Monday, November 17, 2025

Britpop

I just watched an interesting 30 minute deep dive on Blur on a YouTube channel.  During peak Britpop, I was always more of a Blur fan over Oasis.  And I think I still am.  Although the song of theirs that I dislike the most, Country House, happened to be their first Number 1 and their best selling single.  But thinking about Britpop in general, a lot of songs from that mid-90's period have not aged particularly well.  If they were even that good to begin with.  And this video I watched featured a lot of these songs.  And there were some that I haven't heard, and haven't thought about, for 30 years.  Here is a classic example: