AMERICAN REACTS TO ICONIC "BRITPOP" BANDS & SONGS FOR THE FIRST TIME! 😳
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I think more Grunge and not British per say but Garbage was my go to for female lead singer.
Definitely mcfly!
Ah, the 90's - such happy days. The gigs, man. THE GIGS! So many crazy, mental, transcendental gigs! Ohh, if only you could've been there!
Culture is never about race, the average person gives it no thought, enjoy life, embrace whats around you, only the prejudiced guve life a grading system , britpop embraces everything
You need to react to The Stone Roses and the Madchester movement in the late 80s. They made Britpop, and heavily influenced Oasis (Liam completely copied The Roses’ frontman’s style).
Madchester consisted of 60s psychedelic rock with acid house, which was big at the time. Obviously, came from the city of Manchester, which was the capital city of rave at the time. To understand Britpop, you have to understand Madchester.
Being a teenager in 90's UK was the best. The cold War had ended, 9/11 hadn't happened, world peace seriously looked like an option. Peace in northern Ireland, we went into Europe, Britain was cool and the music was great. A lot of problems but ladette feminism was on the rise and black culture entering the mainstream made us all hopeful.
Good times. :)
For real the best times
I was obsessed with Blur. Saw them live many times along with Massive Attack
What’s interesting in Britain we have three classes . Working class , middle class and upper class. So middle class is very different to working class in Britain . ( saying that though It’s evolved to like six different classes now)
Yeah also the class system in america is just money based. In Britain if you grow up working class but end up making a lot of money you are still working class
I've always defined the middle class as people that work but have been to university or your parents have and then upper class are people who inherited their wealth and working class are people who haven't been to uni and work (same with their parents).
@@kJ922-h3j don't agree entirely with that. E.g. Noel Gallagher grew up in a working class family but i certainly wouldn't call him working class now. There's some balance in the middle idk
@@rushilgholkar3620 he may not live a working class lifestyle, but the way he speaks and carries himself etc will always remain working class, that’s the point I’m making really
@@kJ922-h3j have you heard his children’s accents? all very much upper class, private school kids.
a perfect example of people getting money and changing their family’s class.
Blur was a middle class band for art and band kids. Oasis was a band for the working class who had nothing to live for except football and the pub
Umm no lmao. People loved to try and market them like this but in reality no one really gave a shit except a few select.
Exactly, Blur were fucking AWESOME
Britpop is the sound of my childhood! Growing up in the 90s was awesome! ☺️
Pulp headlined the Glastonbury festival, after Stone Roses dropped out at the last minute.
They closed the set with Common People, and it was one of the best sing-a-longs to ever close out the festival. Well worth a watch.
You should react to more Pulp since you seemed to like them. Everyone goes on about Blur vs Oasis for Britpop but for me Pulp were the real winners.
You've gotta be from Sheffield, only peeps from Sheffield say pulp are better than oasis 🤣
@@Leon011 oasis may have won the popularity contest, but pulp won everything else.
@@samwilson2046 I never liked pulp. When I was younger I preferred Blur and loved country house but as I got older Oasis just kept on bringing out great songs. Their hits are endless.
@@sunseeker9581 Yeah don’t get me wrong, oasis have put out many classics, I just personally identify more with and prefer pulp, suede and blur.
@@Leon011 definitely Sheffield
We have been having problems with the class system since around 900AD, we still ain't got it right.
The Bittersweet sample wasn't a sample. It was inspired by a reworking of The Last Time by Andrew Loog-Oldham that used strings. The fact the money went to Jagger and Richards was a technicality. Ashcroft was given the choice to either release or not release, knowing that it would be legally troubling. But he decided the world needed this song, more than he needed the money.
Where does massive attack come into it? I thought that's where it came from. I'm confused
Britpop was the biggest influence on me, I was a adolescent in britpops peak and the best way to describe it... a 60s & 70s collaboration throwback.
Blur was the daddy's to britpop so whoever put this video together got it wrong.
