Live Forever -2003-

Britpop!: Cool Britannia and the Spectacular Demise of English Rock Beginning in 1994 and closing in the first months of 1998, the UK passed through a cultural moment as distinct and as celebrated as any since the war. Founded on rock music, celebrity, boom-time economics, and fleeting political optimism, this was "Cool Britannia." Records sold i...	Blur - The Best of Blur (Music Videos 1990-2000) Blur, one of Britain's premier bands, presents all the videos from the band's 10 year history in chronological order, including their biggest U.S. hit, "Song 2." Songs: She's So High, There's No Other Way, Bang, Popscene, For Tomorrow, Chemical World, Sunday Sunday, Girls And Bo...	24 Hour Party People An ingenious docudrama on the Manchester music scene of the 1980s and '90s. 24 Hour Party People traces the rise and fall of bands like Joy Division, New Order, and Happy Mondays--bands whose success in the U.S. was limited, but whose impact in Europe (and England in particular)...	Starshaped Three years of candid camera on the road with Blur, from Reading 1991 through the dark ages of the EEC in 1992 and then on to Modern Life. This 126 minute tour film features live footage including scenes from Glastonbury '92, the Heineken Music Festival '94 in Nottingham, and fe...	Different Class Like the Boomtown Rats fronted by Martin Amis. Classic Britpop. --Jeff Bateman
Later... with Jools Holland - Cool Britannia Includes performances by Ash, Blur, British Sea Power, Catatonia, Coldplay, Cornershop, Doves, Echo And The Bunnymen, Elastica, Elbow, Embrace, Feeder, Franz Ferdinand, Keane, Manic Street Preachers, Morrissey, Oasis, Paul Weller, Primal Scream, Pulp, Rad	Take Me There: The Story	There & Then	Oasis: Lord Don't Slow Me Down For all intents and purposes, Noel and Liam Gallagher are Oasis. So in Oasis: Lord Don't Slow Me Down, it doesn't really matter that the rest of the band (which includes Ringo Starr's son Zak Starkey on drums) wasn't in the lineup when the group made it big in 1995 with songs suc...	Definitely Maybe With the swaggering chords of the opening "Rock'N'Roll Star," Oasis announced that big, brash Brit rock was here to stay--at least for a few years. They wore their rock & roll with an angry young sneer, a Mancunian petulance wedded to a vision of cathartic release. Their superson...

CSI Brit-Pop Excells
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7) I viewed this first as a rental in 2005, couldn't recall the dvd name, just 'Oasis, Blur, something, something.' They didn't have a clue at the rental place so I gave up. Then I found it on Amazon! It is a fantastic time travel agency of the early 90's-complete with references to Nirvana and Grunge. You can almost feel the weird mix of mosh-pit and pasty voiced post-Thatcher creative release. Bits of contemporary videos by Stone Roses, Oasis, Blur, Pulp and interviews spice it up for you fellow Anglophiles. Makes you wish there'd been a Malcom McClaren floating about, then the Blur/Oasis brou-ha-ha could've been fun. I find the Gallaghers mono-browed and over rated myself-though Blur's almost as ego-driven. I was working with the manager of Everclear back then; broken noses, mosh pits and the Pacific NW seriously edged out any britpop being here. This is a gem which puts you THERE!

Proves Britain is Cooler Than You
So while most of America was crying in their CD pile over Kurt Cobain and listening to crappy knock-off grunge, acting "X," these guys were throwin' down the real deal.

Tongue-in-cheek documentary slams the Gallagher brothers and their whole pretence.
This is a great documentary, very sly, subtle and informative. Made up of interviews with prominent bandmembers from the Britpop scene it documents the rise and fall of the Britpop phenomenon. It also shows, via interviews with Damon Albarn, how a fairly good band - Blur - can be brought low by its own hubris and by a popular perception that the band was 'not authentic enough'. It also shows, via interviews with Noel and Liam Gallagher, how another fairly good band - the Beatles tribute band Oasis - can be so over-hyped that the bandmembers end up in Cloud-Cookooland thinking they're geniuses and working class heroes when in reality they've become multi-millionaires of musical mediocrity living in mansions, with about as much in common with the working class as Bertie Wooster has with Jeeves. Also covered is the manipulation of Britpop and Oasis by New Labour. The whole thing is tied together using interviews with Louise Wener (the lead singer of Sleeper) who gives her perceptive thoughts on the Britpop phenomenon. It seems that many here think this documentary is a homage to Oasis. I saw it very differently. When we see Gallagher in his mansion talking about himself being authentic working class it should become clear to everyone that the documentary is poking subtle fun at him and criticising the whole contrived Oasis vs. Blur 'battle of the bands' working class vs. upper crust thing. I mean get a clue folks! The whole thing is hilarious - the Gallagher brothers must be high as a kite if they think their current situation makes them the salt of the Earth to anyone but those whose brain capacity is on a par with Blackadder's Baldrick or Monty Python's Mr. Gumby. At least Damon Albarn realises he was played for a patsy - I don't think the Gallaghers really know, but then again why would they care? After all, they made out on the deal. By the way, the Oasis tribute band Wonderwall had me in stitches - I mean a clueless tribute band paying tribute to a clueless tribute band. It's classic! An awesome documentary with a lot to say about how the Gallaghers betrayed their roots while still thinking they never left them. Honestly Gallaghers, get a clue - when you get mansions and Rolls-Royces you have to give up your claim to the working class mantle. You're nouveau riche - deal with it.

I thought this was a decent perspective and EXTREMELY entertaining
If you enjoy the music of Oasis, Blur, Pulp, the Verve, this DVD will be entertaining. Granted some of its theories revolving the BritPop movement seem overextended, it still provides a bit of entertainment. You might not agree with some of the theories, but its still worth a listen. Anyway, the DVD devotes a most of its time to the 3 biggest bands at the time : Oasis, Blur, and Pulp. (Well, I guess the Verve should also be included, but I doubt the reclusive Richard Ashcroft was willing to give an interview). The DVD is worth a go just for the great MUSIC, the hilarious (and on-the-spot) GALLAGHER Bros. interviews, and Jarvis' insight. BTW, Damon Albarn comes off as a real tool. Its also interesting that they interviewed two delusional members of an Oasis tribute band. I'm still baffled by that one.

I agree with the first reviewer...
Noel and Liam and Jarvis are f*&king hilarious...Damon needs to off himself...same with the weirdo journalist with the upper-class accent...this video is good at making Britpop seem like an actual period in music...hahahahaha...whatever...besides, everyone knows Radiohead and Prodigy were quite accepted in the U.S. and were very original...Oasis is an awesome, lethal rock n roll band, anyone who loves rock n roll have to love Oasis...don't cheat yourself...