Hit Parade: Champagne Supernova Edition Part 1

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🗓️ 13 May 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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In the ’90s, U.K. rock was by Britons, for Britons. The music of the U.K. indie, Madchester and shoegaze scenes fused together into a new wave of guitar bands with punk energy, laddish lyrics and danceable grooves. They called it Britpop. In the motherland, Britpop set the charts alight: Blur faced off against Oasis. Pulp poked fun at the class system. Suede sold androgyny, and Elastica repackaged ’70s art-punk as ’90s pop. But with rare exception, these hits didn’t translate in America. There was no Third British Invasion in the ’90s—with the exception of that one inscrutable Oasis song about a “Wonderwall.” Why did Britpop fire up Old Blighty and flop with the Yanks? Join Chris Molanphy as he tries to define Britppop—was it a scene? a sound? a movement?—and explains how the music boomed and busted faster than a cannonball. Podcast production by Kevin Bendis. Make an impact this Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month by helping Macy’s on their mission to fund APIA Scholars. Go to macys.com/purpose to learn more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:59.2	Welcome to Hit Parade, a podcast of pop chart history from Slate magazine.
2:05.2	About the hits from Coast to Coast. I'm Chris Malampi, chart analyst, pop critic,
2:11.2	and writer of Slate's Why is this song number one series. On today's show, 28 years ago,
2:18.8	in May of 1995, this single connection by the band Elastica rose to number two on billboards
2:28.4	modern rock tracks chart. The song was ubiquitous on US alternative radio at the time and even
2:36.4	crossing over to certain top 40 pop stations. It had a danceable beat and a bit of punk attitude.
2:53.6	To American listeners, Elastica were just the latest new band to offer catchy punk adjacent rock
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