Good evening,
Well, you didn't think you were going to escape the whole of 2011 without one or two "songs from 20 years ago this year" Lists, did you? (see also Lists #10, #11, #22 and #23 in 2009, plus #44 and #45 in 2010). They've just had to wait whilst the welter of other material has been worked through.
There are some songs on this first instalment whose inclusion is a particular source of personal pleasure. "Countdown" endures to this day as both my favourite Pulp song of all time, plus - along with Wir and The Frank And Walters tracks included - a constituent of the playlist on the first evening that I switched over to Mark Goodier's Evening Session permanently, having merely dabbled with it a bit previously.
(NB that's not to say I wasn't already listening to Peel as well; but supplementing that with some of the other better shows at the time on Radio 1, rather than persisting with the Fab FM direction Key 103 in Manchester had taken after its post-Piccadilly Radio, post-Mark Radcliffe reimagining, took a little longer).
"Missing The Moon", meanwhile, was and remains the aural equivalent of a stare out into the heavens in music form - vast, celestial, and perfect.
No apologies, by the way, for including a bit of that 'ardcore techno that started to fill the charts around this time - I did, for the greater part, love it to bits ("Quadrophonia" in particular has aged splendidly well to this pair of ears). No apologies either for a nice bit of judderjudderbleuurrrgghh from Extreme Noise Error. Merely a year later, they'd find themselves involved with a chart-topping duo and an awards ceremony - with hilarious consequences, as the sitcoms always say...
J xx
Click on the video or link to play each tune (links last checked as all working 08/04/2026).
CARDIACS - Day is Gone
PULP - Countdown
DJPC – Inssomniak
TH’ FAITH HEALERS – Reptile Smile
THE FIELD MICE - Missing The Moon
GARY CLAIL ON-U SOUND SYSTEM – Human Nature
MORRISSEY – Pregnant for the Last Time
CURVE – Clipped
BLUMFELD – Ghettowelt
THE FALL – Edinburgh Song
PIXIES – Motorway to Roswell
THE FRANK AND WALTERS – Fashion Crisis Hits New York (original version)
WIR – So And Slow it Grows
EXTREME NOISE TERROR – Knee Deep in Shit
THE POPGUNS – Crazy
HOLE – Teenage Whore
ELECTRONIC – Get The Message
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