PWEI Product 1986-1994: The Pop Will Eat Itself Anthology

Pop Will Eat Itself, along with the Wonder Stuff, were the figureheads of the grebo movement that came straight out of Birmingham in the early 1990s with long hair, brightly coloured clothing and bouncy tunes. And while the Wonder Stuff got a fiddle player and went all serious, the Poppies got a sampler and became even more stupid, while unwittingly being streets ahead of their time.

They toured with Public Enemy and got bottled offstage, sampled and looped all the popular culture they could get their hands on (Blade Runner, football commentaries, Repo Man, Frank Sinatra…) and developed their own stunning graphics and cartoon characters while the Gorillaz were still either in Blur or designing sleeves for grebo also-rans the Senseless Things. --Helen Marquis