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  • The bit that you skip #43: Devo – That’s good

    What’s with Devo and donuts? The video for Freedom of choice features some choc covered rings of mighty flavour (TM), and That’s good features a not very subtle innuendo that flew over my head as a kid. MTV did catch it, though, and Devo got a lot of flack for it. Weirdly enough, I thought…

  • The bit that you skip #42: Michelle Wright – Take it like a man

    “Wow, she’s fucking angry!” “I don’t get it…” “Of course you won’t. Give it a few years, and you’ll find out how angry those words hit” I could never zero out what style of music my aunt Beatriz liked. She lived in Tampico-Madero and I spent most of my holidays at her gaff. All the…

  • The bit that you skip #41: Janet Jackson – Again

    John Singleton’s Poetic Justice never was widely released in Mexico, so getting a copy meant looking for sticky tape and sharpie labeled VHS or Beta copies at places of low reputation. Boyz n the hood had the same fate and if there’s something I can appreciate of modern streaming places like Tubi or PlutoTV is…

  • The bit that you skip #40: Bat for Lashes – I’m on fire

    There was this magazine, Rock Sound, that my dad would buy me from time to time. He never asked if I wanted it or not, but because I enjoy writing about music, he thought I could get more ideas from other people’s writings. Plus, the magazine always had a free CD sampler with new bands,…

  • The bit that you skip #39: The Source featuring Candi Stanton – You got the love

    1991. It was the spring after Angela’s passing, and the nuns kept organising small gatherings with both the boys and the girls’ schools. As I mentioned before, it was a good 15 km between the schools and only for that school year did we had co-ed events. Since the christmas posada was a hit, the…

  • The bit that you skip #38: Everything but the girl – Before today

    Missing’s remix broke Everything but the girl. The ubiquitous Todd Terry remix was on dance floors, coffee shops, radio ads, and even outside of underground stations, on those not entirely legal mixes people sold to commuters. The Grunge Mortis Post Alternia era was in its infancy and by ’97, electronica and folk electronica was having…

  • The bit that you skip #37: Soul Asylum – Can’t even tell

    Well, it had to be this song, from Clerks, right? My 37th post. In a row? I guess I have a complicated story with Kevin Smith. I first knew of Clerks due to an article on Rolling Stone, where one of the arguments was the silliness of movie ratings. Pulp Fiction had sodomy and it…

  • The bit that you skip #36: Slow Pulse – Riva

    Continuing yesterday’s topic of Grunge Mortis Post Alternia (!), another brief obsession was chillout, downtempo, and balearic music. It all started with the soundtrack for The Warrior and The Pricess, Tom Tykwer’s superb follow up to Run Lola Run. That soundtrack had a few artists I quite enjoyed, so I looked around for anything having…

  • The bit that you skip #35 – Aaliyah – Try again

    My friend Aaron Cooper, a fellow writer and ace photographer (check his stuff!) once said that the latter half of the 90s was like a series of minidecades. I’ll steal his idea, and propose we call this lustrum Grunge Mortis (or Post Alternalia?), as the genre that dominated the first half pretty much was a…

  • The bit that you skip #34: The Ravenna Colt – Loner in disguise

    I never met Jane Howden, but I met the people she taught music to. I witnessed her handiwork with a myriad Sheffield-based bands. Her influence understated, her legacy, unending. A concert in her memory was organised by Sarah, her sister, and the bands that performed covered as many ranges as you could imagine. Sarah’s former…