The Britpop one hundred hall of joy! - Classics only.

99) 'Hanging Around' Me Me Me

Lots of Pulp in this I suspect.

91) Elastica - 'Never Here'

i just really like it okay?

99) 'Hanging Around' Me Me Me

*grits teeth*

89. Echobelly - King of The Kerb

Mencap -- I'm just breaking your chops!

88] Oasis: Live Forever (probably my favourite Oasis song... some others that I don't recall that are on "Definitely Maybe" are good... :))

84) Space 'Female Of The Species'

83) Pulp 'Mis-Shapes'

btw seminal select article on britpop in 1993 say britpop = suede, pulp, blur, st et, felt, erm, auteurs, etc. and those guys what sampled nirvana.

76. Shed Seven - "This Is My House"

75. Saint Etienne - "Who Do You Think You Are?"

'Second Coming' got a raw deal

Credit to the Nation were Britpop?

67] Pulp: Babies

i've always thought of it as more reminiscent of a certain strand of 60s pop - but then that's what britpop was all about wasn't it?
that's my favourite saint etienne moment (hmm...maybe hobart paving...hmmm...maybe 'i buy american records'...hmmm...maybe....no i'll stop there) . unlike most people, i prefer their 'fluffy' stuff that you're not (really) supposed to like - largely because they do it so damn well.

i could chuck about ten of their tracks in, but instead

64. elastica - waking up

sure, it was a rip off, but it was a good one.

63. pulp - she's a lady

Definitely.

66. The Boo Radleys - Wake Up Boo

Ya-ha. April 1993 in select was the big article/cover (by stuart maconie i think). circa 'modern life' and 'suede'

77. The Nubiles - "Layabout" (Justine Frischmann's favourite record of 1994, as I recall, and one of mine too)

=first band i ever saw (supporting blur)

Credit to the Nation were Britpop?

yeah, why not?

59. The Divine Comedy - Something For The Weekend

actually from '99 and quite dancey and perhaps not really in the same meld as much else here, but it's the best single they ever did imo

It gets no more Britpop surely.

Eng-pop surely?

especially the long version with the funny whale noises on the end.

no, really.

well phshaw, i'm finding it hard to find it, even after all this time.

57) Fat Les 'Vindaloo'

53. Chumbawamba - Someone's Always Telling You How To Behave

B-b-but Ailsa a part pretending it's speaking for the whole is the entire POINT of Britpop!

I am also peeved because I wrote a big long post about how Tattva was great despite Kula Shaker's general odiousness, but didn't post it for fear of being sniggered at. So cheers, Enrique, I'm glad it's not just me.

45) Catatonia "You've Got a Lot to Answer For"

no, really.

did they include this on the singles comp? i had the 12"

44) Northern Uproar 'Rollercoaster' (I'm sorry, you can disregard all mychoices, I hate them too, I'm just trying to keep it representative of the truth)

No Ailsa, it is just you, JS are the WORST BAND IN HISTORY

44. vanessa paradis - be my baby
43. catatonia - mulder and scully (the first time i heard that voice - affected, of course, but somehow still kind of cool. i still like her.)

and aisla....? i have to admit i liked tattva too.

but if anyone mentions 'You're Gorgeous' i will kill them

42. Reverend Black Grape.

Will anyone be brave enough to add Ocean Colour Scene? I feel like 'The Riverboat Song' deserves to be here through its sheer omnipresence at the time, but frankly I just can't quite bring myself to do it.

hmmm... vanessa paradis = not very british, innit.

ignore that one, then..

although it SOUNDS like britpop.

point taken...

what the hell, then, let's shove some saint etienne in there...

44. saint etienne - hobart paving... just because..

I read your mind Jae

42. Bubonique - "Oi Copper"

did they include this on the singles comp? i had the 12"

it was the last track on the cd single. i haven't seen the singles comp. - wasn't keen on a lot of their recent output.

The Wannadies moved to London didn't they? So I think they're allowed.

37. Shampoo - Trouble

indeed

black grape fucking ruled, but britpop??

36) Underworld 'Born Slippy' = dance music it's okay to shout along to. Tico, this is serious sociological work: don't let you subjective sense-impressions fool you!

Mencap: WORD!

j u s t t u r n s a w a y

and * w e e p s *

In what way are Black Grape *not* Britpop? To me, in all honesty, they feel like one of the front-runners.

