
So – Noel Gallagher has quit Oasis. A band that were culturally relevant about fifteen years ago, and have since produced a string of dishwater rock albums that failed to get anybody excited.

So – Noel Gallagher has quit Oasis. A band that were culturally relevant about fifteen years ago, and have since produced a string of dishwater rock albums that failed to get anybody excited.

A recent Guardian article drew the attention to this.
A comprehensive guide to the Britpop years. Hey, everybody! Remember ‘Britpop’? Crap, wasn’t it?
“Well, that depends”, you may respond, “on whether you construct a picture of an era from various sell-through compilations and poorly-recalled media events or whether you maintain a vivid, quasi-synesthetic recollection of the era in your own imagination.”