Speaker 1: 0:44

Welcome back to another Super Awesome Mix. My name is Matt Siddholm, alongside my co-host and co-founder of Super Awesome Mix, Samer Abu Salbi Samer. How are we doing this week?

Speaker 2: 0:55

Doing real well. I am actually in Texas visiting my family, so I'm recording in a new location. I found a nice comfortable spot. It turns out there's such a thing as a walk-in closet.

Speaker 1: 1:06

I had no idea. These existed. It's been pretty amazing, let me tell you yeah, normally you're recording from like a hall closet right, yes, yes, I shove myself in, I replace the luggage that normally sits there and then just kind of squeeze in Dedication.

Speaker 2: 1:24

It is and it's motivation to stay fit, you know, because if I wasn't then I literally couldn't do these recordings. But enough about that. We have an amazing guest Now, I think our second longest distance away from where we normally record. He comes to us from the UK, london, I believe Mark Is that correct.

Speaker 3: 1:44

That is. Yeah, I'm not in a cupboard, though. Just to make that very clear. I didn't get that memo.

Speaker 1: 1:50

You're a full-size human being and you're in a normal-size room. Is what you're telling us.

Speaker 3: 1:56

I know, although it is as nearly as hot as Texas, I believe, because we're having a bit of a heat wave over here right now. So, yes, but no luggage. No luggage anywhere.

Speaker 2: 2:05

That's great, Awesome, Well, so yeah, we're joined by Mark Jennings in London and he runs a really cool fan website called Subba Culture. If you want to tell us a little bit about that before we get into your mix.

Speaker 3: 2:19

Sure fan website called Subba Culture, if you want to tell us a little bit about that before we get into your mix. Sure, yeah, so Subba is all about letting the fans review the music they love. So we came up with a sort of play that we don't believe that the old-style journalistic review is always the best way and we want to democratize that process. So everyone is welcome to post reviews of anything from live music, shows when they come back to new releases, albums, legacy stuff, whatever it is. It's kind of like a Yelp or TripAdvisor, but for music and festivals.

Speaker 1: 2:45

And Mark, you mentioned. You mentioned when shows come back. Where are things at in the UK? Because we're starting to see shows get scheduled here in the United States, but but how are things going in the UK here in?

Speaker 3: 2:57

the United States. But how are things going in the UK? Well, we had Freedom Day on Monday, which is the worst possible thing. So we've gone through this process whereby nightclubs and venues and all the different sort of hospitality areas are opening up, tickets are selling like hotcakes and it looks as though things are going to go back to not normality but, you know, getting more regular, uh, probably towards the end of the summer and into the fall, um, so I don't think dissimilar to the states, um, but we're still having this slight, uh, anticipation of people not being completely comfortable being in a, you know, sort of crowded space with lots of people.

Speaker 1: 3:37

so, yeah, yeah, makes sense, makes sense. So let's get into the mix. You start off with a great starter, and this is actually track one off their debut album, oasis, rock and roll star. So so why was this one, the first one to kick us off here?

Speaker 3: 3:52

so, um, my teenage years were spent in the best part of Britpop. So when it all came to fruition and definitely maybe was the first album I ever bought and I think as debuts go pretty sterling effort from Oasis, I had a pretty unpleasant school time and it was one of those albums where I must have listened to it a thousand times on repeat to like, really, you know, as any teenager sort of sitting in my room just sitting there listening to the music, and it always excites me to this day whenever I hear this track. The story of the making of the album is absolutely unbelievable as well. It's well documented in Supersonic, which I believe is available on Netflix in the UK anyway, and it's it's just a really great way to just crack open your first ever album. So, yeah, that's that's the short and simple bit.

Speaker 2: 4:45

It is. It's a great, great song. I love the Oasis. One of their songs actually made my desert Island mix from episode one, which I think is going to be off of the album that we cover a little bit later in your mix. But the lyrics that kind of I loved the song were. Then they said I should feel my head. That to me was just a day in bed. I'll take my car and drive real far. For some reason that just reminded me of Ferris Bueller's Day Off, like just this whole, just this whole thing of you know Cameron being in bed and you know and instead like getting him out to to take the joyride and the ferrari and everything so wonderful. Opener, uh, on your, on your mix. And yeah, like matt said, I have just been listening to this mix on repeat, actually ever since he gave it to us, because I'm a huge fan of brit pop. So, um, let's get into track two.

