This is one of my favorite albums of all time. It's so intense in it's nostalgia, that's it's hard for me to separate the music from my teenage memories, so I'm somewhat biased through experiences. But the likes of 'The Beautiful Ones', 'Filmstar' and 'Trash' are true britpop classics. And 'Saturday Night' was the first single I ever bought (along with Gene's 'We Could Be Kings' at the same time)... On cassette, no less! For me, the highlights are the softer moments like the haunting 'By The Sea', the woozy 'Picnic By The Motorway' and the aforementioned ballad 'Saturday Night'. The album is only ten tracks and around 40 minuets long... And every second is fantastic. No bad songs and no down time, it's a masterpiece of guitar pop and one of my top ten albums ever.
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