POP Goes The Empire

 

 

NPR did a story this week on the 20th anniversary of "Britpop", marking the beginning of the era as Sept. 8, 1993 when Suede took home the Mercury Music Prize, Britain and Ireland's "album of the year" award, for its self-titled debut.
While a valid argument could indeed be made for that, on tonight's Pop Goes The World, I'll do my own "Britpop" celebration playing some of my favorite Britpop tracks of the era, taking it back even a few years earlier and extending it to see who's currently picked up the torch.

 

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Song	Artist	Album		Year
You Stole The Sun From My Heart	Manic Street Preachers	This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours		1998
Catch The Sun	Doves	Lost Souls		2000
Look Out Sunshine	The Fratellis	Here We Stand		2008
Hollywood	Codeine Velvet Club	Codeine Velvet Club		2009
Here Come The Good Times	A-House	Wide-Eyed and Ignorant		1994
The Irish Keep Gate-Crashing	The Thrills	Let's Bottle Bohemia		2004
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End Of A Century	Blur	Parklife		1994
Goldfinger	Ash	1977		1996
Judy Staring At The Sun	Catherine Wheel	Happy Days		1995
We Are Sleepyheads	Belle & Sebastian	The Life Pursuit		2006
Ode To Janice Melt	Army Navy	The Last Place		2011
To Be Like I	China Rats			2013
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Hometown Unicorn	Super Furry Animals	Fuzzy Logic		1996
Beautiful Ones	Suede	Coming Up		1996
Tonight The Streets Are Ours	Richard Hawley	Lady's Bridge		2007
Female Of The Species	Space	Spiders		1996
Same Jeans	The View	Hats Off To The Buskers		2007
This Is Not My Flag	The Dentists	Behind The Door I Keep The Universe		1994
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Rock 'n' Roll Star	Oasis	Definitely Maybe		1994
Rocks	Primal Scream	Give Out But Don't Give Up		1994
125 West 3rd Street	Menswear	Nuisance		1995
Let's Make Some Plans	The Wedding Present	Hit Parade 1		1992
Caught By The Fuzz	Supergrass	I Should Coco		1994
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I Am The Resurrection	The Stone Roses	The Stone Roses		1989
Sunflower	Paul Weller	Wild Wood		1993
Bluetonic	The Bluetones	Expecting To Fly		1996
You've Got It Bad	Ocean Colour Scene	Moseley Shoals		1996
Never Come Down Again	Milltown Brothers	Slinky		1991
Wembly	The Candy Skins	Fun?		1993
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Common People	Pulp	Different Class		1995