IMO the whole Britpop designation was a terrible construction of the British music press of the time. However, if I was forced to pick the music of only one of the bands with this label to take to a desert island …it might be Pulp.

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        I read his latest memoir where he says this:

        “I know the style of performance on my albums is not typical of singer-songwriters; it is more of a spoken-word poetry set to music.” — Boldly Go: Reflections on a Life of Awe and Wonder by William Shatner

        He also went into detail about his intentions when he first recorded music, which did actually make sense.

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        Produced by Ben Folds, backed up by JJ.

        “…Folds abruptly replaces Shatner’s voice with that of singer Joe Jackson, and then alternates and blends the two into a duet, bringing along a large chorus of young voices on the line “sing along with the common people”, which finally replace Shatner and Jackson’s vocals in the song’s concluding crescendo”

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    I got to visit family in Britain in '98 as a teenager, and hitting the jukeboxes in the pubs (that I was allowed into for the first time in my life) was a highlight of the trip. This was definitely one of the great tunes I discovered at the time.

    This one was my favourite though!