Pop Will Eat Itself: Can U Dig It? (1989). "Alan Moore knows the score."
The 'Stourbridge Scene' was dubbed Grebo by the NME, with bands like The Wonder Stuff, Ned's Atomic Dustbin and Pop Will Eat Itself lumped together under a kind of indie-electro-funk-rock-psychedelia tag. That's slightly unfair as PWEI has a pretty wide range of sounds and an impressive back catalogue of tunes.
Can U Dig It? may not have troubled the charts much, but every student bar in '89 would have it on the jukebox. Woe betide you if you didn't know every name dropped in the song!
Now that Artemis II has launched we have 10 days to get everyone on Earth a Planet of the Apes costume so we can do something hilarious when the astronauts return 😁
Radiohead doing “High and Dry” live on Later… with Jools Holland is peak The Bends era restraint. It started as an old Thom demo, almost got tossed, and somehow became the quiet gut-punch that helped crack Britpop’s swagger open. Not trying to sound bigger, just trying to sound honest.