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I have been listening to some 90's Britpop albums recently for the first time
| dashing drunken candlestick maker | 09/29/23 |
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Date: September 29th, 2023 5:44 PM Author: dashing drunken candlestick maker i've heard individual songs from most of them, but not the album tracks. some impressions so far:
-blur's 'parklife' holds up well and has a good range of styles and sounds. it's more like a pastiche of things happening around the UK of 1994 than a single cohesive 'message,' which works well in retrospect. there are also some 80's pop influences that aren't mentioned often, like the The Cars-style instrumentation on 'Trouble in the Message Centre.'
-the verve's 'urban hymns' has some standout tracks like 'sonnet,' but at almost 70 minutes (75 minus the silence before the hidden track at the end), it starts dragging after a while, and kind of sounds repetitive from track to track.
-supergrass's 'i should coco' is short and tight and quite a remarkable achievement for a band as young as they were back then. very catchy songs. they took a pop-punk approach and gave it a layer of beatles-influenced melodies, more or less.
-pulp's 'different class' was a big disappointment. the songs are mostly kind of dreary, and the vocalist comes off as a whinier elvis costello. for an album about working-class englanders, it's also very pretentious. and kind of tuneless. i assume a lot of the praise it received at the time of its release was driven more by ideology than by actual musical quality.
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Date: September 29th, 2023 5:45 PM Author: puce pea-brained stead You should check out Suede's first album https://open.spotify.com/album/1UtFo6ic5c9BHFeu1hLwNA?si=HkPMEDylR_ylhobIUD0GdA |
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Date: September 29th, 2023 5:47 PM Author: dashing drunken candlestick maker that's something i listened to a while ago. i also listened to the first 3 oasis albums, but i don't have much to say about them, since i've heard most of them before, and it's just too entwined with memory to develop a new impression. the third one is massively bloated, though. it's not just a 'beatles ripoff' as commonly-noted, but there is some kind of weird bon jovi/80's pop-rock thing going on, too. but without the punchiness of the original stuff (i hate bon jovi btw). (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5415455&forum_id=2#46861023) |
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Date: September 29th, 2023 6:05 PM Author: Chest-beating reading party I think Blur’s self titled and 13 albums are more interesting than parklife. More American lofi indie and electronic influences. For the Verve, first 2 albums over Urban Hymns. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5415455&forum_id=2#46861113) |
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Date: September 29th, 2023 6:30 PM Author: dashing drunken candlestick maker also, even though it's not really 'britpop,' i listened to portishead's 'dummy.' generally, i don't think most 'trip-hop' has aged that well. it's more like background/mood-music than a standalone musical product (ie, it would probably work better played over a film sequence than on its own). that's generally true here. the songs end up blending together, and there isn't much in the way of memorable melodies or tunes.
the most interesting track is probably 'biscuit,' which is an early example of the 'chopped and screwed' genre. they take the johnnie ray song 'I'll Never Fall in Love Again,' slow it down, and remix it. that's kind of novel for its time, and it sounds like early-2010's vaporwave. but then again, who still listens to chopped & screwed or vaporwave in 2023? it's all a bit transient. |
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Date: May 24th, 2024 8:33 AM Author: Aphrodisiac nursing home pistol cr trip hop is so fucking boring. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5415455&forum_id=2#47687971) |
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Date: September 29th, 2023 6:34 PM Author: Swashbuckling brunch Clique’s like a jungle
So call the police |
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Date: September 29th, 2023 9:59 PM Author: Chest-beating reading party (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5415455&forum_id=2#46861989) |
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Date: September 29th, 2023 10:18 PM Author: Godawful sienna temple macaca hey, paul! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5415455&forum_id=2#46862057) |
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Date: September 29th, 2023 10:19 PM Author: Comical Lodge Water Buffalo parklife is a great record. oasis is pretty solid. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5415455&forum_id=2#46862062) |