AllMusic Loves 1996
Aug. 20, 2012
Looking back, 1996 appears to be a transitional year. Britpop had reached its peak -- all year long all around the world, Oasis ruled the charts with their '95 (What's the Story) Morning Glory -- but it was beginning to mature, as evidenced by the sweeping MOR punk of Manic Street Preachers' Everything Must Go, while American alt-rock was fracturing into what we now know as indie rock and big corporate post-grunge. But what may have been the true defining movement of '96 was the rise of electronica and, with it, electronic-informed post-rock. DJ Shadow released his dense sampladelic masterpiece Endtroducing…, and there was an avalanche of trip-hop, the sound inching into the mainstream via such hybrids as Beth Orton's Trailer Park, which itself was trumped by Everything But the Girl's full-on electronic Walking Wounded. And then there was the middle ground, the rockers who adopted electronic techniques: Beck's carnivalesque Odelay and Noel Gallagher singing psychedelia with the Chemical Brothers. Indie rock continued to get arty -- post-rock began to rise, Stereolab turned nearly ubiquitous with Emperor Tomato Ketchup -- and so did hip-hop, thanks to the various Wu-Tang breakout projects and Dr. Octagon, but the mainstream kicked up some of the greatest novelties of the '90s with Quad City DJs' "C'mon and Ride the Train," OMC's "How Bizarre," and Los del Rio's "Macerena," but nothing could touch the Spice Girls, who took Cool Brittania into the American mainstream in a way Blur could have only dreamed about. All in all, there were plenty of reasons to love 1996.
Stephen Thomas Erlewine [Spotify]
For some reason, 1996 always pales in my mind in comparison to 1995 -- probably because '95 gave us the holy Britpop trinity of Different Class, (What's the Story) Morning Glory, and The Great Escape, along with Maxinquaye, Wowee Zowee, and many others that are among my favorite albums. But 1996 was no slouch, either, and it's fair to say only a hair separates the first eight albums on my list. It was very difficult to whittle down both my albums and singles lists to a mere 20 entries and while the accompanying Spotify playlist gathers a bunch of the overlap, I've never felt so limited by its licensing restrictions before -- probably because both Ween's 12 Golden Country Greats and Sheryl Crow's self-titled album aren't available on the service (neither is "Natural One" nor "Return of the Mack," for those keeping score at home).
Sheryl Crow - Sheryl Crow
Weezer - Pinkerton
Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing...
Suede - Coming Up
Beck - Odelay
Ween - 12 Golden Country Greats
Fiona Apple - Tidal
Super Furry Animals - Fuzzy Logic
Manic Street Preachers - Everything Must Go
Tricky - Pre-Millennium Tension
Silver Jews - The Natural Bridge
Everything But the Girl - Walking Wounded
Lemonheads - Car Button Cloth
Beth Orton - Trailer Park
Ocean Colour Scene - Moseley Shoals
Cat Power - What Would the Community Think?
Belle and Sebastian - Tigermilk
Nearly God - Nearly God
Lyle Lovett - The Road to Ensenada
Stone Temple Pilots - "Big Bang Baby"
Luscious Jackson - "Naked Eye"
2Pac - "California Love"
Spice Girls - "Say You'll Be There"
The Chemical Brothers f/ Noel Gallagher - "Setting Sun"
Oasis - "Step Out"
Pavement - "Give It a Day"
Super Furry Animals - "The Man Don't Give a Fuck"
The Folk Implosion - "Natural One"
Spice Girls - "Wannabe"
Sneaker Pimps - "6 Underground"
The Charlatans - "One to Another"
Mark Morrison - "Return of the Mack"
Sleeper - "Sale of the Century"
Tiger - "The Race"
The Cardigans - "Lovefool"
Blackstreet - "No Diggity"
Butthole Surfers - "Pepper"
Los del Rio - "Macarena"
Republica - "Ready to Go"
John Bush
Jason Falkner - Jason Falkner Presents Author Unknown
Lamb - Lamb
Super Furry Animals - Fuzzy Logic
Plug - Drum'n'bass for Papa
Beck - Odelay
Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die
Squarepusher - Feed Me Weird Things
Underworld - Second Toughest in the Infants
Porter Ricks - Biokinetics
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing...
