Chimes, sing Sunday morn, Today's the day she's sworn, To steal what she never could own And race from this hole she calls home (Waterfall) Interviewer: What's the best thing that anyone has ever said about the band then? a long, deafening, silence Ian Brown: John? John Squire: Ian. another terrifyingly awkward silence Ian Brown: [...]
***following the conclusion of their tour and the end of the promotional cycle for "The Modern Age" I have spent a lot of time thinking about Sleeper then and Sleeper now. Here are my thoughts which include some thoughts you may have read in other articles I have written...but mainly these are new [...]
"Suede" When "Suede" arrived I was visiting my girlfriend in the nowhere town she lived in. Two nobodies in nowhere; the Suede demographic. At her parents house, sat together on the sofa poring over the lyric sheet as one glam rock, indie pop, sleazy bed track, sex and drug referencing slab of brilliance followed another. [...]
Different Class, 1995 - Pulp It's not the best Pulp album. That honour, of course, goes to "His 'n' Hers". But this was, much like "(What's the Story") Morning Glory?" or "Parklife" the album that put Pulp at the heart of the popular culture. Peak Britpop. From the fringes to the fringes of the mainstream [...]
The most interesting thing about looking over the Pitchfork choices for the top fifty Britpop albums has been seeing how people outside of the UK view the era and the music. The notion of Britishness can be a confusing, infuriating and complex thing. Where Emily Thornberry saw something ugly in a flag of St. George [...]
Up until this point in the Pitchfork list of the 50 best Britpop albums there have been occasional mis-steps and mistakes that we can probably put down to something being lost in translation. For the most part the albums selected which were Britpop albums have been good choices and have been in, or around, the [...]
"I will give thee thanks in the great congregation; I will praise thee among much people." (Psalm 35:18, King James Version) Give thanks. Sing praises. Share the good news. Sleeper are risen. They have shaken off the shackles of creative death and have risen, Lazarus like, from the tomb. They have returned. They bring good [...]
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