Speaker 3: 5:33

Then you've got richard the third by supergrass yes, there's a bit of a long story behind this one. So, um, supergrass are one of the first indie bands I got into. I think I my first cd I ever bought was um, all right time. They're uh, they're single from the um, from the man from the um, first uh supergrass album. The second supergrass album was anticipated and this one, I think, is it's almost better than the first um.

Speaker 3: 5:59

And in amongst all of this, they were doing some extensive touring in the uk, um, and one of the gigs was about a six hour drive from where I was in in cornwall, um, in what's now the eden project, which is a big quarry with a massive greenhouse in it, huge different biodomes. And I decided to invite two friends who bought tickets and on the day of the event they basically both lined up and cancelled to say, listen, dude, six hour drive can't do it, not the biggest fans. You know, we're just going to pull out. And I was like, right, heaven fit, I'm going to do this. I love these guys, I'm going to make the effort. Here we go.

Speaker 3: 6:32

So drove to cornwall on my own, billy no Mates, found a place to stay, went on down to the venue and in the midst of everything. I bumped into an old friend of mine out of middle of nowhere, from London and had the best night at a gig ever. It's still to this day, probably one of my favorite ever gigs. And then after the show, so the setting was phenomenal, they did all the hits, it was just brilliant. Uh, sun's going down over the quarry, just picturesque as it could be. And I was just in the midst of, at the end, going to the bathroom and I went the wrong way around the back of the stage and bumped into that way. So to culminate the, the entire experience, I met the band, I had an amazing evening and it was, you know, the effort versus reward. It was just mind-blowing. So this is one of my favorite tracks of theirs that's.

Speaker 1: 7:23

That's an amazing story, wow I love that.

Speaker 2: 7:26

That just makes me feel like anytime I want to say no to something because, like the plans slightly change. I'm just gonna rethink that and be like, well, you know what, if I bump into like dave grohl randomly, that's right but that and that was it.

Speaker 3: 7:38

So I kind of went back to him after this and, oh yeah, so uh, what do you go to this weekend? And I was like dude, I went and I met the band, by the way, and it was like the best night ever.

Speaker 1: 7:46

So screw you guys completely worth a six hour drive man.

Speaker 2: 7:51

That's incredible I love it. This was um, yeah, this is a great track to um, just love pop punk, feel to it, right. And then actually I didn't recognize Supergrass at first, but then I realized that they have a track called All Right, which listeners may know from the Clueless soundtrack, which is a great soundtrack. We recently asked that on our social media. You know what's our favorite movie soundtrack? That's a good one, but yeah.

Speaker 3: 8:16

Yes, so that was the first cd I ever bought as a single. Um, and although their previous single, which was man's eyes rooster, is a hell of a lot cooler, this one was more like you said. It was part of the the clue soundtrack and it was a bit more sort of like poppy it's. It's a great track, so yeah all right.

Speaker 1: 8:34

So getting into track three now. Listeners are probably going to be maybe most familiar with this song, bittersweet symphony by the verve. Um, obviously a huge, uh, huge hit for the verve, probably their biggest hit ever and a big hit over here in the united states. Uh, speaking of soundtracks, this was on the cruel intentions soundtrack, if people remember that movie from the late 90s, but, um, yeah, just a standout hit for them, at least internationally for sure. But, mark, talk about why this one made the mix.

Speaker 3: 9:04

Yeah. So the Verve are just an unbelievable band. I've had the privilege from working on Subber to actually interview one of the band members as well, and they just approach everything, in my opinion, in just such a fresh, different way. I forgot that it was part of the Cruel Intentions soundtrack. That's great knowledge. The reason it made it, I think, onto the soundtrack because the Verva, in my opinion, are a band with a number of different hits. One of their previous albums, northern Soul, is by far my favourite of theirs when I listen to it religiously. It made such a big impact in the UK because at that point MTV was, you know, blowing things away and the video of. I'm going to struggle to remember his surname, but Richard.

Speaker 3: 9:48

Ashcroft if anyone wants to. Thank you very much indeed, Richard Ashcroft. Walking down the high street, bumping people out of the way and not giving a damn, it was that very iconic image that just blew everyone away and the album itself is just unbelievable. And because of the hype surrounding that single when it came to be released as an album, it was one of the first albums I queued outside a record shop to buy on release day. So yeah, that was why it was a big deal for me.

