When BritPop Ruled

Whatever

How Sweet It Is To Be A Idiot

 

"Whatever." To the tune of "How Sweet It Is to be an Idiot." Do I move on to the bonus round, where I play to win a Lambretta?

 

Sorry, late by about forty mins.

 

I am fan of the genre without noticing it was BritPop!

Blur was one of those bands I was avoiding because their "look" don't know if was a "lapsus" in me I guess, when finally I could heard to The Great Escape I thought that the band deserved a deep listening, the next was Parklife, and aside the well know hit Girls & Boys I could discover great tunes like London Loves the which remains in my very favorite top songs ever! An "underrated" album to me is Think Tank, one of their bests in my opinion.

Suede and Pulp are excellent too!

 

Beatle Bum

Blur

Girls & Boys was also great.

They had a few good songs,
they even did a track with Francoise Hardy
(that's pretty cool).
Not sure about their image.
Also, Damon Albarn's Syd Barrett
vocal twang was irksome (to my ears anyway)

 

I was always a Blur/Pulp/Suede fan, and it was great when this stuff came into the mainstream (around 93/94) I remember thinking 'Wow, this interesting and intelligent quirky pop music is now the mainstream, this is a golden age', then of course much to my chagrin Oasis came along and spoiled everything, in my opinion one of the direst and lumbering load of old 'lad-rock' i'd ever heard.....anyway, i'm digressing....

My favourite (though sadly forgotten) Britpop band is one who had some minor success but were written off because their frontwoman was an MTV VJ (the lovely and wonderfully voiced Marijne Van der vlugt), I am of course talking about the criminally underrated 'Salad'. I don't want to lump them in with all the other 'female fronted' bands of the era as that seems a bit crass, but they were head and shoulders above them all. They had three very talented individual songwriters inthem and though some of their sound and production does lean very much sometimes toward 'Britpop-by-numbers' their actual melodies and compositional skills were very high indeed, great great pop songs.
I would recommend their album 'Drink me' as a great place to start.
Here's some of their videos;

Motorbike to Heaven;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHyye6ADYYA

I want you;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoeMRPQ3KHg

Drink the Elixir;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wDalOaPBh8&feature=related

Diminished Clothes (live);
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAhEEcCPT1Q&feature=related

Granite Statue;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wnvb16NKu2w&feature=related

 

Did BritPop rule?

 

In the mid 90s in the UK it did for sure.

 

I heard there was a time a few years ago when not a single British band was on the American 'pop/rock' charts..... (whichever is now deemed the 'real' one). This had not happened since January 1964!
Is this true?

 

nope, you named the Innes song, not the Oasis song. Technicality. I win.

 

Always will in UK.

 

Whatever

Check out the title of my post again.

 

If Coming Up is seats on the 50-yard-line, Head Music is being out in the parking lot with a transistor radio for which the battery doesn't work.

If Coming Up is a Cadillac, Head Music is a Lada / Trabant hybrid welded together from two cars that crashed into each other.

Well, I'm probably not being very funny, but you get my drift ...

 

I read the same thing here in the UK.

There's been article after article here about how British bands were having a hard time cracking the American charts for such a long time.

Recently there have been more success stories though.

Eddie

 

Hmm...I'm struggling to grasp your metaphorical dialectic.

If Coming Up is Star Wars, is Head Music Plan Nine From Outer Space?

 

You beat me to it.

 

Oops, sorry. Attention to detail has never been my strong suit.

 

No probs, we can share the prize

 

I didn't catch your metaphor, but i believe Head Music is a very nice album. I like it.

 

+1

 

The Killing Of A Flash Boy

What a corker of a song !

 

Some of my personal favourites:

Suede - S/T, Dog Man Star
Pulp - Different Class
Catatonia - International Velvet, Equally Cursed & Blessed
The Divine Comedy - Fin De siecle
Kula Shaker - S/T

 

loved the first Rialto album. need to dig that out!

 

Wow...after a quick scan of the thread, did the Charlatans not get ANY love from this thread?