History Music / TheBooRadleys

British group of TheNineties, named after the character in ''Literature/ToKillAMockingbird'', who started as a {{Shoegazing}} band, became NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly experimentalists, were briefly (and against their will) co-opted into the {{Britpop}} movement, and showed more Rock-ist tendencies towards the end. Most remembered by the general public for the hit "Wake Up Boo!".

While definitely considered part of the first wave of shoegazing bands, they lasted ''much'' longer than most of their contemporaries (Music/CatherineWheel being the only band that would last into the 2000s, Music/MyBloodyValentine aside). Depending on what popular music history buff you talk to, they'll either mark their break up, or Catherine Wheel's break up as the marker between First Wave and Second Wave shoegaze bands (or, to complicate things even more, the release of Music/MyVitriol's ''Finelines'' in 2001). They reunited in 2021 without original guitarist Martin Carr, and released a single, "A Full Syringe and Memories of You", their first new music since 1998.

While definitely considered part of the first wave of shoegazing bands, they lasted ''much'' longer than most of their contemporaries (Music/CatherineWheel being the only band that would last into the 2000s, Music/MyBloodyValentine aside). Depending on what popular music history buff you talk to, they'll either mark their break up, or Catherine Wheel's break up as the marker between First Wave and Second Wave shoegaze bands (or, to complicate things even more, the release of Music/MyVitriol's ''Finelines'' in 2001).

While definitely considered part of the first wave of shoegazing bands, they lasted ''much'' longer than most of their contemporaries (Music/CatherineWheel being the only band that would last into the 2000s, Music/MyBloodyValentine aside). Depending on what popular music history buff you talk to, they'll either mark their break up, or Catherine Wheel's break up as the marker between First Wave and Second Wave shoegazing bands (or, to complicate things even more, the release of Music/MyVitriol's ''Finelines'' in 2001).

British group of TheNineties, named after a character in ''Literature/ToKillAMockingbird'', who started as a {{Shoegazing}} band, became NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly experimentalists, were briefly (and against their will) co-opted into the {{Britpop}} movement, and showed more Rock-ist tendencies towards the end. Most remembered by the general public for the hit "Wake Up Boo!".

* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: A major reason why ''Giant Steps'' was so well-received by critics.

* JustifiedTitle: "It's Lulu" is a ShoutOut to a 1970s TV pop show starring the singer Lulu. As Martin Carr confirms in his sleevenotes to ''Find the Way Out'', he liked the title so much that he wrote the song as an excuse to use it, and justified it by naming the girl in the song Lulu.

* BrokenRecord: The entire second half of "Free Huey" consists of the line "And you know you gotta be all you can be" over and over.

* JustifiedTitle: "It's Lulu" is a ShoutOut to a 1970s TV pop show starring the singer Lulu. As Martin Carr confirms in his sleevenotes to ''Find The Way Out'', he liked the title so much that he wrote the song as an excuse to use it, and justified it by naming the girl in the song Lulu.

While definitely considered part of the first wave of shoegazing bands, they lasted ''much'' longer than most of their contemporaries (Music/CatherineWheel being the only band that would still be together into the 2000s, Music/MyBloodyValentine aside). Depending on what popular music history buff you talk to, they'll either mark their break up, or Catherine Wheel's break up as the marker between First Wave and Second Wave shoegazing bands (or, to complicate things even more, the release of Music/MyVitriol's ''Finelines'' in 2001).

* ''Everything's Alright Forever'' (1992) - highly-rated by many Shoegazing fans

* ''Kingsize'' (1998) - a well-recieved but commercially unsuccessful return to more experimental work.

* [[ExcitedShowTitle Excited Album Title!]]: ''Wake Up!''
* GreatestHitsAlbum: Two: the definitive one is the double CD ''Find The Way Out'', a career-spanning collection including B-sides, album tracks and outtakes as well as the singles, plus liner notes by Martin Carr; there's also a single CD grab-bag of mid-career tracks called ''Best of The Boo Radleys''.

