![]() | O.K Computer by Radiohead
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.69 THE masterpiece that is frequently referred to as "the best album ever made", Even if it's still debatable, here's a CD with a monumental grip, timeless quality and indefatigable power.
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![]() | Nevermind by Nirvana
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.01 90-s without Nirvana would have been completely different.Crushing angst here meets unforgettable arrangements, true sincerity meets critical and commercial acclaim.Generation-defining record,no less.
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![]() | Blue Lines by Massive Attack
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.43 OK, had it only included 'Unfinished Sympathy', it would still be up here.Soulful and menacing (check 'Safe From Harm'),concinnous and absolutely unforgettable in each song. Must have, very obviously.
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![]() | The Boatman's Call by Nick Cave
Buy new: £8.98 / Used from: £4.04 Nick Cave can be very different music-wise indeed, but here he struck real gold. What a poetry! What an intimate (as if he sings to you directly) delivery! He recorded more, but never bettered this.
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![]() | In Sides by Orbital
Buy new: £10.48 / Used from: £7.99 If the term "prog-electronica" frightens you,then here's a cure for your fears. This is stretched out, but effective with every minute -an ingenious,yet eurhythmic masterpiece for dancefloors' haters.
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![]() | The Holy Bible by Manic Street Preachers
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.50 An equivalent of harsh, aggressive, no-compomise-esque musical beating by those who seemed to be nice fellas playing stadium rock. Not an album. A grandiose monument that still casts a long shadow.
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![]() | Ray of Light by Madonna
Buy new: £9.98 / Used from: £0.24 When Madonna is good, she's peerless. An album that instantly became a classic: Queen of Pop, having misspent most of the 90-s, was reborn as the force capable of eclipsing any (and every) other star.
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![]() | Homework by Daft Punk
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.22 So you'd say where's The Fat Of The Land?Well, IMHO this is way better a dance album,which a)is not overplayed to death;b)it's fun fun fun.Exceptional debut,still sounding fresh and excessively joyful
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![]() | Urban Hymns by The Verve
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.44 What started as Ashcroft's solo album ended up the best disc The Verve released.The songs resonated as if they were god-sent,the hits had bigger choruses,than stadiums,the band stood in all its glory.
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![]() | Automatic for the People by REM
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £0.64 OK,so Kurt Cobain listened to it before his suicide,but,hey,everybody hurts sometimes.R.E.M. at their most straightforward,melodic & touching.The band's last chef-d'oeuvre so far,however hard they try
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![]() | Attack Of The Grey Lantern by Mansun
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.45 Concept albums were rare beasts in the 90-s,especially those who reached upper levels of charts,so its presence here is well deserved.Cult status preceded/followed,yet its accessibility is undisputed.
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![]() | Very by Pet Shop Boys
Buy new: £10.98 / Used from: £3.45 Refined pop-music from the duo who once took an active part in shaping its contemporary form. Their last great record until today, but, hey, it's not over /not over /not over /yet :)
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![]() | Different Class by Pulp
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.94 Their road to glory was long & winding one,but once Pulp arrived they did so with all bombast,a bulk of nation-shaking hits & a frontman to cling to.Here Pulp sounded intelligible,but not compomised.
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![]() | 76.14 by Global Communication
Buy new: £8.98 / Used from: £7.00 This isn't a great ambient album,as many say.Nor it's a wallpaper music that features more sonic textures than is routinely used in genre.Rather it's a stunning landmark in its own kind.Beware.
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![]() | Jagged Little Pill by Alanis Morissette
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.30 A powerful woman with issues.Craggy lyrics & in your face,don't give a f**k attitude.Sells millions and every single copy is still occasionally played as kind of psychoterapeutical seance.Still helps
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![]() | Dog Man Star by Suede
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £2.45 Debut was near perfect,yet this was the weightiest, most tendinous CD Suede ever produced.The songs,only New Generation aside,ooze yearning,urban desperation & bleak romanticism.Creative peak, a must.
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![]() | White On Blonde by Texas
Buy new: £4.47 / Used from: £0.01 A perfect adult-pop record,which found Texas reborn genre-wise and at its(since long gone)peak.Faultless tunes carried rather significant and sincere emotional weight & left a big mark on this decade.
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![]() | August And Everything After by Counting Crows
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.92 FM-rock, you say? Well, look a little further than Mr.Jones,and you'll find drumly,yet hugely grasping record that vagely recalls,for instance, Springsteen, but creates its own unique world. Timeless.
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![]() | The Soft Bulletin by Flaming Lips
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £2.49 Weird,but crushing melodic pop from former acid rockers/one MTV-hit wonders?Of such power,self-confidence and at full throttle of imagination? Hell,yes.Not only great - genius on every possible level.
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![]() | Endtroducing..... by DJ Shadow
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.54 Samples.Lots of them.Yet,put together, they sound not only organic, but almightily miraculous.There wasn't a record so unique back then,although come 21 century The Avalanches will prolong its legacy,
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![]() | Grace (New Version) by Jeff Buckley
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £4.49 Was there at any time in history anyone so incredibly talented,with such a thrilling voice and improbable delivery?This is an album that obliges to be learnt by heart.He died -his soul still blossoms.
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![]() | Definitely Maybe by Oasis
Buy new: £3.98 / Used from: £2.31 Quintessential britpop album that entered music history with grandiosity of The Beatles or The Velvets.Working class anthems aimed at mass audience worked as no-holds-barred bombs.Live forever indeed.
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![]() | Parklife by Blur
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £0.50 This is often perceived as britpop too,yet Blur gazed beyond the zeitgeist & into brits' mentality with all traits(often self-exluding) associated with it.An observation-pop at its finest and correct.
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![]() | Moon Safari by Air
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.29 A chill out CD, you say, you gotta be kidding?! No, I'm not. It's a rare beast indeed - smooth and excessively pleasant, but solid at core and elaborately recorded.Relaxing of soul rarely gets better.
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![]() | Loveless by My Bloody Valentine
Buy used from: £4.50 The only shoegazing album you'll ever need in your collection impresses with amplitudinous studio trickery(oh,boy,how rich & multilevel everything sounds here) & an iron grasp of such songs as Soon.
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