The nostalgia was strong on this one. At the time, Modern Life is Rubbish felt a little less exciting than the run of albums which followed it - Parklife, The Great Escape, Blur and 13 were attention grabbing, era-defining records whilst Modern Life, by contrast, never felt quite as exciting. It was a pleasant surprise, then, on this re-listen, to find a neat, enjoyable album of decent tunes and great production on the theme of some kind of suburban, possibly now lost England (as Kinks, The Jam and others had sung of before). Who would have thought? Feeling nostalgic for an album about nostalgia?