yeah was just about to point out that it's "Bernard", not "Brett"

always thought Mat was the replacement guitarist

what's your beef against Richard Oakes, he's a good guitarist. Not as good as Butler, but he plays the Butler-era songs very well and I think he does really well on Coming Up plus he has some good tracks on Sci-Fi Lullabies e.g. Europe is Our Playground and Sound of the Streets.

Coming Up is not as good as Dog Man Star or Suede, but it's still pretty beast

not much "beef" against him

the albums without Butler lack that magic, that's all

Much more the 80s than the 90s I'd say.

Depends on what you were listening too and where you were (if that makes sense). The eighties had a huge amount of catchy synth pop coming out of GB (plus every other music genre). The 90s had a great amount of poppy/alternative tunes coming out of GB that seemed more influenced by grunge music than anything else. But I would not neccesarily say that there was any less coming out of GB in the 90s...although the eighties stuff imho was a lot more original sounding.

Not saying the 90s were any less in terms of likability though.

I was in Britain. I just think the New Wave scene seems to me to have been quite prolific and deep both in the charts and outside the charts. Also I like more of the famous stuff in New Wave than I do in Britpop.

synth-pop's where it's at, darlings

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There's nothing wrong with Suede's later albums if you like that sort of thing.
They just lost their edge a bit when Butler left.

I was stuck on another island in the Atlantic :) But I agree with you. Many of the songs that are considered new wave seem better written on the whole than those that made up the nineties Britpop. But than most of the music that I consider "pop" during the nineties is just that..poppy and catchy but not meant to be much more than that.

Might as well start posting some of the New Wave and Britpop. Nice to see it again at least.