bristol_citizen
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ianw said:
Pretty much anything off Modern Life is Rubbish, which has as much to do with The Buzzcocks, new wave, Roxy and Bowie as it does The Kinks and the 60's.
Who were the best Britpop band?
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Pretty much anything off Modern Life is Rubbish, which has as much to do with The Buzzcocks, new wave, Roxy and Bowie as it does The Kinks and the 60's.
Spandex
A crazy bulbous punchbag of sound
Brit-pop sort of passed me by at the time. I was too preoccupied with the my transition from acid-frazzled free party goer to pilled-up techno-head. Which is a shame, coz looking back now Blur, Pulp and Elastica did some great songs.
Oasis and Suede were, are and always will be shite, though.
I voted Pulp on the strength of Common People, which has to be one of the best songs from the '90s.
Oasis and Suede were, are and always will be shite, though.
I voted Pulp on the strength of Common People, which has to be one of the best songs from the '90s.
kained&able
Here for the football.
i reckon its blur then supergarss.
Pulp were part of the britpop seen beacuse they appeared on all the compilations and most people into britpop liked pulp. But weren't technilly brit pop. Kinda like my argumeant for snuff being ska punk.
dave
Pulp were part of the britpop seen beacuse they appeared on all the compilations and most people into britpop liked pulp. But weren't technilly brit pop. Kinda like my argumeant for snuff being ska punk.
dave
Kained and Unable said:Pulp were part of the britpop seen beacuse they appeared on all the compilations and most people into britpop liked pulp. But weren't technilly brit pop. Kinda like my argumeant for snuff being ska punk.
at last.
you've made my day
g force
Affects Shatner's Basoon
To me Blur weren't Britpop - Modern Life is Rubbish had been around for ages before it all kicked off. It's just that Parklife kinda sparked things. I was listening to it again last night and it's a million times better than anything Oasis every managed. The lyrics are superb, musically it's brilliant.
To the end, This is a low, End of a Century...f'ing great stuff that no one managed to get near between '93 and '98.. And then follow that with what they've done since - The Universal, You're so Great, Tender, No Distance Left to Run - best british band in years.
Ditto Pulp - IMO His n Hers is their best album. Joyriders sums up small town/city life almost perfectly.
To the end, This is a low, End of a Century...f'ing great stuff that no one managed to get near between '93 and '98.. And then follow that with what they've done since - The Universal, You're so Great, Tender, No Distance Left to Run - best british band in years.
Ditto Pulp - IMO His n Hers is their best album. Joyriders sums up small town/city life almost perfectly.
kained&able
Here for the football.
Dubversion said:at last.
you've made my day
i realised that ages ago it was just fun to wind you up with.
dave
Andy the Don
Wise men say only fools..
Blur, a 90's version of the Kinks, great Lyricists & Parklife was the first album of Britpop..
Oasis, first two albums were good then they became Manc Gobshittes..
Oasis, first two albums were good then they became Manc Gobshittes..
clandestino
no llevar papel
Andy the Don said:
[ahem]
Andy the Don
Wise men say only fools..
ianw said:[ahem]
Both Suede, Suede & Blur Parklife were released in 1993, not sure which was released first, but will take your word for it.. I stand corrected.
clandestino
no llevar papel
Andy the Don said:
suede was march 93
modern life is rubbish was may 93
park life was 94
Brainaddict
slight system overdrive
I voted Blur. I can't listen to them now but back in the nineties I listened to everything they made. Pulp are better in some ways but they don't have anywhere near as many *great* tracks as Blur I reckon.
g force said:
Damn straight! Its full of classics - Lipgloss, Do You Remember The First Time, Pink Glove, Shes A Lady, David's Last Summer. I rate it higher than Different Class because it was the raw sound that became their style at their peak.
If you like that album, I strongly recommend Pulp:Intro, a compilation of their work with Warp Records in the early 1990's. Whilst their 1980's stuff is quite listenable (It, Freaks, Separations) its a bit of an acquired taste.
Cloo
Banana for scale
For me, being a bit of an indie scenster at the time, it was all about the girl-fronted bands at the time. But journalists just bang on about Oasis and Blur. 
Seeing Elastica play a secret fans gig at the Garage the night I got my A-level results was one of my best gigs ever.
Seeing Elastica play a secret fans gig at the Garage the night I got my A-level results was one of my best gigs ever.
Error Gorilla
My spoon is too big
Pulp was a great band; I love My Lighthouse. I do agree that they weren't Britpop;they'd been going in one form or another since about 1978. Jarvis and Steve Mackey are working on the music for the next Harry Potter film and he's also been working with Richard Hawley on some stuff, like producing an Arcade Fire track and that Relaxed Muscle thing he did with Hawley a couple of years ago.
I just assumed we were classing Britpop as a media-contrived genre and thus we left it to the media to judge who was part of it. Pulp, Ash and even early Radiohead at a push were part of it in their eyes so I took it that they all qualify. SFA perhaps emerged just after the media lost interest and hence I'm not sure I would class them as Britpop simply due to their timing.
Of course by the above definition we could also classify the Stone Roses as Britpop due to the release of "The Second Coming". Black Grape might put in a claim too.
Of course by the above definition we could also classify the Stone Roses as Britpop due to the release of "The Second Coming". Black Grape might put in a claim too.
thestraightman
Hand to mouth to Jaksie
what speaks volumes to me about the blur oasis thing...
...the new gorillaz and whatever the guitarist from blurs called Freaking out track is, some of the best current music on the scene today. Yep
Lyla is not.
mhhhh.
...the new gorillaz and whatever the guitarist from blurs called Freaking out track is, some of the best current music on the scene today. Yep
Lyla is not.
mhhhh.
butterfly child
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YAY for pulp!
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butterfly child
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Cloo said:For me, being a bit of an indie scenster at the time, it was all about the girl-fronted bands at the time. But journalists just bang on about Oasis and Blur.
Seeing Elastica play a secret fans gig at the Garage the night I got my A-level results was one of my best gigs ever.
I never got into Elastica... but loved Lush & Garbage.
Damon Albarn owes a hell of a lot to Ian Dury and Madness for his lyrics - Dury and Madness were the first "observational" lyricists of their kind, British, Londoners, and they knew a hell of a lot more about London life than Colchester born Albarn. Its not to say that Blur were a poor band because of this, they wrote some amazing tunes (Modern Life is Rubbish is their best album in my opinion) its just that Albarn was drawing his inspiration off something more authentic - the observational songs of Ian Dury such as "This is What We Find" - a precursor for songs like "Parklife" and "Girls and Boys".
Pulp were more about experiences and their music was certainly more personal. I think they sounded a hell of a lot more distinctive too - and that why they were the superior band to Blur and "three chords" Oasis.
Pulp were more about experiences and their music was certainly more personal. I think they sounded a hell of a lot more distinctive too - and that why they were the superior band to Blur and "three chords" Oasis.
dirtysanta
Original Casual
The Verve. End of discussion. 10 times the band Oasis could of ever dreamed of being.
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