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Baggy is a British alternative dance genre popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s, [1] [2] [3] and generally associated with the Northern UK's Madchester scene. [4] The style saw alternative rock bands draw influence from psychedelia as well as dance music .
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Before baggy, indie and dance were mutually exclusive genres. In the late 80s, few that were shuffling their feet to The Smiths were also sweating it out at the Haçiendato Marshall Jefferson imports. But ecstasy culture smashed down those barriers. Indie melted into dance and dance was absorbed into indie. For a band like the Happy Mondays, who’d g...
Happy Mondays – Pills ‘N’ Thrills And Bellyaches
After creating the template for the baggy sound via sophomore LP Bummed, the Mondays solidified it on their era-defining follow-up, with the help of DJ/producers Paul Oakenfold and Steve Osbourne. A hedonistic, blissed-out classic, it was the NME’s Album Of The Year in 1990.
The Charlatans – Some Friendly
Cruelly dismissed at the time as starry-eyed Stone Roses copyists, The Charlatans have proved their worth and are still going strong 30-plus years after forming. It was the late Rob Collins’ Hammond organ that really distinguished the band on this debut album, the singles of which (The Only One I Know, Then) were staples of every indie disco in the summer of 1990.
Northside – Chicken Rhythms
Great things were expected of Northside in 1991. Signed to Factory, their first and only album was produced by The Lightning Seeds’ Ian Broudie, while the band had toured as Happy Mondays’ support act. Despite this pedigree and the fact that it was, in some ways, the ultimate baggy record, Chicken Rhythmsonly made No.19 in the UK. The band recorded a second album, but Factory’s bankruptcy in 1992 meant it was never released, and they split shortly afterwards.
Happy Mondays
What can we say about one of the defining bands of the late 80s and early 90s? Forever bracketed with The Stone Roses, in actuality the bands had little in common musically. Always more diverse in their inspirations, Shaun Ryderonce described the Mondays’ sound as “Funkadelic being eaten by a giant sandwich… Northern Soul… punk rock… Hendrix… fuckin’ Captain Beefheart, and a load of drugs on top of that.”
Flowered Up
Formed in Camden in 1989, Flowered Up released just one album in their all-too-brief lifetime. A Life With Brian arrived in August 1991 on London Records and made No.23 in the UK charts. The next year, however, they released their signature song, Top 20 hit Weekender, a surly ode to the pleasures of 48-hour partying. Sadly, brothers Liam (singer) and Joe (guitar) Maher both later died of heroin overdoses.
Bocca Juniors
Little remembered now, Bocca Juniors was a band formed by DJ/producers Andrew Weatherall, Pete Heller, Terry Farley and Hugo Nicolson. They only released two 7”s, Raise (63 Steps To Heaven) (1990) and Substancethe following year, both featuring lead vocals from Anna Haigh and intended, in the group’s own words, as “Balearic anthems”.
Manchester music in the 90s. By Pádraic Grant (September 2006) Baggy. Deeply unfashionable right now, and unable even to boast a reasonably-sized base of more or less ironic fans, was a dominant force in British music throughout the '90's, melding rock and dance on a scale never seen before.
Blends Dance and Funk-based grooves with a laid-back, psychedelic atmosphere; frequently features jangly guitars, looping basslines, four-bar drum patterns, and a hypnotic, carefree feel that originated in the Madchester scene of the late 1980s.
Mar 7, 2022 · What is baggy music? Inspired by the psychedelic sounds of the 1960s, baggy music spearheaded an entire fashion movement. ‘Baggy style’ was the signature look of the Madchester scene, and came from the freedom of movement required to dance along to the sounds played in the clubs.
Sep 28, 2024 · Baggy - it was a state of mind.Baggy - it was all about the beats, the groove, the vibe.Baggy - it was about the size of your trousers. For a brief period between 1988 and 1991, the charts were ...
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The definitive coverage of the Madchester, Baggy, Indie Dance musical landscape. A truly hedonistic, trippy and genre defying musical time. From the Happy Mondays in 1986 through to Black Grape in 1993. Including bands such The Stone Roses, The Charlatans and Paris Angels to name but a few.
