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The return of Britpop for a number of reasons. Firstly I got a lift down to London at the weekend and the car only had a tape player, which means that you're cast back to the years when the driver still bought/made tapes. That made this particular car Britpop on wheels. We settled on a lovingly pause-buttoned compilation of tracks from about ten years ago.
I thought little of it at the time. I was more concerned about the wedding we were going to be seven hours late for. But today, somehow, the chorus of Sleeper's Sale of the Century has affixed itself to my head and is making me want to cry. I'm shot through with nostalgia that isn't even real; I wasn't into Britpop, though I liked a few of the bands and owned that Union Jack issue of Select. Something about the indie innocence of the song, its intention to capture nothing more than student yearning for student, has me hooked.
My household only recently got a car and we've found that compilations provide a better soundtrack for driving than albums. One of our favourites, The Sound of the Suburbs, has been resurrected. And the music of that particular period, post-punk pop, the juxtaposition of one-hit wonders and bands which are now described as seminal, seems to have much in common with the Britpop era.
So. To get finally to the point. I'm going to have to assemble a Britpop compilation for the car. What should be on it? What are the classics, major and minor, of the period and which bands were merely concurrent? Suggestions please. |
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