And so to the final episode of our Britpop season, in which we conclude our clash of the stalwarts by reviewing The Charlatans’ fifth album, 1997’s ‘Tellin’ Stories’.
Once again there’s some heavy stuff for us to get through as we discuss the background to this album, in particular the tragic death of the band’s organ player, Rob Collins, during the recording sessions. We talk about how The Charlatans received a helping hand from another titan of the 90s British music scene, and how they dealt with the aftermath of Rob’s death by playing a couple of quiet little gigs to an audience of a quarter of a million people at Knebworth.
We also get our teeth stuck into an album that manages to blend a melange of influences, from Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones to Funkadelic and the Chemical Brothers, to create some of the most quintessential songs of the Britpop era. And after all that we take a look at the album’s legacy, and touch on some of the other events that led to The Charlatans being given the rather undesirable moniker of ‘the unluckiest band in pop’.
Before all that we have another installment in our ‘Video Killed the Radio Star’ segment, where Kev takes us through a video that, while not from the Britpop genre, is still synonymous with the 90s and which came to define the band that made it.
Also this week:
This. Is. ALBUM CLASH!!
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