3 Of The Best Brit Pop Era Albums (feat. Longpigs, Mansun & Super Furry Animals)

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  • @kayfimt7769
    @kayfimt7769 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Oh I friggin’ love Mansun. Super underrated. Their break up hurt, they were special and could have really been going somewhere.

  • @NicoFunez
    @NicoFunez 6 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Great video! I love seeing the comments talking about bands I also love! Although I’m pretty young, but britpop is definitely my favorite genre. Love bands like SFA, Supergrass, Menswe@r, Elastica, Salad, Gene, Marion, and so many more under appreciated bands.

  • @austinwiththehat
    @austinwiththehat ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The long pigs album is amazing

  • @jamescowley8561
    @jamescowley8561 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Cast are definitely an underrated band

  • @123pilpil
    @123pilpil 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Attack is a fantastic album as is six.

  • @pattardn
    @pattardn 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Mansun are one of my favourite bands ever. And the pick of the crop is Six, for me.

  • @aniym21000
    @aniym21000 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Gene's 1995 album Olympian is great. They sound a lot like The Smiths. I discovered them in a US magazine called Under the Radar in 2005, they were doing a Britpop retrospective. Lush , Ride and Boo Radleys are also interesting examples of bands that transitioned from shoegaze into Britpop in the mid 90s, but broke up shortly after.

    • @2020Sound
      @2020Sound  3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I'm a big fan of Gene's second album, 'Drawn To The Deep End'. I need to check out 'Olympian' as I've seen a lot of people rave about it.

    • @sixer6er
      @sixer6er 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Man I love that first gene album

    • @laladoopsy
      @laladoopsy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Only ever heard the first albumand it is amazing, and their singles are great too they were always called a Smiths knock which they aren't at all!

    • @aguscarrizo9
      @aguscarrizo9 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Drawn to the Deep End is reeeeally good!

  • @badtotheappendixx
    @badtotheappendixx 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    you should do this type of video for underlooked 80’s postpunk bands and albums!

  • @jamesdarcy2521
    @jamesdarcy2521 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Such an eloquent analysis of some of the most beautiful music the British epoch has to offer. Thank you so much!

    • @2020Sound
      @2020Sound  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks very much James! Glad you enjoyed it.

  • @steven_uk
    @steven_uk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Nice video. Great to reminisce about Britpop. I think the first three albums of The Trash Can Sinatras are massively overlooked. Well worth checking out.

  • @ste.6026
    @ste.6026 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I loved Brit Pop, it came along at a time when I was beginning to think that I was just entering my 30's and I wasn't liking an awful lot of music around me... Then so many great bands like Oasis, Blur, Suede etc! and with a lot of honesty many many poor replicas... My personal faves from the time Cast, James, Dodgy, Ash, Pulp.& Longpigs are all still regular on my play list to this day, Space were another band, I adored their first two albums... Here I am in 2022 and modern music is finally lost to me, I had John Power's solo years to keep me occupied, I liked The Zutons & The Coral and luckily I love Richard Hawley (ex Longpigs & part time Pulp guitarist) he is still making awesome albums...Thanks for this vid it is very welcome, just subbed and will investigate further... Cast - 'All Change' and John Power - 'Willow She Weeps' or 'Happening For Love' could be good looks for the future... These days my musical journey is more about looking backwards to the music I neglected to invest in further or the greatness I missed, my journey so far has taken me back to the mid forties...

    • @2020Sound
      @2020Sound  2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thanks for the sub! I think there's still a lot of great new music out there: for me, 6Music, Uncut, MOJO and - shamefully - the Spotify algorithm have tended to steer me towards lots of worthwhile stuff over the last five years 🙂.

  • @peterkadelbach7010
    @peterkadelbach7010 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Longpig is a steel industry term. Pig iron cast into ingots. Short or long. May be the caníbal term too. Given they are from Sheffield the steel term would seem like the origin of the name.
    Saw them twice in Toronto opening for sued and ocean colour scene. I think. They were amazing. Mobile home is amazing too.

  • @michaelormondrobinson
    @michaelormondrobinson 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    He does it again! Great Vid.

    • @2020Sound
      @2020Sound  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks Michael!

  • @mrshifter5007
    @mrshifter5007 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Mansun I see at the Kilburn National April 97, Fantastic night. See SFA at the ULU the same year, Brilliant they were. Also met Gruff on Denmark street outside Andy's Guitar shop, what a cool geezer he was, no ego, happy to chat. Never seen the Longpigs live 😕 . 2 out of 3 ain't bad 😁. That was a great time to be around then. It's a moment in time.

  • @kayfimt7769
    @kayfimt7769 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Btw have you ever given your thoughts on Mansun’s Six? For me it’s one of the great underrated British albums.

