The Nineties Danny Baker Rocks... A Bit

Welcome to the '90s and a quick but invigorating spin around some

top-drawer British rock performances.

I say rock, but given that this is the dance decade,

definitions of what is and what isn't heir

to the Wishbone Ash millions are decidedly baggy

and nothing wrong with that.

So off we go with the London Suede, to give them their American name.

Viewers should note that this clip does contain

some flashes of leopardskin posing pouches.

# Like his dad

# You know that he's had

# Animal nitrate in mind

# Oh in your council home

# He jumped on your bones

# Now you're taking it time after time

# Oh it turns you on

# On

# Now he has gone

# Oh what turns you on

# On

# Now your animal's gone

# Well he said

# He'd show you his bed

# And the delights of the chemical smile

# So in your broken home

# He broke all your bones

# Now you're taking it time after time

# Oh it turns you on

# On

# Now he has gone

# Oh what turns you on

# On

# Now your animal's gone

# What does it take to turn you on

# On

# Now he has gone

# Now you're over 21

# Oh

# Now your animal's gone

# Animal

# He was animal

# An animal

# Oh

# Animal

# He was animal

# An animal

# Oh-oh-oh

# Animal

# Animal

# He's just an animal

# An animal. #

Suede, who in the '90s had Bob Dylan go on before them at one festival.

That's courage.

When a group appears on Top of the Pops singing a song

which mentions places such as Knutsford, Scunthorpe and Hebden Bridge

and in a way that other chart hits didn't, it's got to be special, right?

And when that performance is also the birth of Acid Morris Dancing,

this is great art in the making.

Savour, then, the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu

performing 'It's Grim Up North'.

# Crewe, Warrington, Widnes, Wigan

# Leeds, Northwich

# Nantwich, Knutsford, Hull, Sale

# Salford, Southport, Leigh, Derby

# Kearsley, Keighley, Maghull

# Harrogate, Huddersfield, Oldham

# Lancs, Grimsby, Glossop

# Hebden Bridge

# It's grim up north

# It's grim up north

# Pendlebury, Prestwich, Preston

# York, Skipton, Scunthorpe

# Scarborough-on-Sea

# Chester, Chorley, Cheadle Hulme

# Ormskirk, Accrington Stanley

# And Leigh, Ossett, Otley

# Ilkley Moor, Sheffield, Manchester

# Castleford, Skem, Doncaster

# Dewsbury, Halifax, Bingley, Bramall

# Are all in the north

# It's grim up north

# It's grim up north. #

Acid Morris dancing.

I'm not buying it.

Do me a favour. Do that thing you do.

OK. Now play the record a bit.

DANCE MUSIC

All right. Now you do it.

Yeah! Yeah, I can see that! Thanks a lot, fellas. Keep in touch.

BELLS RING

Keep it down. I'm broadcasting over here.

When Pulp released their single Do You Remember The First Time?,

they made a short film of fans talking about their early sexual experiences.

It included contributions from such as Jo Brand and Bob Mortimer.

But nobody wants to see that. Well, let me put it another way.

Jo and Bob don't want anyone to see that.

Instead, here's a rousing live version of the song from Pulp In The Park,

filmed at Finsbury Park, London, in 1998.

# You say you've got to go home

# Cos he's sitting on his own again this evening

# And I know you're going to let him bore your pants off again

# Oh God, it's half past eight

# You'll be late

# You say you've never been sure

# Though it makes good sense for you to live together

# Still you bought a toy

# That can reach the places he never goes

# And now it's getting late

# He's so straight

# Do you remember the first time

# I can't remember a worse time

# But you know that we've changed so much since then

# Oh yeah we've grown

# Now I don't care what you're doing

# No I don't care if you screw him

# Just as long as you save a piece for me

# Oh yeah now

# Oooh

# You want to go home

# Well at least there's someone there

# That you can talk to

# And you never have to face up

# To the night on your own

# Jesus, it must be great

# To be straight

# Do you remember the first time

# I can't remember a worse time

# But you know that we've changed so much since then

# Oh yeah we've grown

# Now I don't care what you're doing

# No I don't care if you screw him

# Just as long as you save a piece for me

# Oh yeah now

# Oooh

# You want to go home

# You want to go home

# You say you're going to go home

# Now you want to go home

# Oh-oh-oh

# Oh-oh-oh

# Oh-oh-oh

# Do you remember the first time

# I can't remember a worse time

# But you know that we've changed so much since then

# Oh yeah we've grown

# No I don't care what you're doing

# No I don't care if you screw him

# Just as long as you save a piece for me

# Oh yeah now

# Do you remember the first time

# I can't remember a worse time, no

# But you know that we've changed so much since then

# Oh yeah we've grown

# I don't care what you're doing

# I don't care if you screw him

# Just as long as you save a piece for me

# Oh yeah now

# Oooh

# You want to go home. #

Pulp. Did you know that one of Jarvis Cocker's lyrics

spans the entire side of one wall at Sheffield University?

Students!

Now to PJ Harvey and what seems to be her wonderful numerical fixation.

She's written songs called 30, 66 Promises, 97 Degrees,

but this evening, we'll go with 50 Ft Queenie,

possibly inspired by the film Attack Of The 50 Foot Insect,

or Here Comes Half A Centipede.

I'm so sorry, PJ. I'm doing what I can!

