The Nineties are back!

The Naughties were the 80's revival decade. Calvin Harris bombastically declared he wanted intercourse with anyone born within the eighth decade of the 20th century, I, myself, kept a healthy distance from Mr Harris.

In the er...twenty-tens....the Nineties are making a comeback. Brit-pop is en-vogue. Maybe. The NME championed bands still have too many bloody synths (not always bad, i grant you), but we have the era, ney, generation, defining bands willing to take their collective pipes and slippers off and give it another whirl.

Pulp will be back in 2011. Blur were a bit impatient and couldn't wait for 2010 so blew the roof off Glasto 2009 instead, but they felt the force, the winds of change, or rather the old winds coming back round and making us realise, actually, this new stuff isn't all that terrific is it?

Tomorrow night i get my own nostalgia fest in. Suede at the O2. Although they are without Bernard Butler, the other guy still wrote that bitchin' intro to "Beautiful Ones" didn't he! That's got to be worth the entrance fee alone. Except its free, so for that, I'll even not go to the bar for the rest of the song. I'll wait for "She's in Fashion" to get the beers in.

On the major plus side of course, Animal Nitrates and Trash. Oh and Dog Man Star.

Shed Seven have been seen touring pottering up the M1, along with The Bluetones and Ultrasound even played a tiny (excuse the pun) gig in Islington in September.

Granted we don't want to see too many Courteeners marching over the horizon, but why exactly were the 80's so worth ripping off? Generally regarded as the worst decade for music in human history, the fact someone could write a song using one finger on a keyboard seemed to spawn hundreds of luminous coloured t-shirts and stupid glasses bouncing around, one hand in the air, the other taping with one digit, using three notes max. At least Status Quo used chords.

I will bet with anyone, more albums from the nineties will appear, and have appeared, in any list of Top 100 albums ever lists, than the 80's.

That may not be conclusive proof that the 90's were superior, lists like those are ten a penny, and "Thriller", "The Queen is Dead" and "The Stone Roses" will of course will be in the upper echelons, but when classics such as "Definitely Maybe" "...Morning Glory" "Different Class" "Modern Life is Rubbish" "Urban Hymns" "Attack of the Grey Lantern" "Nevermind" "In Utero" " The Colour and the Shape" "Dookie" "Melancholy and the Infinite Sadness" "The Bends" "OK Computer" "The Holy Bible" "Everything Must Go" "I Should Coco" "Dog Man Star" "Six" "Word Gets Around" "Moseley Shoals" "The Man who" and "Garbage" to name but.....22 are up for debate, theres no contest is there?

At the very least its a trip down memory lane for the late 20's/30's to remember the halcyon days that started nearly 20 years ago (did anything great come out in 1990?).

On the train to Waterloo, there will be much reminiscing, a tear may be shed for those care free teenage days.

Oh if we had done things differently (damn that Art GCSE!!)