Skunk Anansie really did come roaring out of the traps in the mid-90s. The rock quartet formed in 1994 and played their first ever show in March of that year. They made such a startling impact that by September the following year, they already had a Top Ten album under their belt in snarling debut Paranoid & Sunburnt. They were only just getting started, though.
Everything went to the next level at the beginning of 1996 as the band released Weak as a single. One of the record’s standout tracks, it embodied one of the big reasons behind the band blowing up so big. Yes, it had a searing, crunching riff, a pummelling groove in its engine room and a diamond of a chorus, the band already masters at balancing barbed rock and ear-worming melodicism.