Nah, give your head a wobble, the verve shįt allover blur 🤣
@@Leon011 don't even go there.
The verve a few hits in the late 90s don't compare to what blur brought to the table and influenced a whole new genre.
Verve was indie not britpop too.
@@charliecosta3971 well, if you're going off of hits, the spice girls had 9 number one hits and blur only had 2 🤷♂️ so... 🤣😝
You should listen to The Manic Street Preachers as they have had some fantastic songs over the years 👍🏼
I was lucky to attend art college during the height of Britpop… I liked Blur and Oasis I suppose but Supergrass was definitely my fave. I Should Coco still features on most of my playlists. Can’t say I remember a great deal about student nights out, and I remain thankful that social media wasn’t an actual thing back then 🤣🤣🤣
Don't make the mistake of assuming the same class definitions are used over here as in America.
The working class has a distinct definition from middle class and you can only be a member of the upper class (aristocracy) if you are nobility.
It's not like America where it's just about how much money you have. While money and social status would have been largely historically aligned, it is not what places you in these groups.
Everyone I’ve spoken to assigns the classes based on how much money you have
A baron with huge debts struggling to keep an ancestral manor standing and in the family is still upper class, just as a high earning tradesman is working class and an accountant would be middle class, even though their earnings could be pretty much anything from £20k to multiple millions.
I can't say I have any conversations about it myself, but it is built on centuries of traditions and pretty well-established. Thankfully it's nonsense that we're slowly moving away from, because honestly, who cares?!
@@Sam-nd9ks if he has a manor house he's rich though but I get where you're coming from. Your family upbringing is a big part. But if your brought up in a council house living on benefits it's pretty safe to say you're working class.
@@sunseeker9581 Nah, you have to *work* to be working class. People on benefits have become a class of their own :P
@@BardOfAndromeda No, there's upper working class and lower working class. My old man was a self-employed plumber who owned a 5 bedroomed house with a huge garden, he was working class. I've got mates who temp in factories and warehouses but depend on UC and other benefits, they are working class too!
Both the Boo Radleys and the Verve, initially came from a musical genre called "shoegaze". Elastica were obsessed with early British "new wave", and Britpop itself comes out of the British "indie" genre.
I was 26 in 2000, and it was indeed an anticlimax. We didn't even get the millennium bug everyone was getting so worked up about :D
PS, as far as I know, they screwed a chair to the wall so that Liam could climb a ladder and sit on it. Shit was real in the 90s yo! :P
10:30 yes, i’m scottish and black but classism is far more common than racism here (it unfortunately still exists) but most of the things i’ve been hated on for are because i come from a “scheme family” (scottish versions of chavs)
There have been class issues in the UK for hundreds of years, but the US have class issues as well.
Britpop wasn't really about the working class, that aspect was generated by record companies and the media to sell records. Pulp and Oasis were working class, Blur, Elastica, Suede were firmly middle class and there was a band called Rialto who's lead singer was 2nd in line to an Earldom. Blur and Pulp weren't really 'britpop', Pulp had been going 10 years - they just happened to hit the big time at the same time. The verve did actually apply for the rights, but the stones' lawyers decided that as the sample was pretty much 100% of the song, they took them for 100% of the royalties. I think Richard Ashcroft bumped into one of the Stones who arranged for the royalties to revert back to the Verve, but it was like 20 years later so they missed out on a lot of cash
Good comments, and true of quite a few musical movements, sometimes a band has already been around and they get included as part of the new trend - e.g. Sweet and Slade had already been going when the 'Glam Rock' scene hit the UK in the early 1970s. Then 10 years later two more movements, first the electronica/synth pop of the late '70s-early 80s included The Human League, and O.M.D., who'd been around some years before; and the New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM) also late '70s, where bands like Motorhead and Judas Priest got included, had also been around some years. I think it's good though, it can give a band a boost when there's a perceived common style going down, even if it's by accident not design sometimes.
