Nitzer Ebb, "Control I'm Here" That Total Age was more towards the industrial end of industrial dance, with more clanking machines in the sound, and Showtime found them pushing a little more melody in things and varying their arrangements more. This...
Melkbelly, "LCR" LCR is also the name of maybe the worst board game that has achieved any substantial success. I don't know how many copies it has sold, but LCR is an embarrassingly bad game design that has been successful enough...
Matthew Sweet, "Divine Intervention" When someone says "power pop", this is the song that pops into my head. I know that there are plenty of other bands that really defined the genre, and that I should be thinking of them. But...
Pond, "Filler" As always: not the Australian band, but the grunge-adjacent band from Portland. And also, as always, I'll recommend all three Pond records as being some of the finest from the grunge scene, peripheral as they were. This tune is...
Think Tree, "Everything Is Equal" This is extremely college radio circa 1991. If you wanted to know what that sounded like. (Nobody should.) Portishead, "The Rip" Portishead put out an absolute stone-cold classic in Dummy and a fine follow-up, Portishead, before...