Sentences with phrase «british pop band»

British pop band Oasis» hit song «Champagne Supernova» is now fodder for retro radio stations — or the occasional ringtone.

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From the 1982 album... Famous Last Words, it's «It's Raining Again» from the British progressive pop - rock band Supertramp.

XTC: This is Pop: This documentary takes you inside the world of the British band named XTC.

An expertly crafted experimental pop album that at various points suggests the work of singer Kate Bush, the effects - drenched work of the Cocteau Twins and British art - rock band Talk Talk — all musicians who mix a certain sonic delicacy with studio heavy production — No Shape exudes confidence and vulnerability in equal measures.

The band's latest, Lonerism, digs even deeper into those themes and sounds [early -»70s psychedelia, proto - metal, and British pop], and pulls out a masterful collage.

The British synth - pop band was giving a free concert a block away in the parking lot of Tower Records.

The famous Long Island band, The Stray Cats got their breakout moment in 1980, when on a whim, they sold all their stuff and flew to London, found some floors and couches to crash on, and tried their luck at standing out in a sea of British synthesizer pop bands.

Leckey's interests might have shifted throughout the last decade — from an obsession with pop culture, subculture and the figure of the dandy in earlier films such as Parade (2003), and in his band collaboration DonAteller, with fellow artists Ed Laliq, Enrico David and Bonnie Camplin; to the high / low culture face - off of his BigBoxStatueAction performances (2003 — 11), in which Leckey's giant speaker stack confronts icons of modernist British sculpture, such as Jacob Epstein's Jacob and the Angel (1940 — 1); to his later multimedia performance lectures, the Internet - driven epiphany of dematerialisation In the Long Tail (2009) and its antithesis Cinema - in - the - Round (2006 — 8), with its more reflective inquiry into the physicality of images via, among others, Philip Guston, Felix the Cat, Gilbert & George, Homer Simpson and Titanic (1997).

Some of this glory was shared with irreverent pop art and stylish op art, but by the 1990s a fresh band of young British artists — including Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Jake and Dinos Chapman and Sarah Lucas — were busy commenting ironically on sex, fashion, art and money until their own work became so valuable the joke was rather lost.