This is the thread for hating on BRITPOP

= you are all gay

I don't get ILM's Britpop celeb hate. I think Damon Albarn is a perfectly worthwhile individual. Granted, I live in the Land of Darryl Worley, so you can see how the luxury of having some Britpop dude as A#1 death-marked everything-wrong-with-pop scapegoat is far beyond me.

As would others. Separations is incredibly good and Freaks has some deceptively touching moments.

YOU GUYS ARE WORSE THAN DMB FANZ.

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Nirvana.

But UK-wise you had Suede, The Prodigy, Radiohead, Pulp, Blur, Oasis, My Bloody Valentine.

ok M if you say so, fine - I'd say that Foetus and his various cohorts are utterly key to any discussion of NIN & their aftereffects but it's not something I'm ready to go to war about or anything

I would love to punch Jarvis Cocker.

-- GET TO THA' (PRICE) CHOPPA!!!!!!!! ROFFLE!!!!!!!! (ex machina), Friday, 7 May 2004 23:35 (3 years ago) Bookmark Link

so many more deserving targets for overamped teenage hostility

-- strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 7 May 2004 23:38 (3 years ago) Bookmark Link

Go away.

-- CRW (CRW), Friday, 7 May 2004 23:39 (3 years ago) Bookmark Link

Parklife is shit.

-- stephen morris (stephen morris), Friday, 7 May 2004 23:40 (3 years ago) Bookmark Link

OTM, not OTM, not OTM, OTM

i blame whigfield, seriously. in '94 every other uk number one was a crap novelty school disco record by the likes of rednex, outhere brothers, whigfield, etc...

so we had to have a return to "real" bands like oasis, supergrass, blur etc...

who, imo, were worse than the kiddie house.

but i will never listen to pulp again

-- the 'surface' 'noise' (electricsound), Saturday, May 8, 2004 10:45 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark Link

this didn't happen

:-(

max, you're out of your element.

maybe jon williams invented the LBCZC? sobering thought.

yeah, i am really.

i understand there were many factors that contributed to britpop's rise, but i think animosity towards cheeseball dance pop (and dance music in general) was part of it.

there's no need to be patronising, chum.

Yay, clusterfuck thread time!

i don't think people buy records they like in protest at other records, son.

maybe not, but the press likes a bit of contrast doesn't it?

"faceless techno bollocks" and all that.

you don't think it was hard for the press to find "stars" in dance music? bands are a bit more quotable aren't they?

plus i remember kids brought up on synthpop and dance thinking that that wave of bands was original, because most indie until then had been quite underground.

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"Along came Max, and the funtime started..."

i don't think any britpop records even got to number one in 1994. stiltskin did, however, so guess my theory.

did in 95, tho

"get to tha price choppa roffle" my favourite jw alias.

Whigfield was awesome, max, "saturday night" a great single.

The ragga version of "Saturday Night" was pretty heat as well.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Wmk9Oar3-k0