* NonAppearingTitle: Lots of them. "Lazarus", "Find The Answer Within", "Barney (...and Me)" (whose title is actually [[CallBack dropped]] in "From The Bench at Belvidere", itself a non-appearing title), "Martin, Doom! It's Seven o'Clock", and many more.

While definitely considered part of the first wave of Shoegazing bands, they lasted ''much'' longer than most of their contemporaries (Music/CatherineWheel being the only band that would still be together into the 2000s, Music/MyBloodyValentine aside). Depending on what popular music history buff you talk to, they'll either mark their break up, or Catherine Wheel's break up as the marker between First Wave and Second Wave shoegazing bands (or, to complicate things even more, the release of Music/MyVitriol's ''Finelines'' in 2001).

* LiteraryAllusionTitle: the band are named for a character in ''Literature/ToKillAMockingbird''.

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* SimilarlyNamedWorks: It's often been assumed that ''Giant Steps'' is named after Music/JohnColtrane's seminal album of the same title, though the band have denied this.

* ''Ichabod & I'' (1990) - limited-run debut, dismissed by the band as an LP of DinosaurJr rip-offs but not without its fans

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: ''Ichabod & I'' had one official release, vinyl-only, 500 copies. The band seemed to regard it as OldShame though one track, "Catweazle", was eventually included on the career-spanning ''Find The Way Out'' compilation.

* SimilarlyNamedWorks: It's often been assumed that ''Giant Steps'' is named after JohnColtrane's seminal album of the same title, though the band have denied this.

* ExecutiveMeddling: Carr admits that this usually made their records stronger, and that he regrets the times he resisted it (such as when he insisted on "Free Huey" as the lead single from ''Kingsize'' when Alan [=McGee=] wanted... anything ''but'' "Free Huey", basically).

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: ''Ichabod & I'' had one official release, vinyl-only, 500 copies. The band seemed to regard it as OldShame though one track, ''Catweazle'', was eventually included on the career-spanning ''Find The Way Out'' compilation.

* CreatorBacklash: Carr and Sice both reckon fan favourite "I Hang Suspended" was mere AlbumFiller. Their commentaries on the ''Giant Steps'' reissue website also reveal a shared dislike of "Spun Around", while Carr says "'One Is For' is shite."

* ChorusOnlySong: "Wake Up Boo!", leading to the misconception that it's about spring or summer even though the verses make it quite clear it isn't (the very first line is "Summer's gone").

!Tropes in evidence:

* BlackSheepHit: "Wake Up Boo!" is uncharacteristically jolly, and the parent album ''Wake Up!'' (a number one and easily their biggest seller) gets very little love these days.

** "Lazarus" alludes to TheBible (the song is nothing to do with it, though).

While definitely considered part of the first wave of Shoegazing bands, they lasted ''much'' longer than most of their contemporaries (Music/CatherineWheel being the only band that would still be together into the 2000s, Music/MyBloodyValentine aside). Depending on what popular music history buff you talk to, they'll either mark their break up, or Catherine Wheel's break up as the marker between First Wave and Second Wave shoegazing bands.

* LiteraryAllusionTitle: the band are named for a character in ''ToKillAMockingbird''.

British group of TheNineties who started as a {{Shoegazing}} band, became NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly experimentalists, were briefly (and against their will) co-opted into the {{Britpop}} movement, and showed more Rock-ist tendencies towards the end. Most remembered by the general public for the hit "Wake Up Boo!".

* AGoodNameForARockBand: They named themselves after a character in ''Literature/ToKillAMockingbird''.

* BSide: Being at their commercial height during the period when singles were typically released as two CDs, each with four tracks, they racked up a huge number of these. The reissues of ''Giant Steps'' and ''Wake Up'' each come with not one but two bonus CDs full of B sides. When you go through their career, more original material appeared on B sides than on proper albums.

* CreatorBacklash: Carr and Sice both reckon fan favourite "I Hang Suspended" was mere AlbumFiller.