7. Suede - Trash

 

 

Release: 1996 Chart Peak: 3

 

Trash was the first single released from Suede's third album, Coming Up and the first full single without the songwriting of Bernard Butler. Although this is Suede's joint highness charting single with Stay Together, this is by far their biggest selling single.

 

According to Brett Anderson the song is about: "the band Suede. It's a celebration of the band, but by extension, it's a celebration of the fans as well. And it was a kind of a song written about us, as a gang, it was written about the values we stood for. And even though it sounds like a love song, it was actually about the idea of the identity of the band, and what they stood for."

 

This was released one hot August Monday when I was on holiday in Cornwall with my parents and after buying the CD single in Our Price Penzance (almost exactly a year after doing the same with Blur's Country House) I played it to death on my portable CD player!

 

 

Suedey will be Trash happy! :yahoo:

Love Trash 😅 the first 3 Suede eras were all quite different but love them all

I was heartbroken when I heard Trash and its b-sides. Utterly disappointed. I like it now and I like Coming Up it took years for me to accept Coming Up on its own terms. Nothing was ever going to live up to Dog Man Star - especially with Bernard gone.

Edited February 28, 20223 yr by Colm

Coming Up was the first album I ever bought and it's sorta stayed with me through my whole life, seeing it performed live in its entirety recently was so wonderful (they also threw in lots of other material spanning every era after the set!)

 

'Trash' is such a classic, but that whole album and its 5 singles are truly iconic.

 

*edit - I say every era, but obviously nothing from A New Morning.

Edited March 1, 20223 yr by Bustin Jieber

I love Trash and indeed the whole Coming Up album, it probably got more playtime in the 90s for me than any of their others. They suited sleazy pop

6. Oasis - Wonderwall

 

 

Release: 1995 Chart Peak: 2

 

Wonderwall is probably one of THE songs of the 90s and arguably Oasis's biggest and most well known song. Kept off the top spot by Robson and f***ing Jerome (grr), it was the third release from the era defining album (Whats The Story) Morning Glory?.

 

The title was inspired by a George Harrison album and is apparently not about Meg Matthews but 'an imaginary friend who's gonna come and save you from yourself'. Its Oasis's biggest selling single in the UK and despite not getting to number 1 it ended up the 10th biggest selling song of 1995. It also had the unusual honour of being in the top 10 at the same time as Mike Flowers Pops' cover (and indeed most at the time thought that was the original!).

 

This is a epic song and showcases Liam Gallagher's vocal superbly. It also marked a turning point for the band when they became absolutely huge on the way to being the biggest band of the 90s.

 

Still, its not my highest Oasis single......!

 

Overplayed but still amazing

I also prefer the other Oasis song still to come

Sometimes I enjoy it, sometimes I don't but that's all down to how overplayed it is (and how many times I've heard it be murdered on karaoke!)

 

It's undeniably a great song.

I used to love it. I can't even get past the opening vocals now.

Wonderwall is a classic and sounds good even in karaoke bars from people who can;t sing. One day I will get drunk enough and destroy it in public too :lol:

5. Supergrass - Alright

 

 

Release: 1995 Chart Peak: 2

 

They are young, they are green, they keep their teeth nice and clean (and they are very much the 90s version of the Monkees)!

 

Alright was the 5th single released from Supergrass' debit album I Should Coco and was a double A side with Time. By far their most successful song, I think this call to arms is the most joyous moment of the 90s and sums up Britpop perfectly.

 

Kept off the top spot by the Outhere Brothers. Grr.

 

ICONIC.

 

Omg the dentists' favourite Britpop song! Alright is a nice upbeat song I remember a lot from the time.

 

Wonderwall is very good too!

Edited March 5, 20223 yr by TheSnake

I always found it ironic that a Britpop song used the American spelling of 'all right'.

 

Probably my least favourite of the singles off their debut. Big fan of both Caught By The Fuzz and Mansize Rooster personally.

I’m hoping there are 2 Pulp tracks in the top 4 as both deserve to be right at the top of any Britpop list

ouch Alright is 25 places higher imho

I certainly wouldn't place it on my top 20

I’m hoping there are 2 Pulp tracks in the top 4 as both deserve to be right at the top of any Britpop list

Only 1 more Pulp to come. Will be interested to hear after which one I’ve missed! If it’s from 1998 then it’s out of the era…..

Supergrass and Alright are fab. Boo at 1998 and beyond being ineligible, no She's In Fashion, tch :lol:

Supergrass and Alright are fab. Boo at 1998 and beyond being ineligible, no She's In Fashion, tch :lol:

Nope, 1998 is firmly post-Britpop!

4. The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony

 

 

Release: 1997 Chart Peak: 2

 

Let the melody shine.....

 

Bitter Sweet Symphony was the lead track from The Verve's third album, Urban Hymns. Released in June 1997, it entered the chart at number 2 and was kept off the top spot by Puff Daddy. It is based on a sample from the Andrew Loog Oldham orchestral cover of the Rolling Stones' song "The Last Time" and involved some legal controversy surrounding a plagiarism charge. As a result, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards were added to the songwriting credits, and all royalties from the song went to former Rolling Stones manager Allen Klein. In April 2019, Jagger and Richards ceded their rights to the song to the Verve's songwriter Richard Ashcroft.

 

Probably one of the defining anthems of Britpop and Cool Britannia (often used in 90s documentaries about the Labour election landslide along with the Spice Girls), the video memorably shows Richard Ashcroft walking down a busy pavement in Hoxton Hight Street, East London, oblivious to any obstructions, including a woman who he knocks over and a car he walks over.

 

An absolute 90s classic. Just pretend the cheeky Rest Assured's Treat Infamy wasn't released in 1998!