r/BritPop

I'm starting to get into British culture and want to listen to some British bands—specifically all-male ones—to get a feel for it. Can anyone give me some recommendations?

This may be old news but just got a link to this from the official Oasis email….

just came back from their 15 years tourist history anniversary show in london, and listening to the tourist history again. was super surprised to learn guys are only 36, which means they recorded tourist history at the age of 20. i know it’s considered to be not an insane album, but still is sounds great.

the riffs are insanely catchy and production is terrific. capo is also heavily used, which seems to me like a device used by a more mature musician. i am not sure a teenager is capable of making such a layered music. also, there was not much after beacon and it seems like guys are happy just performing it purist history for 15 years which seems like a money generating machine.

am i wrong? would appreciate if you could share sources or something about them producing writing and so on. i don’t really care was just wondering if anyone thinks the same. thankssss

In 2000, I visited my aunt Guildford and saw a band on MTV that I really liked. In the music video, I specifically remember the band entering an object by climbing chrome/metallic stairs that lowered down from above them.

I want to say it was a huge dinosaur statue or maybe a UFO? The details are a little fuzzy. Also I think the singer wore a bright green t-shirt.

The chorus had a line that was something like “I get my (blank) from a lemon” ? Maybe I’m misremembering that.

I realize this isn’t much to go on, but If anyone can help me remember this band, I would be so excited!

Edit: I live in the US. I visited my aunt in Guildford for the Holidays in 2000. This song wasn’t in rotation at all in the US.

Every britpop band - well, virtually all of them (it seems) - have had new albums out in the last few years. And they've all been great! Or at the very least respectable (just lately the new Embrace one is far better than I was expecting). But nothing at all from those talismanic Mancunians? All the positivity and outpouring of love at last year's gigs couldn't inspire them to try and create something new? Was that whole reunion really just all about the money for them?

About 6 months ago, I was watching a Radiohead interview where they name dropped a local Oxford band called “The Candyskins”
I checked them out and they have became one of my favorite bands ever since. Unfortunately, no one I talked to them about had ever heard of them before and I wanted to see what the consensus was. Some favorite tracks are “Loser Friendly”, “Help Me” and “Feed It”