Back to the 90s

After graduation, I ended up drinking with a select group of ex-students, culminating in visiting a '90s theme bar': a horrifying concept to someone who was actually there, man. The corporate bar's version of the 90s was everything I hated first time round: flaming Sambucca and the very worst confected pop bands of all time. I doubt that even 5ive's mothers play their singles.

Last night was a form of anecdote. I cooked a cider-soaked pork joint (take that, the 1/24th Jewish blood in me), roasted some parsnips and had friends round, and we settled on great American lo-fi for the evening: Folk Implosion, Sebadoh, Slint and some riot grrl -  Babes in Toyland - from the days when indie music wasn't merely a celebrity vehicle.









Anyway, enough proto-Riot Grrl: I've a Shakespeare class to teach, and lots of other things on today, so I won't harass you too much.

Slacking off

Seeing as 90s American slacker rock is back (get Yuck's rather pleasant homage/pastiche if you don't believe me), I thought I'd give you a couple of rather excellent tracks by Sebadoh and their spin-off, Folk Implosion: play them loud.





Here's an old indie-night floor-filler:



And finally, here's Dinosaur Jr.'s cover of The Cure's sublime 'Just Like Heaven'.