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Saturday, December 8, 2007 12:00 AM

What ever happened to Britpop?

"The Brit Box" evokes an era of pale, sensitive, eyelinered boys -- and the Anglophiles who loved them.
By Simon Reynolds

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  • Saturday, December 8, 2007 06:14 AM

    The main problem with this boxset is the selection of songs...

    not the "Anglophilia" of it's target audience.

    I know Simon Reynolds is a big name music journalist who's done plenty of decent writing on pop, but this review reads like it was written by a delusionally scene-obsessed college radio dj. If ripping off black American musicians is the only way for a British band to have "cred" in the US, than thank god for the decline of "cred".

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    —Anonymous

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