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The groups that followed these bands' lead and, in turn, became the leading Britpop bands include:
* [[Suede]], glam rockers taking cues from [[David Bowie]] who camped it up around Camden Town and got their picture on the cover of Melody Maker before they even had a record out.
* [[Blur (band)|Blur]], a former [[Shoegazing]]/Madchester act that, after touring America in 1992 and finding the experience dreadful, became one of Britpop's leading lights, hearkening back to British pop music of [[The Sixties]] such as [[The Kinks]].
* Elastica, a mostly-female group who drew their sound from punk acts like Wire or The Stranglers
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* The Bluetones
* Ocean Colour Scene
* Kula Shaker, a band influenced not only by early 90's rock, but also by late 60's psychedelia and Indian music. Notable for being led by Crispian Mills, son of [[Former Child Star]] [[The Parent Trap (1961 film)||Hayley]] [[That Darn Cat|Mills]].
* Super Furry Animals, a Welsh psychedelic band that actually had nothing to do with Britpop, but because they played rock music and formed around the same time, they were often grouped with the scene.
* And last, but certainly not least, there was [[Oasis]], big Mancunian fans of [[The Beatles (band)|The Beatles]] and simple, big, stadium-filling rock 'n' roll. They were by far the most successful act to come out of the Britpop years, and the only ones who really made any impact in America.
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Additionally, there were several, smaller groups of varying popularity (and quality) that rode the Britpop wave to a handful of chart singles. Among them are Cast, Dodgy, Menswear, Smaller, Mansun, Mega City Four, Rialto, These Animal Men, Gene, Hurricane #1, Shed Seven and Northern Uproar. Many of these groups were considered to be [[Follow the Leader]] acts to the big names, and many never even managed a blip on the radar outside of the UK, but they all have their own devoted followings to this day.
Britpop came to a head in the summer of '95 (when Blur and Oasis fought the Battle of Britpop, a fight to get to Number One when they released singles - "Country House" and "Roll With It" - on the same day. Blur won that battle, but Oasis ultimately was the more popular band at the end of the 90's) and in early '96.
In the end, heaving under the weight of drugs, [[Creator Backlash|artist disillusionment]], and the continued failure by any band not named Oasis to break America, it collapsed in 1997: Oasis's long awaited third album ''Be Here Now'' was (and still is) the fastest selling album in British history, but it was equally quickly sold on to charity shops by disheartened fans and went down in history as an overhyped, dismal flop. Oasis chugged along, releasing well selling albums that got alright reviews until the band ended in an yet another squabble between the Gallagher brothers in 2009. [[Blur (band)|Blur]] turned away from the Britpop sound with their fifth album ''Blur'', paved the way for the [[Garage Rock]] Revival of the 2000s, and unlike Oasis quit while they were ahead and still at the top of their game in 2003. Pulp continued to release critically adored albums for a few years before completely disappearing. Supergrass somehow managed to outlive most of their second-tier Britpop competition, became a major player in the British alternative scene and existed until April 2010. [[Radiohead]] and The Verve, formerly 'the ones who did ''Creep''' and 'that shoegaze act', released ''OK Computer''
and ''Urban Hymns'', successful albums that moved the music scene onward.
Today, the genre survives in the form of Post-Britpop, an even ''less'' well-defined category occupied by groups like [[Stereophonics]], [[Elbow]] and [[Coldplay]].
* [[Americans Hate Tingle]]: The lukewarm British reaction to grunge was what spawned Britpop in the first place. This worked both ways—Britpop was met in America with the same reception that Britain gave grunge.
* [[Breakup Breakout]]: [[Sophie Ellis Bextor]], lead singer for Britpop also-rans Theaudience became a superstar when she went solo in the early 2000's.
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* [[Three Chords and the Truth]] - the approach of most of the Oasis-like groups.
* [[Trope Codifier]] - Oasis
* [[Trope Maker]] - "Popscene" by Blur is sometimes considered the first Britpop single.
* [[Truck Driver's Gear Change]] - only to be expected in such populist music and sometimes invoked deliberately; see "Inbetweener" by Sleeper for a particularly neat example.
* [[Vindicated by History]] - In the past decade, music critics have realized that [[Blur (band)|Blur]] - sometimes considered inferior to Oasis - were one of the finest singles acts of the 1990's.
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