#84

I think the idea that that list only includes ‘Britpop’ is pretty ridiculous - it’s just a ‘best 90s white guitar-based music from England’ list.

#85

Only two Scottish albums on the whole list.

#86

Apparently Saint Etienne are a brit pop band?

#87
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#88

Definitely Maybe should be number 1

#89

So much this. Such a glaring omission.

#90

I agree about The Bluetones. I am not so keen now, but they were great for a while. And good call on Geneva. They were feted at the time, but never quite broke through. Their singles looked really nice though. They reminded me of Suede in some ways.

Good to see nobody even trying to make a case for Menswear. Though I did spend 15 quid of their debut in a frenzy when it came out.

#91

The omission of Strangelove - whereas some certified jokers get listed (Kenickie, WTF ?) - renders the whole feature meaningless.

#92

Britpop, sad to say, was the last time the UK was really on even ground with North America, musically speaking, on the whole. UK bands were half of every great band before that going back to the Yardbirds.

Many bands I’ve never heard of. Would have placed Mansun’s Attack higher. Otherwise, no more or less surprising than I’m used to from these things.

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#93

I mean I never got Kenickie but they were way more popular than Strangelove and Patrick Duff isn’t now a major indie DJ

#94

Interesting. It’s full of omissions but I figured that was due to P4K being a US site so guessed the average indie US fans would have heard of most of these.

#95

Yeah like I said there were quite a few omissions but an omission like Strangelove or Shack or Geneva is reasonable because those bands barely made much of a wave. They were all great but they’re the forgotten type you don’t usually come across unless you scour hard nowadays.

The omissions to me are the ones that had commercial success like Dodgy, Kula Shaker, Bluetones, etc.

I don’t like Kenickie either in fact I don’t think there was a single good female-fronted Britpop band. Echobelly were decent but nothing more, Elastica & Sleeper had some decent singles but are bad imitations, and Catatonia might’ve been good if not for the annoying voice of their lead singer. Kind of ironic now, all the better young indie bands coming out are largely female fronted in the UK the past couple years.

#96

The 90s, for me, was a drug-induced haze. The American radio scene was dominated by skate Warp bands, who are worse than shit. I pretty much gave up on music. It’s only later that I went back and found Pavement and all the rest of the great bands I’ve discovered from the period.

Also, many = a few, probably 5 or 6 names, I didn’t recognize.

#97

horrible word. horrible list.

but to dump my dignity and join the party, how the fuck is Radiator below Fuzzy, and Definitely Maybe below Morning Glory? i ask thee!

plus Bends and Blur aren’t Britpop. whatever Britpop is.

still, Parklife is the clear winner and yeah, that Elastica LP is still GR8.

#98

people need to chill out a bit about Britpop. it was grand. yes a lot of it was guff, most of the albums don’t hold up; but singles-wise at least there was great stuff. and i’m quite happy to see stuff like Boo Radleys, St Etienne etc bigged up even if it’s only by tenous association. (an alternative. more open-minded Britpop would have had them and Super Furry Animals as the holy triumvirate).

growing up and getting into music around this time, you couldn’t help but be sucked in by it. i mean, what can you realistically (ie it’s pointless comparing it to more authentic, original, underground genres) compare it to - Travis and Coldplay and the new acoustic? Kasabian?? Future Islands? nah, quite happy to have my musical teen coming of age phase during the mid-90s

also - Space had 2 or 3 absolute bangers, don’t @ me

#99

in a perfect world they’d be the quintessential ‘Brit pop’ band, if Brit pop signified something else than what it became. stuff like ‘London Belongs to Me’ - just perfect

#100

this article did remind me how absolutely perfect Saint Eitenne’s “Nothing Can Stop Us Now” is though

#101

So, lists like this always ‘inspire’ me to go and listen to the records concerned. So that’s what I’m doing this morning, starting at #50.

Back in Denim by Denim.

LOFL.

Good Christ.

Britpop largely soundtracked my GCSEs 20 plus years ago. Whilst it revolutionised my musical listening away from Capital towards Indie / Alt and feels like a necessary rite of passage to have gone through, looking back the vast majority of it was absolute sewage.

#102

Nobody ever called indie Britpop back then apart from whoever came up with tht rubbish Select magazine front cover and Andy Coulson in The Sun perhaps.

Call me contrary, but I’ve never understood why anyone puts Different Class above His n Hers. Although that’s far from the strangest thing here. I can only assume they’re being contrary themselves by putting Morning Glory above Definitely Maybe?

Anyway, another pointless list to fill space…

#103

hmmm