VA - Sorted! From Baggy to Britpop and Beyond... 535 Classic British Indie Anthems (Super Deluxe Edition) [2024] (30x CDs)

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VA - Sorted! From Baggy to Britpop and Beyond... 535 Classic British Indie Anthems (Super Deluxe Edition) [2024] (30x CDs) 

BAGGY

Baggy is a British alternative dance genre popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and generally associated with the Northern UK's Madchester scene. The style saw alternative rock bands draw influence from psychedelia as well as dance music.

The genesis of indie-dance was the Balearic beat scene (where there were DJs playing an eclectic mix of records including such rock/dance crossovers like "Jesus on the Payroll" by Thrashing Doves and producers like Paul Oakenfold and the indie music scene in the northwest of England, which featured Tony Wilson's Factory Records and former post-punk band the Stone Roses in Manchester.

In 1987, Bruce Forest remixed "Jesus on the Payroll" using David Cole on piano. They completed a special "Street Mix" which DJ Paul Oakenfold gives credit for starting the Balearic movement in the late 1980s/early 1990s. The piano lick was sampled for the Bocca Juniors debut single 'Raise (63 Steps to Heaven)' in 1990.

Even though they were not signed to Factory Records, instead signing to Paul Birch's Revolver Records in Wolverhampton (before taking a deal with Jive Records' Silvertone), the band did have links to Tony Wilson, Martin Hannett and Peter Hook, with the New Order bassist scheduled to produce their debut album, before John Leckie took over.

It was Leckie who produced the Stone Roses single "Fools Gold" (an indie-dance record which had a prominent 'shufflebeat' which came from a four-bar loop based upon Clyde Stubblefield's "Funky Drummer" drum pattern) and it was mainly fans of the Stone Roses who started to wear the fashions that gave the genre/scene its alternative name.

The "Baggy" sound was a form of Neo-Psychedelic Alternative Rock that took on major rhythmic influences from Funk and Acid House and originated from Manchester, England, leading to a dance-y form of Psychedelic Rock. There was latent influence from the contemporary Indie Rock/Pop scene (particularly Jangle and Dream Pop) and its predecessors in Mancunian Post-Punk and New Wave, as well as additional influences from contemporary Electronica and Psychedelia. The movement is considered to have had its heyday from roughly 1988 to 1993, with some its biggest proponents having been The Stone Roses, The Happy Mondays, and The Charlatans.

Madchester and scally

Although it was not geographically confined to the city of Manchester, many Madchester bands like Happy Mondays, Northside and the Stone Roses were described as being baggy. As baggy was characterised by psychedelia and acid house-influenced guitar music, often with a funky drummer beat, new indie-dance bands in other British cities emerged following the breakthrough of the Madchester acts, though some acts in Liverpool argued they were already part of their own scene which had emerged independently of those in Manchester (sometimes referred to as 'scally').

Some acts, such as Candy Flip, Blur and the Soup Dragons reinvented their sound and image to fit in with the new scene. This led some critics to accuse baggy bands of bandwagon-jumping and derivative songwriting.

Bands in the indie-dance era of pop music can be divided into two camps; the acts who could be described as baggy (usually the Madchester acts and a few others such as Flowered Up from London), and those who can be described as alternative dance (i.e. Jesus Jones and the Shamen, who were more techno inspired). The Shamen would begin as a psychedelic indie rock band, sharing some of the characteristics of early shoegaze bands, but their style would morph between psychedelic indie rock and acid house, before absorbing more elements of techno to become a dance music act, in a way similar to the Beloved, whose career took them from an indie band to a dance duo after the Second Summer of Love.

Madchester was a musical and cultural scene that developed in the English city of Manchester in the late 1980s, closely associated with the indie dance scene. Indie-dance (sometimes referred to as indie-rave saw artists merging indie rock with elements of acid house, psychedelia, and 1960s pop.

The term Madchester was coined by Factory Records' boss Tony Wilson, and was popularised by the British music press in the early 1990s. However, the origin of the term can be traced back to a script meeting between Factory Records video directors Philip Shotton and Keith Jobling, known as the Bailey Brothers. They coined "Madchester" while developing a script and later suggested it to Tony Wilson. Subsequently, Wilson instructed the Happy Mondays to rename their EP from "Rave On" to "Madchester Rave On". The Happy Mondays' lead vocalist, Shaun Ryder, recalls, "It was our video directors, the Bailey Brothers, who came up with the term 'Madchester', but we said, 'Great, yeah, go with it', because Manchester was mad at the time."

Its most famous groups include The Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, Inspiral Carpets, The Charlatans, James, and 808 State. The scene was heavily influenced by the widespread use of drugs, especially MDMA.

A major catalyst for the distinctive musical ethos in the city was the Haçienda nightclub, co-owned by members of New Order, which played a pivotal role in what became known as the Second Summer of Love.

The "baggy" sound generally includes a combination of funk, psychedelia, guitar rock, and house music. In the Manchester context, the music can be seen as mainly influenced by the indie music that had dominated the city's music scene during the 1980s, but also absorbing the various influences coming through "the Haçienda" nightclub.

Clothing

Alongside the music, a way of dressing emerged that gave baggy its unique name. Baggy jeans (often flared) alongside brightly coloured or tie-dye casual tops and general '60s style became fashionable first in Manchester and then across the country - frequently topped off with a fishing hat in the style sported by the Stone Roses' drummer Reni. The overall look was part rave, part retro or part hippie, part football casual. Many Madchester bands had football casual fans and a number of bands even wore football shirts. Eaitisham 'Shami' Ahmed's Manchester-based Joe Bloggs fashion label specialised in catering for the scene, making him a multi-millionaire.

