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| | Brit Pop - definition of Brit Pop in Encyclopedia |
 | | Though the bands differed greatly in styles -- they ranged from the massive guitar roar of Oasis and the defiantly British pop of Blur to the disco/glam-rock pastiche of Pulp and progressive rock of Radiohead -- the bands were tied together by attitude. | | | Their star was already on the rise with their 1994 effort 'His 'n' Hers', but in 1995 their time finally came, as the superb '60s-influenced pop of 'Common People' finally broke the band to a wider audience. | | | It was characterised mainly by a considerable '60s influence and a return to guitar-based music after years of over-produced synthetic pop, and was hailed by many as 'pop's saviour'. |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Brit_Pop
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| | BBC - GCSE Bitesize - Music Contemporary music Brit pop |
| | Brit Pop is an eclectic sound drawing on many musical styles of the previous 40 years - especially the music of The Beatles, Mod bands of the 60s like The Who, Rocker bands like The Rolling Stones, and Punk bands like The Sex Pistols. | | | Brit Pop arrived in the early 1990s in part as a reaction to the dominance of American Grunge bands. | | | As with The Stones and The Beatles, some Brit Pop bands achieved success in America and emerged as 'superstars'. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/music/contemporarymusic/tcpopmusicrev12.shtml
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| | Britpop - TheBestLinks.com - Brit Pop, Manchester, New Wave music, Pop music, ... |
| | Brit Pop, Britpop, Manchester, New Wave music, Pop music, 1960s, 1970s, 1990s... | | | Their songs tend to be either pure pop music (Blur's "Girls and Boys") or anthemic (Oasis' "Don't Look Back In Anger"), with a strong "sing-along" factor. | | | So while the sounds of and influences on Britpop bands were diverse, perhaps the defining feature was a celebration of 'British-ness', as a reaction to both US grunge bands who were dominating the alternative music scene and manufactured pop in the charts. |
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http://www.thebestlinks.com/Brit_Pop.html
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| | The History of Rock Music - The Nineties |
| | The album was a masterpiece of faux avantgarde (of pretending to be avantgarde while playing mellow pop music). | | | The most creative aspect of his compositions was how elements of "musique concrete" (found noises that were sampled, looped and refined) got to be integrated with the rhythmic and melodic infrastructure of the songs without sacrificing the aural appeal of the song. | | | Stereolab (12) were not the first and were not the only ones, but somehow they came to represent a nostalgic take on Sixties pop music that employed electronic rhythms and arrangements. |
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http://www.scaruffi.com/history/cpt511.html
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| | Boston.com / A&E / Music / Killers' Brit-flavored pop brings Roxy to life |
| | The night of pitch-perfect pop was kicked off by the lovely, jangling indie rock of the New York City-based quintet Ambulance LTD, who delivered harmony-laced songs with big riffs and subtle humor, and by the Norwegian addition to the Brit pop fest, the female-fronted band SurferRosa. | | | Even more elegant pop songs, such as "Smile Like You Mean It," on which Flowers demonstrated a vocal suppleness and ironic inflection that recalled Morrissey, and "Change Your Mind," which featured bright, sinuous keyboards, had crowd members shouting and dancing with their hands in the air. | | | If the Killers appreciate the irony of being an American band influenced by Brit pop who first gained notice in the UK, they must be exulting now that they're inciting a British Invasion-style furor at home. |
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http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2004/10/09/killers_brit_flavored_pop_brings_roxy_to_life
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| | CD Baby: POP: British Pop - music you will love. |
| | This art-pop concept album is the second solo release from "ethereal pop" artist pamelasuemann. | | | From the traditional sounds of Mexico, to the postmodern moods of brit pop bands, Maneja Beto produces sounds with no conception of borders, diverse and eclectic, accented by a political conscience, and a willingness to defy prepackaged genres. | | | CD Baby: POP: British Pop - music you will love. |
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http://cdbaby.com/style/130
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| | Roots Rock Meets Brit Pop: Alex Walsh - Press |
