have a good list of britpop, to make up for the lousy retrospectives that would appear right about now, and soon come in "School Disco" type club nights (Just an aside, did you ever go to your actual school disco in your uniform? Hmm?)

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:48 (twenty-two years ago)

It was 98 wasn't it. (Tubthumping)

I think this is a surprisingly good list in places!

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 12 January 2004 14:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I am miffed that McAlmont & Butler never made the final list.

Also, whither the goddess-like geniuses that were Kenickie? (OK, would have helped if I'd thought about them before now)

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 12 January 2004 14:15 (twenty-two years ago)

'Millionaire Sweeper' should probably have been in, but 'genius'? steady on!

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 12 January 2004 14:16 (twenty-two years ago)

You are absolutely right Alisa, silly us :(

If you're doing only classics then the top 100 is going to be predominantly Suede and Pulp, with some Blur and Oasis thrown in and a couple of Sleeper tracks.

This is sort of true (apart from the Sleeper bit) but it's more, like, classics of the time isn't it? If that's not a contradiction.

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Monday, 12 January 2004 14:16 (twenty-two years ago)

It was 98 wasn't it. (Tubthumping)

97.

I love Kenickie, but I kind of can't see em as Britpop, ridiculously.

― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 12 January 2004 14:16 (twenty-two years ago)

there are 29 songs in the top 100 i have not heard (and have no real urge to except maybe the Auteurs stuff)

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 12 January 2004 14:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Tell you what, lets start a 'replacer' list.

The Britpop 'Replacer' 100 list

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 12 January 2004 14:20 (twenty-two years ago)

What about Sleeper - Sale of the Century?

― B61 (calstars), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 02:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Precisely.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 02:08 (twenty-two years ago)

fucken Dubstar! Are they not Britpop or something?

I also like 'Sparkle' by My Life Story and 'Chasing Rainbows' by Shed Seven.

Christ.

― Ferrrrrrg (Ferg), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 02:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm a little upset I missed the boat on this one.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 11:29 (twenty-two years ago)

five years pass...

Well now:

Common People. The Britpop Story.

Pulp. Foto promocional.

Common People. The Britpop Story és el nom d'un nou recopilatori format per 3 CDs en el que s'hi fa un recull de les millors bandes britàniques.
En el recopilatori hi destaquen grups com Pulp, The Stone Roses, Supergrass, Super Furry Animals... Però també hi destaquen, per la seva absència, Oasis i Blur, que són considerats dos dels grups britànics més grans de la historia.
El recopilatori sortirà a la venta el pròxim 8 de juny, i el seu tracklist complet és el següent:
CD1
01. The Auteurs - 'Lenny Valentino'
02. Elastica - 'Stutter'
03. Gene - 'Be My Light, Be My Guide'
04. The Stone Roses - 'Love Spreads'
05. James - 'Laid'
06. Dodgy - 'Staying Out For The Summer'
07. Saint Etienne - 'You're In A Bad Way'
08. Dubstar - 'Stars'
09. Blake Grape - 'In The Name Of The Father'
10. Duffy - 'London Girls'
11. Marion - 'Sleep'
12. These Animal Men - 'Speeed King'
13. S*M*A*S*H - 'Shame'
14. Cast - 'Alright'
15. Bluetones - 'Slight Return'
16. Perfume - 'Lover'
17. The Boo Radleys - 'Wake Up Boo!'
18. Menswear - 'Daydreamer'
CD2
01. Pulp - 'Common People'
02. Supergrass - 'Alright'
03. Sleeper - 'Inbetweener'
04. Echobelly - 'Great Things'
05. Powder - 'Afrodisiac'
06. Northern Uproar - 'Rollercoaster'
07. Paul Weller - 'Thechangingman'
08. The Divine Comedy - 'Something For The Weekend'
09. Babybird - 'You're Gorgeous'
10. My Life Story - '12 Reasons Why'
11. Denim - 'It Fell Off The Back Of A Van'
12. Kula Shaker - 'Tattva'
13. Mansun - 'Wide Open Space'
14. Salad - 'Drink The Elixir'
15. Placebo - 'Nancy Boy'
16. Longpigs - 'She Said'
17. Ocean Colour Scene - 'The Riverboat Song'
18. Shed Seven - 'Chasing Rainbows'
CD3
01. Super Furry Animals - 'God! Show Me Magic'
02. Suede - 'Trash'
03. Kenickie - 'In Your Car'
04. Theaudience - 'A Pessimist Is Never Disappointed'
05. Catatonia - 'Mulder And Scully'
06. Space - 'Female Of The Species'
07. Embrace - 'All You Good Good People'
08. Gomez - 'Whippin' Piccadilly'
09. Geneva - 'Into The Blue'
10. Rialto - 'Monday Morning 5:19'
11. The Seahorses - 'Love Is The Law'
12. Hurricane #1 - 'Step Into My World'
13. Monaco - 'What Do You Want From Me'
14. Spearmint - 'Sweeping The Nation'
15. Lodger - 'Always Round Here'
16. Earl Brutus - 'SAS And The Glam That Goes With It'
17. Stereophonics - 'The Bartender And The Thief'
18. Gay Dad - 'Oh Jim'

