
Image From Here Wow, I can't believe how hard this series is getting to finish. There are fourteen albums left out of the original sixty. And, I am having a hard time getting them in Digital format (Amazon, iTunes etc.)- the legal way. I could also resort to Bit Torrents but don't really subscribe to that. I rather buy the music but unfortunately my funds are very low. So, in a subsequent post, I may put up the album names I am missing and see if any of my daily readers can help me out. [...]

Back in 1998 Hurricane #1 released what I thought was going to be their "make it big" single, Only The Strongest Will Survive. They'd already had quite some success with their first self-titled album and even a top twenty single but now they were going to hit the big time. So did their record label as Andy Bell, songwriter for the band, explains: "Meanwhile, Creation's reaction to the success of the first single was to go into marketing overdrive, a bewildering and unsettling experience for any band, especially when you end up a year later owing the label [...]

the B-side to EasyWall, keeping with the BritPop theme one of my favorite 90s songs, which has sadly drifted into obscurity Hurricane #1: Only The Strongest Will Survive (Unkle Remix) Wyclef Jean ft. Akon, Lil Wayne, and Niia - Sweetest Girl (Dollar Bill) ShareThis

the B-side to EasyWall, keeping with the BritPop theme one of my favorite 90s songs, which has sadly drifted into obscurity Hurricane #1: Only The Strongest Will Survive (Unkle Remix) Wyclef Jean ft. Akon, Lil Wayne, and Niia - Sweetest Girl (Dollar Bill) ShareThis

Britain in the mid-90s was a chaotic, creative, music-centric place to be. As Thatcher's tenure as PM ended and a fresh start began under Tony Blair and the New Labour party, there was a simultaneous crackle and thrum of musical vibrancy that is explored in the 2003 documentary Live Forever (by filmmaker John Dower ). On the surface it's the story of the music, the "Britpop sound" and those who made it, but it also tries to get deeper underneath to look at the society at that moment and what fed [...]

Sometimes it's nice to come back to music that's familiar to you. I've been listening to so much new music lately that I think i needed a nice break this weekend. So i decided to stay up all night and make a little mix, and as you can see it's very Britpop influenced. Eh, who am I kidding it's completely Britpop. There's stuff here from bands who aren't exactly british but I still consider it Britpop anyways. At one point this is all I would ever listen to, a [...]