Don Byron - Bug Music
Richard Davies - There's Never Been a Crowd Like This
Belle and Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
Wilco - Being There
Ween - 12 Golden Country Greats
Dr. Octagon - Dr. Octagon
Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup
The Black Dog - Music for Adverts (and short films)
The Delta 72 - The R&B of Membership
Jedi Knights - New School Science
Jimi Tenor - "Outta Space"
The Divine Comedy - "Something for the Weekend"
The Cardigans - "Lovefool"
Beck - "Where It's At"
LFO - "Tied Up"
Lamb - "Cotton Wool"
Busta Rhymes - "Woo Hah!! Got You All in Check"
Camp Lo - "Luchini Aka (This Is It)"
Jeru the Damaja - "Scientifical Madness"
Daft Punk - "Musique"
Underworld - "Pearls Girl"
Studio Pressure - "Relics [Plaid Remix]"
Jega - "Phlax"
Boards of Canada - "Everything You Do Is a Balloon"
Cujo - "Traffic"
As One - "The Message in Herbie's Shirts"
Motorbass - "Ezio [Herbert Remix]"
Jake Slazenger - "Supafunk"
The High Llamas - "Sparkle Up"
Air - "Les Professionnels"
Jonathan Ball [Spotify]
Angelite/Huun-Huur-Tu - Fly, Fly My Sadness
Primal Scream, Irvine Welsh and On-U Sound - The Big Man and the Scream Team...
Brian Jonestown Massacre - Take It from the Man!
Lilys - Better Can't Make Your Life Better
The High Llamas - Hawaii
Brian Jonestown Massacre - Their Satanic Majesties' Second Request
Mansun - Attack of the Grey Lantern
Trainspotting
Electric Wizard - Come My Fanatics...
Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas
Black Crowes - Three Snakes and One Charm
Brian Jonestown Massacre - Thank God for Mental Illness
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing...
Bill Laswell & Pete Namlook - Psychonavigation, Vol. 2
Bill Laswell & Pete Namlook - Outland, Vol. 2
Combustible Edison - Schizophonic
Pete Namlook/Klaus Schulze/Bill Laswell - The Dark Side of the Moog 5
Cocteau Twins - Milk & Kisses
Flying Saucer Attack - Distant Station
Love & Rockets - Sweet F.A.
Ryuichi Sakamoto - 1996
Primal Scream, Irvine Welsh and On-U Sound - "Full Strength Fortified Dub"
Cocteau Twins - "Violaine"
Love & Rockets - "Sweet Lover Hangover"
Red House Painters - "All Mixed Up"
Soundgarden - "Burden in My Hand"
Honorable mention: Miles Davis and Gil Evans' The Complete Columbia Studio Recordings.
Chrysta Cherrie [Spotify]
I was gonna reflect on what 1996 meant to me, being in high school in the middle of a cultural wasteland and soaking up any/all of the music I could get my hands on, but with the publication of this AllMusic Loves happening in summer 2012 I shift focus to the present. My heart is heavy due to the passings of Bill Doss, Celso Chavez and Jason Noble, each of whom played important roles not just on some of my '96 album picks (with Olivia Tremor Control, Possum Dixon, and Rachel's, respectively) but also as entry points to music discovery that continue to resonate. Thank you for the music, guys.
The Boo Radleys - C'mon Kids
Brainiac - Hissing Prigs in Static Couture
Carlinhos Brown - Alfagamabetizado
Cat Power - What Would the Community Think?
The Delta 72 - The R&B of Membership
Fountains of Wayne - Fountains of Wayne
His Name Is Alive - Stars on ESP
Ida - I Know About You
Imperial Teen - Seasick
Jale - So Wound
The Make-Up - Destination: Love - Live! at Cold Rice
The Mr. T Experience - Love Is Dead
The Olivia Tremor Control - Music from the Unrealized Film Script, Dusk at Cubist Castle
Possum Dixon - Star Maps
Rachel's - The Sea and the Bells
Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup
Stone Temple Pilots - Tiny Music...Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop
Texas Is the Reason - Do You Know Who You Are?
