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3 hours ago, Zico said:

I think we're now in that period where the 90s are cool and retro so why not cash in, plus Oasis just made Britpop cool again

read that the kids love his Wonderall look, probably liked kids like the Beatles look back in 94

Let's be honest Ocean Colour Scene weren't cool even in the 90s. When they were trying to be from the 60s.

Day We Caught the Train and the Riverboat Song still give me the dry boak.

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28 minutes ago, Not in Crawley said:

Let's be honest Ocean Colour Scene weren't cool even in the 90s. When they were trying to be from the 60s.

Day We Caught the Train and the Riverboat Song still give me the dry boak.

I liked few of their singles and definitely part of the cool Britannia / Britpop scene 

Not cool enough that I tried to be like them

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2 hours ago, Not in Crawley said:

Let's be honest Ocean Colour Scene weren't cool even in the 90s. When they were trying to be from the 60s.

Day We Caught the Train and the Riverboat Song still give me the dry boak.

Speaking of Britpop bands you don't like

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/oct/04/shed-seven-score-second-no-1-album-of-the-year

 

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14 hours ago, Zico said:

I liked few of their singles and definitely part of the cool Britannia / Britpop scene 

Not cool enough that I tried to be like them

It was over by the time OCS came around - basically by middle of 96 was all a bit boring, wasn't it? DM, Parklife, Different Class all been released and then it was all the likes of Gay Dad, Gene, OCS, Dodgy, Kula Shaker, Bluetones clogging up programmes like TFI Friday.

I remeber listening to Odley by Beck, If You're Feeling Sinister by B&S and Dinosaur Jr had Hand it Over around that time which I loved - didn't Underworld have Second Toughest In The Infants which seemed to be everywhere and Everything Must Go was huge (wouldn't say Manics were a typical Britpop band)

As for shed seven - yeah not suprising, middle aged folks are the ones actually still buying albums and you only need to sell a few now to get to number one. Just never understood the appeal - file under Red Hot Chilli Peppers.

 

 

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33 minutes ago, Not in Crawley said:

It was over by the time OCS came around - basically by middle of 96 was all a bit boring, wasn't it? DM, Parklife, Different Class all been released and then it was all the likes of Gay Dad, Gene, OCS, Dodgy, Kula Shaker, Bluetones clogging up programmes like TFI Friday.

Aug 95 was the pinnacle, still going strong due Brit Awards in 96 but was never hitting those heights again 

The cool Britannia scene went on though

Would say Britpop was over when Verve and Radiohead rocked up mid 97

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1 minute ago, Zico said:

Aug 95 was the pinnacle, still going strong due Brit Awards in 96 but was never hitting those heights again 

The cool Britannia scene went on though

Would say Britpop was over when Verve and Radiohead rocked up mid 97

But The Verve and Radiohead were around long before the 'Britpop' bands - The Verve ceratinly did their best stuff in the early 90s - and Radiohead were never part of it.

My point is that cool britannia scene by that point wasn't a scene just a load of bandwagon jumpers and record labels and politicans loking to cash in. Like most music that crosses over - its 'over' as soon as Asda are stocking the fashion and albums.

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6 minutes ago, Not in Crawley said:

But The Verve and Radiohead were around long before the 'Britpop' bands - The Verve ceratinly did their best stuff in the early 90s - and Radiohead were never part of it.

My point is that cool britannia scene by that point wasn't a scene just a load of bandwagon jumpers and record labels and politicans loking to cash in. Like most music that crosses over - its 'over' as soon as Asda are stocking the fashion and albums.

Well there was Knebworth mid 96 as well so it definitely wasn't over at that point

Coming up by Suede came out September 

Trainspotting too 

It all dried up and verve and Radiohead went big, far bigger than they had been before, something different

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10 minutes ago, Zico said:

Well there was Knebworth mid 96 as well so it definitely wasn't over at that point

Coming up by Suede came out September 

Trainspotting too 

It all dried up and verve and Radiohead went big, far bigger than they had been before, something different

I'm not saying it was 'all over' in a sense that it was finished, it was 'all over' in the fact the best stuff had been done, it was a bit of a busted flush and  people had already started to move on to what became a really dance centric few years and away from guitar bands playing not very good songs.

UNKLE, DJ Shadow and James Lavene started to turn a lot of people's heads and really influenced OK Computer which pointed a way forward for rock music away from stuff like Feeder.

Basically the cool kids were saying it was all a bit shit by then 😁

I went into a huge lo fi few years - Sebadoh, B&S, Camera Obscura etc al

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12 minutes ago, Not in Crawley said:

I'm not saying it was 'all over' in a sense that it was finished, it was 'all over' in the fact the best stuff had been done, it was a bit of a busted flush and  people had already started to move on to what became a really dance centric few years and away from guitar bands playing not very good songs.

UNKLE, DJ Shadow and James Lavene started to turn a lot of people's heads and really influenced OK Computer which pointed a way forward for rock music away from stuff like Feeder.

Basically the cool kids were saying it was all a bit shit by then 😁

I went into a huge lo fi few years - Sebadoh, B&S, Camera Obscura etc al

I think we're on the same page

Difference is I wasn't a cool kid and you wanted to be considered one 

After Britpop I bumbled through the indie rock scene looking around for something else but not really doing anything of note till garage rock revival came along in the early 00s

That's when I wanted to be considered cool 

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7 hours ago, Not in Crawley said:

Oh, I've just seen that Kula Shaker are supporting OCS. That's some special kind of aural torture.

Anyway, tickets have just come through - what a fucking line up....

 

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You can go for an ice cream when Gillespie comes on

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56 minutes ago, Spider said:

You can go for an ice cream when Gillespie comes on

Saw him once outside kings Cross tube once. He's about as big as 99 flake. 

No doubt he'll be 'singing' Deep Hit of Morning Sun that Lanagan and Dulli covered.

Had Gillespie's biog for a couple of years, I'm sure it'll be interesting but he comes across as such a self involved div I can't bring myself to crack it open.

 

 

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On 10/10/2024 at 18:48, Dr Faustus said:

Waiting for the haters to hate… I’m at Shed Seven Academy 2 on 25 October. Just had an email, EMF, Jesus Jones and Echobelly playing Ritz same night

£5 per ticket FFS

Anyone interested let me know, I’ll forward the link @Smiley might be one for you?

I'd go see Jesus Jones but not the other two 

I only know one song by each

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52 minutes ago, Not in Crawley said:

Schubert Dip is a good album. As is Doubt by Jesus Jones. One of the first band's I got into outside of Metal when I was a kid.

My cousin is about 5 years older than me and as a kid I wanted to be like him, Jesus Jones was the first time I thought 'ok maybe not everything Russ likes is cool'.

His imported Japanese games for the SNES definitely were 

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