
Your quintessential Britpop album was released in the mid ’90s, by a British band with a guitar-led ‘indie’ or ‘alternative’ sound, and which received a lot of UK radio airplay at that time.
In putting a list of the best Britpop albums together, we’ve had to set a whole heap of arbitrary conditions.
For example, these albums may not necessarily be the best efforts from each band, even during the narrow Britpop period (hence no OK Computer from Radiohead).
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But we reckon they were the best representation of the Britpop scene at the time.
There were plenty of outliers that might not have ticked all of those boxes outlined above, but that proved influential to the scene as a whole. We’ve included a few of those on the following list too.
And with the news that Oasis are reforming for their Live '25 Tour, it feels like there are going to be a lot of people looking to delve into the Britpop era and trying to recapture this magic. Hopefully this guide will help!
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Jon Mundy is a freelance writer with more than a dozen years of experience writing for leading tech websites such as TechRadar and Trusted Reviews.
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