It's been almost three years since this album showed up on my 1001 list and I've actively avoided this. My intent was to figure out if modern life is really rubbish, or if this album would get worse as the time rolls on. Though I can't say that I hate this album more than I did 3 years ago, it is in fact ... (wait for it...) STILL rubbish. The music is relatively limp and benign, I think what makes it most irritating and hard to listen to is that awful singer and that terrible accent. For chrissakes eat some blue pills and be a man. This album just folk music with an electric guitar. Brit pop was difficult to get into in 1993, but it's only gotten more difficult to swallow thirty years later.