March 9, 20223 yr Author Jester’s Top 50 Britpop songs 1 Pulp – Common People 2 Blur – To The End 3 Oasis – Don’t Look Back In Anger 4 The Verve – Bitter Sweet Symphony 5 Supergrass – Alright 6 Oasis – Wonderwall 7 Suede - Trash 8 Manic Street Preachers – A Design For Life 9 Pulp – Do You Remember The First Time? 10 Blur - Parklife 11 The Bluetones – Slight Return 12 Oasis – Live Forever 13 McAlmont & Butler – Yes 14 The Verve – The Drugs Don’t Work 15 Elastica – Waking Up 16 Shed 7 – Chasing Rainbows 17 Mansun – Wide Open Space 18 Sleeper – Inbetweener 19 Dodgy – Good Enough 20 Ocean Colour Scene – The Day We Caught The Train 21 Blur – The Universal 22 Echobelly – Great Things 23 Pulp – Babies 24 The Verve – Lucky Man 25 Suede – Beautiful Ones 26 Menswear – Being Brave 27 Shed 7 – Going For Gold 28 Ash – Girl From Mars 29 Cast – Walkaway 30 Kula Shaker - Tattva 31 Super Furry Animals – Something 4 The Weekend 32 James – She’s A Star 33 The Seahorses – Blinded By The Sun 34 Echobelly – King Of The Kerb 35 Mansun – Stripper Vicar 36 Oasis – Some Might Say 37 Pulp – Disco 2000 38 The Lightning Seeds – Change 39 Ash – Goldfinger 40 Suede – Stay Together 41 The Seahorses – Love Is The Law 42 Rialto – Monday Morning 5.19 43 The Boo Radleys – Wake Up Boo! 44 Supergrass – Sun Hits The Sky 45 Gene – Olympian 46 Elastica - Connection 47 Geneva - Tranquilizer 48 Ocean Colour Scene – The Riverboat Song 49 Sleeper – Sale Of The Century 50 Blur – Song 2
March 9, 20223 yr Thanks for sharing Jester - have enjoyed reading your thoughts and perspectives, and I've also made a few great discoveries too. “Common People” is one of my favourites also, the definitive single of the Britpop era - in my opinion it belongs in the 'god tier' of songs like “'Heroes'”, I know all of the lyrics by heart and I love every second of it. Was gutted when it stalled at #2 behind Robson and Jerome- I remember listening to that chart and it must have been a holiday or half-term or something because we were at my Nan's house, and I distinctly remember her saying she'd bought the Robson and Jerome single.. grr.
March 9, 20223 yr Well deserved no.1 certainly one of the best songs of the 90s! Edited March 9, 20223 yr by fiesta
March 9, 20223 yr Common People is a masterpiece The songwriting and storytelling is superb A million miles better than Oasis or Blur in the lyrics department Really cannot compare
March 9, 20223 yr After giving it some thought my top 10 Britpop would 1 Pulp -Common people 2 Oasis - Don’t look back in anger 3 Oasis - Live forever 4 Manic Street Preachers - A design for life 5 The Verve -The drugs don’t work 6 Pulp - Disco 2000 7 Lush - Ladykillers 8 Suede - Beautiful ones 9 Blur - Girls and Boys 10 Ocean Colour Scene - The day we caught the train
March 9, 20223 yr Common People is the perfect song to top this countdown - it epitomised Britpop as a genre, but the music and message are timelessly powerful.
March 9, 20223 yr Can't argue with that #1! Just such a classic. :heart: Thank you so much for this thread. I've enjoyed going over some of my favourites, rediscovering some gems and even making a few new discoveries along the way!
March 9, 20223 yr Fantastic top 5 :heart: Common People, Bittersweet Symphony, Don't Look Back in Anger & Alright are all classics which I can't really say a lot new about, but I didn't discover To The End until I listened to Parklife and it was an easy highlight, love the strings and dramatic feel of it, wish it had been a bigger hit :'(
March 9, 20223 yr Thanks for the countdown Jester! Can’t argue with the #1 and there were loads of classics along the way but also quite a bit to discover that I didn’t know.
March 10, 20223 yr Just because I can, songs that I associate with Britpop sounds (and I'm extending the cut-off point cos I it's my party and I can cry if I want to) that topped my personal charts: There She Goes The La's 3 Sense The Lightning Seeds/ Terry Hall 1 To The End Blur 2 Whatever Oasis 3 Yes McAlmont & Butler 4 Common People Pulp 1 Wonderwall Oasis 1 Don't Look Back In Anger Oasis 2 Female Of The Species Space 3 Tatva Kula Shaker 2 Neighbourhood Space 1 Govinda Kula Shaker 3 Bittersweet Symphony The Verve 3 Lucky Man The Verve 1 Stay Bernard Butler 6 Not Alone Bernard Butler 1 The Ballad Of Tom Jones Space/ Cerys Matthews 1 If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next Manic Street Preachers 4 She's In Fashion Suede 2
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