[Closed] Britpop - own up then, who did you buy?

How were Belly britpop?

Echobelly maybe?

menswear!

Sorry, yes, Echobelly.

Dubstar anyone? Lush?

I think you mean Menswe@r. And yes, I own it...

I bought the first Blur single but sold it quickly (and too cheaply) when I realised they were rubbish - and spent the rest of the 1990s sneering at Britpop and listening to dance music and obscure shoegaze/US indie.

Tssst, You youngsters! Oasis were just on the radio - are they Britpop? I've got one of their CDs and still listen to it.

More my era, interesting to see old Mr Plant winning awards recently 😉

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Oasis were very definitely Britpop.

Blur and the better shoegaze bands.

Catherine Wheel are great. Adam and Eve is an album of genius.

Off the top of my head i've got stuff from...

Ash
Baby Bird
Blur
Echobelly
Elastica
Lush
Oasis
Ocean Colour Scene
Pulp
Republica
Sleeper
Space
Suede
Supergrass

Oasis were very definitely Britpop.

I don't count shoegaze bands as Britpop, I think to be properly Britpop bands have to base their look and sound on acts from the '60s, '70s or '80s.

Eg. Blur - Kinks, Oasis - Beatles, Pulp - Human League, Ocean Colour Scene - Jam/Weller, Elastica - new wave.

It was essentially a retro thing, and along with grunge made guitar music in the 1990s very boring. Things have picked up considerably in the noughties, if you discount all those Libertines/Brit school bands.

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Off the top of my head i've got stuff from...

Ash
Baby Bird
Blur
Echobelly
Elastica
Lush
Oasis
Ocean Colour Scene
Pulp
Republica
Sleeper
Space
Suede
Supergrass

Same here but with the addition of Menswe@r.

ooh bluetones as well.

and as a practicl Britpop best of:

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Actually, I think the Mrs might have taken that one with her...

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Ah, the lovely Ms Wener, the w@nk object of the Britpop generation

Just first Oasis album and one Blur single (song 2) - anything else in my collection rode in on the back of compilations given away on the covers of music mags.

Oh my:

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Ash and Elastica aren't exactly britpop are they?

I hated Britpop! Probably because all my friends did nothing but talk about Oasis this, Oasis that, Liam did this blah blah blah.. So I hated it!

I turned to house music and became a superstar DJ! (Oh yea, that was a dream)

I've now bought the old CD's off my friend, as I now like the old stuff!

My first CD would've been Oasis, and I would've bought it off my mate about 2 years ago, for nothing (nearly). 🙂

[i]Ash and Elastica aren't exactly britpop are they?[/i]

Yes, they really are. Ash may have (somehow) clung on for a bit longer, but they both definatly surfed the Britpop wave.

FWIW, I think the Elastica album is brilliant.

I used to work with the bassist from Ride, he was a glum fella, then he was selling sofas in shabbytat

I was too old for Britpop 😥

My old manager was nearly in Frankie Goes to Hollywood.

Does this count

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dirty dirty dirty

Republica - they really were awful. I bet she went like a train mind.

Anyone listen to Ultrasound?

How's about

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I loved this album, am gonna play it tonight in homage....

Can't get much more Britpop than Elastica.

Bet that bloke from Ride had a chip on his shoulder about Britpop bands stealing their thunder.

Must have been the guitarist from Ride who joined Oasis in the end then?

Ultrasound were great at the time!
Earl Brutus, sort of qualify for being around that time, but there stuff stands the test, unlike Sleeper and Menswear (who were also useless live).

(Ride were more from the shoegazing side of the genre coin)

Sleeper were excellent when I saw them at Sheffield Uni.

all of them

still buying tapes at the time though - so none of them have survived

have a few pulp and blur CDs (and a bluetones one I think)

My mate was working as the editor of our student magazine - so I got free tickets to all the london britpop gigs. enjoyed it at the time but it never felt like anyone was doing anything that was going to change the world

met my wife at a sleeper gig!

I used to like Ultrasound with that fat bloke called Tiny , they were superb

[i]Sleeper were excellent when I saw them at Sheffield Uni.
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I meant Menswear were crap, never saw Sleeper.

I have 3 Bluetones albums. god they sound rubbish now.

Fair enough. I can believe it about Menswe@r.

I still really like Expecting to Fly, Bluetonic is an excellent song.

[i]Can't get much more Britpop than Elastica.[/i]

I always thought that Blur were the archetypal britpop band.

Disclaimer: I have albums by both bands.

Britpop came a bit late for me, I was more into The Wonderstuff and PWEI etc.

I always thought that Blur were the archetypal britpop band.

Maybe, but weren't him out of Blur and her out of Elastica having it off anyway?

Members of both bands could probably be found down the Good Mixer in Camden most nights for a couple of years. nb. The Good Mixer was the Hawley Arms of it's generation (what is it with poseur indie musicians and grotty north London boozers?).

Anyway, it could be worse. In 15 years time there'll probably be a thread about who bought Lilly Allen, Kate Nash etc.

I listened to the first Elastic album and It Girl by Sleeper the other day and they both still sound good!

Can't beleive that Suede haven't got a mention, surely one of the bands that influenced the whole Britpop scene, before it got b******dised by Oasis, OCS etc

Anyway, it could be worse. In 15 years time there'll probably be a thread about who bought Lilly Allen, Kate Nash etc.

Absolutely.

Perhaps they're the bastard children of Britpop anyway.