    • @2020Sound
      @2020Sound  3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I haven't... at least not yet 😄. Yeah, it's definitely one of the cult classics of the late 90s.

    • @pattardn
      @pattardn 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@2020Sound I rate Six as one of my 10 favourite albums. Other artists/bands that are part of that collective include Van der Graaf Generator, Kate Bush, Pink Floyd, Mike Oldfield, Rush, Genesis, Steven Wilson, and Jethro Tull.

  • @chrisNJLiverpool
    @chrisNJLiverpool 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Love these videos. Have you considered a video on underrated/overlooked albums by larger bands, like Gish by Smashing Pumpkins or A Storm in Heaven by Verve?

    • @2020Sound
      @2020Sound  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thanks Chris! I have, and it's bound to happen eventually!

  • @harrisondavis2003
    @harrisondavis2003 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    These have always been my underrated 3

  • @kevinericsongs
    @kevinericsongs 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    my overlooked fave is supernaturals-'it doesn't matter anymore'

  • @Courtneyshole1965
    @Courtneyshole1965 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I really loved Mansun the fact they’re still like friends with me now it just unreal

  • @neilherring
    @neilherring ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The 90s is possibly the last great decade for music.

  • @keitakane5726
    @keitakane5726 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Mansun, grey latern. Omg

  • @allsorts9909
    @allsorts9909 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great review,ironically these have held up better than most Brit pop stuff which sounds very dated to my ears. Attack is a personal favourite cheers Stuart

  • @gareth_vieira2632
    @gareth_vieira2632 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Marion, Gene, Shed Seven.

  • @vicentemacinnes8473
    @vicentemacinnes8473 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I'm only 16 so I dont have the experience of living when these records came out, but I love mansun and the longpigs, I have both their debuts on vinyl, I think some underrated/ forgotten records would maybe be
    60ft dolls - the big 3
    ash 1977, and nu clear sounds (NCS is utterly unlistened to on spotify)
    kula shaker - k
    marion - this world and body
    mansun, six (I feel some of the songs are just genius but they might have been slightly ignored)
    menswe@r - nuisance (apparently these guys were more seen than heard)
    embrace - the good will out
    ps, love the vids, been around since the iDLEWiLD video 👍

    • @2020Sound
      @2020Sound  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks Vicente!
      That's amazing - there can't be many 16-year-olds in 2021 who are aware of 60ft Dolls! Hell, they weren't even that well known in 1996 😆. What was your gateway into that era of music?
      I have a distinct memory of being on holiday in Italy, aged 12, sat on a balcony listening to 'The Big 3' on cassette and singing along, unaware that there were people on the ground. They must've wondered why on earth the weird kid above them kept shouting "I'M A HAPPY SHOPPER!!!"

    • @vicentemacinnes8473
      @vicentemacinnes8473 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@2020Sound listening to idlewild on spotify, I looked at the fans also like section and it introduced me to 4 bands I really like now
      mansun
      ash
      the cooper temple clause
      seafood
      their sounds were crazy, and ash's lyrics and guitar songs were so different, it sort of sent me into a black hole of britpop, and I guess I'm totally obsessed now, listening to everything from the forgotten, to the low charters, to big bands
      with the 60ft dolls, TH-cam, their music videos were in suggested below videos, and eventually gave in, I watched the video for stay but I thought it was average, then I watched the talk to me video, and I was blown back by everything, the guitars, the lyrics, the vocals, the video it screamed cool, I listened to their debut album and a couple days later I bought it on cassette, currently trying to hunt a us version on cd down now 👍👍👍 sorry for the essay

    • @2020Sound
      @2020Sound  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Seafood! Another *tiny* band (I had 'When Do We Start Fighting'). There were a few British groups like that around in about '98 with a sound pulling from early 90s American alt rock. Llama Farmers were another one - I always remember that name 😄.
      The CTC made some great songs that I grew to love. I hated them at first because of the hair - couldn't take them seriously 😄.

    • @vicentemacinnes8473
      @vicentemacinnes8473 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@2020Sound I really like seafood, I now have wdwsf on cd, their only charting album as well, been trying to find it on vinyl but its impossible, and I was outbid on auctions for two of their other albums on ebay, i do however have a signed version of splinter on 7 inch format. I rlly like it.
      and I have kick up the fire by tctc, and a couple of their 7 inches as well. didnt ever see a problem with the hair tho haha

