![]() The first was a club music – a polyglot of house, hip-hop and rave… THE VENGABOYS - "Boom Boom Boom Boom" The 90s in the British charts are topped and tailed by two mighty surges of Europop.Though I wouldn’t mind a TPL hatchet job on its cultural impact. … not to mention another hammer blow, the paranoia and fanatical, nay, fundamentalist hype over a certain Oasis album released the week before – which musically I really don’t mind that much, but we’ll get round to it later. Mark E Smith was right when he said the Great British Public never fully recovered from their reaction to events in that Paris tunnel. I remember the morning of August 31, waking up to Princess Diana’s death and heavy rain from the remnants of a Biblical thunderstorm – it felt like the end of many different eras. Of course, people’s expectations of a “good” British summer have fluctuated throughout the years, and sun worshippers were perhaps spoilt by that great run from 1994-1997. ![]() I was only two years old at the time, so these opinions are based on secondary sources and my father’s distrust of eighties (especially the mid-eighties.) But then again, I was born in them.
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