Tracks - page 44

Enough 1990s already!

Teenage Fanclub spent 1993 being a generally brilliant collective song-writing animal, mostly living out their Big Star revival fantasies, only dialling it up occasionally. Like here, for instance.

It occurred to me recently that as much as I like New Order, I never actually seem to listen to them. Odd. And just now,...

Even on an album that included Cherub Rock, surely this was always Siamese Dream’s killer track.

I’m well aware that I was there first musical boasts are empty glories at best, but for the record (heh) I bought this the first time around, when it sold no more than a handful...

Reading wikipedia and allmusic.com today you’d be forgiven for thinking that everyone was in thrall to the album’s charms, but that’s not my recollection at all. Some people quite liked the bouncy baggy Blur of...

The Dodgy Album was a favourite of mine during the spring and summer of 1993. For all the britpop and 60s revivalist revisionist nonsense that gets spouted about some mid 90s output, it’s worth just...

No more Pixies - Boo! Black Francis going solo - yay! And he’s calling himself Frank Black and covering The Beach Boys… wha?

Over on the BBC Radio 6 Music FB page someone’s been busy this evening updating something that calls itself “Steve Lamacq’s Britpop Timeline” with entries from March 1993. Don’t know where they got their inspiration...

On one visit to Revolution Records I ask for a quick listen of New Wave, the debut album from The Auteurs. I’m hooked after 25 seconds of opening track Show Girl.

Whenever I had enough pennies for a single or two I used to head down to Revolution Records in Windsor in search of treasure. I’d pass the tape carousel, always with its copy of the...

As disappointing second albums go, The Charlatans’ Between 10th and 11th is hard to top. It’s as if the band knew they’d created a collection that while not exactly bad, struggles to rise above humdrum:...

One big album, one mercury prize nomination, a handful of top 20 singles, a couple of Brit awards, and then… to quote Paul Daniels, not a lot. Still sounds great, though, and at least this...

Just a B-side…

Yadda yadda Bowie yadda yadda glam. Whatever. Meaningless comparisons really, when all you need to consider is that Suede (The London Suede to you, statesiders) pitched camp in pretty much all the music weeklies, monthlies,...

Credit where it’s due: NME’s 1992 Singles of the Week album includes Sugar, The Wedding Present, Sonic Youth, St Etienne, The Fall, Gang Starr, PJ Harvey, Teenage Fanclub, The Beautiful South, Gallon Drunk, and The...

Kingmaker are, it’s fair to say, not as fondly remembered as many of their peers. That’s if they are remembered at all. The Kingmaker backlash started with the singles 10 Years Asleep and Queen Jane,...

Their biggest single, and the closest they came to the top 10, peaking at 12. At no point did it ever occur to me, or perhaps to anyone, that this indie disco delight was inspired...

Can’t resist also posting the live, funked up version. There’s a minute and a bit of Everybody Hurts, and then the fun begins…

Imagine having to follow up Out Of Time: an album that everyone, it seemed, not only bought but loved; an album that firmly placed REM in the spotlight; an album that sold, ooh, let’s call...