25) Arab Strap 'First Big Weekend of the Summer' *SO* '96 it hurts.

sometimes you eat the paradigm, sometimes the paradigm eats you

HA

i'll mention

13. BabyBird - "Goodnight"

instead then.

12. Rialto - "When We're Together"

ha.

Tiger! Go Tiger!

that'd mean stuff from TIGERMILK can go on it, wouldn't it?

no, perhaps it wouldn't.

BEAT THAT

Limiting myself to singles here...

37) Being Brave - Menswe@ar
36) Hug my Soul - Saint Etienne
35) Girl From Mars - Ash
34) Bluetonic - The Bluetones
33) If Yoy'll be Mine - Babybird
32) Something for the Weekend - Super Furry Animals
31) Frog Princess - The Divine Comedy
30) Alice in Vain - Sleeper
29) Whatever - Oasis
28) Yes - McAlmont and Butler
27) Stutter - Elastica
26) What do I do Now? - Sleeper
25) Mis-Shapes - Pulp
24) Filmstar - Suede
23) Stay - Bernard Butler
22) Lazy - Suede
21) Lipgloss - Pulp
20) Saturday Night - Suede

P.S. Animal Nitrate is going to be number 1 surely, with Common People are number 2?

sadly, i am unable to think what that might have been.

2) Common People - Pulp
1) Animal Nitrate - Suede

Pulp - I Spy

P.S. Animal Nitrate is going to be number 1 surely, with Common People are number 2?

you haven't got the hang of this, have you?

mind you, the mcalmont and butler choice is a good one. we appear to have missed five, six and eight so put it somewhere there, please..

or indeed at number three, where ailsa had already put it (i'm sure that message wasn't there when i clicked 'check new messages')

Hug my Soul - St Etienne
Stay - Bernard Butler
Girl from Mars - Ash
Do you Remember the First Time - Pulp
What do I do Now? - Sleeper

I am pleased and proud for ILM that there is no Ash.

YAY

how would a top 100 'tunes that some people say are twee, and some don't but are nice anyway' list go down, do you think? (i think the genre i'm groping for is 'indiepop')

Hah, myself and the boy Ewing have common ground!

Wise words.

as in 1996 or as in 'shit we're into the 20s already'?

like WHAT-EVA d00d!

c-man was right re: mcalmont & butler, 'yes' wd be my no. 1.

I started this thread before lunch, came back and it's up, full and completed.

Well impressed by the adherance to the "No Slagging" rule.

I started this to have a good list of britpop, to make up for the lousy retrospectives that would appear right about now, and soon come in "School Disco" type club nights (Just an aside, did you ever go to your actual school disco in your uniform? Hmm?)

I think this is a surprisingly good list in places!

Also, whither the goddess-like geniuses that were Kenickie? (OK, would have helped if I'd thought about them before now)

If you're doing only classics then the top 100 is going to be predominantly Suede and Pulp, with some Blur and Oasis thrown in and a couple of Sleeper tracks.

This is sort of true (apart from the Sleeper bit) but it's more, like, classics of the time isn't it? If that's not a contradiction.

97.

I love Kenickie, but I kind of can't see em as Britpop, ridiculously.

The Britpop 'Replacer' 100 list

I also like 'Sparkle' by My Life Story and 'Chasing Rainbows' by Shed Seven.

Christ.

Well now:

Common People. The Britpop Story.

Pulp. Foto promocional.

Common People. The Britpop Story és el nom d'un nou recopilatori format per 3 CDs en el que s'hi fa un recull de les millors bandes britàniques.

En el recopilatori hi destaquen grups com Pulp, The Stone Roses, Supergrass, Super Furry Animals... Però també hi destaquen, per la seva absència, Oasis i Blur, que són considerats dos dels grups britànics més grans de la historia.

El recopilatori sortirà a la venta el pròxim 8 de juny, i el seu tracklist complet és el següent:

CD1

01. The Auteurs - 'Lenny Valentino'
02. Elastica - 'Stutter'
03. Gene - 'Be My Light, Be My Guide'
04. The Stone Roses - 'Love Spreads'
05. James - 'Laid'
06. Dodgy - 'Staying Out For The Summer'
07. Saint Etienne - 'You're In A Bad Way'
08. Dubstar - 'Stars'
09. Blake Grape - 'In The Name Of The Father'
10. Duffy - 'London Girls'
11. Marion - 'Sleep'
12. These Animal Men - 'Speeed King'
13. S*M*A*S*H - 'Shame'
14. Cast - 'Alright'
15. Bluetones - 'Slight Return'
16. Perfume - 'Lover'
17. The Boo Radleys - 'Wake Up Boo!'
18. Menswear - 'Daydreamer'

