90s Music Monday

nobody@vox.com(Simon Wistow) — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:38:46 -0800

I have to confess I struggled with picking a track today.

I'm off snowboarding in a few days and I was up at 5am watching the snow reports from Tahoe so I really wanted to do ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead's epic "Will You Smile Again" since it's inexorably linked in my mind, via the First Descent trailer, to hurtling down mountains. The one small snagette is that it was only released in 2005 which sort of stymies my plan.

The Beta Band's Dry the Rain, as seen in an awesome scene in High Fidelity was an option - I had a whole spiel about Nick Hornby percolating in my mind but there's no video. The same goes for Le Dernier Coup by Marseilleses hip-hop god IAM - although you can listen to an instrumental version in the chase scene at the end of the original Taxi.

The awesomely surreal Midfielding by Midfield General (if you've never heard a song in which various woodland animals fly to Africa to go beat up Lions and Tigers using a huge wooden shrew lined with KitKat wrappers and with the eyes of an Old Russian Lady who had seen to much - dangerous but beautiful at the same time) was also only released in 2000.

So I'm going to go with the hugely underrated Terrorvision - Brummie purveyors of oddly anthemic tunes.

Of course, most people, if they know them at all, know them for the novelty Mint Royale remix of Tequila

Terrorvision - Tequilla

which, whilst a fine song, isn't really representative of the Terrorvision ouevre.

Unfrotunately YouTube seems to have forsaken me - classics like Perseverance and Middleman seem to be oddly missing so we're going to have to go with the frighteningly catchy Oblivion.

Terrorvision - Oblivion

how can you not love a song with lyrics like "And do you feel your life is threatened by fabricated stories
Dreamt up by the sons of campers that you killed back in the forties?".

Since I'm short of other examples you have to watch the video of Fists of Fury which is a great song in its own right but also serves as a great parody of whatever Madonna song that she did when she pretended to dress up like a cowboy and play guitar.

Terrorvision - Fists Of Fury

It actually came out in 2001. So sue me. It's a great tune.

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