Where do No Way Sis fit in to the rankings?

Eh, it's nice to have at least one big band acting like ego-mad Rock Bastards. Otherwise things get boring.

Anonymous: interesting point. I wonder if it was something to do with the journalists involved becoming parents themselves? Would be fun to study this and see if Britpop coincided with music journalists getting old and nostalgic.

Thanks for that… I didn't even know there was a war.

In the interests of continuing this list of Britpop also-rans: Shed Seven.

If Prog Butts isn't a bang, I don't know what is. Unless it's Cats That Look Like Hitler.

Actually, after having not read these for ages, I think they've got better. More commentary and less unnecessarily detailed description of things 98% of readers will know by heart anyway.

"It's not all that different from what goes on here with the reviews and comments, quite frankly"

This would fit perfectly into a filthier version of Blackadder.

If we're doing silly ones…

Heh, he'd probably tell you to keep it down, this IS a library you know…

I think it's so frightening because it's brutally plain and direct. It's just an absolutely straightforward statement of something everybody has to confront, and damn near everybody is scared of confronting.  And I suspect writing a poem so directly about that without making it sound horribly…

If we're mentioning apocalyptic poems and Robert Frost…

…or Dublinesque…

Yeah, you can never have too much Larkin… Aubade might win it, but there's also High Windows…

Ha, seconded. Every time I see a reference online to it being progressive/leftwing/feminist/everything else my mind instantly goes 'wait, you mean that naked lady site?'

I lost it at "Helvetica Bold".

There was a Guardian interview in which he said something like 'yeah, I've done a lot of things over the years, had a lot of bad haircuts'.

It's funny how the review calls it 'airless', because my favourite thing about that album is the way it opens up. The first four tracks feel claustrophobic and oppressive, and then the sound busts out of its confines on Lotus Flower and becomes lighter (even though the next two songs are typically melancholy…

A 19th century rapper.