Thinkofthechildren

Does it matter?

Zer0

Kind of defeats the purpose of a britpop list. A lot of britpop bands looked back to 60's and early 70's British artists for their inspiration, like T-Rex, Bowie and The Kinks. I love Galaxie 500 and everything but I don'r see where they come into it.

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Thinkofthechildren

Their sound is really similar to the dreampop/early shoegaze stuff that influenced britpop or was around just before britpop took off, and all those bands were british.

Zer0

I'm not saying they didn't have an influence, but there were also countless non-British bands who did. Personally I find them closer in spirit to bands like Red House Painters, Codeine and Low. If you're going to include Galaxie 500 in a Britpop list then why not include The Velvet Underground, Dinosaur Jr., Sonic Youth, Drop Nineteens, Lilys, Black Tamborine, Yo La Tengo etc? And no not all shoegaze bands were British.

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Thinkofthechildren

See most of those barely have a sound that resembles Brit pop. Galaxie 500 do.

JakeATLBraves24

1996: Ocean Colour Scene - Moseley Shoals

Zer0

The Galaxie 500 I listen to still sound a long way away from bands like Pulp, Blur and Elastica. I just find their inclusion on a Britpop list a bit odd and inconsistent.

Didn't say that all those bands sounded exactly similar to Britpop but Dinosaur Jr had an obvious influence on Teenage Fanclub and a lot of shoegaze bands have cited them as an influence. Lilys sound more British than Galaxie 500 do (in fact their 1999 album The 3 Way could easily pass as a Britpop album) and I was actually shocked to discover that Black Tambourine weren't British.

By the way your list is still missing albums by Adorable, Catherine Wheel and Moose.

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Gavin B.

That's absurd. Galaxie 500 should not be on a list of Britpop bands because they were a New York based band. BTW, Galaxie 500 doesn't sound like a Britpop band, anymore than Oasis sounds like a country and western band.

Your original list is a pretty good compilation of the most notable Britpop bands of the late 80s/90s. The dilemma is how many bands to you include under the Britpop definition? Do you want to include every 2nd and 3rd tier British band, for the sake of having an all inclusive list of Britpop bands?

Belle and Sebastian is from Glasgow Scotland and has more a folk sound, so is it inappropriate to include them on a Britpop list? Stereolab would also be on my list but a couple of Stereolab's members are French, not British.

The one band that probably should be on the list is Saint Etienne, the London based band that was influential in the early Nineties and is still recording excellent music.

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Townes Van Zandt

Urban Hat€monger ?

They're a British pop band who launched their career during that movement so why not?
Other bands had a folk influence too and were included in that genre.
One was and she lived in London before the band was formed. Mary Hansen was Australian, Sean O Hagen is Irish, they were based in Britian, they had most of their success in Britain. I don't really see anything that would make them otherwise. That's like saying The Clash are a Turkish band because Strummer was born there.

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