Stop Picking on Menswear

Every article about Britpop draws the same line: on one side blur, Oasis, Pulp, and on the other, Menswear.

Unfortunately Menswear were no good (I can see the appeal of Day Dreamer, though I hate it) but who cares? They don't stand up outside of their context, but neither do the Clash, and everyone bends over backwards pretending to like them.

Best bit about this video is Mark Goodyear in a tanktop.

This Britpop-bashing article from the Guardian is carefully calibrated to play to the music snobs and wind up the nostalgic 30somethings who read the culture section.

what Britpop became, a collection of lowest common denominators that ended up setting music back

Setting music back… Here the author is confusing scientific research with "listening to the radio".

Music is not a series of experiments aiming towards some future perfect music; if it was, everyone would have given up when Nellyville dropped in 2002, for if ever there was such a thing as perfection, surely it had arrived.