'90s Stuff: Sleeper

Remember Sleeper? They came to us via Britpop, made three solid albums, one very cool video ("Inbetweener"), and could almost pass off as Blondie on that Trainspotting soundtrack. Frontwoman Louise Wener did a fine job balancing eloquence, candour and sass ("It was OK for Shaun Ryder to be laddish and drunk all the time, and when one of the Manic Street Preachers said he hoped Michael Stipe would die of AIDS, the reaction was: 'Naughty!' But when I wrote a song like "Delicious" ["We should both go to bed till we make each other sore"], I was painted as a whore"), and on a long enough timelime, could probably out-cool Justine Frischmann. Sadly, Sleeper split early in the game and their great pop sound remains an underrated gem.

Today, Louise has turned her hand to literary concerns - she's written four novels and contributed to The Guardian. God knows what happened to the other guys, though. But Louise's articulate recounting of Britpop can be best viewed on the documentary, Live Forever. More on Sleeper can also be found here.

If you love Sleeper and other stuff that happened in the '90s, then stay tuned for JUICE's upcoming May issue, where we look back on flannel, Leonardo DiCaprio, Joshua Tree and the rest of Generation X. It will be so romantic.