So… what things were considered perfect in the 90s?

Albums / Singles

• The 3Ds – Hellzapoppin’
• Abba – Abba Gold : Greatest Hits
• AC/DC – If you want blood, you’ve got it
• Alanis Morissette – That I Would Be Good (Unplugged) – “*****”
• Ann Peebles – St Louis Woman / Memphis Soul
• The Associates – Sulk
• Aswad – Live and Direct
• Augustus Pablo – Classic Rockers
• Aztec Camera – High Land Hard Rain
• Babes in Toyland – Fontanelle
• Baby Ford – B Ford 9
• Badly Drawn Boy – The Hour of Bewilderbeast
• Bandulu – Antimatters
• The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds
• The Beach Boys – The Pet Sounds Sessions
• The Beach Boys – Summer Dreams
• The Beach Boys – Sunflower / Surf’s Up
• The Beach Boys – Today/Summer Nights (and Days)
• Beastie Boys – Hello Nasty
• The Beautiful South – 0898
• Beck – Midnite Vultures
• Belle and Sebastian – Tiger Milk
• Big Black – Atomizer
• Big Black – Songs about Fucking
• Big Star – Sister Lovers
• Bill Hicks – Rants in E-Minor
• Bill Hicks – Relentless
• Bill Hicks – Relentless
• Billy Bragg – Don’t Try This At Home
• The Birthday Party – Hits
• The Black Crowes – The Southern Harmony And Musical Companion
• Black Dog – Bytes
• Black Grape – It’s Great When You’re Straight.. Yeah
• Black Box Recorder – The Facts of Life
• Blondie – Atomic – The Very Best of Blondie
• The Blue Aeroplanes – Beatsongs
• Blur – The Best Of
• Blur – The Great Escape
• Blur – Leisure
• Blur – Parklife
• Bob Marley ans the Wailers – Exodus
• Bob Marley ans the Wailers – Live
• Bo Diddley – In The Spotlight
• The Bonzo Dog Band – Cornology
• Boogie Down Productions – Edutainment
• The Boo Radleys – Everything’s Alright Forever
• The Boo Radleys – Wake Up
• Brand New Heavies – Heavy Rhyme Experience Vol 1
• The Breeders – Pod
• Brian Eno – Box Set 1
• Brian Eno – Box Set 2
• Brian Eno – Here Come The Warm Jets
• Brian Eno – Nerve Net
• Buffalo Tom – Buffalo Tom
• Burning Spear – Social Living
• Butthole Surfers – Piouhgd
• The Byrds – Full Flyte 1965-1970
• The Byrds – Younger than Yesterday
• Cajual/Relief – The Future Sound of Chicago
• Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band -The Spotlight Kid / Clear Spot
• Casper Brotzmann Massaker – Der Abend Der Schwarzen Folklore
• The Chemical Brothers – Dig Your Own Hole
• The Clash – The Clash
• The Clash – Clash on Broadway
• The Clash – London Calling
• Consolidated – Play More Music
• Cosmic Psychos – Down on The Farm / Cosmic Psychos
• Cosmic Psychos – Go The Hack
• Courage of Lassie – Sing or Die
• The Cramps – Look Mum, No Head
• The Cult – Electric
• The Cure – Wish
• Curve – Cuckoo
• D-Influence – Good 4 We
• David Bowie – Aladdin Sane
• David Bowie – Diamond Dogs
• David Bowie – Heroes
• David Bowie – Santa Monica ’72
• David Bowie – The Singles Collection
• David Bowie – Station to Station
• David Bowie – Young Americans
• David Holmes – Bow Down To The Exit Sign
• David Holmes – This Film’s Crap, Let’s Slash The Seats
• Dean Martin – Making Spirits Bright
• Deee-Lite – World Clique
• Deep Purple – Come Taste The Band
• Depth Charge – Nine Deadly Venoms
• Derrick May – Innovator
• Dexys Midnight Runners – Searching For The Young Soul Rebels
• Dexys Midnight Runners – Don’t Stand Me Down
