Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 585: British Pop Culture in the 1990s, Part 1
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Show Notes
The team was reminiscing and talking about 1990s British pop culture and what it says about the state of Britain today on the most recent broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio. Host Greg Johnson was joined by Brits Millennial Woes (official website here) and Morgoth (Substack, Odysee), as well as Counter-Currents’ resident expert on all things pop, Travis LeBlanc, for a lively discussion, and it is now available for download and online listening.
Topics discussed include:
00:03:28 Why does this topic interest Travis LeBlanc?
00:06:46 What is “Brit pop”?
00:10:03 British pop television
00:13:38 This Life and Queer as Folk
00:14:39 Ironic faux British nationalism in the ’90s
00:16:21 Dreadzone and multiracialism
00:18:34 Was electronic music seen as foreign?
00:19:13 Commercialism and sellouts
00:24:08 On the Labour Party
00:29:11 The University of Industry
00:29:47 The Manic Street Preachers
00:34:54 Greg checked out throughout the entire ’90s
00:36:56 Brit pop was made for Brits
00:49:39 Mockneyism
00:53:32 On Trainspotting
01:02:53 On Jamie Oliver
01:04:35 On Absolutely Fabulous
01:07:22 On Trainspotting 2
01:10:48 On Have I Got News for You
01:15:21 Morgoth on his naïve friend
01:20:33 Bridget Jones’s Diary
01:23:09 The geographical origins of music scenes
01:24:06 Arctic Monkeys
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