Unwound - Repetition
David S. Ware - Dao
The Afghan Whigs - "Going to Town"
Ash - "Goldfinger"
Foxy Brown f/ Jay-Z - "I'll Be"
Cibo Matto - "Know Your Chicken"
The Kelley Deal 6000 - "Canyon"
Fugees - "Fu-Gee-La"
Komeda - "Rocket Plane (Music on the Moon)"
Lilys - "A Nanny in Manhattan"
Nada Surf - "Popular"
No Doubt - "Don't Speak"
Oasis - "Don't Look Back in Anger"
Busta Rhymes - "Woo Hah!! Got You All In Check"
Sleater-Kinney - "I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone"
Sloan - "The Good in Everyone"
Southern Culture on the Skids - "Camel Walk"
Soundgarden - "Pretty Noose"
Spacehog - "In the Meantime"
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - "2 Kindsa Love"
Superdrag - "Sucked Out"
White Town - "Your Woman"
Andy Kellman [Spotify]
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing...
Tricky - Pre-Millennium Tension
Claude Young - DJ-Kicks
Ghostface Killah - Ironman
Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt
Porter Ricks - Biokinetics
OutKast - ATLiens
Mobb Deep - Hell on Earth
Jeff Mills - Live at the Liquid Room, Tokyo
Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die
Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup
Nearly God - Nearly God
Underworld - Second Toughest in the Infants
Aaliyah - One in a Million
Maxwell - Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite
De La Soul - Stakes Is High
Mojave 3 - Ask Me Tomorrow
Labradford - Labradford
The Detroit Escalator Co. - Soundtrack (313)
Baader Meinhof - Baader Meinhof
OutKast - "Elevators (Me and You)"
DJ Shadow - "Midnight in a Perfect World"
De La Soul - "Stakes Is High"
Jay-Z - "Dead Presidents"
Roy Davis, Jr. - "Gabrielle [Live Garage]"
Moodymann - "Don't Be Misled!"
Underworld - "Pearl's Girl"
Burger/Ink - "Twelve Miles High"
Ginuwine - "Pony"
Aaliyah - "One in a Million"
Camp Lo - "Luchini (AKA This Is It)"
Everything But the Girl - "Walking Wounded"
Junior M.A.F.I.A. - "Get Money [Remix]"
Broadcast - "The Book Lovers"
Lil' Kim - "No Time"
Boymerang - "Still"
Mobb Deep - "Drop a Gem on 'Em"
Ghostface Killah - "Daytona 500"
Mike Ink - "Paroles"
Cocteau Twins - "Violaine"
James Christopher Monger
Jeremy Enigk - Return of the Frog Queen
Bill Frisell - Bill Frisell Quartet
Komeda - The Genius of Komeda
Julian Cope - Interpreter
Belle and Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing…
Grant Lee Buffalo - Copperopolis
Knut Reiersrud - Himmelskip
Beck - Odelay
The Bulgarian Voices, Angelite & Huun-Huur-Tu - Fly, Fly My Sadness
Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup
Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album
Gillian Welch - Revival
Robyn Hitchcock - Moss Elixir
The Pogues - Pogue Mahone
Yo-Yo Ma/Edgar Meyer/Mark O'Connor - Appalachia Waltz
The Auteurs - After Murder Park
Lisa Germano - Excerpts from a Love Circus
Cibo Matto - Viva! La Woman
Ween - 12 Golden Country Greats
16 Horsepower - "American Wheeze"
Squirrel Nut Zippers - "Hell"
Café Tacuba - "Alármala de Tos"
Booth and the Bad Angel - "Hands in the Rain"
R.E.M. - "E-bow the Letter"
The Lily's - "Shovel into Spade Kit"
Martin Sexton - "Diner"
Lyle Lovett - "Private Conversation"
Divine Comedy - "Songs of Love"
Jack - "…Of Lights"
Junior Brown - "I Hung it Up"
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan/Michael Brook - "My Comfort Remains"
Cake - "The Distance"
Medeski, Martin & Wood - "Dracula"
They Might Be Giants - "Metal Detector"
Paula Cole - "Mississippi"
Semisonic - "Across the Great Divide"
Red House Painters - "Priest Alley Song"
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - "Stagger Lee"
Los Lobos - "Mas y Mas"
Sean Westergaard
Fred Anderson - Fred Anderson & DKV Trio
Babkas - Fratelli
Tim Berne - Unwound
Don Byron - Bug Music
Cafe Tacuba - Avalancha de Éxitos
Jim Campilongo - Jim Campilongo & the 10 Gallon Cats
Johnny Cash - Unchained
Paul Dresher - This Same Temple
Robbie Fulks - Country Love Songs
Funkadelic - Live: Meadowbrook, Rochester, Michigan 12th September 1971
Jerry Granelli UFB - Broken Circle
Jonas Hellborg - Temporal Analogues of Paradise
Rick Holmstrom - Lookout!
