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Gavaxeman said:
I’d throw in Pulp with His n hers thru to This is hardcore as exceptional Britpop albums .... and echo the first two Suede albums and the b sides ...

And the first Auteurs album

All better than Blur and Oasis imo

And I saw them all in their prime ..live Oasis slayed pretty much everyone in 94 / 95
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James were pretty good too
 
eatdogs said:
They

Had to compete with Grunge and also compared to the UK where they were built up by music press hype, here in America bands and expected to tour and tour and tour and build their audience that way. That's honestly why the Britpop thing didn't hit as hard here.

Take a band like Bush. The UK music press didn't really like them much, but here in America we accepted them but they had to earn it more by touring their butts off.
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Bush were also pretty terrible to be fair. I don’t think that grunge every really connected over here either beyond the bigger hitters.

And to be fair the britpop artists would have toured like crazy at home to build up an audience too, it’s just you can tour Britain and Ireland, maybe even throw in a bit of Europe, several times over and it not be the slog of a US tour either in distance or stops.
 
Joe Mac said:
Which is random because the perception here in the 90s as it was going off was that oasis blew every opportunity to break the US. Noel walking off the first tour after Liam’s Crystal meth incident. Liam walking off the second tour to go house hunting with his then wife. I think the third tour blew up too. Blur were seen to have made it to an extent after Song 2 and the self titled album. Both charted as strongly as anything else britpop.
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They did screw up their opportunity to become massive in the States. Wonderwall and Champagne Supernova had put them in prime position to be the next U2 (and what Coldplay became) popularity-wise here and they gave us Be Here Now and the bloated hubris of D'You Know What I Mean and that over the top video. 1997 was the year that Brit-pop looked like it was going to break through and it just imploded (at least from an American perspective).
 
eatdogs said:
I honestly like Britpop a lot, but the origins coming from the Madchester scene are where I dig the most into it. Happy Monday's, Stone Roses, Inspiral Carpets, New Order, 808 State etc.
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It’s funny because coming from Britain I’d consider those to be two completely different scenes with very little in common other than they were the “alternative” music movement of their time and place.
 
wmeugene said:
They did screw up their opportunity to become massive in the States. Wonderwall and Champagne Supernova had put them in prime position to be the next U2 (and what Coldplay became) popularity-wise here and they gave us Be Here Now and the bloated hubris of D'You Know What I Mean and that over the top video. 1997 was the year that Brit-pop looked like it was going to break through and it just imploded (at least from an American perspective).
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Cocaine’s one hell of a drug!
 
Joe Mac said:
Bush were also pretty terrible to be fair. I don’t think that grunge every really connected over here either beyond the bigger hitters.

And to be fair the britpop artists would have toured like crazy at home to build up an audience too, it’s just you can tour Britain and Ireland, maybe even throw in a bit of Europe, several times over and it not be the slog of a US tour either in distance or stops.
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Oasis and Bush were huge MTV bands in the states. That can't be understated. I know its difficult to understand today, but that could make or break your album and they were both on ALL the time!
 
Joe Mac said:
It’s funny because coming from Britain I’d consider those to be two completely different scenes with very little in common other than they were the “alternative” music movement of their time and place.
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That's interesting to hear. It just felt like a progression of one to the other for me but I didn't really get into much of it until college and when it was all popular I was more into Grunge back then lol
 
JonnyH said:
Oasis and Bush were huge MTV bands in the states. That can't be understated. I know its difficult to understand today, but that could make or break your album and they were both on ALL the time!
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Yeah MTV wasn’t as huge this side because it was on satellite/cable TV and that was still relatively rare for people to have pre 00s. I remember us having to go to the pub to watch the big football games as a kid, for example. NME/Melody Maker and touring universities was the key to getting off the ground and then BBC radio and Top of the Pops were the key to becoming huge.
 
Joe Mac said:
Bush were also pretty terrible to be fair. I don’t think that grunge every really connected over here either beyond the bigger hitters.

And to be fair the britpop artists would have toured like crazy at home to build up an audience too, it’s just you can tour Britain and Ireland, maybe even throw in a bit of Europe, several times over and it not be the slog of a US tour either in distance or stops.
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Oh man, I loved those first two Bush albums back then. People wrote them off as a Nirvana rip off but that wasn't fare I'd say. Steve Albini produced their second album and it's so raw sounding that I still really dig it.
 
eatdogs said:
That's interesting to hear. It just felt like a progression of one to the other for me but I didn't really get into much of it until college and when it was all popular I was more into Grunge back then lol
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There were certainly common threads but I always felt sonically that britpop harked back to the pre-punk era of 60s and even early 70s glam and didn’t sound all that much like the post punk music that dominated the 80s alternative scene.
 
eatdogs said:
Oh man, I loved those first two Bush albums back then. People wrote them off as a Nirvana rip off but that wasn't fare I'd say. Steve Albini produced their second album and it's so raw sounding that I still really dig it.
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They made the fatal mistake of trying to be too American. Affecting americanisms is the sure fire way to get the British music press offside!
 
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Also the album cover has a cat on it! That means it's gonna be some awesome Shoegaze!
 
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