Britpop

Liljagare · 07-21-2011, 09:25 AM

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Originally Posted by starrynight

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.

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.

Howard the Duck · 07-19-2011, 10:49 AM

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

Liljagare · 07-17-2011, 10:45 PM

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Originally Posted by TRa

No offense to any of the groups mentioned here... they're great.

But you cannot say that there is no quality music out there...

Adele, Eliza Doolittle, Coldplay and many more...

I don't think this thread is a knock on present British bands. Of course there is some good music being put out presently by Great Britain (it is the same thing with Sweden..the music scene here did not just die out after Abba and Roxette

)..but there was a time when there was a massive amount of really great music being put out in the 80's/90's from there..then it seemed to trickle down to a few...and hence bring back Britpop.

Bush recently put out a new single and is putting out an album in September. I don't know if it will be as good as "Sixteen Stone" but so far it doesn't sound so bad.

starrynight · 07-19-2011, 01:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Liljagare

there was a time when there was a massive amount of really great music being put out in the 80's/90's from there

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

Liljagare · 07-19-2011, 08:43 AM

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Originally Posted by starrynight

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.