Charlie Hunter - Ready...Set...Shango!
Myth Science - Love in Outer Space
Olivia Tremor Control - Music from the Unrealized Film Script, Dusk at Cubist Castle
Vernon Reid - Mistaken Identity
T.J. Kirk - If Four Was One
Frank Zappa - Läther
John Zorn - Bar Kokhba
Matthew Garbutt [Spotify]
Beck - Odelay
dEUS - In a Bar, Under the Sea
Everything But the Girl - Walking Wounded
LFO - Advance
Morcheeba - Who Can You Trust?
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads
OutKast - ATLiens
Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup
Suede - Coming Up
Super Furry Animals - Fuzzy Logic
The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Their Satanic Majesties' Second Request
The Flaming Stars - Songs from the Bar Room Floor
The High Llamas - Hawaii
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Now I Got Worry
The Make-Up - Destination: Love
The Walkabouts - Devil's Road
Thee Headcoats - Knights of the Baskervilles
Tindersticks - Nenette et Boni OST
Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die
Ute Lemper - Berlin Cabaret Songs
Alex Reece - "Pulp Friction"
Barry Adamson - "Miles"
Black Star Liner - "Harmon Session Special"
Blackstreet - "No Diggity"
Broadcast - The Book Lovers
Broadcast - "Accidentals"
Cee Bee Beaumont - "The Greased Weasel"
Etienne de Crecy - "Super Disco"
Goodie Mob - "Dirty South"
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - "Patio Song"
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Amber Gambler EP
John Shuttleworth - "Y Reg"
Manic Street Preachers - "Everything Must Go"
Mickey Finn & Aphrodite - "Bad Ass"
Nas - "It Was Written"
The Astronauts - Lost in Space
The Kaisers - The Kaisers in America
The Phantom Surfers - "Istanbul"
Trembling Blue Stars - "Abba on the Jukebox"
White Town - >Abort, Retry, Fail?_
James Wilkinson
Belle and Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
Beth Orton - Trailer Park
The Olivia Tremor Control - Music from the Unrealized Film Script, Dusk at Cubist Castle
Super Furry Animals - Fuzzy Logic
Beck - Odelay
Neil Young - Dead Man
The Bluetones - Expecting to Fly
The Cardigans - First Band on the Moon
R.E.M. - New Adventures in Hi-Fi
Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup
Wilco - Being There
Whiskeytown - Faithless Street
Belle and Sebastian - Tigermilk
Sebadoh - Harmacy
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - She's the One
Lambchop - How I Quit Smoking
The High Llamas - Hawaii
Dirty Three - Horse Stories
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Broken Arrow
Ocean Colour Scene - Moseley Shoals
Broadcast - The Book Lovers
Supergrass - "Going Out"
Super Furry Animals - "The Man Don't Give a Fuck"
Lilys - "A Nanny in Manhattan"
The Apples in Stereo - "Onto Something"
Ben Folds Five - "Where's Summer B?"
