Toadcast #97 – The Nineties
I’m not sure why the end of the noughties should necessarily lead to any kind of retrospective of the nineties, but it has. I guess it has a lot to do with the fact that I just feel it’s way too early for me to figure out what I make of the noughties.
So, given that it must be about time for the nineties revival (actually, probably best give it another year or so) and given that the nineties are now quite a long way away and given that, erm… well I dunno. Given I was poking around at that stuff recently and listening to some Pulp and Gene and Blur and stuff I figured I might as well pop the whole bloody lot into a podcast.
Toadcast #97 – The Nineties
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01. Pearl Jam – Even Flow (Unplugged) (4.16)
02. The Stone Roses – (Song For My) Sugar Spun Sister (12.23)
03. Belly – Untitled & Unsung (18.37)
04. Echobelly – Insomniac (22.13)
05. Blur – Yuko & Hiro (29.00)
06. Gene – Wasteland (36.14)
07. Ben Folds Five – Underground (38.49)
08. Blur – Country Sad Ballad Man (44.56)
09. REM – Parakeet (52.03)
10. Radiohead – Everything in its Right Place (59.30)
Can’t believe you missed out Geneva and Suede!
Sadly, my nineties were dominated by Oasis, Star Wars, Championship Manager and Friday nights in front on Channel 4 watching Father Ted, Friends, Frasier, South Park, King of the Hill, et al.
Marvellous.
david devant & his spirit wife! seafood! symposium!
Well I missed out loads of stuff. The 90s was also the first time I got into electronic music, starting with Saint Etienne and Dubstar, but I kind of missed all that out as well.
looking at the playlist I noticed ben folds….I have a ben folds 7″ of ‘the battle of who could care less’ the b-side is a cover of oasis’ champagne supernova and it’s beautiful, sounds nothing like the original to the point you would swear it was some old americana folk song….
If I am ever round your house and it goes missing, you’ll know where to look!
I would’ve put some early Idlewild in there something from ‘captain’ maybe, but then again they meant a lot to me at the time as they were from my city and seeing them sign to Blurs label was really inspirational for a young lad.
Hmm, I was not all that aware of Idlewild when they first came out. I had pretty much left Scotland by the time they really hit, only spending about nine months in Glasgow between September ‘98 and June ‘99.
I always liked Suede when I listened to one song in isolation. Mr. Toad once put a Suede song on a mixtape that I loved more than lie itself but I’m buggered if I can remember the name of it. It was the famous one from circa 1996 if anyone can help.
I always (and still do) really loved ‘the wild ones’ but that was from 94 I think. 96? would that not have been the time of the likes of ’shes in fashion’ and ‘trash’? or was that later? hmm…
No dance and no Fall.
No. Because I hate dance music, and haven’t ever really listened to the Fall. I was pretty clear this wasn’t exactly supposed to be definitive or exhaustive.
My first thought was ‘what no Auteurs?’ and then I thought it would be great to do a mixtape of bands that I really couldn’t stand in the 90’s.
Not for me, but for one of my good pals who got stuck in 1998.
Happy Christmas with Jesus Jones is definitely going to happen.
It’s not as bad as me sending a CD copy of the Deathcast to another pal. He does bleat on about death a lot so he may like it.
Oh, oh, oh, I miss Belly. I loved them and the Breeders (alongside Bobby Brown and Mariah Carey) so much when I was 9 years old, in that glorious time, the ’90s.
this sums up a great deal of my nineties musical experience. aside from pearl jam – the two of us never really hit it off. i’ve always thought yuko & hiro was just about the greatest, weirdest, saddest thing blur ever did.
i remember reading a really great biography on blur called 3862 days, and i think graham said that upon hearing noel’s rather nasty ‘AIDS’ comment right around the release of the great escape it was like the shine of britpop had completely vanished in an instant.
Yeah, it’s funny how The Great Escape sounds like such an uncomfortable album. It’s a bit like they got trapped in who they were, at the expense of what they actually wanted to do.
Ho ho I was n Stockholm’s ultra trendy “Debaser” in August – they played Gene’s “Sick, Sober & Sorry” at the peak of the disco! Very bizarre!
No to split hairs Mr Toad, but surely “everything in its right place” is a noughties song..?
Hmm, you’ve not listened to the podcast have you?
I explain at the time that even though the Stone Roses song is from the 80s, in terms of my relationship with music, to me it almost feels like the first 90s album, even though it isn’t.
Equally, even though Kid A was a noughties album, it feels to me that it was the nail in the coffin of what had been happening in the 90s. It had been brewing for a while with Mutations by Beck and Up by REM, but for me it seemed like Kid A was the big, definitive statement that the 90s were now OVER!
I actually like a lot of The Great Escape for that reason, though. It feels like they pushed that sound to the absolute limit deliberately, almost as if to cleanse themselves off it so they could make a clean break with the self-titled. Like they were saying to the audience ‘Oh yeah? You think we can’t do it? Just watch.’
I guess so, but there’s still a lot of songs on that record I genuinely don’t like very much. And I struggle to listen to the whole thing all at once.
But yeah, to me it still sounds like the bubble of Britpop in mid-burst.
Just listened to this. Great podcast.