CD2

01. Pulp - 'Common People'
02. Supergrass - 'Alright'
03. Sleeper - 'Inbetweener'
04. Echobelly - 'Great Things'
05. Powder - 'Afrodisiac'
06. Northern Uproar - 'Rollercoaster'
07. Paul Weller - 'Thechangingman'
08. The Divine Comedy - 'Something For The Weekend'
09. Babybird - 'You're Gorgeous'
10. My Life Story - '12 Reasons Why'
11. Denim - 'It Fell Off The Back Of A Van'
12. Kula Shaker - 'Tattva'
13. Mansun - 'Wide Open Space'
14. Salad - 'Drink The Elixir'
15. Placebo - 'Nancy Boy'
16. Longpigs - 'She Said'
17. Ocean Colour Scene - 'The Riverboat Song'
18. Shed Seven - 'Chasing Rainbows'

CD3

01. Super Furry Animals - 'God! Show Me Magic'
02. Suede - 'Trash'
03. Kenickie - 'In Your Car'
04. Theaudience - 'A Pessimist Is Never Disappointed'
05. Catatonia - 'Mulder And Scully'
06. Space - 'Female Of The Species'
07. Embrace - 'All You Good Good People'
08. Gomez - 'Whippin' Piccadilly'
09. Geneva - 'Into The Blue'
10. Rialto - 'Monday Morning 5:19'
11. The Seahorses - 'Love Is The Law'
12. Hurricane #1 - 'Step Into My World'
13. Monaco - 'What Do You Want From Me'
14. Spearmint - 'Sweeping The Nation'
15. Lodger - 'Always Round Here'
16. Earl Brutus - 'SAS And The Glam That Goes With It'
17. Stereophonics - 'The Bartender And The Thief'
18. Gay Dad - 'Oh Jim'

(I did not add that last track, btw)

Was this what Blake Grape was doing before he went out with Amy?

Before Grape split and he got three other women with transparent violins...

A genuine "best of Britpop" non-cliche compilation would be thoroughly worth it IMO

But what would be on it?

(Lock thread)

This is like one of those Reader's Digest Best Of The Sixties compilations where they couldn't get the Beatles or the Stones so have to make do with six apiece from Billy J Kramer and the Tremeloes ("Some tracks RE-RECORDED by at least one of the ORIGINAL ARTISTS for STEREO ENHANCEMENT").

Many of the bands in the above compilation would be in mine also. But the songs would be different.

11. Denim - 'It Fell Off The Back Of A Van'

haha waht

10. Duffy - 'London Girls'

^^ is this stephen 'tin tin' duffy?

No it's that funny looking bird who sounds like she's being strangled when she sings I think.

(Yeah it is (xpost))

Elastica's Stutter does it for me. That would be #9 only it's prob. in there already

is any triphop allowed?

Trip hop was never Britpop.

And... I mean.... I like Massive Attack and all. But Britpop was so fantastic in its own right it doesn't need to be mixed up with other (and lesser) genres.

pleased about sunday's election results geir?

yeah geir. if you don't think massive attack are britpop you're obviously RACIST.

Pretty sure MC's talking about the Swedish Pirate Party there

A man who has the contents of his Soulseek files talked about by the internet is correct to care about his right to privacy

Britpop must be heavily Beatles/Kinks influenced to be Britpop and must also be very English. Massive Attack had lots of American influences after all. Trip Hop was never Britpop - the only black Britpop musician was the drummer in Ocean Colour Scene, because they weren't an R&B band. R&B is 100 per cent American and cannot possibly be Britpop.

the kinks were JUST A BIT influenced by r&b, idiot.

One of the dudes from the Boo Radleys as well

</whyamidoingthis>

lol fired up GIS for him then Debbie Smith then hit head on desk and thought of 10 better things to do.

"You put your bet on number one and it comes up every time.
The other kids have all backed down and they put you first in line.
And so you finally ask yourself just how big you are -
And take your place in a wiser world of bigger motor cars.
And you wonder who to call on."

More like the Village White Preservation Society amirite?

Geir registers another vote for the Britpop National Party

(whassat from, DK?)

Blimey, Jethro Tull. Are they britpop?

