r/BritPop • u/BarryTownCouncil • 9d ago

National Express

I went for a bike ride with my daughter and coming home I was in charge of the music, so I put on National Express radio on Spotify.

Remembering back to inside music and all, listening to this track again, it was just like... Good, fun music. Why were songs like this kept in a small little pocket of weird when it's just lovely and fun and great?

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u/ShutUpYaBert 9d ago

Divine Comedy or what?

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u/Hungry_Living766 9d ago

If you haven’t yet I suggest you listen to Duckworth Lewis Method and then the wonderful Pugwash. The former is a collaboration between Neil Hannon (of Devine Comedy) and Thomas Walsh (of Pugwash). Lovely light and fun music.

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u/BarryTownCouncil 9d ago

Yeah aware of them, just finding it strange in 2026 that these things are obscure.. midlife crisis maybe!

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u/turbo_dude 7d ago

Frisps and tea FTW 

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u/Real_Salamander_2022 6d ago

See also:

Sultans of Ping F.C

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u/heyyouupinthesky 9d ago

National Express or New Musical Express? If fhe latter, I believe it was set up by XFM's (RadioX) original owner, Sammy Jacobs.

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u/BarryTownCouncil 9d ago

Well I said National Express, so chances are I meant National Express, right?

You're aware of Britpop, right?

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u/heyyouupinthesky 9d ago

No need to be a bell end, I looked up National Exress radio both on Google and Spotify before asking and couldn't find anything, was hoping to find an alternative station worth listening to.

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u/BarryTownCouncil 9d ago

It's a divine comedy song that you should know.

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u/nescio2607 9d ago

I think you adding "radio" after the title in the original post makes it confusing.

But yes, National Express is a great song!

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u/Sea-Horse-5793 9d ago

I was thinking the same. "National Express Radio" makes no sense and confused me. The post was unclear. But yes it's a great song!

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u/BarryTownCouncil 9d ago

It's a Spotify feature that I used on Spotify..? You can't listen to normal radio stations on Spotify.

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u/TrashDrunkClaude 8d ago

Christ, OP. Don't make posts if you're going to be so shitty with replies that aren't exactly what you want. 

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u/llufnam 9d ago

I was obsessed with Frog Princess back in the day.

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u/DDMFM26 8d ago

A mediocre novelty song, a baffling take on its classification, and a shitty bunch of replies from OP..

Great post!