Speaker 2: 10:18

That's awesome. My experience with this song in a similar way, but a little bit later, was that this was one of the first songs that I downloaded on the internet, when that became a thing that you could do, because I remember hearing it on Cruel Intention soundtrack, and you know again like, especially when you're younger, you don't have a lot of money to go buy a CD or a cassette, and you know, then this thing called the internet came out, and at the time Napster was still a thing, so I connected via my, I think at the time, 28, 8k modem you know if listeners remember that or even know what I'm talking about and downloaded it.

Speaker 3: 10:53

That's probably slower than me actually queuing outside the shop to buy the album.

Speaker 1: 10:56

That's right, that's right.

Speaker 2: 11:02

Yeah, I'm sure it was um, but such a great song I. I think I could listen to that song on repeat for the rest of my life.

Speaker 1: 11:04

And I also agree, I think this could actually go on our second hit wonders mix mat that we did like a little while ago, because they again they had a very prolific music career, but most people probably know them for bittersweet yeah you know you guys have both referenced sort of accessing music at that point in time in the 90s and I was in college and you know, looking at these songs, a couple of them were familiar to me but all of them came out, you know, about in the same era. But back then if it didn't get radio play or if it wasn't on MTV, you know there was no way to really connect any British pop. So that was one of the things, mark, I loved about this mix is I was discovering all this music of this era in my life that I really had no way of accessing during that era of my life. But now I can kind of catch up on all this British pop. So but yeah, this, this song got to us for sure here in the US.

Speaker 3: 11:56

So but yeah, this, this song got to us for sure here in the US it was. It was interesting because the process of putting this together allowed me to really sort of think about the songs. That meant or sort of created a very nostalgic feel. And with the verb it's difficult because it's definitely by no means my favorite song of the verb, but I think the the place it sort of cements itself in history. It, like you said, it creates that moment whereby they became a band or became a known band, whereas I mean other tracks on that on that album um are even better. You know, drugs don't work um, things like that. There are just so many great, great songs from this band um, but yeah, people do tend to access them through this sweet symphony all right with that, let's move to track four.

Speaker 2: 12:39

Um, you've got a great rock song. Uh, 1996, the riverboat song by ocean color scene yes.

Speaker 3: 12:50

So this is a this. This is when the tables flipped on me from the supergrass experience to ocean color scene, so on. Supergrass was like I'm definitely going to this gig. I'm 100% in love with this band. This is definitely the best thing I'm going to do this year. I had tickets to go and see Ocean Coliseum and this song was playing nonstop in the UK Like it was everywhere.

Speaker 3: 13:10

And then the guy I was meant to be going with and this must be me, because my friends just drop out all the time he this must be me, because my friends just drop out all the time he basically he'd lost his cell phone. It was like in the era of just everyone saying have you got a cell phone? Yeah, I've got a cell phone. Oh, my God, you've got a cell phone. This is, like you know, late 90s. And he lost his cell phone and he got in so much trouble for it. But he never got back to me like where are we going to meet? What's going to happen?

Speaker 3: 13:34

And obviously, in the transition from having like a landline, having a phone at home and never having to worry about organizing anything or having all the plans sorted out at once, we now go to the stage, where it's like two minutes before we meet up, we can give each other a call and we can be and I sort of like I couldn't get back to you. Know, he hadn't got back to me, sorry, I hadn't heard from him. So I was like right, so this I'm staying at home. One of my biggest regrets is not seeing ocean color scene live, because he wouldn't come back to me. So yeah, wasted ticket. So now again, this song reminds me of some bad times. It's a phenomenal song that's great.

Speaker 1: 14:04

Yeah, it's definitely a great song, and I I think you know what's funny is, when I was listening to this, I thought the lead singer sounded pissed at whoever he was talking to, and so now that you tell that story, I'm like, yeah, okay, now I get it.

Speaker 3: 14:17

I get why you picked this one it was because I never made it to his right. He's still. He's angry at me, exactly, exactly. But going back to back to what you're saying about always say yes, I regret that decision. Immediately, or immensely, I should say that's great.

