"It was all here: class, provincial frustration, teenage rage–and, most important, an underlying empathy with the rituals of non-metropolitan life that ensured everything came out sounding fascinatingly ambivalent. And when a combination of Weller's love of Orwell and the O-level English poetry syllabus sparked new literary appetites, I was suddenly alerted to something that hadn't even occurred to me: that my favourite songwriters and musicians were viewing the suburban expanse through the same lens once used by some of the titans of 20th-century literature. In other words, contrary to what I hitherto believed, my artistic year-zero wasn't 1966, but some time in the 1930s."
John Harris in The Guardian explores the heritage of English suburban pop.
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