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“This is not a list of bad songs, although that is a quality many of them share”

Tim Sterne rounds up ten crimes against musical interestingness committed during the otherwise sporadically musically interesting period of the 1990s.

“The raw meat fist you choke …”

David Bowie performing his cover of Scott Walker’s ‘Nite Flights’ on the Jay Leno show in 1993, to promote the release of Bowie’s post–Tin Machine comeback album Black Tie White Noise. The song is weird enough (the Scott Walker version is out of print but can be heard on YouTube); Bowie’s dance moves and those of his backup singers in this clip are even weirder.