"Blur, Suede, Elastica, Pulp, Oasis—here are the mis-shapes who made the scene great. "'Britpop?' It's just a shitty-sounding word," Jarvis Cocker told Pitchfork this month. "I don't like the nationalistic idea of it; it wasn't a flag-waving music. It was really distasteful when it got called 'Britpop' because that was like somebody trying to appropriate some kind of alternative culture, stick a Union Jack on it, and take the credit for it."
But Britpop, by any other name, still would've been a phenomenon. "