| | These are pop songs with an eye on genre, true, but the original approach and generally superb musicianship make name-the-influences seem an unnecessary excercise. | | | A lesson to be learned from Walsh and company: these 12 tracks were culled from sessions that yielded 21 songs, allowing for some discretion when it came to selecting tracks for release. | | | San Francisco Singer/Songwriter Alex Walsh covers all the bases on this, his second release (the first, a largely acoustic affair from 1998, was only available at live shows), veering expertly between Westerburg styled smart-guy rock and classic brit-inspired pop. |
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http://www.alexwalsh.net/press.asp?ID=2
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| | Blur |
| | Dissonant guitars, loose beats, obscured vocals, out-of-tune solos, and deconstructed new-wave keyboard accents punctuate songs that are interested in exploring the sonic possibilities of pop rather than the peculiar oddities of British life. | | | Gone are the immaculately tight and spiffy three-minute pop tunes, the third-person character studies, and the insular Britishness of Parklife. | | | If we're to believe the hype, Brit pop is now so damn regressive that the kids over there have taken to ambient electronic music. |
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http://www.bostonphoenix.com/alt1/archive/music/reviews/03-06-97/BLUR.html
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| | CNN.com - Brit pop on new high - February 20, 2002 |
| | The Brit Awards has grown in stature since its birth as the Britannia Awards in 1977, when it was held to mark the 100th anniversary of recorded sound. | | | Her debut album, "No Angel", was a smash in the U.S. and has become the UK's biggest selling album of 2001. | | | In 1985 former topless model Sam Fox and veteran musician Mick Fleetwood presented the first show to be known as the Brits, but the event was largely greeted with derision by fans and critics after the pair fluffed their lines and confused artists names and acts. |
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http://archives.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/Music/02/20/brit.awards
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| | NodeWorks - Encyclopedia: Kula Shaker |
| | Kula Shaker were a psychedelic rock band in the Brit Pop genre. | | | However, as their success reached a peak with four nominations for a Brit award, and coming away with "best Newcomer", some remarks on Swastikas by lead singer Crispian Mills (son of Hayley) put the band in the firing line of some of the press. | | | In September of that year, the band annouced their split, and following this in December of 2002, the bands record company released a "Greatest Hits" album, which included the band's final recorded track, "Ballad of a thin man". |
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http://pedia.nodeworks.com/K/KU/KUL/Kula_Shaker
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| | Long-View vies for Coldplay's Brit pop title - Cadenza |
| | Long-View is an evolution of the standard Brit pop formula, with a good mix of both very catchy pop songs and slower, more emotional songs. | | | It seems as though each year a wave of Brit pop bands comes over to America with one emerging as the public's favorite. | | | The band's sound is that of a bastard child of U2 and Coldplay. |
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http://www.studlife.com/news/2005/03/18/Cadenza/LongView.Vies.For.Coldplays.Brit.Pop.Title-897308.shtml
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| | Old and New Battle for Brit Pop Supremacy |
| | Sir Elton John, the grand old man of pop who sang to the world at Princess Diana's funeral, bids to be British Male Solo Artist in competition with flamboyant upstart Robbie Williams, the ex-boy band idol who now sings Sinatra classics. | | | The ceremony was staged at Abbey Road, the world-famous studios where the Beatles changed the face of music, and on the day George Harrison's ``My Sweet Lord'' was re-released as a tribute to the Beatle who died of cancer last month. | | | But it was a Beatles compilation album of their number one singles that ended the year as the biggest overall global chart-topper ahead of Shaggy's ``Hotshot'' and the Backstreet Boys (news - web sites) ``Black & Blue,'' according to trade paper Billboard's year-end poll. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/pop/Endoftherainbownews/01142002.html
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| | best brit pop band - PJ Harvey |
| | Favourite Brit band of all time?...Im sorry to be so obvious but I'll have to say "The Beatles". | | | Yorke & his crew never grabbed me to be honest, although at least they never fell into that rut of most modern brit bands who cant adapt or change their sound... | | | Anyone who likes music as we know it owes them a kidney... |
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| | Brit Pop: Fufkin.com: Recommendations |
| | Mavers was well versed in the great pop song tradition of The Beatles and others. | | | Epic songs and droning guitars by Jon Squire along with the vocals of Ian Brown merged indie rock and dance music into what now is known as Brit Pop. | | | "There She Goes", off of the debut, is one of the hookiest guitar pop recordings ever recorded. |
