February 2, 20223 yr The standout on Coming Up. It took years for Coming Up to grow on me. I was heart-broken when I first heard it.
February 3, 20223 yr Just catching up on this list. Adore Beautiful Ones which was the track that first properly introduced me to Suede (it was on the first episode of My Mad Fat Diary :lol:) and the whole Coming Up album is sublime. Also a shoutout to the album track Picnic By The Motorway which I just love and is a bit of a lost gem.
February 3, 20223 yr Beautiful Ones is pop perfection, doesnt sound too much like the old Suede but I didnt mind the move towards a more poppier sound
February 3, 20223 yr Beautiful Ones is a goodie and Shampoo is not Britpop, its bubblegum pop with a stroppy fun attitude. My niece was a fan at the time I think (then-teenager) :)
February 3, 20223 yr Coming Up was the first album I ever bought, it's an album which has stayed with me throughout my whole life and seeing it performed live in full recently was just magical. 'Beautiful Ones' is a true classic, I especially loved its use in Queer as Folk.
February 3, 20223 yr Author 24. The Verve - Lucky Man Release: 1997 Chart Peak: 7 The Verve were formed in Wigan in 1990 and had some moderate success through to the mid-90s but they really hit the big time with the release of the huge album Urban Hymns. Lucky Man was the third single from the album and is the newest song on my countdown, having been released in November 1997. It's a sweeping epic tune that benefitted chart wise by the post Christmas lull and was still charting in the top 20 in January 1998, quite unusual at the time. MH6TJU0qWoY
February 3, 20223 yr Lucky Man is fantastic! Only got to #7 in the charts but was incredibly unlucky to do so really because it sold enough in that very high sales week to have been a #1 in some of the quietest weeks that year.
February 4, 20223 yr Love Lucky Man, though not quite as much as Bittersweet Symphony, top-notch classic. Both topped my charts. :cheer:
February 4, 20223 yr Shampoo and Kenickie were the best 90s girl groups, not Spice Girls. Not sure you can be a girl group with a boy in the band...
February 4, 20223 yr Author 23. Pulp - Babies Release: 1994 (on the Sisters EP) Chart Peak: 19 It's a slight cheat including Babies in this countdown as it was originally released in 1992 and was actually on two Pulp albums (Intro: The Gift Recordings from 1992/3 and His N Hers in 1994), but as it reached its highest chart peak of 19 in 1994 as part of the brilliant Sisters EP it is fair game and deserves its inclusion in this chart. Babies is about a boy that spys on his friends sister from inside a wardrobe. Typical slightly pervy Pulp lyricism - in fact Jarvis himself described the song as 'fairly poppy with an iffy subject matter!'. It was really the turning point for Pulp in terms of their sound as it was their first foray into more accessible Indie Pop. This was my first introduction to Pulp - I remember seeing the video on ITV's The Chart Show and their memorable first TOTP performance where they disparaged Wet Wet Wet for being number 1 forever. I cannot state enough how much I adore Pulp and this is part of the soundtrack to my life. However, I couldn't do a britpop countdown full of Pulp as much as I might want to! 38by00DGid0
February 4, 20223 yr This can only mean Razzamatazz isn't in the countodown :( Babies is brilliant though
February 4, 20223 yr That TOTP was actually the week Wet Wet Wet first went to #1, little did we or Jarvis know it would still be there 14 weeks later!
February 4, 20223 yr Author This can only mean Razzamatazz isn't in the countodown :( Babies is brilliant though Amazing as it is, it’s really too early!
February 4, 20223 yr love Babies! it's really the seed for the Different Class album sound was also the first Pulp song I heard
February 4, 20223 yr Not sure you can be a girl group with a boy in the band... if so, then The Corrs win best girl band of the 90s :D
February 4, 20223 yr Amazing as it is, it’s really too early! I've just realised your criteria starts at '94. I get that as it was when all the big hits started happening but '93 was so exciting and full of defining songs
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