Because I am a world champion procrastinator, today I was thinking about music that could be deemed “alternative” that began to fuse guitars with samples, beats and rapping.

Something that sprang to mind was Big Audio Dynamite II’s album The Globe and the singles I remember from it, “Rush” and “The Globe”. Here’s a separate post for them.

Anyway, my mind also turned to this song by New Zealand’s Headless Chickens. Their record label, Flying Nun, was known particularly for jangly guitar bands, so this was something a bit different. To be fair, there had been a bit of experimental lo-fi and noise rock and not just the jangly stuff…but to my knowledge, nothing like this.

What do you think? Does a track like this hold up today?

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