I'm here for a Britpop revival

Gah, Lush was awesome.

"She Drives Me Crazy" - The Fine Young Cannibals

Average White Band

I loved Jamiroquai, OP! Thanks for the mention.

I did NOT know until reading the comments for the Lush video that the song was written, in part, about Anthony Kiedis.....

dang!

One hit wonder but what a fucking BANGER!

Mansun - Wide Open Space

Britpop sucked, Madchester should have taken over instead.

The "New Wave" and "Now I'm a Cowboy" albums by The Auteurs.

Black Box Recorder's "England Made Me"

"The Female of the Species" by Space

The Modfather

Lush were awesome.

To be nonsensically pedantic about it: the time span of Britpop is generally considered to be 1993–1997, and its peak years to be 1995–1996.

You are right, R13, though I'm sure I'll be sneaking in a bit of stuff right before or after that time.

This was square in the peak, though - I think.

An amazing song to (a) get high to and (b) to have playing while getting pounded by a tall skinny indie dude.

There were a lot of indie bands that technically predate so-called Britpop, but had some good tunes.

Ned's Atomic Dustbin

Lush singer Miki Berenyi's memoir "Fingers Crossed" is among the best music memoirs I've read, and there have been many. Born in 1967, she had really messed-up, bohemian, creative, financially ruinous parents who loved her a lot: a Hungarian father and Japanese mother. She describes one of the saddest experiences of her life, bandmate and short-lived boyfriend Chris Acland's suicide, with real sensitivity. She's very likeable in interviews, too.

R17 I had no idea she'd written a memoir. I don't know if it will be readily available here in the US but I will try to find it.

(I ordered several of Tracey Thorn's books from the UK.)

It's worth reading, R18. She's quite open about her healthy sex life at the time (revolving door of boyfriends, plus lots of casual sex on tour, etc.), drug use among the various Britpop acts, her rivalry with bandmate and childhood friend Emma Anderson (and the permanent disintegration of their friendship), her shambolic 1970s London childhood, insecurity about her musical skills, sexist attitudes and hostility towards "female-fronted bands," and so on. She's a great writer. I remember reading Talking Heads's Chris Frantz's memoir around the same time ("Remain in Love"--a terrible title) and thinking how much better hers was in every way.

Brett Anderson's memoir of his pre-Suede life, "Coal Black Mornings" is good too.

Thank you R19! I look forward to reading it.

Britpop you say?

and..

Shock shock horror horror

Jay Kay / Jamiroquai is a complete and utter cunt and always has been.

This is a spectacular occasion when he took it too far. Full of drink and drugs he was as obnoxious as can be and started an argument with a bunch of photographers. Naturally he went for the smallest guy, but the guy would only take so much abuse then he headbutted Jay.

I actually hate violence but you cannot help but cheer in this instance.

There's a reason he's known as Jamirocunt.

Even without his personality their music is fucking awful and nothing to do with Britpop.

Luke Haines however was and is marvellous.

Didn't Jay Kay trash one of his (celebrity) exes in public for being crap in bed?

I thought his bandmate Stuart Zender (who dated Milla Jovovich for a bit) was hotter than J/K.

Luke Haines also wrote the best and funniest of all the Britpop memoirs: "Bad Vibes: Britpop and My Part in Its Downfall." He was (and is) light years ahead of most of his contemporaries.

R27 - yes his books are superb - highly recommended.

R26 - the bowel movement I just did is hotter than Jay Kay. It' s not difficult.

I'm listening to the Sliding Doors soundtrack, really takes me back to this era.

You wanna live like Common People…

We're traaaaaaaaaash, you and me

Blur, really just wonderful and still are. Best Days, Song 2, Death of a Party, Charmless Man. Pulp, Disco 2000. Saint Etienne, He's on the Phone- Motiv 8 remix

Oops 🤪

Blur certainly had a more interesting catalog, at least to my ears. The Blur vs Oasis thing was a dumb PR battle, since they weren't much alike.

I loved this one.

And wanted Damon Albarn inside me quite deeply.

Damon Albarn is one of the most talented artists of the past century. The way he writes to comment on society and life is so incredible. What he did with Gorillaz too, just brilliant. Blur's music is timeless.

I've never seen this before, is Damon"taking the piss" out of Jay Kay here? LOL

PS: seems like if you just cut and paste from YT it pastes that "offsite link" preview, so you have to grab the URL before the question mark....not the extended one....and that one seems to populate the visible preview with image, song title, etc.

I'll take Luke Haines Brilliance for $200..

Luke is britpop.

This is Saint Etienne in all their weird, maximal minimalist with beats glory. Possibly my ride or die song, I feel that protective of it. It's got everything that brings whatever I still have left inside's that passes for emotion these days, bliss.

Jimmy Webb goes Shoegaze..

Hobart Paving is one of my favorite songs of theirs, R40. Love Saint Etienne when they get dancey, too.

So Tough is a stellar album, as is Good Humour.

I LOVED Good Humor.