The Diggers - "Nobody's Fool"
Eels - "Novocaine for the Soul"
Elliott Smith - "Speed Trials"
Suede - "Trash"
Smashing Pumpkins - "1979"
Manic Street Preachers - "A Design for Life"
Ash - "Oh Yeah"
Radiohead - "Street Spirit (Fade Out)"
Dodgy - "In a Room"
60ft Dolls - "Stay"
The Charlatans - "One to Another"
Oasis - "Don't Look Back in Anger"
Blur - "Charmless Man"
The Chemical Brothers f/ Noel Gallagher - "Setting Sun"
Richard Wilson
Belle and Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
Beck - Odelay
The Afghan Whigs - Black Love
Modest Mouse - This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads
Ash - 1977
Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die
Sebadoh - Harmacy
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing...
Dave Clarke - Archive, Vol. 1
Fatboy Slim - Better Living Through Chemistry
Underworld - Second Toughest in the Infants
Dirty Three - Horse Stories
Lambchop - How I Quit Smoking
Screamfeeder - Kitten Licks
Frenzal Rhomb - Not So Tough Now
The Halo Benders - Don't Tell Me Now
Stephen Thomas Erlewine [Spotify]
For some reason, 1996 always pales in my mind in comparison to 1995 -- probably because '95 gave us the holy Britpop trinity of Different Class, (What's the Story) Morning Glory, and The Great Escape, along with Maxinquaye, Wowee Zowee, and many others that are among my favorite albums. But 1996 was no slouch, either, and it's fair to say only a hair separates the first eight albums on my list. It was very difficult to whittle down both my albums and singles lists to a mere 20 entries and while the accompanying Spotify playlist gathers a bunch of the overlap, I've never felt so limited by its licensing restrictions before -- probably because both Ween's 12 Golden Country Greats and Sheryl Crow's self-titled album aren't available on the service (neither is "Natural One" nor "Return of the Mack," for those keeping score at home).
Sheryl Crow - Sheryl Crow
Weezer - Pinkerton
Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing...
Suede - Coming Up
Beck - Odelay
Ween - 12 Golden Country Greats
Fiona Apple - Tidal
Super Furry Animals - Fuzzy Logic
Manic Street Preachers - Everything Must Go
Tricky - Pre-Millennium Tension
Silver Jews - The Natural Bridge
Everything But the Girl - Walking Wounded
Lemonheads - Car Button Cloth
Beth Orton - Trailer Park
Ocean Colour Scene - Moseley Shoals
Cat Power - What Would the Community Think?
Belle and Sebastian - Tigermilk
Nearly God - Nearly God
Lyle Lovett - The Road to Ensenada
Stone Temple Pilots - "Big Bang Baby"
Luscious Jackson - "Naked Eye"
2Pac - "California Love"
Spice Girls - "Say You'll Be There"
The Chemical Brothers f/ Noel Gallagher - "Setting Sun"
Oasis - "Step Out"
Pavement - "Give It a Day"
Super Furry Animals - "The Man Don't Give a Fuck"
The Folk Implosion - "Natural One"
Spice Girls - "Wannabe"
Sneaker Pimps - "6 Underground"
The Charlatans - "One to Another"
Mark Morrison - "Return of the Mack"
Sleeper - "Sale of the Century"
Tiger - "The Race"
The Cardigans - "Lovefool"
Blackstreet - "No Diggity"
Butthole Surfers - "Pepper"
Los del Rio - "Macarena"
Republica - "Ready to Go"
John Bush
Jason Falkner - Jason Falkner Presents Author Unknown
Lamb - Lamb
Super Furry Animals - Fuzzy Logic
Plug - Drum'n'bass for Papa
Beck - Odelay
Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die
Squarepusher - Feed Me Weird Things
Underworld - Second Toughest in the Infants
Porter Ricks - Biokinetics
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing...
