Off Topic Hull: City of Culture

This is undoubtedly true. Supergrass were better for an album and a half too, and then utterly boring after that. I don't know if the Super Fury Animals class as Britpop but I'd rank them slightly above Blur and Oasis too. Blur's best stuff was mostly pre and post the Britpop era.

 

Whilst not a fan of Frankie Boyle I do agree with his assessment of Blur:

"Blur: A ****ing cheese-making ****, a New Labour ****, a fake-cockney **** and a ****"

 

I would say SFA are maybe a touch too artsy and/or psychedelic to be what is 'classic' britpop. I don't think I could class an album like Radiator as britpop.

A lot of bands get thrown in under that name just because they have a slightly similar sounds on a couple of songs to an Oasis b-side.

 

Yeah, there's loads of British 90's guitar bands that are better than Oasis and Blur but are not necessarily Britpop. Charlatans, Primal Scream, Teenage Fanclub, Ash, Verve, Super Furry Animals, Six By Seven, Kula Shaker, Suede, Gene, Inspiral Carpets, Mansun, to name just a few.

 

At the time, I don’t ever recall SFA or Radiohead being lumped into it at all – certainly not the latter.

****ing Kula Shaker though. Hellfire.

 

A ****
#minimalism
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away Antoine de Saint-Exupery (a guy who surely ought to have gone with a single barreled name)

 

You'd be surprised at the number of people who think 90s Radiohead albums are britpop.

 

I was very much involved at the time - gig/festival going, nightclubs, etc... - but I was never sure what was Britpop and what wasn't. I know there was the BBC2 special which some people use, but I always just saw it as a generic term for British indie/guitar bands' output at the time.

 

Why has no one mentioned Feeder? They were (and still are, I expect) superb.

 

They must be evil, evil idiots.

 

Did he go onto better things?....

 

Someone needs to call the karma police.

 

It’s like ‘C86’, which was originally the name of an NME compilation album, but became shorthand for that mid-80s jangly indie guitar sound irrespective of whether the artist was on it or not (and also that some who were weren’t jangly indie at all).

 

I personally think grunge is a bit of a weird one too. If you were an alternative band from the American Northwest in the late 80s, you were a grunge band, regardless of how you played. Grunge is more associated with the style of the band than the music itself.

There's a lot of music by artists such as Sonic Youth and Pixies which are as 'grungey' as Nevermind, but they never get labelled as such.

 

Yup. If you had a lumberjack shirt you were grunge.

Alice in Chains? - metal. The Screaming Trees? - metal tinged almost with a bit of country, but I don’t see that much in common with Mudhoney, Nirvana etc that you’d probably accept were what the scene grew up around and had more musical similarities.

 

The Melvins

 

**** the media created Brittle Pop

Best Radiohead album had a track mixed/produced by a legendary musical genius from Hull.
If you don’t know that you love Country AND Western !

 

Wow!!!!

 

That's not the Bonus Arena!


Like a ****ing hypocritical prick I've been asked if I wanna go and I said yes, so I'm off