What´s the best british record from the 90´s?

Bob And Charlotte · Post by **Bob And Charlotte** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 2:02 pm

Parklife?
Different Class?
Suede?
Definitely Maybe?
The Bends?
Urban Hymns?
Dummy?
Blue Lines?
(What´s The Story) Morning Glory?
Screamadelica?
Ok Computer?

noiseradio · Post by **noiseradio** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 4:08 pm

Of that list, I'd pick OK Computer, with The Bends oh so close behind.

Some of my other favorites (besides the Blur and Pulp records you already mentioned) would be:

The Sundays, Reading Writing and Arithmetic
The Stairs, Mexican R&B
Seal, debut
The La's
Teenage Fanclub, Bandwagonesque (might be my overall favorite from the 90s)
Stone Roses, debut (name escapes me at the moment)
David Bowie, Outside
David Bowie, Earthling
David Bowie, Black Tie, White Noise
Brutal Youth
All This Useless Beauty

Poppet · Post by **Poppet** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 4:22 pm

yay, the La's!

still pissed that i lost that one in the divorce. grrrrrr.

girl out of time · Post by **girl out of time** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 8:01 pm

u2´s Achtung baby!

noiseradio · Post by **noiseradio** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 8:42 pm

That's a good one. Add it to my list.

Post by **BlueChair** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 11:02 pm

girl out of time wrote:u2´s Achtung baby!

U2 are Irish, not British. Be careful with that...

noiseradio · Post by **noiseradio** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 12:25 am

Can we name Canadian bands? Queen Elizabeth's on your money...

bambooneedle · Post by **bambooneedle** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 4:09 am

So is Different Class better than This Is Hardcore? Hmmm.

Bob And Charlotte · Post by **Bob And Charlotte** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 6:52 am

noiseradio wrote:Of that list, I'd pick OK Computer, with The Bends oh so close behind.

Some of my other favorites (besides the Blur and Pulp records you already mentioned) would be:

The Sundays, Reading Writing and Arithmetic
The Stairs, Mexican R&B
Seal, debut
The La's
Teenage Fanclub, Bandwagonesque (might be my overall favorite from the 90s)
Stone Roses, debut (name escapes me at the moment)
David Bowie, Outside
David Bowie, Earthling
David Bowie, Black Tie, White Noise
Brutal Youth
All This Useless Beauty

Stone Roses debut is without a doubt a masterpiece. but its not a 90´s record. (it was released in 89).

Bob And Charlotte · Post by **Bob And Charlotte** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 6:53 am

bambooneedle wrote:So is Different Class better than This Is Hardcore? Hmmm.

of course it is. hands down

Post by **BlueChair** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 7:49 am

noiseradio wrote:Can we name Canadian bands? Queen Elizabeth's on your money...

Rest assured, a Canadian is not responsible for the best album of the 90's

pip_52 · Post by **pip_52** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 9:05 am

Are you discounting the vast musical contribution of . . . the Crash Test Dummies?

miss buenos aires · Post by **miss buenos aires** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 9:26 am

Bob And Charlotte wrote:
bambooneedle wrote:So is Different Class better than This Is Hardcore? Hmmm.
of course it is. hands down

Yes. And I quote here, bambi, not to annoy you, but because Different Class is so indisputably a better record than This Is Hardcore that I just think Bob & Charlotte said it best. So why am I posting? Good question...

noiseradio · Post by **noiseradio** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 9:36 am

Bob And Charlotte wrote:
Stone Roses debut is without a doubt a masterpiece. but its not a 90´s record. (it was released in 89).

D'oh! I first heard it in 1990. I guess it took a while to get to Abilene, TX.

Soup Dragons - the one with I'm Free. Loved that record.

selfmademug · Post by **selfmademug** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 10:44 am

I'd throw in a vote for BANDWAGONESQUE as a great record. Not best of the decade though. Gott a think about that one. Plus, they are Scottish, no?-- gotta be careful with that, too!! Especially in the '90s!

Bob And Charlotte · Post by **Bob And Charlotte** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 10:55 am

Bands that are NOT british:

U2
Teenage Fanclub
Belle and Sebastian
Maniac Street Preachers
Travis
Stereophonics
Super Furry Animals
Crowded House

miss buenos aires · Post by **miss buenos aires** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 11:17 am

I thought Scotland and Wales were both part of Great Britain?

noiseradio · Post by **noiseradio** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 11:20 am

She's right, you know. Great Britian: England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland. Perfectly correct to use the term "British" for all of the above, evn though some folks may wish things were otherwise. (The Union Jack, after all includes St. George's, St. Andrew's, and St. Patrick's crosses. Wales got left out

).

So Teenage Fanclub is in.

selfmademug · Post by **selfmademug** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 11:28 am

Yeah but ask a Scottish person if they'd like to be characterised as 'British.' Anyway, it's B&C's question, and therefore she (?) can define it.

noiseradio · Post by **noiseradio** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 11:39 am

A Scottish student of mine insists on it.

Bob And Charlotte · Post by **Bob And Charlotte** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 2:07 pm

my mistake.

sorry folks...

laughingcrow · Post by **laughingcrow** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 2:19 pm

Bands that are not british.....U2...that's it.

Great Britain = England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

I am Scottish and British. Ok, depending on your outlook/religion/politics, some people in Scotland, Wales and Norn Ireland will claim that they're not british....but they technically are. I don't see why the idea of the UK is so hard to grasp...it's a little like saying Im Texan and American, expcept british countries have a greayer sense of identity (hey, maybe Texas wasn't a good example to use there then!

).

Noise..Wales got left out of the Union Jack because it has always been pretty close to England, as much as many patriotic welshmen will deny it...they were part of proto-britain when the UJ was made in the 17th century.

Most people would probably say Oasis' What's the story morning glory in terms of popularity and influence.

I would have to say The Bends though, if we're only talking 90s bands...also

Pulp's Different Class
The Manic Street Preacher's The Holy Bible
The Stone Roses's The Stone Roses
Travis' The Man Who,
The Verve's Urban Hymns,
Blur's 13,
Coldplay's Parachutes
Ocean Colour Scene's Moseley Shoals

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 4:48 pm

noiseradio wrote:She's right, you know. Great Britian: England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland

She's right (Scotland and Wales), but you're not, nor Crow. The correct definition is GB = the first three, it's only the political entity of 'the United Kingdom of GB and Northern Ireland' that includes the latter. Of course many Northern Irish people, sad to say, regard themselves as 'British', but that's the legacy of fucked-up history for you.

In mainland Europe (and no doubt elsewhere), it's a common misconception to think that English = British, which is like saying Catalans are Castillians, etc.

I'd go for The Bends, myself.

noiseradio · Post by **noiseradio** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 9:15 pm

Withdrawn. You're quite right, and I should know better. That's exactly what I teach my students, so at least I got it right when it counts. All the sneering Orangemen in the world don't make Northern Ireland British, even in title. Remind me not to shoot my mouth off in Ulster--might start another Rising.

Post by **BlueChair** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 10:09 pm

I know that there's a lot of anti-McCartney sentiment on this board, but I think Flaming Pie is easily among the best albums of the 90's.