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| Poll: Do you like Britpop? |
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HazeyTwilight
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- #11
- Posted: 09/24/2013 06:19
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| AlexZangari wrote: | | Also, fuck the haters and listen to Oasis. Definitely Maybe and (WTS)MG? are both great |
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- #12
- Posted: 09/24/2013 08:16
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Of all Britpop bands, I think I like Super Furry Animals best. Not sure which album I'd recommend first, but one of Radiator, Guerilla, or Rings Around The World. After those, I'd say Love Kraft is their next best, but their whole discography's just really consistent tbh.
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TracyJacks
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- #13
- Posted: 09/24/2013 08:40
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| AlexZangari wrote: | The Verve's Urban Hymns is a good one that hasn't been mentioned. Also, fuck the haters and listen to Oasis. Definitely Maybe and (WTS)MG? are both great.
As BEA's self-proclaimed Blur specialist (hey, if I'm devoting both my avatar and signature to Blur references, I'm deserving of some kind of title!), I welcome you as a newfound Blur fan! Allow me to interest you in further discovering the wonders of this magnificent band:
The first thing you need to know about Blur is that they're not just a Britpop band. Out of seven records, there are 3 that would definitely fall into the Britpop category: Modern Life Is Rubbish, Parklife, and The Great Escape. Seeing as you really enjoy Parklife, I highly recommend the other two as they have a lot in common. Before the Britpop phase was their debut, Leisure. You can pretty much skip this one, although it does have a few great tracks (mainly the singles). If you really dig the type of "proto-Britpop" Madchester type stuff people are mentioning though, then you should give it a listen. After Blur's Britpop stage came their self-titled, in which the creative direction was more influenced by guitarist Graham Coxon and had sounds closer to American alternative rock. Next is my personal favourite, 13, which continued where Blur left off but in a much, much more experimental way - there are quite a few fans of this one on BEA, and it's even #1 on Mecca's chart. If you dig these two albums, I highly recommend you delve into Coxon's solo material, which is plentiful and diverse on its own. For Blur's final album, Think Tank, Damon Albarn began to take influence from electronica and hip-hop, having recently released his debut with Gorillaz. This alienated Coxon, who ended up contributing very little to the album. If you like this one, then you should of course explore Gorillaz discography if you haven't. |
This is nice, you're my favourite Blur expert here on BEA 
I highly recomment Modern Life is Rubbish and The Great Escape, along with Suede's self-titled debut from 1993.
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From 1997 these late britpop albums I could recommend: The Charlatans Tellin' Stories or Verve's Urban Hymns.
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I recommend Charlatans Up To Our Hips and Us and Us Only, too.
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As for Blur's last album in the 90's, '13' is a very good album, a real fan favourite though it is more experimental rock than any other album they made before.
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The Man Who by Travis may count as britpop as well...
and as mancsoulsister wrote, The La's one and only album is a must!
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TracyJacks
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- #14
- Posted: 09/24/2013 08:47
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+ Different Class by Pulp
and the two first Oasis albums, of course 
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meccalecca
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- #15
- Posted: 09/24/2013 12:23
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these are my personal favorites
Pulp - Different Class
Pulp - His N Hers
Stone Roses - Stone Roses
James - Stutter
James - Laid
Blur - Modern Life is Rubbish
Suede - Suede
and it's not really brit pop, but your should really listen to Blur - 13, since it's the #1 overall album on my chart
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- #16
- Posted: 09/24/2013 12:51
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Errm, not sure if mentioned:
Pioneer Soundtracks by Jack
Drawn to the deep end by Gene
HMS Fable by Shack
Love and other demons by Strangelove
Attack of the grey laturn by Mansun
I am Kloot self titled
Also, my fav "Britpop" band is The Verve, but I prefer their more shoegaze origins.
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Dingerbell
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- #17
- Posted: 09/24/2013 14:52
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Giant Steps by The Boo Radleys
It was NME's album of the year and, seeing their huge bias to Britpop, it must be good to get that honour. I don't always agree with NME, but that decision was a good one.
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- Posted: 09/24/2013 15:16
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| ppnw wrote: | | but seriously... Stone Roses debut. I'm not a big fan of the album, but the brits like it. I think it was the proto-brit-pop album. Also, the drumming is super influential on that album; I personally hear it in later MBV and later american '90s pop. The songs "I Wanna Be Adored" and "Fool's Gold" are my favorites, though I'm sure other have their own. I think "Waterfall" and "I Am the Resurrection" are the two usual favorites. |
So, I take it Madchester is a form of Britpop?
Also, people really seem to like Pulp. Definitely the first new band on my list now!
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- Posted: 09/24/2013 15:26
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Errm, also, I forgot Rialto's self titled, be sure to listen to it.
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- Posted: 09/24/2013 15:26
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| JMan wrote: | So, I take it Madchester is a form of Britpop?
Also, people really seem to like Pulp. Definitely the first new band on my list now! |
Madchester in and of itself was more of a scene than a viable genre label. It was down to the rise of MDMA among the working classes of Northern England, a drug that had previously been fairly exclusive to the Belearic London party set, early appropriations of emerging Chicago house or Detroit techno mixed by dance-music elitists and Ibiza veterans like Paul Oakenfeld. Madchester was more a description of the vibe in Manchester at the time, working class kids who would previously have been "lager louts" now becoming loved-up pill-poppers, and it showed in the occasional funky beatloops beneath otherwise fairly standard "four white men with guitars" mix that this Island's working classes have always romanticised. The idea of dance music mixing seamlessly with indie never really crossed-over in a big way onto recorded music, except for a few proper experiments like 'Fool's Gold' or some of the house music flourishes the Happy Mondays adopted - it was a phenomenon that was more of a club-thing, with poorly executed attempts from insipid indie bands like The Farm or Inspiral Carpets still remaining firmly within the indie template, as opposed to really being able to convincingly create a solid, indie/dance hybrid. Perhaps the most "Madchester" record is a album that's not even by a band from Manchester, Primal Scream's Screamadelica, produced largely by Andrew Weatherall and easily the best LP-form example of the craze. For all intents and purposes, musically at least, The Stone Roses' debut LP is proto-Britpop.
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