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(apologies if I just missed it)
Unrelated to the Britpop really, but the UK/USA indie/post-punk kinda revival in the 2000s was great - early Razorlight, Libertines, Strokes, Interpol (THE BEST BAND IN YEARS!), Libertines, Franz Ferdinand, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Bloc Party.
That was another good time for guitar bands.
For a lot of them, the 20p I got from Music Magpie seemed pretty generous!
A fellow 1981'er as well I assume!
That was just an initial look back, as I get more time I'll get more stuck into more bands and more songs so it'll likely get a lot bigger.
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Definitely 'Longpigs', I don't know how I didn't think of them.
I am aware that there may be some songs from the very late 80's and some from the very early 2000's but it all fits with each other and I don't really care that it's not all perfectly 90's.
It died a death after a very brief point in the early 2000s where the Libertines and Arctic Monkeys and Franz Ferdinand, Kasabian etc. brought the spirit back for a little while, without quite the same impact.
It had another try in the late noughties with "landfill indie" (Hi Kaiser Chiefs, Pigeon Detectives, The Enemy, The Twang) which produced little memorable music, again IMHO, YMMV.
After that the top 40 said it would rather not have any more alternative guitar bands thanks very much.
TL DR - your playlist is fine, I'm listening to it now
The Sun Is Often Out is pretty much the only Britpop era album I can still listen to. So much Britpop seemed exciting at the time but now sounds really dated and derivative in retrospect.
Come to think of it I have a lot of time for The Auteurs as well, though I think the best thing Luke Haines ever did was the Baader Meinhof album which came a bit later.
The Sun Is Often Out is bloody marvellous- Richard Hawley's guitar playing in particular was inspiring to me as a teenager.
But their second album is terrible.
Crispin Hunt is now a songwriting collaborator to the stars. Richard Hawley went on to become Richard Hawley.
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I can remember seeing Echobelly at the Venue in New Cross. Good gig, but what a really shit, dingy venue.
Yeah S*M*A*S*H and These Animal Men did fall into New Wave of New Wave but they were around in the right era so I thought I'd include them in my list.
I can remember hearing the OCS album Moseley Shoals and it being right up my street. I spent my teenage years wandering around dressed like a mod so I felt a bit of association with them. I went out and bought their first album which was a late 80s Manchester baggy rip off. It was totally different. I didn't really buy anything else by them, but loved 100 Mile High City.
By the end of the 90s I'd lost interest in guitar and the bands and I started DJing.
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I didn't mention them by name, but did include them in my bulk posting of youtube videos
Considering the ragged mad-bastard guitar on the Longpigs album, coming out as a 50s crooner was pretty unexpected.
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