  • @christianewen3227
    @christianewen3227 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Another great video! I’ve really enjoyed what I’ve watched so far (I subscribed a good few vids back) and I’m now genuinely intrigued as to what’s coming next 👍🏻
    Your choice of albums here are first rate - especially ‘Radiator’, which is one of my favourite albums of all time. ‘Attack of the Grey Lantern’ is an album I have grown to love over the years. I didn’t appreciate it back in the day, when I was 13. I loved the singles off it and remember being excited to learn they were formed in Chester (being a North Westerner myself), and although I bought the album at the time, I realise now that I didn’t really connect with it in the way I perhaps did with other albums which were its contemporaries. No matter, because I really got round to connecting with it in my twenties and it’s been a mainstay ever since.
    Here’s some albums from around that time which I loved back then, still do now and which I think could - and should - be appreciated more than they are….
    (In no particular order)
    1 - The Auteurs - New Wave
    2 - Silver Sun - Silver Sun
    3 - Supergrass - In it for the Money
    4 - The Charlatans - Tellin’ Stories
    5 - The Boo Radleys - Giant Steps
    6 - Marion - This World and Body
    7 - Ash - 1977
    8 - Lush - Lovelife
    9 - Space - Spiders
    10 - The Bluetones - Expecting to Fly

    • @2020Sound
      @2020Sound  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Cheers Christian! I remember telling you I wasn't going to do another Creation album for a while after kicking off with four. Looks like I forgot about that 😄. Glad you've liked stuff so far! 'Grey Lantern' is one I've learned to appreciate more over time, too. Some great albums in that list, too. 'In It For The Money', especially. And 'Tellin' Stories'! I was talking with someone in real life about '1977' recently - 'Lose Control' and 'Darkside Lightside' are one of my favourite opener/closer combos ever.

    • @christianewen3227
      @christianewen3227 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@2020Sound I’m delighted you ended up choosing another Creation album to analyse - and the fact it was ‘Radiator’ was an unexpected treat! I do agree that ‘1977’ is brilliantly bookended - and it has a rather memorable hidden track… one of those where once heard, never forgotten - unfortunately! I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of people from our age group only went on to fully appreciate ‘AOTGL’ in later years. It’s such a sophisticated record, with so many layers to it both thematically and sonically, that it’s quite easy to see how it would have gone over many teenage heads. ‘In it for the Money’ and ‘Tellin’ Stories’ however were much more immediate - and ‘Richard III’ absolutely rocks!

    • @2020Sound
      @2020Sound  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Did you ever rewind before 'Lose Control' to hear the other hidden track (the one without the vomit)? 😄. I don't recall anything about it, but I remember it being there.
      (An album with not one but two hidden tracks... that might just be the most 90s thing ever.)

    • @christianewen3227
      @christianewen3227 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@2020Sound I’d forgotten all about the first hidden track! I will have to dig my CD copy out and give it a listen after all these years! Couldn’t agree more that having not one but two hidden tracks on your album is as nineties as it gets!

  • @LeeGion_981
    @LeeGion_981 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Six is Mansun’s masterpiece

  • @benwherlock9869
    @benwherlock9869 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    3 of my favourite bands of the era. Mansun have songs that weren't even b-sides that were better than the Be Here Now album.

  • @patdaveydrums
    @patdaveydrums 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    yes the Longpigs yes!

  • @handsomegaz3307
    @handsomegaz3307 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    excellent call on highlighting these albums but i might have swapped out sfa for genes olympian. But good stuff.

  • @samuraininjarockstar9355
    @samuraininjarockstar9355 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The Charlatans self titled album from 95 is very underrated and it’s so cool , also the Seahorses album …..

  • @lgclprtr
    @lgclprtr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Could we consider something likes of Hurricane #1 as an underrated Britpop band?

    • @2020Sound
      @2020Sound  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I think you could probably say they're of that era! I loosely think of Brit Pop as '93 - '97, so they definitely squeeze in there. I still have their debut album on CD somewhere. I wasn't a huge fan myself, but I've always had a soft spot for 'Faces In A Dream' - great intro, first heard it on a free CD with (I think) Vox magazine.

  • @fjrmrt
    @fjrmrt 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Shed Seven's second album 'Maximum High' is up there for me

  • @deannilvalli6579
    @deannilvalli6579 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    This kind of fills in some gaps for me, as 1997 was the year I stopped listening to popular music and went to Africa for some time. One follow up you might want to look into, speaking of bands like Super Furry Animals adding odd sounds to their music, is the precursor Jesus Jones. They were one of the first to combine samplers with guitars and high energy music. The track Blissed is perhaps their Opus Dei.

    • @2020Sound
      @2020Sound  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I remember 'International Bright Young Thing' and 'Real Real Real' from a couple of compilations I had back in the day.

  • @AndrewJohnClive
    @AndrewJohnClive 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Super Furries live… Man,..❤

  • @Surepeacooler
    @Surepeacooler 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    SFAOK!

