The Wannadies - Be A Girl - 1995 - Ep. 36

A brilliant record by The Wannadies from 1995 to conclude the Memorabilia Podcast and a bumper episode for our final outing. We discuss the career and discography of Sweden's hugely underrated indie popsters, look back on live performances we attended, and provide a comprehensive guide through their breakthrough third LP, Be A Girl, including their Gold-certified single 'You & Me Song' featured in the movie 'Romeo and Juliet' and a couple of episodes of Coronation Street! We conclude our very enjoyable Wannadies chat with our album ratings. Spoiler alert - they're high ones!

We take a look back at August 1995 for the UK, and in particular, we share our thoughts and memories of the singles battle at the top of the UK singles charts between Blur and Oasis, which culminated in Blur hitting the number one spot the day before the release of Be A Girl. As well as the album charts from this week, the end-of-year singles charts for 1995 also come under scrutiny, which, on balance, was just about more good than bad. Artists discussed from 1995 include Radiohead, Supergrass, Michael Jackson, Coolio, Bjork, Ash, Robson & Jerome and Paul Weller.

At the box office, the likes of Judge Dread, Batman Forever, The Usual Suspects and Die Hard with Avengance are doing well, and Rick recalls an embarrassing story of getting stranded in a lay-by with a date after parking up following a trip to see Bruce Willis' third outing as John McClane.

We wrap things up with a recent gig review at The Crescent Community venue in York, where we saw Sheffield's Before Breakfast and York's The Howl & The Hum. We also discuss our favourite records, which we have covered on the podcast.

Thank you to everyone who has been a part of the Memorabilia Podcast during the last two and a half years, including Andy Strickland, Dan Donnelly, Simon McGuinness and all the people who have interacted with our output online and via social media.

Final single of the week choices:

Rick - Just by Radiohead from 1995 https://youtu.be/oIFLtNYI3Ls?si=kLpQ2hNUX9WW-Oex

Kate (2 choices!) - To Do List (After The Breakup) by Blossoms ft. Findlay from 2023 https://youtu.be/SeLvMaNClyk?si=NTt-5m4lZotMpH7B

Trust Exercises by Easy Life from 2023 https://youtu.be/4lrTbknMA8s?si=rRoThnRcglUd9fjC

Marit Bergman's cover of 'My Hometown' by The Wannadies: https://youtu.be/OtB9Igmtn5o?si=StwzVFqS0dbrNh3Q

Brilliant video for the song Big Fan by The Wannadies: https://youtu.be/Me4GSKBZ1Dw?si=pPrVfRW10L08z5G0

Funny video to The Wanndies Single 'Don't Like You (What The Hell Are We Supposed To Do)': https://youtu.be/hq-1uC67NaI?si=1KAED8vXDVUYDqpn

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