xp no doubt because Anthony Reynolds was as much a Scott Walkerphile as Jarvis Cocker.
― henry s, Monday, 15 April 2024 02:46 (one month ago) link
So much so that he wrote a book:https://www.amazon.com/Impossible-Dream-story-Walker-Brothers/dp/1906002258
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 15 April 2024 04:15 (one month ago) link
Yeah I'm not at all surprised that Reynolds is a Walker fan - I was really commenting on the similarity between Jack and (late era) Pulp underscoring the arbitrariness/rubbery nature of what counts or does not count as "britpop"
― Tim F, Monday, 15 April 2024 05:00 (one month ago) link
Genuinely wish Loz Hardy would do a memoir, seems very unlikely though
― PaulTMA, Monday, 15 April 2024 11:07 (one month ago) link
Vaguely germane to this thread: William Potter from Cud wrote the BritPop comic GEEZER, drawn by the mighty Philip Bond, and it is quite good! https://www.offregister.press/geezer
― Maggy Scraggle, Monday, 15 April 2024 11:13 (one month ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2024/apr/15/babybird-youre-gorgeous-bikinis-thong
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 15 April 2024 21:28 (one month ago) link
Guy from Babybird is a nasty right winger but here he is with his experimental feminist song
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 15 April 2024 21:30 (one month ago) link
worst big song of the britpop era along with good enough by Dodgy.
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Monday, 15 April 2024 21:37 (one month ago) link
Just reading this interview:
https://thequietus.com/interviews/dave-pearce-flying-saucer-attack-interview/
"In retrospect, of course that was the first attempted Britpop manoeuvre by the system."
The notion of Britpop as music made up by the state.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 20 May 2024 10:29 (one week ago) link
shed seven? mi5 morelike
― katy perry (prison service) (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 20 May 2024 10:43 (one week ago) link
Makes sense tbh
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 20 May 2024 11:02 (one week ago) link
Someone I don't know on Facebook tried to convince me Babybird was "as far away from Britpop as it gets", then posted a song that was kind of an indie ballad with slightly creepy lyrics to prove his point
― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Monday, 20 May 2024 22:47 (one week ago) link
Also if you look up Babybird on Facebook, as I just did because I was trying to find the aforementioned conversation, it's just post after post of Babybirdbloke bitterly complaining about how no one cares about his music anymore despite his prolific, unfailing genius
― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Monday, 20 May 2024 22:52 (one week ago) link
he put razor blades in the ice creamsha la la lasha la la la la la la
― Deflatormouse, Tuesday, 21 May 2024 04:34 (one week ago) link
didn't he eagerly defend roisin last year? i get they've probably been chums since her sheffield days but i haven't really wanted to listen to him since
i suppose this isn't the place is it
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Tuesday, 21 May 2024 12:55 (one week ago) link
He was also posting/retweeting a lot of Islamophobic stuff recently but in the past few days he seems to have deactivated his twitter account.
― bored by endless ecstasy (anagram), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 13:02 (one week ago) link
He was an interesting-ish artist making weird lo-fi records that sometimes got played on mark & lard in 95/96, then he had The Hit and put out a few more to try to chase it (I think Good Night is probably his best pop single but these things do not work logically) then for the next quarter of a century he's been unsuccessfully trying to chase this idea of being a pop star which he is obviously not cut out for and has driven him into this hole. not feeling that sorry for him but ultimately this is a variety of brainworms.
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 13:36 (one week ago) link
I went to see Babybird in 1995 because a friend wanted to check them out, I had no idea who they were. didn't like it much tbh. weird support bands, there was a metal band then a kind of jokey Half Man Half Biscuit/Sultans of Ping type band, think I liked them best
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 21 May 2024 14:11 (one week ago) link
As an American they seemed… really really British, like real hardcore Britpop for British people
― brimstead, Tuesday, 21 May 2024 14:14 (one week ago) link
I remember Mark Radcliffe being disappointed in him for working with The Lightning Seeds, which from the perspective of 2024 is simply a bizarre opinion to have.
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 14:51 (one week ago) link
he put razor blades in the ice creamsha la la lasha la la la la la la― Deflatormouse, Tuesday, May 21, 2024 5:34 AM (ten hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Deflatormouse, Tuesday, May 21, 2024 5:34 AM (ten hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
that was literally the song
― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 14:55 (one week ago) link