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Once again, as someone has already mentioned, this article was a REVIEW OF A BOX SET!!!
To complain that your favorite wasn't covered or that the article is not in depth enough (someone mentioned exclusion of a German band, in a box set of BritPop for god's sake!!!) completely overlooks the fact that Mr. Reynolds' didn't put the track list together and at 78 tracks, would be hard-pressed to spend more than a sentence on most of the bands represented here.
If volumes of obscure history is what you crave, I high recommend Mr. Reynolds' book "Rip it up and start again". The indie (often referred to over-broadly as "new wave") scenes that spawned/influenced the superbands of Britains late 80s - early 90s (and beyond) are gone over with a fine-toothed comb and dissected ad infinitum. An entire chapter on Genesis P. Orridge, YES!!!
As for the box set, I already own every album from every band found on it that I like (and some I don't) so it would be a waste of time and a redundancy of music for me. I try to avoid this because my music collection already fills up a room and a half and the wife, bless her heart, probably couldn't take much more...
