Tom Ewing’s Top 100 Singles Of The 90s 
Readers, creeping deadlines have caught Freaky Trigger unawares and without its master list, and so a single which I bought two days ago vaults its way into the countdown. But what’s the point of pop w[…]

Tom Ewing’s Top 100 Singles Of The 90s
When I was 14 I went to hospital and had two micro-thin metal filaments inserted into my thigh and shoulder, which were allowed to spool through my major blood vessels until they reached my heart. Electric[…]

Tom Ewing’s Top 100 Singles Of The 90s 
“To the sound of the World of Twist, you leaned over and gave me a kiss….”. They coulda been contenders? Well, possibly, though there’s something a bit playful and wilful about WO[…]

“Where’s Your Child” is a 12″ record by Chicago House act Bam Bam, long out of print but available on compilations occasionally, including one called Acid Flashback, where I heard it. It’s a clammy, tauntingly hostile da[…]

Tom Ewing’s Top 100 Singles Of The 90s
This single version is a botch job. Its scatty honkings and weeping free-jazz vapour trails work as music but detract from the icily simple logic of the song: you need, you obtain, you wait to need again. […]

Tom Ewing’s Top 100 Singles Of The 90s 
Like dance writer Simon Reynolds says, Primal Scream are a critic’s band, because all their records, sleeves, haircuts are acts of criticism themselves, statements about how music should be. &#8220[…]

Tom Ewing’s Top 100 Singles of the 90s 
“When they kick on your front door, how you gonna come?” – The Clash’s most palatable, punch-drunk track, Guns Of Brixton, still full of absurd backs-against-the-wallisms but slun[…]

Tom Ewing’s Top 100 Singles of the 90s 
A cover of a forgotten fifties folk tune, “Sally Free And Easy” is the track that makes explicit Flying Saucer Attack’s romantic purpose, tightly drawing the strings together which conn[…]

Tom Ewing’s Top 100 Singles Of The 90s
What you hear is not a test – the Invisibl Skratch Piklz are junkyard jazz, the perfectly po-mo sound of pop culture in meltdown. One of the great ear-boggling pop statements, Vs Da Klamz Uv Deth is […]

Tom Ewing’s Top 100 Singles of the 90s
“You’re talking about things I haven’t done yet!” You and anybody else. Terminator is a record that gets ahead of itself, hurled back from some pure-war future to explode into 1992,[…]