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59. TRICKY – “Divine Comedy”
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— 7 Oct 1999 Tom Comment

Tom Ewing’s Top 100 Singles Of The 90s
It’s amazing how Tricky – more often than not a shambolic paranoid, the world’s worst advert for weed – raises his game when he’s got an enemy in his sights, rather than just […]

60. RENEGADE SOUNDWAVE – “Probably A Robbery”
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— 6 Oct 1999 Tom Comment

Tom Ewing’s Top 100 Singles Of The 90s
For them it’s a full-time job. British culture always likes a bit of rough, with every neurotic or paranoid popster from Morrissey to Tricky getting off on the no-nonsense style and attitudes of gang[…]

61. BASEMENT JAXX – “Red Alert”
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— 4 Oct 1999 Tom Comment

Tom Ewing’s Top 100 Singles Of The 90s
Slick, slinky and successful, Basement Jaxx pretty much define dance music good taste, ’99 vintage. But then ‘good taste’ is hardly what dance music is about. The ideas of sample connoiss[…]

62. FUGEES – “Rumble In The Jungle”
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— 3 Oct 1999 Tom Comment

Tom Ewing’s Top 100 Singles Of The 90s
Barely a Fugees track at all, but a polylogue of the hip-hop great and good, lining up in your speakers to guest star on a hot record, to pay tribute to Mohammed Ali, to recreate a piece of history. The be[…]

63. SPACEMEN THREE – “Big City”
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— 2 Oct 1999 Tom 1 comment

Tom Ewing’s Top 100 Singles Of The 90s
If you could have bought some kind of critical shares in krautrock back in 1990 you’d be a rich pop kid by now, but despite motorik’s meteorise rise there’s no new Neu! now threatening th[…]

64. THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS – “Setting Sun”
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— 1 Oct 1999 Tom Comment

Tom Ewing’s Top 100 Singles Of The 90s
How much should we demand of our stars? In the 90s, the answer tended to be ‘enough’. Bands would rise up with something to offer, become famous, and then just…continue, offering minor va[…]

65. MADONNA – “Bad Girl”
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— 23 Sep 1999 Tom Comment

Tom Ewing’s Top 100 Singles Of The 90s 
Madonna’s trajectory through the 90s has been a confused one, and who can blame her? She’d always been the object of critical interest – she was tough and canny and massively popular at[…]

66. SINEAD O CONNOR – “Nothing Compares 2 U”
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— 22 Sep 1999 Tom Comment

Tom Ewing’s Top 100 Singles Of The 90s
“Nothing Compares 2 U” stakes its claim and sinks its hooks with its first pinpoint line. “It’s been seven hours and fifteen days” – the inescapable specifics of a split[…]

67. MANIC STREET PREACHERS – “Faster”
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— 21 Sep 1999 Tom Comment

Tom Ewing’s Top 100 Singles Of The 90s
The wounded mind draws into itself, narrowing perception down to a hard, unarguable line, sacrificing perspective and judgement for an awful, logical clarity. The poles of this line are absolute and do not[…]

Spacemen Two
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— 20 Sep 1999 Tom Comment

The Human League – Reproduction and Travelogue
One thing we know about men who go into space: they come back changed. Quatermass’ astronauts return carrying a cold-war plague; Philip K Dick’s Palmer Eldritch comes back a hallucinopa[…]

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