Aside from all being really awkward to talk to out at a show, my colleagues and I at the Boston Phoenix have one other big thing in common -- we're all huge Brit Pop nerds. So for no other reason than that, we cooked up an entire Brit Pop issue this week. Check out our list of the Top 100 Britpop Anthems of the '90s with all the videos, nearly all of which are really weird looking in retrospect.
BOSTON PHOENIX'S BRITPOP ISSUE:
- The Top 100 Britpop Anthems of the '90s
- Britpop timeline
From Suede crashing the party to a 2000 wake-up call - An '80s Britpop pre-history
Early echoes - Don't look back in anger
Checking in with 14 former stars of Britpop to see if modern life is truly rubbish in 2011 - Beady Eye's Liam Gallagher talks new music, the Oasis breakup, and 'shithole' Glastonbury
- Britify: The @BostonPhoenix's new Britpop greatest-hits playlist on Spotify
Here's my pick for number two:
2. Oasis | Live Forever
"Live Forever" by Oasis from the album Definitely, Maybe (1994)
It wasn't the first hit of the Britpop era, but this was just the type of world-beating anthem the genre needed to burst onto global shores. "Common People" may be the more quintessentially anglophilic choice for the top spot, but this is the song the real common people fell in and out of love - and in and out of pubs - to. The song is equally adept as a romance, a rousing piss-up sing-song, or just a collectively shouted boot in the arse of the workaday world. We may know we're not actually going to live forever, Oasis couldn't even make it 20 years, but sometimes, if only for 4:38, we can pretend that definitely, maybe, we might.
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5 comments:
Hey, broski. I have a funny feeling you put Menswear on the list too. Eh? Eh? You mook.
Haha, I think I know what you mean. That was more Michael Marotta's bag i think, IF YOU KNOW WHAT I ALSO MEAN.
Playing the top 100 and presenting them on www.wfnx.com right now if anyone wants to tune into the stream.
Big fan of Britpop checkin' in......university days were full of The Charlatans, Blur, Ride, Happy Mondays, Pulp, Oasis, etc.
That was a fun time in music, glad to see it getting some proper retro love.
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