Slides used in class. Resources are on the module website

1. Britpop
#med332

2. Britpop
as:
Reac3on
against
grunge
Reac3on
against
pop
Reac3on
against
electronica

3. Nirvana
–
‘Smells
Like
Teen
Spirit’
(1991)

4. ‘If
punk
was
about
geIng
rid
of
hippies,
then
I'm
geIng
rid
of
grunge’
Damon
Albarn
(Blur)

5. Right
Said
Fred
-­‐
Deeply
Dippy
(1992)

6. Take
That
-­‐
Do
What
You
Like
(1992)

7. 2
Unlimited
–
‘No
Limits’
(1993)

8. Won't
someone
give
me
a
gun?
Oh
well
it's
for
my
brother
Well
he
writes
the
line
wrote
down
my
spine
It
says
"Oh
do
you
believe
in
love
there?"
So
slow
down
slow
down
you're
taking
me
over
And
so
we
drown
Sir
we
drown
stop
taking
me
over
Won't
someone
give
me
some
fun?
(And
the
skin
flies
all
around
us)
We
kiss
in
his
room
to
a
popular
tune
Oh
real
drowners
Slow
down
slow
down
you're
taking
me
over
And
so
we
drown,
Sir
we
drown,
Stop
taking
me
over!
Suede
–
‘The
Drowners’
(1992)
"[I]f
Britpop
started
anywhere,
it
was
the
deluge
of
acclaim
that
greeted
Suede's
first
records:
all
of
them
audacious,
successful
and
very,
very
Bri3sh”
-­‐
John
Harris

10. Suede
–
‘Animal
Nitrate’
(1993)
Like
his
dad
you
know
that
he's
had
Animal
nitrate
in
mind
Oh
in
your
council
home
he
jumped
on
your
bones
now
you're
taking
it
3me
aaer
3me
oh
it
turns
you
on,
on,
on,
now
he
has
gone
oh
what
turns
you
on,
on,
on,
now
your
animal's
gone?
Well
he
said
he'd
show
you
his
bed
and
the
delights
of
his
chemical
smile
so
in
your
broken
home
he
broke
all
of
your
bones
now
you're
taking
it
3me
aaer
3me
[Chorus]
what
does
it
take
to
turn
you
on,
on
now
he
has
gone?
now
you're
over
21?
now
your
animal's
gone?
animal,
he
was
animal,
an
animal

13. 1993

14. 1991

15. Blur
–
‘There's
No
Other
Way’
(1991)

16. 1993

19. April
1994

22. Blur
–
‘Park
Life’
(1994)

24. Oasis
-­‐
Roll
With
It

25. Blur
-­‐
Country
House

26. Brit
Awards
(1996)
–
Oasis
win
3
Brits

27. “I
hate
that
Alex
and
Damon.
I
hope
they
catch
Aids
and
die.”

28. By
rebelling
against
th[e]
gradual
dumbing
down
of
a
na3on,
by
openly
championing
a
switched-­‐on,
sophis3cated
Britpop
image
[Blur
have]
defined
a
new
Englishness.
It’s
an
aItude
based
not
on
a
nostalgic
Carry
On
Mr
Kipling
Britain,
but
a
Britain
that
you
will
recognise
as
the
one
you
live
in.
A
place
where
dressing
well
and
having
a
good
haircut
maler.
-­‐
Jones
in
Bennel
&
Stralon,
2010:
p42

29. Brit
Awards
(1996)
–
Jarvis
vs
Jackson

32. Blur
–
‘Song
2’
(1997)

33. Oasis
-­‐
D'You
Know
What
I
Mean
(1997)

36. “the
term
banal
na&onalism
is
introduced
to
cover
the
ideological
habits
which
enable
the
established
na3ons
of
the
West
to
be
reproduced.
It
is
argued
that
these
habits
are
not
removed
from
everyday
life,
as
some
observers
have
supposed.
Daily,
the
na3on
is
indicated,
or
‘flagged’,
in
the
lives
of
its
ci3zenry.
Na3onalism,
far
from
being
an
intermilent
mood
in
established
na3ons,
is
the
endemic
condi3on."
-­‐
Michael
Billig,
1995
p.6