# Hey I'm one big queenie

# No-one can stop me

# Red light red green

# Sat back and watching

# I'm your new one

# Second to no-one

# No sweat I'm clean

# Nothing can touch me

# Tell you my name

# F U and C K

# 50 foot queenie

# Force ten hurricane

# Biggest woman

# I could have ten sons

# Ten gods, ten queens

# Ten foot and rising

# Hey I'm the king of the world

# You ought to hear my song

# You come on and measure me

# I'm twenty inches long

# Glory, glory

# Lay it all on me

# 50 foot queenie

# 50 and rising

# You bend over

# Casanova

# No sweat I'm clean

# Nothing can touch me

# Hey I'm the king of the world

# You ought to hear my song

# You come on and measure me

# I'm twenty inches long

# Hey I'm the king of the world

# You ought to hear my song

# You come on and measure me

# I'm thirty inches long

# Hey I'm king of the world

# You ought to hear my song

# You come on and measure me

# I'm forty inches long

# Hey I'm king of the world

# You ought to hear my song

# You come on and measure me

# I'm fifty inches long

# 50 foot queenie

# 50 foot queenie

# 50 foot queenie

# 50 foot queenie

# 50 foot queenie

# 50 foot queenie

# 50 foot queenie. #

That was, to quote Count Arthur Strong,

PG Tips... PG Wodehouse... PJ Proby...

PJ Harvey.

When Portishead pitched up at the Roseland Ballroom in New York in 1998,

they recorded an extraordinary concert with a 35 piece orchestra

and most of the audience sitting on its dancefloor.

Here, they capture beautifully

the slow burn of Glory Hole... Glory Box!

# I'm so tired of playing

# Playing with this bow and arrow

# Going to give my heart away

# Leave it to the other girls to play

# For I've been a temptress too long

# Just

# Give me a reason to love you

# Give me a reason to be

# A woman

# I just want to be a woman

# From this time

# Unchained

# We're all looking at a different picture

# Through this new frame of mind

# A thousand flowers could bloom

# Move over

# And give us some room

# Yeah

# Give me a reason to love you

# Give me a reason to be

# A woman

# I just want to be a woman

# So don't you stop

# Being a man

# Just take a little look

# From outside if you can

# Show a little tenderness

# No matter if you cry

# Give me a reason to love you

# Give me a reason to be

# A woman

# I just want to be a woman

# Cos it's all I want to be

# Is a woman

# Yeah

# For this is the beginning

# Of forever and ever

# It's time to move over

# Cos it's all I want to be

# I'm so tired of playing

# Playing with his bow and arrow

# Going to give my heart away

# Leave it to the other girls to play

# For I've been a temptress too long

# Just

# Give me a reason to love you

# Give me a reason to be. #

That was Portishead from the Roseland,

which I hear is due for closure some time soon.

Then again, so is my heart and Beverley Selway, 1966.

It's not possible to cover the '90s without The Happy Mondays'

Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches album, which is still great.

Recorded in London and, bizarrely,

the Capitol Records Tower in Los Angeles,

it produced the band's biggest hit Step On.

The video for this, shot at Sitges, near Barcelona,

was made by two Geordies - Phil Shotton and Keith Jobling -

and it was the latter, let history note,

that actually coined the term "Madchester".

# Twisting my melon, man

# You know you talk so hip, man

# You're twisting my melon, man

# Call the cops

# Hey, rainmaker, come away from that man

# You know he's gonna take away your promised land

# Hey, good lady, he just wants what you got you know

# He'll never stop until he's taken the lot

# Gonna stamp out your fire, he can change your desire

# Don't you know he can make you forget you're a man

# Gonna stamp out your fire, he can change your desire

# Don't you know he can make you forget you're the man?

# You're a man

# Twisting my melon, man

# You speak so hip

# Hey, rainmaker, he got golden plans

# I tell you

# You'll make a stranger in your own land

# Hey, good lady, he's got God on his side

# He got a double tongue

# You never think he would lie

# Ooh, he lied

# He's twisting me melon, man

# Ooh, you're twisting my melon, man

# Gonna stamp out your fire, he can change your desire

# Don't you know he can make you forget you're a man

# Gonna stamp out your fire, he can change your desire

# Don't you know he can make you forget you're the man?

# You're the man

# He's gonna step on you again... #

Shaun Ryder, who was last spotted on TV presenting a series about UFOs.

Some people claim to have seen it,

but it was probably just a weather balloon or a trick of the light.

And our 1990s are almost at an end.

Time just to include a band of outsiders who initially

nobody fancied too much,

but who went on to become massively successful,

doing things their own way too, and more power to them.

Filmed live at the Astoria in London in 1994 performing The Bends

before it had even appeared on an album, Radiohead.

And nobody likes a laugh more than Radiohead.

Goodnight.

This is about knowing who your friends are.

# Oh

# Oh

# Where do we go from here?

# The words are coming out all weird

# Where are you now when I need you?

# Alone on an airplane

# Fall asleep on against the window pane

# My blood will thicken

# I need to wash myself again to hide all the dirt and pain

# Cos I'd be scared that there's nothing underneath

# But who are my real friends?

# Have they all got the bends?

# Am I really sinking this low?

# My baby's got the bends

# Oh, no

# We don't have any real friends

# Oh, no, no

# Just lying at the bar with my drip feed on

# Talking to my girlfriend, waiting for something to happen

# I wish it was the '60s, I wish I could be happy

# I wish, I wish, I wish that something would happen

# Where do we go from here?

# The planet is a gunboat in a sea of fear

# And where are you?

# They brought in the CIA, the tanks and the whole marines

# To blow me away

# To blow me sky high

# My baby's got the bends

# We don't have any real friends

# Just lying at the bar with my drip feed on

# Talking to my girlfriend, waiting for something to happen

# I wish it was the '60s, I wish I could be happy

# I wish, I wish, I wish that something would

# I wanna live, breathe

# I wanna be a part of the human race

# I wanna live, breathe

# I wanna be part of the human race

# Race, race, race

# Where do we go from here?

# The words are coming out all weird

# Where are you now

# When I need you? #

APPLAUSE