In which the Manic Street Preachers attempt to survive peak overexposure, Melody Maker desperately tries to make festival season feel culturally decisive, and Star Wars crosses the invisible line between treasured generational reference point and permanently monetised corporate property.

July 1999 Part 2 - Landfill Wu-Tang, Mr. Scruff

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.