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JONES BULLSHIT JONES BULLSHIT JONES BULLSHIT
this song but it does embody something. It’s intense embodiment of a sort of Christopher Isherwood-esque meets Charles Hawtree style of social observation. It’s very, very class based. It’s the middle class terraced life, it wasn’t working class. The sort of the terrible ennui of the British is embodied in that song. In terms of records that I think are incredible from that period, I would say Girls and Boys by Blur. I first heard that, and I thought this is it, it’s a great pop record. For me personally, it was the moment where I realised that all of that Englishness had led to a globally brilliant pop record. To hear it freshly minted before anyone had heard it and go right with finally they’ve done it, I think that was my moment. If I had to rank them, I’d probably put Columbia and Girls and Boys together. Then Champagne Supernova because it’s pop and by that point it got popular. Finally, Disco 2000 which captures a sort of British class thing in one go. Carry on up the charts with Jarvis Cocker.
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