One of my favorite records is XTC's "Black Sea" which predates the term but is packed with formidable "Britpop".
I didn't understand it as "pop" music until I spent a couple months out of last year in London. They actually do play Blur and the like on radio over there, or in the drugstore, or at chain restaurants. It's just pop music, when as a college kid over here in the '90s, it was different and exotic in some way.
The defining song, in my opinion, for that era was Pulp's Common People.
I think I'm going to play that right now, actually. The album that it's on, Different Class, is classic. The themes of it, and the album after it (This is Hardcore) are much more involved than most pop music. And it's seedy.
So, anyone like Britpop? By this, I refer to actual bands. Not who ever the Britney Spears of Britain is. Anyways, I will start off by throwing a some what more...twee band out there. I think that twee is an offshoot genre of Britpop. So without further ado I give you Belle and Sebastian!!
Well, I think of Pet Clark, Herman's Hermits and The Hollies
This is Hardcore
Well, I think of Pet Clark, Herman's Hermits and The Hollies
But that is why there was crossover Indie from Scotland, like Belle & Sebastian..so that the scene would still have cute girls.
Yessssssss.....Ever heard of Saint Etienne?
...how would everyone feel about a "Today's INDIE playlist" thread?
I don't want to seem too pretentious here seeing as that I am a relatively new member and music is really my only area of expertise.