The Brian Jonestown Massacre.

       1996 was the year Nevermore's sophomore record was released. Meshuggah's ''Destroy Erase Improve" was already a reality. Metal music (done properly) had more things to offer than bands ripping off and ''poping up, the 90's way''  the various 60's eras (say, '64-'66 and '66-'68) of the British Invasion(s). Nevertheless, on the top of my head, I can't find an explicit, valid argument in order to throw The Brian Jonestown Massacre's ''Take It From The Man!" into the basket of history. Other than embarassing yours truly by reminding her just how bad her memory has become, that is. Not being able to name The Rolling Stones' singles that they intentionally copy the vocal lines and the music from is sad. Were they tagged as brit-pop back in the day Oasis were popular? 

Ruth Rendell.

I was not afraid of the house, at least not then. I was too sore for that. All my misery and fear derived from humanagency, not the supernatural. If I thought of the `bad room' at all, it was with that recklessness, that fatalism, which comes with certain kinds of unhappiness: things are so bad that anything which happens will be a relief - disaster, loss death. So I climbed that stairs and explored the house, looking into all the rooms, without trepidation and without much interest.

This is an excerpt from Ruth Rendell's novella ''The Strawberry Tree'' . It is probably short, simple, by-the-by ''psychological life-wisdom-isms'' like the one above, used in a more generic crime fiction environment of course, that make Wikipedia pieces of information, like the following, accurate: Many credit her and close friend P. D. James for upgrading the entire genre of whodunit, shaping it more into a whydunit.