Speaker 1: 14:34

Um, all right, track five uh, we go to a band most people have probably heard of Blur. They definitely had a couple huge hits, but you picked Parklife here, which is a well-known song, especially for people who are pretty familiar with English football. Especially, I think it's Chelsea who plays this before every match, and I don't know if this was a shout out to your favorite club or. Uh, you picked the song for another reason no, I'm.

Speaker 3: 15:01

I'm very definitely an Arsenal fan, unfortunately. So I'm North London, so it definitely wasn't for that. So, for anyone listening, I'm not a Chelsea fan. Um, that's like classing me as a as a Mets fan. So, yeah, my, the reason for this is that in all this time, so through the nineties for Britpop, there was the.

Speaker 3: 15:24

Probably the culmination of where everything went crazy was when blow and oasis were going head to head, and it wasn't through park life, it was through country, it was through two other tracks and, although my mind's gone blank, it was through two other tracks. And, although my mind's gone blank, my memories of it being on the news, sales being reported on a daily basis, interviews with bands who these guys at Britpop? They don't give a damn, but they absolutely give a damn. And it was the war of the two bands which had never really happened before. You've got the Stones and you've got the Beatles, but they were never really at war and these guys were definitely like we don't speak to each other, we hate each other's gut, sort of thing. That's how it's being portrayed. And then oasis won the battle, um, and it was a real pinnacle of where brit pop was and the the meaning of of the music at that stage which was being reported across national news.

Speaker 2: 16:13

So yeah, that's so interesting. I had no idea that that was going on, to be honest, um, again, I think to matt's point earlier. It was like, I guess, that that type of news didn't really cross across the ocean. Um, and had no idea. That's really interesting.

Speaker 3: 16:28

I'm trying to think of the two singles that are up against each other. I think it was definitely Country House by Blur and the other one was by Oasis. I'm not sure if it was Don't Look Back in Anger or something else, but yeah, it was the big, big. This was the story that really mattered these two bands.

Speaker 2: 16:44

Blur for me. I was introduced to them by song number two. That was my first introduction. I could still play that song and enjoy it. And then the other one that I really liked is actually off of the same album. Uh, girls and boys, I would listen to that one a lot. That's a fun one. Um, this, this song is.

Speaker 3: 17:01

I was gonna say, for me it was an arrogance factor as well, because I it was like supporting teams, right, like soccer teams. So I was like, right, I'm an Oasis fan, I only listen to Oasis, and so therefore, I didn't really get into Blur until a bit later. And still to this day, my favorite Blur track is probably Coffee and TV, and it's weird how that sort of sense of belonging that I don't support Chelsea what are you insane? I'm an Arsenal fan. It was the same mentality. It's like I only want Oasis to do well, I only will buy all of their stuff, and it's like this is music for the life of God.

Speaker 2: 17:33

This is, like you know, it's shared interest of eclectic Nope only Oasis, oh goodness, all right, let's move on to track six. You've got Life of Riley by the Lightning Seeds.

Speaker 3: 17:49

Yeah.

Speaker 3: 17:49

So I don't know if you guys have been watching the news recently on this side of the pond, but we have had just the, the biggest football tournament yes yes, um, and one of the the lightning seas tracks was three lions, which is now our kind of go-to national football anthem, and it has a kind of negative connotation to some people and the fact that we're being very patriotic and it's like football's coming home, you know. But the band themselves were very, very well. They were famous before they launched that song and the life of Riley was a huge hit for my bit here, and I thought the post of football to give an introduction to some of the other music that lightning seeds produced.

Speaker 1: 18:28

This is this is one of my favorite songs of theirs, so yeah, what I loved reading up on the lightning seeds and and I'm familiar with the three lions song, but uh, their name came from a misheard lyric in prince's raspberry beret when he says thunder drowns out what the lightning sees the the lead singer read it, or heard it, as lightning seeds and that's what he went with as his band name, but I thought that was just such a funny note that, uh, it was just a misheard lyric, because it's a really cool name the lightning seeds it is a cool name and I think this would I.

Speaker 2: 19:02

This would actually make a good father's day song whenever we do. You know, track two next year, uh, or volume two of that one yes um, because the song is written. Song is written to, I believe, his son, right, uh, his son Riley.

Speaker 3: 19:15

Yeah, and it's again, it's, it's. It's really bizarre as well because, um, over the course of the last month there's been loads of TV interviews with, um, uh, the band, and it's kind of like oh look, you've written this song for Three Lions. Oh well, what's it come to mean to you? And it's like, dude, it was a football anthem we put together in like 20 minutes in a pub somewhere with two comedians.