Don Byron - Bug Music
Richard Davies - There's Never Been a Crowd Like This
Belle and Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
Wilco - Being There
Ween - 12 Golden Country Greats
Dr. Octagon - Dr. Octagon
Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup
The Black Dog - Music for Adverts (and short films)
The Delta 72 - The R&B of Membership
Jedi Knights - New School Science
Jimi Tenor - "Outta Space"
The Divine Comedy - "Something for the Weekend"
The Cardigans - "Lovefool"
Beck - "Where It's At"
LFO - "Tied Up"
Lamb - "Cotton Wool"
Busta Rhymes - "Woo Hah!! Got You All in Check"
Camp Lo - "Luchini Aka (This Is It)"
Jeru the Damaja - "Scientifical Madness"
Daft Punk - "Musique"
Underworld - "Pearls Girl"
Studio Pressure - "Relics [Plaid Remix]"
Jega - "Phlax"
Boards of Canada - "Everything You Do Is a Balloon"
Cujo - "Traffic"
As One - "The Message in Herbie's Shirts"
Motorbass - "Ezio [Herbert Remix]"
Jake Slazenger - "Supafunk"
The High Llamas - "Sparkle Up"
Air - "Les Professionnels"
Jonathan Ball [Spotify]
Angelite/Huun-Huur-Tu - Fly, Fly My Sadness
Primal Scream, Irvine Welsh and On-U Sound - The Big Man and the Scream Team...
Brian Jonestown Massacre - Take It from the Man!
Lilys - Better Can't Make Your Life Better
The High Llamas - Hawaii
Brian Jonestown Massacre - Their Satanic Majesties' Second Request
Mansun - Attack of the Grey Lantern
Trainspotting
Electric Wizard - Come My Fanatics...
Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas
Black Crowes - Three Snakes and One Charm
Brian Jonestown Massacre - Thank God for Mental Illness
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing...
Bill Laswell & Pete Namlook - Psychonavigation, Vol. 2
Bill Laswell & Pete Namlook - Outland, Vol. 2
Combustible Edison - Schizophonic
Pete Namlook/Klaus Schulze/Bill Laswell - The Dark Side of the Moog 5
Cocteau Twins - Milk & Kisses
Flying Saucer Attack - Distant Station
Love & Rockets - Sweet F.A.
Ryuichi Sakamoto - 1996
Primal Scream, Irvine Welsh and On-U Sound - "Full Strength Fortified Dub"
Cocteau Twins - "Violaine"
Love & Rockets - "Sweet Lover Hangover"
Red House Painters - "All Mixed Up"
Soundgarden - "Burden in My Hand"
Honorable mention: Miles Davis and Gil Evans' The Complete Columbia Studio Recordings.
Chrysta Cherrie [Spotify]
I was gonna reflect on what 1996 meant to me, being in high school in the middle of a cultural wasteland and soaking up any/all of the music I could get my hands on, but with the publication of this AllMusic Loves happening in summer 2012 I shift focus to the present. My heart is heavy due to the passings of Bill Doss, Celso Chavez and Jason Noble, each of whom played important roles not just on some of my '96 album picks (with Olivia Tremor Control, Possum Dixon, and Rachel's, respectively) but also as entry points to music discovery that continue to resonate. Thank you for the music, guys.
The Boo Radleys - C'mon Kids
Brainiac - Hissing Prigs in Static Couture
Carlinhos Brown - Alfagamabetizado
Cat Power - What Would the Community Think?
The Delta 72 - The R&B of Membership
Fountains of Wayne - Fountains of Wayne
His Name Is Alive - Stars on ESP
Ida - I Know About You
Imperial Teen - Seasick
Jale - So Wound
The Make-Up - Destination: Love - Live! at Cold Rice
The Mr. T Experience - Love Is Dead
The Olivia Tremor Control - Music from the Unrealized Film Script, Dusk at Cubist Castle
Possum Dixon - Star Maps
Rachel's - The Sea and the Bells
Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup
Stone Temple Pilots - Tiny Music...Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop
Texas Is the Reason - Do You Know Who You Are?
Unwound - Repetition
David S. Ware - Dao
The Afghan Whigs - "Going to Town"
Ash - "Goldfinger"
Foxy Brown f/ Jay-Z - "I'll Be"
Cibo Matto - "Know Your Chicken"
The Kelley Deal 6000 - "Canyon"
Fugees - "Fu-Gee-La"
Komeda - "Rocket Plane (Music on the Moon)"
Lilys - "A Nanny in Manhattan"
Nada Surf - "Popular"
No Doubt - "Don't Speak"
Oasis - "Don't Look Back in Anger"
Busta Rhymes - "Woo Hah!! Got You All In Check"
Sleater-Kinney - "I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone"
Sloan - "The Good in Everyone"
Southern Culture on the Skids - "Camel Walk"
Soundgarden - "Pretty Noose"
Spacehog - "In the Meantime"
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - "2 Kindsa Love"
Superdrag - "Sucked Out"
White Town - "Your Woman"
Andy Kellman [Spotify]
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing...
