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Inspiral Carpets is tagged as: madchester, indie, britpop, manchester, alternative

The Oldham-based Inspiral Carpets were formed in 1983, and emerged alongside bands like The Stone Roses and Happy Mondays, from the indie scene of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Their sound is based around harmonic (and often psychedelic) keyboards and jangly guitars. The band were propelled to fame after being ‘discovered’ by the Radio 1 DJ John Peel and had their greatest chart success in the UK with a single entitled This Is How It Feels, which is a song about loneliness and unemployment.
At the time of their initial success, the band earned some notoriety for their squiggly-eyed cow ‘Cool as Fuck’ T-shirts; a student at Oxford Polytechnic was prosecuted on obscenity charges for wearing one. One of their roadies, Noel Gallagher, went on to great success with the band Oasis. The band is named after an Inspiral Carpets tour poster which included the venue Swindon Oasis.
They reworked their single Find Out Why as the theme tune to early 90’s kids TV show ‘The 8:15 From Manchester’. Another release I Want You was used by Sony to advertise their in-car entertainment systems http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcYRKYl2EB4; an early example of advertising agencies co-opting and promoting non-mainstream music to add kudos to mainstream brand...
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Top 10 Inspiral Carpets Songs
This Is How It Feels
Saturn 5
She Comes In The Fall
Dragging Me Down
Move
I Want You
Joe
Uniform
Weakness
Caravan
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Top 10 Inspiral Carpets Albums
Cool As
Life
Greatest Hits
The Singles
Revenge Of The Goldfish
Devil Hopping
The Beast Inside
Singles
Beast Inside
Keep The Circle (B-Sides and Udder stuff)
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