The History of Alt Rock: Chapter 12

Ongoing History of New Music

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Music History, History, Music, Music Interviews, Music Commentary

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🗓️ 21 August 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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The British music scene has always operated at warp speed...songs and bands and sounds have always come and gone very quickly, even before the age of the internet... This is what happens when you have a lot of people crammed onto an island linked together by a huge and obsequious national broadcasting network and goaded by a hyper-competitive music press... But every once in a while–maybe once a decade–something sticks...a movement takes root, grows organically and then suddenly explodes to the point where everyone is talking about it...it even goes international with its songs and sounds and fashion and politics.. In the 60s, it was the British invasion, led by the Beatles and the Stones...in the 70s, it was the British spin on punk rock with the Pistols and the Clash...the 80s began with all those telegenic British bands on MTV which set off the music video revolution...and in the 90s–well, that’s where it gets a bit complicated... Not complicated in a bad way...i mean in an interesting way...it was an explosion of pride in British-ness that we hadn’t really seen since February 7, 1964, when Pan Am flight 101 from London landed at JFK airport in New York carrying a band called the Beatles... This is chapter 12 of the complete history of alt-rock–and it’s all about the thing they called “Britpop”... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Alan, and I just wanted to let you know that you can now listen to the ongoing history of new music early and ad-free on Amazon music, included with Prime. If I get my kid a phone, I'll be able to keep in touch with them all the time. They'll be on it all the time. He could walk to school by himself. She could see something, she shouldn't. He could chat with grandma. Friends, trolls? They can access anything on the internet. They can access anything on the internet.
0:22.3	So, should I give my kid a phone? chat with grandma. Friends. Trolls? They can access anything on the internet. They can access anything on the internet.
0:22.3	So, should I give my kid a phone?
0:25.7	Growing up with phones isn't always easy.
0:27.8	Introducing EE safer sims.
0:29.9	Sims that help moderate usage and shield harmful content on any smartphone.
0:33.5	Choose EEE safer Sims.
0:35.0	Only on the UK's best network.
0:36.8	To verify best network, see e.e.com.uker.
0:39.3	Sean has had some good ideas over the years.
0:44.3	But using Canva was a really good one.
0:47.3	Sean designed some social posts to promote his friend's car boot sale.
0:52.3	They looked good.
0:55.9	Really, really good.
1:03.1	Next thing he knows, someone came and bought the lot, including the car.
1:06.1	Now Sean doesn't know how he's going to get home.
1:08.6	Thanks, Canva.
1:20.9	Hey, it's Alan Cross, and this summer we thought we would do something special with the ongoing history podcast and give you our fantastic audience a bonus episode every Sunday from now through Labor Day.
1:29.2	We're going all the way back to the spring of 2010 and a 15-part deep dive into the history of Alternative Rock.
1:30.5	It's the History of Alt Rock series.
1:34.9	So every Sunday, you'll get a brand-new episode of this series that examines every single facet of Alt Rock from the 1950s right up to, well, pretty much today.
1:41.1	And don't worry, because we'll have a brand-new episode of the ongoing history podcast
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