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Brit Pop Appreciation Thread

Choose your weapon!

  • Blur

    Votes: 11 26.2%

  • Oasis

    Votes: 16 38.1%

  • Pulp

    Votes: 10 23.8%

  • Other

    Votes: 5 11.9%
  • Total voters
    42
DiogoJ42

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So me and @Kelpie are having a bit of a Britpop night.

It got me thinking... At the time, I think most people would pick Oasis over Blur, but in retrospect I think that Blur made better music... even if to this day I could still sing along to Oasis without thinking. Naturally, at the time, both of us would have picked Pulp, because they were the third option and we both supported Jarvis in his crusade against Michael Jackson.

So just like our favourite "Rave" topic, this is the thread to post all your fave 90's music ... only made by real humans, rather than machines.

Dance remixes are acceptable, for example, this:


There are classics like this:


Or more obscure ones like this:


Or the just plain weird:


Or the down right date-rapey:


As long as it's from the 90's, features humans playing instruments, Is not obviously EDM, and has at least some tenuous like to the UK, it counts!

Post away, fellow teenagers of the 90's!
 
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I wasn't a teenager in the 90s, however it doesn't stop my fondness of Brit Pop being any less than it should be! My Dad was heavily into it, and it's shaped my current musical tastes greatly. Plus in the subsequent years I've seen a lot of the acts live which has been great!

Always preferred Blur over Oasis. They wrote better songs, had better videos and lacked the arrogance and dickishness of Oasis. I can't stand Liam or Noel :mask:

Some absolute belting tracks you've posted there, amazing. Couple of my favourites -





Placebo aren't strictly Brit Pop, but they're from the same era and none the less amazing!




Excellent topic. I fully support :grin:
 
I was Oasis through and through, because that's what you listened to when you were a stone's throw from Manchester.

That said, I've seen Blur and Pulp too and musically Blur no doubt have a number of songs that will live on, for sure. Pulp have some big songs from the Different Class era, but outside of that, I'm not sure.

A few 90s favourites from me...









 
Nice thread!

Personally, I like Blur but have always loved Oasis far more! Noel Gallagher is the reason I picked up a guitar for first time and have played ever since.

However, although Blur, Oasis and Pulp are the obvious choices I'm going for a couple of forgotten gems.

Remember the sitcom called Game On? Loved the theme tune:



Then there's the much forgotten band from the 90s with this beauty:



And while I'm gushing about my favourite era of music I can't possible leave out Shed Seven:



Partaking in geekery since 1985
 
Good calls all round!
I loved the British music scene in the 90s, it was so exciting. The second gig I ever went to was Pulp on the Different Class tour and they were amazing (the first was a band called Northern Uproar who file suitably as Britpop also-rans..)

I'm also funnily enough off to see Britpop alumni The Charlatans play a show in Coventry this weekend, really looking forward to seeing them again.


Here's another couple of old favourites (complete with Dale Winton cameo in the Sleeper video!):

 
Pulp easily. Purely because of their set ending Common People at Glastonbury. Best live performance of any song ever (must be on YouTube).
 
Oh do i miss the 90's. When it was good to be a Brit, lets face it we were awesome. Being from the North you couldnt admit to liking Blur. It was Oasis all the way. Everyone walked around with a swagger, sticking two's up at the establishment and saying "SUNSHYING" everytime it was sunny.

The most underated band of 90's. Supergrass





How many of OCS does it take to change a light buld. 3, with Steve Craddock asking Paul Weller how to do it (one for the teenagers)






ALL ABOARD, ALL ABOARD WHOA!!!




The best welsh band.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfEoVxy7VDQ


A tell of Scouse life.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tUq_uze_rY


The Modfather

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v9WhRpQw8E

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ian+brown+fear

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDkGVAqk9yI

I think this summed up the mood at the time more then anything, Britain had been great 30 years ago, things had been terrible since. But look at us now we can take the world on again and win.

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


Just a pity the Fun Lovin Criminals are from the new york.
 
A few from me....

Everyone remembers Virtual Insanity, but the Jamiroquai track we played at parties (at my best mates place in the middle of nowhere in the Kent countryside) was Cosmic Girl.



True fact: the first album I bought was by The Lightning Seeds.
The riff from 'Life of Riley' was used every week on local south-east news for the rundown of football results, and still gets used now on a regular basis - and remember when Three Lions was the unofficial Euro's song?!



I discovered the other month that Reef are still going! for those the right age, I still sing 'Its Your Letters' along to this.



Dodgy = the sound of summer :)



And finally, a bit of Sneaker Pimps. Always liked this one.

 
For anyone who's interested and for you oldies wanting to relieve their youth, this is taking place in September just outside Lincoln - Summer's End

Currently on the lineup are OCS, Shed Seven and Dodgy :)
 
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Who can forget the 90's Hammond Organ Revival?







,,, feel free to add your own to this sub-list. :D
 
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