Various Artists [True Brit] BritPop was a genre that was in full swing in the late Eighties to the early Nineties, which were showcased by such Bands as Oasis and Blur [which surprisingly are both missing from this compilation], but there's lots of other bands to enjoy, and on this compilation it's mainly made up of bands, and only Edwyn Collins and Paul Weller [twice!] break that cycle, it's also good to have quite a number of female fronted bands too [but where is Garbage?], so we get 40 of almost the best songs from each featured band, it really is a great compilation.
It's a great package visually too, showing on the front cover a drum kit, nice and sharp, well laid out, of course it has this red, white, and blue 'British' theme to it, but the Mini car motif gets in the way.
For me the best tracks are 4, 6, 12-13, 21-22, 25-26, 29 & 37-39, and easily i found the very best track to be track 25 [track 5 on disc 2], Friday I'm In Love by The Cure, it's one of the reasons for owning this set, i just love this song, and it seems hard to get on a compilation, it's written by lead singer Robert Smith, yes him of the spiky hair and the lipstick, the song came out in 1992, and it's a very upbeat song, with gorgeous jangly guitars, and a superb onrushing rhythm, the lyrics take us through the days of the week, and settle on the penultimate Friday, with hand claps in the chorus, a short guitar solo early on [1:22-1:37], there's a different central section [2:01-2:29], and some interesting lyrics,
It's such a gorgeous sight
To see you eat in the middle of the night
the outro is great, and the song comes to an abrupt stop in the middle of nowhere!, it's so upbeat and fun!.
Here's The Cure singing Friday I'm In Love on YouTube.