It is also generally accepted that French stylists Marithé et François Girbaud were one of the first designers to integrate baggy in the fashion industry, though the style can be seen originating in the Northern soul scene. This scene included Twisted Wheel attendee Phil Saxe, who went on to sell flares and baggy clothing on his Gangway market stall in Manchester and Joe Moss who ran Crazyface.

Following the fall of Factory Records (partially brought about due to the expensive costs of The Mondays' album Yes, Please), the hiatuses of several key bands, and the rise of Grunge music, affection and attention for Baggy began to fade, and the movement generally faded out by 1993. Many of the remaining bands had drifted into what would become the Britpop sound, with increased influences from 60's guitar rock and psychedelia and less from dance and electronica, which further contributed to the genre's decline.

Some baggy bands evolved into indie rock or Britpop bands who remained popular throughout the 1990s. The Charlatans retained their popularity, although little trace of the baggy sound and look remained.

The baggy style was eclipsed by the grunge and Britpop genres.

We remember baggy music, that genre when indie met dance... 

Source: Classic Pop Magazine

https://www.classicpopmag.com/2023/01/baggy-music/

BRITPOP

Think about Britpop, that mid-1990s cultural flashpoint and back-to basics rock sound that impacted the charts on both sides of the Atlantic. What comes to mind? Oasis, of course. Blur, 'Song 2.' Suede. The Verve’s 'Bittersweet Symphony.' The Union Jack.

Kangol bucket hats, Fred Perry polo shirts, hooded rain jackets and Clarks footwear. Jarvis Cocker. Manchester City football jerseys. Lager, cocaine. General debauchery and hooliganism. And, above all, that attitude.

Britpop was a media-driven focus on bands which emerged from the independent music scene of the early 1990s. Although the term was viewed as a marketing tool, and more of a cultural moment than a musical style or genre, its associated bands typically drew from the British pop music of the 1960s, glam rock and punk rock of the 1970s and indie pop of the 1980s.

The most successful bands linked with Britpop were Oasis, Blur, Suede and Pulp, known as the movement's "big four", although Suede and Pulp distanced themselves from the term. The timespan of Britpop is generally considered to be 1993–1997, and its peak years to be 1994-1995. A chart battle between Blur and Oasis (dubbed "The Battle of Britpop") brought the movement to the forefront of the British press in 1995. While music was the main focus, fashion, art and politics also got involved, with Tony Blair and New Labour aligning themselves with the movement.

A chart battle between Blur and Oasis, dubbed "The Battle of Britpop", brought Britpop to the forefront of the British press in 1995. The bands had initially praised each other but over the course of the year antagonisms between the two increased. Spurred on by the media, they became engaged in what the NME dubbed on the cover of its 12 August issue the "British Heavyweight Championship" with the pending release of Blur's single "Country House" and Oasis' "Roll with It" on the same day. The battle pitted the two bands against each other, with the conflict as much about British class and regional divisions as it was about music. Oasis were taken as representing the North of England, while Blur represented the South. The event caught the public's imagination and gained mass media attention in national newspapers, tabloids and television news. NME wrote about the phenomenon.

Billed as the greatest pop rivalry since the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, it was spurred on by jibes thrown back and forth between the two groups, with Oasis dismissing Blur as "Chas & Dave chimney sweep music", while Blur referred to their opponents as the "Oasis Quo" in a deriding of their alleged unoriginality and inability to change. In what was the best week for UK singles sales in a decade, on 20 August, Blur's "Country House" sold 274,000 copies against "Roll with It" by Oasis which sold 216,000, the songs charting at number one and number two, respectively. Blur performed their chart topping single on the BBC's Top of the Pops, with the band's bassist Alex James wearing an 'Oasis' t-shirt. However, in the long run Oasis became more commercially successful than Blur, at home and abroad. In a 2019 interview, Oasis bandleader Noel Gallagher reflected on the chart battle between the two songs, both of which he saw as "shit", and suggested that a chart race between Oasis' "Cigarettes & Alcohol" and Blur's "Girls & Boys" would have had greater merit. He also noted that he and Blur frontman Damon Albarn - with whom Gallagher had enjoyed multiple musical collaborations during the 2010s - were now friends. Both men have noted that they do not discuss their 1990s rivalry, with Albarn adding, "I value my friendship with Noel because he is one of the only people who went through what I did in the Nineties." Noel Gallagher has also described Blur guitarist Graham Coxon as "one of the most talented guitarists of his generation."

In the months following the chart battle, NME states, "Britpop became a major cultural phenomenon". Oasis's second album, (What's the Story) Morning Glory?, sold over four million copies in the UK - becoming the fifth best-selling album in UK chart history. Blur's third album in their 'Life' trilogy, The Great Escape, sold over one million copies. At the 1996 Brit Awards, both albums were nominated for Best British Album (as was Pulp's Different Class), with Oasis winning the award. All three bands were also nominated for Best British Group and Best Video, which were won by Oasis.

'A Design for Life', an anthemic string-laden dissection of working class life in the UK, raised the Manic Street Preachers up from cult heroes to part of the mainstream Britpop landscape. While supporting Oasis at the era's defining concert at Knebworth in 1996, the Manics closed their set with the track, which appeared alongside five contributions from Edwards on their Brit Award-winning fourth album 'Everything Must Go'.

