Britpop week nears it’s bloody and gruesome ending but before our final post, I wanted to, as Peanut so wonderful put it, shoot our load one last time on some Britpoppery…

IGN’s Top 25 Britpop albums.

The 100 greatest Britpop artists?

Live Forever: The Rise and Fall of Britpop (part 1):

Kieron Gillen’s treatise on the beauty of Kenickie (“A bunch of fuckwits”). Especially fascinating since Kieron wrote an excellent graphic novel called Phonogram about magicians who root their magic in the power of music, and in the case of the first volume (“Rue Britannia,” which has an introduction by Luke Haines of The Auteurs), in Britpop. It’s very informative and beautiful researched and helped me fill quite a few gaps in my memory about Britpop and the world of Cool Britannia. If you’re looking for Hellblazer, just a little more and quite possibly a little less sleazy. You can read the entire first issue online.

There’s a volume 2, entitled “The Singles Club” coming out and I’m excited.

“Come Out 2Nite” by Kenickie.

“What Do I Do Now?” by Sleeper (which featured Louise Wener, the Keira Knightley of Britpop).

“Reaching For Heaven” by Heavy Stereo.

“Everything You Say Will Destroy You” by The Auteurs (live on Jools Holland).

The Verve and bittersweet success.

Beware those indie britpop kids out there.

Here’s the front man of Suede (who I should really say more about, except… I’m not all that crazy about them) saying that Britpop was horrible and “a whole boozy, cartoon-like, fake working-class thing” and that his band wasn’t a part of it. Except that they were. They were also the original blueprint for Placebo in a lot of ways.

Live Forever, part 2:

Here’s I am fuel, you are friends talking about the Live Forever docu.

The Trainspotting soundtrack. I really should mention that this is somewhat of a milestone of the Britpop era. And there’s even a volume 2!

Oh, and I should probably mention something about lad culture, which started to go hand in hand with British music in the 90′s. Also, apparently “the toilet because the golf course” since that’s where all the deals were being done. And what were they doing? A blizzard of cocaine.

Britpop: Where are they now?

Completely unrelated: A British couple got sentenced to jail time for having sex on a beach in Dubai.

The Wombats – “Let’s Dance To Joy Division” (mp3)

So, stay tuned as Lollipop and I wrap up Britpop later today, and until then… Go do great things, everybody.