Tom Ewing’s Top 100 Singles Of The 90s
The first time I heard “Smells Like Teen Spirit” it was in a pub, on a jukebox, Christmas 1991. The violent, half-exciting sound of a stagnant music trying to tear itself out of its own rotten […]

Tom Ewing’s Top 100 Singles Of The 90s
The central puzzle is that with New Order you have lyrics that most songwriters would look at as senseless knock-offs, and a voice that most singers would call insultingly blank, and when you put the two t[…]

Tom Ewing’s Top 100 Singles Of The 90s
“As for now I know how to avoid the paranoid” says Chuck D, but either he’s lying or there aren’t any mirrors in his house. “Terrordome” is back-to-the-wall paranoia and[…]

Tom Ewing’s Top 100 Singles Of The 90s
Odd band, Kenickie. At first glance they seemed utterly generic poppy punky frothy indie, but look closer and it’s difficult to think of another group quite like them – one so obviously intelli[…]

Tom Ewing’s Top 100 Singles Of The 90s
Singers generally begin to look like their voices. It would be hard to imagine Bryan Ferry or Joe Cocker sounding different once you’ve seen the one’s morose stylishness and the other’s g[…]

Tom Ewing’s Top 100 Singles Of The 90s
In the original Predator film, one of a rash of ‘Nam-purging guns’n’grit stompers, Arnie defeats a lethally camouflaged, unknowable jungle assailant with good old-fashioned American brawn[…]

Tom Ewing’s Top 100 Singles Of The 90s
“MU MU! MU MU! MU MU! KLF!“. No band understood the possibilities for mass lunacy contained in the new music as well as did the KLF. Their ‘Stadium House’ trilogy of singles –[…]

Tom Ewing’s Top 100 Singles Of The 90s
The main reason Bobby Gillespie ended up a rock star after all, and the main reason there’s something slightly offputting about that, is that he tried so damn hard. Primal Scream’s take on rock[…]

Tom Ewing’s Top 100 Singles Of The 90s
If you asked me to pick just one figure to stand as the most underrated act of the decade, Acen Ravzi would be it. His series of 12″ singles, tossed out into the seething dance marketplace of ’[…]

Tom Ewing’s Top 100 Singles Of The 90s
Like a lot of teenage guys, I wanted to form a band. I didn’t have much idea about the instruments the band would play, but I thought maybe there should be a lot of them. I knew my band ought to play[…]