 | The Magnetic Fields: 69 Love Songs by Magnetic Fields
Buy used from: £5.03 69 love songs that can make you laugh, cry, and realise just how ridiculous and head-spinning falling in and out of love can be.
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 | Loveless by My Bloody Valentine
Buy used from: £4.65 Once you acclimatise to the sheer sensurround attack of pure guitar scree and noise Loveless is as hypnotic and human as your very heart. Truly innovative.
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 | Suede by Suede
Buy new: £5.78 / Used from: £2.47 Showing more imagination and daring than most could in a lifetime, Suede re-introduced drama, excitement, and sex to the moribund and stale early 90s.
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 | Nowhere by Ride
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £5.30 As desolate and as beautiful as the cover, Nowhere is a maelstrom of noise and a truly great English Psychedelic record. Failure has never sounded so beautiful.
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 | Parklife by Blur
Buy new: £3.98 / Used from: £0.47 Equal parts Gary Numan and Ray Davies, Park-Life was both a call to arms and an unflinching, critical look at mid 90s Britain.
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 | Further by Flying Saucer Attack
Buy used from: £10.95 A journey into the heart of noise. Unashamedly lo-fi, Further's eerie soundscapes give way to nose-bleed feedback and sturm und drang guitar onslaughts. A lost classic from the 90s.
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 | Beat by Bowery Electric
Buy new: £7.79 / Used from: £2.91 Beat saw the New York duo embrace technology, marrying drum loops to their honeyed space rock. It's ceaseless repetition never wanes but somnambulantly drifts and drifts.
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 | This Is Our Music by Galaxie 500
Buy used from: £8.94 Galaxie 500's last record was their finest hour, achingly beautiful, Galaxie's slow-core is a masterpiece in understatement.
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 | Modern Life Is Rubbish by Blur
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.98 Long seen as a return to the eccentricities of their previous band - Seymour, and the first in the bands Brit - Life trilogy.
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 | Some Friendly by The Charlatans
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.73 Heavily influenced by The Stone Roses, Some Friendly also added The Prisoners, Julian Cope, and Echo & the Bunnymen to the mix creating a vibrant and sussed encapulsation of Madchester before it died.
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 | The Less You Have, The More You Are by Metrotone
Buy used from: £6.96 At times ambient (even featuring Gregorian-like chants!) The less you have...was a brilliant evocation of the dream pop pioneered by AR Kane and early Primal Scream.
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 | Chorus by Flying Saucer Attack
Buy used from: £7.48 Bridging the gap between My Bloody Valentine and Nick Drake, Chorus (a compilation of Peel sessions and singles released around 94-95) saw FSA set the controls for the heart of the sun.
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 | Just For A Day by Slowdive
At times both serene and tragic, Just for a Day's mixture of ambience and hush-inducing soundscapes crystallises perfection to a glistening pin-prick.
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 | Going Blank Again by Ride
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £5.44 Ride's last great album, sees them experiment with samplers and synths, as well as their (by now) well established guitar overload.
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 | Everything Must Go by Manic Street Preachers
Buy new: £4.88 / Used from: £0.01 As heroic and intellectual as ever (with at least five of the songs written by Richey) Everything Must Go saw the Manics finally and deservedly reach mainstream appeal.
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 | Different Class by Pulp
Buy new: £3.48 / Used from: £0.71 During the 70s we had David Bowie, the 80s Morrissey, and in the 90s it was Jarvis who was typecast as the corruptor of our nations youth. With Different Class being the Pulp manifesto writ large.
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 | Automatic for the People by R.E.M.
Buy new: £5.78 / Used from: £0.01 Released a year after Out of Time, Stipe fits snuggly into Walt Whitman's boots. Each cut drenched in that resigned ennui they do so well.
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 | Screamadelica by Primal Scream
Buy used from: £1.48 A landmark release for the Scream that saw them up there with the best proving there was more to them than Andy Weatherall. Screamadelica shines like stars.
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 | Semtex by Third Eye Foundation
The title is no mistake, the music contained herein is just as devastating and as bone-crunchingly despairing as the destruction it leaves in it's wake, Semtex terrorises.
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 | Whirlpool by Chapterhouse
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £15.00 From the first bucolic rush of 'Breather' Whirlpool blazes past Heaven's Gate leaving behind a trail of flash and ticker-tape. For doomed Romantics and heavenly cherubim.
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 | The Holy Bible by Manic Street Preachers
Buy new: £4.78 / Used from: £1.16 The Holy Bible is a sprawling mess as it babbles uncontrollably and hysterically. The Holy Bible is like no other album before it. It's genius.
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 | The Boy With The Arab Strap by Belle & Sebastian
Buy used from: £3.49 Belle & Sebastian were the revenge of the C86 cuties, and to be honest, the rest of us had it coming. Heart-breakingly beautiful in places and as comforting as a hug from a dear friend.
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 | Distance by Flying Saucer Attack
Buy used from: £7.37 Distance demonstrated FSA's delicate balance between lo-fi ambience and anarchic noise pop. More pastoral than the Valentines previous excursions, Distance was a balm for the senses.
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 | Dog Man Star by Suede
Buy new: £5.78 / Used from: £2.00 Pornographic, tragic, and black and white, some of it's more gorgeous moments are when mellow out and indulge their inner Andrew Lloyd Webber e.g. (Black and Blue, The 2 of Us, and Still Life).
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 | Souvlaki by Slowdive
More exploratory than the debut with the band experimenting with ambient, dub, and some really lovely acoustic driven laments. Really, really good.
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