Comments on: Britpop night on BBC Four

By: KevW

KevW — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 15:54:53 +0000

http://www.myspace.com/powderbritpop

By: Les

Les — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 11:41:45 +0000

This ‘Brirpop’ thing entirely passed me by at the time. I thought it was trivial media crap.

Later I simply considered that the likes of Blur and Oasis were for a younger generation (I’m 49), and that it wasn’t all crap (I did like Pulp), but that’s as far as it went with me and I continued my normal Sabbath/Zeppelin addiction.

I only watched this prog hoping to catch a glimse of the Pulp keyboard player, but a couple of songs did stand out – by Echobelly and Powder.

Having now listened to three of Echobelly’s albums I wonder how they ever got saddled with the ‘Britpop’ label (I know the answer is obvious) but really, this is pretty hard stuff, and for the most part, very good.

Britpop!. I hate the very name. Conotations of Blur/Oasis rivalry, bad behaviour and foul language. Still.there was always the Pulp keyboard player to pretty things up, plus they were excellent live – shame Jarvis is such a dick!

By: highrise

highrise — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 18:16:39 +0000

I didn’t watch the show, so I’m pissing into the wind somewhat here – but as someone who *was* old enough to drink at the time, I can categorically state that in my university town at least Britpop was the entirely NME-facilitated kind of music played in the ‘meat market clubs’.

Blur, Oasis and Pulp has released some fantastic music prior to this nonsensical categorisation – and in hindsight, most people got fed up with the ‘laddish’ connotations attached to Britpop.

Suede were most definitely not Britpop, incidentally.

By: Les

Les — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 11:26:00 +0000

Ahhh, thanks. It was Powder, who sung ‘Afrodisiac’. Nothing much about them to be found, even Amazon only mention an EP.

By: doctorvee

doctorvee — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 21:59:24 +0000

Powder, Elastica and Sleeper all had female singers. I can’t remember what they performed on Britpop Now though…

By: Les

Les — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 21:38:28 +0000

Saw this prog and was introduced (10 years late) to Echobelly. Since got three of their albums and am really pleased with them.

One of the other groups sounded really good too, but I didn’t catch their name and can’t remember the song title. Had a female singer. I was wondering whether anyone can remember the female singer/bands and what they sung – wasn’t P J Harvey. Thanks

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 16:05:51 +0000

There’s a good article about the impact of Britpop in today’s Guardian.

By: Will

Will — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 15:51:56 +0000

Being Brave is OK, and Sandstorm is about as close to a good song as the dire Cast ever managed. Dodgy’s best song is Grassman.

Suede, however, rule.

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 23:12:16 +0000

I was at knebworth too, Homegrown is one of my favourite albums ever and I also like the first Cast lp, but not so much with the Menswear!

Doc, I’m not sure I’d agree that the bands would say they were embarrased by the label – especially as the bands who are still making music now that were around them (Oasis, Supergrass, Pulp, Blur) have left the tag well behind – it doesn’t get used to describe them any more…

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 15:24:09 +0000

I’ve got the Menswe@r album knocking about somewhere, it’s pretty awful apart from their slowy ‘Being Brave’. That’s not too bad. I believe one of them keeps a stall on Camdan Market now selling hats…