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Fine, I'll stick with Brit Pop if that's what you really want. What's that you say? You couldn't give two shits either way? Well, fine. I'll do it just to spite you instead then.
The ludicrous thing is that many of the bands - Blur, Oasis, Pulp, Radiohead, Lush, Suede, Powder, Ocean Colour Scene - that were lumped into the Brit Pop were so completely disparate in musical style that grouping them together them was clearly an exercise in comparing apples to pineapples. I mean look at the list of bands mentioned on Wikipedia; it's probably the only ontological list in the world to classify Dodgy and The Divine Comedy together. Hell - many bands (Radiohead being perhaps the prime example here) changed their sounds so much between albums that even comparing themselves to earlier incarnations was meaningless.
You might as well just have called the scene "Not American Grunge Bands" and been done with it.
I have nothing really particularly witty to say about Pulp or Jarvis Cocker unfortunately other than the rather obvious joke that Mr Cocker, certainly in the early days, seemed to be entirely constructed out of elbows. Oh, and that he did this rather marvelous thing in protest of Michael Jackson's rather ludicrous messianical performance at The Brit Awards
So you'll just have to watch "Common People" instead
I went to a party with a bunch of people from St Martin's College once. They were all twats. All of them. I'm not saying that everyone who goes to St Martin's is a twat. Just everyone I've ever met from there.
Note that the video contains Sadie "I used to be married to Jude Law" Frost. That crowd (now called The Primose Hill Set or similar by the British media) used to drink at a pub called The Tup on Liverpool Road, just down from where my first job was and were regularly in there at the same time as us (not hard since, partly due to the fact that we used it as a meeting room, I was in there approximately 90% of my waking hours). They're all shorter in real life than you'd expect. And much less good looking. The same is true of Madonna to be fair. She has weird, old lady hands. Tru Fax!
