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Baggy

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Baggy was a British dance-oriented rock music genre popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s. [1]

56 relations: Acid house, Alternative dance, Bass guitar, Blur (band), Britpop, Candy Flip, Casual (subculture), Culture of Manchester, Drum kit, Electric guitar, EMF (band), Flowered Up, Funky Drummer, Girls & Boys (Blur song), Grunge, Happy Mondays, Hippie, Indie rock, Inspiral Carpets, James (band), Jesus Jones, Joe Bloggs, Kasabian, Keyboard instrument, Leisure (album), London, Madchester, Manchester, Music genre, My Jealous God, Neo-psychedelia, New Fast Automatic Daffodils, Northside (band), Paris Angels, Parklife, Pop music, Psychedelia, Psychedelic rock, Reni (musician), Retro style, Reverend and The Makers, Rock music, Shoegazing, Techno, The Candyskins, The Charlatans (English band), The Farm (British band), The High, The Mock Turtles, The Real People, ..., The Shamen, The Soup Dragons, The Stone Roses, Waterfall, Working for a Nuclear Free City, World of Twist. Expand index (6 more) »

Acid house

Acid house is a subgenre of house music developed around the mid-1980s by DJs from Chicago.

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Alternative dance

Alternative dance is a genre that mixes alternative or indie rock with post-disco dance music.

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Bass guitar

The bass guitar (also known as electric bass, or bass) is a stringed instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.

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Blur (band)

Blur are an English rock band, formed in London in 1988.

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Britpop

Britpop is a UK based music and culture movement in the mid 1990s which emphasised "Britishness", and produced brighter, catchier alternative rock, partly in reaction to the popularity of the darker lyrical themes of the US-led grunge music, an alternative rock genre, and to the UK's own shoegazing music scene.

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Candy Flip

Candy Flip were a British electronic dance band associated with the Madchester music scene in the early 1990s.

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Casual (subculture)

The casual subculture is a subsection of foootball culture that is typified by hooliganism and the wearing of expensive designer clothing (known as "clobber").

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Culture of Manchester

The Culture of Manchester is notable artistically, architecturally, theatrically and musically.

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Drum kit

A drum kit — also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums — is a collection of drums and other percussion instruments, typically cymbals, which are set up on stands to be played by a single player, with drumsticks held in both hands, and the feet operating pedals that control the hi-hat cymbal and the beater for the bass drum.

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Electric guitar

An electric guitar is a guitar that uses one or more pickups to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals.

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EMF (band)

EMF are a British alternative rock band from Cinderford, Gloucestershire, who came to prominence at the beginning of the 1990s.

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Flowered Up

Flowered Up were a five-man British band, formed in Camden Town, London in the late 1980s.

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Funky Drummer

"Funky Drummer" is a song recorded by James Brown and his band in 1969.

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Girls & Boys (Blur song)

"Girls & Boys" is a 1994 song by British rock band Blur.

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Grunge

Grunge (sometimes referred to as the Seattle sound) is a subgenre of alternative rock and a subculture that emerged during the in the Pacific Northwest U.S. state of Washington, particularly in Seattle and nearby towns.

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Happy Mondays

Happy Mondays are an English alternative rock band from Salford, Greater Manchester.

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Hippie

A hippie (sometimes spelled hippy) is a member of a counterculture, originally a youth movement that began in the United States during the mid-1960s and spread to other countries around the world.

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Indie rock

Indie rock is a genre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom in the 1970s.

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Inspiral Carpets

Inspiral Carpets were an English alternative rock band, formed in 1983 in Oldham, Greater Manchester.

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James (band)

James are an English rock band from Manchester, which was formed in 1982 and enjoyed popularity throughout the 1990s.

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Jesus Jones

Jesus Jones are a British alternative rock band from Bradford-on-Avon in Wiltshire, formed in late 1988, who recorded and performed from the late 1980s to the 2000s.

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Joe Bloggs

"Joe Bloggs" and "Fred Bloggs" are placeholder names commonly used in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, for teaching, programming, and other thinking and writing.

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Kasabian

Kasabian are an English rock band formed in Leicester in 1997.

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Keyboard instrument

A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers which are pressed by the fingers.

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Leisure (album)

Leisure is the debut studio album by the English rock band Blur, released in August 1991 by record label Food.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Madchester

Madchester was a music and cultural scene that developed in the Manchester area of North West England in the late 1980s, in which artists merged alternative rock with acid house culture and other sources, including psychedelia and 1960s pop.

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Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England, with a population of 530,300.

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Music genre

A music genre is a conventional category that identifies some pieces of music as belonging to a shared tradition or set of conventions.

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My Jealous God

My Jealous God were a British Indie music band from South London who had a recording career from 1989 to 1992, first on Rough Trade Records and then Fontana Records.

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Neo-psychedelia

Neo-psychedelia is a genre of psychedelic music that originated in the 1970s as an outgrowth of the British post-punk scene, also called acid punk.

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New Fast Automatic Daffodils

New Fast Automatic Daffodils (later shortened to New FADS) were an alternative rock group from Manchester, England, active between 1988 and 1995.

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Northside (band)

Northside are an English band from Blackley and Moston, Manchester.

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Paris Angels

Paris Angels were a seven piece band, hailing from Guide Bridge, Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester, associated with the Madchester scene of 1989 -1991.

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Parklife

Parklife is the third studio album by the English rock band Blur, released in April 1994 on Food Records.

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Pop music

Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid-1950s.

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Psychedelia

Psychedelia is the subculture, originating in the 1960s, of people who often use psychedelic drugs such as LSD, mescaline (found in peyote) and psilocybin (found in some mushrooms).

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Psychedelic rock

Psychedelic rock is a diverse style of rock music inspired, influenced, or representative of psychedelic culture, which is centred around perception-altering hallucinogenic drugs.

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Reni (musician)

Alan John "Reni" Wren (born 10 April 1964 in ManchesterLarkin, Colin (ed.) (1998) The Virgin Encyclopedia of Indie & New Wave, Virgin Books) is an English rock drummer and member of The Stone Roses.

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Retro style

Retro style (also known as "vintage inspired") is a style that is consciously derivative or imitative of trends, music, modes, fashions, or attitudes of the past.

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Reverend and The Makers

Reverend and The Makers are an English rock band based in Sheffield, Yorkshire.

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Rock music

Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.

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Shoegazing

Shoegaze (or shoegazing, originally interchangeable with "dream pop"Nathaniel Wice / Steven Daly: "The dream pop bands were lionized by the capricious British music press, which later took to dismissing them as "shoegazers" for their affectless stage presence.", Alt. Culture: An A-To-Z Guide to the '90s-Underground, Online, and Over-The-Counter, p. 73, HarperCollins Publishers 1995) is a subgenre of indie and alternative rock that emerged in the United Kingdom in the late 1980s.

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Techno

Techno is a form of electronic dance music that emerged in Detroit, Michigan, in the United States during the mid-to-late 1980s.

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The Candyskins

The Candyskins are a rock band formed in 1989 in Oxfordshire, England.

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The Charlatans (English band)

The Charlatans (known in the United States as The Charlatans UK) are an English indie rock band.

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The Farm (British band)

The Farm are a British band from Liverpool.

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The High

The High are an English rock group from Manchester, who combine late 1960s style pop with the psyche guitar sound.

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The Mock Turtles

The Mock Turtles are an English indie rock band, formed in Middleton, Greater Manchester in 1985, who enjoyed some success in the early 1990s.

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The Real People

The Real People are an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1988.

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The Shamen

The Shamen were a Scottish electronic dance music band, formed in 1986 in Aberdeen.

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The Soup Dragons

The Soup Dragons were a Scottish alternative rock band of the late 1980s and early 1990s.

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The Stone Roses

The Stone Roses are an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1983.

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Waterfall

A waterfall is a place where water flows over a vertical drop or a series of steep drops in the course of a stream or river.

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Working for a Nuclear Free City

Working for a Nuclear Free City (sometimes abbreviated to WFANFC) was an indie nu gaze band from Manchester, England.

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World of Twist

World of Twist were an English indie pop band, formed in Sheffield in 1985.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baggy

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