it was a hot jam for the laydeez

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01. (N a) Whigfield - Saturday Night[]
02. (-1 ) Wet Wet Wet - Love Is All Around[]
03. (N pa) Luther Vandross And Mariah Carey - Endless Love[]
04. (-2 pa) Kylie Minogue - Confide In Me[]
05. (4 pa) Corona - The Rhythm Of The Night[]
06. (-1 pa) Boyz II Men - I'll Make Love To You[]
07. (-4 a) Youssou N'Dour Featuring Neneh Cherry - 7 Seconds[]
08. (-4 pa) Red Dragon With Brian And Tony Gold - Compliments On Your Kiss[]
09. (N pa) R.E.M. - What's The Frequency, Kenneth?[]
10. (1 pa) M-Beat Featuring General Levy - Incredible {1994 Re-Release}[]
11. (-5 a) Let Loose - Crazy For You {1994}[]
12. (-4 pa) Warren G And Nate Dogg - Regulate[]
13. (N pa) Cyndi Lauper - Hey Now (Girls Just Want To Have Fun)[]
14. (-7 pa) China Black - Searching[]
15. (-) Sophie B Hawkins - Right Beside You[]
16. (-6 pa) All-4-One - I Swear[]
17. (-5 pa) DJ Miko - What's Up[]
18. (3 pa) Lisa Loeb And Nine Stories - Stay (I Missed You)[]
19. (N a) Grid - Rollercoaster[]
20. (-6 pa) Blur - Parklife[]
21. (-4 pa) Shampoo - Trouble[]
22. (-3 pa) Blondie - Atomic {1994}[]
23. (-10 pa) Pet Shop Boys - Yesterday When I Was Mad[]
24. (-2 pa) Livin' Joy - Dreamer[]
25. (1 pa) D:Ream - Blame It On Me[]
26. (N pa) Bad Boys Inc - Love Here I Come[]
27. (N pa) Snap! Featuring Summer - Welcome To Tomorrow[]
28. (-10 pa) Tinman - Eighteen Strings[]
29. (-4 pa) Robert Palmer - Know By Now[]
30. (N pa) Roxette - Fireworks[]
31. (N pa) M People - Elegantly American - One Night In Heaven/Moving On Up (Remixes)[]
32. (-12 pa) Sean Maguire - Someone To Love[]
33. (N pa) Aswad - Warriors[]
34. (-18 pa) The Wonder Stuff - Unbearable[]
35. (-11 pa) Eternal - So Good[]
36. (N pa) Sabres Of Paradise - Wilmot[]
37. (-6 pa) Duke Baysee - Sugar Sugar[]
38. (-4 pa) Shara Nelson - Inside Out/Down That Road[]
39. (-9 pa) Prince - Letitgo[]
40. (-11 pa) PJ And Duncan - Let's Get Ready To Rhumble[]

That's a pretty hot top 40.

All-4-One can fuck off, though.

You can force it but it will not come
You can taste it but it will not form
You can crush it but it's always here
You can crush it but it's always near
Chasing you home saying
Everything is broken
Everyone is broken

You can force it but it will stay stung
You can crush it as dry as a bone
You can walk it home straight from school
You can kiss it, you can break all the rules
But still...
Everything is broken
Everyone is broken

Everyone is, everyone is broken
Everyone is, everything is broken

Why can't you forget?
Why can't you forget?
Why can't you forget?

Richard said "Withdrawal in disgust is not the same as apathy"

You wore our expectations like an armored suit

You said that irony was the shackles of youth

i blame mondeo pop, seriously. in '94 every other uk number one was a crap faux-scottish soft-rock mock-soul record by the likes of deacon blue, aztec camera, wet wet wet, etc...

so we had to have a return to "real" bands like whigfield, doop, livin joy etc...

there are a few decent tracks in there:

incredible, dreamer, rollercoaster (but not as good as swamp thing), the prince tune was crap by his standards. bit of a bland chart, imo

i blame grunge, seriously. in '91 every other uk number one was a crap flannel shirted, distorted amp driven piece of shit US rock record by the likes of Mudhoney, Gruntruck, The Melvins, Tad, etc...

so we had to have a return to "real" bands like Wet Wet Wet, Aztec Camera, Deacon Blue etc...

'wilmot' is fucking great. or i though so then.

yeah, yeah, alright there were various reasons.

21. (-4 pa) Shampoo - Trouble[]

Not feeling this.

I checked, The Melvins only had three UK #1 singles. I thought it was more.

oh yeah, 7 seconds was good as well.

12. (-4 pa) Warren G And Nate Dogg - Regulate[]

that's what i'm talking about

I have no idea why that isn't on more karaoke machines.

What is needed is a thread for hating on hip-hop and contemporary R&B.

Britpop was great, not as much great in itself musically (although it was too) as a much needed return to the song.

It was said that teen pop killed off Britpop, but as opposed to most of what was popular with the kids in the early 90s, Spice Girls and the boy bands did at least have real tunes with real verses and real choruses. And so it has remained, outside the hip-hop/R&B world.

I mean, even most electronica has tunes these days.

huh? a lot of electronica had tunes in the early 90s, like the artificial intelligence comps and all that.

Well, of course there were always Robert Miles, Enigma and Deep Forest, but.....

this thread was better than i expected

The last dozen or so people to post are working in self-parody mode, surely?

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Best part of Britpop = those bands who 'wanted nothing to do with it' yet road the coattails anyway, as they knew no one would care otherwise