never was much of a fan of britpop though chose Blur were slightly less likely to act like complete twats to the media whilst cosying up to politicians as Oasis did, plus the local connections (they were not formed at Uni in London as many sources say but at Colchester, only about 25 miles from here).
Also sheer randomness and eccentricity, including one dude refusing to be in the video unless he could dress up as a traditional English milkman, and using both a banjo and a mellotron on one track (this being a really obscure electronic keyboard based instrument invented in Birmingham as old as most of the band members (most of whom are a few years my senior) which used large loops of magnetic tape and was notroriously flaky.
