sal paradise wrote: ↑Thu May 23, 2024 1:24 pm
My friend described Rivers’ songwriting style as: “it’s like once he has an idea, he
has to finish it no matter how good or bad.”
It would account for 70% of their output over the last 20 years.
That actually makes a lot of sense. Me personally, I've recorded literally thousands of songs, written tens of thousands, and other people only get to hear maybe the best 5% because when you write prolifically you get to be very good at filtering what works and what sucks.
eilrahc wrote: ↑Thu May 23, 2024 11:50 am
Yeah, Britpop was sort of interesting, it burnt very bright for a very short time and really just in one place (although I think Oasis cracked America), but it was absolutely massive., if you were alive in Britain in the nineties it was just
so ubiquitous and culturally significant. I think still think the alternative thing defines that era more broadly (and some of the Britpop and Britpop-adjacent bands were influenced by it), but yeah, Britpop was just huge.
It was overall as a "scene" (not that I totally qualify it as that) very short, probably just about 5 years give or take because I remember it as mid to late 90s. Built on the back of stuff like the shoegaze/Madchester scenes which explains why future luminaries of Britpop often started more ambient - Ocean Colour Scene and The Verve spring to mind.
I adored Britpop, and to an extent still do. The sense of national pride that went along with it was nice, but really the thing with staying power was and is the songs. Even somewhat also-ran bands like Shed Seven and The Charlatans had a couple of outstanding tracks - hear
Heroes by the former and
North Country Boy by the latter. Or after The Las were driven apart by the madness of Lee Mavers, how John Power picked up his own pieces and made good anyway, with
Finetime being the best
Paradise City ripoff I've ever heard. Huge compliment but it's basically the same chords, same rhythm in the same key, works though.
Even obscure stuff that has the Britpop kinda vibe (via a classic punk song) -
Sound Of The Suburbs. Bloody miss John Peel; after he passed, no one really replaced him and turned us all onto great music we might have missed.
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