Hey Ben, thanks so much for sharing this chapter (and for the podcast with Junior Sanchez this week, so good)! Was the idea with Weird 90s to have each chapter follow a different release like this one, or was there a broader narrative? I only ask as I am currently doing a PhD on the Zippies/evolution^/Megatripolis, so I have a live academic interest in the 1990s being weird.
thank you. The idea was to examine a different song in each chapter but to draw some wider conclusions, to do with the influence of this kind of music on people who were growing up at the time and consumed it be Top of the Pops / Radio 1 etc. IE me.
Ah I mean I'd love to read this (any publishers reading, that's one potential sale). I'd also love to see what other releases you had planned but understand if you need to keep that secret 👀
I would absolutely read this book!
Thank you! I may well post some other chapters at some point, if you feel like going deep in The Shamen and Altern 8!
Yep - definitely. Bet both have fascinating stories.
Hey Ben, thanks so much for sharing this chapter (and for the podcast with Junior Sanchez this week, so good)! Was the idea with Weird 90s to have each chapter follow a different release like this one, or was there a broader narrative? I only ask as I am currently doing a PhD on the Zippies/evolution^/Megatripolis, so I have a live academic interest in the 1990s being weird.
thank you. The idea was to examine a different song in each chapter but to draw some wider conclusions, to do with the influence of this kind of music on people who were growing up at the time and consumed it be Top of the Pops / Radio 1 etc. IE me.
Ah I mean I'd love to read this (any publishers reading, that's one potential sale). I'd also love to see what other releases you had planned but understand if you need to keep that secret 👀
I will DM you. I might publish some of them here, if there is interest.