3. My favourite parks are car parks...

...Grass is something you smoke, birds are something you shag. Take your Year in Provence and shove it up your ass. From the song I Spy by Pulp, on their 1995 Different Class album. Later described by singer Jarvis Cocker as “my justification for being a doley scumbag”. The point about this album is that during the height of the so-called Britpop Wars, when Northern Working Class Oiks Oasis fought Southern Middle Class Mockneys Blur for who could be most in touch with “ver kids” (as Smash Hits used to put it), both were blindsided by an album loaded with the authentic voice of pre-Millennial British youth. Different Class was furious and intelligent, bitter and sarcastic and vicious and hilarious – and in Common People gave us the most unlikely combination of dancealong pop and incisive social commentary in the history of the singles chart (it reached Number 2 – kept off the top spot by a cover of Unchained Melody by the actors Robson Greene and Jerome Flynn – draw your own conclusions). But in an album full of razor-sharp poetics, it was these lines that stood out – a full decade before anyone ever used the word “chav”. Parks, grass, birds – even language itself has divided along class lines.