Britpop Quotes

Live are a really good band. I like Stone Temple Pilots, Radiohead I love. Even Oasis.

Flying Colors is more alternative pop with a prog edge. Think the Beatles meets U2 meets Muse and Foo Fighters. It is the opposite of Adrenaline Mob, which has more classic metal influences like Black Sabbath, Van Halen, Pantera, or Disturbed. They are completely different ends of spectrum.

Oasis can't be summed up in one word. I could do a sentence: Boys from council estate made it very, very big.

The Radiohead record, The Bends is my all-time favorite record on the planet.

I actually went to an Oasis concert. I thought they were a brilliant songwriting band.

So many of the bands that influenced me growing up were English, even if I didn't realise it. English pop ruled the world in the '80s!

Oasis were massive for me, because of the attitude and what they represented and how outspoken they were. It felt like they were exactly like me.

When I was in Pulp, I actively did more TV stuff because that was during the Great Britpop Wars, and it seemed important to prove that indie people could speak. That war doesn't exist anymore.

I see myself in competition with Blur and Oasis. But everyone else just sees me as this guy with a history.

I was a big Oasis fan.

I always loved Oasis because when they came out, they did express that they loved us, and they saw that we did it, and they thought they could do it, too.

There's also a lot of gritty Americana type of bands. I actually have a lot of Britpop on my iPod, too.

I went to see Ocean Colour Scene at Shepherds Bush and and felt part of something. They paved the way for me.

Noel Gallagher - he's a legend.

I am the only man who can say he's been in Take That and at least two members of the Spice Girls.

In 1997, we took time off, and that's when Oasis broke and Princess Diana died and I was home with my baby hating the music industry. People asked what I thought about the Spice Girls, and honestly, I was so happy to tell them I couldn't be bothered to care.

I love nineties stuff like Alice in Chains and Nine Inch Nails. It'd be my dream to have a Radiohead-themed episode of 'Glee.' I also love jazz greats like Coltrane, Miles Davis, and Herbie Hancock.

I certainly wasn't a fan of Thatcher's politics. People liked to label us as children of Thatcher. What nonsense. The real children of Thatcher came in the 1990s, and had no interest in politics. The Oasis, Britpop scene.

I wound up becoming an A&R man at London Records in the 1990s, during the boom of Britpop, the last great gold rush of the music industry. I saw incredible greed and terrible behaviour. I was greedy and terribly behaved.

I was always into things like Boyz II Men and boy bands, and then I got into Radiohead and alt-rock.

As I got older, I fell in love with Radiohead, and 'OK Computer' is one of my favorite albums of theirs. Sonically, the tone of the guitars on tracks like 'Electioneering' just rips right through me.

I grew up with British rock.

I was really into Radiohead and Live.

I'm a huge stadium rock fan, but I'm also a fan of everything from Massive Attack to Peter Gabriel, U2, the Police, Radiohead, and Coldplay.

I thought Oasis were great.