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Category: 1990s

Memories of a record shop nobody : Selectadisc, late ’80s/early ’90s

“I learned to read the barometer of his moods and on bad days, kept my head down, finding distraction in the racks and the steady stream of customers, 99% of whom Jeff despised.”

arcane delights, brian selby, jim cooke, nottingham, record shops, record stores, selectadisc, vinyl, vinyl records

Band Abandoned

“There’s nothing more boring than middle age, particularly when you’ve spent two or three years in the glorious limelight of sycophancy.”

Britpop, fame, indie pop, Melody Maker, music writing, next big thing, nineties, NME, piano magic, pop

Disco Inferno – ‘Summer’s Last Sound/Love Stepping Out’ (Cheree, 1992)

“For all this talk of Summer and love, there’s a worm in Disco Inferno’s apple that never really ever goes away.”

cheree, disco inferno, ian crause, paul wilmott, post-rock, rob whatley, rough trade records, sampler

Spoonfed Hybrid – ‘Spoonfed Hybrid’ (Guernica, 1993)

“…an album that’s both more varied and sonically untethered than any of their previous incarnations, the noisiness of their previous groups consigned to the corner, allowing a vast space for a plethora of electronic and acoustic instruments to interact, meander and contort…”

ac temple, chris trout, dreampop, guernica records, ian masters, kilgore trout, pale saints, spoonfed hybrid

The Wolfgang Press – ‘Queer’ (4AD/Time Warner, 1991/1992)

“The city is weird now, like all cities are weird now—but Queer still thrills; it still makes me want to move.”

4ad, 4ad records, aaron tilford, andrew gray, mark cox, michael allen, warner US, wolfgang press

Pacific – ‘Inference’ (Creation Records, 1990)

“In every race, the also-ran, in every play, the understudy, at every festival, a bottom of the bill. And so to Pacific. “

1990, album, creation records, indie, inference, music, nineties, pacific, record

Insides – ‘Euphoria’ (Guernica, 1993)

“We’re not interested in being experimental or difficult. I see ‘Euphoria’ as this Astrid Gilberto thing, or even like the Bjork album: something pleasant, something nice.”

1993, 4ad, 4ad records, album, euphoria, guernica, insides, julian tardo, kirsty yates

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