And the best Britpop song is....

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 4/11/14 at 11:16pm

Well. "Common People", of course!

[Scripps2]

Posted: 4/12/14 at 2:10am

I heard a discussion about this on another BBC radio station, which concluded that Britpop went unnoticed by the wider world.

They obviously didn't read the OT board.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 4/12/14 at 2:24pm

I like Champagne Supernover In The Sky

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 4/12/14 at 9:08pm

"I heard a discussion about this on another BBC radio station, which concluded that Britpop went unnoticed by the wider world. "

Really?? They must have not counted Canada--Blur, Pulp, Oasis were everywhere when I was a teen.

[strummergirl]

Posted: 4/12/14 at 11:34pm

Feels a little passive aggressive to put not one but two Oasis songs above Blur. Or, I am just reading too much into it.

Blur and Oasis are very much associated with the 90s alt scene and, at the very least, are retrospectively considered the embers of pop music for the period.

[jnb9872]

Posted: 4/13/14 at 12:27am

I feel like, as far as arbitrary music rankings go, this paradigm seems to be fairly well established: the Britpop genre is defined by either Oasis or Blur (or both in tandem/opposition) but the single track that stands above them all is "Common People". This feels like fairly settled common wisdom, somehow.

[tazber]

Posted: 4/13/14 at 6:32am

No Country House?

[HorseTears]

Posted: 4/13/14 at 12:04pm

When it comes to the never-ending Oasis vs. BLUHHH debate, I'm firmly in camp BLUUHHH. As for the "best" Britpop song. My God, I don't know how anyone could pick that. I think that jnb might be right about "Common People" being the most iconic Britpop ditty, though. But where would they all be without The Stone Roses' debut album?

Updated On: 4/13/14 at 12:04 PM

[tazber]

Posted: 4/13/14 at 12:10pm

Holy crap! You're right! Where are The Stone Roses?

Isn't their first (and classic) album considered one of the most important record on that decade?

[HorseTears]

Posted: 4/13/14 at 12:40pm

It certainly is. I also like quite a lot of Ian Brown's solo work from the 90s/2000s, though none of it made the same cultural impact that his work with the Roses did.