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| 141. | David Bowie |
| Ziggy Stardust |
| 1972 |
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At the beginning of the 70's Bowie was not only changing styles as usual,
he was changing them pretty fast. So, how to buy glam-rock? A T-Rex best-of
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| 142. | Simon & Garfunkel |
| Sounds Of Silence |
| 1966 |
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Their later releases had better singular songs (Mrs. Robinson, The Boxer) but this one works
better as a whole. And it sees Paul Simon peaking as a songwriter on the forever magnificent
'Katy's Song'.
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| 143. | Television |
| Marquee Moon |
| 1977 |
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At first listen it sounds like your average New Wave record. It's the way they make guitar solos
sound cool that makes the difference eventually.
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| 144. | Tindersticks |
| Curtains |
| 1997 Review |
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After two quintessentially English albums this one sounds as if it was recorded
in the depth of the Mexican dessert amidst snakes and shoot-outs. Not as good as the real
Ennio Morricone but better than most of his imitators.
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| 145. | London Grammar |
| If You Wait |
| 2013 |
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One of the few modern pop acts which will still be favoured in decades to come. Hey, they even could
afford to blur the face of their immaculately pretty singer on the album cover.
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| 146. | Mogwai |
| Mogwai Young Team |
| 1997 Review |
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Why the Scottish, of all people, were so fond of playing post-rock is not known. After all,
you can't get proper quiet-loud dynamics with bagpipes, can you? Never mind, great stuff, this.
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| 147. | DJ Shadow |
| Endtroducing ... |
| 1996 Review |
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This will be remembered for being the last record in the history of popular music for which adjectives
such as groundbreaking and seminal could be used with justification. Innovate don't imitate as they
said back then.
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| 148. | Elastica |
| Elastica |
| 1995 Review |
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This Britpop triumph was heralded by three great singles and the inevitably
resulting lawsuits. But interestingly nowadays the phrase 'sounds like
Elastica' is used far more often than 'sounds like Wire/Stranglers/etc.'.
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A bit of a cheat this one as it's in fact a compilation of their first two EPs.
But these eight songs could as well have acted as their debut proper. 90's indie music starts here.
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| 150. | Mojave 3 |
| Ask Me Tomorrow |
| 1995 Review |
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This couldn't have been released at a more inappropriate time. Although made in England
Britpop this certainly wasn't. And although being rather maudlin and introspective Trip Hop this
wasn't either. Perfectly out of time so to say.
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| 151. | Belle & Sebastian |
| Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant |
| 2000 |
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Although by far not as good as their first three immaculate albums this still has its fair share of
magic moments which their subsequent efforts sadly lacked. The decade had barely begun but the last
truly legendary band was already leaving the building.
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| 152. | The Sugarcubes |
| Life's Too Good |
| 1988 |
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Björk's finest half hour, don't let them tell you otherwise. A colourful kaleidoscope
of strange spoken word segments, weird trumpet solos, confusing lyrics and
on top of it all that inimitable, childlike voice.
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| 153. | Big Black |
| Atomizer |
| 1986 |
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Imagine how good these songs could have sounded if they had used real drums and normal guitar sounds. At this point nobody
would have guessed that 'produced by S. Albini' would become a trademark in the near future. Despite all those
objections a real hardcore classic.
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| 154. | Pavement |
| Crooked Rain Crooked Rain |
| 1994 Review |
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Obviously bored by the whole lo-fi movement they spawned they came up with this
confusing mix of grunge pop and country rock which surprisingly even contained some
(ironic ?) guitar solos. Extra points for dissing the bloody Pumpkins.
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| 155. | Lloyd Cole And The Commotions |
| Rattlesnakes |
| 1984 |
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In the years 1982/83 the album as an art form seemed close to extinction. This was after all
prevented by the phenomenal rise of The Smiths. But this young man should also
be applauded for his service in the war against the so called New Music.
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| 156. | Roxy Music |
| Roxy Music |
| 1972 |
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The first really great album by a British band. Effortlessly cool and ridiculously hedonistic.
And the (belated) inclusion of maybe the best debut single ever rounds this off perfectly.
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| 157. | The Cranberries |
| Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We |
| 1993 Review |
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This band got terribly unfashionable with their second album and rightly so. What a shame cause this
debut was a really lovely and astonishingly well produced indie guitar album. |
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| 158. | Camper Van Beethoven |
| Our Beloved Revo- lutionary Sweetheart |
| 1988 |
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Save for the Pixies American indie music of the 80s was rather melodically sparse and postpunkishly
abstract. But if you look beyond the well known bands you can find joyful and tuneful records like this.
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| 159. | Perfume Genius |
| Learning |
| 2010 |
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It takes a while for the listener to get accustomed to the way this album is almost painfully
underproduced and sloppily recorded. Until you realise that its extremely intense and
personal atmosphere could not be achieved in any other way.
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| 160. | The Streets |
| Original Pirate Material |
| 2002 |
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Where other Hip hop albums impress at first with a huge production but get a bit boring later on,
this one gets better and better. The flow or the words and rhymes is superb, the stories told
really amusing.
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