Released at the height of Britpop in the mid-1990s, 'Everything Must Go' was a commercial and critical success, it reached its peak in the UK on separate occasions, debuting and peaking at number 2 in the UK Albums Chart and earned the band accolades in the 1997 Brit Awards

It represented a shift in the group's sound due to Edwards' departure. The album charted in mainland Europe, Asia and Australia, eventually selling over two million copies. 'Everything Must Go' is frequently featured and voted highly in lists for one of the best albums of all time by many music publications such as NME and Q.

During the late 1990s, many Britpop acts began to falter commercially or break up, or otherwise moved towards new genres or styles. Commercially, Britpop lost out to teen pop, while artistically it segued into a post-Britpop indie movement, associated with bands such as Travis and Coldplay.

BRITISH INDIE / POST-BRITPOP

Post-Britpop is an alternative rock subgenre and is the period in the late 1990s and early 2000s, following Britpop, when the media were identifying a "new generation" or "second wave" of guitar bands influenced by acts like Oasis and Blur, but with less overt British concerns in their lyrics and making more use of American rock and indie influences, as well as experimental music. Bands in the post-Britpop era that had been established acts, but gained greater prominence after the decline of Britpop, such as Radiohead and Embrace and new acts such as Travis, Keane, Snow Patrol, Stereophonics, Feeder, and particularly Coldplay, achieved much wider international success than most of the Britpop groups that had preceded them, and were some of the most commercially successful acts of the late 1990s and early 2000s.

From about 1997, as dissatisfaction grew with the concept of Cool Britannia and Britpop as a movement began to dissolve, emerging bands began to avoid the Britpop label while still producing music derived from it. Bands that had enjoyed some success during the mid-1990s, but did not find major commercial success until the late 1990s including Radiohead. After the decline of Britpop they began to gain more critical and popular attention. Radiohead - although having achieved moderate recognition with The Bends in 1995 - achieved near-universal critical acclaim with their experimental third album OK Computer (1997), and its follow-ups Kid A (2000) and Amnesiac (2001).

The cultural and musical scene in Scotland, dubbed "Cool Caledonia" by some elements of the press, produced a number of successful alternative acts, including the Supernaturals from Glasgow, whose re-released single "Smile" (1997) reached number 25 in the UK charts, and whose album It Doesn't Matter Anymore (1997) entered the top ten, but who failed to sustain their success or achieve the anticipated international breakthrough. Travis, also from Glasgow, were one of the first major rock bands to emerge in the post-Britpop era. Utilising the hooks and guitar rock favoured by Oasis in a song-based format, they moved from the personal on Good Feeling (1997), through the general on their breakthrough The Man Who (1999), to the socially conscious and political on 12 Memories (2003) and have been credited with a major role in disseminating a new Britpop. From Edinburgh Idlewild, more influenced by post-grunge, just failed to break into the British top 50 with their second album Hope Is Important (1998), but subsequently produced 3 top 20 albums, peaking with The Remote Part (2002), and the single "You Held the World in Your Arms", reaching numbers 3 and 9 in the respective UK charts. Although garnering some international attention, they did not break through in the US.

The first major band to breakthrough from the post-Britpop Welsh rock scene, dubbed "Cool Cymru", were, Stereophonics, they used elements of a post-grunge and hardcore on their breakthrough albums Word Gets Around (1997) and Performance and Cocktails (1999), before moving into more melodic territory with Just Enough Education to Perform (2001) and subsequent albums. Also from Wales were Feeder, who were initially more influenced by American post-grunge, producing a hard rock sound that led to their breakthrough single "Buck Rogers" and the album Echo Park (2001). After the death of their drummer Jon Lee, they moved to a more reflective and introspective mode on Comfort in Sound (2002), their most commercially successful album to that point, which spawned a series of hit singles.

There were also a number of British bands getting more 'progressive' in their music style. Radiohead released OK Computer in May 1997, a few months before Oasis released Be Here Now (known as 'the album that killed Britpop' in some parts of the press). At the end of the 1990s, Devon band Muse would emerge from Teignmouth and sign to (Australian record company) Mushroom Records' new British arm via independent company Taste Media. Initially dismissed in certain sections of the press as 'Radiohead wannabes', the band would go on to top the UK albums chart six times, with every studio album reaching the top from 2003 to 2018.

These acts were followed by a number of bands who shared aspects of their music, including Snow Patrol from Northern Ireland, and Athlete, Elbow, Embrace, Starsailor, Doves, Gomez and Keane from England. The most commercially successful band in the millennium were Coldplay, whose first two albums Parachutes (2000) and A Rush of Blood to the Head (2002) went multi-platinum, establishing them as one of the most popular acts in the world by the time of their third album X&Y (2005). Snow Patrol's "Chasing Cars" (from their 2006 album Eyes Open) is the most widely played song of the 21st century on UK radio.

The notion of a "second wave" of Britpop has also been applied to bands originating in the new millennium, including Arctic Monkeys, Kaiser Chiefs, and Bloc Party. These bands have been seen as looking less to music of the 1960s and more to 1970s punk and post-punk, while still being influenced by Britpop.

Arctic Monkeys were heralded as one of the first bands to come to public attention via the Internet, with commentators suggesting they represented the possibility of a change in the way in which new bands are promoted and marketed. Their debut album, Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (2006), received widespread critical acclaim upon release and topped the UK Albums Chart, becoming the fastest-selling debut album in British chart history at the time. It won Best British Album at the 2007 Brit Awards and has since been hailed as one of the greatest debut albums. The band's second album, Favourite Worst Nightmare (2007), was also acclaimed by critics and won Best British Album at the 2008 Brit Awards.

