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Very well written, insightful review. The listener in the United States often ignores or disregards the circumstances from which arose their particular scene or sound, or worse romanticizes it. That said, I would have not associated Oasis and Blair, My Bloody Valentine and Thatcher (not that way that I *do* associate Elvis Costello with Thatcher, Joy Division and the Clash with their working-class Albion roots, etc). In fact, Britpop is seemingly so generic and out-of-time by design.
This of course all begs the question as to whether I plan on buying the box set. Being an avowed Anglophile, I like if not love many of the bands on this collection; but being a music fan, the level of filler and crap would be an affront to my tastes. Its just this sort of thing that the recording industry does that in my mind gives the music fan implicit permission to share and steal music, to wit, the industry saying, "well, fuck the fans." Fuck you too!