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| | "You've Got to Have a Good Haircut": Live Forever, and an End of Spin |
| | Live Forever shows that Brit Pop was preened, spun and spruiked by the music press and news services, and exploited by Tony Blair. | | | When the lead singer of Oasis was asked in the Brit Pop documentary Live Forever (John Dower, 2003) about his androgynous appearance, he repeatedly demanded clarification of the word's meaning. | | | The comedian Steve Coogan (re)created Tony Wilson, the legendary Manchester broadcaster and pop music “guru”, as an edgy amalgam of narrator, character, seer, entrepreneur and King Lear (1). |
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http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/04/31/live_forever.html
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| | IDS: Brit-style pop has compelling introspective side (Weekend, 09/06/2001) |
| | Nonetheless, Mead's lyrics provide a depth that most pop music lacks, thus giving his music a compelling sound worthy of listening to at least once. | | | Several tracks are beautiful, containing lyrics you can identify with and beats that require listening to over and over again. | | | But if you listen more carefully, Mead's sweet, high-pitched voice is laced with insight and optimism, proving he is his own musician. |
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http://www.idsnews.com/story.php?id=5490
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| | By The Moonlight: Brit-pop |
| | The 1998 record This is Hardcore, is one of the most insanely underated records of all time. | | | Pulp in my opinion was the best Brit pop band. | | | You might know them from that 80's pop hit that goes, "Don't you want me baby, don't you want me ohohohoh." Early Human League was like a sinister Kraftwerk, if Kraftwerk was a group of Brits who made terrible music, rather than a group of German robots (or maybe technically they were androids. |
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| | Blur Transcends Brit-pop with '13' |
| | The result of such meandering is the most innovative "pop" album since the official masterpiece, Radiohead's OK Computer. | | | Many of you may know Blur from such vehicles as their smash success "song of the summer," "Girls and Boys" from their 1994 release Parklife, or perhaps "Song 2" (the Woo Hoo bit I'm sure) from 1997's eponymous record. | | | With producer William Orbit's help (of Madonna's Ray of Light fame), Blur has managed to break away from the clean-cut, "smart for their age," boy-band persona, with the newfangled electronic equipment offered in the contemporary recording studio. |
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http://www.umich.edu/~mrev/archives/1999/4-21-99/blur.htm
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| | Music Preview: Gomez doesn't sound like the typical Brit-pop band |
| | Anyone familiar with the contemporary pop scene knows there are more American bands trying to sound like Radiohead than there are British bands willing to be confused with, say, Widespread Panic. | | | While "Split the Difference" has some great potential singles, notably the punchy pop song "Silence" and ballad "Sweet Virginia," Gomez has yet to break one in the States. | | | Gomez has been cruising the States this year anyway with "Split the Difference," a fourth proper studio record that finds the band once again blending blues-rock, jaunty pop, psychedelia and electronics in a way that people find hard to classify. |
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http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04296/399617.stm
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| | Brit Pop ~ at runboard.com |
| | Pimlico were classed as Brit Pop, do you not think they were a mod band. | | | Mantaray were classed as a Brit Pop band, do you not think they were a mod band? | | | I got into it through Quadrophenia and a love of Oasis and The Beatles. |
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http://com2.runboard.com/bmodrevivalforums.fmodrevival.t23
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| | The Guide -- Brit-Pop Shocks |
| | Packed with heavy-hitting, digitized rhythms and dazzling guitar heroics, In Here pummels the listener with rough, bold rock sounds that contrast markedly with the polished, squeaky clean pop music that has dominated the charts for the past couple years. | | | Great Britain’s latest pop-rock phenomenon, the edgy and ambitious Electrasy, is aiming high with the thundering, stadium-friendly In Here We Fall, its debut album for Arista records. | | | Led by guitarist and producer Nigel Nisbet, Electrasy seemingly delights in its pleasantly harder, more insistent melodies and infuses more attitude and less gloss into its colorful catalogue of original songs. |