Their debut single "I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor", which was recorded at Chapel Studios in Lincolnshire, was released on 17 October 2005 and went straight to No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart. Their second single, "When the Sun Goes Down" (previously titled "Scummy"), released on 16 January 2006, also went straight to No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart. The band's success with little marketing or advertising led some to suggest that it could signal a change in how new bands achieve recognition.

The band finished recording their debut album, Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not, at Chapel Studios in Lincolnshire in January 2006 with British record producer Jim Abbiss producing. Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not became the fastest-selling debut album in UK chart history, selling 363,735 copies in the first week. It sold more copies on its first day alone - 118,501 - than the rest of the Top 20 albums combined.

So, after considerable and extensive online research, plus my own recollections, memories and records bought at the time, here is my personal compilation of what I consider to be the 535 best and most important tracks from the original British Baggy, Britpop and post Britpop/Indie era. This compilation features 100% strictly British acts from either England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Compiled as always using the very latest and highest quality digital remasters, with a considerable amount of tracks sourced from the original master tapes for superior sound quality and enjoyment.

This fully packed 30CD set contains only 100% CD quality original studio recordings. No later re-recordings, poor quality YouTube rips or live versions here!

Almost 39 hours of the very best British indie music to enjoy!

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Track lists

CD01

01 Primal Scream - Loaded 7:01

02 The Farm - All Together Now 5:40

03 Blur - Bang 3:37

04 Babble - Beautiful 6:18

05 Happy Mondays - Bob's Yer Uncle 5:09

06 James - Born of Frustration 4:38

07 The Stone Roses - Bye Bye Badman 4:06

08 The Mock Turtles - Can You Dig It? 4:08

09 The Beloved - Celebrate Your Life 5:35

10 Orbital - Chime (Original 1989 12" Single Version) 12:40

11 The Cure - Close to Me (Paul Oakenfold & Steve Osborne 1990 Closer Mix) 5:45

12 Frazier Chorus - Cloud 8 (Paul Oakenfold Future Mix) 6:49

13 James - Come Home (1990 Flood Mix) 3:55

CD02

14 Primal Scream - Come Together (Terry Farley Extended 12" Mix) 8:04

15 The Farm - Comfort 4:52

16 Inspiral Carpets - Commercial Rain 4:43

17 Stereo MC's - Connected 5:14

18 The Darling Buds - Crystal Clear 3:48

19 The Adventures of Stevie V - Dirty Cash (Sold Out 12" Mix) 7:31

20 Primal Scream - Don't Fight It, Feel It 6:54

21 The Farm - Don't Let Me Down 4:36

22 Inspiral Carpets - Dragging Me Down 4:34

23 Hypnotone - Dream Beam (Original Mix) 5:13

24 Intastella - Dream Some Paradise (7" Single Version) 3:54

25 Beats International feat. Lindy Layton - Dub Be Good to Me 3:58

26 The Shamen - Ebeneezer Goode (Beat Edit) 3:52

27 The Stone Roses - Elephant Stone 3:07

28 Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence (Original 1990 7" Single Version) 4:16

29 The Railway Children - Every Beat of the Heart 4:07

CD03

30 Cocteau Twins - Fifty-Fifty Clown 3:11

31 New Fast Automatic Daffodils - Get Better (1991 Martin Hannett 7" Remix) 4:30

32 Electronic - Get the Message 5:20

33 Electronic - Getting Away with It 5:15

34 Happy Mondays - God's Cop 4:57

35 The Farm - Golden Vision 5:06

36 The Farm - Groovy Train 4:09

37 Happy Mondays feat. Kirsty MacColl - Hallelujah (Original 1989 Paul Oakenfold and Andy Weatherall 12" Club Mix) 6:27

38 Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas 4:56

39 The Beloved - Hello 4:19

40 Milltown Brothers - Here I Stand 3:37

41 The Sundays - Here's Where the Story Ends 3:54

42 The Farm - Higher & Higher 6:10

43 Primal Scream - Higher Than the Sun (12" Mix) 6:46

44 Soho - Hippychick 4:31

45 The Bridewell Taxis - Honesty 4:04

CD04

46 James - How Was It for You? 2:59

47 The Stone Roses - I Am the Resurrection 8:15

48 The Beloved - I Love You More 3:54

49 The Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored (Original 1989 12" Single Version) 4:56

50 The Soup Dragons feat. Junior Reid - I'm Free 3:48

51 Cocteau Twins - Iceblink Luck 3:17

52 Jesus Jones - International Bright Young Thing 3:12

53 Opus III - It's a Fine Day 5:28

54 The Beloved - It's Alright Now (Rattling Good Time) 8:15

55 Flowered Up - It's On 4:39

56 Thrashing Doves feat. David Cole on piano - Jesus on the Payroll (7" Mix / Jesus on the Payroll (Street Groove) (Bruce Forest Mix) 7:18