• Dim Stars – Dim Stars
• The Divine Comedy – Promenade
• The Dream Syndicate – Ghost Stories
• Edwyn Collins – Hellbent on Compromise
• Eels – Beautiful Freak
• Elvis Costello – King of America
• Elvis Presley – Sunrise
• Eminem – The Marshall Mathers LP
• Epic Soundtracks – Rise Above
• Eric B & Rakim – Don’t Sweat the Technique
• Etienne De Crecy Presents… – Super Discount
• Faith No More – Angel Dust
• The Fall – The Infotainment Scan
• The Fall – Shiftwork
• Fatboy Slim – You’ve Come A Long Way, Baby
• Fatima Mansions – Viva Dead Ponies
• Faust – The Faust Tapes
• The Flaming Lips – Hit to Death in the Future Head
• Frank Black – Frank Black
• Front 242 – Front by Front
• Full Moon Scientist – The Men in White Coats
• Galaxie 500 – This is Our Music
• Gary Glitter – Many Happy Returns – The Hits
• God – Possession
• Godspeed You Black Emporer! – Levez Vos Skinny Fists Comme Antennas To Heaven
• The Go-Betweens – Liberty Belle and The Black Diamond Express
• The God Machine – Scenes from The Second Storey
• The Gun Club – Mother Juno
• Guns N’ Roses – Use Your Illusion I
• Guns N’ Roses – Use Your Illusion II
• Happy Mondays – Pills ‘N’ Thrills And Bellyaches
• Jon Hassell – City: Works of Fiction
• The Hollow Men – Cresta
• Horace Andy – Skylarking: The Best of Horace Andy
• The House of Love – Babe Rainbow
• Intastella – Stella and the Intastella Family of People
• James Brown – The Payback
• James Brown – Star Time
• James Brown – There It Is
• James Brown – Hot Pants
• James Brown – Funky Good Time
• Jane’s Addiction – Jane’s Addiction
• Jane’s Addiction – Ritual De Lo Habitual
• The Jerky Boys – The Jerky Boys 3
• The Jesus and Mary Chain – Psychocandy
• The Jesus and Mary Chain – Automatic
• The Jesus and Mary Chain – Honey’s Dead
• Jesus Jones – Doubt
• The Jesus Lizard – Liar
• The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Are You Experienced?
• The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Electric Ladyland
• John Cale – Fear
• Johnny Clarke – Dreader Dread
• Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers -L.A.M.F.
• Johnny Thunders – So Alone
• Joy Division – Closer
• Joy Division – The Complete BBC Recordings
• Joy Division – Permanent
• Joy Division – Preston 28 February 1980
• Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures
• Julian Cope – Peggy Suicide
• Julian Cope – World Shut Your Mouth
• Killing Joke – Killing Joke
• King Tubby and Friends – Dub Gone Crazy: The Evolution of Dub at King Tubby’s 1975-79
• Kraftwerk – The Man Machine
• Kraftwerk – The Man Machine
• Kraftwerk – The Mix
• Kraftwerk – Trans-Europe Express
• Lard – The Last Temptation of Reid
• Laughing Hyenas – Crawl
• Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin
• Lee Perry – Black Arkives
• Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry – Arkology
• Leftfield – Leftism
• Lou Barlow – Lou Barlow and his Sentridoh
• Lou Reed – Magic and Loss
• Machines of Loving Grace – Machines of Loving Grace
• Maddkatt Courtship II – Alone in Dark
• Madness – Divine Madness
• Madonna – The Immaculate Collection
• Magnetic Fields – 69 Love Songs
• Manic Street Preachers – Everything Must Go
• Mark Eitzel – Songs of Love
• The Marvelettes – Compact Command Performance: 23 Greatest Hits
• Marvin Gaye – Motown’s Greatest Hits
• Mary’s Danish – Circa
• Marxman – 33 Revolutions Per Minute
• Massive – Blue Lines
• Massive Attack – Protection
• Mazzy Star – She Hangs Brightly
• MC5 – Kick out the Jams
• Meat Beat Manifesto – Satyricon
• Megadeth – Rust in Peace
• Mercury Rev – Yerself is Steam
• Method Man – Tical
• Michael Jackson – Dangerous
• The Misunderstood – Before The Dream Faded
• The Modern Lovers – The Modern Lovers
• Morrissey – Vauxhall and I
• Muddy Waters – Hard Again
• Muddy Waters – Trouble No More – Singles 1955-59
• Mudhoney – Superfuzz Bigmuff (plus Early Singles)
• The Mummies – Lay their own records!
• My Bloody Valentine – Loveless
• Neil Young and Crazy Horse – Ragged Glory
• Neil Young and Crazy Horse – Sleeps With Angels
• Neil Young and Crazy Horse – Weld
• New Order – Low-Life
• New Order – Substance 1987
• New Order – Technique
• New York Dolls – Rock ‘N’ Roll
• Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds – The Best Of
• Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds – Murder Ballads
• Nick Drake – Five Leaves Left
• Nick Drake – Bryter Layter
• Nick Drake – Pink Moon
• Nina Simone – The Blues
• Nine Inch Nails – Broken
• Nirvana – From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah
• Nirvana – In Utero
• Oasis – Be Here Now
• Oasis – Definitely Maybe
• The Orb – Auntie Aubrey’s Excursions Beyond The Call Of Duty
• The Orb – U F Orb
• Orbital – In Sides
• Otis Redding – Dock of The Bay
• Parliament – Give Up The Funk: The Best Of
• Parliament – Tear The Roof Off (1974-1980)
• Pet Shop Boys – Very
• The Pixies – Death to The Pixies
• The Pogues – Hell’s Ditch
• Polygon Window – Surfing on Sine Waves
• Prefab Sprout – Protest Songs
• Primal Scream – Give Out But Don’t Give Up
• Primal Scream – Screamadelica
• Primal Scream – Vanishing Point
• The Prodigy – Experience
• The Prodigy – Music For The Jilted Generation
• Public Enemy – Apocalypse 91
• Public Enemy – It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
• Pulp – Different Class
• Radiohead – OK Computer
• The Ramones – All The Stuff (And More)
• Redman – Whut? Thee Album
• REM – Automatic for The People
• REM – Best of REM
• REM – Out of Time
• Richie Hawtin – Decks, EFX & 909
• Ride – Going Blank Again
• Ride – Nowhere
• Rocket from The Crypt – Circa: Now
• The Rolling Stones – Beggars Banquet
• The Rolling Stones – Big Hits
• The Rolling Stones – Let it Bleed
• The Rolling Stones – Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out
• The Rolling Stones – The Singles Collection
• The Rolling Stones – Through the Past, Darkly
• The Ronettes – The Best Of…
• Roxy Music – For Your Pleasure
• Roy Orbison – The Best of Roy Orbison
• Saint Etienne – Too Young To Die
• Santic and Friends – An Even Harder Shade of Black
• Scott Walker – Boy Child
• Scott Walker – Boy Child
• Scott Walker – Scott
• Scott Walker – Scott 3
• Scott Walker – Scott 3
• Scott Walker – Scott 4
• Scott Walker – Scott 4
• Screamin’ Jay Hawkins – Cow Fingers and Mosquito Pie
• Screaming Trees – Sweet Oblivion
• Sepultura – Arise
• Skye Presents – The Breaks III
• Slayer – Seasons in The Abyss
• Sly and Robbie – Drum & Bass Strip to the bone by Howie B
• Smashie and Nicey – Let’s Rock
• Smashing Pumpkins – Siamese Dream
• The Smiths – Best…1
• The Smiths – Hatful of Hollow
• The Smiths – Hatful of Hollow
• The Smiths – Louder than Bombs
• The Smiths – The Queen is Dead
• The Smiths – The Queen is Dead
• The Smiths – The World Won’t Listen
• The Soft Boys – Underwater Moonlight
• Sonic Youth – Dirty
• Sonic Youth – Sister
• Spacemen 3 – Playing with Fire
• Spriritualized – Lazer Guided Melodies
• Spriritualized – Live at the Royal Albert Hall, October 10th 1997
• The Stereo MCs – Connected
• The Stereo MCs – Supernatural
• Steve Coogan – Alan Patridge’s Knowing Me Knowing You 3
• Steve Earle – The Hard Way
• The Stone Roses – The Stone Roses
• The Stooges – Funhouse
• The Stooges – The Stooges
• Sugar – Beaster
• Sugar – Copper Blue
• Sugar Bullet – Unrefined
• The Sugarcubes – Stick Around for Joy
• Suicide – The Second Album
• The Sundays – Blind
• Swell – Swell
• Talking Heads – Sand in the Vaseline – Popular Favourites
• Terminal Cheesecake – Pearlesque Kings Of the Jewmost
• Thin Lizzy – Dedication – The Very Best of Thin Lizzy
• Thin White Rope – Moonhead
• This Heat – This Heat
• Throwing Muses – The Real Ramona
• Tim Buckley – Live at the Troubadour 1969
• Tom Waits – Bone Machine
• Tom Waits – The Early Years (vol 1)
• Tricky – Maxinquaye
• U2- War
• The Undertones – The Undertones
• The Undertones – Teenage Kicks – The Best of The Undertones
• Underworld – Second Toughest In The Infants
• U Roy – Version of Wisdom
• Various – Behind the Eye
• Various – Classic Acid House Vol One
• Various – Classic Electro Vol 1
• Various – Classic Funk 3
• Various – Classic Funk Mastercuts Vol 1
• Various – Classic House Mastercuts Vol 1
• Various – Classic House Volume 3
• Various – Dead Presidents OST Vol II
• Various – Drum & Bass Selection 2
• Various – Electronic Dance – Techno 1 and 2
• Various – Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
• Various – Ffrr – Gold on Black 1990
• Various – Flux Trax
• Various – Getting Older 1981-1991: The Flying Nun Retrospective Compilation
• Various – Greensleeves Sampler 6
• Various – Hardcore Ragga 2
• Various – Hardcore Ragga: The Music Works Dancehall Hits
• Various – Harthouse Compilation Chapter 2
• Various – Hitsville USA – The Motown Singles Collection (1959-71)
• Various – House Nation Vol. 1 – Classic House Anthems
• Various – The International Guardians Of Rock’n’Roll 1983-1999
• Various – The look of love : The classic songs of Burt Bacharach
• Various – New Orleans Funk
• Various – Pay It All Back Vol III
• Various – Positiva Ambient Collection
• Various – Rewind Selecta: Rodigan’s Dub Classics
• Various – The Roots of Reggae
• Various – Soul Decade
• Various – Soultime Volume 2
• Various – This is Hip Hop
• Various – Tougher Than Tough : The Story of Jamaican Music
• Various – Trance Atlantic
• Various – Trance Europe Express 2
• Various – V Classics
• Various – The Virgin Directory of World Music
• The Velvet Underground – Peel Slowly and See
• The Verve – A Northern Soul
• The Verve – Bitter Sweet Symphony
• The Verve – History
• The Verve – Urban Hymns
• Vic Godard & Subway Sect – What’s the Matter Boy?
• Tom Waits – Rain Dogs / Swordfishtrombones
• Wire – 154
• The Wonderstuff – Never Loved Elvis
• Wu-Tang Clan – Wu-Tang Forever

