Travis? Travis? Are you lot serious?
Aren’t they the ones who brought us such masterful lyrics as “Sing, sing, sing, sing, sing, sing, sing, sing, sing…etc”
and “Turn, turn, turn, turn, turn, turn, turn, turn, turn”
and “Why does it always rain on me?
Is it because I lied when I was seventeen?”
Huh???
I sometimes think I could write better lyrics than Travis.
So, maybe you could. For me, it’s not about the complexity of the lyrics, but how they are intertwined in the songs.
Putting a band down because of some lyrics isn’t a very smart thing to do.
"Ob-la-di, ob-la-da
Life goes on, bra
La la how the life goes on "
For you it’s not about the complexity of the lyrics.
For me it can be.
It’s not very smart to call someone not very smart for having different criteria on which they judge music…
Easyworld are improving on all the best of Britpop all the time, now.
I thought there was more to being a Britpop band that being British and playing pop. I would never have called the Stone Roses or the Charlatans Britpop… Pulp, Blur, Travis… yes. Am I just horribly misled?
-fh
Eh, why buy a Strokes CD when the same cash will buy a Sparklehorse disc?
Yes and no. There never was a definition of Britpop any more accurate than “British guitar indie”. I mean, Blur, Oasis and Pulp were always lumped in together despite playing different types of music (well, to my mind anyway). But then you’d see (say) Saint Etienne included in the list, who were basically a laid-back pop/dance group and musically not really comparable at all.
There’ve been attempts at a mini-revival that haven’t quite caught on – two decent (if obvious) compilations I’d recommend are Alternative 90s (bit heavy on non-Britpop though, even if it does have Sultans of Ping and World of Twist!) and Weekender (although criminally lacking “Weekender” by Flowered Up):
Cor blimey. The track listing of the Alternative 90s compilation makes me feel like I’m back at school.
I was quite a fan of what was termed “shoegazing” - Ride, My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive etc.
And like everyone else at the time, I thought that Toni Halliday out of Curve was the sexiest woman alive.
She was. Her and Louise Wener together…