Tracks - page 45

When Carry On Up The Charts was released in 1994, and started to do well, this was generally seen as a good thing. After a while, though, people started to think maybe they’d had enough....

Another day, another month, another cassingle. Much maligned as a format, and often bettered, but what is a boy to do when he doesn’t have either a CD or record player, but does have a...

A track that for some reason I decided to use as my wake up alarm for about two months. Since I had it on cassette single, this meant that I had to make sure the...

It took the Pixies, borrowing the Hüsker Dü blueprint and bending it to their loudQUIETloud will, to show Bob Mould the way to commercial success. With his new band, Sugar, on Copper Blue he put...

Poor Evan Dando, weighed down by all that lovely long hair, barely has the energy to sing or play guitar, let alone sing AND play guitar at the same time. It takes a lot of...

Martin Carr tends to be pretty honest about some of his back catalogue, once describing Wake Up Boo! as the most cynical thing he’d ever done. Of I Hang Suspended he writes:

Bonus edition!

Of course, everyone remembers that Boing! was an album by Airhead, and a single by The Wedding Present. One of the 12 they released in 1992 in their monthly chart attack. While Boing can be...

Well, I’ve slipped back a year again (kinda - the single was out in ‘91, the album in ‘92…), but I have my reasons. This one just popped into my head while I was thinking...

It’s the lovely Harriet Wheeler again. If you don’t think she has just the most beautiful voice, you might want to consider booking an appointment with your local ear calibrator.

Had I been older, perhaps, or at least more rock, art-rock, or punk literate when The Jesus and Mary Chain released Honey’s Dead in 1992 I might have seen it more in the context of...

Who’s this - is it Garbage?

Meanwhile, back in the land of the criminally overlooked were Moose, thrown in the shoegazing bucket because in their very early days, on their first few EPs, waves of guitar did indeed wash over the...

This is Sunday’s post, which means in a way I’m posting it tomorrow. See what I did there? That said, I can always change the time later so it looks like I posted it yesterday....

Great lost albums #488: Babe Rainbow by The House of Love, a crashing disappointment for Fontana, peaking at #34.

In 1990, The Shamen had their first chart success with their fourth album, En-Tact. The album’s lead single Progen found itself a host of remixes, became Move Any Mountain, hit the top 5, and launched...

You know how I said I was trapped in 1991? Yes, well, if you could just ignore the slight continuity error and enjoy this slice of Scottish sunshine from Teenage Fanclub, that’d be great. It...

Day by day I am becoming ever more trapped in 1991. But that’s ok, we can see this through, it will just take time.

Early 90s indie cred 101: own a copy of, or profess love for Ride’s 1990 debut album, “Nowhere”. It kicks off with I am The Resurrection put through an industrial grinder, Laurence Colbert drums throughout...

No video for this one, but it’s the actual track from the actual cassette! Sounds like it was uploaded via wax cylinder, but what the hey. When you hear the word shoegazing, this is what...