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The bit that you skip #70: Pulp – Disco 2000 William Tenn was a science fiction writer with a vivid imagination. My fave story of his is Time in Advance, from 1958. This novella has the following premise: do a prison sentence in outer space a…

My gateway track to Sheffield's own Pulp. Bittersweet to a fault and catchy on it's own skewed view of (Brit)pop. And miles better than common people.

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The bit that you skip #69: Mary Lou Lord and Semisonic – Sugar, Sugar As a proper latchkey kid, I didn’t miss saturday morning cartoons, no matter the quality. Pretty sure all my saturday mornings from ’85 until ’92 were spent watching cartoons. The…

Saturday morning cartoons were my routine overstimulation. Before I fully surrendered to coffee. Here's a little write up about Mary Lou Lord and Semisonic.

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The bit that you skip #68: Grant Lee Buffalo – The Hook I gotta come clean: I didn’t care about this band. For a couple of weeks, Mockingbirds was everywhere and it rubbed me the wrong way, so I didn’t pursue their music at all. Then the cat…

Remember I said Noel Gallagher admitted that he ripped off a band's chord progressions for his songs?
Here's that band. Grant Lee Buffalo.
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The bit that you skip #67: Oasis – Fuckin’ in the bushes As fast as Oasis arrived, so was the speed of their departure. Be here now, the bloated ’97 coked fever dream was their shark jumping moment, where all the excesses, the overproducing, and th…

Oasis only had a three album plan and it shows. A few hits here and there afterwards, the rest was inertia. Here's a keeper made famous in Snatch. sloucher.org/2026/03/08/t...

McQuarrie's artwork is such a joy. As imaginative as Kirby, as luscious as a Constable painting.

The bit that you skip #66: Devin Townsend – Before we die After moving back from Sheffield to Mexico in the twilight of 2013, one of the hobbies I picked was podcasting. Nothing fancy, just a zoom H1 recorder, a few drinks, and whatever fancy bread Supera…

A song that reminds me of good friends, podcasting, and the learning curve of editing. Devin Townsend, before we die.
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The bit that you skip #65: Monster Magnet – The Last Patrol Like any warm blooded teen, I found Monster Magnet through the ubiquitous Powertrip. The album took the airwaves by storm with its dense psychedelic glam rock and its two hits. Powertrip had  …

Still on the topic of "seeing music"... Monster Magnet's Dave Wyndorf is so obsessed with comics you can feel Jack Kirby's art oozing through the speakers. sloucher.org/2026/03/06/t...

The bit that you skip #64: Antarctic – Pasea la salamandria “Can you “see” music?” It was a cold Sheffield evening at the Riverside and my friend Ana, with her bag resembling an old CRT television, was downing a raspberry beer, doubt…

A quick one about "seeing" music. Antarctic, pasea la salamandria.

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The bit that you skip #63: Control Machete – Esperanza The so called “avanzada Regia” that flourished on the second half of the 90s was cursed with the sophomore slump. Resorte, Zurdok (I do prefer Hombre Sintetizador, though), Jumbo, Molot…

The "avanzada regia" suffered from the sophomore slump. Although not a perfect album, control machete' Artillería Pesada Presente has a few well crafted songs. sloucher.org/2026/03/04/t...

The bit that you skip #62: Everlast – Tired By the late 90s, my trips to Tampico reduced drastically. A combination of summer school to catch-up on some courses after switching majors and a bunch of curve balls meant I had to stay in Mexico …

"I'll tell her I love her later." Last autumn semester in uni, late night procrastination. Everlast. Tired.

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The bit that you skip #61: The Cooper Temple Clause – The Same Mistakes A few years down the road as a “professional” (HA!), I became unemployed. I’ve been working for a parastatal that worked environmental research and impact for the government. It w…

Nothing hurts as much as tripping with the same rock again and again.
The cooper temple clause. The same mistakes.
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me to the monkey paw: i wish star trek wasn’t on paramount!

The bit that you skip #60: Eels – Novocaine for the soul Day five of sampled based songs pentalogy… Mark Everett said that this song was about detachment and it certainly found me on said mood. After hanging in Tampico for a while, I attended a Sta…

A song that inspired to write a novel, and I never featured the song in said novel. Oh, well, I guess I sputtered out. sloucher.org/2026/03/01/t...

The bit that you skip #59: Primitive Radio Gods – Standing outside a broken phone booth with money My aunt wasn’t rich. She was clever enough to get by with her paycheck as an anesthesiologist and then as an A&E doctor for the graveyard shift at Ciudad Madero’s Red Cross. It was …

Weird memory of an aunt giving me money for pie and coffee.
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The bit that you skip #58: The lightning seeds – You showed me OR: Day three of the unofficial pentalogy of great 90s sample-based tracks. I like black and white videos, me. I’m easy to please and even if the song isn’t the best around, a good blac…

A sample so good that found a second life in two 90s songs. The lightning seeds, you showed me. sloucher.org/2026/02/27/t...