Speaker 3: 19:37

And then they've got these other things where it's like the Life of Riley which, as you say, is dedicated to his son, a much more meaningful and emotional song, and it's like I also wrote that. So that's quite big for for us and I don't know if you've seen about a boy where you, um, yeah, so you've got that sort of made millions of one song which didn't really make much difference. They've got all the back catalog of stuff which was amazing.

Speaker 1: 19:59

So, yeah, that's great speaking of soundtracks sam or not to double back, but badly drawn boys soundtrack to about a boy is amazing and definitely worth checking out for the listeners out there. But I digress. We talked about where your loyalty lies in the battle of Oasis and Blur, and Oasis on this mix wins two to one because here's their second appearance with Talk Tonight and this was the B side to Wonderwall here in the US. So anybody who bought the single Wonderwall, this was on the other side and really, really interesting song. I really thought to myself you could have told me this was a Stone Temple Pilots song and I could see them pulling this off. But yeah, tell me why you picked the second Oasis song for the mix.

Speaker 3: 20:46

So it's interesting for a different reason for the B-side, because I think it was the B-side that some might say in the UK. The reasons on the mix, though, was for a different reason for the B-side, because I think it was the B-side that some might say in the UK. The reasons on the mix, though, was for a moment in my teenage years and this is the only moment I've ever done this apart from karaoke. So my kind of group of friends were all in bands, and I have no musical talent, can't sing, can't play instrument or anything, and we've managed to convince the local bar that we should do like a college night or a high school night, as it would be for us, and it'd be like right, we've got three bands who are all aspiring teenage musicians who think they can play a tune oh, does anyone else fancy giving it a go? And I was like yeah, I do.

Speaker 1: 21:24

I'm amazing. Let me be part of this.

Speaker 3: 21:26

Oh yeah so at that point in time I was in love with this song. Talk tonight and it charts, um, when noel, I think, has a falling out with the rest of the band and basically gets on a plane and ends up in the middle of nowhere and gets picked up by a stranger. And the idea of this song is fantastic. But I had no knowledge of this. I had no emotional connection with the lyrics, I just thought it was a great song.

Speaker 3: 21:48

And so the night of the gig comes, I'm talking to my buddy. He's like look, dude, we haven't done much rehearsal because I've been working with the other band. But look, let's just go in the bathroom. We're going to try it out for 20 minutes and if it works, it works. If it doesn't, it doesn't. And I'd stupidly taken my parents vc uh sorry, a camcorder um, to be able to film the gig. So there's there's film footage of me somewhere looking like a complete ridiculous nutcase trying to sing very, very softly to talk to tonight in the most badly lit back room of a bar in our local area and I don't know where. That I hope it never gets down I was gonna say we've got to track this down somehow.

Speaker 3: 22:32

It's like going to turn up on my 50th or something, or my mom on the wedding day or something stupid.

Speaker 2: 22:40

I always feel like stuff like that is like if you were ever to commit a crime, like that's the file footage they would show of you.

Speaker 3: 22:50

Like Mark Jennings, seen here singing terribly. Honestly, the guy that I was singing with so he was playing guitar is a guy who actually sort of founded Subber as well, and you can see on the look of his face like this is not the way this should be done. I am not entertaining this idea. And there's me in dark glasses with a tambourine, so I can't multitask, so I'm singing while I'm playing a tambourine. I'm not doing both and I'm trying to look like a kind of young Liam.

Speaker 1: 23:21

Gallagher.

Speaker 3: 23:22

And he doesn't even sing the song.

Speaker 2: 23:24

This sounds amazing. If we had a team of research people, I would put them right on this.

Speaker 1: 23:30

If we had a crack research staff, they would. They would dig this up yeah, that's awesome.

Speaker 2: 23:39

Um, let's move to to track eight, which you know, speaking of like not really knowing music from across the way growing up here in the united states, this is actually one of the songs that made its way to me through um, through a friend of mine ready to go by republica, and it was I mean, I had that on replay the second that it was introduced to me. Probably for like six months I was so obsessed with this song but no one knew it, like none of my friends knew, you know what it was. If I mentioned it they would just kind of like tilt their head and be like I don't know what you're talking about. So it's so exciting to see you put this on this mix because, like, oh my God, yes, I loved this song growing up and it was one of the few that made its way to me. That wasn't just, you know, playing on the radio all the time. So why did it make track eight for you?

