Sounds From The Junkshop Bonus - Footnotes 1993-95
So here we go with the second instalment of the SFTJ almost-weres column. For those who missed part 1, this is where I take a look at a few bands who did have a minor influence on my music taste developing but not to the extent that I felt I had enough to write a full Sounds From The Junkshop article on them. Anyway, today we're looking at 1993-95. It started with the dying embers of grunge and the rise of the short lived crusty rock movement that came along in the wake of the Levellers becoming bona fide chart stars, took in the magnesium flash of the New Wave of New Wave and ended with Britpop starting to coalesce as the big music movement of the time. For me, early '94 probably represented the first big sea change in my music taste since I'd got into guitar music 2-3 years before. The scuzzy indie-punk bands who'd comprised the majority of my listening up until this point were very much on the wane commercially by now - the Wonder Stuff would split up mid-'94 a...