'Common People' resonates too strongly with reality, to be just a "clever marketing construct".
That, and Cockers absolute b*lls-out honesty & attitude, tell me this song is genuine.
It probably was true that some of the Brit-pop bands, geared their music a certain way, just out of ambition.
But the better ones (not the ones that use lower common denominators), are real songs.
Blur wasn't Britpop haha. I dont think any acts where exclusively Britpop most had been around a while, it was just that they produced more "pop" albums. In Pulps case a Different Class (5th Album) , Blur's offering was Park Life - (3rd Album). Even the Manic Street Preachers approach changed with Everything Must Go.
The real catalyst was Oasis who where unashamedly pop. With great simple catchy hooks and anthemic choruses. Basically a lot of great indie bands took their chance to go more mainstream. That's what Britpop was, not a collection of band with a genre aesthetic, more like a short period of time.
And yes it was mainly aimed at working classes...no one listened to Rialto haha
The 90’s were kids taking all their parents records from the 60’s , 70’s and 80’s and making an intelligent effort at recreating the positive vibes of the 60’s.
The music was primarily aimed at the student market. There was a revolution in education and more working class kids were going to university. It was music’s final party. Kids smoked, drank a hell of a lot and dabbled in drugs and a bit of free love.
Little did they know that just around the corner was 9/11, the war in Iraq, smoking bans, a movement to more healthy living, kids stopped getting drunk and being rebellious. All the record labels got bought up and folks got their music stars from reality shows. Yes , things really were better then. A bit dangerous but more free. Things felt spontaneous, no cameras watching, free to express. Today there are small token victories, which are allowed but all in all we have all been imprisoned in this social media bubble. The 90’s were youth’s last stroll through a paranoia free world where you cancelled people from your life not from the world.
Great articulate encapsulation of the era. The only thing i'd disagree with is that smoking was never a good or cool thing. It wasnt even rebellious after turning 16.
Love seeing your reactions! :) Why do you keep saying the working class and the middle class are the same thing? There is the working class, the middle class and the upper class. In the 90’s the working class became ‘cool’ the Pulp song is about an upper middle class girl wishing she was working class
My bad, working class and middle class are the same thing over here. Didn’t know y’all have 3 class systems instead of 2. 👍
@@FavourInternational that’s interesting. I’ve heard Americans say working class before. It seems like some people think of working class as a dirty word and prefer to call themselves middle class. If middle class means working class then what would middle class be in between? (the middle of)
The 90's were amazing for music. I definitley grew up the in right decade.
Check out William Shatner's version of Common People by Pulp. Oh, and Mick Jagger finally gave the Verve their royalties last year.
26:24 casual racism. also the "aboriginal" people are the Welsh and Scottish
how did they glue a chair to a wall? Another 90s hit was "no more nails"!
Screwed on I suppose
British bands are 10 times better than US bands...and thats the truth...
@@alibabaghanooj6442 yupe..and all the good songs and good bands are mostly from British..this is facts..
British music is top tier
Suede and Pulp are brilliant!!
native uk folk llol anglo saxons and celts . and pale as a bottle of milk . those instruments are from india and called sitars
I was in my early to mid 20’s in the britpop era. I had the time of my life!
Saw a few comments talking up the Manic Street Preachers. Add me to those.
One of the UK's best bands. I wouldn't say they were Britpop as they were around before it, and still active today, but definitely benefitted from being around at the time, and the album "Everything Must Go" came at the right time. Big anthemic rock songs with intelligent lyrics about things a lot of bands weren't really writing about. Their first #1 single was about the Spanish Civil War, of all things.
I know you said you weren't keen on James Dean Bradfield's voice, but you can't really judge him on that small clip. He's a great singer and guitarist. Puts all lyrics to music, too.
Oh and yes, look up the story of Richey Edwards. Man was a poet.
