RockCentral #9: The Best 90s Pop-Rock

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Welcome to the ninth instalment of RockCentral. In the show this week, we visit the (often-maligned) musical decade of the 1990s and serve up some of the best pop-rock the years before the Y2K bug had to offer. From Texas to REM and from Queen to Tears for Fears, this is some of the more accessible music we've played on this podcast. It's stuff that's guaranteed to get your toe tapping and your head shaking.

The full track listing for this episode:

Drive - REM
Wrapped In Clothes Of Blue - Texas
I Want To Go To Heaven - Texas
Erase / Rewind - The Cardigans
The Life Of Riley - The Lightning Seeds
Hooligans Don't Fall In Love - The Beautiful South
Rotterdam (Or Anywhere) - The Beautiful South
If You Tolerate This, Your Children Will Be Next - Manic Street Preachers
You Stole The Sun From My Heart - Manic Street Preachers
Laid - James
Special - Garbage
The Only One I Know - The Charlatans
1979 - The Smashing Pumpkins
Glycerine - Bush
Wonderwall - Oasis
Californication - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Come As You Are - Nirvana
Raoul And The Kings Of Spain - Tears For Fears
The Show Must Go On - Queen
Wind Of Change - Scorpions
Moneytalks - AC/DC
November Rain - Guns N' Roses
Nothing Else Matters - Metallica

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6 Oct 2018 English South Africa Music

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