57 Saint Etienne - Join Our Club 3:18

58 The KLF feat. Maxine Harvey - Justified & Ancient (All Bound for Mu Mu Land) 7:47

59 Happy Mondays - Kinky Afro 3:59

60 Saint Etienne - Kiss and Make Up 5:14

CD05

61 Siouxsie and the Banshees - Kiss Them for Me 4:37

62 The Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds (Original 1990 Dance Mk 2 12" Mix) 8:25

63 Happy Mondays - Loose Fit 5:05

64 The Farm - Love See No Colour (Single Remix) 3:58

65 The Stone Roses - Made of Stone 4:16

66 The Farm - Mind 4:33

67 Northside - Moody Places (12" Version) 5:51

68 Manic Street Preachers - Motorcycle Emptiness 6:06

69 Inspiral Carpets - Move 3:26

70 The Shamen - Move Any Mountain 3:23

71 Primal Scream - Movin' on Up 3:47

72 New Order - Mr. Disco 4:21

73 Northside - My Rising Star (12" Version) 6:27

74 Sub Sub feat. Melanie Williams - Ain't No Love (Ain't No Use) (Radio Edit) 2:40

75 Frazier Chorus - Nothing (Has Been Proved) (Chad Jackson Mix) 6:18

76 Saint Etienne - Nothing Can Stop Us 4:22

CD06

77 The Stone Roses - One Love (Full Length Version) 7:46

78 Saint Etienne - Only Love Can Break Your Heart 4:32

79 The Charlatans - The Only One I Know 4:00

80 Baby Ford - Oochy Koochy (F.U. Baby Yeh Yeh) (Original 1988 12" Version) 7:46

81 The Beloved - Outerspace Girl 4:49

82 808 State - Pacific State (Original 1989 'Quadrastate' 12" Single Version) 6:29

83 The Future Sound of London - Papua New Guinea (Original 12" Version) 4:59

84 Intastella - People (12" Version) 6:10

85 Saint Etienne - People Get Real 4:45

86 Paris Angels - Perfume (Loved Up) 5:35

87 Flowered Up - Phobia (Marc Angelo Paranoid Mix) 4:58

88 My Jealous God - Pray (12" Version) 4:30

89 The Wendys - Pulling My Fingers Off 4:08

90 Bocca Juniors feat. Anna Haigh - Raise (63 Steps to Heaven) (12" Redskin Rock Mix) 6:05

CD07

91 Electronic - Reality 5:39

92 Jesus Jones - Right Here, Right Now 3:10

93 New Order - Round & Round 4:31

94 New Order - Run 4:31

95 The Other Two - Selfish 4:09

96 The Lightning Seeds - Sense 4:06

97 Northside - Shall We Take a Trip (12" Version) 5:29

98 The Stone Roses - She Bangs the Drums (Original 1989 7" Single Mix) 3:42

99 Inspiral Carpets - She Comes in the Fall 4:10

100 Blur - She's So High 4:46

101 The House of Love - Shine On 4:01

102 James - Sit Down (1991 Re-recording 7" Single Version) 4:04

103 Primal Scream - Slip Inside This House 5:16

104 Utah Saints - Something Good 5:54

105 The Stone Roses - (Song for My) Sugar Spun Sister 3:26

106 Leftfield - Song of Life (Extended Version) 8:44

CD08

107 World of Twist - Sons of the Stage 5:09

108 My Bloody Valentine - Soon (Original 1990 7" Single Mix) 6:57

109 The Bridewell Taxis - Spirit (LFO Decision Remix) 4:42

110 The Charlatans - Sproston Green 5:13

111 Teenage Fanclub - Star Sign (Original 1991 7" Single Edit) 3:52

112 Happy Mondays - Step On 5:17

113 The Farm - Stepping Stone 6:31

114 World of Twist - The Storm (7" Single Edit) 3:27

115 Candy Flip - Strawberry Fields Forever 4:09

116 Bocca Juniors feat. Anna Haigh and Katherine Wood - Substantially Soulful (12" Weatherall Mix) 8:35

117 The Beloved - The Sun Rising 5:04

118 The Beloved - Sweet Harmony 5:02

119 World of Twist - Sweets 4:50

120 Northside - Take 5 (7" Single Version) 3:14

121 The Charlatans - Then 4:11

122 The La's - There She Goes 2:42

CD09

123 Blur - There's No Other Way 3:24

124 Inspiral Carpets - This Is How It Feels 3:11

125 The Stone Roses - This Is the One 5:01

126 The KLF feat. Maxine Harvey - 3 a.m. Eternal (Original 1989 12" Single Version) 5:59

127 The Beloved - Time After Time 4:13

128 The La's - Timeless Melody 3:01

129 DNA feat. Suzanne Vega - Tom's Diner (12" Version) 5:28

130 Ride - Twisterella 3:42

131 EMF - Unbelievable 3:30

132 Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy (Paul Oakenfold Perfecto Mix) 5:14

