Britpop Battle

[Arctic Firefox]

Anyone who was a teenager in the mid-90s may remember that Britpop was the biggest musical "innovation" - the chart battles between Oasis and Blur in particular, were prime examples of this little phenomenon. I remember a lot of people taking sides at school - Blur or Oasis. I was originally on the Blur side, until I discovered the lyrical brilliance of Pulp, who were always the dark horse in the British pop scene. ;D

Where did you stand? (And for those who weren't aware of the situation, where would you have stood?)

[Min]

I think my heart was taken by Oasis, even though they are wankers
The only reason being that Wonderwall - as much as we're all still sick to death of it now - was the first song I ever learned on guitar.

One of my best friends loved Pulp, though.
I don't mind them now either...wasn't the lead singer of Pulp also the lead singer of the Weird Sisters in the HP4 movie? ;D

[Fuil Dearg]

oasis, but i never heard much of either. the was a lot of that 'blur or oasis?' going on in my school. i never heard of pulp.

[Arctic Firefox]

Yes indeed! Jarvis C0cker played a cameo in HP4

I've always summarised the lyrical differences as follows:

Oasis: run-of-the-mill songs about love and other pop cliches
Blur: often humorous and distorted portraits and of London life with a hint of politics
Pulp: gritty, shocking and distrubing tales of the misery of life as a working class person living in the North of England

Fuil glas, you probably have heard at least two Pulp songs: "Common People" and "Disco 2000"; they both came from the album Different Class and were big hits in 1996. "Common People" is the ultimate song about those with no bright future ahead of them, and "Disco 2000" is a more frivolous song about growing up. The more disturbing Pulp songs never got much airplay (but then, they were so loaded with sexual references it wasn't surprising).

[Dark One]

i can't really choose. I like songs from all of them, but i don't have a particular favourite.

[Arien]

So THAT'S which band the HP4 Weird Sisters lead singer's from

I don't think I've ever heard any of Pulp's songs! I wasn't a teen in the 90s though...
I have heard Blur and Oasis however Umm..I like songs from both, but I don't like the guys from Oasis So I guess I'll go for Blur! Even the competition up a bit more anyway

[Deleted]

Yeah, my teen years were mostly during the noughties, so the whole Brit-pop war thing never really affected me. I do like that story about Noel Gallagher being asked which of the two bands, Oasis and Blur, were The Beatles and which were The Stones. To which he answered: "We're both of them, Blur are The Monkeys." Bwahaha! So pouty and twatish, I love it. But I think I'm going to vote for Blur because I know more of their songs, and their major hit Song 2 was big enough to actually permeate the dominant teeny-boppy music so popular at my primary school. It was all Spice Girls and Savage Garden until Song 2 came along.

Also, need to hear more of Pulp's stuff. They have some awesome video clips though. Their stuff is usually a Rage highlight.

[Min]

Arien, you would have heard "Common People" for sure...even if it was last year's William Shatner overhaul of it *shudders*

[Arctic Firefox]

Yeah, that song isn't quite believeable when Shatner sings it. Pulp are such a British band ... and what the heck would William Shatner know about poverty and chip stains and grease not coming out in the bath?

[grunty]

I still roll with The Beatles

[Arien]

I don't recognise the name, but I'd probably know it if I heard it...I'll try find it and listen