Rewind: Tracks 1992

will still be playing in karaoke bars long after our great-great-grandchildren and their flying cars have graduated from space college

Rewind: Tracks 1989

this song boiled three decades of guitar pop down to the bare bones of the euphoria of meeting someone you desperately want to be with and hearing a song you can’t stop playin

Rewind: Tracks 1987

This is a world a million miles from today’s music. A world that is filled with anoraks, fanzines and enamel badges… Part of the endearing quality… is its shambolic amateurishness

Best Tracks 2023 Part 2

A bit like an indiepop version of ‘You’re The One That I Want’, but with less dancing and kissing

Rewind: Tracks 2011

If every song sounded like this, if every song was this good, we would all age faster, and be happier, and scowl less at the radio in the coffee-shop

Best Tracks 2023 Part 1

Sometimes – rarely, that’s the point – a band turns up, traps lightning in a jar and leaves you gasping

Rewind: Tracks 2006

this is music made for the outsider – designed as much for dreamers as it is for the dancefloor

Rewind: Tracks 2001

no one since has sounded quite like them, and to even try would miss the point. Their music valued invention, risk, wonder, imagination, and—perhaps above all other virtues—fun

Rewind: Tracks 1996

My abiding memory of Crispin Hunt, the 95% cheekbone singer with 90s cult rockers Longpigs, is the time we gatecrashed the Booker prize-winner’s party with a goldfish

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