The final part of Kris Needs Fifty Outiders list for Clash magazine’s Outsider issue includes such musicians as Mark Stewart, Daniel Johnston, Underground Resistance, MF Doom and more.
41. MARK STEWART
Emerging from punk’s maelstrom fronting the fearsome Pop Group, Mark Stewart charted an idiosyncratic collison course with hip-hop, funk and dub reggaes; one of the most volcanic but subversive creative minds this country has produced.
42. JEFFREY LEE PIERCE
After screaming into the Eighties with his Gun Club, Pierce blazed a kamikaze trail of incendiary gigs, epoch-making albums and hell-raising behaviour, claiming his life when he died of a brain haemorrhage in 1996.
43. PRIMAL SCREAM
Few other bands have so doggedly followed their musical passions, rock ‘n’ roll fantasies and punk principles as defiantly, and often controversially. The last gang in town who turned outsider status into a fine art.
44. ANDREW WEATHERALL
Repeatedly lauded for his Primals connections, Weatherall is that rare beast that can deliver the ultimate knockout house music DJ set, while relishing boosting Suicide rockabilly mantras in decaying East London pubs.
45. DANIEL JOHNSTON
The manic depressive schizophrenic singer-songwriter found his mental health deteriorating while recording his debut album ‘1990’ (released that year). On more of an even keel this century, feted by the likes of Tom Waits, Matt Groening and Henry Rollins.
46. UNDERGROUND RESISTANCE
During the 1990s, the most mysterious and uncompromising Detroit techno missives emanated from a deeply-underground bunker manned by ‘Mad’ Mike Banks, Jeff Mills, Robert Hood and cohorts, firing out ‘electronic battle weapons’ which subverted techno in militaristic anonymity.
47. BASIC CHANNEL
Few electronic operations carried deeper mystique in the Nineties than Berlin’s Basic Channel, launched in 1993 by Moritz Von Oswald and Mark Ernestus, releasing nine twelve-inch singles which shaped a new ultra-minimal dub techno template.
48. PETE DOHERTY
Initially appearing with Carl Barat in the 21st century’s first (potentially) great songwriting duo, Doherty’s spent the last few years ducking and diving as lone Johnny Thunders-style journeyman, playing to the faithful and teenage newcomers having their first dabble in wild side romance.
49. MF DOOM
After becoming a victim of the cut-throat rap industry as a member of K.M.D., Daniel Dumille was homeless on New York’s streets until reappearing in 1999 as the permanently masked MF Doom, based on the Marvel comics villain, introducing a new style of badder boy.
50. METAMONO
Can collaborator Jono ’Kumo’ Podmore, Paul Conboy and Mark Hill eschew sampling, overdubbing and digital polish in favour of the analogue machines which electronic music was built on, bringing back electronica‘s crusading spirit and vital edge.
