Society Owes Me A Gen-X Podcast: The 90s

This podcast includes some rocking bangers from some 90s - tracks with an H connection and that still stand up as fresh to DEATH.  90s festivals, Jools Holland and a rando rock cellist also crop up, as we sip gin and reminisce about these rock gods/goddesses:  Queens of the Stone Age, PJ Harvey, REM, Kristen Hersh, Beck, Beastie Boys and Le Tigre.  How do they connect?  

G is a look at 25 years’ worth of NME Godlike Genius’ award winners, linked largely via beatific cover versions courtesy of the most discerning of clerics, the Manic Street Preachers. Expect a lot of Manics, much Manchester, many Clash references, and zero Morrissey. 

1994 John Peel

1995: Michael Eavis

1996: Alan McGee

1997 Jarvis Cocker

1998 Mark E Smith

1999 Massive Attack

2000 Shaun Ryder

2001 U2

2002: Pennie Smith & Nick Kent

2003 The Clash

2004 Ozzy Osborne

2005 New Order

2006 Ian Brown

2007 Bobbie Gillespie

2008 Manic Street Preachers

2009 The Cure

2010 Paul Weller

2011 Dave Grohl

2012 Noel Gallagher

2013 Johnny Marr

2014 Blondie

2015 Suede

2016 ColdPlay

2017 Pet Shop Boys

2018 Liam Gallagher

2019 OFF

2020 Emily Eavis

Tracklisting:

Sorted For Es and Whiz, Pulp

One Way Road, Paul Weller

Velocity Girl (live), Manic Street Preachers 

Made of Stone, The Stone Roses

Wrote for Luck, Manic Street Preachers

Disappointed, Electronic

The Drowners, Manic Street Preachers

Lost In Music, The Fall

Train in Vain, Manic Street Preachers

10.15 Saturday Night, The Cure

Dreaming, Green Day

Armagideon Time, The Clash

Zealots, Fugees

Credits

Spin.com

BBC.com

ultimate-guitar.com

kevinegperry.com

dangerousminds.net

clashmusic.com

discogs.com

www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk

Stay Free: The Story of The Clash with Chuck D, Spotify & BBC studios

No Manifesto: A Film About Manic Street Preachers, Elizabeth Marcus

songmeanings.com

musicenthusiastmag.com

Wikipedia 

Ooh la la la - it's F for Fugees!  We go back to the early 90s in New Jersey, where the young Lauryn Hill, Wyclef Jean and Pras Michel got started. Somehow, we then get transported to the 70s and segue into folk nights at The Troubadour, missing millions and thwarted drug smuggling.  Ready or Not..!

The Fugees - 'Fu-Gee-La', 'Ready Or Not', 'Killing Me Softly', The Score, 1996 'Nappy Heads' Blunted on Reality, 1994 

Lori Lieberman - Killing Me Softly with his Song' Lori Lieberman, 1972

Ben Taylor - 'Digest', Another Run Around the Sun, 2005

Don McLean - 'Empty Chairs', American Pie 1971

Don McLean - 'And I Love You So', Tapestry, 1970

Roberta Flack - 'Killing Me Softly' Killing Me Softly, 1973

The Delfonics - 'Ready or Not Here I Come (Can't Hide From Love)' - Sound of Sexy Soul, 1969

Enya - 'Boadicea' Enya, 1987

Chaka Demus & Pliers - 'Tease Me' Tease Me 1993

Wyclef Jean - 'Gone Till November' Wyclef Jean Presents The Carnival featuring the Refugee All-Stars, 1997

Pras Michel - 'Ghetto Supastar (That is What You Are)', 'Blue Angels', Ghetto Supastar, 1997

Lauryn Hill, 'Doo Wop (That Thing)' - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, 1998

Steely Dan - 'Haitian Divorce' The Royal Scam, 1976

Elvis Presley - 'And I Love You So', Today, 1975

Source Material:  Uproxx.com, Pitchfork.com, Wikipedia.com, Songfacts.com, RollingStone.com

He's revered and ridiculed, celebrated and impersonated, mourned and mocked... Dead or alive, for better or worse, the Pelvis' legacy includes a seemingly inexhaustible collection of songs inspired by him in one way or another. In this episode we discuss just a few of those that have inspired us. 

NB: No *actual* Elvis songs are played or discussed in this episode at all, however if you like any of the following it's worth a listen!