133 The High - Up and Down 4:53

134 The Beloved - Up, Up and Away 6:02

135 New Order - Vanishing Point 5:17

136 Ride - Vapour Trail 4:18

137 The Farm - Very Emotional 6:25

138 A Guy Called Gerald - Voodoo Ray 4:26

139 The Beloved - Wake Up Soon 5:04

CD10

140 Kirsty MacColl feat. Johnny Marr and Aniff Cousins - Walking Down Madison (Full-Length Album Version) 6:35

141 Frazier Chorus - Walking on Air 3:01

142 The Stone Roses - Waterfall (Paul Oakenfold & Steve Osborne 12" Remix) 5:34

143 Flowered Up - Weekender (Original 1992 12" Single Version) 12:56

144 The Charlatans - Weirdo 3:44

145 The Stone Roses - What the World Is Waiting For 3:52

146 The KLF - What Time Is Love? (7" Radio Edit) 3:34

147 Alison Limerick - Where Love Lives (Original 1990 Classic Mix) 6:56

148 Milltown Brothers - Which Way Should I Jump? 3:54

149 The Charlatans - White Shirt 3:25

150 The Real People - Window Pane 3:34

151 Happy Mondays - Wrote for Luck 6:05

152 The Source feat. Candi Staton - You Got the Love (Original Bootleg Mix) 6:53

153 The Beloved - Your Love Takes Me Higher 3:39

CD11

154 The Stone Roses - Fools Gold (Original 1989 12" Single Version) 9:53

155 Oasis - Live Forever 4:36

156 Cast - Alright 3:37

157 Supergrass - Alright 3:01

158 Suede - Animal Nitrate 3:28

159 Manic Street Preachers - Australia 4:04

160 Saint Etienne - Avenue 7:33

161 Pulp - Babies 4:05

162 Space feat. Cerys Matthews - The Ballad of Tom Jones 4:11

163 Suede - Beautiful Ones 3:51

164 The Divine Comedy - Becoming More Like Alfie 2:58

165 Blur - Beetlebum 5:05

166 Menswear - Being Brave 4:04

167 Radiohead - The Bends 4:05

168 The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony 5:58

169 Cornershop - Brimful of Asha (Norman Cook Radio Edit Remix) 4:00

170 Supergrass - Caught by the Fuzz 2:16

CD12

171 The Lightning Seeds - Change 4:00

172 Paul Weller - The Changingman 3:30

173 Blur - Charmless Man 3:34

174 Shed Seven - Chasing Rainbows 4:23

175 Supergrass - Cheapskate 2:43

176 Blur - Chemical World (Radio Edit) 3:53

177 Oasis - Cigarettes & Alcohol 4:49

178 Blur - Coffee & TV (Radio Edit) 5:19

179 Pulp - Common People 5:50

180 Elastica - Connection 2:18

181 Blur - Country House 3:57

182 The Bluetones - Cut Some Rug 4:36

183 Echobelly - Dark Therapy 4:46

184 Ocean Colour Scene - The Day We Caught the Train 3:12

185 Menswear - Daydreamer 2:17

186 Manic Street Preachers - A Design for Life 4:20

187 Pulp - Disco 2000 4:33

188 Pulp - Do You Remember the First Time? 4:20

189 Oasis - Don't Look Back in Anger 4:49

CD13

190 Rialto - Dream Another Dream 3:20

191 Republica - Drop Dead Gorgeous 3:32

192 Suede - The Drowners 4:10

193 The Verve - The Drugs Don't Work 5:04

194 Blur - End of a Century 2:45

195 Manic Street Preachers - The Everlasting 6:07

196 The Divine Comedy - Everybody Knows (Except You) 3:48

197 Manic Street Preachers - Everything Must Go 3:41

198 Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees 4:51

199 Space - Female of the Species 3:20

200 The Boo Radleys - Find the Answer Within 4:33

201 Embrace - Fireworks 3:57

202 Gene - For the Dead 3:26

203 Blur - For Tomorrow 4:21

204 The Divine Comedy - The Frog Princess 5:12

205 Northern Uproar - From a Window 3:17

206 Shed Seven - Getting Better 4:13

207 Ash - Girl from Mars 3:30

208 Edwyn Collins - A Girl Like You 3:54

CD14

209 Blur - Girls and Boys 4:51

210 Supergrass - Going Out 4:16

211 Dodgy - Good Enough 3:57

212 Echobelly - Great Things 3:29

213 Saint Etienne feat. Étienne Daho - He's on the Phone 4:09

214 Kula Shaker - Hey Dude 4:09

215 Radiohead - High and Dry 4:17

216 Saint Etienne - Hobart Paving 4:50

217 Ocean Colour Scene - Hundred Mile High City 3:59

218 Supergrass - I'd Like to Know 4:05

219 Super Furry Animals - Ice Hockey Hair 6:58

220 Manic Street Preachers - If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next 4:51

221 Dodgy - If You're Thinking of Me 4:27

222 Sleeper - Inbetweener 3:20

223 Echobelly - Insomniac 4:15

224 Radiohead - Just 3:54

225 Black Grape - Kelly's Heroes 4:22

226 Echobelly - King of the Kerb 3:59

246 The Auteurs - New French Girlfriend 4:16

CD15

227 Lush - Ladykillers 3:13

228 James - Laid 2:36

229 Supergrass - Late in the Day 4:43

230 The Lightning Seeds - The Life of Riley 4:02

231 Elastica - Line Up 3:15

232 Pulp - Lipgloss 3:35

233 Supergrass - Lose It 2:37

234 The Seahorses - Love Is the Law 3:41

235 The Verve - Lucky Man 4:53

