The first time I heard of Asha Bhosle was when she became the subject of Cornershop’s chart-topping song Brimful Of Asha. I dare say the same is true of you.
R.E.M. joined a long list of artists when they began covering Wichita Lineman on tour in 1994 and finally released it as a B-side two years later.
Here is Earth, Wind & Fire’s exuberant slice of funk Happy Feelin’ sampled, sped up and retooled for the dancefloor by Groove Armada.
Loser is one of those freak hits that captured the zeitgeist, launched a career and defined an entire music style. And it was all an accident.
Who knew Sinéad O’Connor had covered ABBA?! I mean, probably thousands of people, if not more – but not me. Until now.
Scott Weiland took a break from Stone Temple Pilots in 1998 to record a very different solo album, 12 Bar Blues, led by this song.
Shoegaze pioneers Ride were falling apart by the time they recorded their fourth album Tarantula. But the opening tune, Black Nite Crash, was a fitting finale.
It’s impossible not to love Snap!’s hybrid of hip-hop, house, soul and a dash of heavy rock. It kicked off the whole dance music scene when it topped the charts in early 1990.
“Life is unfair,” sings Sarah Nixey. “Kill yourself or get over it.” As pop choruses go, it’s a dark one; as dark songs go, Child Psychology is even darker.
There was a time in the mid-Nineties when The Auteurs and their main man Luke Haines seemed like becoming the next big thing.
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