Last night we watched Live Forever, a documentary about the Oasis-Blur-Pulp-etc. music explosion of the '90s - namely, the popular music I love best, in combination with the New Wave begun in the late '70s. It was a lovely piece of nostalgia for me, since '95 (the launch of the Blur-v-Oasis hype) was when I first visited the UK and heard "Country House" on London radio; and '96 was when I spent 3 months in England and Scotland, doing little other than drooling over music.
The interviews with the artists were interesting too. Noel Gallagher was either completely obnoxious or completely hilarious; I couldn't decide which. Liam, of course, was a druggy-Ozzy waiting to happen. Damon Albarn seems sharp enough still, but rather bitter. Jarvis Cocker remains my favorite. He wasn't looking great--I wanted to comb his hair and get him a suit that fit--but he was soft-spoken, funny in a gently ironic way, and eloquent compared to most of the others.
I could say more about the discussions of Thatcher v. Blair, Blur v.Oasis, US v. UK, and so on. But really all I want to do right now is some picspam. Since the US stations like MTV didn't show much of those Britpop bands, and since internet connections were sllloooowww in the mid-90s (anyone else remember 14.4K modems?), I didn't actually get to see these guys much, whose voices I so admired. From this documentary, though, it was brought home to me just how cute some of them were.
So I went in search of photos. And, sure, when you check out Blur you notice the pretty boys--ones like Damon Albarn and Alex James in particular. (Damon struck me as a cross between Jude Law and Frankie Muniz.)
But, really, after gazing upon Jarvis a while, the others just look like young uninteresting punks. So here is some Jarvis Cocker geek-love picspam for you fangirly types.
Tight shirt in concert...can't go wrong there...
Artsy black and white:
Got to have one with the glasses:
And, be still my beating heart, Jarvis in eyeliner. Rrrowr.
I am damn tempted to make an icon of that last one. Mm-hm.
The interviews with the artists were interesting too. Noel Gallagher was either completely obnoxious or completely hilarious; I couldn't decide which. Liam, of course, was a druggy-Ozzy waiting to happen. Damon Albarn seems sharp enough still, but rather bitter. Jarvis Cocker remains my favorite. He wasn't looking great--I wanted to comb his hair and get him a suit that fit--but he was soft-spoken, funny in a gently ironic way, and eloquent compared to most of the others.
I could say more about the discussions of Thatcher v. Blair, Blur v.Oasis, US v. UK, and so on. But really all I want to do right now is some picspam. Since the US stations like MTV didn't show much of those Britpop bands, and since internet connections were sllloooowww in the mid-90s (anyone else remember 14.4K modems?), I didn't actually get to see these guys much, whose voices I so admired. From this documentary, though, it was brought home to me just how cute some of them were.
So I went in search of photos. And, sure, when you check out Blur you notice the pretty boys--ones like Damon Albarn and Alex James in particular. (Damon struck me as a cross between Jude Law and Frankie Muniz.)
But, really, after gazing upon Jarvis a while, the others just look like young uninteresting punks. So here is some Jarvis Cocker geek-love picspam for you fangirly types.
Tight shirt in concert...can't go wrong there...
Artsy black and white:
Got to have one with the glasses:
And, be still my beating heart, Jarvis in eyeliner. Rrrowr.
I am damn tempted to make an icon of that last one. Mm-hm.
- Current Music:Pulp - "Underwear"
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Thank you.
The eyeliner one is just delightful.
I always was a Damon Albarn devotee. :-) I fell in love with him when I first saw Blur's "The Universal" video. One word: Eyeliner. :-)
*hugs!*
Damon was in eyeliner? Dang, I missed that video! Saw very few videos at all, but still...
Got to love how the Britpop lads are so willing to put the eyeliner on. *happy sigh*
Yes! M2 (aka MTV-2) used to show blocks of cool videos, back in the day....lots of Brit pop and rock like Blur, Radiohead, Travis. *sighs* Those were the days!
Amen about the eyeliner. :-)
Haven't seen them yet, dang it, but the film had a few concert clips. In one they were singing "Common People," and the whole audience was singing along. Showed a little of the video too. Looked amusing.
The lovely Fran Healy of Travis:
(In the first pic, the guy on the right is the Travis bassist, Dougie Payne.)
And my personal choice for the person who is most deserving of the title of "Most Beautiful Man on the Face of the Planet", Coldplay bassist, Guy Berryman:
Sorry about my personal picspamming, but I just feel that it's my duty to enlighten people of the loveliness of these two particular brilliant musicians. ;)