Playlist:

Elvis Impersonator, Manic Street Preachers, Everything Must Go, 1996

There's A Guy Works Down The Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis, Kirsty MacColl, Desperate Character,  1981

Fight the Power, Public Enemy, Fear of a Black Planet, 1990

Porcelain Monkey, Warren Zevon, Life'll Kill Ya', 2000

Elvis Song, Liz Phair, 1991

Elvis Is Dead, Living Colour, Time's Up', 1991

Graceland, Paul Simon, Graceland, 1986

Eternal Flame, The Bangles, Everything, 1989

Black Velvet, Alannah Myles, 1989

Personal Jesus, Depeche Mode, Violator, 1989

Elvis Ate America, Passengers, 1995

Hey Hey, My My (Out of the Blue), Neil Young, Rust Never Sleeps, 1979

A Liddle Biddy Help from Elvis, Space, Tin Planet, 1998

Credits:

The King, 2017, Wikipedia, BBC.com, Billboard.com, U2 radio.com, Noise11.com, Songfacts.com, IMDB.com, Genius.com

elvis.commercialappeal.com

new.onecountry.com

D is for Generation X's quintessential anti-hero, the Slacker!  SOMAGXP dives into this 90s phenomenon via some cracking movie soundtracks and songs, while re-living the glory days of underage pub-going, doing the bare minimum and some light Ethan Hawke worship.

Credits:

Dazed and Confused 1993, Reality Bites 1994, Dawson's Creek 1998-2003, The Big Lebowski 1998

Dr John 'Right Place, Wrong Time'

Paula Cole 'I don't Want to Wait'

Alanis Morissette 'Hand in My Pocket'

Creedence Clearwater Revival 'Lookin' Out My Back Door'

Beck 'Loser'

Weezer 'Undone -The Sweater Song'

texasmonthly.com, theringer.com, wikipedia.com, loudersound.com, mentalfloss.com, americansongwriter.com, hellogiggles.com, hollywoodreporter.comhuffpost.com, gq.com, guardian.co.uk, medium.com

C is for Leicester‘s Cornershop, via Hove’s own Norman Cook and fellow Brighton-based DJ & graffiti artist REQ. Expect a brimful of international beats, big beats, dub beats, dead beats and beat poets.

Featuring:

Dub be good to me, Beats International 

The Clash, Guns of Brixton 

Just be good to be, The S.O.S. Band

Brimful of Asha, Cornershop

Brimful of Asha, Cornershop Norman Cook remix

The Way You Dream, Asha Bhosle and Michael Stipe

England‘s Dreaming, Cornershop

Born Disco Died Heavy Metal, Cornershop

When The Light Appears Boy, Cornershop and Allen Ginsberg

Sleep on the Left Side, Cornershop 

Good Shit, Cornershop 

Candyman, Cornershop and Justin Warfield 

Norwegian Wood, Cornershop 

Born Disco Died Heavy Metal, Cornershop & Mike Flowers 

B is for the glorious Bristol Sound of ground-breaking, downtempo hip hop genre in the 90s!  We chat the musical titans that pretty much started it all, Massive Attack.  With so many champions, influences, collaborators, protégés and frenemies, Brizzle Trip Hop manages to connect such disparate things as Jamaican Sound Systems with illegal stencil street art, 70s Soul with drum loops and electric guitars and a recording studio in a baby's bedroom!  It's a Glory Box of delights.

Featuring:  Massive Attack: Blue Lines (1991), Protection (1994), Mezzanine (1998)  Tricky: Maxinquaye (1995), Portishead: Dummy (1994), Roni Size, Reprazent: New Forms (1997), Neneh Cherry: Raw Like Sushi (1989), Goldfrapp: Felt Mountain (2000)

Season 2 begins in serious fashion with these alternative college rockers from our salad days!  Automatic for the People, R.E.M.'s eighth album, is a big fave of Hannah's and links up with some 90s music greats as we delve into the sombre and nostalgic but always somehow still relevant album of 1992!

Along the way we link up contributors to the 1993 AIDS relief compilation album ‘No Alternative’, including American Music Club, Pavement and Nirvana; all roads lead to R.E.M.!

R.E.M. 'Automatic for the People' 1992

American Music Club 'Everclear' 1991 'San Francisco' 1994

'No Alternative' Red Hot Organisation 1993

Pavement ‘Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain: LA’s Desert Origins’

Nirvana 'In Utero Anniversary Edition’ 2013

Society Owes Me a Valentine's Day spesh!  We get into it, from heartbreak to luvved up - especially for you!  Wedding first dances, tragic rockers, some suspiciously 80s security breaches and a Guns N'Roses connection manifest in glorious song because We Love You.

Featuring Travis, The Foundations, Jeff Buckley, Manic Street Preachers, R.E.M, Nouvelle Vague, Counting Crows, Kylie & Jason?!  

This week, SOMAGXP goes A to X to compile it's very own volume 1 of 90s-tastic rockin' music taken from all our episodes.