On 02/09/2020 09:48, Mark Goodge wrote:
This has already been mentioned in passing, so I thought I'd string
together a playlist for it. I've also reformatted the list so that it
works better in a text-only medium.
Ta.
It is a very Oasis-heavy chart (13 of the tracks are by them), and Blur
(with 7) and Oasis together account for 20 of the 50.
Yes, I did think this was a potential disadvantage of this format (and one they obviously tried to work around in the radio show) that the top end would inevitably be very Oasis-heavy. Those 13 tracks are literally all their 90s hits - unless you count 'Wibbling Rivalry' - plus one that was never a UK single.
Other than those
two, there are only seven acts that have more than a single entry -
Catatonia and Ocean Colour Scene with two each, and Pulp, the Manics,
Kula Shaker and The Verve with three each.
Three Stereophonics tracks as well.
Videos are mainly from the bands' (or their record labels') own YouTube
channels, so it's mostly official videos all the way down. But there are
a couple of more obscure bands towards the bottom that don't seem to
have an official presence on YouTube, so I've had to resort to fan
uploads, which aren't quite as good quality.
I can't believe that any of these acts are really that obscure, but then
it often seems a bit random which videos aren't available on official channels; I'm sure it reflects all kinds of contractual stuff behind the scenes, but it's very opaque. For that matter some videos on official channels aren't the versions you might expect - and whilst it doesn't
apply in this case, a surprising number of official channels are clearly uploading old VHS copies.
And there's one well-known
song which doesn't seem to have an official video at all, so I've had to
use the TotP appearance. Which is notable for a rather bizarre
introduction by the presenters.
I'm going to have have to watch it now because I'm sure I've seen videos
for all 51 of these songs (but see above).
There's no Spotify playlist as I don't have a Spotify account,
I have.
but if
you want an audio-only version (and you can put up with Jo Whiley) you
can listen to the Radio 2 countdown online, at least until it disappears
from the archives (get_iplayer FTW).
I finished listening to it yesterday - which is why I was avoiding this
post for fear of spoilers even though I had a pretty good idea what was going to be in there.
The Radio 2 show also includes a
selection of tracks that, if the record-buying public had had more
taste, would have been in the top fifty!
Or, a cynic might suggest, tracks that relate to star interviews they'd recorded before the chart was delivered. In order to accommodate that,
they dropped several tracks from the Top 50 itself, mostly by acts with multiple entries.
For the record, the "bonus" tracks were:
Elastica - Connection
Sleeper - Inbetweener [plus interview with Louise Wener]
McAlmont & Butler - Yes [introduced by Johnny Marr]
Echobelly - Great Things [introduced by Sonia Madan]
"Chris Brown" <extreme_rice@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:rje5ao$hg7$1@dont-email.me...Johnny Marr's favourite Britpop record he said. Good of him not to pick
On 02/09/2020 09:48, Mark Goodge wrote:
This has already been mentioned in passing, so I thought I'd string
together a playlist for it. I've also reformatted the list so that it
works better in a text-only medium.
Ta.
It is a very Oasis-heavy chart (13 of the tracks are by them), and Blur
(with 7) and Oasis together account for 20 of the 50.
Yes, I did think this was a potential disadvantage of this format (and
one they obviously tried to work around in the radio show) that the
top end would inevitably be very Oasis-heavy. Those 13 tracks are
literally all their 90s hits - unless you count 'Wibbling Rivalry' -
plus one that was never a UK single.
Other than those
two, there are only seven acts that have more than a single entry -
Catatonia and Ocean Colour Scene with two each, and Pulp, the Manics,
Kula Shaker and The Verve with three each.
Three Stereophonics tracks as well.
Videos are mainly from the bands' (or their record labels') own YouTube
channels, so it's mostly official videos all the way down. But there are >>> a couple of more obscure bands towards the bottom that don't seem to
have an official presence on YouTube, so I've had to resort to fan
uploads, which aren't quite as good quality.
I can't believe that any of these acts are really that obscure, but
then it often seems a bit random which videos aren't available on
official channels; I'm sure it reflects all kinds of contractual stuff
behind the scenes, but it's very opaque. For that matter some videos
on official channels aren't the versions you might expect - and whilst
it doesn't apply in this case, a surprising number of official
channels are clearly uploading old VHS copies.
And there's one well-known
song which doesn't seem to have an official video at all, so I've had to >>> use the TotP appearance. Which is notable for a rather bizarre
introduction by the presenters.
I'm going to have have to watch it now because I'm sure I've seen
videos for all 51 of these songs (but see above).
There's no Spotify playlist as I don't have a Spotify account,
I have.
but if
you want an audio-only version (and you can put up with Jo Whiley) you
can listen to the Radio 2 countdown online, at least until it disappears >>> from the archives (get_iplayer FTW).
I finished listening to it yesterday - which is why I was avoiding
this post for fear of spoilers even though I had a pretty good idea
what was going to be in there.
The Radio 2 show also includes a
selection of tracks that, if the record-buying public had had more
taste, would have been in the top fifty!
Or, a cynic might suggest, tracks that relate to star interviews
they'd recorded before the chart was delivered. In order to
accommodate that, they dropped several tracks from the Top 50 itself,
mostly by acts with multiple entries.
For the record, the "bonus" tracks were:
Elastica - Connection
Sleeper - Inbetweener [plus interview with Louise Wener]
McAlmont & Butler - Yes [introduced by Johnny Marr]
Echobelly - Great Things [introduced by Sonia Madan]
Given how white and male Britpop was, these 4 also upped the diversity - first 2 female fronted.-a 3rd fronted by BAME LGBT.-a 4th fronted by
female BAME.
For the avoidance of doubt, I state this as observation not criticism. Particularly as I loved 3rd and 4th at the time (although loved Natural Animal even more).
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