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http://www.thehoya.com/guide/102700/guide14.htm
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| | Amazon.com: Live Forever (2003): DVD |
| | 7) Most music from the Brit Pop era isn't nearly as good as UK music from the 60s or late 70s. | | | For a Brit this DVD is probably a complete recourse and a waste of time. | | | They're not the hot phenomena they were, but they continue to make music and seem to have staying power (when they're not fighting or drunk/high). |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0001I2BUS?v=glance
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| | Coldplay opens up vast yet intimate world / Second-wave Brit-pop group boldly shows its new direction at Bimbo's |
| | At once intimate and vast, it marks a turning point for the British quartet, whose Grammy Award-winning debut album, 2000's "Parachutes," and its hit single, "Yellow," established it as second-wave Brit- pop's first breakthrough group. | | | His keening falsetto invested the brightest lines with emotional depth, turning a lighter song like "In My Room" from an infectious pop tune into a cathartic love anthem. | | | It was quite the serenade, and it captured both the mood in Bimbo's and the new direction Coldplay takes on its forthcoming album, "A Rush of Blood to the Head," in stores Aug. 27. |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/08/20/DD61861.DTL&type=music
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| | NME.COM - News - FRANZ DOUBLE JOY AT BRITS |
| | Franz Ferdinand, who were nominated for five Brits, dedicated their Best British Band gong to the late John Peel. | | | Other winners on the night included Robbie Williams, whose 'Angels' was voted the best British song of the past 25 years of the Brit Awards. | | | He performed the track with Joss Stone earlier in the evening. |
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| | The Daily Page: Music: Brit pop rag trashes Garbage |
| | Since swallowing up Melody Maker several months back, New Musical Express (or NME) has gone from being an important cauldron of pop cynicism to being the only influential weekly music rag in the U.K. And these folks don't have much good to say about the Madison-based pop band Garbage and their new CD, Beautifulgarbage. | | | In fact, in a scathing feature review of the CD in the Sept. 29 edition, an NME critic concludes: "On Beautifulgarbage they sound like they don't know what they're doing, have no idea where they're going and really would rather be in any other band in the world than this one." | | | The Daily Page: Music: Brit pop rag trashes Garbage |
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http://www.thedailypage.com/going-out/music/news/managedit.php?intmusicnewsid=159
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Books: Brit.Cult: An A-Z of British Pop Culture |
| | From the Swinging 60s and the mods, from the seventies and the punks to Generation E, Britpop and Cool Britain the past 50 years have seen a steady stream of world-sweeping movements, trends, and styles come out of the British Isles. | | | Find pop biographies, pop music books and browse through our huge online catalogue. | | | Almost a British counterpoint to the excellent 'Retro Hell' (look it up), 'Brit Cult' is an A-Z of interesting, significant, and / or distinctive British cultural items. |
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| | Alternative -- Brit Pop Charts - The First Internet Charts (SM) |
| | Alt Power Pop Alt Punk Alternative General Avant Rock Brit Pop Cover Songs Experimental Grunge Indie Other Alternative Ska | | | Acoustic and electric guitars and harmonies blend in this catchy sixties pop pastiche. | | | Alternative -- Brit Pop Charts - The First Internet Charts (SM) |
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http://www.soundclick.com/genres/chartsSub.cfm?genre=Alternative&subgenre=30
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| | JR.com: Blur - The Best Of in Music: Brit Pop: |
| | Other intriguing compositions featured here include a pair of tracks from 1999's criminally overlooked 13--the singalong chant "Tender," with its accompanying gospel choir, and the irresistibly jangly "Coffee and TV." Also recorded specifically for inclusion on this collection is the hypnotic "Music is My Radar," featuring plenty of harmonies, fuzz guitar, and a militaristic groove. | | | Oasis may feature more prominently on the radar of mainstream American pop fans with their overt Beatle-isms, but quintessential Britpop band Blur ultimately took a much more interesting path throughout the '90s. | | | Although Damon Albarn's distinctively English-accented phrasing and Ray Davies-like penchant for writing about distinctly English scenarios makes for brilliant pop songs like "Parklife" and "Country House," it also explains the disinterest of notoriously fickle American music fans. |
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http://jr.com/JRProductPage.process?Product_Id=3871249&...
