Sounds from the Junkshop #2 - The Senseless Things
Looking back while digging through my memories for this column, I don't think I'd quite realised just how important a musical month January 1992 was to my musical tastes developing. As someone living in sleepy suburban Leeds who was just about to turn 13, I was still at this point reliant on listening to the Top 40 on Radio 1 and watching Top of the Pops on a Thursday evening and the ITV Chart Show on a Saturday lunchtime for my musical intake. This meant that the stuff that reached my ears was largely dependant on what was in the charts (and in the to a lesser extent the Indie and Rock Top 10's on the Chart Show - even at that age, I'd already worked out that that's where most of the exciting music was even if I was very unlikely to encounter most of it in the local Woolies) rather than anything I was reading in the music papers like NME, Melody Maker and Kerrang, all of which I was still a good year or two away from discovering. Nevertheless, the episode of Top of...