Recommend 4 albums from the 90s

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The Leila album mentioned is a great shout, as would be any 90s album by Björk or PJ Harvey.

4 other personal favourites:

Six By Seven - The Things We Make
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The Boo Radleys - Giant Steps

Dirty Three - Ocean Songs
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Pet Shop Boys - Behaviour

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4 less celebrated 90s albums that I love

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Swervedriver -Mezcal Head
Ride-Going Blank Again
Teenage Fanclub-Songs from Northern Britain
Charlatans- The Charlatans

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Great record. Getting the reissue treatment later this year…

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Rugged like Rwanda!

Weird - never think of this as a 90s album. So ahead of its time.

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4 I’ve been playing recently.

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Swirlies - best MBV / SY crossover you haven’t heard, but way better than that
Biosphere - best ambient techno album of the 90s, great samples
New Kingdom - absolutely awesome fuzzy skate hip hop
Bowery Electric - drone with fuzzy beats

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Various - Sub Base For Your Face LP

Yaaassssssss

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Noticed Nosaj from New Kingdom popping up on an Armand Hammer album recently.

Love that 6x7 album, but my cassette version has a different version of For You (with a better opening) than the CD version and I can’t track down the cassette version as an mp3.

Yes, it’s frustrating that he pops up but that they didn’t record anything else - that said, the two albums they did record were fairly distinct styles (different in each case) and it’s hard to imagine them beating them without going more avant garde.

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Several of my favourites have already been mentioned (Prolapse, Madder Rose, Blue Aeroplanes, Ultra Vivid Scene), so here are four that have not yet been mentioned:

Drugstore
Mazzy Star
Aztec Camera
Laika

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*The Black Dog - Spanners

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Is it the single version of For You that’s on streaming services? If you wanted to buy an mp3 you could send Chris a message via Bandcamp to see if he’d stick it up there.

Welcome to my Dream - MC 900 ft Jesus.
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A wierdo white guy hip-hop storytelling joint (as we used to say in the 90s).

The Sundays -Blind.

Almost as good as the “other” one.

Paull Kelly - Hidden Things
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Bit of a cheat since it sort of a compilation, but worth it for “When I first met your ma” alone. This song will make you cry. Aussie’s best songwriter, whos yet to disappear up his own ass like Nick Cave long ago.

Ween - The Mollusk
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Undescribable. Like 10 different bands taking the piss but in a good way.

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I saw Prolapse quite a few times back in the day

Standing right in front them doing ‘Tina this is Matthew Stone’ downstairs at Neal’s Yard Rough Trade, was quite a trip




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Absolutely love the Wade album. I bought it because of the American Music Club and Red House Painters connection. Idaho are similarly amazing although Jeff Martin has gone quiet, I think he’s doing a lot of soundtrack work.

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Me too. Thought I was the only person that owned a copy :slight_smile: I saw Idaho once, around the time of year after year (as a 4 piece I think) and they were brilliant.

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