Captain - you never got Oasis because you're too old - simple as that. Aside from Liam getting bored with Oasis along time ago, that's probably why I lost interest.
Andrew, the only people who ever talk(ed) of 'Brit Pop' are lazy journalists and the readers of their middle-aged man music magazines. Ironically, the same sort of people who probably now can't wait for a new Noel/Weller album or whatever.
If you ever saw The Stone Roses on Rapido, or Oasis playing Supersonic for the first time on rubbish like The Word, you'd maybe have liked them. Instead, despite being a top bloke, you stick up for tax specialists U2, who last made a good record when I was twelve!