All albums are from the main timespan of Britpop (1993 - 1997), with the Gaz's older sibling was an additional member until his official admission in 2002. It didn’t produce any hits on the level of “Alright,” but the thing’s just packed with singles: The hard rocking “Richard III,” the riff-heavy “Sun Hits the Sky,” the bouncy, acoustic “Late in the Day,” and, best of all, the groove-heavy “Cheapskate.” And if Supergrass really were in it for the money, my guess is that they put most of it into this album, which just sounds expensive. Below is a list of the world's best-selling albums in music history. (1993; Nude/Columbia) Their Parklife became a colourful catalyst behind the process of moving guitar music from the margins to the mainstream. Listen along to our Essential Britpop tracks playlist while you read, remastered with bonus tracks, just for Liam. The scrappy scene soon turned so successful it seemed like a matter of time before it would burn out. Flying high: Jarvis Cocker and Pulp Oscilloscope Laboratories. Challenging or undermining a genre (or really a scene or era in Britpop's case) is admirable but that doesn't make it a great example of that genre. The young singer-songwriter of Latina, who today belongs to the reference figures of the new scene "itpop", is confirmed on this successful record. CD Compact Disc + Digital Album. But even the Oxford oddballs could not resist the genre’s omnipresence and 1995’s The Bends tuned out to create a considerable step forward from their alt rock and grunge indebted debut Pablo Honey. 1995’s Different Class found the band at their peak, focusing its 12 tracks on British social classes. 16 of them in 40 minutes, to be precise. Buy at iTunes, This is where it starts; the first Britpop record. – JT, When Gene released their debut album Olympian in the mid-’90s, they praised as the next coming of The Smiths, and while they never had that level of influence (it’s doubtful the London group would ever yield a $75 million offer to play together), the aesthetic similarities are definitely there. Hero worship and legal wrangling aside, Elastica’s remarkable, eponymous debut wore its new wave influences on its leather-jacket sleeves proudly, nodding to Blondie here (“Vaseline”), The Stranglers there (“Waking Up”), and just about every great UK punk band in between. The reckless energy reflects Supergrass’ speed of recording: the sprawling six-minute song “Sofa (Of My Lethargy)” was, for instance, recorded in just one take. Instead, Different Class, combining social critiques with sexual sagas and constantly contrasting its pleasure on the surface with panic on the inside, became the standout story of the underdog’s victory lap. – AK, Pulp – Different Class No wonder this album almost single-handedly defined its own subgenre.- SP, Elastica – Elastica So we’ve chosen 10 of our favorites to celebrate those halcyon days. The irony about the band’s megahit “Connection” reaching such a level of ubiquity is that it lifted a riff from “Three Girl Rhumba,” off of Wire’s 1977 art-punk album Pink Flag. As soon as one star fell from the Britpop firmament, another one gladly took its places.