The History of Alt Rock: Chapter 12
The British music scene has always operated at warp speed...songs and bands and sounds have always come and gone very quickly, even before the age of the internet...\nThis is what happens when you have a lot of people crammed onto an island linked together by a huge and obsequious national broadcasting network and goaded by a hyper-competitive music press...\nBut every once in a while\u2013maybe once a decade\u2013something sticks...a movement takes root, grows organically and then suddenly explodes to the point where\xa0everyone\xa0is talking about it...it even goes international with its songs and sounds and fashion and politics..\nIn the 60s, it was the British invasion, led by the Beatles and the Stones...in the 70s, it was the British spin on punk rock with the Pistols and the Clash...the 80s began with all those telegenic British bands on MTV which set off the music video revolution...and in the 90s\u2013well, that\u2019s where it gets a bit\xa0complicated...\nNot complicated in a bad way...i mean in an interesting way...it was an explosion of pride in British-ness that we hadn\u2019t really seen since February 7, 1964, when Pan Am flight 101 from London landed at JFK airport in New York carrying a band called the Beatles...\nThis is chapter 12 of the complete history of alt-rock\u2013and it\u2019s all about the thing they called \u201cBritpop\u201d...\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices