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You all know how much I love a good rate - and also how obsessed I am with the 90s. I know not everyone was around in the 90s but they sure as hell know the classics.

 

The rules are simple.

 

Nominate up to 30 tracks of the alternative variety that were released between 1 Jan 1990 and 31 Dec 1999. Re-releases don't count unless they missed the chart the first time around and if the tracks are generally regarded as 90s tracks.

 

CHANGES MADE BECAUSE OF THE VOLUME OF TRACKS NOMINATED

 

Because I probably didn't think this through at the start and have now ended up with hundreds of nominations I think it's better if we vote for our favourite 50 from the nominations list instead of rating everything.

 

When that's all done and dusted I'll count down the Top 40.

 

The rules are going to be a bit more relaxed than usual regarding genre. We'll allow alternative dance also (The Prodigy, The Chemical Brothers, Orbital all in) but the decision on singer-songwriter will be rather strict. Jeff Buckley in. David Gray out. No rap or r'n'b. No pop. In the event of a dispute I will consult with the moderators.

 

So, please. Start your nominations as and when you see fit. The nominations part will end on Sun 31st July at 23:59.

 

If you need your memory to be prodded a bit search for the the Shine or Best Album in the World Ever series on Amazon.

 

Any questions - just shout.

 

 

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NOMZ

 

808 State - Cubik

Air - All I Need

Air – Kelly Watch The Stars

Air - Sexy Boy

Aphex Twin - Analogue Bubblebath I

Aphex Twin - Windowlicker

Apollo 440 – Stop The Rock

Arab Strap - The First Big Weekend

Ash - Girl From Mars

Ash - Kung Fu

Beastie Boys – Sabotage

Beck - Devils Haircut

Beck - Loser

Beck - Sexx Laws

Belle and Sebastian - Le Pastie de la Bourgoisie

Belly - Feed The Tree

Bentley Rhythm Ace - Bentleys Gonna Sort You Out

Beta Band - Dry the Rain

Beth Orton - She Cries Your Name

Beth Orton - Touch Me With Your Love

Big Audio Dynamite II - The Globe 

Bjork - All is Full of Love (Plaid) 

Bjork - Bachelorette

Björk - Human Behaviour

Björk - Hyperballad

Björk - Jóga

Blondie - Maria

Bluetones - Slight Return

Blur - Beetlebum

Blur - Caramel

Blur - Charmless Man

Blur - Coffee and TV

Blur - For Tomorrow

Blur - Song 2

Blur - Tender

Blur - There's No Other Way

Blur - This is a Low

Boards of Canada - Royggbv 

Boo Radleys - Lazarus

Boo Radleys - Wake Up Boo

Bran Van 3000 - Drinking in LA

Breeders - Cannonball

Bush - Everything Zen

Cardigans - My Favourite Game

Carter USM - Sheriff Fatman

Catatonia – Road Rage

Catherine Wheel - Crank

Chapterhouse - Pearl

Charlatans - How High

Charlatans - The Only One I Know

Charlatans - Weirdo

Chemical Brothers - Setting Sun

Chemical Brothers - The Private Psychedelic Reel

Chumbawumba - Tubthumping

Cocteau Twins - Bluebeard

Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins - Iceblink Luck

Concrete Blonde - Joey

Connells - '74-'75

Cornershop - Brimful Of Asha (Norman Cook Mix)

Cranberries - Animal Instinct

Cranberries - Dreams

Cranberries - Zombie

Cud - Rich & Strange

Cure - Friday I'm In Love

Curve - Horror Head

Daisy Chainsaw – Love Your Money

Death In Vegas feat Iggy Pop - Aisha

Depeche Mode - Enjoy The Silence

Depeche Mode - Home

Depeche Mode - Its No Good

Depeche Mode - Walking In MY Shoes

Divine Comedy - Generation Sex

Divine Comedy – National Express

Dubstar - Not So Manic Now

Eels – Last Stop: This Town

Eels - Mr Es Beautiful Blues

Eels - Novacaine For The Soul

Elastica - Connection

Elastica – Stutter

Electrasy – Morning Afterglow

Electronic - Get The Message

Elliott Smith - Waltz #2 (XO)

Embrace - Come Back to What You Know

EMF - Unbelievable

England New Order - World in Motion

Faith No More – Midlife Crisis

Farm - Groovy Train

Fiona Apple - Shadowboxer

Flowered Up - Weekender

Foo Fighters - Everlong

Foo Fighters - Learn To Fly 

Foo Fighters - Monkey Wrench

Garbage - Milk

Garbage - Only Happy When It Rains

Garbage - Push It

Garbage – Stupid Girl

Garbage - Vow

Garbage - You Look So Fine

Gary Clail On-U Sound System - Human Nature

Gay Dad – Joy!

Geneva – Tranquilizer 

Gin Blossoms - Found Out About You

Green Day - Basket Case

Green Day - Brainstew

Green Day - Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)

Green Day - Jaded

Happy Mondays - Kinky Afro

Happy Mondays - Step On

Harvey Danger - Flagpole Sitta

Hole - Celebrity Skin

House of Love - Shine On

Ian Brown - My Star

Idlewild - Little Discourage

Idlewild - When I Argue I See Shapes

Inspiral Carpets - Bitches Brew

Inspiral Carpets - Saturn 5

Inspiral Carpets - This is How it Feels

James - Laid

James - She's a Star

James - Sit Down

Jeff Buckley - Last Goodbye

Jesus Jones - Real Real Real

Justifed Ancients of Mu Mu - It's Grim Up North

KLF - What Time is Love?

Kula Shaker - Govinda

Kula Shaker - Hey Dude

Kula Shaker - Tattva 

Lamb - Górecki

Las - There She Goes

Leftfield - Song Of Life

Leftfield/Halliday - Original

Leftfield/Lydon - Open Up

Levellers-15 Years

Lightning Seeds – Marvellous

Longpigs - On and On

Longpigs - She Said

Lush - Nothing Natural

Manic Street Preachers - 4st 7lb

Manic Street Preachers - A Design For Life

Manic Street Preachers - Die in the Summertime

Manic Street Preachers - Faster

Manic Street Preachers - If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

Manic Street Preachers - Motorcycle Emptiness

Manic Street Preachers - Revol

Manic Street Preachers - She Is Suffering

Mansun - Being a Girl

Massive Attack - Karmacoma

Massive Attack - Mezzanine

Massive Attack - Risingson

Massive Attack - Sly

Massive Attack - Teardrop

Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy

Mazzy Star - Fade Into You

McAlmont & Butler - Yes

Menswear – DayDreamer

Mercury Rev - Goddess on a Highway

Metallica - Enter Sandman

Midnight Oil - King Of The Mountain

Mighty Mighty Bosstones – The Impression That I Get

Mock Turtles - Can You Dig It?

Monaco - What Do You Want From Me?

Morrissey - The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get

Muse - Cave

Muse - Muscle Museum

My Bloody Valentine - Only Shallow

My Bloody Valentine - Soon

My Life Story – 12 Reasons Why I Love Her

Ned's Atomic Dustbin - Kill Your Television

Neutral Milk Hotel – Holland, 1945

Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea

Neutral Milk Hotel - Two Headed Boy

New Order - Regret

New Radicals - You Get What You Give

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Red Right Hand

Nine Inch Nails - Closer

Nirvana - Heart-Shaped Box

Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit

Nivarna - Lithuim 

No Doubt - Spiderwebs

Northside - Shall We Take a Trip?

Oasis - Acquiesce

Oasis - Champenge Supernova

Oasis - Don't Look Back in Anger 

Oasis - Live Forever

Oasis - Some Might Say

Oasis - The Masterplan

Oasis - Whatever

Oasis - Wonderwall 

Ocean Colour Scene - The Circle

Ocean Colour Scene - The Riverboat Song

Offspring - Self Esteem

Orb - Blue Room

Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds

Orb – Toxygene

Orbital - Satan

Orbital - The Box

Paris Angels - Perfume

Pearl Jam - Black 

Pearl Jam - Go

Pearl Jam - Jeremy

Peter Murphy - Cuts You Up

Pixies - Planet of Sound

Pixies - Velouria

PJ Harvey - Down by the Water

Placebo - Every You, Every Me

Placebo - Nancy Boy

Placebo - Pure Morning

Placebo - You Dont Care About Us

Portishead - All Mine

Portishead - Glory Box

Portishead - Sour Times

Presidents Of The United States Of America - Peaches

Primal Scream - Come Together

Primal Scream - Loaded

Primal Scream – Movin’ On Up

Primal Scream - Swastika Eyes

Prodigy - Break and Enter 

Prodigy - Breathe 

Prodigy - Everybody in the Place

Prodigy - Firestarter

Prodigy - No Good (Start The Dance)

Prodigy - Smack My Bitch Up

Psychedelic Furs - Until She Comes

Pulp - Babies

Pulp - Common People

Pulp - Disco 2000

Pulp - Do You Remember The First Time?

Pulp - Help the Aged

R.E.M - Everbody Hurts 

R.E.M - Losing My Religion

Radiohead - Climbing Up the Walls

Radiohead - Just

Radiohead - Karma Police

Radiohead - Lucky

Radiohead - No Surprises

Radiohead - Paranoid Android

Radiohead - Street Spirit (Fade Out)

Rage Against The Machine - Bulls On Parade

Rage Against the Machine - Killing In The Name

Railway Children - Every Beat Of The Heart

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Scar Tissue

Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Under the Bridge

Reel Big Fish – Sell Out

Republica - Ready To Go

Ride - Leave Them All Behind

Rocket From The Crypt – On A Rope

Saint Etienne - Nothing Can Stop Us

Saint Etienne - Only Love Can Break Your Heart

Saint Etienne - You're In a Bad Way

Screaming Trees - Nearly Lost You

Semisonic - Secret Smile

Senseless Things - Homophobic Asshole

Shed Seven - Chasing Rainbows

Sigur Rós - Svefn-g-englar

Siouxsie and the Banshees - Kiss Them For Me

Skunk Anansie - Charlie Big Potato

Sleeper – Inbetweener

Slowdive - Machine Gun

Slowdive - Souvlaki Space Station

Smashing Pumpkins - 1979

Smashing Pumpkins - Disarm

Smashing Pumpkins - Zero

Sneaker Pimps - Six Underground

Soho - Hippychick

Sonic Youth - Kool Thing

Spacehog - In The Meantime

Spacemen 3 - Big City

Spin Doctors - Two Princes

Spiritualized - Come Together

Stereo MC's - Connected

Stereolab - French Disko

Stereophonics - A Thousand Trees

Stereophonics - Local Boy in the Photograph

Stone Roses - Elephant Stone

Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored

Stone Roses - Love Spreads

Stone Roses - Made of Stone

Stone Roses – Waterfall

Stroke 9 – Washin’ and Wonderin’

Suede - Animal Nitrate

Suede - Beautiful Ones

Suede – Filmstar

Suede - Stay Together (Full version)

Suede - The Asphalt World

Suede - We Are The Pigs

Sugar – If I Can’t Change Your Mind

Sugarcubes - Hit

Sultans of Ping FC - Where's Me Jumper?

Sundays - Heres Where The Story Ends

Super Furry Animals - God! Show Me Magic

Super Furry Animals - Hermann Loves Pauline

Super Furry Animals - Ice Hockey Hair

Super Furry Animals - Something For The Weekend

Supergrass - Caught By The Fuzz

Supergrass - Richard III

Suzanne Vega - Book Of Dreams

Talking Heads - Lifetime Piling Up

Tears For Fears - Break It Down Again

Teenage Fanclub – Sparky’s Dream

Teenage Fanclub - Star Sign

Therapy? - Screemager

They Might be Giants - Birdhouse In Your Soul

Third Eye Blind – Semi-Charmed Life

Toad The Wet Sprocket - All I Want

Toadies - Possum Kingdom

Tori Amos - China

Tori Amos - Cornflake Girl

Tori Amos - Cruel

Tori Amos - Spark

Tori Amos - Winter

Travis - Tied to the 90s

Tricky - Black Steel

Tricky - Overcome

U2 - One

U2 - The Fly

Underworld - Born Slippy (NUXX)

Underworld - Pearls Girl

Utah Saints - Something Good

Verve - Bittersweet Symphony

Verve - The Drugs Dont Work

Voice Of The Beehive - Monsters & Angels

Wannadies - You & Me Song

Wedding Present - Brassneck

Weezer - El Scorcho

White Town - Your Woman

Wonder Stuff - The Size of a Cow

X.T.C - The Ballad Of Peter Pumpkinhead

 

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Well I've given it a shot

 

Björk - Hyperballad

Blur - For Tomorrow

The Chemical Brothers - Setting Sun

The Cranberries - Dreams

Elliott Smith - Waltz #2 (XO)

Depeche Mode - Enjoy The Silence

Foo Fighters - Everlong

Garbage - Only Happy When It Rains

Green Day - Basket Case

Jeff Buckley - Last Goodbye

Manic Street Preachers - A Design For Life

Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy

Metallica - Enter Sandman

Muse - Muscle Museum

My Bloody Valentine - Only Shallow

Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea

Nine Inch Nails - Closer

Nirvana - Heart-Shaped Box

The Offspring - Self Esteem

Pearl Jam - Jeremy

Portishead - Glory Box

Pulp - Common People

Radiohead - Paranoid Android

Rage Against The Machine - Bulls On Parade

Slowdive - Machine Gun

The Smashing Pumpkins - 1979

Suede - Animal Nitrate

Supergrass - Richard III

Underworld - Born Slippy .NUXX

Weezer - El Scorcho

 

Will readily replace anything if it is deemed unsuitable ^_^

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Cocteau Twins - Bluebeard

Cornershop - Brimful Of Asha (Norman Cook Mix)

Embrace - Come Back to What You Know

EMF - Unbelievable

Manic Street Preachers - Faster

Manic Street Preachers - If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

Mansun - Being a Girl

Massive Attack - Teardrop

McAlmont & Butler - Yes

New Order - Regret

Oasis - Live Forever

Ocean Colour Scene - The Circle

Orbital - The Box

Pearl Jam - Go

Pixies - Planet of Sound

Placebo - Every You, Every Me

Portishead - Sour Times

R.E.M - Losing My Religion

Radiohead - Lucky

Radiohead - Street Spirit (Fade Out)

Skunk Anansie - Charlie Big Potato

Smashing Pumpkins - Disarm

Stone Roses - Elephant Stone

The La's - There She Goes

The Prodigy - Firestarter

The Sugarcubes - Hit

The Verve - The Drugs Don't Work

Therapy? - Screemager

They Might be Giants - Birdhouse In Your Soul

 

 

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I realise that 30 songs each is going to a pretty hefty list to rate so if you can only come up with 10 (or whatever) songs that haven't been nominated that's fine.

Air - All I Need

Björk - Human Behaviour

Björk - Jóga

Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins - Iceblink Luck

Depeche Mode - Home

Depeche Mode - It's No Good

Enigma - Return to Innocence

Faithless - Insomnia

Fiona Apple - Shadowboxer

Garbage - Milk

Garbage - You Look So Fine

Lamb - Górecki

Massive Attack - Risingson

Massive Attack - Sly

Mazzy Star - Fade Into You

PJ Harvey - Down by the Water

Placebo - Pure Morning

Radiohead - Just

Sigur Rós - Svefn-g-englar

The Cranberries - Animal Instinct

The Cranberries - Zombie

The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony

Tori Amos - Cruel

Tricky - Black Steel

Tricky - Overcome

Underworld - Pearl's Girl

:angry: at Colm forgetting to nominate NOT SO MANIC NOW. I tell you what.. I am bloody MANIC now!!! :P

 

Sorry for the utterly predictable choices here -tried to go for some overlooked/forgotten ones tho.

 

Air “Sexy Boy”

Beck “Loser”

Bentley Rhythm Ace “Bentley's Gonna Sort You Out”

Blur “Beetlebum”

The Charlatans “The Only One I Know”

Dubstar “Not So Manic Now”

Eels “Novacaine For The Soul”

Garbage “Push It”

Harvey Danger “Flagpole Sitta”

The House of Love “Shine On”

Inspiral Carpets “Saturn 5”

James “Sit Down 91”

Manic Street Preachers “Motorcycle Emptiness”

Mercury Rev “Goddess on a Hiway”

The Mock Turtles “Can You Dig It?”

Monaco “What Do You Want From Me?”

New Radicals “You Get What You Give”

Nine Inch Nails “Closer”

Nirvana “Smells Like Teen Spirit”

The Orb “Little Fluffy Clouds”

Primal Scream “Loaded”

Pulp “Do You Remember The First Time?”

Rage Against the Machine “Killing In The Name”

Republica “Ready To Go”

The Stone Roses “I Wanna Be Adored”

The Sundays “Here's Where The Story Ends”

Suede “Stay Together”

Supergrass “Caught By The Fuzz”

U2 “The Fly”

The Verve “Bitter Sweet Symphony”

White Town “Your Woman”

 

and now Mattias goes and bags the Verve before me... : (

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Beth Orton - She Cries Your Name

Beth Orton - Touch Me With Your Love

Blur - Charmless Man

The Breeders - Cannonball

The Cardigans - My Favourite Game

Curve - Horror Head

Death In Vegas feat Iggy Pop - Aisha

Depeche Mode - World In My Eyes

The Divine Comedy - Generation Sex

Elastica - Connection

Garbage - Vow

Hole - Celebrity Skin

Lush - Nothing Natural

Manic Street Preachers - Revol

Manic Street Preachers - She Is Suffering

Massive Attack - Karmacoma

Muse - Cave

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Red Right Hand

The Orb - Blue Room

PJ Harvey - Down By The Water

Primal Scream - Swastika Eyes

Portishead - All Mine

Pulp - Help the Aged

Saint Etienne - Only Love Can Break Your Heart

Siouxsie and the Banshees - Kiss Them For Me

Slowdive - Souvlaki Space Station

The Smashing Pumpkins - Zero

Sonic Youth - Kool Thing

Suede - We Are The Pigs

Super Furry Animals - Hermann Loves Pauline

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:angry: at Colm forgetting to nominate NOT SO MANIC NOW. I tell you what.. I am bloody MANIC now!!! :P

 

Dubstar “Not So Manic Now”

 

U2 “The Fly”

 

 

I didn't include these because I didn't think they were alternative enough :D

Depeche Mode - Home

Depeche Mode - It's No Good

 

I've edited these into mine Colm ^_^

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Dubstar is alt isn't it? They were on Shine compilations weren't they?

 

 

AREN'T they?

 

You haven't got all American on us?

 

 

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Yes - they are allowed in.

 

Where do we stand on Tori? I feel she's at least non-mainstream.

Definitely indie, and if I wasn't restricting myself to 1 per artist I would include the gorgeous “Stars”.

 

I also raise this all the time but “Not So Manic Now” is actually a cover of the original by Brick Supply (1994) from the Somebody's Intermezzo EP.

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Nomz list in the first post.

 

I've excluded Enigma and Faithless, Mattias. Soz bbz. Not alternative enough, I don't think.

 

Jake - Muse Sunburn came out in March 2000.

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I've excluded Enigma and Faithless, Mattias. Soz bbz. Not alternative enough, I don't think.

No problem, I did think maybe Faithless in particular wasn't alternative enough.

Jake - Muse Sunburn came out in March 2000.

 

You could have “Uno”, “Cave” or “Muscle Museum” though!

I'd definitely suggest the latter.

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You could have “Uno”, “Cave” or “Muscle Museum” though!

I'd definitely suggest the latter.

 

 

MM is already there.

 

Jake - Muse Sunburn came out in March 2000.

 

Ah, I knew I'd end up nominating something that wasn't eligible without realising... I'll settle for 'Cave' ^_^

No idea whether these are okay, but here we go.

 

Pulp - Disco 2000

Cud - Rich & Strange

The Beautiful South - My Book

Boo Radleys - Wake Up Boo

Kula Shaker - Govinda

 

Might add a few more later

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The Beautiful South probably wouldn't be alternative enough.

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