 | Loveless by My Bloody Valentine
Buy used from: £8.98 The most innovative guitar album of the decade & one that almost sent Creation Records to the cleaners! Can't see this ever being topped - feedback to the future indeed!
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 | Screamadelica by Primal Scream
Buy new: £2.98 / Used from: £0.01 After two false starts, the Scream come good (and a lot more) with a little help from Andrew Weatherall, the Orb & their 60's - 70's record collections! One of the most defining album covers too!
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 | Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space by Spiritualized
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £11.53 Or Hearts of Darkness: the soundtrack! Delayed for 2 years, Jason Pierce goes big-budget with results that eclipse the ghost of Spacemen 3!
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 | Black Love by The Afghan Whigs
Buy new: £10.29 / Used from: £1.90 Highlight of the Whigs back catalogue - THE cult band of the 90's! Songs about f**king & redemption that can't help but get under your skin!
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 | A Northern Soul by The Verve
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £0.01 With a few exceptions, 'Urban Hymns' was bloated & has dated badly! This is the Verve at their psychedelic & heartbreaking best with "Mad" Richard Ascroft at the height of his powers!
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 | Mark Hollis by Mark Hollis
Buy new: £3.48 / Used from: £2.98 The one & (probably) only solo LP by the former Talk Talk man sits among the decades true originals! 8 stripped-down mini-masterpieces of the quiet-is-the-new-loud variety!
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 | Endtroducing..... by DJ Shadow
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.42 Any album that samples John Carpenter's 'Prince of Darkness' is alright by me - that it's one of the greatest ever hip-hop records is a bonus!
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 | Blue Lines by Massive Attack
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.69 Like Soul II Soul in the mid-80's, Massive Attack mixed soul, reggae & UK hip-hop but with a darker, cinematic scope! Trip-hop was born, spawning the likes of Tricky & Nicolette...
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 | Let No One Live Rent Free in Your Head by Nicolette
Buy used from: £1.49 ...Who takes the genre to a whole new level on this largely-forgotten gem that will still startle in 100 years!
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 | Nowhere by Ride
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £5.44 Shoegaze 101! However, amidst the distortion & brutal drumming lie some beautiful songs, particularly 'Vapour Trail'! Mark Gardener's solo career is also worth investigating!
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 | Deserter's Songs by Mercury Rev
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.24 Mercury Rev ditch their noisier beginnings for lush Disney-esque strings & cosmic Americana, soon to be imitated by the Flaming Lips & Grandaddy!
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 | Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches by Happy Mondays
Buy new: £10.79 / Used from: £2.97 Everything positive about Madchester & the Hacienda condensed into 43 grubby minutes! Also, the only good thing to involve one Paul Oakenfold!
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 | It's Great When You're Straight.... Yeah! by Black Grape
Buy new: £6.08 / Used from: £0.24 1995: Sean Ryder & Bez back from the dead! Contrary to popular opinion, proof that under the right circumstances the drugs DO work!
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 | The Contino Sessions by Death in Vegas
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.01 Gothic electronica, heavy basslines & pre-millienial paranoia from London duo featuring an array of strong guest appearances!
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 | Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld by The Orb
Buy new: £10.98 / Used from: £2.49 Double album of bizarre samples & spaced-out ambience forged with gentler hip-hop & house beats! Dance music with a sense of humour!
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 | Chill Out by The KLF
Buy used from: £18.98 Horrible title, but this ambient classic is a million miles away from those endless compilation cd's & on a par with Eno's greatest work! Bring back the days of pre-sample clearance!
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 | Dust by Screaming Trees
Buy new: £4.68 / Used from: £2.24 Mark Lanegan's finest hour & one of the few records to bear the "grunge" tag worth bothering with! Apparently, he decked Liam Gallagher once - says it all really!
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 | Let's Get Killed by David Holmes
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.05 If you walk around the seedier parts of New York at night, armed with a DAT recorder, the freaks come out of their shells!
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 | Floored by Pusherman
Buy used from: £1.10 If Kevin Shields joined Oasis in their prime it would result in this glorious carnage! Deserves to be re-discovered!
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 | Infernal Love by Therapy?
Buy new: £7.79 / Used from: £1.54 A sombre departure from 'Troublegum'! Hard-going at times (especially 'Diane') but Andy Cairns damning lyrics coupled with David Holmes atmospheric "insanity" makes for a compelling listen!
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 | Morning Dove White by One Dove
Buy used from: £4.92 Comparable to 'Screamadelica' due to Weatherall's production, this stands on it's own thanks to Dot Allison's disctinctly Scottish vocals!
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 | Haunted Dancehall by The Sabres of Paradise
Buy new: £8.28 / Used from: £4.98 Dub & techno collide on narcotic ode to olde London town! Should be renamed Jack the Ripper: the audio diaries!
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 | How to Operate with a Blown Mind by Lo-Fidelity Allstars
Buy new: £7.79 / Used from: £5.78 Thankfully, there's no traces here of the blasphemous big-beat sound associated with it's label. This is intoxicating electronica for both parties & come-downs!
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 | Welcome to Sky Valley by Kyuss
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £3.94 The jewel in the stoner rock crown & proof that the sweltering Californa desert (and a lot of dope) gets the creative juices flowing!
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 | Audioweb by Audioweb
Buy used from: £0.58 When Ian Brown called time on the Stone Roses, he took out an ad in NME, saying he was "gonna kick back & enjoy the new Audioweb album." Wise man!
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