Speaker 3: 24:22

So there are a few songs that I think define the Britpop era in the UK, and I think this is one of them. I'm sure it's on some movie trail track as well. I can't remember what it is, uh, it might even be called intentions, to be fair, um, but it defines this movement really, really well. It's a phenomenal track, republica, you know, at their peak, and, um, I think they should have more recognition for this. It's, you know, it's one of those songs, like you said, you come across. It's like this is great. Who is it? Um, obviously a little bit more prolific in the uk, but, yeah, this, this is kind of like one of my as a song goes very definitive representation of brit pop in the uk yeah, and it's actually you're right, it was featured on.

Speaker 1: 25:03

I actually found it was a pretty long list of like tv shows and soundtracks that featured the song. Uh, during that era and Sam, I had a different experience with this song because I heard it in a lot of like basketball arenas and stuff like that oh really.

Speaker 3: 25:16

Whoever had discovered it.

Speaker 1: 25:18

Yeah, like you'd go to a game and this song would start playing and I didn't know who. It was right, but it was obviously like you think about getting that really loud in an arena setting type thing. People are getting fired up, so so, no, I I kind of knew that song, but kind of same thing, like who sings this? I just know it's ready to go, ready to go, like you know, um, no, definitely definitely a great song.

Speaker 3: 25:40

I was going to say again with with a lot of these tracks, I've tried to make it and they're by no means a one-hit wonder by any stretch of the imagination. So yeah, go listen.

Speaker 1: 25:53

So track nine. So, speaking of not a one-hit wonder, okay, radiohead, who's been a massive success, obviously, but you picked what was the last single off their second studio album, the Bends, so the album was called the Bends. The single is called the Bends. Tell us why you picked this.

Speaker 3: 26:16

Radiohead song out of. You know they're huge catalog. Yeah, it's where do you start with Radiohead? Like I mean, just where? And I, to this day, I, whenever I'm sort of like, alright, I need to pick me up when it's time to do, and Radiohead to go to band for me and sort of like, oh right, I need to pick me up, I need something to do and radiohead's the go-to band for me, um, the.

Speaker 3: 26:33

The reason for this song, uh again, is a nostalgia moment of, um, when I was driving up to college, um, or seeing friends, whatever, I always had this in the car and I came back to playing cds in the car. How old am I? Um, and I put the cd in the car and as you hit the highway, the bends comes on and it's like this explosive opening, a phenomenal song the sun might be shining, you just didn't admit it. It's just one of those songs that just makes me think about that moment or those moments every time, and I love it for that, and I think that.

Speaker 3: 27:08

So we've just recently, because of, obviously, everything that's been going on with the pandemic, a lot of the historical Glastonbury footage that's been filmed over the last 20 years has been put onto streaming platforms and their 1996, I believe, is headline set is still, to this day, one of the best sets I've ever seen. It's 1996, 1997. If you can get a hold of it to watch them live on stream platform, it is a game changer for me. So, yeah, this is my entry into Radiohead and I didn't even know which song to pick. But this always reminds me of that, that drive to go and see my buddies up at college.

Speaker 2: 27:43

I love that when I, when I was researching the lyrics of the song, one of one of them is I wish it was the 60s, I wish I could be happy, and the note on it, um, really made me laugh, because Tom York, I guess, was interviewed about. You know, did you really wish it was the 60s? And and I quote here, so excuse the language, no, I don't wish it was the fucking 60s. Levi's jeans. Wish it was the 60s? I certainly fucking don't, I just love that so much because like again.

Speaker 2: 28:12

This is, you know, it's not the first time this happened. When we look into lyrics and stuff that like they'll sing about something or they'll say something and you know kind of like what you were alluding to mark like people will pour over the lyrics, especially if the song or the band becomes really big and and they'll put so much meaning into things and and extrapolate all this stuff and then you actually go and ask the person they're like no like it's just.

Speaker 2: 28:32

I don't wish it was that it's just a line in a song that I sang.

