The Verve - Urban Hymns

It's the Verve with this absolutely brilliant album which brings back happy memories of mad, mad days when I was old enough to know better and young enough not to care.

Blinding tune after blinding tune make this an absolute classic British intelligent pop/indie album

Tedious music nerds always bang on about their earlier albums being better, they are so, so, so fkn wrong.

This album is fkn genuis, now get the fck on it and ennnnnnnjjjjjjjjjoyy

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Happy Mondays - Pills Thrill and Bellyaches

Its the Happy Mondays

Its Pills Thrill and Bellyaches

Its fkn Brilliant

My favourite album of the era, rougher round the edges than the Stone Roses and better for it. Soooooooooooofknperbbbbbbbbbbbb.

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Enfknjoy

The Golden Horde - The Golden Horde

This is a great album from the Irish indie garage punksters.

I first came across these in the eighties where they were expected to be the next big thing, which never happened. If they had been around ten years later things would have been very differant.

They have left a legacy of great, great music for us to enjoy including this album from the early nineties.

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Rocket from the Crypt - Scream Dracula Scream

1000000000 mph rock "n"roll with a fair dollop of punk "n" garage in the mix somewhere.

Great album that sound tracked part of my life.

If you like the sound of it you know what to do

Enjoy

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Orbital - Insides

Following a really good, uplifting festival moment with this band I came to the conclusion they were the best musical experience in the world ever, ever.

Once my head straightened itself out (ish) I realised that, perhaps, this was an overstatement.

I then bought this, their fourth album. It is great, slightly more chilled out than their first album and a masterpiece, fully deserving of all the praised heaped upon it. Enjoy.

Tricky - Maxinaque

I first heard this album, before it won all its well deserved awards, in some strange house I had ended up in after one very f#cked up night.

Later on during the day I had to go and buy it, just to see if it was as amazing as I remembered. It was.

Bristols finest produced a moody, downtempo, trip hop that is so intense it will blow your mind. Enjoy

David Holmes - Let's get killed

This album released in the late 90's is draw droppingly good.

Mixing in New york street sounds with mellow dub influenced, then funky then almost techno sounds to produce this fantastic album.

In a completely differant league to his contempories.

sooooperb stuff.

Mad 3 - God Fuzzer

This collection of 4 singles and 3 EPs released (94-99) really shows what this Japanese band can do. As always the vast majority are instrumentals. If you've not come across them before what you've got is a mixture of ingredients; 2 parts 60's garage, 3 parts Link Ray, a dash of motorhead, 2 splashes of the meteors, a twist of surf and a whole host of Mad 3, it all makes for a great sound.

If you get any of the ingrediants give them a go, you will not regret it.

Note to self: Link Wray.

Black Grape - It's great when you are straight

Great album. Once you've listened go and buy it. The amazon description says it better than me "funk-splattered day-glo rap-rockers Black Grape". I saw them live at some tribal thingy just before my night got very messy and they blew the tent away. I believe this was Suan Ryder at his very best, Happy Mondays included. The humour, cynicism and madness in the lyrics ally with great beats. Even theCatholic church hated it. Greaaaaaaaaaaaat stuff.