Tricky - Pre-Millennium Tension
Claude Young - DJ-Kicks
Ghostface Killah - Ironman
Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt
Porter Ricks - Biokinetics
OutKast - ATLiens
Mobb Deep - Hell on Earth
Jeff Mills - Live at the Liquid Room, Tokyo
Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die
Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup
Nearly God - Nearly God
Underworld - Second Toughest in the Infants
Aaliyah - One in a Million
Maxwell - Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite
De La Soul - Stakes Is High
Mojave 3 - Ask Me Tomorrow
Labradford - Labradford
The Detroit Escalator Co. - Soundtrack (313)
Baader Meinhof - Baader Meinhof
OutKast - "Elevators (Me and You)"
DJ Shadow - "Midnight in a Perfect World"
De La Soul - "Stakes Is High"
Jay-Z - "Dead Presidents"
Roy Davis, Jr. - "Gabrielle [Live Garage]"
Moodymann - "Don't Be Misled!"
Underworld - "Pearl's Girl"
Burger/Ink - "Twelve Miles High"
Ginuwine - "Pony"
Aaliyah - "One in a Million"
Camp Lo - "Luchini (AKA This Is It)"
Everything But the Girl - "Walking Wounded"
Junior M.A.F.I.A. - "Get Money [Remix]"
Broadcast - "The Book Lovers"
Lil' Kim - "No Time"
Boymerang - "Still"
Mobb Deep - "Drop a Gem on 'Em"
Ghostface Killah - "Daytona 500"
Mike Ink - "Paroles"
Cocteau Twins - "Violaine"
James Christopher Monger
Jeremy Enigk - Return of the Frog Queen
Bill Frisell - Bill Frisell Quartet
Komeda - The Genius of Komeda
Julian Cope - Interpreter
Belle and Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing…
Grant Lee Buffalo - Copperopolis
Knut Reiersrud - Himmelskip
Beck - Odelay
The Bulgarian Voices, Angelite & Huun-Huur-Tu - Fly, Fly My Sadness
Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup
Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album
Gillian Welch - Revival
Robyn Hitchcock - Moss Elixir
The Pogues - Pogue Mahone
Yo-Yo Ma/Edgar Meyer/Mark O'Connor - Appalachia Waltz
The Auteurs - After Murder Park
Lisa Germano - Excerpts from a Love Circus
Cibo Matto - Viva! La Woman
Ween - 12 Golden Country Greats
16 Horsepower - "American Wheeze"
Squirrel Nut Zippers - "Hell"
Café Tacuba - "Alármala de Tos"
Booth and the Bad Angel - "Hands in the Rain"
R.E.M. - "E-bow the Letter"
The Lily's - "Shovel into Spade Kit"
Martin Sexton - "Diner"
Lyle Lovett - "Private Conversation"
Divine Comedy - "Songs of Love"
Jack - "…Of Lights"
Junior Brown - "I Hung it Up"
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan/Michael Brook - "My Comfort Remains"
Cake - "The Distance"
Medeski, Martin & Wood - "Dracula"
They Might Be Giants - "Metal Detector"
Paula Cole - "Mississippi"
Semisonic - "Across the Great Divide"
Red House Painters - "Priest Alley Song"
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - "Stagger Lee"
Los Lobos - "Mas y Mas"
Sean Westergaard
Fred Anderson - Fred Anderson & DKV Trio
Babkas - Fratelli
Tim Berne - Unwound
Don Byron - Bug Music
Cafe Tacuba - Avalancha de Éxitos
Jim Campilongo - Jim Campilongo & the 10 Gallon Cats
Johnny Cash - Unchained
Paul Dresher - This Same Temple
Robbie Fulks - Country Love Songs
Funkadelic - Live: Meadowbrook, Rochester, Michigan 12th September 1971
Jerry Granelli UFB - Broken Circle
Jonas Hellborg - Temporal Analogues of Paradise
Rick Holmstrom - Lookout!
