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Baggy was a British dance-oriented music genre popular in the early 1990s. This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...
The scene was extremely influenced by Madchester, although the scene was not geographically confined to Manchester. Many Madchester bands could also be described as Baggy, and vice versa. Baggy was characterised by psychedelia- and acid house-influenced guitar music, often with a funky drummer beat, similar to the work of the Happy Mondays and the Stone Roses. The scene was named after the loose-fitting clothing worn by the bands and fans. An NME Originals issue covering the Madchester movement. ...
This page is about the City of Manchester in England. ...
Psychedelia is a term describing a category of music, visual art, fashion, and culture that is associated originally with the high 1960s, hippies, and the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco, California. ...
A yellow smiley face is considered the emblem of Acid House. ...
Happy Mondays are an alternative rock band formed in Salford, Greater Manchester, England in 1985. ...
The classic line-up at the time of Spike Island The Stone Roses were one of the most influential bands to come out of Britain during the late 1980s and early 90s. ...
Some bands, such as the The Mock Turtles and The Soup Dragons, reinvented their sound and image to fit in with the new scene. This led some critics to accuse baggy bands of bandwagon-jumping and derivative songwriting. There was also a crossover between dance and indie, and vice versa. For the comic opera of the same name, see Mock Turtles (opera). ...
The Soup Dragons were a Scottish indie rock band of the late 1980s and early 1990s, named after a character in the 1970s childrens TV show The Clangers. ...
Bands in the indie-dance era of pop music can be divided into two camps; the acts who could be described as baggy (usually the 'Madchester' acts and a few others such as Flowered Up from London) — and those who can be described as indie-dance (i.e. Jesus Jones, who were more techno inspired). For popular music (music produced commercially rather than art or folk music), see Popular music. ...
An NME Originals issue covering the Madchester movement. ...
Flowered Up was a five-man Baggy band originating from Camden in London. ...
Jesus Jones is a British London-based rock group that performed and recorded in the late 1980s, throughout the 1990s, and into the 2000s. ...
Techno is a form of electronic dance music that became prominent in Detroit, Michigan (some argue that it may have been born in Europe) during the mid-1980s with influences from Chicago House, electro, New Wave, Funk and futuristic fiction themes that were prevalent and relative to modern culture during...
Legacy Some baggy bands disappeared after the scene was no longer popular, and others evolved into indie rock or Britpop bands who remained popular throughout the 1990s. The Charlatans and Blur are good examples of ex-baggy bands who retained their popularity, although little trace of the baggy sound and look remained. Indie rock is a subgenre of rock music often used to refer to bands that are on small independent record labels or that arent on labels at all. ...
Britpop was a British alternative rock genre and movement that was at its most popular in Great Britain in the mid 1990s. ...
The Charlatans could refer to two bands The Charlatans, a United States band The Charlatans, a British band, sometimes known in the US as Charlatans UK This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
Blur are an English rock band formed in Colchester in 1989. ...
The baggy style became eclipsed by the grunge and Britpop genres, with many of the lesser bands forgotten. Apart from tribute acts, the style has been absent from the indie arena, with acts like the 2001 Manchester band Waterfall failing to interest record companies with their revival sound. Grunge (sometimes referred to as the Seattle Sound) is a genre of alternative rock inspired by hardcore punk, heavy metal, and indie rock. ...
Baggy and Madchester acts The Candyskins are a rock band formed in 1989 in Oxford, England. ...
The Charlatans (known in the US as The Charlatans UK) are an English rock band. ...
The Farm is a band from Liverpool, UK. They were popular through the early 1990s. ...
Flowered Up was a five-man Baggy band originating from Camden in London. ...
Happy Mondays are an alternative rock band formed in Salford, Greater Manchester, England in 1985. ...
The Inspiral Carpets is an alternative rock band from Oldham in Greater Manchester, England formed by Graham Lambert in 1986. ...
For the comic opera of the same name, see Mock Turtles (opera). ...
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. ...
The New Fast Automatic Daffodils {also know as New FADS} are an Indie rock band from Manchester, England, who were most successful during the early 1990s. ...
Northside are a band from Manchester, England that borrowed heavily from the Madchester scene of the time. ...
Ocean Colour Scene (often abbreviated to OCS) are a rock band from Birmingham, England. ...
The Real People, from Liverpool, England, were one of the very first bands to play what is today known as “Britpopâ€, and have been quoted by Oasis as being one of their major influences. ...
The Soup Dragons were a Scottish indie rock band of the late 1980s and early 1990s, named after a character in the 1970s childrens TV show The Clangers. ...
The Stone Roses were an influential English rock band from Manchester, active during the late 1980s through to the mid 1990s. ...
World of Twist were a band from Manchester, England. ...
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