{"id":363899,"date":"2025-10-25T08:15:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T08:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/article.php?article_id=2169332"},"modified":"2025-10-25T08:15:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T08:15:50","slug":"off-topic-a-brilliant-podcast-about-90s-pop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/off-topic-a-brilliant-podcast-about-90s-pop\/","title":{"rendered":"Off Topic: A brilliant podcast about 90s pop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/off-topic-a-brilliant-podcast-about-90s-pop.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Off Topic is a weekly column, exclusive to premium subscribers, in which the Eurogamer team make recommendations and delve into subjects that have caught their eye outside of gaming.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\nWant to hear my origin story? Or part of it, anyway. At university in York in the 90s, I wrote for Vision, one of the two student newspapers &#8211; the big, award-winning, sort-of-upmarket, would-be Guardian one. It had a scrappier, punchier rival called Nouse.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-09-28-off-topic-a-brilliant-podcast-about-90s-pop\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-09-28-off-topic-a-brilliant-podcast-about-90s-pop\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Off Topic is a weekly column, exclusive to premium subscribers, in which the Eurogamer team make recommendations and delve into subjects that have caught their eye outside of gaming. Want to hear my origin story? Or part of it, anyway. At university in York in the 90s, I wrote for Vision, one of the two student newspapers &#8211; the big, award-winning, sort-of-upmarket, would-be Guardian one. It had a scrappier, punchier rival called Nouse. 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