It’s a Britpop-kinda moment

Just chattering to Jackie this morning and she mentions Sleeper’s ‘She’s a Good Girl’. Isn’t there something indescribably fluffy about Britpop’s antique, studied coolness?

Yeah, I usually hate all that nostalgia crap, but music has a big influence in our formative years. Who here didn’t cheer when Jarvis Cocker jumped on Jacko? Didn’t have a side in the Blur-Oasis war? And couldn’t but love the cheery tunes of Cast, the Boo Radleys and Ocean Color Scene counterpointed by some Black Grape, Salad and Suede? Anyone for Echobelly?

Who were your favourite Britpoppers?

August 23rd, 2008 at 7:52 am • Filed in Culture



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2 Comments to “It’s a Britpop-kinda moment”

  1. Shane Says:
    August 24th, 2008 at 3:32 pm

    I like to start the era with the excitement and indeed deadpan silliness of Oasis’s Definitely Maybe and end it with the sombre psychedelia of the Verve’s Urban Hymns.

    But the highlight of the era for me has got to be Pulp’s Different Class. Tunes like Disco 2000 never age and a decade on I smile even more at the wryness of the words.



  2. Selina Wragg Says:
    August 25th, 2008 at 11:46 am

    I loved the 90’s!

    Oasis were brilliant and still are.. but there were also all those fab one-hit-wonders like Dodgy - Good Enough and Deep Blue Something - Breakfast At Tiffany’s.

    Mansun’s Attack of the Grey Lantern album was superb and Ocean Colour Scene were/are gods!

    Long live the Brit Pop era!



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