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It Was Like This
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— 23 Oct 1999 Tom Comment

Almost the first issue of the NME I bought had a Stuart Maconie album review in it which ended something like this: “There are only two possible marks for this record. One is zero and the other is (10)“, and I think that cheap move was th[…]

46. JX – “There’s Nothing I Won’t Do”
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— 23 Oct 1999 Tom 1 comment

Tom Ewing’s Top 100 Singles Of The 90s
Kids, I swear, it was a grass-roots musical revolution out there! While the NME nobs sipped Chardonnay in their Wapping skyscrapers and cossetted their chinless audience with flaccid guitar nostalgia, the […]

47. PUBLIC ENEMY – “By The Time I Get To Arizona”
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— 21 Oct 1999 Tom 1 comment

Tom Ewing’s Top 100 Singles Of The 90s
White pop critics who dig certain kinds of hip-hop get hit time and again with the accusation that the reason they’re into it is some secret Stagger Lee fantasy of the badass black male. As good libe[…]

48. ORLANDO – “Just For A Second”
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— 20 Oct 1999 Tom 1 comment

Tom Ewing’s Top 100 Singles Of The 90s
Why did they bother? If ever a project was born to fail, Orlando was it. Campy vocal flounce and shameless pop bounce, and lyrics which made the Manics (say) sound like the straight-talking bluff-artists t[…]

49. SAINT ETIENNE – “I Was Born On Christmas Day”
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— 19 Oct 1999 Tom Comment

Tom Ewing’s Top 100 Singles Of The 90s
The clocks go back and the nights start to pull in around you. It’s dark when you get to work and dark when you leave, so you start to feel that wintry melancholia nipping at your edges, and you star[…]

50. BLUR – “Girls And Boys”
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— 18 Oct 1999 Tom 1 comment

Tom Ewing’s Top 100 Singles Of The 90s
It was one of those stardust radio moments, the kind the thing was invented for: in my kitchen, 1994, and the room filling up with the most dynamic pop I’d ever heard, the hammering music finely bala[…]

51. THE SUNDAYS – “Goodbye”
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— 17 Oct 1999 Tom Comment

Tom Ewing’s Top 100 Singles Of The 90s
A synthesis, but what a synthesis: the plummy ballerina swoop of Kate Bush, the exotic drift of Liz Fraser, and – the real genius touch – the sensible suburban pleasantness of a hundred Sarah R[…]

52. TRICKY – “Tricky Kid”
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— 15 Oct 1999 Tom Comment

Tom Ewing’s Top 100 Singles Of The 90s
Paranoid android: Tricky’s voice here is a mechanical, throaty burr, counterpointed by capering, maddened howls and shrieks. The beat, choppy and tense, whips him along, goading him into telling his […]

53. PALACE BROTHERS – “Come In”
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— 14 Oct 1999 Tom Comment

Tom Ewing’s Top 100 Singles Of The 90s
It was raining, and I’d just been dumped – good time to get into the Palace Brothers, I reckoned. “Come In”, An Arrow’s lead track, did the business: a minor miracle of econom[…]

54. THE VERVE – “History”
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— 13 Oct 1999 Tom Comment

Tom Ewing’s Top 100 Singles Of The 90s
‘Hero Rock’ someone called it, and the name stuck for a while – a big, brainwashing chorus in front of a lumbering unrock rhythm section and gussied up by liberal use of the hired orchest[…]

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