“Of the myriad reasons my mid-90s high school years seem, in retrospect, pretty goddamn embarrassing, my obsessive love of Britpop ranks high. Sure, my tawdry affair with the genre was spawned from an admiration of great bands like Blur, The Stone Roses, and The Smiths. I overdid it, though. Virtually any band garnering even mild buzz in the UK warranted immediate purchase, including such dodgy blo”
