If there’s one song that sums up the C86 jangly guitar sound for me it’s Primal Scream’s “Velocity Girl”. It’s sad, then, that the Scream disavow their pre-Screamadelica discography now as though they’re embarrassing teenage diary entries.

They are, of course, perfect pop.

Armed with an array of distortion pedals of different shapes and sizes, I set about a marvellous evening’s entertainment bludgeoning this song to within an inch of its life with noise and feedback. It emerged beaten, bruised, but ultimately with the tune intact, if nothing else.

No wonder the Stone Roses nicked it for “Made of Stone”.

Download my version of Velocity Girl (3 MB) – I take no responsibility for hearing damage caused by this recording…