As it’s getting on for 15 years since the start of that dizzying period in British music, it’s time to get the skeletons out of the closet. Which CDs did you buy whilst caught up in the moment that you now rarely, if ever, listen to?

I’ll start:

Come on, someone must have bought the Belly CD…

How were Belly britpop?

Echobelly maybe?

menswear!

Sorry, yes, Echobelly.

Dubstar anyone? Lush?

I think you mean Menswe@r. And yes, I own it…

I bought the first Blur single but sold it quickly (and too cheaply) when I realised they were rubbish – and spent the rest of the 1990s sneering at Britpop and listening to dance music and obscure shoegaze/US indie.

Tssst, You youngsters! Oasis were just on the radio – are they Britpop? I’ve got one of their CDs and still listen to it.

More my era, interesting to see old Mr Plant winning awards recently 😉

Oasis were very definitely Britpop.

Blur and the better shoegaze bands.

Catherine Wheel are great. Adam and Eve is an album of genius.

Off the top of my head i’ve got stuff from…

Ash
Baby Bird
Blur
Echobelly
Elastica
Lush
Oasis
Ocean Colour Scene
Pulp
Republica
Sleeper
Space
Suede
Supergrass

Oasis were very definitely Britpop.

Or very definitely maybe.

I don’t count shoegaze bands as Britpop, I think to be properly Britpop bands have to base their look and sound on acts from the ’60s, ’70s or ’80s.

Eg. Blur – Kinks, Oasis – Beatles, Pulp – Human League, Ocean Colour Scene – Jam/Weller, Elastica – new wave.

It was essentially a retro thing, and along with grunge made guitar music in the 1990s very boring. Things have picked up considerably in the noughties, if you discount all those Libertines/Brit school bands.

Off the top of my head i’ve got stuff from…

Ash
Baby Bird
Blur
Echobelly
Elastica
Lush
Oasis
Ocean Colour Scene
Pulp
Republica
Sleeper
Space
Suede
Supergrass

Same here but with the addition of Menswe@r.

ooh bluetones as well.

and as a practicl Britpop best of:

Actually, I think the Mrs might have taken that one with her…

Ah, the lovely Ms Wener, the w@nk object of the Britpop generation

Just first Oasis album and one Blur single (song 2) – anything else in my collection rode in on the back of compilations given away on the covers of music mags.

Oh my:

Ash and Elastica aren’t exactly britpop are they?

I hated Britpop! Probably because all my friends did nothing but talk about Oasis this, Oasis that, Liam did this blah blah blah.. So I hated it!

I turned to house music and became a superstar DJ! (Oh yea, that was a dream)

I’ve now bought the old CD’s off my friend, as I now like the old stuff!

My first CD would’ve been Oasis, and I would’ve bought it off my mate about 2 years ago, for nothing (nearly). 🙂

Ash and Elastica aren’t exactly britpop are they?

Yes, they really are. Ash may have (somehow) clung on for a bit longer, but they both definatly surfed the Britpop wave.

FWIW, I think the Elastica album is brilliant.

I used to work with the bassist from Ride, he was a glum fella, then he was selling sofas in shabbytat

I was too old for Britpop 😥

My old manager was nearly in Frankie Goes to Hollywood.

Does this count

dirty dirty dirty

Republica – they really were awful. I bet she went like a train mind.

Anyone listen to Ultrasound?

How’s about

I loved this album, am gonna play it tonight in homage….

Can’t get much more Britpop than Elastica.

Bet that bloke from Ride had a chip on his shoulder about Britpop bands stealing their thunder.

Must have been the guitarist from Ride who joined Oasis in the end then?

Ultrasound were great at the time!
Earl Brutus, sort of qualify for being around that time, but there stuff stands the test, unlike Sleeper and Menswear (who were also useless live).

(Ride were more from the shoegazing side of the genre coin)

Sleeper were excellent when I saw them at Sheffield Uni.

all of them

still buying tapes at the time though – so none of them have survived

have a few pulp and blur CDs (and a bluetones one I think)

My mate was working as the editor of our student magazine – so I got free tickets to all the london britpop gigs. enjoyed it at the time but it never felt like anyone was doing anything that was going to change the world

met my wife at a sleeper gig!

I used to like Ultrasound with that fat bloke called Tiny , they were superb

Sleeper were excellent when I saw them at Sheffield Uni.

I meant Menswear were crap, never saw Sleeper.

I have 3 Bluetones albums. god they sound rubbish now.

Fair enough. I can believe it about Menswe@r.

I still really like Expecting to Fly, Bluetonic is an excellent song.

Can’t get much more Britpop than Elastica.

I always thought that Blur were the archetypal britpop band.

Disclaimer: I have albums by both bands.

Britpop came a bit late for me, I was more into The Wonderstuff and PWEI etc.

I always thought that Blur were the archetypal britpop band.

Maybe, but weren’t him out of Blur and her out of Elastica having it off anyway?

Members of both bands could probably be found down the Good Mixer in Camden most nights for a couple of years. nb. The Good Mixer was the Hawley Arms of it’s generation (what is it with poseur indie musicians and grotty north London boozers?).