The Ballad of Darren mag ich noch ein wenig lieber als Do It Yourself, genau. :)
Im Herbst 1997 war Britpop doch längst vorbei! ;)
The year 1997 should have been so Britpop: the Britpop prime minister entered Downing Street; Be Here Now by Oasis was given five stars by Q magazine; Blur and Pulp were due to release hugely anticipated albums. But it didn’t quite work out that way. Jaded, exhausted and punch-drunk from the past few years, those two bands created dark, introspective (yet brilliant) anti-Britpop hangover records. And Be Here Now – which, if anything, sounded too Britpop – turned out to be an overproduced, coke-fuelled mess.
By August, the positivity in the air dissipated abruptly with the death of Diana, Princess of Wales: a national mood-changer that accelerated the demise of a fading scene. Overnight, Beatles feather cuts were chopped off and people started to dress more like Robbie Williams (another suspect, by the way; if Wannabe was the uppercut, then Angels was the KO).
The murderer, then? Hubris. Like almost every other cultural phenomenon, Britpop became engorged with its own success: too busy in the Groucho toilets to do any actual work. Still, The Universal is a pretty song, isn’t it?
Guardian: What ended Britpop: Oasis, Diana or Euro 96?
Wahrscheinlich ist The Ballad of Darren auch eher Anti-Britpop.
Muss mal wieder Straw hören. ****1/2 sollten für die auch drin sein. Vielleicht sogar ****3/4. Auch wenn Shoplifting von 1999 ist. So schöne Lyrics:
If we get dropped I will sail out the window
Clutching the artwork to my debut single
We’ll fly past the helicopter high over St. Pauls
Head for the ocean I will live with the seagulls
I don’t want to talk about it
I’m just glad we’ve failed
So bye bye UK
This is Disneyland
So bye bye UK
I’m moving to California
That’s what I’m telling my friends
Warum waren Phantom Planet eigentlich so erfolgreich, während man auf Straw stoßen muss, indem man auf LimeWire nach Songs von Starsailor sucht?
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Dirty, dirty feet from the concert in the grass / I wanted to believe that freedom there could last (Willy Mason)