BBC on Brit-Hop

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4455862.stm

Brit-hop is coming OMG OMG etc - yeah good work BBC but look at the comparison to Select magazine's "notorious" Britpop cover!!

Did anyone else buy this at the time? (1993) and what did you think?

Also if someone could YSI a few good recent (like last 6-12 months recent) hem hem Brit-hop records I'm sure we'd all be grateful.

Comments

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

needless to say, i bought that issue of select and, as with all music journalism before the advent of teh interweb I BELIEVED EVERY WORD (except the bit about denim obv.)

[(Anonymous)]

http://www.dissensus.com/showthread.php?t=2658&page=1&pp=15

'instinct' tells dance writer simon reynolds that this is all HYPE.

HKM

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

instinct = avoids that tiresome "listening to the actual record" nonsense!!

[(Anonymous)]

by the time you're thirty you kind of know what you're gonna like, innit.

hkm

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

"from blisspop to dadrock: the music writing of s.reynolds"

(i'm teasin simon!!)

(or AM i?)

[(Anonymous)]

i read the original select quite a long time after it was published (i was TWELVE at the time) and it was quite good!

i must've read it after the whole dadrock thing, and i guess it's innaresting that no-one in 1993 was able to predict that humble pie, rather than felt, were going to be the hot band in years hence.

[(Anonymous)]

- HKM

[do people just get gothjournals so they don't have this anon BS?]

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

That was what led me on the path to the dark side yes.

THE BI SIDE MORE LIKE

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

haha i met up w.some chums from the now-defunct l0nd0n b!sexu4l gr0up on sun -- to sort out some small remaining tedious admin -- and during the chattage discovered that the extended b! community has migrated not only on-line but entirely onto LJ UH OH

Re: THE BI SIDE MORE LIKE

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Obviously I well know that all members of LJ are bi poly emo goths but I wonder if there's something in the actual format of it that attracts any/all of these categories...

[thejivesession.livejournal.com]

phnlernar DENIM ROXXX

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

they were still never going to STORM the world like eg blur or the auteurs though were they, bless ;)

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

"storm the world like the auteurs" lol

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

it's IRONY mother.

also, this feels slightly wrong, commenting on a post from two weeks ago...