The bit that you skip #57: Lucas – Lucas with the lid off OR: Day two of the unofficial pentalogy of great 90s sample-based tracks. Never been shy to say I love rap. Once the genre expanded to other countries, a few acts grabbed my attention. US3, Jovanot…

A playful, catchy song paired with a creative video. Lucas Secon and Michel Gondry were a perfect pairing. sloucher.org/2026/02/26/t...

The bit that you skip #56: White town – Your woman OR: Day one of the unofficial pentalogy of great 90s sample-based tracks. The beginning of university in 95 was an odd experience. My master was Communications Science, because, as you can see, I l…

"so much for all your high brow Marxist ways..."
Pentalogía de canciones basadas en samples, parte 1: your woman de white town. sloucher.org/2026/02/25/t...

The bit that you skip #55: Poe – Haunted I used to hang with Claudia every sunday in 2002. Our definition of “hanging out” was: meet at Metro Sevilla, walk to Cine Diana, see what looks good, and the grab some food afterwards.…

Songs for lazy Sundays, bmovies and burger king sloucher.org/2026/02/24/t...

The bit that you skip #54: Bent – Swollen 2001 was a weird year for me. First time with a proper job (Ericsson, then WGS), first time driving everywhere (for fun and for work related stuff), and first time I genuinely thought I was going t…

Aimlessly walking through Nottingham, one song got a healthy repetition on the playlist.

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The bit that you skip #53: Morphine – Early to bed “I’m finished” sighed Teresa as she put her fork down. She’d manage to decimate (in our modern slang, not in the classic Roman Empire tradition) her huarache al pastor. I wa…

A tall-ish tale about getting stuck inside a cafeteria with your crush while gale winds blow. Early to bed, early to rise....
*Names were changed to protect the parties involved. sloucher.org/2026/02/22/t...

If I didn't have the coordination of a drunken street taco vendor, that'd be my choice too.

The bit that you skip #52: Faithless – insomnia “…but which version, Sam?” Whichever you like, dear reader. The album version with its protracted dance intro, the trippy monster mix that wastes no time in bustin loose on the da…

If I had to choose only one Faithless song due to a personal connection, insomnia will always check all the marks. I'm picky with house stuff and the late Maxi Jazz vocals elevated every track he sang in. sloucher.org/2026/02/21/t...

The bit that you skip #51: Counting Crows – Cowboys In May of 2008, I went to Tijuana -first time- as part of an installation job at a couple of data centre hubs. We made base there, and then had to go to a few places, like Ensenada and Rosarito, an…

A quick trip to Los Angeles (via mental breakdown and amoeba records). Sightseeing! Meeting Skrillex when he was Sonny! IHOP at 2am!
But how does it all relate to counting crows?
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The bit that you skip #50: Oxo Foxo – The Hunting Song Depression is a strange beast. You can’t fully beat it, it always comes back, one way or another, sometimes stronger than it was. You know the meme: music changes rhythm, new health bar for t…

Songs to get you through snowy days and crestfallen moods. Today it's Oxo Foxo with the hunting song.
I do go on about low moods on these posts.
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"Advance mourning" is the feeling of knowing a loved one is going away. It prepares you for the inevitable. Here's a song that inspired this concept. sloucher.org/2026/02/18/t...

The bit that you skip #48: Sinead O’Connor – The emperor’s new clothes When Nothing Compares 2 U came out in early 1990, I was transfixed by the video. Her broken heart, pouring through her vocals and soul-ravaged face. It was a tremendous contrast to the early pop-ra…

Maligned. Misrepresented. Blacklisted and made fun of. Sinead O'Connor's life is a tragedy. The emperor's new clothes is the song I chose to remember her. sloucher.org/2026/02/17/t...

The bit that you skip #47: Doves – The last broadcast In 2012, I couldn’t fly back from Sheffield to Mexico due to a visa issue. My student visa was due for a renewal and the process was going to take roughly four months. It was a long, draining…

Replace a bad memory attached to a song with a series of anecdotes of a stern person actually being nice. This ones for Steve.
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The bit that you skip#46: Dead Kennedys – Holiday in Cambodia Back in 2011, I tried to get a podcast going for sloucher. It was called Radio Chaneque, where we promoted independent music and did a few interviews. My idea for interviews was to mix things up. I…

I recorded a few podcasts in a rickety house on Crookes Roads. Had people from Eveyrone an Army, CatsforPeru, and Repo Men chatting, drinking and generally having a good time.
Denzil from Repo Men got me into Dead Kennedys properly. sloucher.org/2026/02/15/t...