Sounds From The Junkshop #14 - Gene
"You said that I should look to the future - I've seen and I'll stay here" - Gene, Where Are They Now? , 1997 And so Sounds From The Junkshop leaves the early '90s behind and moves on to the Britpop era. It was an odd time and looking back, I'm still not quite sure how I feel about it. As an era, it seems to get a lot of bad press retrospectively - I remember one journo describing it scornfully as the point where music stopped trying to move forward and started just regurgitating the past whole sale while a lot of the bands I'd grown up with and loved over the previous 3-4 years who suddenly found their record sales tailing off with this new movement were predictably scathing. I remember Fruitbat from Carter saying something in an interview along the lines that he wished bands like Oasis and Ocean Colour Scene would just apologise and go away and recall a Senseless Things interview circa Taking Care of Business where they described the scene as "I...