Ash
Baby Bird
Blur
Echobelly
Elastica
Lush
Oasis
Ocean Colour Scene
Pulp
Republica
Sleeper
Space
Suede
Supergrass

and

Can't beleive that Suede haven't got a mention, surely one of the bands...

i don't know, attention to detail these days
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God this takes me back

Got most of those above still kicking around.

Got this in my CD player at the mo, not sure if they were really britpop though. A good Somerset yokel band IMO.

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Arse.

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Super Furries were the only decent band britpop produced

I could stand Suede, his voice was awful, although Bernard Butler was a great guitarist.
Anyone remember Joyrider, they were a great live band. All Gone Away was their best song (almost appropriately).
Oh what about Space - Neighbourhood was quite good.

Yes, I am browsing my singles collection 🙂

Id suggest that some of the bands mentioned were "Indie" first, then became britpop. Certainly Blur were when they put out Leisure, prior to Parklife. And Modern Life is Rubbish, was, er, rubbish.

Suede pre-dated britpop by a good few years.

A nostalgia thread about nostalgia music. PWEI weren't called that for nowt!

Is the lead singer from Jesus Jones still editor of What Mountain Bike?

I can't believe I bought an Oasis album; I guess it was in the brief period of time that I thought Wonderwall was good.... I still think the McAlmont and Butler album is good though not really Brit Pop I suppose. Other than that I think that Supergrass had a lot more going for them than most bands of that time.

Bluetones - Expecting to Fly - one of my favourite albums. OCS - Moseley Shoals another.

really liked sleeper,
listening to it now and to be honest its a bit pap
they released a greatest hits album apparently in 2007 😀

i USED to fancy her loads as well,
louise wener that is 😀
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Gay Dad

Last time I'll get away with typing that!

Elastica
Pulp
Kula Shaker (?)

no Oasis. no Blur.

Lots of New Model Army though 😉

(yeah, I know they're not, never were and never will be "Britpop")

Shed Seven, what about shed seven.
Oh and corduroy
(I think I have every album mentioned so far!)

Gene ???????

smiths pastiche

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Class,

and not forgetting some stalwarts:
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I agree that the shooting fish soundtrack is a classic britpop anthology - lovely stuff 😀

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Suede pre-dated britpop by a good few years.

Suede's eponymous (sp?) début released in 1993, blur's 'Modern Life is rubbish' released 1993, Elastica's Stutter single 1993. Hardly a good few years. By 1995 Britpop had run it's course, to be replaced by the dadrock from the likes of kula-shaker & oasis

i don't know, attention to detail these days

sock puppet - a good point well made.

Hmmm, some of the britpop stuff didn't really grab me but by heck, this did (and still does sometimes). I think you'd call it "Prog Britpop". Genius album and they never really did anything else of note.
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Jesus, how up my own arse was I??!!

Mansun...still listen to both albums. I obviously have no taste!

Currently listening to the Sneaker Pimps

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Purely by accident I spent a very drunken evening with the members of Ash at the funfair at the Le Mans 24 hr race. Nice folk, but they became more in comprehensible the more the evening wore on.

Their music was a bit gash though.

Mansun never did anything of note after OneEP and TwoEP !

My fondest memory of the Britpop era was shaking the hand of Joe Strummer at a Pulp/Elastica gig. A great moment for me 😀

Bexoming X. WHat a great Album.

Must fire up the music server 🙂

Mansun...still listen to both albums. I obviously have no taste!

On the contrary old chap. Taste abounds for you...still love AOTGL, but never really thought Six cut it.

Id suggest that some of the bands mentioned were "Indie" first, then became britpop

absolutely.

And as for Dodgy, no way were they part of the britpop thing.

the longpigs

conkerman - Member
Bexoming X. WHat a great Album.

Must fire up the music server

sneaker pimps becoming X
listened to this a few weeks ago at a friend house,
ipod on shuffle, good album,
shame they got rid of the female singer,
def not brit-pop though

last one for me
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bloody amazing album!

sorry Colande still love Gene, was at the last gig

I give you The Seahorses!

Saw Gene once, Im sure one of them spent the entire gig facing away from the (very small) audience (as in not many, not short arses, tho I am one meslf)
Kenickie/Seahorses I think we may be gettting beyond the classic Britpop era- both great bands mind.
I might have a Kenickie story-but thats another post 😉

Oooh, thank you for putting up the pic of Saffron from Republica. Saw them at the Fleece in Bristol, where a combination of a very enthusiastic crowd and Saffron standing between the monitors at the front meant I spent an entertaining couple of minutes with my face pressed against the crotch of her leather jeans...
I've still got the tissue she borrowed to wipe her face with the pink stains of her hair-dye on it along with the setlist.
Saw Elastica there on their first tour, Kenickie, Lush, Echobelly, Sleeper, Dubstar, Hillman Minx (really), and Gay Dad and Mansun as supports. Lush, Sleeper, Kenickie and Dubstar I saw a number of times, Kenickie were one of the funniest and most entertaining live bands I've seen in thirty-odd years of gig-going, Lauren Laverne is just lovely, and a natural comic, bearing in mind she was still at school the first time I saw them! Got a t-shirt somewher with Sleeperbloke on it, that being the media term for the anonymous blokes in any band fronted by a pretty girl singer. Wow, this thread has taken me back a bit.

Suede pre-dated britpop by a good few years.

Suede's eponymous (sp?) début released in 1993, blur's 'Modern Life is rubbish' released 1993, Elastica's Stutter single 1993. Hardly a good few years. By 1995 Britpop had run it's course, to be replaced by the dadrock from the likes of kula-shaker & oasis

fair point on the detail seamus, but is style neccessarily the same thing as era?