Modern life may be rubbish, but this album isn't - although it is probably a bit short of their best work (which is the run of albums after this one). Plenty of good ideas, although unfocused in parts and without the big hit single that would have broken through. One of the defining works of early britpop, defined (by me) as the period before Definitely Maybe when Blur, Suede and Pulp (among others) were trying things out and waiting to catch fire.