(I did not add that last track, btw)

― Mark G, Monday, 8 June 2009 14:50 (sixteen years ago)

Was this what Blake Grape was doing before he went out with Amy?

― Dingbod Kesterson, Monday, 8 June 2009 14:58 (sixteen years ago)

Before Grape split and he got three other women with transparent violins...

― Mark G, Monday, 8 June 2009 15:09 (sixteen years ago)

A genuine "best of Britpop" non-cliche compilation would be thoroughly worth it IMO

― the unfinest of display names only (country matters), Monday, 8 June 2009 15:34 (sixteen years ago)

But what would be on it?

(Lock thread)

― Mark G, Monday, 8 June 2009 15:36 (sixteen years ago)

This is like one of those Reader's Digest Best Of The Sixties compilations where they couldn't get the Beatles or the Stones so have to make do with six apiece from Billy J Kramer and the Tremeloes ("Some tracks RE-RECORDED by at least one of the ORIGINAL ARTISTS for STEREO ENHANCEMENT").

― Dingbod Kesterson, Monday, 8 June 2009 15:37 (sixteen years ago)

Many of the bands in the above compilation would be in mine also. But the songs would be different.

― the unfinest of display names only (country matters), Monday, 8 June 2009 15:38 (sixteen years ago)

11. Denim - 'It Fell Off The Back Of A Van'

haha waht

― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Monday, 8 June 2009 15:39 (sixteen years ago)

10. Duffy - 'London Girls'

^^ is this stephen 'tin tin' duffy?

― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Monday, 8 June 2009 15:40 (sixteen years ago)

No it's that funny looking bird who sounds like she's being strangled when she sings I think.

― Westwood Ho (Noodle Vague), Monday, 8 June 2009 15:41 (sixteen years ago)

(Yeah it is (xpost))

― Mark G, Monday, 8 June 2009 15:41 (sixteen years ago)

Elastica's Stutter does it for me. That would be #9 only it's prob. in there already

― Dr X O'Skeleton, Monday, 8 June 2009 22:21 (sixteen years ago)

is any triphop allowed?

― Dr X O'Skeleton, Monday, 8 June 2009 22:23 (sixteen years ago)

Trip hop was never Britpop.

― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 01:42 (sixteen years ago)

And... I mean.... I like Massive Attack and all. But Britpop was so fantastic in its own right it doesn't need to be mixed up with other (and lesser) genres.

― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 01:43 (sixteen years ago)

pleased about sunday's election results geir?

― Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 07:55 (sixteen years ago)

yeah geir. if you don't think massive attack are britpop you're obviously RACIST.

― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 07:57 (sixteen years ago)

Pretty sure MC's talking about the Swedish Pirate Party there

― leave true black metal to those who don't deserve to listen to it (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 08:01 (sixteen years ago)

A man who has the contents of his Soulseek files talked about by the internet is correct to care about his right to privacy

― leave true black metal to those who don't deserve to listen to it (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 08:03 (sixteen years ago)

Britpop must be heavily Beatles/Kinks influenced to be Britpop and must also be very English. Massive Attack had lots of American influences after all. Trip Hop was never Britpop - the only black Britpop musician was the drummer in Ocean Colour Scene, because they weren't an R&B band. R&B is 100 per cent American and cannot possibly be Britpop.

― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 09:30 (sixteen years ago)

the kinks were JUST A BIT influenced by r&b, idiot.

― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 09:32 (sixteen years ago)

One of the dudes from the Boo Radleys as well

</whyamidoingthis>

― leave true black metal to those who don't deserve to listen to it (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 09:35 (sixteen years ago)

lol fired up GIS for him then Debbie Smith then hit head on desk and thought of 10 better things to do.

― j.o.n.a, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 09:37 (sixteen years ago)

"You put your bet on number one and it comes up every time.
The other kids have all backed down and they put you first in line.
And so you finally ask yourself just how big you are -
And take your place in a wiser world of bigger motor cars.
And you wonder who to call on."

― Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 09:38 (sixteen years ago)

More like the Village White Preservation Society amirite?

― Westwood Ho (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 09:43 (sixteen years ago)

Geir registers another vote for the Britpop National Party

― U2 raped goat (darraghmac), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 10:20 (sixteen years ago)

(whassat from, DK?)

― Mark G, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 10:23 (sixteen years ago)

Blimey, Jethro Tull. Are they britpop?

― Mark G, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 12:07 (sixteen years ago)

No Jethro Tull were English folk, which is also typically English, but in another, more ethnomusical, way. Britpop is based upon typically english music as in Beatles/Kinks/music hall/vaudeville, not as in old jigs and fiddles.

― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 12:09 (sixteen years ago)

And as for Nationalist. Yes, Britpop was nationalist. But not in a typical skin colour oriented racist way, rather in a way of stressing how English music is superior to American music so why does the world need American music?

― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 12:11 (sixteen years ago)

And, you know, the majority of Americans are white too...

― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 12:11 (sixteen years ago)

I sigh.

And then I cry

and I wonder why.

― Mark G, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 12:12 (sixteen years ago)

i wonder what geir thinks of tony bennett.

― Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 12:16 (sixteen years ago)

"not as good as Ocean Colour Scene" presumably.

― Mark G, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 12:17 (sixteen years ago)

rather in a way of stressing how English music is superior to American music so why does the world need American music?

yeah because the Beatles and Kinks weren't at all heavily American-influenced. and VAUDEVILLE had nothing to do with the US of course...

― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 12:19 (sixteen years ago)

The Beatles and Kinks started out as AMerican influenced and then got gradually better and better the more typically English and less American they got. (Until Kinks turned shit in the 70s because they suddenly started to sound American again)

― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 12:20 (sixteen years ago)

11. Denim - 'It Fell Off The Back Of A Van'

haha waht

Was about to post this.

― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 12:20 (sixteen years ago)

No Jethro Tull were English folk

I presume you mean the original Jethro Tull, not the band led by Fifer Ian Anderson.

― DJ Angoreinhardt (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 12:21 (sixteen years ago)

i meant this tony bennett.

― Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 12:21 (sixteen years ago)

And... Well. At least the Beatles did add an immigrant element to their music, but instead of adding an African element brought through corporate America, they added an Indian/Pakistani element, which was much more interesting and also fit much better into the European musical tradition they came out of.

― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 12:21 (sixteen years ago)

(Plus it was taken directly from the source without being filtered through capitalist corporate American mass production at first)

― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 12:23 (sixteen years ago)

is he anywhere near 51 yet?

― Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 12:26 (sixteen years ago)

they added an Indian/Pakistani element, which was much more interesting and also fit much better into the European musical tradition they came out of.

I probably shouldn't ask, but how on earth does Indian/Pakistani(LOL) music fit better into a European musical tradition than "American" music, by which I assume Geir means African-American music? It surely fits in less well?

― Dante ... Bruno . Vico .. Passantino (Tom D.), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 13:29 (sixteen years ago)

presumably he means they stayed longer in the empire

― Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 13:33 (sixteen years ago)

Feel like posting that exchange between Basil Fawlty and the Major about Indians, but probably best not to

― Dante ... Bruno . Vico .. Passantino (Tom D.), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 13:34 (sixteen years ago)

I probably shouldn't ask, but how on earth does Indian/Pakistani(LOL) music fit better into a European musical tradition than "American" music, by which I assume Geir means African-American music? It surely fits in less well?

Because the classical Indian musical tradition is head music, not body music.

― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 20:50 (sixteen years ago)

...

― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 21:00 (sixteen years ago)

two years pass...