Games

• Adidas Power Soccer
• Colin McRae Rally 2.0
• Destruction Derby
• Doom 2 : Hell on Earth
• Earthworm Jim 2
• Krazy Ivan
• Dungeon Keeper
• Jedi Knight – Dark Forces 2
• Legacy of Khan
• Metal Gear Solid
• Nights
• Perfect Dark
• Power Stone 2
• Puzzle Bobble
• Ray Tracers
• Resident Evil
• Resident Evil Code: Veronica
• Sensible Soccer
• Shining the Holy Arc
• SSX
• Super Mario 64
• Super Mario All-Stars
• V Rally
• X-Wing v TIE Fighter
• Z

Film / Video

• Akira
• Ali – The Box Set
• American Beauty
• American Pie
• Austin Powers 2 : The Spy who shagged me
• Beastie Boys – Sabotage
• The Beatles – Anthology
• Being John Malkovich
• Bill Hicks – Totally Bill Hicks
• Blood Simple
• Blue Velvet
• Blur – Showtime
• Body Snatchers
• Bonnie and Clyde
• Bonnie and Clyde
• Carter USM – What do you think of the programme so far?
• Cathy Come Home
• Chinatown
• Citizen Kane
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind
• Cool Hand Luke
• Cross of Iron
• The Crucible
• Cruel Intentions
• Crumb
• Dances with Wolves
• Dark Star
• The Day The Earth Stood Still
• The Day Today vol 1 and 2
• Deep Purple – Scandinavian Nights
• Dirty Harry
• Don’t Look Now
• The Doors
• Dr Strangelove
• Eddie Izzard : Unrepeatable
• The Exorcist
• Fargo
• The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
• Father Ted
• The Filth and The Fury
• Gallon Drunk – One for the Ladies
• The Getaway
• Glengarry Glen Ross
• The Godfather Trilogy
• Gods and Monsters
• Goodfellas
• Grosse Pointe Blank
• Halloween / Halloween 2
• Hearts of Darkness and Notes
• The Hitcher
• Ice-T – OG – Original Gangster
• ISS Special
• Jaws
• Judgement Night
• The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
• The Last Boy Scout
• Last Night
• The League of Gentlemen Series 1
• The Long Good Friday
• Lou Reed & John Cale – Songs for ‘Drella
• Lou Reed – The New York Album
• Mad Max II – Road Warrior
• Madonna – The Immaculate Collection
• Marc Bolan and T-Rex – Born To Boogie : The Movie
• Mars Attacks
• The Matrix
• Mean Streets
• Miller’s Crossing
• Monster Classics
• My Name is Joe
• Naked
• Neil Young and Crazy Horse – Wild
• Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds – The Road To God Knows Where
• Night of the Hunter
• Once Upon A Time In America
• The Orb – Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld: Patterns & Textures
• Out of Sight
• Peeping Tom
• Performance
• Pet Shop Boys – Performance
• Primal Scream – Screamadelica
• Raging Bull
• Raining Stones
• Right Said Fred – Up: The Videos
• The Royle Family Series 2
• Rushmore (VHS)
• Rushmore
• Saturday Night Fever
• Saving Private Ryan
• Shakespeare in Love
• Shakespeare in Love (video)
• The Silence of The Lambs
• The Sopranos
• Southern Comfort
• This is Spinal Tap
• The Thing
• Star Wars
• Star Wars : Special Edition
• Star Wars / Empire Strikes Back / Return of The Jedi
• Taxi Driver
• The Third Man
• Trainspotting
• The Truman Show
• Various – The Creation Records Complation Volume 2
• Various – Jazz on A Summer’s Day
• Various – Punk Rock Movie
• Vincent and Theo
• Viva Mandela!
• When We Were Kings
• White Hunter, Black Heart
• Wild at Heart
• The Wild Bunch

Books/Comics

• Lester Bangs – Psychotic Reactions and Carburettor Dung
• Craig Bromberg – The Wicked Ways of Malcolm McLaren
• Julian Cope – Krautrocksampler
• Julian Cope – Reposessed/Head On
• Scott Dikkers – Our Dumb Century
• Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon – Preacher: Gone to Texas
• Myra Friedman – Buried Alive: The biography of Janis Joplin
• Marianne Faithful and David Dalton – Marianne
• Ian MacDonald – Revolution in the Head – The Beatles’ Records and the sixties
• Greil Marcus – Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock ‘n’ Roll Music
• Arthur Matthews & Graham Linehan – Father Ted : The Complete Scripts
• Grant Morrison and Steve Yeowell – The Invisibles
• Marianne Partridge – The Motown Album
• Joe Queenan – The unkindest cut: how a hatchet man critic made his own $7000 movie and put it all on his credit card
• Henry Rollins – Get in the Van: On the road with Black Flag
• Jon Savage – England’s Dreaming – Sex Pistols and Punk Rock
• Harry Shapiro and Caesar Gebbeek – Jimi Hendrix: Electric Gypsy
• Iain Sinclair – Lights out for the territory
• Danny Sugerman – Appetite for Destruction: The Days of Guns N’ Roses
• Irvine Welsh – Ecstasy
• James Young – Nico – Songs they never play on the radio

Sounding like Oasis

• Cast

Festivals

• Glastonbury
• Blackpool Sequence Dance Festival

DJ Value for Money

• The Dust Brothers

Record Shop Trainspotter Points

• Eastern Bloc, Manchester

Record Shop Customer is Always Right Points

• 3 Beat, Liverpool
• HMV Dance Corner, Manchester

Defying Authority

• Comics
• Computer Games

Cleansing the doors of perception

• Comics
• Poetry
• Computer Games
• Dadaist Art Statements

Casual Sex

• Comics
• Poetry

Indulge planet-size ego

• Comics
• Comedy
• Dadaist Art Statements
• Royalty

Bacchanalian excess

• Poetry
• Comedy
• Computer Games

Fame / Adulation

• Poetry

Travel

• Poetry
• Dadaist Art Statements
• Royalty

Outlandish Fashion Statements

• Comedy
• Dadaist Art Statements
• Royalty

Money

• Comedy
• Computer Games
• Royalty

Reader Sex Tapes

• Andy Stafford

Plagiaro-Sophisto-Surrealism Album Art

• Spiritualized – Lazer Guided Melodies

Symbolist Post-Natalism Album Art

• Nirvana – Nevermind

Distorto-Psycho-Enigmatism Album Art

• Pale Saints – Throwing Back The Apple

Scary Pop Stars

• Flat Eric