Ive really gone off Britpop. In 1994-95, I loved it all: Blur, Oasis, Pulp, Dodgy etc etc
Nowadays, I just yawn if I hear of a new Oasis release, I really hope there is never a Blur re-union, and even Jarvis Cocker's recent stuff didn't interest me.
I don't even listen to this stuff much for nostalgia anymore. I was seventeen in 1994, I felt that the world belonged to me and there was so much ahead of me to be enjoyed.
I now listen to Parklife or Definitely Maybe and I feel a sense of disappointment that life didn't really work out how I hoped or imagined when I first heard those songs, and much as I loved living in that time, and being that age, there is no point in going back and I'd rather the music didn't try to take me.
Which is one reason I love 70s music - because I don't remember the 70s, the songs of Marc Bolan or Seals and Crofts have no memories or wistfulness attached and I can enjoy the music on its own terms.
Of current artists, I''ve really gone off the Feeling. 'Twelve Stops...' found me at a particularly emotional time of my life involving a certain young lady, and the tracks almost plotted out our relationship.
I've heard tracks from Join With Us and they are never going to mean that much to me. They've become just another boring chart band now.