Tekel Towers » Tek Towers Best Britpop Song Cup

Tek · 18/8/2015 9:15 pm

4 numbers fae 1 to 40 please.

BennyBoy · 18/8/2015 9:21 pm

Tek wrote:
4 numbers fae 1 to 40 please.

Evening, Tekno.

28, 29, 31 and 39 please.

Tek · 18/8/2015 9:53 pm

Christopher i thank you Sir.

The 6th Match of Round 1 saw a comfortable victory registered for 'Love Spreads' the No.2 chart hit from 1995 for THE STONE ROSES.It will now progress through to the 2nd Round as a top seed as a consequence and joining it there (albeit unseeded) will be 'Girl From Mars' by Northern Ireland's ASH which finished as runner-up.Eliminated from the tournament are 'The Circle' by Ocean Colour Scene and 'Waking Up' by Elastica.

Round 1/Game 7 -

Cast - Walkaway

Released - 24th March 1996
Chart Position - 9 (UK)

V's

Blur - Charmless Man

Released - 29th April 1996
Chart Position - 5 (UK)

V's

Supergrass - Mansize Rooster

Released - 6th February 1995
Chart Position - 20 (UK)

V's

Suede - Beautiful One's

Released - 14th October 1996
Chart Position - 8 (UK)

VOTING CLOSES TOMORROW (Wednesday 19th August) AT 9PM
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Songs Eliminated from Round 1 -

1.The Bluetones - Slight Return
2.The Manic Street Preachers - Everything Must Go
3.The Seahorses - Love Is The Law
4.Paul Weller - The Changingman
5.Gene - Haunted By You
6.Whiteout - Detroit
7.Blur - The Universal
8.Super Furry Animals - Demons
9.The Manic Street Preachers - A Design For Life
10.Supergrass - Alright
11.Ocean Colour Scene - The Circle
12.Elastica - Waking Up
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Songs Through Round 1 -

1.PULP - Something Changed (S)
2.Supergrass - Caught By The Fuzz
3.Teenage Fanclub - About You (S)
4.Shed Seven - On Stand By
5.Suede - Animal Nitrate (S)
6.PULP - Underwear
7.Oasis - Supersonic (S)
8.The Charlatans - How High
9.Ocean Colour Scene - The Day We Caught The Train (S)
10.Black Grape - Reverend Black Grape
11.The Stone Roses - Love Spreads (S)
12.Ash - Girl From Mars

huntedbyafreak · 18/8/2015 10:05 pm

Suede.

Cast were awful. That Blur song is poor. Wasn't ever much of a Supergrass fan but it's an ok song

Tek · 18/8/2015 10:44 pm

huntedbyafreak wrote:
Suede.

Cast were awful. That Blur song is poor. Wasn't ever much of a Supergrass fan but it's an ok song

Always enjoy your feedback.

Tek · 18/8/2015 10:46 pm

Supergrass - Mansize Rooster

For want of a better word it's a 'fun' song.Reminds me of being 15 and being excited about the way the music scene was changing.

Glasgow is tangerine · 18/8/2015 11:12 pm

cast -walkaway

Andy · 19/8/2015 5:08 am

Like all of these again, but will go for Beautiful ones, could be a different choice at any given time tbh.

Going to see Cast in October, hope they're still awful Hunted.

lifesanocean · 19/8/2015 5:50 am

Suede

Sieb22 · 19/8/2015 6:35 am

Walkaway

Sarto Mutiny · 19/8/2015 8:00 am

huntedbyafreak wrote:
Suede.

Cast were awful. That Blur song is poor. Wasn't ever much of a Supergrass fan but it's an ok song

I concur. Even post-Butler Suede is better than the others.

Foo Kin Twat · 19/8/2015 8:05 am

Glasgow is tangerine wrote:
cast -walkaway

FAF I got it GiT, but canna see Enter Sandman (Street) getting binned quite yet!

Suede for me tae!

Rocky Raccoon · 19/8/2015 1:36 pm

Suede for me here.

The Great Escape as a major fuck up by Blur, tried another novelty album but fell flat on their pus and Oasis marched on.

Always preferred Cast live to on record, not a fan of Powers voice.

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huntedbyafreak · 19/8/2015 4:59 pm

Tek wrote:
huntedbyafreak wrote:
Suede.

Cast were awful. That Blur song is poor. Wasn't ever much of a Supergrass fan but it's an ok song
Always enjoy your feedback.

Tbh I actually think the Britpop era was one of the most overhyped period in British music. For every great band there were countless other bands who were pretty average if not downright shite.

It's the same with every era though I suppose you could argue. I've been voting along the lines of ones that I would listen to now though. So it's the more cynical and bitter me voting rather than the still cynical but slightly optimist 19/20 year old me.

Saying that, Cast were always fucking shite. Scouse bastards

Tek · 19/8/2015 5:00 pm

Score Update -

Suede - 6
Cast - 2
Supergrass - 1
Blur - 0

Tek · 19/8/2015 5:05 pm

huntedbyafreak wrote:
Tek wrote:
huntedbyafreak wrote:
Suede.

Cast were awful. That Blur song is poor. Wasn't ever much of a Supergrass fan but it's an ok song
Always enjoy your feedback.