Speaker 3: 28:36

Totally, and there's so many amazing interesting stories about Radiohead and I obviously I can't. I won't go through them now because I'll pull you all to death but one of the things, the one that really sticks out for me is I think it's Paranoid Androids, which they had to spend something like five or six years trying to work out how they were going to perform it live because of all the different elements of the song, and that's just mind blowing, right. It's like how do you? Even you came up with that song, but you still can't figure out how to put it.

Speaker 1: 29:06

That's just amazing for me.

Speaker 2: 29:08

All right, track 10 on our home stretch. Here too, in your mix you've got she bangs the drums by the stone roses, yeah.

Speaker 3: 29:17

So I'd be really interested to know if you guys know much about the song.

Speaker 1: 29:22

I think this might have been my favorite song in the mix, so I knew nothing about them, but I was like this is a great song so the the Stone Roses were the very, very start of the Britpop movement back in the 1890s and their music was just mind-blowing.

Speaker 3: 29:41

They were a big influence on Oasis and a number of other bands that came through the ranks at that time and I think it was their. There was a thing that was a place called Spike Island in the north of England and it created it was the first sort of outdoor show on its own of brick pop band, which you know invited 80, 000 or whatever it was people, and it created such a kind of atmosphere that that was the start of the movement. They were the guys that sort of kicked everything off. The album itself is just unbelievable. Um, and again, it's a great entry into their. The rest of their music, um, and yeah, it's just for me it's. I go back to stone roses a lot and I missed out. I wasn't early enough in britpop to to really appreciate their music at that time. But going back into, you know, discovering music I should have been listening to or could have been listening to, then, yeah, I always revisit the stone roses I love the lyrics in here.

Speaker 2: 30:32

Um, the one that really caught my eye was the past was yours, but the future's mine, you're all out of time. And I just kind of love that, that sentiment which I think every single generation, as we go through the you know the various generations um kind of looks at the preceding ones with this kind of sentiment, right like the past was yours, the yours, the future is mine, you're all out of time. And it's just so interesting to kind of experience that out, and so those lyrics just immediately jumped out to me. I also really love the opening bass line to this song. So I'm happy you introduced us to the Stone Roses. That's like a group that we're definitely gonna be diving into more of.

Speaker 1: 31:11

Yeah, I agree, it's the baseline. I think that that's what stands out to me. I think about a lot of British pop. As you know, I experience very little of it sort of in real time, but now that I go back and listen to a lot of these songs, I think it's the baseline that always gets me.

Speaker 3: 31:31

It's one of those things where there's a film somewhere I've seen about the documentary of how it came to pass and the movement. It's the entire culmination of a lot of different cultures coming together. At that point in time, I think in the late 80s, early 90s, you've got the rave movement, edm, coming through in Detroit and obviously in the north of the UK as well, and this kind of movement which was centered around Manchester and this was the band that was heading this up for the Britpop side. I would be surprised, actually, if they even cast themselves as a Britpop band, but it certainly fits into my recollections of that time.

Speaker 1: 32:07

Well, speaking of great bass lines, we get to track 11 here, the Only One I Know by the charlatans. Um, really cool love song. And again, I love the bass line throughout this one, but tell us why you, you picked it it's in a similar vein to um go back to republica.

Speaker 3: 32:24

I think it's a song that really defines the britpop movement. Um, the charlatans are very, I think, underrated band as far as making real headlines, and it's just a great track. It was weird I didn't know this, but having a look back into their music and reading a little bit more about the various different history of the band, I didn't realize there's also a US charlatans. So when the charlatans went to tour in America they had to call themselves the charlatans UK so not to confuse the other fans of the band.

Speaker 2: 32:55

So yeah, wow, that's like they did not SEO optimize there. It was. That was great. I hadn't heard the charlatans either one, actually. So, um, this was also a new introduction to me and it was really good. I like it. Um, the. I like the. The lyrics that stood out to me here was everyone has been burned before. Everybody knows the pain. Um, and yeah, I mean I don't know, just really good, really great song. Let's, um, let's, take this home to your last track on your mix. You've got. She said by the long pigs uh, which is actually. This is one of those ones where I went through the lyrics and it's a pretty rough song, uh, in terms of of what?

Speaker 2: 33:38

he's singing about it actually reminded me a little bit of fancy uh, the reba mcintyre song that we've referenced before on the wait. What Was that so? Definitely like if you listen to this one and really pay attention to the lyrics or look them up, because it tells a pretty sad story. But tell us why this one closes out your mix, mark.

