Biography

Essentially a one-hit-wonder with an interesting backstory, England's Cornershop have to be the only multi-ethnic indie-pop band to score a hit single on both sides of the pond by paying tribute to the Bollywood film industry. 1998's "Brimful of Asha"--a jubilant mash-up (thanks to a splendid Fatboy Slim remix) of Indian sitar, dance-pop, hip-hop, and indie rock--is undoubtedly the band's biggest contribution to pop music. Cornershop, however, will also be remembered (particularly in the U.K.) for the hullabaloo they created when the group publicly challenged Morrissey over some rather suspect remarks the singer made during his mid-'90s flirtations with neo-Fascism.

Top Tracks

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• 6 A.m. Jullandar Shere

• Born Disco/died Heavy Metal

• Brimful Of Asha

• Call All Destroyer

• Double Decker Eyelashes

• England's Dreaming

• Good To Be On The Road Back Home

• Jason Donovan/tessa Sanderson

• Lessons Learned From Rocky I To Rocky Iii

• My Dancing Days Are Done

• Sleep On The Left Side

• Staging The Plaguing Of The Raised Platform

• The 911 Curry

• The London Radar

• United Provinces Of India

Discography

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• Cornershop and the Double-O Groove Of

  Ample Play

  2011

• Judy Sucks a Lemon for Breakfast

  Ample Play / Ample Play Recordings

  2009

• Handcream for a Generation

  V2 Records

  2002

• Hold on It Hurts

  Merge

  1995

• Woman's Gotta Have It

  Warner Alliance / Luaka Bop/Warner Bros.

  1995