Charlie Hunter - Ready...Set...Shango!
Myth Science - Love in Outer Space
Olivia Tremor Control - Music from the Unrealized Film Script, Dusk at Cubist Castle
Vernon Reid - Mistaken Identity
T.J. Kirk - If Four Was One
Frank Zappa - Läther
John Zorn - Bar Kokhba
Matthew Garbutt [Spotify]
Beck - Odelay
dEUS - In a Bar, Under the Sea
Everything But the Girl - Walking Wounded
LFO - Advance
Morcheeba - Who Can You Trust?
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads
OutKast - ATLiens
Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup
Suede - Coming Up
Super Furry Animals - Fuzzy Logic
The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Their Satanic Majesties' Second Request
The Flaming Stars - Songs from the Bar Room Floor
The High Llamas - Hawaii
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Now I Got Worry
The Make-Up - Destination: Love
The Walkabouts - Devil's Road
Thee Headcoats - Knights of the Baskervilles
Tindersticks - Nenette et Boni OST
Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die
Ute Lemper - Berlin Cabaret Songs
Alex Reece - "Pulp Friction"
Barry Adamson - "Miles"
Black Star Liner - "Harmon Session Special"
Blackstreet - "No Diggity"
Broadcast - The Book Lovers
Broadcast - "Accidentals"
Cee Bee Beaumont - "The Greased Weasel"
Etienne de Crecy - "Super Disco"
Goodie Mob - "Dirty South"
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - "Patio Song"
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Amber Gambler EP
John Shuttleworth - "Y Reg"
Manic Street Preachers - "Everything Must Go"
Mickey Finn & Aphrodite - "Bad Ass"
Nas - "It Was Written"
The Astronauts - Lost in Space
The Kaisers - The Kaisers in America
The Phantom Surfers - "Istanbul"
Trembling Blue Stars - "Abba on the Jukebox"
White Town - >Abort, Retry, Fail?_
James Wilkinson
Belle and Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
Beth Orton - Trailer Park
The Olivia Tremor Control - Music from the Unrealized Film Script, Dusk at Cubist Castle
Super Furry Animals - Fuzzy Logic
Beck - Odelay
Neil Young - Dead Man
The Bluetones - Expecting to Fly
The Cardigans - First Band on the Moon
R.E.M. - New Adventures in Hi-Fi
Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup
Wilco - Being There
Whiskeytown - Faithless Street
Belle and Sebastian - Tigermilk
Sebadoh - Harmacy
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - She's the One
Lambchop - How I Quit Smoking
The High Llamas - Hawaii
Dirty Three - Horse Stories
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Broken Arrow
Ocean Colour Scene - Moseley Shoals
Broadcast - The Book Lovers
Supergrass - "Going Out"
Super Furry Animals - "The Man Don't Give a Fuck"
Lilys - "A Nanny in Manhattan"
The Apples in Stereo - "Onto Something"
Ben Folds Five - "Where's Summer B?"
The Diggers - "Nobody's Fool"
Eels - "Novocaine for the Soul"
Elliott Smith - "Speed Trials"
Suede - "Trash"
Smashing Pumpkins - "1979"
Manic Street Preachers - "A Design for Life"
Ash - "Oh Yeah"
Radiohead - "Street Spirit (Fade Out)"
Dodgy - "In a Room"
60ft Dolls - "Stay"
The Charlatans - "One to Another"
Oasis - "Don't Look Back in Anger"
Blur - "Charmless Man"
The Chemical Brothers f/ Noel Gallagher - "Setting Sun"
Richard Wilson
Belle and Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
Beck - Odelay
The Afghan Whigs - Black Love
Modest Mouse - This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads
Ash - 1977
Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die
Sebadoh - Harmacy
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing...
Dave Clarke - Archive, Vol. 1
Fatboy Slim - Better Living Through Chemistry
Underworld - Second Toughest in the Infants
Dirty Three - Horse Stories
Lambchop - How I Quit Smoking
Screamfeeder - Kitten Licks
Frenzal Rhomb - Not So Tough Now
The Halo Benders - Don't Tell Me Now