God Fodder by Ned's Atomic Dustbin

God Fodder, the debut album from Stourbridge's Ned's Atomic Dustbin, came out on Columbia in April 1991, cut in London over the winter of 1990 into 1991 after a string of indie singles had made their name. Its secret weapon is the lineup's oddest quirk: two bass players, with Mat Cheslin holding down the regular lines and Alex Griffin playing harmonic ones on top.

The result is a racket that's heavy and bouncy at once, noisy guitars and busy, tumbling drums pulled from grebo, shoegaze, noise pop and the dance floor, and the whole band chipped in on the words. "Kill Your Television" and "Happy" are rushes of pure adrenaline. It went to number 4 in the UK, and in America the band's T-shirts and videos that caught on with MTV's alternative crowd pushed it into the Billboard 200 at a time when grunge ruled.

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