<p>In which The Prodigy &amp; Beastie Boys bang heads, the Beach Boys archival industrial complex looms large, Courtney Love becomes the zeitgeist and Belle &amp; Sebastian win hearts (and lose us). </p>

December 1997 - Joy Division, Five, The Propellerheads & Catch

Analogue Slop is where two music industry lifers revisit the music press of their youth, which in our case is the nineties, and for Season 1 is the NME and Melody Maker.. Every week we explore artists we discovered as wide-eyed teenagers only to disown as sneering twenty somethings. Now, unshackled from hipster baggage, we dive deep into how music and the people who make it were served up before anyone knew what an attention economy was.