Tbh I actually think the Britpop era was one of the most overhyped period in British music. For every great band there were countless other bands who were pretty average if not downright shite.

It's the same with every era though I suppose you could argue. I've been voting along the lines of ones that I would listen to now though. So it's the more cynical and bitter me voting rather than the still cynical but slightly optimist 19/20 year old me.

Saying that, Cast were always fucking shite. Scouse bastards

Fair enough.

I still see the 'Britpop' period as (again for want of a better word) a 'fun' period of music where i didn't over-analyse the music too much.It was also 'inspirational' to me in the respect that it made me want to pick-up a guitar,grow my hair,wear cool clothes,and look out for bands from the past that were the inspiration behind the 90's bands.

It was a great time to be young.Maybe i'm over romanticising it a tad but i just cannae allow myself to be cynical about it.All those 'Britpop' bands blow away anything we have in today's charts...even the 'shite' bands like Cast.

lifesanocean · 19/8/2015 7:17 pm

Tek wrote:
huntedbyafreak wrote:
Tek wrote:
Always enjoy your feedback.

Tbh I actually think the Britpop era was one of the most overhyped period in British music. For every great band there were countless other bands who were pretty average if not downright shite.

It's the same with every era though I suppose you could argue. I've been voting along the lines of ones that I would listen to now though. So it's the more cynical and bitter me voting rather than the still cynical but slightly optimist 19/20 year old me.

Saying that, Cast were always fucking shite. Scouse bastards
Fair enough.

I still see the 'Britpop' period as (again for want of a better word) a 'fun' period of music where i didn't over-analyse the music too much.It was also 'inspirational' to me in the respect that it made me want to pick-up a guitar,grow my hair,wear cool clothes,and look out for bands from the past that were the inspiration behind the 90's bands.

It was a great time to be young.Maybe i'm over romanticising it a tad but i just cannae allow myself to be cynical about it.All those 'Britpop' bands blow away anything we have in today's charts...even the 'shite' bands like Cast.

A lot of revisionism going on in this comp. People trying to appear affy hip in saying they never listened to certain bands/songs. I liked most things back then. The only bands I couldn't stand were OCS, Stereophonics (excluding Local Boy in the Photograph which is a good song) and pish like Menswear. Funnily enough, I can actually listen to OCS now in small doses but I remember saying at the time that it was 'old man rock' which probably proves I was right since I'm an old cunt now. Cast had one semi decent song in 'Fine Time' the rest was rotten though. A Primark Oasis.

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Rocky Raccoon · 19/8/2015 7:24 pm

95-97 is what was IMO the britpop era, starting off with county house V Roll with it and ending with Tony Blair gaining entry to Downing street, even the shite bands had some good tunes (except Menswear)

It was truly a great time to be in your mid to late teens or early twenties.

lifesanocean · 19/8/2015 7:33 pm

Started with Parklife in 94 for me and watching The Charlatans play Crashin' In on the Word. Ended for me when the Verve played Haigh Hall in 1998.

https://youtu.be/wc0OlIf4pt8

Tek · 19/8/2015 7:50 pm

I've went for 93-97.

Could be argued that it even started in 92 cos Blur, Pulp and Suede all had reasonably well selling singles/albums out those years.

But for me things kicked into gear 93 and went into overdrive in '94.

Just imo.

PatReilly · 19/8/2015 7:53 pm

Quite like Blur, but that song is poor. The Cast song isn't the worst, but I'll go for Suede and Beautiful Ones.

Trap_6 · 19/8/2015 8:03 pm

Definitely Mansize Rooster.

First single they released I think? Still gets played LOUD on occasion.

Cast were largely crap. Anyone remember a song called Desert Drought they released? That was pretty good. Remember tipping it to be a hit. Never made the Top 40.

Thought Blur's Britpop-era output was pretty poor. Charmless Man the low point.

Suede have simply never registered with me in any way, shape or form.

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lifesanocean · 19/8/2015 8:09 pm

Tek wrote:
I've went for 93-97.

Could be argued that it even started in 92 cos Blur, Pulp and Suede all had reasonably well selling singles/albums out those years.

But for me things kicked into gear 93 and went into overdrive in '94.

Just imo.

No I agree with you. I was meaning the years when I was into it. I was 15 when I bought Parklife and Life Forever in 1994. Agree the stirrings started in 1992 with Popscene and kicked off proper in 1993 with Suedes 1st album. 1997 was the year it it ended as a music genre that made a real impact on the charts.

Tek · 19/8/2015 8:14 pm

Full Time -

Suede - 7
Cast - 2
Supergrass - 2
Blur - 0

*Cast go through as runner-up as they were ahead of Supergrass at the close of play*

Trap_6 · 19/8/2015 8:14 pm

Aye, I'd say I first became aware of something new happening in music when Oasis came on the scene (late 93?). I can still remember getting a lift to school from my mate's dad and 'Girls and Boys' came on Radio 1. First time I'd heard it. For some reason, I always pinpoint that as being the moment the scene truly 'arrived' in the mainstream.

I think of Urban Hymns as being the end of it. I loved that album. It just felt different to what had been going before.