An Ignorant Guide to Britpop

Radiohead is amazing

7:33 other way around yo 🥀

largely pretty accurate⚡

My thoughts -

0:47 is this meant to be a pun on (France/Franz) Kafka?

5:12 Richey Edwards, the lead singer of Welsh Britpop band Manic Street Preachers, once said "We will always hate Slowdive more than Hitler"


7:14 I believe the 'Oasis Quo' nickname was also a reference to the 70s rock band Status Quo, who Oasis sounded a lot like

8:07 Goodness me that's a lot of bucket hats

Wdym unfortunately radiohead 😭

Never EVER put france infront of britain again 😭🙏

I couldn't bear most of it, I preferring the likes of PJ Harvey. One could argue that " britpop" was unfortunately kicked off by XTC ( as the Dukes of the Stratosphear ) but they did it far far better.

Oasis wrote rocking tunes

Blur wrote chimney sweep art school oompha dittys

I'm just imagining this genre started because a stereotypical bri'ish gent with a bowler hat, monocle and cane looked at Nirvana and said, "Oi! Whoot's ool 'is rubbish?"

My dad’s favourite genre

surprised you didnt include damon albarn saying that if kurt cobain had played football he wouldve lived longer

BritPop was honestly murdered by “the battle of BritPop”, the genre was too new to survive the forced schism made by the press. It’s a shame as a genre that was unapologetically local had a place

Damn someone hates Oasis 😂

Love how fragile he is for the 90s Britpop....screams Radiohead fan

Dear Coolea, i am not british, i do not listen to britpop, i didn't even know about its existence until this label. i usually listen to grindcore and black metal.
and even then i'm slightly miffed that you called Different Class annoying. that album fucks so fucking hard

i think we can all agree, suede+pulp are the superior of the 4 bands. blur and oasis are as shit as each other

And all this was going on while most Brits ignored the coolest stuff coming from their country at the time. Jamiroquai, Portishead, Primal Scream, Asian Dub Foundation, the jungle and big beat scenes. Sure, Prodigy was popular, but for the most part mainstream only cared for the boring stuff.
(btw i do love Blur though) 😉

Yeah, but the difference between the Beatles and Oasis is that the Beatles were actually good. Oasis were a really boring band that didn't really invent anything. They just had these lifeless life-energy-sucking vocals over distorted power chords that were followed by bass note per note, while Beatles had really interesting musical arrangements, amazing vocals.... there's really nocomparison between the two in my opinion. I really did not like Brit pop of the 90s. I did however enjoy the early 80s british synth pop. I kind of grew up with it :3

i loved when you called Sleeper "Sleepy"

I actually would love to hear you rip into Cold Play.

Poser

Not true Blur Country House sold 274 000 copies,Oasis Roll With It sold 216 000,But Oasis won the "War" because they are much more popular and sell more records than Blur,Noel said that both songs are sh1t.

suede, the verve, manics they are the best bands that came out of 89-92 england. and they are not britpop. suede might've started it but they moved on quickly from it. keep these bands out of blur and oasis rivalry.

also americans bleed amiricanism. it disgusting. but brits mocked for being brits?

Love britpop, greetings from Brazil!

me and liam are the same

You gotta appreciate at least the media was selling musicians that were being themselves, instead of so many musicians that are made for sales from the start today.

Coke sesh with alex james from blur and david cameron in jeremy c*arkson's shed yay

Britpop lead to Gorillaz. That's what matters in the end

Ok but in fairness, the universal from blur is a genuine masterpiece and I will not allow its slander

Just Indie music gone mainstream. The Roses where never Britpop. This intentionally provocative brain rot is just annoying misinformation . Not even a shred of humour to redeem it

my man, LAY IT ON ME, talk about Coldplay

Bro what music DO you like

Did u make the backing track to this vid

I swear blur outsold oasis though

Blur won that battle

Pulp 🔛🔝

Bro is not a fan of Oasis

Do an ignorant guide to screamo aka post hard core dude your breaking my balls

Do you have to do these dumb graphics to literally A L L Ourr Cultures

Really good video, would be interesting on your take on the Libertines

Blur won the battle of britpop, country house was the better selling single

But… Jarvis hated that term, I think he mentioned it in some interview. It’s actually crazy, because Pulp has been a band for many years and it’s so sad that they are coined to something that don’t truly represents them. I love Pulp and I might be buyist but still… I mean this goes as well for Suede, such a great band and I don’t know…

So I see what you are doing here.. however some corrections

1) it’s Sleeper and not Sleepy
2) Blur won the battle with Country House going to number one. I think however the resulting albums did the reverse
3) I think you’ve missed some cultural context. Britpop was of course tied up with the ‘Cool Britannia’ scene, which wasn’t just about music (and you rightly say the Spice Girls picked it up and ran with it), but it was wrapped up in the country just feeling good about itself for the first time in decades - think the genuine joy in the country around Euro 96, the Labour Govt ending decades of Conservative rule with their ‘Things Can Only Get Better’ moment. Was it marketed up the wazoo? Definitely. But Blur, Suede, Oasis, and Pulp resonate and still create music to this day (and Pulp existed a long time before this movement). I’d also suggest it wasn’t so much a reaction against Shoegaze, but a continuation of ‘Madchester’ with big record labels trying to recreate The Happy Mondays and The Stone Roses

Blur won that chart battle with Oasis btw