Blur performed their chart topping single on the BBC's Top of the Pops, with the band's bassist Alex James wearing an 'Oasis' t-shirt.

While music was the main focus, fashion, art and politics also got involved, with Tony Blair and New Labour aligning themselves with the movement. In 1995, Pulp released the album Different Class which reached number one, and included the single " Common People". The idea of post-Britpop has been extended to include bands originating in the new millennium, including Razorlight, Kaiser Chiefs, Arctic Monkeys and Bloc Party, [92] seen as a "second wave" of Britpop". Regardless of country of origin all tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description.You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Music critic Jon Savage pinpointed Be Here Now as the moment where Britpop ended; Savage said that while the album "isn't the great disaster that everybody says", he commented that "[i]t was supposed to be the big, big triumphal record" of the period. It may seem a bit unfair to lump James into the baggy bracket, seeing as they've had a long and varied career, but Gold Mother is one of the key works in the genre - and do you remember the t-shirts? Drawn from across the UK, the themes of their music tended to be less parochially centred on British, English and London life, and more introspective than had been the case with Britpop at its height. Main article: Post-Britpop Coldplay, the most commercially successful post-Britpop band, on stage in 2017.

There is always space in pop for this kind of creative madness and no wedding for about three decades would have been the same without Boney M. Their 1990 debut made the mistake of leaving off the hit The Only One I Know initially (it was soon added on later editions), but includes the ponderous Then and live favourite Sproston Green. The Kinks' Ray Davies and XTC's Andy Partridge are sometimes advanced as the "godfathers" or "grandfathers" of Britpop, [6] though Davies disputes it.Pre-dating Britpop by four years, Liverpool-based group the La's hit single " There She Goes" was described by Rolling Stone as a "founding piece of Britpop's foundation".