236 The Lightning Seeds - Lucky You 4:19

237 Supergrass - Mansize Rooster 2:34

238 Space - Me and You Versus the World 3:39

239 Suede - Metal Mickey 3:27

240 Pulp - Mis-Shapes 3:46

241 Rialto - Monday Morning 5:19 3:53

242 Catatonia - Mulder and Scully 4:11

243 Radiohead - My Iron Lung 4:36

244 Placebo - Nancy Boy (Radio Edit) 3:20

246 The Divine Comedy - National Express 5:06

CD16

247 Dubstar - Not So Manic Now 4:29

248 Echo & the Bunnymen - Nothing Lasts Forever 3:57

249 Ash - Oh Yeah 4:46

250 Gene - Olympian (Single Edit) 4:47

251 Longpigs - On and On 4:08

252 The Charlatans - One to Another 4:27

253 Blur - Parklife 3:05

254 Pulp - Pencil Skirt 3:11

255 The Divine Comedy - The Pop Singers Fear of the Pollen Count 3:54

256 Blur - Popscene 3:14

257 Kenickie - Punka 3:06

258 Pulp - Razzmatazz 3:40

259 Republica - Ready to Go (1997 Radio Edit Remix) 3:40

260 New Order - Regret (Original 1993 London Records 7" Single Version) 4:10

261 Supergrass - Richard III 3:13

262 Ocean Colour Scene - The Riverboat Song 4:52

263 Catatonia - Road Rage 5:08

264 Oasis - Rock 'n' Roll Star 5:23

265 Oasis - Roll with It 3:58

CD17

266 Sleeper - Sale of the Century 4:31

267 Suede - Saturday Night 4:31

268 James - Say Something 3:27

269 James - She's a Star 3:40

270 The Auteurs - Showgirl 4:08

271 Lush - Single Girl 2:35

272 Marion - Sleep 3:05

273 The Bluetones - Slight Return 3:19

274 Suede - So Young 3:39

275 Oasis - Some Might Say 5:29

276 Super Furry Animals - Something 4 the Weekend 2:53

277 Pulp - Something Changed 3:18

278 The Divine Comedy - Something for the Weekend 4:19

279 Blur - Song 2 2:01

280 The Verve - Sonnet 4:21

281 Pulp - Sorted for E's & Wizz 3:37

282 Saint Etienne - Spring 3:44

283 Oasis - Stand by Me 5:59

284 Dubstar - Stars 4:10

285 The Auteurs - Starstruck 3:01

CD18

286 Suede - Stay Together (Edit) 4:20

287 Oasis - Stay Young 5:08

288 Hurricane #1 - Step Into My World 5:00

289 Blur - Stereotypes 3:12

290 Radiohead - Street Spirit (Fade Out) 4:13

291 Mansun - Stripper Vicar (Single Edit) 4:09

292 Elastica - Stutter 2:24

293 Rialto - Summer's Over 4:40

294 Supergrass - Sun Hits the Sky 4:55

295 Oasis - Supersonic 4:43

296 Kula Shaker - Tattva 3:47

297 Pulp - This Is Hardcore 6:24

298 Blur - To the End 4:04

299 Suede - Trash 4:07

300 Powder - 20th Century Gods 2:50

301 Pulp - Underwear 4:05

302 Blur - The Universal 3:58

303 Rialto - Untouchable 4:14

304 The Boo Radleys - Wake Up Boo! (Single Edit) 3:07

CD19

305 Elastica - Waking Up 3:12

306 Cast - Walkaway 3:50

307 Sleeper - What Do I Do Now? 3:40

308 Monaco - What Do You Want from Me? 3:52

309 Oasis - Whatever 6:22

310 Mansun - Wide Open Space 4:32

311 Suede - The Wild Ones 4:46

312 Oasis - Wonderwall 4:18

313 McAlmont & Butler - Yes 4:54

314 Paul Weller - You Do Something to Me 3:34

315 Placebo - You Don't Care About Us 3:56

316 Babybird - You're Gorgeous 3:43

317 Saint Etienne - You're in a Bad Way (Alan Tarney 7" Single Version) 3:03

318 Oasis - Champagne Supernova 7:30

319 Arctic Monkeys - I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor 2:52

320 Radiohead - Airbag 4:44

321 Editors - All Sparks 3:32

322 Embrace - All You Good Good People 6:07

CD20

323 The Kooks - Always Where I Need to Be 2:41

324 Elbow - Any Day Now 6:18

325 Embrace - Ashes 4:22

326 Elbow - Asleep in the Back 3:43

327 The Enemy - Away from Here 3:01

328 Keane - A Bad Dream 5:02

329 Saint Etienne - The Bad Photographer 4:00

330 Arctic Monkeys - The Bakery 2:56

331 Bloc Party - Banquet 3:19

332 Stereophonics - The Bartender and the Thief 2:54

333 Shack - Beautiful 3:22

334 3 Colours Red - Beautiful Day 4:19

335 Keane - Bedshaped 4:35

336 Keane - Bend and Break 3:38

337 Geneva - Best Regrets 4:07

338 Hard-Fi - Better Do Better 4:38

339 Arctic Monkeys - Bigger Boys and Stolen Sweethearts 2:58

340 Doves - Black and White Town 4:16

341 Editors - Blood 3:27

342 Starsailor - Born Again (Radio Edit) 4:44

CD21

343 Gomez - Bring it On (Radio Edit) 3:56

344 Feeder - Buck Rogers 3:13

345 Editors - Bullets 3:13

346 Ash - Burn Baby Burn 3:29

347 Hard-Fi - Can't Get Along (Without You) 3:00

348 The Libertines - Can't Stand Me Now 3:24

349 Keane - Can't Stop Now 3:38

350 Ash - Candy 4:51

351 Hard-Fi - Cash Machine (Radio Edit) 3:44

352 Doves - Catch the Sun 4:49

353 Doves - Caught by the River 5:56

354 Arctic Monkeys - A Certain Romance 5:26

