Question:
I listen to albums like Pulp - Different Class
and Blur - Parklife, practically flawless albums, and I wonder, why is Britpop the most annoying genre in alternative rock? The voices are so annoying and the pop gets so perfect in construction it gets boring. In any case, the question here is: What is the best Britpop Band?

Choices:
Suede
Blur
Pulp
Stone Roses

 

Blur's Parklife ranks as the best Britpop album

So, you start a poll to ask us the best Britpop BAND, but then you give us the best ALBUM? You want to know the best band in an "annoying" genre? You seem to imply that these "flawless" albums are annoying, and you seem to imply that a perfectly constructed pop song is "boring"? Me confused. I think I need a map to get through your stream of consciousness...

I'm pretty sure any poll of best Britpop band would have to include Oasis, and since yours doesn't, I'm gonna abstain from voting. But if I was gonna pick, I'd go off menu and take The Beautiful South.

Stone Roses I'm sure were part of the Madchester scene of a few years before. Oasis are a big Britpop band you've seemed to missed out.

Out of what's there, i'd take Blur, and I absolutely loathe Oasis.

But you didn't vote.

I'd have to pick the Stone Roses, although i'd like to see a bigger list to choose from.

And joji, i'm with you on Oasis.

I pick Six By Seven.

I'll go with the Doves.

It depends on the definition of Britpop. Are you saying that the halcyon days of 94-95 are the apex? If so, I would have to say that Parklife defines Britpop, with it being a wholly British record. I cannot imagine an American band making Parklife. As for Oasis, they were the band, period. But, I can definitely see an American band making a record that sounds like Oasis. I love them, but they are more of a rock band, than a Britpop band. Stone Roses should be disqualified, since Second Coming (released in 94) was panned critically, and was not the sales juggernaut that it was expected to be. Pulp's A Different Class is, like Parklife, a totally British album, and I love it. My favorite of that era would probably have to be Blur, since they truly defined the sound. But what about Supergrass? No love for I Should Coco? Or The Verve? Or Spiritualized? Or Shack? Or the Manics? What is the classification?

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Originally posted by joji:
Out of what's there, i'd take Blur, and I absolutely loathe Oasis.

Lots of people do, but it's still ridiculous to offer a "best Britpop band" without listing the one who is, for the most part, responsible for the genre. Without the Oasis/Blur feud, Britpop would not have been as big.

U2.

I said it.

They may not be part of the 90's britpop thang but in my opinion THE SMITHS are without question the best brit band. They made literature while these other blur/pulp/suede wankers made trashy romance novels.

Yeah right

If we're going by best albums than Stones Roses' self-titled just edges out Pulp's Different Class, but for best band it's a close one between Oasis (how the hell did you not put them in the poll?) and Blur. I'd probably give the edge to Blur anyways, but Oasis' absence from the poll makes it an easy choice.

Definetly Blur in my opinion,Parklife is such great record,and i've been playing it a lot lately.I don't remeber hearing such a awsome pop record as Parklife.
Very strange that Oasis is not included!

The BETA BAND!

With all these random polls popping up, maybe we should just have a separate section for polls and so-and-so vs. so-and-so comparisons.

Best Britpop Band?

The Beatles.... oh wait, do you mean from the 90's wave?

then

The La's

Oh... and if you think they're annoying then why waste your time? I on the other hand appreciate Britpop along with Big Band, Blues, and Bluegrass to name a few. Life is too short to talk about the hate.

Ou est les Smiths ou le Verve??!??!

If I'm left only with those four;
Suede's eponymous album vs. The Stone Roses debut. The only record that throws that slightly off would be Parklife, simply becuase it's brilliant. But, if you look at those three bands in chronological order then you see that each are necessary to the existence of the successor. The Stone Roses revived the dead scene (left by the dissolve of The Smiths) in 1989 with their debut album and Suede fills The Stone Roses' void with Suede in 1993 (and with the exit of Bernard Butler they aren't really relevant to the scene again until 1996's
Coming Up). That, combined with Definitely Maybe from Oasis thrusts Britpop in the limelight again, rightly so turning the attention of the press and peoples to the fued between Oasis et Blur. Thus without the previous two, (Stone Roses, Suede) Parklife wouldn't have been as near as successful.

-Andy