Ned's Atomic Dustbin - Nothing Like

'Nothing Like is one of several excellent cuts from the 1991 album **God Fodder**, and features mosh-inducing time changes of pace and, of course, prominent bass.'

EMF - I Believe

I believe, do you? Here’s the Forest of Dean’s finest, the Epsom Mad Funkers, with a song written by future Beyoncé and Florence and The Machine collaborator Ian Dench.

Tom Petty - Learning To Fly

1991: birthday brass in pocket, I head to the bright lights of Our Price, and splash out on three albums that announce loud and clear that I am not, in fact, quite ready to leave...

The Charlatans - Then

I never actually owned any of yesterday’s trio, but I did buy a fairly second-rate compilation called “The Hit Pack”, which was released the same year. It’s a wildly varied assortment, with everything from Groove...

MC Hammer - U Can't Touch This

Let’s make this a Friday 1-2-3 with a track that was also deemed less good than turtles and bikinis in the summer of 1990.

DNA feat. Suzanne Vega - Tom's Diner

Even if you don’t care for the DNA remix treatment of Vega’s a cappella track, you’ll surely have to give it some love when you remember the two singles that kept it from reaching number...

Beats International - Dub Be Good To Me

“A new decade”, sang The Verve, curiously waiting until it was halfway over before calling it, “the radio plays the sounds we made, and everything seems to feel just right”. Perhaps they’d forgotten by then...

Weezer - Buddy Holly

At some point during the 90s a 70s culture-grab started, and a generation who were old enough to know better and remember worse were only too happy to point out how inferior and unoriginal were...

The Mock Turtles - Can You Dig It?

This is very, very 90s. Very 90s indie, anyway. Well, very 90s indie baggy at least: a proper indie guitar sound, a solo that goes nowhere, a baggy rhythm section, and that’s Steve Coogan’s brother...

R.E.M. - Love Is All Around

RIP Reg Presley, lead singer of The Troggs, a believer who used the royalty cheques brought to him by the phenomenal success of Wet Wet Wet’s cover version of Love Is All Around to fund...

Slowdive - Alison

Chromebook crash results in lost post, and only now do I remember why I usually write in google docs…

My Bloody Valentine - Soon

Given their fans had to wait 21 years and 3 months since the last My Bloody Valentine album (1991’s Loveless) it’s not much of a shock that when its follow up, mbv, made its low-key,...

The Breeders - Cannonball

The Breeders: part pixie, part throwing muse (for a while anyway) and all ace.

February 2013: The 1990s

In the 90s, just as it had in the 80s, my music taste exploded. Only this time I was very consciously rejecting dull chart matter, and embracing the cult of the alternative. This is when...

Sleeper - Inbetweener

The video for Inbetweener features Dale Winton. In a Supermarket. How's that for a slice of mid-90s daytime fried nostaliga?

The Peddlers - On A Clear Day You Can See Forever

So that was “Start Button”, the last track on “As Heard on Radio Soulwax Vol.2”, which doesn’t do a lot with its source, but at least introduces to the world the “ooh just a short...

Soulwax - Start Button

What’s more annoying than hearing a track and not being able to figure out where you’ve heard it before? Not very much at all, let me tell you.

Tracey Thorn - Taking Down The Tree

This first post of the New Year will be a helpful one for superstitious folks. Here’s Tracey Thorn covering Low’s Taking Down The Tree, with help from Green Gartside, reminding you to perform one last...

Grab bag

what do I do when I have a track in mind, but it has no friends? I chuck it in the grab bag, of course. This is sure to be the least coherent section of...

The Walkmen - In The New Year

Happy New Year folks!