  • @nigelelliott4901
    @nigelelliott4901 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    And let's not forget:
    Scarfo - Luxury Plane Crash (Jamie Hince in his pre-Kills days)
    Urusei Yatsura - We Are Urusei Yatsura (doing their Sonic Youth/Pavement thing)
    Tse Tse Fly - Mudflat Joey (Am I the only music nerd who rates this album?)

    • @2020Sound
      @2020Sound  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Urusei Yatsura! That is a name I've not read in a looooong time.

  • @allsorts9909
    @allsorts9909 ปีที่แล้ว

    Although not britpop,I’d put placebos without you I’m nothing up there for a great 90s album

  • @gerrardgolton8718
    @gerrardgolton8718 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Puressence

  • @SamM_Scot
    @SamM_Scot ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Many fantastic bands like this at the time, which in my opinion were far better got sadly overshadowed by Oasis and Blur. I also feel the alternative/indie scene explosion into the mainstream during the 90s was the last decade of real culture revolution movement within music. It was like 60s all over again in many ways, but has since gone kinda underground :-)

  • @Pernel143
    @Pernel143 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I Should Coco

  • @conkerman01
    @conkerman01 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Catherine Wheel 1997. Adam and Eve. An amazing album and made better by perfect track order. In fact CW are probably a decent band to make a vid about. They never quite made it, and their albums were pretty disparate on sound.

  • @fevangelou
    @fevangelou ปีที่แล้ว

    Let's be honest people. "'Attack Of The Grey Lantern" by Mansun was indeed a great album, but "Six", their 2nd one, is just THE SINGLE F*CKING BEST Britpop album ever. There, I said it.

  • @randomnesspersonified
    @randomnesspersonified ปีที่แล้ว

    As one of Mansun's songs said, "The lyrics aren't supposed to mean that much...they're just a vehicle for a lovely voice". Who knows how far true that really is though? It would certainly explain some of the more "interesting" lyrics lol

  • @monkimusic4813
    @monkimusic4813 ปีที่แล้ว

    The Boo Radleys 'Giant Steps... Dodgy 'The Dodgy Album'...The Stairs 'MEX R&B' ...The Hybirds 'The Hybirds EP's'...

  • @laladoopsy
    @laladoopsy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    SFA loved that album, and Mansun...yeah I liked it a lot but I never to this day have heard the Lonpigs album and I fucking loved those 4 singles. I think the reviews at the time were all 3/5 or 6/10 so I never bothered. Then also Helen Love name checked them on dammingly on Long Live the UK music scene as a no mark band. I did also saw them at a V festival back when they had band's on and they mostly play 2nd album stuff that didn't sound great but I will listen to that first one tomorrow.

    • @2020Sound
      @2020Sound  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      If you still enjoy those first four singles, I think you'll enjoy the whole album. I remember the reviews at the time being very middling too, and it definitely coloured my perspective at the time. But the older I've gotten, the more I've fallen in love with 'The Sun Is Often Out'. I return to it much more often than a lot of the bigger albums of that time (in part, no doubt, as a result of it being less popular so the songs haven't been overplayed to death by radio etc.)

    • @laladoopsy
      @laladoopsy 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@2020Sound yeah listened to it on the way to work and it's a bloody banger! Shame this band broke up.

  • @murdockreviews
    @murdockreviews 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Oh, do I love the Super Furry Animals. Pity they seem more or less inactive by now.
    In the 'Blur or Oasis'-discussion of the day, I always felt comfortable as a SUPERGRASS-guy. Their self-titled third album is a treat (like most of their other albums).
    Other bands (well, maybe not exactly Britpop) from the UK rarely mentioned these days are GOMEZ (e.g. their debut album or the later release 'Split the Difference') and Brighton's ELECTRIC SOFT PARADE.
    In terms of later...um...post-Britpop(?) anything by DOVES certainly deserves to be re-discovered!

    • @2020Sound
      @2020Sound  3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Electric Soft Parade definitely knew their way around a great melody. 'Empty at the End' and 'There's A Silence' were my favourites! Those other bands have had some fantastic moments too. 'The Cedar Room' is probably one of my favourite songs.

  • @gibson7440
    @gibson7440 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I HEART SFA

  • @sorenger
    @sorenger 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Heavy Stereo

  • @conzo8991
    @conzo8991 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Grand Prix by Teenage Fanclub.

  • @uncleschmuck
    @uncleschmuck 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love the songs on Radiator but i feel the production lets it down. It's too thin and tinny sounding for me

    • @I_Am_The_Paulrus
      @I_Am_The_Paulrus ปีที่แล้ว

      Pick up the remastered version that was released on its 20th anniversary

  • @sixer6er
    @sixer6er 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love and other demons by strangelove

  • @areamusicale
    @areamusicale 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    in my opinion Super Furry Animals is a rip-off of The Gong.