List of Britpop musicians

Last updated • 1 min readFrom Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

The following is a list of Britpop musicians. While definitions may vary, artists labelled as Britpop were typically guitar-based bands that emerged from the British music scene, were popular in the 1990s, and focused more on melody than other contemporary genres such as grunge. [1]

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Artists

Related Research Articles

Britpop was a mid-1990s British-based music culture movement that emphasised Britishness. Musically, Britpop produced bright, catchy alternative rock, in reaction to the darker lyrical themes and soundscapes of the US-led grunge music and the UK's own shoegaze music scene. The movement brought British alternative rock into the mainstream and formed the larger British popular cultural movement, Cool Britannia, which evoked the Swinging Sixties and the British guitar pop of that decade.

Indie rock is a subgenre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom, United States and New Zealand in the early to mid-1980s. Although the term was originally used to describe rock music released through independent record labels, by the 1990s it became more widely associated with the music such bands produced.

The Best... Album in the World...Ever! is a compilation album brand from Circa Records. It was the brainchild of marketer Stephen Pritchard at Virgin Records.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Suede (band)</span> English rock band

Suede are an English rock band formed in London in 1989 by singer Brett Anderson, guitarist Justine Frischmann, and bassist Mat Osman. Drawing from glam rock and post-punk, Suede were labeled "The Best New Band in Britain" by Melody Maker in 1992, attracting significant attention from the British music press. The following year, their debut album, Suede, reached number one on the UK Albums Chart, becoming the fastest-selling debut album in nearly a decade. It won the Mercury Music Prize and helped propel 'Britpop' as a musical movement, though the band distanced themselves from the label.

<i>The Bends</i> (album) 1995 studio album by Radiohead

The Bends is the second studio album by the English rock band Radiohead, released on 13 March 1995 by Parlophone. It was produced by John Leckie, with extra production by Radiohead, Nigel Godrich and Jim Warren. The Bends combines guitar songs and ballads, with more restrained arrangements and cryptic lyrics than Radiohead's debut album, Pablo Honey (1993).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Cornershop</span> English indie rock band

Cornershop are an English indie rock band formed in Leicester, in 1991. The group are best known for their single "Brimful of Asha" from their third album When I Was Born for the 7th Time, whose remixed version topped the UK singles chart in 1998. They were formed by Tjinder Singh, his brother Avtar Singh, David Chambers (drums), and Ben Ayres, the first three having previously been members of General Havoc, who released one single in 1991. The band name originated from a stereotype referring to British Asians often owning corner shops. Their music is a fusion of Indian music, indie rock, alternative and electronic dance music.

<i>Fuzzy Logic</i> (Super Furry Animals album) 1996 studio album by Super Furry Animals

Fuzzy Logic is the debut album by the Welsh rock band Super Furry Animals. Recorded at Rockfield Studios in Wales, and released on the Creation label in May 1996, it was positively received by critics, who felt it was an eclectic if inconsistent mix of psychedelic music and glam rock, and was included in Q Magazine's list of recordings of the year. It has retained a modest respect among some critics; it was listed in Q's "Best British Albums Ever" in July 2004, and is included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. It contains two top 20 hits in "If You Don't Want Me to Destroy You" and "Something 4 the Weekend"; it also contains the singles "God! Show Me Magic" and "Hometown Unicorn". It reached number 23 in the UK Albums Chart on release. In 2013, NME ranked it at number 245 in its list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">V Festival</span> British music festival

V Festival, often referred to as V Fest or simply V, was an annual music festival held in the United Kingdom during the third weekend in August. The event was held at two parks simultaneously which shared the same bill; artists performed at one location on Saturday and then swapped on Sunday. The sites were located at Hylands Park in Chelmsford and Weston Park in South Staffordshire. In 2017, the final year of this format, the capacity of each site was 90,000.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Brimful of Asha</span> 1997 single by Cornershop

"Brimful of Asha" is a song by English alternative rock band Cornershop from their third album, When I Was Born for the 7th Time (1997). The recording, released by Wiiija, originally reached number 60 on the UK Singles Chart in 1997. After a remixed version by Norman Cook became a radio and critical success, the song was re-released and reached number one on the UK chart and number 16 on the US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. The lyric is a tribute to Asha Bhosle. Its music video was directed by Phil Harder.

<i>Sci-Fi Lullabies</i> 1997 compilation album by Suede

Sci-Fi Lullabies is a two-disc compilation album by English alternative rock band Suede released by Nude Records on 6 October 1997, consisting of B-sides from the singles that were released from the group's first three albums. It reached no. 9 on the UK Albums Chart, and received universal acclaim on release. In subsequent years, the record has been hailed as one of the finest B-side compilations in popular music.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Beautiful Ones</span> 1996 single by Suede

"Beautiful Ones" is a song by English rock band Suede, released as the second single from their third album, Coming Up (1996), on 14 October 1996 through Nude Records. The song became a top-10 hit in the United Kingdom, peaking at number eight, and reached number one in Iceland for two weeks.

Babybird are an English rock band formed by songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Stephen Jones, who has been releasing music since 1995. While Jones' early solo work was released under the "Baby Bird" name, the altered "Babybird" was first used to distinguish the full band line-up that has changed often over the years. However, in recent years, Jones has recorded many of the Babybird albums himself, in addition to recording as a solo artist, and under various aliases including Death of the Neighbourhood, Trucker, Black Reindeer, Deluder, Arthritis Kid and others.

<i>Radiator</i> (album) 1997 studio album by Super Furry Animals

Radiator is the second studio album by Welsh alternative rock band Super Furry Animals. It was released in August 1997 by Creation Records, and later the same year in the United States under Flydaddy Records. It peaked at number eight on the UK Albums Chart. In 2005, it was reissued with a bonus disc of other tracks from the time.

Popular music of the United Kingdom in the 1990s continued to develop and diversify. While the singles charts were dominated by boy bands and girl groups, British soul and Indian-based music also enjoyed their greatest level of mainstream success to date, and the rise of World music helped revitalise the popularity of folk music. Electronic rock bands like The Prodigy and Chemical Brothers began to achieve a high profile. Alternative rock reached the mainstream, emerging from the Madchester scene to produce dream pop, shoegazing, post rock and indie pop, which led to the commercial success of Britpop bands like Blur and Oasis; followed by a stream of post-Britpop bands like Radiohead and The Verve.

<i>Change Giver</i> 1994 studio album by Shed Seven

Change Giver is the debut album by British rock band Shed Seven, released via Polydor Records on 5 September 1994. It was produced by Jessica Corcoran and was issued during the formative year of the Britpop movement—a scene that dominated British alternative music in the mid-1990s.

<i>Select</i> (magazine) UK music magazine

Select was a United Kingdom music magazine of the 1990s. It was known for covering the indie rock and Britpop genres, but featured a wide array of music. In 2003, The Guardian called Select "the magazine that not only coined the word Britpop, but soon came to define it."

<i>Live Forever: The Rise and Fall of Brit Pop</i> 2003 British film

Live Forever: The Rise and Fall of Brit Pop is a 2003 documentary film written and directed by John Dower. The documentary is a study of popular culture in the United Kingdom during the mid- to late 1990s. The focus of the piece is the main movement in British popular music during that time, which came under strong media attention and was dubbed Britpop.

"Lift" is a song by the English rock band Radiohead, released in 2017. It was first performed in 1996; bootleg recordings were widely circulated, and it became a fan favourite. Radiohead recorded versions of "Lift" during the sessions for their third album, OK Computer (1997), but abandoned it. Radiohead were pressured by its commercial potential and felt it did not represent what they wanted to say at the time.

Shine was a various artists compilation album series released by PolyGram TV in Britain from 1995 to 1998, centring on indie rock, largely from new British bands. The series began in 1995 to capitalize on the Britpop scene. In total, there were ten Shine albums, plus a 'Best of '97' compilation and a final 'Best of Shine' in 1998. The series ended in the late 1990s as the Britpop era passed.

Post-Britpop is an alternative rock subgenre and is the period in the late 1990s and early 2000s, following Britpop, when the media were identifying a "new generation" or "second wave" of guitar bands influenced by acts like Oasis and Blur, but with less overt British concerns in their lyrics and making more use of American rock and indie influences, as well as experimental music. Bands in the post-Britpop era that had been established acts, but gained greater prominence after the decline of Britpop, such as Radiohead and the Verve, and new acts such as Keane, Snow Patrol, Stereophonics, Feeder, and particularly Travis and Coldplay, achieved much wider international success than most of the Britpop groups that had preceded them, and were some of the most commercially successful acts of the late 1990s and early 2000s.

