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Common People - Brit Pop: the Story

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Common People - Brit Pop: the Story

3 CD lookback, minus Oasis or Pulp

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5.5

Label
Universal
UK Release date
22/06/2009
  1. 7.0 |   The Quietus

    Britpop died the moment Oasis released the dismal ‘Roll With It'. Or maybe it came earlier, when Bernard Butler left Suede, or the Stone Roses released a disappointing second album. Either way by mid 1996 the best had passed. But for about eighteen months, in those dark, pre-internet days, there was a lot of fun to be had out there in indie land
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  2. 6.0 |   Q

    Print edition only

  3. 6.0 |   Uncut

    Print edition only

  4. 6.0 |   NME

    The best efforts by Supergrass, Suede, Pulp, Elastica still fizz with the same energy that they did on arrival, but more intriguing from a historical point of view is the utter, utter crock of shit that surfaced in the latter half of the ’90s and which dominates this three-disc compilation
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  5. 4.0 |   The Independent

    None of the 54 tracks is by Oasis, Blur or the Spice Girls - the three most significant acts of Britpop - renders the project not just flawed but wrong
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