Brit Pop/ Indie Rock

by **Louis Van Boxel Woolf** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 6:39 am

What are your opinions on bands such as now old 90's bands such as Madness, Blur and The Verve, the genre of music they are in is usually called Brit Pop or Indie Rock. Personally i've always had a bit of a soft spot for it, but fellow internet users what are your opinions?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QnBccG_ChI Madness: House of Fun

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKCoBt43HWE Blur: Parklife

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM8agr7_TxE Blur: Charmless Man

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlAHZURxRjY Blur: Song 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci0fyRAw21Q Blur: Countryhouse

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx3m4e45bTo The Verve: Bittersweet Symphony

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6P8Zxn5VpY The Verve: Love is Noise

by **Intangelon** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 6:42 am

Seven examples, three bands.

You need to have more bands and less examples. What I take from this thread is that you really like Blur.

I love me some Britpop, and the best of the best, in my opinion, is XTC.

by **Glen Belt** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 7:00 am

Blur are gash man! plenty of top british bands but theyr not one of them!
The verve are top tho.

by **Sdaeriji** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 7:47 am

I think it's hilarious that you think 10 years makes a band "VERY OLD."

by **Earth View** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 7:51 am

Not really my thing, I prefer metal

That said, I doubt there's many people in my generation that don't like Song 2.

by **No Names Left Damn It** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 7:56 am

I love Pulp, Blur are fairly good, the Verve also, Oasis are shit, the rest vary.

by **No Names Left Damn It** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 7:57 am

Sdaeriji wrote:I think it's hilarious that you think 10 years makes a band "VERY OLD."

He didn't say very old.

by **Sdaeriji** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 7:59 am

No Names Left Damn It wrote:
Sdaeriji wrote:I think it's hilarious that you think 10 years makes a band "VERY OLD."

He didn't say very old.

What do you think of the VERY OLD bands below?

by **No Names Left Damn It** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 8:02 am

Sdaeriji wrote:What do you think of the VERY OLD bands below?

Oh shit yeah, hadn't read the poll. God, the one time I read the OP correctly as well...

by **Hydesland** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 8:04 am

Sdaeriji wrote:I think it's hilarious that you think 10 years makes a band "VERY OLD."

Compared to a lot of modern bands however.

by **Louis Van Boxel Woolf** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 12:36 pm

Meh, the reason i consider 10 years an old band is because i am 10 myself...

by **No Names Left Damn It** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 12:41 pm

Louis Van Boxel Woolf wrote:Meh, the reason i consider 10 years an old band is because i am 10 myself...

Wow, I didn't realise there was anyone quite so young on this site.

by **Louis Van Boxel Woolf** » Sun Jul 26, 2009 1:39 am

Really?

by **GetBert** » Sun Jul 26, 2009 1:56 am

Intangelon wrote:Seven examples, three bands.

You need to have more bands and less examples. What I take from this thread is that you really like Blur.

I love me some Britpop, and the best of the best, in my opinion, is XTC.

XTC were around long before anybody came up with the term Britpop. Very good band though, I always associate them with that term 'left-handed music'.

by **Jello Biafra** » Sun Jul 26, 2009 2:45 am

Britpop is kind of meh. It's one of the instances where there's a pretty good reason that all of those bands have (at most) 2 songs that are known to (the vast majority of) people in the U.S. Oasis is the best-known Britpop band, and for good reason.

by **FAILARCHY** » Sun Jul 26, 2009 3:06 am

Here's some nice Britpop:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdpfSp4B994

And here's Blur, sung by Nelson Mandela:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bjshi_Fp ... re=related

by **Gerainia** » Sun Jul 26, 2009 3:11 am

Madness broke up in 1986, and I'd say were more leaning the 2-tone way.

If you liked that, do you like Oasis/Kasabian? I think they'd be up your street. And they really aren't uncool by my book. (Whereabouts are you?)

by **Jello Biafra** » Sun Jul 26, 2009 3:13 am

Gerainia wrote:Madness broke up in 1986, and I'd say were more leaning the 2-tone way.

They reunited in 1992.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madness_(band)

by **DrunkenDove** » Sun Jul 26, 2009 4:46 am

Nah. Blur would be the only one that I'd listen to an album of for fun. Not calling the rest of them bad by any means, but they're lacking....something.. that means they'll not be for me.

Gerainia wrote:
If you liked that, do you like Oasis/Kasabian? I think they'd be up your street. And they really aren't uncool by my book. (Whereabouts are you?)

I used to like Kasabian until they remade the same album three times.

by **Mad hatters in jeans** » Sun Jul 26, 2009 2:43 pm

Of those Madness is the one i like the most, blur meh, verve meh neutral.
I don't listen to alot of that kind of music though.