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Britpop was a mid-1990s British-based music culture movement that emphasised Britishness. Musically, Britpop produced bright, catchy alternative rock, in reaction to the darker lyrical themes and soundscapes of the US-led grunge music and the UK's own shoegaze music scene.
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The following is a list of Britpop musicians. While...
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Britpop is a type of alternative rock that started in the...
- List of Britpop musicians - Wikipedia
Britpop, movement of British rock bands in the 1990s that drew consciously on the tradition of melodic, guitar-based British pop music established by the Beatles. Paul Weller of the Jam was considered ‘the Modfather of Britpop,’ while its two most prominent bands were Blur and Oasis.
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Britpop was a mid-1990s British-based music culture movement that emphasised Britishness. Musically, Britpop produced bright, catchy alternative rock, in reaction to the darker lyrical themes and soundscapes of the US-led grunge music and the UK's own shoegaze music scene.
- Oasis - (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? (Creation, 1995) It didn’t matter that it had an album title as impenetrable as the vast majority of its lyrics, …Morning Glory swaggered into the charts and into the hearts of young Britain with cocaine confidence.
- Blur - Parklife (Food/Parlophone, 1994) Damon Albarn’s band arrived on the coat-tails of Manchester, apeing the monkey-faced pop of the Stone Roses. Later they tried to sell themselves as alternative rock, joining the Rollercoaster tour with the Jesus & Mary Chain, Dinosaur Jr and My Bloody Valentine.
- Oasis - Definitely Maybe (Creation, 1994) Two Oasis albums in one Buyer’s Guide? Isn’t there a law against that kinda thing? The fact is, Oasis ruled this period so authoritatively that no collection of Britpop is complete without both …Morning Glory and their debut album Definitely Maybe.
- The La’s - The La’s (Go! Discs, 1990) Too early for Britpop? Maybe, but this is where it all started. In an early interview, Oasis songwriter Noel Gallagher claimed that the goal of Oasis was “to finish what The La’s started”.
The term Britpop was coined by journalist Stuart Maconie in a long polemic about the state of guitar music in the April 1993 issue of Select magazine. Styled as an angry letter to Nirvana...
