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POW! WHAM! SOCK! OOF! – Some Thoughts On Fight Club
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— 9 Dec 1999 Tom Comment

I’m in a central London cinema watching Fight Club: on the screen, Brad Pitt has forced a Korean shopkeeper to kneel in a puddle and is holding a gun to the man’s head. Pitt tells the man he is going to die, then asks him what he most wan[…]

11. THE MAGNETIC FIELDS – “100,000 Fireflies”
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— 8 Dec 1999 Tom Comment

Tom Ewing’s Top 100 Singles Of The 90s
The only thing worse than breaking up is not breaking up. And the only not-breaking-up-yet pop moment of the 90s worse than when Susan Amway sings “This is the worst night I ever had” on this t[…]

12. APHEX TWIN – “Girl/Boy Song”
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— 6 Dec 1999 Tom Comment

Tom Ewing’s Top 100 Singles Of The 90s
To outrun the 90s, you have to be fast. When the Aphex Twin created “Didgeridoo”, the record that made his name, that’s what he had in mind: to create a dance track so agitated nobody cou[…]

13. GANG STARR – “Just To Get A Rep”
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— 3 Dec 1999 Tom 1 comment

Tom Ewing’s Top 100 Singles Of The 90s
No single less glamourous has ever seen release. Attacking gangsta rap, matching its deadly braggadocio with a self-righteousness just as bombastic, was and is easy. Guru could have played this story of po[…]

14. THIEVES – “Unworthy”
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— 2 Dec 1999 Tom 4 comments

Tom Ewing’s Top 100 Singles Of The 90s
David McAlmont can’t sleep. He glides through the house, imaginary conversations playing in his head, a vision of misery in a purple suit. Outside it’s late enough for him not to want to know t[…]

MOVEMENT – Layo and Bushwacka ‘Low Life’
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— 1 Dec 1999 admin Comment

Revelations, even small ones, hit you unexpectedly. Mine comes about halfway through ‘Spooked’, the third track on Layo & Bushwacka’s Low Life, when, having explored some rather tasty crunchy electronic sounds, punishing bass a[…]

15. TREMBLING BLUE STARS – “Abba On The Jukebox”
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— 1 Dec 1999 Tom Comment

Tom Ewing’s Top 100 Singles Of The 90s
The saddest songs are often the simplest songs. “Abba On The Jukebox” is seven minutes long and feels like a miniature, a Zen sketch of heartbreak. A short, high-toned guitar phrase over tick-t[…]

SIGHS MATTER: The Magnetic Fields – 69 Love Songs
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— 1 Dec 1999 David Comment

A triple album box set, three hours long, containing 69 songs, covering almost as many genres – well, it has to be crap, hasn’t it? Surely it must betray signs of Prince-like lack of quality control? Amazingly, it doesn’t. The Magnetic […]

16. MASSIVE ATTACK – “Unfinished Sympathy”
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— 30 Nov 1999 Tom 1 comment

Tom Ewing’s Top 100 Singles Of The 90s
“I don’t know where this one came from” mutters the run-out voice. Not so: “Unfinished Sympathy” may have swanked into the charts and had classic status handed to it on the sp[…]

40. SHERYL CROW – “Sweet Child O’ Mine”
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— 29 Nov 1999 Tom Comment

Average: 1.95 Controversy: 1.31
AT: A misguided cover, but not without a certain logic to it along the drunk lady does karaoke lines. 3
KG: Back to film soundtracks with you Madam. 3
GE: Better versions probably performed in pubs every day of the yea[…]

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