Spotified this:

The Britpop one hundred hall of joy! - Classics only

21 tracks aren't on it, but hey.

― Mark G, Thursday, 17 November 2011 12:30 (fourteen years ago)

No Speedy?? :(

― Turrican, Thursday, 17 November 2011 16:16 (fourteen years ago)

one year passes...

The NME have done exactly this, this week..

― Mark G, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 14:31 (twelve years ago)

The NME have done exactly this, every week for the last 20 fucking years

fixed

― Koné 2013 (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 14:34 (twelve years ago)

yeah.. but this week they have done a list. 100 britpop classics.

tbh, I saw a 'catatonia' entry, and I did sigh, etc.

― Mark G, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 14:38 (twelve years ago)

Seriously you think they'd be embarassed about it by now.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 14:38 (twelve years ago)

THey also did a top 20 by sales:

summary: Oasis oasis oasis oasis oasis oasis oasis blur oasis oasis pulp oasis oasis supergrass oasis catatonia

― Mark G, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 14:41 (twelve years ago)

Srsly if you'd told anyone in 1996 that the name 'Gene' would be on the front of the NME 17 years later they'd have pissed themselves laughing.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 14:46 (twelve years ago)

you mean there are people who didn't in 1996 ?

― mark e, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 14:48 (twelve years ago)

luke haines ‏@LukeHaines_News 7h
Very embarrassing to be on the front cover of the @NME this week. Might have to sue.

― afriendlypioneer, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 14:49 (twelve years ago)

Also, Bis.

― Mark G, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 14:56 (twelve years ago)

I went looking for a postable list, didn't find one yet, but they are doing a 'vote yr favourite'

"Caught by the fuzz" is winning, which.. mm, I'm OK with actually...

― Mark G, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 14:58 (twelve years ago)

three years pass...

https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2017/feb/15/britpop-songs-10-of-the-best-oasis-blur-pulp

Plenty of comments of the 'bbbbut what about Ocean Colour Scene/ dodgy' but this article seems to have used *that* "Select" front page as the initial template..

― Mark G, Friday, 17 February 2017 07:40 (nine years ago)

They should know better than to inflate Haines ego like that.

― afriendlypioneer, Friday, 17 February 2017 12:41 (nine years ago)

Sleeper is reuniting.
http://www.radiox.co.uk/news/sleeper-first-gig-19-years-star-shaped-festival/

― Ex Slacker, Monday, 20 February 2017 06:18 (nine years ago)

Ash's Girl from Mars suggested twice, but no rep for the brilliant Goldfinger, till now

― Dr X O'Skeleton, Tuesday, 21 February 2017 00:15 (nine years ago)

Classics only.

― The times they are a changing, perhaps (map), Tuesday, 21 February 2017 03:46 (nine years ago)

My list would be only Supergrass, Blue and Pulp songs and probably wouldn't get to a hundred.

― chap, Tuesday, 21 February 2017 10:01 (nine years ago)

Blue?

― Mark G, Tuesday, 21 February 2017 12:27 (nine years ago)

Technically they're pop from Britain.

― chap, Tuesday, 21 February 2017 13:19 (nine years ago)

I probably shouldn't ask, but how on earth does Indian/Pakistani(LOL) music fit better into a European musical tradition than "American" music, by which I assume Geir means African-American music? It surely fits in less well?

Because the classical Indian musical tradition is head music, not body music.

― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, June 9, 2009 1:50 PM (seven years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― Islamic State of Mind (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 21 February 2017 17:09 (nine years ago)

Is that true?

I mean, estimate a percentage..

― Mark G, Tuesday, 21 February 2017 18:28 (nine years ago)

well i imagine geir subscribes to the aryan racial theories of Houston Stewart Chamberlain so to him yes

― Islamic State of Mind (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 21 February 2017 18:57 (nine years ago)

xxp, 1973 Britpop
http://youtu.be/pBk61fPE4Yk

― Ρεμπετολογια, Tuesday, 21 February 2017 19:43 (nine years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBk61fPE4Yk

― Ρεμπετολογια, Tuesday, 21 February 2017 19:45 (nine years ago)

Geir's not a bad guy but idk where to start with his 2009 posts here.

― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Tuesday, 21 February 2017 23:43 (nine years ago)

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