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Driving rock, overtly sexual songs (“Vaseline,” “Car Song”) and a neo-new-wave sensibility made them unstoppable.

With great knowledge of the punk that came before them ( Adam And The Ants, the Clash, the Stranglers, Wire), the three-woman/one-dude brigade routinely killed it. If any Britpop band could have a trademark on the term “cool AF” in 1995, it was clearly Elastica. It’s a bouncy track, and you can certainly see why most American radio programmers thought the band were “too English.” This is why frontman Damon Albarn would later write this song in a glorious act best described as “Fuck you America, pay me.” Elastica – “Connection” The title track sets up the archetype of bored British youth avoiding bourgeois pursuits and doubling down on lad culture. Based on sales figures at the time, it was posited that one in every 33 homes in Great Britain owned a copy of Blur’s 1994 career-defining album, Parklife. Come to think of it, all of these songs do.ĭecades ago, this writer was presented with a statistic that was quite plausible and perfect. There’s a better Oasis song that symbolizes the Britpop ethos far more effectively. It would be very easy to end this intro with “And now, here’s ‘Wonderwall.’” But that track’s not on here. Others couldn’t make a decent question on the Jeopardy ! board. A few of them made inroads in the States. What follows are some bands responsible for propelling the movement. Read more: 10 bands from the ’90s you probably didn’t know were still making music Which is better explored by people who were there on the frontlines the whole time. There’s also a complex political argument about how this era of sonic nationalism may have affected British politics. But the attitudes permeating their music felt universal. Theoretically, none of the bands sounded exactly the same. Working-class stiffs, prisoners of the middle class and louts on the dole who participated all had equal potential. Many fans and critics considered it a pushback in the face of American-made grunge and the success of Nirvana. Taking elements from British rock history ( the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, glam rock, the Jam, early punk), bands were stressing their cultural identities. Britpop as a movement was a youth culture that was forging its own identity with one foot in the past and the other in the future.