Best of these mid-90s Britpop albums

Tried to leave out some of the more obvious choices for some bands.

and include some non-britpop albums!

stellar poll.

where's kula shaker ffs

Supergrass is the only one here I ever listen to any more.

Is this someone parodying dog latin?

It's His n Hers, guys. Come on.

^^^yes but shhhhh ;)

Good time to say that Free Peace Sweet is actually not bad at all

Yes it is, it's fucking shite.

As long as Verve don't win I'm happy.

I wouldn't put any of those albums on in its entirety today. Or tomorrow.

Very good: UKRIP

Good: One Of Those Rivers, If You're Thinking Of Me, Homegrown, Long Life, Intro

OK: In A Room, Prey For Drinking, Jack The Lad, Found You, Ain't No Longer Asking, You've Gotta Look Up

Not OK: Trust In Time

Wretched: Good Enough

= actually not bad at all

It's not the white album though, is it?

...no...

UKRIP is totally cracking tho

where's kula shaker ffs

― should probably be practising shorthand (country matters), Monday, September 28, 2009 7:03 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

aaaaand that's a suggest ban.

Harsh but fair.

er, was a joke...

No, it was a real band, I remember seeing them on Top of the Pops.

no laughing matter.

hey dude, don't lean on me man

Bad taste considering all those guys that stuck nails thru their own ear-drums after being exposed to "Hush".

Wd like to nominate Crispian Mills for the "dude most likely to be arrested in Thailand à la Gary Glitter within the next 10 years" thread btw.

btw am I allowed to rep for Hollow Man

That Supergrass album is still really good.

Manics vs Elastica vs Pulp. I always feel obliged to rep for the Manics in ILX polls, even though it's not Britpop in any meaningful sense.

I own the Cast album, it was pretty damn fun when it came out.

only ever heard the elastica and the blur, and the singles off the oasis. i'd say elastica based on that but i won't vote in this godawful poll.

oh and the verve, duh. my answer stands tho.

I Should Coco is a great album, regardless of what you think of "britpop" as a genre. His'n'Hers is it's only competition in this poll but it sounds a bit dated now and it's always been too long.

I'd agree on both points, but His'n'Hers wins for a) having Lipgloss, Babies, and ...First Time, and more importantly b) not having Alright. Sorry Supergrass, you put four great singles on yr first album but also one shitty one that got played to death and makes me feel ill just thinking about it, you lose.

(but those two + Elastica are the only ones I'd even consider)

It's His n Hers, guys. Come on.

― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Monday, September 28, 2009

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcpplPW_64M

^^^
reason enough for 'I should coco' to get my vote.

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Pulp & Elastica the only contenders for first, Coco a strong third.

I voted Blur, obv.

i went with blur. supergrass, pulp and even the verve are not too far behind though.

i'd probably rank the oasis and manic street preachers as my two least favourite albums here. i haven't heard the dodgy, but i did hang out with the guy who drummed for them a few years back, and while he was one of the crudest people i've ever met, he was profoundly entertaining.

elastica. still enjoy hearing all those songs.

Pulp's best album vs Blur's 2nd-best album = a sliver of choice, but David's Last Summer won it for me...not that I wouldn't go the other way if I'd just heard Yuko & Hiro

I don't know how I'm going to vote. I've heard the BLur album the most, but I don't know if it's good enough to vote for. Think I might actually go for the BLuetones - that's a really underrated debut.

David's Last Summer was the song that I always skipped because I thought it was boring, pretty much every other song on that album was great.

The Bluetones? Fucking hellfire.

David's Last Summer was just bits of other unrecorded songs all stuck together, wasn't it?

Nick, you like Embrace.

"Free Peace Sweet" is the best Britpop album ever, and one of the Top 5 albums of the entire 90s.

x-post that's a never-fail zing

Liking Embrace in a thread in which sentences like "Free Peace Sweet" is the best Britpop album ever, and one of the Top 5 albums of the entire 90s. are being thrown around makes me the smart one. And much as I do like them, I wouldn't make any claims about them being great or underrated.

lol it's cool i like Space

Nick, you should give the Bluetones (at least that first album) more credit is what I'm saying.

I loved Space at the time. Think I went to see them at the Junction in Cambridge, must've been 15? Octopus were supporting.

Expecting To Fly's not a bad album, at all; it's just so... nondescript. A couple of decent singles and a handful of really good b-sides is all I'll take from them.

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what a surprise

wd like to change vote to The Great Escape ffs because Pulp will still win and TGE wd at least be free of urban hymns

it can be free of urban hymns in our hearts, the poll is over.

i woulda voted for the verve or the manics

men are over
women are over
sheffield is over

urban hymns is a rare example of an album where the massive international smash-hit is both the best and the most interesting piece of music on it

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