Actually the Kula Shaker's singer's mum is very famous in the UK.
the 90's was the end of Thatcherism in the UK and a new dawn.. new Labour cool Britania. the working class felt empowered again. the economy was booming people had jobs and out of this new confidence grew artistic expression. not just in music but in film and literature too. it was a great decade to grow up. unfortunately its all gone to shit again now.
Shit then..........bubblegum hippies...........
Thatcherism never ended. Her mantra lived on with Blair and Cameron. As Thatcher said, her greatest achievement was the creation of new labour and Tony blair
Blair was '97 it was all in full swing by then anyway, he rode the wave for his own publicity like he knows best, inviting 'Britpop' stars to Downing Street was said to be the beginning of the end, but the thought of the Gallaghers smoking a joint in the toilet is kinda funny
Tge guy from Blur is doing Gorrilaz now - even crazier!
Speaking of, she reaally needs to react to Gorillaz. There is so much material spanning from 1998 to current day to cover.
Long live the 90s
The manics are a Brilliant band. Lyrics are on point when you listen to them! Class
The Instrument on The Cornershop song is called a Sitar and it’s from India as is the band’s frontman.
The early 90s was a very optimistic time over here. We kicked out a corrupt government and there was a focus on helping the disenfranchised people get a say in society. The music reflected this optimism. Unfortunately, as always, the politicians spoiled it, but at least the music can take us back to a good era artistically. I’m pretty sure Animal Nitrate was released in the 1980s. You also keep flipping working class and middle class , which aren’t the same demographic this side of the pond. Or at least they weren’t back then. Some listening for you: Blur - Tender, Elastica - Stutter, Manic Street Preachers - If You Tolerate This, then your children will be next.
Working class and middle class are two different classes just to let you know 😁
There's some overlap of the two here but interesting that yall have distinctions b/w them
@@FavourInternational I might be wrong in that but that's what I got brought up to believe
@@FavourInternational In this country the first enslaved were the working class.
@@FavourInternational you should listen to working class hero by John Lennon if you haven't already, great song, genius lyrics
The British Class system is a very complex thing to explain - it's about a lot more than just money.
There was a great "Grumpy guide" to class a few years ago that I'd love to see you react to.
If you have heard of the group gorillaz the lead singer in blur is the head guy in gorillaz
The natives of Britain are generally regarded as Celtic. They had the highest density of light/red hair and light coloured eyes. They’d wear their hair in braids or locks and had their own culture before the Romans converted most of England. We don’t know much about them (comparatively to the Romans).
A handful of invasions and colonisations later we ended up with Britain.
England did not exist
I really literally had not worries then...not even a rainly cold day, I would still go out and be happy.....I love Supergrass.....those were fun times....Even my Team Arsenal were doing alright.......I might go play some music and feel alright again.....
bloody loved Suede.
So basically for about 18 years from 1979-97, the UK had a conservative government for the entire time (basically the UK republicans).
Because of everything that happened under Thatcher’s regime during the 80s, Britpop was basically the working classes all saying, we’ve had enough of this and culminated in 97 when the conservatives were finally voted out in favour of a new Labour government led by Tony Blair.
On a side note, Damon Albarn from Blur is also the guy who does Gorillaz and if you hear their song, ‘Song 2’ it’s instantly recognisable.
That “back up!!!” at Common People killed me 🤣 great video!
Elastica song Connection was used as the theme tune to Trigger Happy TV with Dom Joly which was a funny programme 👍🏼
As much as the Manic Street Preachers are my all time favorite band, there cant possibly be a Britpop top 10 without even mentioning Radiohead.
That is just absurd.
Liam gallagher got on that chair by using a ladder
In the Oasis video, I believe they used screws, to attach the chair to the wall.
Fascinating technology.
Fascinating they had screws in the 90’s 🙄
If you like some female leads, as well as Elastica you could try the Cardigans, the Cranberries, Texas, Natalie Imbruglia.
Catatonia and Echobelly also good options
No it's a bloke called Sean Moore lol, i chatted to him in 2020. Nice guy.
