STACK #188 June 2020

FEATURE MUSIC

Hole

GRUNGE There were a few undisputed Grunge Gods of the ‘90s, whose shredded flannelette coattails were worshipped the world-round: Pearl Jam and Nirvana ensured tthe croaky, crepuscular cool of Eddie Vedder and Kurt Cobain were ferried to the peak of the popularity, while Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots and Hole – helmed by the inimitable Courtney Love – brought up the rear. Also on the edge of the genre you found hugely successful alt-rock like Garbage and Alanis Morissette. TOP TRAX Nirvana, Heart-Shaped Box Pearl Jam, Even Flow Hole, Malibu UK CUTS The UK’s Criminal Justice and Public Order Act of 1994 wasn’t popular with anyone who didn’t enjoy being discriminated against on account

No Doubt

TOP TRAX Neil Diamond, Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon (from Pulp Fiction) Fatboy Slim, Praise You (from Cruel Intentions) Coyote Shivers, Sugarhigh (from Empire Records)

PUNK + POP-PUNK Turns out we very much did have the time to listen to Billie Joe Armstrong whine – hours upon hours of it in fact, along with his pop-punk and straight-down-the-alley punk peers Bikini

Kill (“Rebel girl, you are the queen of my world!”), NOFX (“It’s not the right time to be sober, now the idiots have taken over!”), Blink-182 (“Well I guess this is growing up!”) No Doubt (“That’s all that you’ll let me be!”), The Offspring (“Un, dos, tres, quatro, cinco, cinco, seis!”), and pantsloads more. TOP TRAX Blink-182, Dammit No Doubt, Just A Girl Green Day, Basket Case SOUNDTRACKS Did you forget the giant cache of brilliant film soundtracks released during this decade? Allow us to remind you: there was the moody grind of Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo & Juliet , the hipster paradise of Empire Records , the skulking melodrama of Batman Forever , the industrially propulsive Trainspotting , and of course that jewel in the crown: the perennially awesome surf-rock-soul of Pulp Fiction .

Oasis

of their lifestyle, particularly those in the rave scene. Grimy breakbeat techno act The Prodigy lashed out with revered second album Music For The Jilted Generation , full of multiform, electro-industrial beats. Meanwhile Britpop was exploding with Oasis and Blur, pop-pop found its capable captains in Spice Girls, the realm of electronica was offering stunning material fromThe Chemical Brothers, Moloko, Massive Attack, Everything But The Girl and Morcheeba, and the alt cauldron was brewing bangers from Cocteau Twins, Belle and Sebastian, Sneaker Pimps, Elastica, and scene lords Radiohead.

TOP TRAX Prodigy, Breathe

Spice Girls, Wannabe Stone Roses, Fools Gold

The cast of Cruel Intentions

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