I have been listening to some 90's Britpop albums recently for the first time
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Date: September 29th, 2023 5:44 PM Author: spectacular hateful kitchen
i've heard individual songs from most of them, but not the album tracks. some impressions so far:
-blur's 'parklife' holds up well and has a good range of styles and sounds. it's more like a pastiche of things happening around the UK of 1994 than a single cohesive 'message,' which works well in retrospect. there are also some 80's pop influences that aren't mentioned often, like the The Cars-style instrumentation on 'Trouble in the Message Centre.'
-the verve's 'urban hymns' has some standout tracks like 'sonnet,' but at almost 70 minutes (75 minus the silence before the hidden track at the end), it starts dragging after a while, and kind of sounds repetitive from track to track.
-supergrass's 'i should coco' is short and tight and quite a remarkable achievement for a band as young as they were back then. very catchy songs. they took a pop-punk approach and gave it a layer of beatles-influenced melodies, more or less.
-pulp's 'different class' was a big disappointment. the songs are mostly kind of dreary, and the vocalist comes off as a whinier elvis costello. for an album about working-class englanders, it's also very pretentious. and kind of tuneless. i assume a lot of the praise it received at the time of its release was driven more by ideology than by actual musical quality.
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Date: September 29th, 2023 6:30 PM Author: spectacular hateful kitchen
also, even though it's not really 'britpop,' i listened to portishead's 'dummy.' generally, i don't think most 'trip-hop' has aged that well. it's more like background/mood-music than a standalone musical product (ie, it would probably work better played over a film sequence than on its own). that's generally true here. the songs end up blending together, and there isn't much in the way of memorable melodies or tunes.
the most interesting track is probably 'biscuit,' which is an early example of the 'chopped and screwed' genre. they take the johnnie ray song 'I'll Never Fall in Love Again,' slow it down, and remix it. that's kind of novel for its time, and it sounds like early-2010's vaporwave. but then again, who still listens to chopped & screwed or vaporwave in 2023? it's all a bit transient.
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Date: September 29th, 2023 6:34 PM Author: Cream quadroon corner
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