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New Order, ‘Regret’: The fight for New Order’s name
Acrimony and legal backbiting undermine one of New Order’s biggest hits
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Sub Sub, ‘Ain’t No Doubt, Ain’t No Use’: Doves’ miraculous escape from the 90s
Ain’t No Love Ain’t No Use was followed by a string of bad luck.
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R.E.M., ‘Everybody Hurts’: Songs of faith and doubt
R.E.M. tackle the loneliness epidemic
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David Bowie, ‘Jump They Say’: The man who fell to earth
Our favourite alien learns how to live on earth
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Robin S, ‘Show Me Love’: The Harper Lee of House Music
If you get it right first time, why try again?
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Snow, ‘Informer’: The white rapper backlash
Snow was more street than some others, but he still fell into the white rapper trap.
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Therapy?, ‘Screamager’: It’s loud up North
If the 80s were grim for Northern Ireland, the 90s were a time of hope and kickass rock music.
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Suede, ‘Animal Nitrate’: HMS Britpop sets sail
Grunge is dead! Here comes Britpop!
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Shaggy, ‘Oh Carolina’: The Reggae-naissance begins
Shaggy scores the first hit in a new wave of pop-reggae.
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Rage Against The Machine, ‘Killing In The Name’: What are you rebelling against?
It’s the most incendiary protest song of the 90s. But what’s it about?