Month: June 2000

Having thought about it carefully, I have decided that lists like “the best albums of the 90s” are mildly pointless (if endlessly diverting). But that doesn’t matter surely? They are interesting exercises, and so without apology or explanation here is an extremely long list of names – which frankly is easier than a proper post about “World Hunger” or “Macs Versus PCs (Which One Will I Buy?)”. I call this phallogocentric/anal classification: “My 100 Favourite Albums Ever”:

1. Belle and Sebastian – Tigermilk
2. Tricky – Maxinquaye
3. David Bowie – Hunky Dory
4. Moby – Play
5. The Smiths – Strangeways Here We Come
6. PJ Harvey – To Bring You My Love
7. Morrissey – Bona Drag
8. Pixies – Surfer Rosa
9. Belly – Star
10. Pixies – Doolittle
11. Pixies – Bossanova
12. Portishead – Dummy
13. The Bangles – Different Light
14. Jeff Buckley – Grace
15. Kristin Hersh – Hips and Makers
16. Elastica – Elastica
17. The Beatles – Abbey Road
18. Pixies – Trompe Le Monde
19. Beck – Mutations
20. David Bowie – Heroes
21. Morcheeba – Big Calm
22. Madonna – Ray of Light
23. Julian Cope – Floored Genius (The Best Of)
24. Leonard Cohen – The Future
25. The Breeders – Pod
26. Hole – Live Through This
27. Nirvana – Unplugged in New York
28. Eg and Alice – 24 Years of Hunger
29. Air – Moon Safari
30. Eurythmics – Savage
31. Leonard Cohen – I’m Your Man
32. Tracy Chapman – Tracy Chapman
33. Suzanne Vega – 99.9F
34. Throwing Muses – The Real Ramona
35. The Smiths – Meat is Murder
36. Depeche Mode – Violator
37. Violent Femmes – Violent Femmes
38. Sean Lennon – Into the Sun
39. Beck – Midnite Vultures
40. The Cardigans – Gran Turismo
41. Jeff Buckley – Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk
42. Fight Club – Sound Track
43. Frank Black – Frank Black
44. Morrissey – Viva Hate
45. Morrissey – Vauxhall and I
46. Radiohead – The Bends
47. The Stone Roses – The Stone Roses
48. Paul Simon – Graceland
49. Rolling Stones – Hot Rocks
50. Nirvana – In Utero
51. Drugstore – White Magic For Lovers
52. Mazzy Star – She Hangs Brightly
53. Pixies – at the BBC
54. The Bangles – Everything
55. Curve – Doppelganger
56. Nirvana – Nevermind
57. Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong – Ella and Louis Again
58. Sneaker Pimps – Becoming X
59. The Breeders – Last Splash
60. David Bowie – Ziggy Stardust
61. Leftfield – Leftism
62. Radiohead – OK Computer
63. David Bowie – Diamond Dogs
64. Juliana Hatfield – Hey Babe
65. Sly and the Family Stone – Best Of
66. Out of Sight – Soundtrack
67. The Smiths – The Queen is Dead
68. The Rebirth of Cool – Phive
69. The Smiths – Hatful of Hollow
70. David Arnold – The James Bond Project
71. The Smiths – The Smiths
72. Fat Boy Slim – You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby
73. South Park – Bigger Longer Uncut – Soundtrack
74. Leonard Cohen – Various Positions
75. Reservoir Dogs – Soundtrack
76. The Smiths – The World Won’t Listen
77. Jeff Buckley – Mystery White Boy
78. Throwing Muses – University
79. Blur – Modern Life is Rubbish
80. Cocteau Twins – Heaven or Las Vegas
81. Afghan Whigs – Black Love
82. David Bowie – Station to Station
83. Blur – Parklife
84. Morcheeba – Who Can You Trust?
85. Suede – Coming Up
86. Eels – Beautiful Freak
87. Julian Cope – Peggy Suicide
88. Morrissey – Kill Uncle
89. Super Furry Animals – Guerrilla
90. Filth and the Fury – Soundtrack
91. Cowboy Junkies – The Caution Horses
92. Suede – Suede
93. Primal Scream – Exterminator
94. Placebo – Placebo
95. Blondie – The Best of Blondie
96. David Bowie – The Man Who Sold The World
97. Belle and Sebastian – Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant
98. Bjork – Homogenic
99. Belle and Sebastian – If You’re Feeling Sinister
100. Beck – Odelay