January 2010
32 posts
I still don't feel like I've nailed it where The...
I probably shouldn’t have tried to write these posts at 3 AM. Sorry guys.
For the record, here’s a much earlier attempt at going over the same ground covered in those last few posts. It might not be any better, but uh, it’s different.
1993
tomewing:
1993 in Britain was the apex of scene-a-week genremaking by the music press: history focuses now on the proto-Britpop stuff (because it ‘won’ and because it was pretty good) but at the time that wasn’t such a sure thing at all and there was a forest of other stuff going on.* Such as!
New wave of new wave - reputationally poor punkiness, aggressive and political (SMASH, These Animal...
Here’s the video for “Fix Me,” one of the three singles from Crush that The Doughboys released. I’m pretty sure the video tag it’s got is from when it aired on MuchMusic, aka the Canadian MTV. Which is fitting. I would have posted the video for “Shine,” the album’s biggest hit, if I could find it. As it is, youtube has multiple videos in which the...