No Jethro Tull were English folk, which is also typically English, but in another, more ethnomusical, way. Britpop is based upon typically english music as in Beatles/Kinks/music hall/vaudeville, not as in old jigs and fiddles.

And as for Nationalist. Yes, Britpop was nationalist. But not in a typical skin colour oriented racist way, rather in a way of stressing how English music is superior to American music so why does the world need American music?

And, you know, the majority of Americans are white too...

I sigh.

And then I cry

and I wonder why.

i wonder what geir thinks of tony bennett.

"not as good as Ocean Colour Scene" presumably.

rather in a way of stressing how English music is superior to American music so why does the world need American music?

yeah because the Beatles and Kinks weren't at all heavily American-influenced. and VAUDEVILLE had nothing to do with the US of course...

The Beatles and Kinks started out as AMerican influenced and then got gradually better and better the more typically English and less American they got. (Until Kinks turned shit in the 70s because they suddenly started to sound American again)

11. Denim - 'It Fell Off The Back Of A Van'

haha waht

Was about to post this.

No Jethro Tull were English folk

I presume you mean the original Jethro Tull, not the band led by Fifer Ian Anderson.

i meant this tony bennett.

And... Well. At least the Beatles did add an immigrant element to their music, but instead of adding an African element brought through corporate America, they added an Indian/Pakistani element, which was much more interesting and also fit much better into the European musical tradition they came out of.

(Plus it was taken directly from the source without being filtered through capitalist corporate American mass production at first)

is he anywhere near 51 yet?

they added an Indian/Pakistani element, which was much more interesting and also fit much better into the European musical tradition they came out of.

I probably shouldn't ask, but how on earth does Indian/Pakistani(LOL) music fit better into a European musical tradition than "American" music, by which I assume Geir means African-American music? It surely fits in less well?

presumably he means they stayed longer in the empire

Feel like posting that exchange between Basil Fawlty and the Major about Indians, but probably best not to

I probably shouldn't ask, but how on earth does Indian/Pakistani(LOL) music fit better into a European musical tradition than "American" music, by which I assume Geir means African-American music? It surely fits in less well?

Because the classical Indian musical tradition is head music, not body music.

...

Spotified this:

The Britpop one hundred hall of joy! - Classics only

21 tracks aren't on it, but hey.

No Speedy?? :(

The NME have done exactly this, this week..

The NME have done exactly this, every week for the last 20 fucking years

fixed

yeah.. but this week they have done a list. 100 britpop classics.

tbh, I saw a 'catatonia' entry, and I did sigh, etc.

Seriously you think they'd be embarassed about it by now.

THey also did a top 20 by sales:

summary: Oasis oasis oasis oasis oasis oasis oasis blur oasis oasis pulp oasis oasis supergrass oasis catatonia

Srsly if you'd told anyone in 1996 that the name 'Gene' would be on the front of the NME 17 years later they'd have pissed themselves laughing.

you mean there are people who didn't in 1996 ?

luke haines ‏@LukeHaines_News 7h
Very embarrassing to be on the front cover of the @NME this week. Might have to sue.

Also, Bis.

I went looking for a postable list, didn't find one yet, but they are doing a 'vote yr favourite'

"Caught by the fuzz" is winning, which.. mm, I'm OK with actually...

https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2017/feb/15/britpop-songs-10-of-the-best-oasis-blur-pulp

Plenty of comments of the 'bbbbut what about Ocean Colour Scene/ dodgy' but this article seems to have used *that* "Select" front page as the initial template..

They should know better than to inflate Haines ego like that.

Sleeper is reuniting.
http://www.radiox.co.uk/news/sleeper-first-gig-19-years-star-shaped-festival/

Ash's Girl from Mars suggested twice, but no rep for the brilliant Goldfinger, till now

Classics only.

My list would be only Supergrass, Blue and Pulp songs and probably wouldn't get to a hundred.

Blue?

Technically they're pop from Britain.

I probably shouldn't ask, but how on earth does Indian/Pakistani(LOL) music fit better into a European musical tradition than "American" music, by which I assume Geir means African-American music? It surely fits in less well?

― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, June 9, 2009 1:50 PM (seven years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Is that true?

I mean, estimate a percentage..

well i imagine geir subscribes to the aryan racial theories of Houston Stewart Chamberlain so to him yes

xxp, 1973 Britpop
http://youtu.be/pBk61fPE4Yk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBk61fPE4Yk

Geir's not a bad guy but idk where to start with his 2009 posts here.