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Board olds tell me about the Britpop invasion of the mid 90s
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Date: March 16th, 2021 3:24 AM Author: citrine university famous landscape painting Between Oasis, Blur, Spice Girls, The Verve, Radiohead (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4788515&forum_id=2#42111972) |
Date: March 16th, 2021 3:25 AM Author: hideous mewling coffee pot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4788515&forum_id=2#42111974) |
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Date: March 16th, 2021 3:26 AM Author: citrine university famous landscape painting Huge cope following Cobain’s death (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4788515&forum_id=2#42111976) |
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Date: March 16th, 2021 5:42 AM Author: At-the-ready saffron abode headpube basically the pop version of grunge (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4788515&forum_id=2#42112063) |
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Date: March 16th, 2021 4:02 AM Author: racy well-lubricated hall dog poop "i should coco" by the band "supergrass" was pretty good. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4788515&forum_id=2#42111998) |
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Date: March 16th, 2021 4:22 AM Author: disturbing wrinkle i dont think ppl even thought of it as britpop (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4788515&forum_id=2#42112013) |
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Date: March 16th, 2021 4:30 AM Author: Mentally impaired rebellious reading party this. british invasion. more like London is now a cool place (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4788515&forum_id=2#42112017) |
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Date: March 16th, 2021 4:38 AM Author: disturbing wrinkle im saying it was so common ppl didnt even think of U2, Oasis, Blur, Spice Girls, The Verve, Radiohead as brit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4788515&forum_id=2#42112024) |
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Date: March 16th, 2021 4:47 AM Author: Mentally impaired rebellious reading party this. i think my HS girlfriend legitimately thought Oasis and Radiohead were American U2 was a different era. everyone knew they were originally Irish, though by the late 80s they were multinational megastars |
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Date: March 16th, 2021 4:49 AM Author: Adventurous Red Generalized Bond spice girls had a lot of union jack stuff (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4788515&forum_id=2#42112029) |
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Date: March 16th, 2021 4:50 AM Author: disturbing wrinkle yea they were the one that maybe was more like a brit invasion cause i dont think the US had girl band bullshit like that before really (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4788515&forum_id=2#42112031) |
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Date: March 16th, 2021 4:53 AM Author: Mentally impaired rebellious reading party they were overtly brit. as was Pulp, which I loved in HS as well (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4788515&forum_id=2#42112033) |
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Date: March 16th, 2021 4:57 AM Author: disturbing wrinkle (gay guy) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4788515&forum_id=2#42112041) |
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Date: March 16th, 2021 4:59 AM Author: Mentally impaired rebellious reading party Fair point. I did lift clothed yesterday afternoon. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4788515&forum_id=2#42112043) |
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Date: March 16th, 2021 11:52 AM Author: jet-lagged azn Pulp is 180 you seem low iq (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4788515&forum_id=2#42112992) |
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Date: March 16th, 2021 11:53 AM Author: Laughsome Property (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4788515&forum_id=2#42113001) |
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Date: March 16th, 2021 12:06 PM Author: Tan irate set half-breed Pulp is trash and no one remembers them (unlike Michael Jackson). (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4788515&forum_id=2#42113069) |
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Date: March 22nd, 2021 9:25 PM Author: Bronze whorehouse (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4788515&forum_id=2#42149055) |
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Date: May 24th, 2024 10:30 AM Author: Thriller Geriatric School Cafeteria Def Leppard had Brit flags everywhere too
IIRC American skinheads in the “punk scene” often had union jacks on their jackets - skinhead dude at my school had this |
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Date: March 16th, 2021 6:01 AM Author: Ungodly Marketing Idea It was really just Oasis and then everyone else. Blur’s impact (stateside) was very minor compared to Oasis. Also radiohead quickly made a very sharp turn into more avant-garde stuff. Outside of Creep they really didn’t have many radio friendly songs and iirc Creep came out a good 2-3 years before the supposed British Invasion.
Spice Girls had way more in common w NSync or Brittney Spears than they did post grunge British rock, they just happened to be from England |
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Date: March 16th, 2021 6:09 AM Author: racy well-lubricated hall dog poop there were a bunch of 'alt-rock' bands from england like 'spacehog' (and, of course, bush) which were popular for a while. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4788515&forum_id=2#42112080) |
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Date: March 16th, 2021 7:00 AM Author: Ungodly Marketing Idea Spacehog was out of NYC (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4788515&forum_id=2#42112121) |
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Date: March 16th, 2021 10:15 AM Author: jet-lagged azn CR but the Langdons were British
Spacehog and Bush were the rare reverse exports that were bigger in the US than the UK |
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Date: March 16th, 2021 6:10 AM Author: beady-eyed mad-dog skullcap pit very heady times, my brother (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4788515&forum_id=2#42112082) |
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Date: March 16th, 2021 7:06 AM Author: nofapping offensive mediation really garbage, third-rate music, for the most part. the british bands of the 60s, 70s, and 80s were GOAT, light years ahead of American bands. but the 90s wave of 'britpop' was just nakedly derivative, sub-mediocre music hyped to death by nostalgia-obsessed brit rock press. the entire era did not produce a single undeniably great track. |
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Date: March 16th, 2021 7:32 AM Author: racy well-lubricated hall dog poop there were several waves of varying quality. the first was in the late-80's/early-90's with rave music and shoegaze. bands like the happy mondays, suede, ride, the shamen, kitchens of distinction, curve, KLF, etc. this wave had crossover with US genres like "college rock" and "club music."
