Mersey sound and Merseybeat; in the late-1980s and early 1990s, England’s Manchester spawned so–called Madchester. As much a clubbing scene and youth sub-culture as a style of music, Madchester was also known as ‘Baggy’ due to the baggy clothes worn by the kids. The foremost band of the Madchester scene was The Happy Mondays with their drugged-out, almost ...
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Together with drummer Dave Rowntree, they formed Seymour, renamed Blur on signing to indie label Food in 1990. Their first album Leisure (1990) was derivative of both the Madchester and shoegazing scenes. Modern Life Is Rubbish (1993) reacted against grunge and American culture by celebrating Englishness. The two-million-selling Parklife (1994) helped to popularize what was soon dubbed ‘Britpop’. The ...
(Vocal/instrumental group, 1980–93, 1998–2007) Formed by the remaining members of Joy Division after Ian Curtis’s suicide. Bernard Sumner (guitar, vocals), Peter Hook (bass) and Stephen Morris (drums) with Gillian Gilbert (keyboards, synthesizers) added extra groove and technology to the angular post-punk beats of their former band, thus heavily influencing the ‘Madchester’ and dance music scenes of ...
(Vocal/instrumental group, 1989–present) Emerging out of the ‘Madchester’ scene, The Charlatans’ initial organ-led groove music was soon embraced by the charts. Outgrowing this sound, Tim Burgess (vocals), Jon Baker (guitar), Martin Blunt (bass), John Brookes (drums) and Rob Collins (keyboards) matured into a rock band with a devoted fanbase. Collins’ death in 1996 was a massive blow but ...
(Vocal/instrumental group, 1980–93, 1999, 2004–10, 2012–present) Led by vocalist Shaun Ryder, the band were at the forefront of the ‘Madchester’ scene. They appropriated licks from psychedelia, soul and hip hop to come up with a danceable brand of rock that reached its apotheosis on 1990’s Pills ‘n’ Thrills And Bellyaches, which included UK Top ...
pop-based than the alternative scene in the US, it similarly encompasses several other styles such as the shoegazers, My Bloody Valentine being the leaders of this movement, Madchester, as celebrated by The Happy Mondays, Britpop, as exemplified by Blur and Oasis, and goth rock, represented by The Sisters Of Mercy. The longest-lasting and ...
remained open until the end of the 1990s. A host of traditional British guitar bands made their mark: the 1960s retro of Ocean Colour Scene, Kula Shaker and funky Madchester veterans The Charlatans; the spiky post-punk anthems of Oxford trio Supergrass and London’s Elastica, whose frontwoman, Justine Frischmann, began her career with Suede and had a very ...
have much in common with thrash metal and black metal, but with a biting satirical element to the lyrics that adds intensity. Introduction | Rock Styles & Forms | Madchester | Rock ...
This was a decade when the impact of dance culture on rock and vice versa sometimes led to exciting results: it opened with ‘Thriller’ and closed with the Madchester scene of Happy Mondays. Punk had subsided to become the less threatening new wave movement, which, along with the new romantics, dominated the early days of the decade. As ...
among those creating genuinely innovative music, while former Jam mainman Paul Weller was undergoing a creative renaissance. The Stone Roses bloomed briefly but influentially as a hangover from the Madchester scene of the late 1980s, trading on the excellence of their 1989 debut album. The so-called Britpop war of 1995 that set Oasis and Blur against each other and ...
(Vocal/instrumental group, 1983–96, 2011–present) This Manchester band – Ian Brown (vocals), John Squire (guitar), Gary ‘Mani’ Mounfield (bass) and Alan ‘Reni’ Wren (drums) – announced their jangling guitar pop with second single ‘Sally Cinnamon’. An eponymous debut album (1989) fused the vibe of acid house on to hook-laden melodic hypnotic pop songs. The funk groove of ‘Fool’s Gold’ and ...
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