20 years ago - 1996 - Haven's favourite album ?

[Shireblogger]

Nostalgia time. What are your top albums from 20 years ago ?

If enough people post a list, we'll be able to determine Haven's favourites.

[Shireblogger]

Here's my Top 10:-

1. Fun Lovin' Criminals -- Come Find Yourself
2. Ocean Colour Scene -- Moseley Shoals
3. Various Artists -- Trainspotting - Film Soundtrack
4. Everything But The Girl -- Walking Wounded
5. Sheryl Crow -- Sheryl Crow
6. Lightning Seeds -- Dizzy Heights
7. Kula Shaker -- K
8. Pet Shop Boys -- Bilingual
9. R.E.M. -- New Adventures In Hi-Fi
10. Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark -- Universal

[thehitparade]

This probably the year I'm going to have to do most whittling for.
Although looking at the library on my computer, there are quite a few albums with 1996 dates that I think weren't released in the UK until 1997, so that'll help.

[raliverpool]

1. Manic Street Preachers -  Everything Must Go
2. The Divine Comedy - Casanova
3. Fiona Apple - Tidal
4. DJ Shadow - Endtroducing.....
5. R.E.M. - New Adventures in Hi-Fi
6. Beck - Odelay
7. Kula Shaker - K
8. Belle and Sebastian -  If You're Feeling Sinister
9. Suede - Coming Up
10. Ash - 1977

[o]

Midnight Oil – Breathe
Manic Street Preachers – Everything must go
Sleeper – The It girl
Powderfinger – Double allergic
Hives – Oh Lord, when, how?
REM – New adventures in hi-fi
Ocean Colour Scene – Moseley shoals
Cranberries – To the faithful departed
Ash – 1977
Eels – Beautiful freak
John Mellencamp – Mr Happy Go Lucky
Beck – Odelay
Pogues – Pogue Mahone
Bryan Adams – 18 til I die

[thehitparade]

That Eels album is one that would probably make my list, but I've chosen to exclude it because it didn't get a UK release until January 1997. I'm not saying you should all do that (especially as I know not everyone on Haven is in the UK) but it's one way of winnowing my contenders.

[smokeyb]

These are the only albums I bought from 1996

1. Manic Street Preachers - Everything Must Go
2. XTC - Fossil Fuel The Singles
3. Crowded House - The Very Best of
4. Ocean Colour Scene - Moseley Shoals
5. Space - Spiders

[wonderwall]

Bluetones expecting to fly
Kula shaker k
Ash 1977
Manic street preachers everything must go
George Michael older
Rocket from the crypt scream Dracula scream
Beck odeley
Super furry animals fuzzy logic
Crowded house best of
Underworld second toughest in the infants

[TheThorne]

1 Manic Street Preachers - EVERYTHING MUST GO
2 Super Furry Animals - FUZZY LOGIC
3 Suede - COMING UP
4 Beck - ODELAY
5 Ash - 1977
6 The Bluetones - EXPECTING TO FLY
7 Kula Shaker - K
8 The Wallflowers - BRINGING DOWN THE HORSE
9 Sheryl Crow - Sheryl Crow
10 Fun Lovin Criminals - COME FIND YOURSELF
=10 Screaming Trees - DUST


just missing Underworld,Belle & Sebastian

the big difference from now is how in sync we all are, now there so much music we all buy or listen to different stuff but then we all seem to agree on most of the same records and thats why they sold so well .

[Razzle Dazzle]

1. Kula Shaker - K
2. Placebo - Placebo
3. Ocean Colour Scene - Moseley Sholes
4. R.E.M. - New Adventures in Hi-Fi
5. Manic Street Preachers - Everything Must Go
6. Shed Seven - A Maximum High
7. Space - Spiders
8. The Bluetones - Expecting To Fly
9. The Beautiful South - Blue Is The Colour
10. Ash - 1977
11. Super Furry Animals - Fuzzy Logic
12. Beck - Odelay 
13. Suede - Coming Up
14. Eels - Beautiful Freak
15. Matchbox 20 - Yourself or Someone Like You
16. Dave Matthews Band - Crash
17. Weezer - Pinkerton
18. Sleeper - The It Girl
19. Pearl Jam - No Code
20. Rage Against The Machine - Evil Empire

[Earl Purple]

Dodgy - Free Peace Sweet was my #1 album released that year although it had its 5 months at #1 in my chart January - May 1997.




The Wedding Present - Saturnalia and Mini were both released in 1996. The latter was a 6-track EP but counted as an album.



A track from Mini which sort of shows that David Gedge was already heading in the sort of direction that became Cinerama.

