What have you watched on TV?

[Supernaut]

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Not sure why Common People that merited a documentary.

It was an ordinary song from a pretty mediocre time for music...

Completely agree with the first part of your post - I never liked Pulp and I've always particularly disliked Common People. As for the era in general, while the whole Brit Pop thing is undoubtedly an embarrassing ****-stain on the history of UK music, there's loads of great mid-90s American records on my all time faves list.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Completely agree with the first part of your post - I never liked Pulp and I've always particularly disliked Common People. As for the era in general, while the whole Brit Pop thing is undoubtedly an embarrassing ****-stain on the history of UK music, there's loads of great mid-90s American records on my all time faves list.

Completely disagree. Bashing Britpop is like shooting fish in a barrel - yes there was a fair bit of dross as with any genre of period but it gave us some (in my view) generation defining albums. The Bends/OK Computer, Elastica, Definitely Maybe/WTSMG, Parklife, Different Class to name a but a few.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Well that would contradict what Jarvis said in the Britpop documentary Live forever, where he said it was based on people he met in London with rich parents getting all excited about going to greasy spoon cafes and such like

Not necessarily.FWIW,he also attributed the song to having its roots on his take as a Northerner coming down to London.

The unconscious is a funny thing though.He also mentioned that he was relatively better off than a lot of people on the same Sheffield estate that he grew up on.

 

[Supernaut]

Completely disagree. Bashing Britpop is like shooting fish in a barrel - yes there was a fair bit of dross as with any genre of period but it gave us some (in my view) generation defining albums. The Bends/OK Computer, Elastica, Definitely Maybe/WTSMG, Parklife, Different Class to name a but a few.

I'll give you OK Computer. I wouldn't give you a squirt of **** for the rest. For me, all that stuff marked the death of great British independant guitar music. When you think what came in the decade before, none of those '90s bands are in the same league IMHO.

 

[MK Shrimper]

I'll give you OK Computer. I wouldn't give you a squirt of **** for the rest. For me, all that stuff marked the death of great British independant guitar music. When you think what came in the decade before, none of those '90s bands are in the same league IMHO.

Well we'll have to agree to disagree. I still play those albums today and I still love them all. Yes the majors cottoned onto the fact that people liked guitar band music but it's a bit of a hyperbolic statement to say that it marked the death of great British independant guitar music because it's still going today - it's back in the shadows and pop dominates the charts, same as it ever was.

 

[Supernaut]

Well we'll have to agree to disagree. I still play those albums today and I still love them all.

Indeed, it'd be a funny old world if we all liked the same thing.

And just to get it straight - I'm keeping the Stone Roses, Smiths, House of Love, Bradford, McCarthy, Spacemen 3, Wedding Present and Cocteau Twins, and you get Oasis, Northern Uproar, Dodgy, Menswear, Sleeper and Echobelly, yes? Great :-)

 

[MK Shrimper]

Indeed, it'd be a funny old world if we all liked the same thing.

And just to get it straight - I'm keeping the Stone Roses, Smiths, House of Love, Bradford, McCarthy, Spacemen 3, Wedding Present and Cocteau Twins, and you get Oasis, Northern Uproar, Dodgy, Menswear, Sleeper and Echobelly, yes? Great :-)

Oasis, every day of the week and twice on Sundays (well, DM & WTSMG)

 

[Napster]

Indeed, it'd be a funny old world if we all liked the same thing.

And just to get it straight - I'm keeping the Stone Roses, Smiths, House of Love, Bradford, McCarthy, Spacemen 3, Wedding Present and Cocteau Twins, and you get Oasis, Northern Uproar, Dodgy, Menswear, Sleeper and Echobelly, yes? Great :-)

Gay Dad?

The only good thing to come out of the 90s was the Golden Age of Hip Hop and Acid Jazz.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Opinions are like arseholes. Everyone has got one.

 

[Napster]

Opinions are like arseholes. Everyone has got one.

mine is correct though. #fact

 

[Supernaut]

Gay Dad?

The only good thing to come out of the 90s was the Golden Age of Hip Hop and Acid Jazz.

Ha ha - I spent a day driving around neolithic Wiltshire with the bass player from Gay Dad last year. Lovely chap, terrible band.

Agree about hip-hop, but for me it's all the great US post-hardcore and slowcore (for want of a better term) that makes the decade.

 

[MK Shrimper]

mine is correct though. #fact

#shudder.
1008 × 673

 

[Napster]

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#shudder.
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Jamiroquai's band was tight. They played a great gig, and for the first 2 albums they were excellent, before Jay K got a bit too big for his boots.

 

[Cricko]

This must be seen by all to save the future for our offsprings..We are responsable for this gigantic **** up. Things need to change QUICKLY.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bmbn47

 

[Mad Cyril]

Black Earth Rising.

Three episodes in. Its a bit boring and I really dislike the main character.

 

[Napster]

Maniac. It's a bit dull at the moment.

 

[Benfleet A1]

Alex, Swedish crime drama. First episode was last week but it looks good.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Jodie Whitaker as The Doctor.....smashing stuff, hope the series carries on with the same quality.

 

[Member]

The Vietnam War (Documentary by Ken Burns)
An incredible feat of TV and an absolute must watch

 

[Mad Cyril]

The Vietnam War (Documentary by Ken Burns)
An incredible feat of TV and an absolute must watch

I am about six hours in. Its fantastic.