References

  1. ↑ Pitchfork Staff (29 March 2017). "The 50 Best Britpop Albums". Pitchfork. Retrieved 8 September 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 "Caught By The Buzz: A Look Back At Britpop's B-List". 23 April 2014.
  3. ↑ Louise Wener, "Review: Bad Vibes by Luke Haines", The Guardian, 17 January 2009. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
  4. ↑ "Interview: Stephen Jones on Babybird homecoming". 11 April 2018.
  5. ↑ "Get To Know: Shaun Ryder's Black Grape | O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire". academymusicgroup.com.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Britpop". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Archived from the original on 18 August 2012. Retrieved 30 October 2013.
  7. 1 2 3 4 "It's Britpop Week On". 21 April 2014.
  8. ↑ "Where are those Britpop band members now?". 16 April 2014.
  9. ↑ "Britpop: 25 years ago today Britain taught the world to play guitar". The Independent. 20 April 2018.
  10. ↑ Bloom, Madison (26 November 2019). "Cornershop Announce First Album in 8 Years, Share New Song: Listen". Pitchfork.
  11. ↑ http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/2014/02/14/90s-week-interview-delicatessen/ Delicatessen: career interview by God Is In The TV Zine
  12. ↑ Hodgkinson, Will (21 October 2010). "Denim: Britpop's less successful fabric". The Guardian.
  13. ↑ "Gay Dad Songs, Albums, Reviews, Bio & More | A". AllMusic .
  14. ↑ "The Quietus | Reviews | Common People: The Britpop Story". The Quietus. 19 June 2009.
  15. ↑ Creason, Kyle (16 August 2000). "An arch-druid, a mwng and a tart". INDY Week.
  16. ↑ "Britpop". Music. 29 March 2012.
  17. ↑ "The Legendary Britpop Band James Just Released Its Best Album in 25 Years". 10 August 2018.
  18. ↑ "What happened to the female stars of Britpop? – BBC Music". www.bbc.co.uk. 13 November 2017.
  19. ↑ "It's only rock'n'roll but I like it". 28 March 1998. Archived from the original on 30 May 2012 – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
  20. ↑ "Old London Music: Seven Britpop Bands Who Didn't Make It | Information Society".
  21. 1 2 Fordy, Tom (31 May 2018). "Forget Britpop, Oasis are now the kings of desperate Dad-rock". The Telegraph– via www.telegraph.co.uk.
  22. 1 2 3 Staff, MAGNET (18 August 2009). "The Over/Under: Britpop".
  23. ↑ Pareles, Jon (8 October 2009). "A Mass of Angry Ideas, Set to Martial Melodies". The New York Times– via NYTimes.com.
  24. ↑ https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mcalmont-butler-mn0000867893 [ bare URL ]
  25. ↑ "Brit What?". The Independent. 2 February 2003.
  26. ↑ Lester, Interviews by Paul (24 April 2014). "Britpop casualties: 'It felt like we crashed someone else's party'". The Guardian– via www.theguardian.com.
  27. ↑ "Britpop's forgotten gems — Jake Shillingford and My Life Story". DrownedInSound. Archived from the original on 6 March 2019. Retrieved 3 March 2019.
  28. ↑ https://www.npr.org/2007/02/13/7387641/paul-weller-a-britpop-titan-lives-on
  29. ↑ "Do You Remember Powder?".
  30. ↑ "Radiohead: The Pioneers of Britpop – BoySetsFire". 30 November 2022.
  31. ↑ "Reef". ifliyer.
  32. ↑ Andrew Unterberger, "Ride Announce Reunion and 2015 World Tour", SPIN, 19 November 2014. Retrieved 12 January 2020.
  33. ↑ "How Britpop star Robbie Williams, as a monkey, got the Greatest Showman flair for his biopic (exclusive)". www.ew.com. 25 October 2024.
  34. ↑ "St Etienne were crucial to the Britpop era". www.irishexaminer.com. 21 August 2015.
  35. ↑ Reilly, Nicholas (29 April 2017). "Britpop legends Shed Seven accuse Harry Styles of copying album artwork".
  36. ↑ "Oh, what a lovely day to drink some English tea: Britpop in 2005". DrownedInSound. Archived from the original on 10 January 2020. Retrieved 10 January 2020.
  37. ↑ "The Quietus | Features | Tome On The Range | Clampdown: Britpop Culture Wars, Kenickie & Shampoo". The Quietus. 25 January 2013.
  38. ↑ "The 50 Best Britpop Albums – Page 4". Pitchfork. 29 March 2017.
  39. ↑ "S*M*A*S*H Songs, Albums, Reviews, Bio & More |". AllMusic .
  40. ↑ Mikey, D. J. (19 February 2019). "Stereophonics release new single and video for Chaos From The Top Down". Strangeways Radio.
  41. ↑ "Chrrrist, Whatever Happened To Strangelove?". Archived from the original on 4 September 2019. Retrieved 2 March 2019.
  42. ↑ Jasmine Albertson, "Super Furry Animals Announce New Box Set Covering Years of BBC Sessions", KEXP, 27 September 2018. Retrieved 10 January 2020.
  43. ↑ "Unreleased Blur, Pulp & Suede performances to feature on "Britpop At The BBC" compilation". The Line of Best Fit.
  44. ↑ "Forget Oasis, this band was Britpop's finest. Who knew?". December 2023.
  45. ↑ "My Teenage Band: Sophie Ellis-Bextor from theaudience". Apple Podcasts.
  46. ↑ Cook, James (28 July 2015). "Cult heroes: S*M*A*S*H and These Animal Men should have changed people's lives". The Guardian– via www.theguardian.com.
  47. ↑ Cohen, Ian (2 August 2019). "The Band That Defined—and Shed—the "Next Radiohead" Label". The Ringer.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.