1. Woodface – Crowded House
2. OK Computer – Radiohead
3. No Sleep Till Famous – The Merrymakers
4. Together Alone – Crowded House
5. Free Peace Sweet – Dodgy
6. Nonsuch – XTC
7. Radiator – Super Furry Animals
8. Homegrown – Dodgy
9. Bellybutton – Jellyfish
10. The Great Escape – Blur
11. The Man Who – Travis
12. Parklife – Blur
13. Kon-Tiki – Cotton Mather
14. Jordan…The Comeback – Prefab Sprout
15. Hagnesta Hill – Kent
16. It Doesn’t Matter Anymore – The Supernaturals
17. Hjertemedisin – Tre Små Kinesere
18. Pop Trip – Pogo Pops
19. The Apple Venus – XTC
20. Try Whistling This – Neil Finn
21. Bubblegun – The Merrymakers
22. Ro-Sham-Bo – The Grays
23. Gilt-Flake – Brad Jones
24. (What’s The Story) Morning Glory – Oasis
25. Animal Farm – Animal Farm
26. Painkiller – Brainpool
27. Brutal Youth – Elvis Costello & The Attractions
28. Andromeda Heights – Prefab Sprout
29. Crash – Pogo Pops
30. Ultra – Depeche Mode
31. Here We Go Then You And I – Morten Abel
32. Isola – Kent
33. Violator – Depeche Mode
34. Us – Peter Gabriel
35. Moseley Shoals – Ocean Colour Scene
36. Spilt Milk – Jellyfish
37. A Tune a Day – The Supernaturals
38. Barafundle – Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci
39. Chorus – Erasure
40. Aquanautic – Wannadies
41. Supergrass – Supergrass
42. Splash – The Trampolines
43. The Bends – Radiohead
44. Soda – Brainpool
45. Fuzzy Logic – Super Furry Animals
46. Wondermints – Wondermints
47. Kindergarten – Last James
48. Play – Squeeze
49. The Quiet Boy Ate The Whole Cake – Gangway
50. Trampolines – Trampolines
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 14 March 2003 13:30 (twenty-three years ago)
What, you like Brad Jones but don't list Marshall Crenshaw? "Miracle of Science," "#447"? What about Alex Chilton's epochal late-'90s release "Loose Shoes and Tight Pussy," Geir?
Geir, you probably can answer this: has Paddy of Prefab Sprout recorded a spoken-word album for release soon? (We sho' disagree on a lotta things Geir but I like Prefab Sprout myself.)
― Jess Hill (jesshill), Friday, 14 March 2003 14:47 (twenty-three years ago)
I don't know if it's spoken word but he's releasing a solo album
I trawl the megahertz, which is a concept (yay) album about short wave radio. Supposedly it's along the lines of Joe Meek's
I hear a new world or something by the Boards of Canada.
Now if he can pull the finger out and get some more of these supposed concepts released, Zorro the fox anyone, I'll be a happy little bunny.
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Friday, 14 March 2003 15:02 (twenty-three years ago)
I mean, no, Prefab Sprout wasn't innovative, but it was good, intelligent pop music, not without a certain edge. Paddy M. is a very good singer indeed. Not the kind of thing I turn to first at all, but I have to respect a guy who writes a song that makes Bruce Springsteen even more unnecessary than he really is, "Cars and Girls," also, in its way, one of the absolute bedrock power-pop statements. Also, their best work was done in the '80s, "Jordan" isn't all that great and that's '90...
― Jess Hill (jesshill), Friday, 14 March 2003 17:32 (twenty-three years ago)
I like Brad Jones' own album considerably better than Crenshaw's. Cotton Mather are also produced by Brad Jones though.
I've met Brad, he's a very nice guy, as is Bill Lloyd. Tastes differ, obviously, but for whatever you want to call it, post-Beatles pop music, I think Marshall Crenshaw is in a league by himself. Listen to "Seven Miles an Hour" from the "Miracle of Science" album sometime Geir. Or Chilton's "Don't Stop" from "Man Called Destruction."
― Jess Hill (jesshill), Friday, 14 March 2003 17:37 (twenty-three years ago)