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  • The bit that you skip #226: Spacehog – Never Coming Down (Pt. 2)

    A strange side effect of the Cool Britannia wave of late ’95 until 2000 was the re-appraisal by a younger (back then) generation of mod culture and early 70s films. It’s fascinating that Michael Caine ended the 60s with The Italian Job, a “relax, it’s just a flick” affair that is stylish, fun, and entirely…

  • The bit that you skip #225: Oasis – Columbia

    “Is that the edition with the orchestra song?” asked my dad, pointing at the double album edition of Definitely Maybe. We were on holidays in Spain, my nose spent the previous day bleeding all the time (I’m not good in warm weather) and my birthday was nearing. “Yeah, it’s only a single, though” I replied…

  • The bit that you skip #224: Suede – Jumble Sale Mums

    As I get older I get it: Suede is better than both Blur and Oasis. If I could tell something to my younger self it would be “you placed your chips on the wrong horse, kid!” My story with Suede is weird. I wanted Man Dog Star when it came out, but one of my…

  • The bit that you skip #223: Elastica – 2:1

    Justine Frischmann once said that Elastica should’ve been a one-album band, and to some of their most ardent fans, they really were. It’s a shame, because The Menace has some great ideas, but it does feel as far from their 1995 release as Gorillaz is from Blur. The impact of Connection in Mexico was tremendous…

  • The bit that you skip #222: Blur – Sing

    Not gonna lie, the first days after arriving to Nottingham, solitude hit me like a tons of bricks. Perhaps all the walking and roaming around the campus and town was more to find some sort of solace, someone to converse with, to feel again. It’s a strange feeling, loneliness. I joined a few student societies,…

  • The bit that you skip #221: La Ley – 1 800 Dual

    -For Vanessa a.k.a Rita. When I first mentioned liking La Ley, my dad raised an eyebrow. He swore I would never listen to rock en español due to having bad experiences with the usual fans that were in my immediate circle (i.e. bullies). Four years had passed since I was in junior high school. I…

  • The bit that you skip #220 Dave Stewart and Candy Dulfer – Lily was here

    My aunt owned a satellite dish in Tampico. It had a decoder and you could “acquire” a code to open up many channels at a local market called “macalito”. The name “macalito” was a deformation of the word “pequeño McAllen” (small McAllen), which was one of the closest US cities to Tampico, the other being…

  • The bit that you skip #219: Frankie Goes To Hollywood – Welcome to the Pleasuredome

    Spring 1993. I’m leaving a THX theatre with my parents and my brother. The mood is indiscernible. We just watched Barry Levinson’s Toys. I’m 100% sure my dad hated it, as he never had patience for Robin Williams. My mum probably disliked it too, since she didn’t mention a single thing on the walk back…

  • The bit that you skip #218: Weezer – Hash Pipe

    It’s a well-worn archetype that a band’s worst enemy is their fanbase. I don’t think this is endemic to music. You see, I watch Dr. Who, so I know about fanbases that can be passionate about what they love. How that passion comes through varies in levels of adjectives. Smashing Pumpkins, Radiohead, and Arcade Fire…

  • The bit that you skip #217: Metallica – Frantic

    As a kid who was bullied daily for 3 years straight in junior high school, I was relieved the moment I graduated and moved as far as I could from the school I was enrolled in. My experience was so bad that any music the bullies enjoyed I ended up disliking for ages. Metallica, El…