once 'alt-rock' took off in the US, labels began looking for UK acts to plug into their playlists. this is what caused Bush. |
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Date: March 16th, 2021 10:19 AM Author: pale native cr, this "first wave" was 180 and some of my favorite music to this day. But by 1997 or so it was all shit. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4788515&forum_id=2#42112533) |
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Date: March 16th, 2021 7:06 PM Author: Filthy Brass Friendly Grandma " this wave had crossover with US genres like "college rock" and "club music."
that's exactly it. i consider shoegaze and late 80s/early 90s post-postpunk/proto-britpop a species of 'indie' rock.
while i love indie rock, shoegaze, etc, the standards of those genres are undeniably different, more relaxed, than those of mainstream pop/rock. it's 'mood' music, ultimately experimental and anti-formal.
i hold any band that achieves mass-audience/Top 40 status to a stricter standard. a pop band must uphold the grand tradition of the Pop/Rock form by producing disciplined, preferably three-minute singles that have that 'x-factor', of melodic singularity, of 'catchiness', of arresting production/performance, and also artistic merit -- from 'Satisfaction' to 'Blue Monday', all the great singles have this x-factor. you must deliver the goods.
none of those 1990s Britpop bands produced any truly great pop singles that will stand the test of time. the music was objectively inferior even to what the late-entry British Invasion bands of the 1980s produced (standards like 'Every Breath You Take' by The Police, or even 'Sunday Bloody Sunday', etc) |
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Date: March 16th, 2021 7:37 AM Author: Ungodly Marketing Idea Lmao tell me about these “GOAT” British bands from the 60s and 70s?
Fucking boomer trash |
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Date: March 16th, 2021 7:38 AM Author: racy well-lubricated hall dog poop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpwPT9l8nR0 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4788515&forum_id=2#42112165) |
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Date: May 24th, 2024 10:32 AM Author: Thriller Geriatric School Cafeteria Beatles, stones, zeppelin, sabbath (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4788515&forum_id=2#47688200) |
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Date: March 16th, 2021 10:15 AM Author: passionate peach lay hissy fit cr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4788515&forum_id=2#42112512) |
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Date: March 16th, 2021 7:27 AM Author: twinkling national security agency It was great. Lots of solid music and a nice alternative to what was going on here. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4788515&forum_id=2#42112151) |
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Date: March 16th, 2021 7:28 AM Author: Pearl resort hairy legs travis, kaiser chiefs (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4788515&forum_id=2#42112152) |
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Date: March 16th, 2021 7:39 AM Author: Violet Area hilarious that this export was HUGE in the UK in the 90s - https://youtu.be/FC3y9llDXuM (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4788515&forum_id=2#42112166) |
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Date: March 16th, 2021 10:14 AM Author: jet-lagged azn They loved Fun Lovin Criminals and Bloodhound Gang too
We really weren't sending our best |
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Date: March 16th, 2021 10:20 AM Author: Violet Area fucking bloodhound gang. ha. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4788515&forum_id=2#42112542) |
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Date: March 16th, 2021 11:53 AM Author: Laughsome Property eels was also pretty big in the uk (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4788515&forum_id=2#42113000) |
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Date: March 16th, 2021 12:13 PM Author: jet-lagged azn Ha I saw Eels in London in 2000 people were going nuts (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4788515&forum_id=2#42113116) |
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Date: March 16th, 2021 8:03 AM Author: Tan irate set half-breed This was known as the 'cool Britannia' era. In addition to music, British movies like Trainspotting, Four Weddings and a Funeral and Lock, Stock and Barrels were popular in the US.
Never cared for any of this although ironically at the time I was listening to a lot of UK IDM music. |
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Date: March 16th, 2021 10:33 AM Author: citrine university famous landscape painting Hugh Grant (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4788515&forum_id=2#42112623) |
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Date: March 16th, 2021 12:06 PM Author: At-the-ready saffron abode headpube some of those movies are 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4788515&forum_id=2#42113068) |
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Date: March 22nd, 2021 9:19 PM Author: Mentally impaired rebellious reading party (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4788515&forum_id=2#42149016) |
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Date: March 16th, 2021 11:52 AM Author: jet-lagged azn Super Furry Animals were 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4788515&forum_id=2#42112996) |
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Date: May 24th, 2024 8:35 AM Author: Tan irate set half-breed . (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4788515&forum_id=2#47687975) |
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Date: May 24th, 2024 10:21 AM Author: Territorial bright den It was a force meme. Normal people have no idea what Oasis or Radiohead is aside from their very biggest hits. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4788515&forum_id=2#47688167) |