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21. THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS – “The Private Psychedelic Reel”
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Tom Ewing’s Top 100 Singles Of The 90s
Britpop was a confidence trick. ‘Confidence’ because that’s what the music ran on, a massive surge of aggressive self-belief that catapulted it into the charts. Oasis especially tapped it[…]

Pet Shop Boys – Nightlife
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Writing about “So Hard”, I suggested that the story of the Pet Shop Boys in the 90s has been one of decline management, which is of course a terribly English story, much more so than the stories of wealth and despair they used to tell. Th[…]

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