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!

"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.