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Loved Catatonia, really rated the song writing, and honestly I could marry Cerys for that voice alone.
The chemical brothers (95)
Lo fidelity Allstars (their first album is a CLASSIC - 98)
Underworld (94 + 96)
Leftfield (95)
Anyone ever listen to Monkey Mafia's album - shoot the boss - great record (98)
You also had ground breaking stuff like Portishead and Roni Size happening as well
At the time, I thought that guitar music had just got really interesting and inventive and then the bubble burst, much of it due to the scene-driven mentality of the music weeklies. Britpop seemed like a massively retrograde step to me. And like @MagicPigDetective I wasn't comfortable with the attitudes that went with it. The bands I liked either jumped on the bandwagon to survive or disappeared. Interestingly, a few of them have reformed and are playing to bigger audiences than they ever did back then.
For me, the 90s was about electronic music, mainly the Warp/Rephlex kinda stuff, Orbital, Meat Beat Manifesto and trip hop. I was, however, very much into Radiohead, Teenage Fanclub and The Posies.
I said maybe.....
I saw them in Brighton, they were virtually booed off the stage, and in hindsight booking local favourites Moloko Plus as support was not a good idea.
My feedback thread is here.
They supported Pulp at Drury Lane which I think was supposed to be their seminal gig. My god they were shite.
I used to see them at Blow Up at the Laurel Tree in Camden. They were a right bunch of surly pricks. They definitely believed their own hype.
I can't help about the shape I'm in, I can't sing I ain't pretty and my legs are thin
But don't ask me what I think of you, I might not give the answer that you want me to
I had no idea, but yes, apparently he's on the news team.
I can't help about the shape I'm in, I can't sing I ain't pretty and my legs are thin
But don't ask me what I think of you, I might not give the answer that you want me to
My feedback thread is here.
They nailed it later with Robbie Williams' solo career. I've never been a fan of his on any level (yes, yes he works hard, hes talented, his songs go over well at weddings, yadda yadda, disclaimer) but they got what they wanted there in spades.
Louise Wener in the Britpop documentary "Live Forever" (which is great) says Robbie told her he had a 10/10 hit ready to go with "Angels" (I wouldnt rate it that high but she did) and she knew Britpop was over when they had learnt to factory produce it that well.
I think the industry just realised that they'd signed all the good bands and started scraping the barrel signing bands that just weren't good enough. The public didn't want to buy that stuff, especially post-Urban Hymns and OK Computer, so bands like Travis & Coldplay started getting picked up instead, who were less cool but very good on songwriting chops.
The same thing happened with the landfill indie scene in the 00's - following "the good stuff" from Franz Ferdinand, early Razorlight, Arctic Monkeys and even Kaiser Chiefs first minute-and-a-half-before-they-got-annoying, we ended up the barrel scrapings represented this time by utter shite like Pigeon Detectives, The Courteeners etc, but what was there to replace it wasn't guitar-led songwriting, but hip hop, wafty and somewhat anonymous girl singers and Ed Sheeran.
I'm very aware that everything is cyclic to an extent, and we're knee-deep in late-80's/early-90's nostalgia right now, so I'm very interested to see if mid 90's stuff comes back in next, which in pop culture terms means grunge and britpop and obnoxious girl bands more than anything else.