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BBC R2 - Your Ultimate 90s Album Revealed!

defined a bit of my nineties.

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The KLF ‎– The White Room
Label:
KLF Communications ‎– JAMS CD006
Format:
CD, Album
Country:
UK
Released:
04 Mar 1991
 
Empty house....Ten minute version of Uncertain Smile back to back with Giant ... LOUD...About as good as it gets for me

There’s some great stuff around before and after, but the 80’s and 90’s make up vast majority of my music choices.

it’s definitely as good as it gets !!!
 
I'd never heard of The Blue Aeroplanes before.

I'm currently listening to this album and enjoying it a lot:

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BAs are my all time favourite cult band and one of the best live bands ever. They are still going intermittently, it's been a while since the last album "Welcome Stranger" (which is very good) there is supposed to be a new album "soon" but it's been "soon" for a long time now! See https://www.theblueaeroplanes.com/
"Beatsongs" is at least as good as "Swagger".
 
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Seconded.

Beatsongs is one of my favourite albums by any artist. The deluxe versions are worth tracking down if you can find them. Some of the tracks left off albums (such as Misfiring) were belters.

I well remember seeing them at Glastonbury in 1992. They were great and the chiming guitars sounded just fantastic outdoors. On Aeroplane Blues especially so.
 
Off the top of my head (on top of those already mentioned...)

Teenage Fanclub - Songs From Northern Britain
Sugar - Copper Blue
Underworld - Second Toughest in the Infants
Pavement - Crooked Rain
Lemonheads - Shame About Ray
Mazzy Star - So Tonight
Faith No More - Angel Dust
Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
Slowdive - Souvlaki
Mega City Four - Sebastopol Road

Oh, and I'd take The Bends over OK Computer any day as a quintessential 90s album. For a few years it seemed to be played everywhere.
 
Off the top of my head (on top of those already mentioned...)

Teenage Fanclub - Songs From Northern Britain
Sugar - Copper Blue
Underworld - Second Toughest in the Infants
Pavement - Crooked Rain
Lemonheads - Shame About Ray
Mazzy Star - So Tonight
Faith No More - Angel Dust
Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
Slowdive - Souvlaki
Mega City Four - Sebastopol Road

Oh, and I'd take The Bends over OK Computer any day as a quintessential 90s album. For a few years it seemed to be played everywhere.

That's a damn good list, one or two on there I'd missed
 
Depeche Mode - Violator - best synth album of all time.
Radiohead - OK computer.
Natalie Merchant - Tigerlilly - her best solo effort
Weller - Wild Wood - his best solo effort
Verve - Urban Hymns - enjoyed this at the time
Kula Shaker K - enjoyed this at the time
Green Day - Dookie - if I had to pick a 90s post punk I think this beats Californication.
Black Crowes - Southern Harmony & Amorica - two classics .
U2 Achtung Baby - great reinvention album

Probably others, but got to get back to work.
 


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