Speaker 3: 33:58

So if we're going to start with Rock and Roll Star by Oasis as kind of the first introduction to Britpop, this is kind of where I left Britpop with the Long Pigs. It was one of those songs which I think was at the end of the 90s. It was quite an aggressive, punky, punchy song. Again, they're a band which don't really get much recognition. They've had a really tumultuous journey being dropped by the label, being picked up by the U2's label. This song itself was released to no real acclaim the first time around and then they reissued it a year later and it did fairly well, came to 16 charts over here. But if you were to play this song in any sort of public place in the UK I would imagine 90% of people from my age would know what it was, but they wouldn't know the band name. And I think that's a. Really. I don't know if it's a sorry state of affairs or if it's just a great song, but that's kind of why I see it as the exit of Britpop for me.

Speaker 1: 34:57

Yeah, there's a lot of songs like that, I feel like, where people know the song so well but then you ask them do you know anything of this band or do you know who sings this song? And they have no idea. So, um, yeah, we, we have a lot of that here as well. But yeah, like sammer said, when I dove into the lyrics of this one, I was like man, these, I don't think these two people like each other at all it's a lot of brickpop for you, to be fair.

Speaker 3: 35:24

Yeah, but it also it wasn't um, I think it was. It did well as a single. For them it performed probably the best chart success, but they are critically acclaimed for the album it was on. So, again, as an intro to the band, it's a very good way of sort of getting into the rest of their music, which is again stellar.

Speaker 1: 35:44

So, yeah, well, mark, this was a great mix. Uh, so much great brit pop and uh, like you said, so many great introductions to so many great bands. So I think people are going to really dive into, um, maybe the further catalog of some bands they know, like oasis and blur and radiohead, but, um, but also some bands maybe they're not as familiar with, like the the Long Pigs. So great work. Tell the people where they can find you and read more of your stuff and get to know more British music.

Speaker 3: 36:13

Yeah, I mean my address probably isn't helpful based on I'm in the UK but from a coming-to-suburb perspective, I think we're always looking for people who are fans of music, fans of writing, fans of just sharing. So subaculturecom is where you'll find me and a lot of other fans who are sharing great reviews of great music and also, when it comes back, live. So, yeah, I can spell out the address. It's not the easiest sometimes, but itT-C-H-Acom and the reason it's called Subber Culture for any big music fans out there is down to a Pixies song called Subber Culture and if you look at the lyrics for that song, that's almost in line with what she said. It's pretty dark. It's all about the undercurrent of culture, giving you another view on perspective. So we're not trying to be a billboard or a pitchfork or or anyone else. We're trying to be fans writing about music and that's what we always look for.

Speaker 2: 37:12

It's open to everyone, so you guys should start reviewing absolutely, yeah, I want to get on there, absolutely, yeah I love that and we'll include the uh links to your um to sub a culture and to your instagram and into a number of other things in the show notes. So be sure to check out the show notes there to check out Mark's work and fan reviews. And, matt, where can they find more of Super Awesome?

Speaker 1: 37:36

Super Awesome can be found on social media Instagram, twitter and Facebook at Super Awesome Mix and, like Samaral says, we're most active on Instagram, so give us a follow there also. You can subscribe to the podcast and share the podcast. Um and samar, how can they support the show?

Speaker 2: 37:54

there are a number of ways they can support the show. Um, you can check out some of the merch that we have selling on our website, which will also include in the show notes. Um, I'm actually currently wearing a super awesome mix hat as we record this it's one of my favorites now and you can also become a Patreon, and when you become a Patreon, you actually gain access to even more content. We do bonus tracks, we're going to have extra bonus episodes, and it generally just helps support the show and get access to some exclusive content. So those are just some of the ways. You can also just leave us a review in the podcast app if you listen to us on Apple Podcasts. That is also very helpful and super appreciated.

Speaker 3: 38:31

Or review it. On Subiculture yes, exactly yes, we'll get to give a review on Subiculture.

Speaker 2: 38:37

I love that. Yes, that's next. Yep.

Speaker 1: 38:40

Well, mark, thank you so much for joining us today. I feel like a volume two is in the offing somewhere down the line. So, yes, thanks, great music there, great choices, and there you go Another super awesome mix in the books. So, for Mark and Samer, this is Matt, and we'll see you next time with yet another super awesome Storyboxx out.