 | Voices From the New Music by Telstar Ponies
Buy used from: £1.17 Voices... was a walk on the wild side up the sheer face of madness and all the better for it. Here, the Ponies took their musical ambition to the max and really pushed the envelope OUT there.
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 | O.K Computer by Radiohead
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.00 Anxious and alienated, the horror and the horrified, OK Computer's world is both dehumanized and antiseptic. Is the modern world too much, according to this, the answers yes.
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 | Flying Saucer Attack by Flying Saucer Attack
Buy new: £11.69 / Used from: £9.95 The Bristol noisemeisters, who with this debut redefined the parameters of experimental guitar pop and signalled the move away from shoegazing towards post-rock.
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 | New Lands by Flying Saucer Attack
Buy used from: £5.75 The first FSA lp to feature Dave on his own is not without merit, Up in Her Eyes, The Whole Day Song, and The Sea are all worthy additions to the FSA canon.
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 | Blur by Blur
Buy new: £4.88 / Used from: £0.59 Far darker to what we had previously grown used to. Here, Damon dropped the third-person carictures and began to cast his gaze inwards, often making for uncomfortable listening.
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 | The Great Escape by Blur
Buy new: £4.88 / Used from: £0.46 The album that eventually saw them lose the Blur vs Oasis war. Who cares! More artier and cleverer than before with 'He Thought of Cars' easily being the best things they'd done in ages.
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 | If You're Feeling Sinister by Belle & Sebastian
Buy new: £8.98 / Used from: £3.68 After the raucousness of Brit-Pop, Belle & Sebastian came as a welcome relief. Subtle and intellectual, B&S knew how to write a good tune or two with few as affecting as this collection.
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 | Violator by Depeche Mode
Buy new: £7.98 With every electric pulse, Violator throbs with sexual perversion. Widescreen and panoramic, DM's night-vision inhabits a neon-lit world of seedy thrills that's both seductive and beautiful.
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 | Leisure by Blur
Buy new: £4.78 / Used from: £0.73 Proclaimed as the death of baggy by Damon on it's release, Blur's debut was odder than many expected, with it being influenced by Spacemen 3 and Dinosaur Jnr just as much as Madchester.
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 | His 'N' Hers by Pulp
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.37 Betraying a love of The Human League, Soft Cell, and Sparks, His 'n' Hers often felt like the sound of 70s futurism being beamed back into the 90s. Tawdry and very funny.
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 | The House of Love by The House Of Love
Buy new: £4.68 / Used from: £1.99 Released after Terry Bickers departure, HOL's romantic glow is an ocean of brilliant blues and tourquoise daze. Features the excellent album closer Se Dest.
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 | Generation Terrorists by Manic Street Preachers
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.07 MSP's debut burns with naked ambition and right-on political outrage proving once and for all the boys from Blackwood were undeniably 4 Real.
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 | Everything's Alright Forever by The Boo Radleys
Buy used from: £6.52 Sheets of white noise swirl round to give way to bursts of pure melody, often disorientating this blitz of pure guitar bliss is a shoegaze classic.
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 | The Comforts of Madness by Pale Saints
Buy used from: £24.91 The Comforts of Madness is the knock on heavens door. Claustrophobic and macabre, spinning maniacally and opaquely, the Saints muse is enough to tear the world in two.
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 | Songs of Faith and Devotion by Depeche Mode
Buy new: £12.19 / Used from: £2.53 Very much an album of extremes, whether musing on AIDS (Judas) or casting Gahan as some kind of scorned Greek god (Condemnation), this was DM's at their most subversive and ridiculous.
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 | 13 by Blur
Buy new: £4.78 / Used from: £0.18 Futuristic prog oddyssey into Damon's break-up with Justine Frischmann. Spacey and experimental featuring Tender, Coffee + TV, Mellow Song, and Trailer Park.
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 | Coming Up (European Release) by Suede
Buy new: £6.98 / Used from: £0.99 After Bernard quit in 94 a more punchier and punkier approach became apparent. Coming Up showed there was still plenty of fire to Brett & the boys.
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 | Giant Steps by The Boo Radleys
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.49 Where the Boo's announced their unique vision of futuro psychedelic pop madness. An album of both open-eyed optimism and some very painful confessions of the heart.
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 | Babe Rainbow by The House of Love
Buy used from: £7.36 Post-Bickers, Babe Rainbow displayed a more cool and considered band with some more brilliant songs to boot e.g. (The Girl with the Loneliest Eyes, You Don't Understand, Crush Me, and Feel).
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 | Get Lost by Magnetic Fields
Buy used from: £6.50 During the 90s Merritt was one of the few homosexual artists in indieland to be of any lasting consequence. With many of the songs recalling the classic melodies of Abba, Get Lost is a lost classic.
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 | Elastica by Elastica
Buy used from: £2.19 Cheekily nicking riffs from Wire, The Stranglers, and Blondie (as well as reintroducing the skinny tie) Elastica was a stark reminder of everything that was great about British pop.
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 | In the Space of a Few Minutes by Telstar Ponies
Buy used from: £2.48 Cerebral and dark, this is music that reels and recoils, referencing Sonic Youth, Kraut-rock, and Metallica. Like watching someone fall in slow motion it is both beautiful & terrifying.
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 | Spooky by Lush
Buy used from: £4.54 Despite leaving off the brilliant singles De-Luxe and Sweetness & Light, Lush's knack for writing great pop songs is at it's best here with For Love, Untogether, and Monochrome being classic examples.
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 | Mi Media Naranja by Labradford
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £3.99 Riders on the storm, Labradfords sombre meditations float in complete symmetry within space and time.
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 | Scenes from the South Island by Roy Montgomery
Buy new: £12.69 / Used from: £19.71 Serene and alien, often resembling the lost music of Atlantis, Scenes... is an uncompromising and rarefied treat.
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