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79. PIXIES – “Planet Of Sound”
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— 9 Sep 1999 Tom 1 comment

Tom Ewing’s Top 100 Singles Of The 90s
No good indie kid ever forgets their first insult. It was the late 80s, I was at school, and Nick Smith (local, well-bred, gangly, wanker) accused me of listening to “stupid weird noise shit”. […]

78. URBAN TAKEOVER – “Bad Ass”/”Drop Top Caddy”
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Tom Ewing’s Top 100 Singles Of The 90s
One tiny peevelet of mine about pop criticism is the gawping that results when a mainstream band dares to use an ‘unusual’ word in a song. The classic example being Oasis’ “Acquiesc[…]

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