[Earl Purple]

Jan 4, 2016 21:12:52 GMT 1 TheThorne said:

the big difference from now is how in sync we all are, now there so much music we all buy or listen to different stuff but then we all seem to agree on most of the same records and thats why they sold so well .

I think that when there's good music in the charts (i.e. music you like) there is less incentive to go around and search for it. By 1996 I already had internet, so I could get recommendations from others but was not in the same position to "check it out".

[Deleted]

I remember buying Ash "1977" I was never a big rock fan but "Girl From Mars"and the amazing "Oh Yeah" amazing songs.

[TheThorne]

Jan 10, 2016 16:10:15 GMT 1 Earl Purple said:

Jan 4, 2016 21:12:52 GMT 1 TheThorne said:

the big difference from now is how in sync we all are, now there so much music we all buy or listen to different stuff but then we all seem to agree on most of the same records and thats why they sold so well .

I think that when there's good music in the charts (i.e. music you like) there is less incentive to go around and search for it. By 1996 I already had internet, so I could get recommendations from others but was not in the same position to "check it out".

But thing is you didnt have to search for it as if it was on the shelf you could see it, I would go round about 4 record shops a week and try and get as much new stuff for 99p or 1.99 as possible, you could do that in 1996 it was only HMV and virgin that hadnt started doing that yet.  Well maybe in 1996 but I first started buying 99p/1.99 singles in 1990.

[wonderwall]

1996 a great year for music like it's been said loads of great records.

[Earl Purple]

With regards to singles, 1999 until around 2003 I would go to the record stores and look at the new release shelves and Virgin had listening posts too so you could listen to a bit of the song and hear what it sounded like.

From 2003 I would go with a list because I had discovered that so many new singles were not put in the new release section but straight into the A-Z section.

I bought an enormous number of singles between 1999 and 2006 and they were taking over the home. It was quite a relief once I started getting downloads, but in some way my chart totally drifted away from the UK chart at that point and by 2009 they had really drifted so far apart and I stopped knowing how UK #1 singles sounded.

This topic is about top albums but all these artists also had hit singles and we probably knew the singles first and thus introduced us to the artists.

I bought Ash's "1977" and was impressed too - it was better than I had expected. Not sure about the "extra" track too much...

[TheThorne]

Jan 10, 2016 17:47:26 GMT 1 Earl Purple said:

With regards to singles, 1999 until around 2003 I would go to the record stores and look at the new release shelves and Virgin had listening posts too so you could listen to a bit of the song and hear what it sounded like.

From 2003 I would go with a list because I had discovered that so many new singles were not put in the new release section but straight into the A-Z section.

I bought an enormous number of singles between 1999 and 2006 and they were taking over the home. It was quite a relief once I started getting downloads, but in some way my chart totally drifted away from the UK chart at that point and by 2009 they had really drifted so far apart and I stopped knowing how UK #1 singles sounded.

This topic is about top albums but all these artists also had hit singles and we probably knew the singles first and thus introduced us to the artists.

I bought Ash's "1977" and was impressed too - it was better than I had expected. Not sure about the "extra" track too much...

It is about albums but i didnt buy albums much then just singles, only 2 of my top 10 albums I actually bought at the time instead I had every Manics single, every Sheryl Crow, every Bluetones single etc etc it probably was a false economy in the long run.

[Earl Purple]

I bought very few singles back then, and bought the Shine compilations, which were like an indie/britpop version of Now...

I bought several albums though.

"Free Peace Sweet" is an interesting album really in that I find the album grows as you get through it and that actually means when you get past almost all of the singles. The last of the singles to appear on it is "Found You" which in my mind is an underrated gem of theirs. I think I bought the album around November 1996 as I recall it was #3 for me that month, #2 in December then took over #1 in January 1997 (with Saturnalia being my #1 in the last few months of 1996). During this era it was the only album to remain my #1 for 5 months.

Near the end there are 2 tracks the drift into each other: Jack The Lad and Long Life. However I guess it doesn't appear on most people's lists because they never listened to the entire album rather than that they did and didn't like it. But then that's the reason why so many albums don't appear on mine..

I can't remember if I bought "Everything Must Go". I don't recall it being in my album chart, but did like the band and their singles, and did buy Generation Terrorists in 1992.

[TheThorne]

I have all but one of the Manic Street Preachers singles up to 2003 but i bought the albums I didnt have a few years ago for under a pound each in Morrisons. So I have every album on CD now as well.

[Deleted]

1. Ocean Colour Scene - Moseley Shoals
2. Sheryl Crow - Sheryl Crow
3. George Michael - Older
4. Celine Dion - Falling Into You
5. Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Universal
6. The Beautiful South - Blue Is The Colour
7. Spice Girls - Spice
8. Gloria Estefan - Destiny
9. Louise - Naked
10. Pet Shop Boys - Bilingual