Shocking, no mention of the Super furry animals or Shed seven
You should react to Blur!
Britpop is literally one of my favourite types of music
Coo - I daren't mention when I was born but we too found it hard to believe folks in earlier generations had a wild time (and the student nurse parties we had were pretty wild!). But your reaction to the videos was priceless as they were iconic to us. We have had (and still have) a struggle between those who have to work to live and those who 'work' to increase their already inherited or substantial wealth - that's why, in part, we have better worker rights than the USA. you guys need to fight for your rights too. Loving your reactions though.
My mums stories of parties in the nursing homes were outrageous 😆 made me a bit sad I missed that era of nursing, these days, in more ways than one 😔
What was happening in the 80s/90s in the UK? Margaret Thatcher.
The rolling stones gave the verve the rights back they didn't sample the rolling stones they sampled a orchestra playing a rolling stones song. It doesn't matter now Richard Ashcroft now has the the rights to his song.
Wheres Skunk Anansie and Garbage!
They probably fit more into the britrock genre than britpop. Still would love to see Favour react to Skunk Anansie.
They are called Sitars, a type of guitar that has to be played while sitting, hence the name sit-ar.
South Asian
Brim full of ASHA playing Sitar Indian instrument
Damon Albarn, Blur set up the Gorilaz
If verve had credited the Stones they wouldn't have lost so much
The frontman of the band cornershop also had Indian heritage. Hence the sitar.
Cornershop.. a crap heavy metal band.
C.
Listen to some ‘Wolf Alice’ they have quite a 90s sound with a female lead 👍
23:20 they bolted a chair to a wall love?
Great reaction. Made me recall the Britpop days and consider wtf it was all about. I reckon it's like Rap because Britpop spoke to a sub-culture left out of a mainstream durge of musicians who spoke over the heads of the Working Class or Black Community in the case of Rap.
Lol, maybe Eminem would have been a Britpop boy if he'd grown up in Britain
Sitar are those instruments in Brim full of asha Brian Jones played one in the Rolling Stones song Paint It Black
I can't believe they didn't mention the Stone Roses
Britain at one time in the distant past was part of mainland Europe.
The first humans came from Africa and spread into Europe/Britain.
The water levels increased and cut Britain off from mainland Europe.
At this stage in our history, Neanderthal & modern humans consisted.
From the stone age we traveled far and wide, trading with mainland Europe.
Britain was invaded and settled by the Romans for several hundreds of years but the scots were not conquered.
We have subsequently been invaded by Vikings & the Normans.
Our gene dominance is mainly Germanic. Scotland, Wales & Cornwall less so.
And saxons
Krispian Mills the lead singer of Kula Shaker is the son of Hayley Mills who was a very famous child and teen actress in her day she is still alive and acting.
The original people of Britain were the Celts the same as Scotland, Ireland and Wales, Vikings and Romans took over after
Best time to be at Uni. So many memories of club nights and great gigs.
Nice top, looks like the England tracksuit from the euros
The Year 2000 was erm the MILLENNIUM so yeah things were going on sheesh
We were out drinking white lightening, stealing badges off cars and generally having good fun with mates. Great times 😊
Oh fuck that, from now on I'm calling the Welsh "the dragon ppl" 🤣🤣
Class issues have been going longer than the nintys 😂
Native Britons are celts or britons and lived in tribes such as the iceni tribe or the brigante tribe and many others
React to other The Verve songs, “Lucky Man”, “The Drugs Don’t Work” 👍
No Echobelly?!!
Songs like "Call me Name" & "Great Things"
Outraged!
@@arlojones7428 Still is, still doing the odd gig....
About the chair, before green screens they would've used screws. 😀👍
Also the class system....ypu have blue collar white collar , we have 3 levels, lower class.middle class upper class .
There are race issues, & there are class issues. And very often they're mixed together.
Sometimes class issues are used to disguise a war on race.
And sometimes race issues, are used to disguise class wars (I see this in particular as a major issue in the UK).
