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  • The bit that you skip #73: Geggy Tah – Whoever you are

    I lived in Tula until ’85. It was a workers’ colony in front of the Miguel Hidalgo Refinery. Not the safest of places, I know, but what can ya do? I have fond memories of the place and I clearly remember a straight lane from one of the refinery’s corners to the access gate to…

  • The bit that you skip #72: The Chemical Brothers – Hey Boy Hey Girl

    We all have a “lucky song”. I found mine just at the right time and it was Hey boy hey girl by The chemical brothers. But what do I mean by “lucky song”? It’s the one you listen when you are nearly over the brink. The one you use to pep yourself to ask someone…

  • The bit that you skip #71: The Streets – Let’s push things forward

    The beginning of 2002 was a series of bad decisions. What little money I had left from the previous year was blown on a 2 week stay on Cancún at a friend’s house. Sure, didn’t have to pay rent or food, but the real purpose of the stay was to get a job. Sadly, no…

  • The bit that you skip #70: Pulp – Disco 2000

    William Tenn was a science fiction writer with a vivid imagination. My fave story of his is Time in Advance, from 1958. This novella has the following premise: do a prison sentence in outer space and if you survive the harshest conditions known to humankind, you can come back and commit a crime. You’ve already…

  • The bit that you skip #69: Mary Lou Lord and Semisonic – Sugar, Sugar

    As a proper latchkey kid, I didn’t miss saturday morning cartoons, no matter the quality. Pretty sure all my saturday mornings from ’85 until ’92 were spent watching cartoons. The weirdest were always the tie ins like Beetlejuice, MC Hammer’s show, Back to the Future, and ALF tales. The institution of bright colours and ads…

  • The bit that you skip #68: Grant Lee Buffalo – The Hook

    I gotta come clean: I didn’t care about this band. For a couple of weeks, Mockingbirds was everywhere and it rubbed me the wrong way, so I didn’t pursue their music at all. Then the catastrophic REM Monster tour happened. The band already had gone through the loss of both Kurt Cobain and River Phoenix,…

  • The bit that you skip #67: Oasis – Fuckin’ in the bushes

    As fast as Oasis arrived, so was the speed of their departure. Be here now, the bloated ’97 coked fever dream was their shark jumping moment, where all the excesses, the overproducing, and the Beatles-aping became their undoing. Shame, as I genuinely liked Be Here Now, but The Masterplan, their ’98 collection of b-sides, is…

  • The bit that you skip #66: Devin Townsend – Before we die

    After moving back from Sheffield to Mexico in the twilight of 2013, one of the hobbies I picked was podcasting. Nothing fancy, just a zoom H1 recorder, a few drinks, and whatever fancy bread Superama had on sale that day. Recording a podcast is fun. Editing out plosives and coughs not so much. It’s a…

  • The bit that you skip #65: Monster Magnet – The Last Patrol

    Like any warm blooded teen, I found Monster Magnet through the ubiquitous Powertrip. The album took the airwaves by storm with its dense psychedelic glam rock and its two hits. Powertrip had  a fun video mocking rap videos and their excesses. Space Lord smoulders with that jagged acoustic guitar that travels to Vegas with that…

  • The bit that you skip #64: Antarctic – Pasea la salamandria

    “Can you “see” music?” It was a cold Sheffield evening at the Riverside and my friend Ana, with her bag resembling an old CRT television, was downing a raspberry beer, doubting my statement. “Well, yes. Think about it. Some songs feel like the ocean, cool and ominous. Others like a desert, oppressive and ever expanding.”…