Britpop (Again)

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

What was the first Britpop record?

What was the last Britpop record? And the last Britpop band?

Comments

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The bands in That Select Issue (from memory):

- Suede (circa first album)
- Blur (circa Modern Life is Rubbish)
- Saint Etienne (circa So Tough)
- Denim (circa Back In Denim)
- The Auteurs!! (circa "Lenny Valentino")
- CARL FROM CUD! picking his favourite British records!!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Saint Etienne and The Auteurs can't be Britpop! St Et don't have guitars but they do have a girl who can sing, and er The Auteurs erm.

I don't know who Denim and Carl From Cud are.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

they do have a girl who can sing

News to me, arf arf

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Anyway I think the point with St Etienne was that they went on about London all the time at a point when very few bands did that.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

weird thing about St Et. at the time was i disliked He's On The Phone almost as much as 'Sylvie' etc. - indie-poppers falling between two stools (i like HOTP now tho).

I think St Et. never really escaped the 'Indiepop' label and it set them out from Britpop enough. HOTP being Purepop prob. helped there massively too.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

One of the things I did pick up from the Harris book of evil was how London-centric Britpop was, which I didn't realise at the time. Yet Britpop Mk II is determinedly provincial => I think this makes it even worse.

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

The Auteurs were so Britpop it made my eyes bleed. They were also largely rubbish.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I have one Auteurs album and I like it quite a bit! It is called How I Learned To Love The Bootboys. I got into them because of Black Box Recorder who are ACE and POP, The Auteurs are nowhere near as good as BBR.

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

BBR = NINDIE!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

They're SO pop! Especially Passionoia! BBR are essentially ploughing the exact same field as PSB did.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

There is a big difference between BBR and PSB. It is called "40 hit singles".

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

x "are essentially ploughing the exact same field as" y did minus the ACTUAL REAL CHART TOPPING = more essence of nindie (also = st et somewhat)

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

BBR = pop-as-genre surely though.

I still have yet to figure out whether I believe in pop-as-genre but it is useful here.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

pop-as-genre = indie

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

GOOD POINT, WELL MADE.

pop as genre = excuse for much indieness.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

BBR = good indie-pop ala St Et.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

Jarvis was in there as well, but only as a footnote.