Britpop Bands

Ash — Northern Ireland's teenage punk-pop Britpop band whose 1977 delivered Goldfinger and Girl from Mars.

Blur — Britpop icons turned art-rock adventurers, from Parklife to The Ballad of Darren.

Elastica — Justine Frischmann's angular post-punk Britpop band whose tight debut became the genre's best-selling US export.

Kula Shaker — Britpop's psychedelic outliers who fused Sanskrit mantras with 1960s guitar rock.

Manic Street Preachers — the politically fierce Welsh band whose Holy Bible and Everything Must Go bookend Britpop's most serious artistic statement.

Oasis — Britpop legends whose anthemic songwriting and Gallagher brothers' chemistry defined 1990s British guitar music.

Ocean Colour Scene — Birmingham's mod-influenced Britpop band whose Moseley Shoals produced The Riverboat Song.

Pulp — Jarvis Cocker's Sheffield art-pop band whose Common People became the defining anthem of the Britpop era.

Sleeper — Louise Wener's sharp, funny Britpop band whose Inbetweener and The It Girl defined the movement's female voice.

Suede — the band that launched Britpop with glam-inflected guitar drama and Brett Anderson's androgynous vocals.

Super Furry Animals — Cardiff's genuinely strange Britpop experimentalists who recorded in Welsh and toured in a tank.

Supergrass — Oxford's joyful Britpop trio whose I Should Coco and In It For The Money proved the movement had range.

The Charlatans — the Madchester-to-Britpop survivors whose Hammond organ-driven sound outlasted the entire movement.

The Stone Roses — the Manchester band whose 1989 debut became the founding document of Britpop and a generation of guitar bands.

The Verve — Wigan's cosmic Britpop outliers whose Urban Hymns produced Bittersweet Symphony and The Drugs Don't Work.