Comments on: Toadcast #97 – The Nineties

By: Peej

Peej — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:40:48 +0000

Just listened to this. Great podcast.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:33:36 +0000

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.

By: sean

sean — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:22:19 +0000

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.’

By: Matthew

Matthew — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:13:22 +0000

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!

By: Pin Up Nights

Pin Up Nights — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:01:57 +0000

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..?

By: Matthew

Matthew — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:33:53 +0000

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.

By: sean

sean — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:57:36 +0000

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.

By: China

China — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:33:43 +0000

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.

By: Cogstar

Cogstar — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 22:39:29 +0000

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.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 22:35:36 +0000

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.