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Tom Ewing’s Top 100 Singles Of The 90s
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— 31 Dec 1999 Tom 5 comments

So what happened in the 1990s? Trying to put a lassoo round a decade is difficult and dumb, and never more so than now, when all the critics seem to be talking about ‘fragmentation’. The best way to read ten years’ worth of entrails[…]

LOW – Christmas
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— 24 Dec 1999 Tom 1 comment

Low’s Christmas tree is a simple one, with eight plain wooden baubles. The band write four tracks themselves, offer interpretations of two carols and crooners’ favourite “Blue Christmas”, and nobody’s bothered to take credit for “Taking D[…]

1. PULP – “Common People”
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— 18 Dec 1999 Tom 6 comments

Tom Ewing’s Top 100 Singles Of The 90s
Why? Because I still believe in the pop single as a public event, and “Common People” was on every station, every channel, every show in Summer 1995, and because it was wonderful each time you[…]

2. DISCO INFERNO – “The Last Dance”
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— 17 Dec 1999 Tom 3 comments

Tom Ewing’s Top 100 Singles OF The 90s
Between 1992 and 1994, Disco Inferno put out probably the most remarkable and innovative string of singles since Pere Ubu’s initial 1975 releases, singles which in ten or fifteen years’ time wi[…]

3. MY BLOODY VALENTINE – “Soon”
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— 16 Dec 1999 Tom 4 comments

Tom Ewing’s Top 100 Singles Of The 90s
With this kind of kick-off, you have to ask why the 90s weren’t better. The striated rills of drum that open “Soon” sound like God cracking his knuckles: ten seconds later the wavefront o[…]

4. THE ORB – “Little Fluffy Clouds”
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— 15 Dec 1999 Tom Comment

Tom Ewing’s Top 100 Singles Of The 90s
This record taught me two things, the most important things I learned this decade. First of all it taught me about repetition and how it could work to structure a song, and then go beyond structure to beco[…]

5. PULP – “This Is Hardcore”
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— 14 Dec 1999 Tom 1 comment

Tom Ewing’s Top 100 Singles of the 90s
It’s impossible to imagine any other band even attempting something like this. Nobody else, I think, has the right combination: a cabaret singer’s panache, an ear for pop hooks, a dramatist&#82[…]

6. A GUY CALLED GERALD – “Finley’s Rainbow”
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— 13 Dec 1999 Tom 4 comments

Tom Ewing’s Top 100 Singles Of The 90s
I think if I could pinpoint one time in my life when I’ve been really, unconditionally happy, this would be the one: April 1995, about half-past eleven in the morning, sitting in T-Shirt and Jeans on[…]

7. TEENAGE FANCLUB – “The Concept”
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— 12 Dec 1999 Tom 2 comments

Tom Ewing’s Top 100 Singles Of The 90s
It’s just a beautiful song. “The Concept” for me is being young and in love, and I think it probably always will be: I’ve had eight years to grow bored of the feeling and the track,[…]

8. DJ CRYSTL – “Warpdrive”
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— 11 Dec 1999 Tom 1 comment

Tom Ewing’s Top 100 Singles Of The 90s
Dance music appreciation tends to end up an uneasy alliance between purism and a promiscuous thirst for novelty. Despite the breathtaking speed at which club sounds evolved between the end of last decade a[…]

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