No real bad albums either.

A little pre Britpop but fuck, I loved them.

Psychedelic Furs for the win

and their Bo Donaldson & The Heywoods cover is a gem!

I can't believe I almost forgot about McAlmont and Butler's "Yes."

One of the finest FUCK YOU songs ever made.

And when it soars at the end......it's made me cry more than once.

Maybe a year or two later than true Britpop but this Ms. Dynamite song, as the kids would say, SLAPPED.

Or ate. And left no crumbs.

I'm more into the more shoegazey Lush before Lollapalooza, when Simon Raymonde from Cocteau Twins was producing them.

I miss the Cocteau Twins.

I love Pulp. They’re the only band I listened to during the Brit pop era who I still regularly listen to

People are now listing any UK band that started out in the 90's or even the 80's, like Cocteau Twins. Britpop was a very particular aesthetic/sound and a lot of that was shit. Like this band, for example (with Hayley Mills' neonazi son):

Oh no! How dare they!

Or, these twats:

I remember that song r53 I had no idea he was her son or a neonazi

Gay Dad are why journalists should not front bands..

Meanwhile, these sodomites have been with us the whole time and delivered much good stuff..

My favorite Pulp song.

The Britipop spectrum begins with Shoegaze and ends with The Spice Girls.

That song is epic r59. It’s the first Pump song I play for friends who’ve never heard them

R40 I love them - too many favorites to list. I don't know why they don't get as much attention as Portishead.

Proper Britpop and the divine Alison Moyet on vocals.

Watch Pulp debut new song ‘Spike Island’ as they kick off US tour:

Graham Coxon on the return of Blur: “We can’t leave it too long because we’re knocking on!”

The guitarist talks to NME about the Britpop heroes' new Live At Wembley Stadium concert movie, being there for his old friend Damon Albarn through hard times, the Coachella incident, and what the future of Blur could look like

Jarvis Cocker at his best:

Jarvis: How about you, what makes you frightened?

Girl in audience: What makes me what? [...] Err, wasps.

Jarvis: Sorry?

Girl: Wasps.

Jarvis: Wasps. Well, yeah, because they just sting people for no reason at all. If a bee stings you, it's got a reason, because it has to pay with its life, whereas wasps can just sting people for no reason at all, as many times as they want. And there are some people like that as well; in fact some people even enjoy stinging you as many times as they can.

In the mid-1980, when hip-hop started to domainate US R&B music, there was British soul. This was one of the better tracks: "Hanging on a String" by Loose Ends

Desperate for a Britpop revival led by nepo babes:

[quote]R13 To be nonsensically pedantic about it: the time span of Britpop is generally considered to be 1993–1997, and its peak years to be 1995–1996.

So not the English Beat?

R9 yes to The Auteurs

You're here for it? Is it goals? A vibe? Do you have boundaries around it?

Anyone remember Curve? Female singer who sounded like a snarling angel, paired with wailing guitars, stomping Madchester drum beats? I am sure I annoyed everyone on my dorm floor my freshman year of college playing this song and all of the other Curve stuff turned up to eleven. I never hear anyone talk about Curve these days, but they were one of my absolute faves.

R7 Thank you for reminding me about Mansun and that truly fabulous song! It's kind of a masterpiece.

I was 18/19, it was 1991/1992, I was a freshman at Mizzou, and I was ALL ABOUT 90s Britpop and Madchester. Holy shit, this is my thread!

St. Etienne, Lush, Stone Roses, Ride, Happy Mondays, The Verve, Suede, Curve, Lush, Blur, Slowdive, Primal Scream, The Sneaker Pimps, Pale Saints, My Bloody Valentine, Swervedriver, Spiritualized, The Orb, Elastica, Republica...

Higher Than The Sun by Primal Scream is still one of my favorite songs of all time. It is ICONICA! I would end my day of classes smoking a bowl in the dark with this song playing. Every play of the song felt like it's own profound journey that lasted for hours. The early 90s was a magical time, a little groovy moment in history where everyone and everything felt cool, and there was hope and playfulness abounding. It was maybe my favorite chapter of my life.

I think life is always better in America during eras when British music is flooding the soundwaves. Something just really wonderful about it.

Electronic (Bernard Sumner, Neil Tennant and Johnny Marr)'s eponymous album really captures the spirit and the time for me. "Getting Away With It" "Get The Message" and "Feel Every Beat" all give "Britpop clove-smoking, lake beach, sunny summertime joy."

[Link to "Feel Every Beat" below]

I had a huge crush on the lead singer of Ride.

I hadn’t thought about Chapterhouse’s song Pearl in forever. So good! From ‘92 or so.

I finally got to see Ride live in 2023, R77, and it really choked me up, finally getting to hear Vapour Trail live after 33 years. It was very life-affirming and moving.

Make way for the Irish renaissance:

i HATE OASIS

I was gonna say, R81, it's really refreshing how no one is referencing Oasis on this thread. They are not what we have nostalgia for. They are some other thing.

We gays have better taste