The attitudes that fuel these behaviours, can warp into many other kinds of abuse too. In Britain today, the hate some people have for the poor, has been harnessed and targeted towards the disabled too. Its truly sickening, & I'm more than furious with the parts of our R-wing media & politics that helped create this.
All these awful attitudes are connected, and fuelled, by insecurity & hate.
Apologies for the rant. You seem like an awesome person gets this. I'll try & find a happier subject next time :)
Hi, it's your favourite critic from across the pond. You keep mistaking middle class for working class. Very different, believe me. Plus, things happened before we all were born. Fact 😊 Comment added with good humour, sorry humor.
Middle class isn't working class, middle class is higher up on the social scale. Mainly people with enough inherited assets that they don't really have to work. Upper class are those with even more assets connections & titles.
25:42 it’s called a Sitar, they’re Indian.
Hiya Favour, I've every Blur and Oasis albums they ever made,my 2 favorite Blur albums are Parklife and The Great Escape, the rest are pretty much average, my 2 favourite Oasis albums are Definately Maybe and (what's the story) morning glory, this is Choppy in Whitehaven, Cumbria, Great Britain
The master plan not in your top 2 😲, love that album
You've had class issues since the 90's....yeah, since the 990's!!!! And before that, probably! 😂
No way Verve should have been top and the Stereophonics should have been in the top 3!
The class system a tad older than 1990 😂
It actually wasn’t mick jagger’s fault. The ex-rolling stones manager owned their catalogue from before about 1967 or so - which is when that song was written. So jagger didn’t have a choice in the matter.
Later, jagger and Keith Richards got control of that back and subsequently gave Ashcroft and the verve their share of the royalties.
You're very astute. You notice things in Pulp's video to Common People that I'd never have noticed, and you noticed them right off the bat.
U focus way to much on the videos
*too
Rolling Stones actually gave the rights to the song to The Verve a couple of years ago, so the problem is no longer relevant :)
Working class was lower middle class and lower class population not regular middle class. And I think our class system are very different. We have upper upper class, middle upper class, lower upper class so on and so forth
He said working class people
I love ur take on music I grew up on. Southeast London bloke really enjoys ur videos. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 love if ur ever in London let me buy u a pint. So enjoy ur videos
Tbh this video has got me thinking and annoyed with whoever narratively put it together.
You Said earlier you heard different types of genres and you was right so I can see how you was confused.
Propaganda put any band with a guitar sound during the mid to late 90s and labeled it britpop.
The only 3 britpop bands on this list was Blur, Pulp and SuperGrass.
Oasis many times told the media they was a Rock band, Suede, Kula Shaker, Bluetones, verve, was a Indie/Alternative rock band
Elestica was grundge/Punk.
The history of Britpop started in 1994 with Blur creating this unique funky pop sound with the Hit ParkLife, it was basically upbeat pop.
Around the same time you had a influx of indie bands too and also there was Euro pop which was bands Like Ace of Base, 2 unlimted, Culture beat which would fall in the dance category also in the mid 90s was a very large scene for UK Garage which was like dance music but a faster beat with many garage acts adding the microphone chatting to the beat but it could be classed as rap.
There was a song on this list from 1993. So how it can be britpop if the birth of britpop wasn't born until 1994?
So to have the verve has number 1 is like having coffee without the coffee.
Blur will always be the band that gave birth to britpop so to have it at number 4 goes to show you how wrong this video is and didn't want you to go away with the wrong education.
Any time you type in britpop in a search you will always find Blur as top of the search.
Anyway I hope this comment made sense and thanks for all your efforts.
The Verve video is about Northern swagger apparently
In England the class system has existed for hundreds there for hundreds of years
Sorry to say there has been a class system struggle in the UK for centuries.
The instruments are sitars from the Indian culture
You asked what was going on in the 90's for the middle class. Labour dethroned the Conservatives and formed a new government which was very much working class orientated. That contributed largely to the rise of Brit pop.