Никогда не был большим фанатом blur и в противостоянии blur vs oasis отдавал предпочтение вторым, хотя последнее время понимаю, что данный выбор неправильный и pulp на две головы выше обоих. Pulp хотя бы не прятали за стеной сухого шума непритязательный поп-рок как те же Галлахеры, а у Джарвиса Кокера хватило в равной степени снобизма и мелодизма, что для английской музыкальной традиции очень важно. Однако think tank стукнуло 20 лет, а это blur, который лучший в их творчестве. Не сказать, что англичанам не предстало быть веселыми, однако "озорным классическим периодом" первой половины 90х можно ограничится "the great escape" (1995) и то он длинноват, в одноименном 97м просто обман, думаешь, что там все песни будут как "song 2" однако остальной альбом звучит как Инди-рок от pavement тех же лет. А вот поздний blur как "13" (1999) и "think tank" (2003), где Албарна начинала одолевать меланхолия и он начал интересоваться электроникой (а далее развитие в проект gorillaz) уже занимательно. Если "13" был отражением на расставание женщиной из elasticа, то этот альбом уже концептуальный обзор на революции на ближнем востоке, вторжение в Афганистан, слежку при помощи цифровых технологий, есть и менее серьёзные песни для разбавления настроения. "Стенка" для поколения MTV если говорить очень широкими понятиями или просто стебаться. Яркий пример песни "Out of time" и "brothers and sisters", как там с акустической приблюзованной гитарами в начале вырисовывается песня, потом растёт по кускам, добавляются биты и звуки от хозяйственных инструментов, но при этом нет ухода в индастриал. Ещё возможны Арабские мотивы мимолётом, в любом случае fatboyslim грамотно помог в electronic rock.

I found a bunch of old 90's mailouts:flyers/postcards stashed in my 45's record box I thought I'd lost, loads from Paul Weller, Ocean Colour Scene and the Orb plus others including these from Oasis.

Anyone fans of 90's music and 90's sci fi/space opera? It's Ambassador Kosh from the Vorlon Empire for the uninitiated

Rule 1. Only 1 member per band (members can't have been in any band together).

Drums: Danny Goffey (Supergrass)

Bass/Lyrics: Nicky Wire (Manics)

Rhythm Guitar: Noel Gallagher (Oasis)

Lead Guitar: Nick McCabe (The Verve)

Vocals/Lyrics: Skin (Skunk Anansie)

Marion was a band that encapsulated all that aspects my Anglophilic mind craved: songs, lyrics, guitars, and above all, looks. This was my first interview I ever did for Wake Up! Videozine. I met up with the band and their legendary manager, Joe Moss, at the CBGBs gallery and my epic journey began. The experience was transformational. I was now a video journalist, born of sheer self-invention. I was D.A. Pennebaker in search of my Bob Dylan. [I was living in Dylan's first NYC apt at the time] I would go on to interview 35 of the best UK bands that year and create the most authentic and original time capsule imaginable.

The lesson: when you ain't got nothing, you've got nothing to lose. #RadicalFreedom

#BritPop #Marion #CBGBs #TheSmiths

Travis ft Noel Gallagher - All I Wanna Do Is Rock (GMEX 1997)

It was Madchester and Psychedelic music, not Britpop ! ✌🏽But it’s a good album.
But it was disowned by the band. Paul Weller and Oasis came to help them, you know the story.
Anybody a fan from the start ?

Still love this album.
I think it’s the best second album, the follow up to their debut.
Was it from this album, Suede was known as The London Suede hence hinder their success in America ?

Really worth! 10/10

They are touring now. Maybe releasing records again. Superb.

I was just flicking through YouTube there, and came across this from 1998 (I think?) I remember watching this at the time (The Jo Whiley show) and genuinely thought the next phase of British guitar-indie music was going to be a blurring of the Madchester and Britpop vibes, with more electronica vibes. I was also including The Lo-Fidelity Allstars, as at the time, they had a singer with very much an Ian Brown-template look (also a performance on Jo Whiley), and Asian Dub Foundation.

Alas, we had Travis then - and the soon to be supernova Coldplay - but I felt at the time, that the previously mentioned style was going to yield some 'big boys' and the Britpop party would continue in a much altered form. As well as Travis etc., The Strokes then came out and set the tone for the next decade...

However, I do still look upon this brief period with fondness and as a bit of "What might have been".

Seen them in Edinburgh last Friday. I think they’re a band I’ve seen more than any other in the thirty odd years I’ve been going to gigs

Great band with some top new tunes to go with the old anthems

My recollection is that they were above average. Have thoughts?