An eighth List inside sixteen days? Beat that for working hard in December, Santa...
There are another two this year after this one, too, including a sixth That Music List Xmas Special two days from now. Either side of that, however, I'll be revisiting some of my favourite tracks from precisely two decades ago.
For many, 1996 was the third and final peak year of Britpop and all for which it stood. Not for me, however.
It's not just in the fact that I was still living in Germany for all of the first half of that year, as enough of that stuff permeated certain of the radio airwaves over there and I'd not usually struggle to find a copy of the NME or Melody Maker at my temporary home town's largest newsagent.
Fundamentally, there were other things occurring in music which just interested me a whole lot more, and twenty years on still do. Not genres and movements specifically (for all that my consumption of post-rock and darkwave/EBM to name but two did ramp up somewhat), but bands and performers.
See how many of these you remember, and remember fondly. Part two to follow before the year is out.
Click on the video or link to play each tune (links last checked as all working 08/08/2026).
Click here for a directory of updated older Lists.
ARAB STRAP – The First Big Weekend
BLACKSTREET – No Diggity
COMBUSTIBLE EDISON – Short Double Latté
DIE STERNE – Themenläden
FLOWCHART – Rainbow Hello
MINDLESS DRUG HOOVER – Don’t Take Ecstasy
QUICKSPACE – Friend
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