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| | CPL: Just For Teens: Record Label Dreams |
| | Molly Montgomery never imagined her band would rise to Brit pop stardom, but now that it has, there is drama galore with bickering band members, managers, touring, and life in the public eye. | | | Wonder Blake is discovered by a well-known agent while singing to her Walkman at Dairy Queen, and rises to fame soon thereafter, fulfilling the dream of her sister whose music career ended with a car accident. | | | Pop Princess (Teen Fiction/Cohn, Rachel) by Rachel Cohn. |
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http://www.champaign.org/teens/record_label_dreams.html
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| | Music Brit-pop tops |
| | When I caught up with him on the phone after a recent LA show that brought legendary producer Phil Spector out to offer his services to the band, he seemed genuinely awed by the experience. | | | Even though folk singer Tim Buckley’s 1970 avant-folk album Starsailor (Elektra) is long out of print, the Wigan quartet Starsailor are poised to make its title a household name in the realm of pop. | | | Much of their confidence emanates from Walsh, who at 21 possesses the right mix of arrogance and humility to navigate the rocky road to the top of the pops here in the US. |
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http://bostonphoenix.com/boston/music/other_stories/documents/02147181.htm
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| | Brit Pop Cartoons |
| | You are looking at the "brit pop" cartoon page from the CartoonStock directory. | | | Brit Pop cartoon 1 - catalog reference cfl0027 | | | This page only includes cartoons from our archive, for more cartoons on news related topics, click here. |
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| | The Recording Project :: View topic - Brit Pop like song, opinions advice? |
| | Just a fun song about a girl at a drug deal...I didnt write the lyrics. | | | The Recording Project :: View topic - Brit Pop like song, opinions advice? | | | Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 9:59 pm Post subject: Brit Pop like song, opinions advice? |
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http://www.recordingproject.com/bbs/viewtopic.php?t=13021
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| | The Life of the Pity Party (washingtonpost.com) |
| | Harcourt still plays an orchestra's worth of instruments (including pump organ, tremolo guitar, Wurlitzer, kazoo and Solina string machine) but here he makes them fit in a tasty pop format. | | | Think Tom Waits, Paul Simon, maybe even Paul McCartney. |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7518-2005Mar4.html
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| | Brit Pop Webring |
| | Info on New Wave, British POP of the 80s, 80s Music, Mixes, Quiz, 80s Band Links, 80s Music Bookstore. | | | Home > Music > Genres > Rock and Pop > Artists > D > Duran Duran | | | Popular WebRing with a variety of British pop websites. |
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| | BlueBeat.com - Brit-Pop: Time Machine Details |
| | Combining the guitar-dominated sounds of late-'60s pop, the energy of '70s hard rock and punk and the adventurous spirit of indie rock, several bands emerged from the UK in the late '80s and early '90s with an unapologetically British attitude. | | | Associated with the acid-house scene, the Stone Roses were one of the first bands to display these attributes, and bands like Oasis and Blur have continued to expanded exposure of the style to audiences outside of Britain. |
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| | The Kink's timeless 'Arthur' is perfect Brit-pop |
| | Driving opener "Victoria" couldn't be a better pop song, and as it leads right into the bluesy "Yes Sir, No Sir," Arthur takes hold. | | | Arthur is an incredible thing, a late '60s pop record most people haven't heard but just as worthy as Sgt. | | | But the ones that are just perfect deserve all the praise they can get. |
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http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/2003/10/10-23-03tdc/10-23-03darts-08.asp
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| | Roadbone - Brit Indie Pop |
| | *Sugababes (they are a pop group but i love them) |
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| | JR.com: Supergrass - I Should Coco in Music: Brit Pop: |
| | On its debut in 1995, the Oxford trio Supergrass belied its youth with a precocious knowledge of British pop trends both past and present. | | | JR.com: Supergrass - I Should Coco in Music: Brit Pop: | | | Whatever: The '90s Pop & Culture Box [Box] Clueless Road Trip Pumping On Your Stereo The Best Alternative Under The Influence |
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| | BRIT Awards |
| | All proceeds from the show go to the British Record Industry Trust, supporting young people in music and education. | | | - what do you want to see at BRITs 2006? | | | The BRIT Awards is owned by the British Phonographic Industry |
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