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Teenage Wildlife: 25 Years Of Ash BMG

How long can three boys (and one woman) stay teenage? Quite a long time, it appears.

The initial mid-90s explosion was glorious: not since The Undertones or perhaps Supergrass had a bunch of, with its whiplash-smart opening sound effects; ; the pop pantheon-referencing ; the riotous and wonderfully open , of course… This was a teenage (moon) dream, lashings of loud guitar and noise and feedback, a brilliantly simple way round a three-note melody, boys you wouldn’t mind taking home to meet your parents. And it didn’t hurt matters that in frontman Tim Wheeler there were baby blues to lose your heart to. Charlotte Hatherley joined in 1997 as second guitarist and vocalist – and the immediate result was grunge classic , a song to sum up the tumult of the mid-90s like few achieved.