Worst charting song by a Britpop era band

[Blue Jam]

No amount of nostalgia could make this song sound good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtAunxgEP_k

When I first heard that I thought it represented the very arse-end of Britpop... and then had to revise my opinion just five minutes later:

https://youtu.be/P3WTYsIliRk

They couldn't even be arsed to write a proper chorus...

[Ballad of Ballard Berkley]

I'd never heard Columbia before and I'm struggling to understand what the big deal about it is.

It's not an outstanding piece of music or anything - it's an Oasis song - but it does encapsulate the churning, scuzzy swagger of their early sound. They lacked the invention to create a truly psychedelic-sounding record, they were always far too conservative for that, but Columbia comes fairly close in that it sounds like a bunch of stoned young dudes in a garage happily jamming around an hypnotic, repetitive chord sequence. It's big, stupid and fun, as opposed to big, stupid and boring (see Be Here Now et al). 

[Nice Relaxing Poo]

I remember an interview with Noel after Alan White joined, there was a soundbite in it that went something like "Alan White, he's alright". Really ladling on the praise there Noel.

[Phil_A]

I feel a bit to mention this because I quite like the ethereal warblings of Ms Julianne Regan, but I suspect this 1996 bid for Britpop glory was a bit...ill-advised. Also I'm not sure the single actually charted, so it probably doesn't count for this thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn8Sz501sBA&list=PLGxUJmoO9U0z659EZvDKS5q9H4safb0Qh

Track 6 is quite good.

[Ballad of Ballard Berkley]

I remember an interview with Noel after Alan White joined, there was a soundbite in it that went something like "Alan White, he's alright". Really ladling on the praise there Noel.

To be fair to old Noelypops, that comment is typical of the amount of half-arsed praise he's ever 'lavished' on any musician who isn't lucky enough to be him or one of his heroes. He's nothing if not consistent.

[MiddleRabbit]

Just did a quick edit to make the central argument of your post clearer.

You're welcome.

[Chriddof]

When I first heard that I thought it represented the very arse-end of Britpop... and then had to revise my opinion just five minutes later:

https://youtu.be/P3WTYsIliRk

They couldn't even be arsed to write a proper chorus...

I've not heard of that band before, but I don't think you can really call that Britpop as such - it's a bit closer to some kind of unevolved late 80s C86-esque throwback, only with better (i.e. standard due to rapidly improving technology) 2000s production. They seem to have started in 1990 and stayed very close to their shambling indie roots from the sounds of things: http://www.cloudberryrecords.com/blog/?p=67

[holyzombiejesus]

Did the lounge revival happen at the same time as Britpop? There seemed to be a bit of overlap and not just that Mike Flowers single.

[Neomod]

Did the lounge revival happen at the same time as Britpop? There seemed to be a bit of overlap and not just that Mike Flowers single.

Yep, the Karminsky's were playing soundtracks/exotica at Blow Up at the Laurel Tree in 94. Then you had Club Indigo at Madame Jo Jo's (Very Lounge) and Smashing at Eve's (mixing a bit of Lounge in their playlist).

[Dr Rock]

And Loose! at various Camden venues, mixing easy-listening with The Stooges. That was my one.

[SteveDave]

Count Indigo and Mike Flowers are playing at Paper Dress this Saturday lads.

[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

I remember it was a fair few weeks or so before I realised that Mike Flowers wasn't a new Steve Coogan character.

[MiddleRabbit]

I remember it was a fair few weeks or so before I realised that Mike Flowers wasn't a new Steve Coogan character.

I recall an interview with Noel Gallagher in which he related the story of how he'd been going around telling the world that Wonderwall was about Meg Matthews and when she heard the Mike Flowers Pops version, she decided that he'd ripped it entirely off some sixties easy listening record.  At that point I thought, oh Meg Matthews is as thick as she is hard-faced. 

[marquis_de_sad]

Is Sweeper a former music journalist ? He writes like one, like someone who used to write for Melody Maker.

The smoking gun (emphasis added):

'What the fook are you going on about? It's just music, mate, it's just a laugh.'

[sweeper]

Ex music journalists are northern?

[Nice Relaxing Poo]

Ex music journalists are northern?

No but I distinctly remember writers for MM writing any dialogue between Manc band mates using "fook" instead of fuck.

[sweeper]

I've been known to say 'far out', time to time. Does that make me a resident of 1960s Haight Ashbury?

I suppose because I use propositions I'm fucking Bram Stoker.

[hummingofevil]

I recall an interview with Noel Gallagher in which he related the story of how he'd been going around telling the world that Wonderwall was about Meg Matthews and when she heard the Mike Flowers Pops version, she decided that he'd ripped it entirely off some sixties easy listening record.  At that point I thought, oh Meg Matthews is as thick as she is hard-faced.

Harsh considering he ripped of loads of other things. Easy mistake.

[sweeper]

propositions

Damn it, where's my IPC sub-editors when I need them?

[Lisa Jesusandmarychain]

I'll always remember the day I first heard " Whatever", and thought " Blimey, they're ripping off Neil Innes now ! "

[Lisa Jesusandmarychain]

Damn it, where's my IPC sub-editors when I need them?

Probably off somewhere dictating our youth, I shouldn't wonder.

[MiddleRabbit]

Ex music journalists are northern?

Only people with southern accents spell 'fuck' 'fook' because to northerners 'fuck' sounds like 'fuck' and 'fook' rhymes with 'puke' and nobody says 'fook' unless it's taking the piss.  Southerners have to write 'fook' because they think 'fuck' is pronounced 'fack'.

[jobotic]

Nah, fuck sounds like fuck to me and fook sounds like puke and I'm a southerner, but not a facking cockney

[hummingofevil]

In Newcastle fuck does not rhyme with cook or book but cook and book rhyme with puke. Mad.

[Elderly Sumo Prophecy]

Only people with southern accents spell 'fuck' 'fook' because to northerners 'fuck' sounds like 'fuck' and 'fook' rhymes with 'puke' and nobody says 'fook' unless it's taking the piss.  Southerners have to write 'fook' because they think 'fuck' is pronounced 'fack'.

I read an interview with a Liverpool band once, and the journalist had written it as "fock", presumably to differentiate it from the Mancunian "fook" and the proper English "fuck". What a fockin bellend.

[gilbertharding]

'Fook' and 'fock' were also useful to NME and Melody Maker because they were forced to spell 'fuck' like this: f---.

[sweeper]

It's more like 'fork', I think.

'Fork off, mayte, I'm just being friendleh. Whereyer from? Fork off.'

[Jockice]

Get to feck.

[gilbertharding]

I've DEFINITELY seen Northerners complain that Cockneys say 'Fack'.

Anyway - this persiflage is derailing the thread, what?

[The Culture Bunker]

Didn't Cockney Wanker in Viz say "fack"?