Come (1994)
Once upon a time, poodle-haired lizards with loud guitars roamed the charts. Then God said “let there be rave” and the immaculately-coiffed dinosaurs were hit by an MDMA meteor of electro energy. Those least able to adapt were wiped out by the yellow smiley-faced fireball but the resilient absorbed the blast and mutated into something bigger, faster, stronger than they were before. Loose! was once a heavy rock number soundtracking Hades in Prince’s dance production of The Odyssey. It wasn’t terrible but probably best left in the Land of the Dead. A year later Prince reworked it into a pandemonium of hoover synths, industrial guitar and rave abandon – music for the jilted generation – and outlines of its impact can still be found scorched onto walls in Pompeii. A choir-sampling dub version called Get Loose turned up on Crystal Ball five years later – a leftover from a Loose! single that never happened (So Dark also comes from this non-release). Despite its screamed obscenities and Prodigy-style “let’s go!” samples it had its Day-Glo battery acid drained. Come’s version still sounds as devastating as the day it hit Earth.

Still here reading this glorious countdown. This song has to be the starkest difference between our tastes. I think that this song ranks in his bottom 5 all time. I hate this song with an unreserved passion (well, reserved only for Strays of the World). Still – keep it up – this list is fascinating.
Ha. The first gig I ever saw was the Prodigy in ’96. That may go some way to explain my tastes.
Glad you’re still with us!
Showing my age – i don’t know what Prodigy is…..and i surmise that if they sound like the song Loose – i won’t like them…..Can’t get enough of this list……i love being surprised. I love that i never “caught” the double entendre in Elixer until i read your post…. i love that people have such divergent view points – i would never have put 3 Chains of Gold in the top 200….or Dance On or Rock N Roll is Alive.