355 Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars 4:27

356 The Fratellis - Chelsea Dagger 3:35

357 Snow Patrol - Chocolate 3:11

358 Coldplay - Clocks 5:07

359 Travis - Closer 4:00

360 Kasabian - Club Foot 3:34

361 Embrace - Come Back to What You Know 4:10

CD22

362 Travis - Coming Around 3:07

363 Arctic Monkeys - Cornerstone 3:17

364 Snow Patrol - Crack the Shutters 3:22

365 Keane - Crystal Ball 3:53

366 Stereophonics - Dakota 4:57

367 Toploader - Dancing in the Moonlight (Stargate Radio Mix) 3:30

368 Franz Ferdinand - The Dark of the Matinée 4:05

369 Franz Ferdinand - Darts of Pleasure 3:00

370 Keane - Disconnected 3:57

371 Arctic Monkeys - Do Me a Favour 3:27

372 Franz Ferdinand - Do You Want To 3:36

373 Arctic Monkeys - Don't Forget Whose Legs You're On 3:35

374 The Libertines - Don't Look Back into the Sun 2:58

375 Travis - Driftwood 3:34

376 Kasabian - Empire 3:23

377 Editors - An End Has a Start 3:44

378 Keane - Everybody's Changing 3:36

379 Radiohead - Everything in Its Right Place 4:11

380 Kaiser Chiefs - Everything Is Average Nowadays 2:42

381 Suede - Everything Will Flow 4:40

382 Arctic Monkeys - Fake Tales of San Francisco 3:01

383 Franz Ferdinand - The Fallen (Radio Edit) 2:47

CD23

384 Kasabian - Fire 4:13

385 Arctic Monkeys - 505 4:13

386 Travis - Flowers in the Window 3:28

387 Arctic Monkeys - Fluorescent Adolescent 2:57

388 Starsailor - Four to the Floor 3:51

389 Arctic Monkeys - From the Ritz to the Rubble 3:11

390 Geneva - Further 4:52

391 Gomez - Get Miles 5:16

392 Gomez - Get Myself Arrested 4:03

393 Embrace - A Glorious Day 3:52

394 Coldplay - God Put a Smile upon Your Face 4:57

395 Maximo Park - Going Missing 3:42

396 Starsailor - Good Souls 4:58

397 Elbow - Grace Under Pressure 4:49

398 Maximo Park - Graffiti 3:05

399 Embrace - Gravity 4:40

400 Athlete - Half Light 3:38

401 Hard-Fi - Hard to Beat 4:15

402 Stereophonics - Have a Nice Day 3:25

CD24

403 Bloc Party - Helicopter 3:40

404 Radiohead - How to Disappear Completely 5:56

405 Embrace - I Can't Come Down 4:14

406 The Pigeon Detectives - I Can't Control Myself 2:46

407 The Pigeon Detectives - I Found Out 2:07

408 Kaiser Chiefs - I Predict a Riot 3:52

409 Embrace - I Wouldn't Wanna Happen to You 3:49

410 The Pigeon Detectives - I'm Not Sorry 3:42

411 Coldplay - In My Place 3:47

412 The Coral - In the Morning 2:35

413 Geneva - Into the Blue 3:24

414 Keane - Is It Any Wonder? 3:05

415 James - Just Like Fred Astaire 3:45

416 Stereophonics - Just Looking 4:14

417 Radiohead - Karma Police 4:21

418 Embrace - Keeping 4:32

419 Kasabian - L.S.F. (Lost Souls Forever) 3:17

420 Radiohead - Let Down 4:59

421 Bloc Party - Little Thoughts 3:27

422 Hard-Fi - Living for the Weekend 3:44

423 Stereophonics - Local Boy in the Photograph 3:19

CD25

424 Embrace - Looking As You Are 4:06

425 The Feeling - Love It When You Call 3:35

426 Idlewild - Love Steals Us from Loneliness 3:14

427 Keane - The Lovers Are Losing 5:04

428 Radiohead - Lucky 4:19

429 Embrace - Make It Last 4:23

430 Doves - The Man Who Told Everything (Summer Version) 5:41

431 Arctic Monkeys - Mardy Bum 2:53

432 Kaiser Chiefs - Modern Way 4:03

433 The Automatic - Monster 3:42

434 Travis - More Than Us 3:58

435 Editors - Munich 3:49

436 Travis - My Eyes 4:08

437 The Kooks - Naive 3:26

438 Shack - Natalie's Party 3:50

439 Embrace - Nature's Law 4:07

440 The Feeling - Never Be Lonely 3:32

441 Radiohead - No Surprises 3:48

442 The Courteeners - No You Didn't, No You Don't 3:58

443 The Courteeners - Not Nineteen Forever (Radio Edit) 3:23

CD26

444 Keane - Nothing in My Way 4:00

445 Kaiser Chiefs - Oh My God 3:35

446 Keane - On a Day Like Today 5:27

447 Elbow - One Day Like This 6:40

448 Blur - Out of Time 3:53

449 Radiohead - Paranoid Android 6:24

450 Stereophonics - Pick a Part That's New 3:32

451 Bloc Party - Pioneers 3:35

452 Starsailor - Poor Misguided Fool 3:49

453 Bloc Party - Positive Tension 3:54

454 Doves - Pounding 4:46

455 Elbow - Powder Blue 4:30

456 Arctic Monkeys - Red Light Indicates Doors Are Secured 2:23

457 Arctic Monkeys - Riot Van 2:15

458 The Pigeon Detectives - Romantic Type 2:37

459 Snow Patrol - Run 5:56

460 Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head 5:51

461 Echo & the Bunnymen - Rust 5:26

CD27

462 The Pigeon Detectives - Say It Like You Mean It 2:44

463 Coldplay - The Scientist 5:09

464 The Feeling - Sewn 5:55

465 The Kooks - She Moves in Her Own Way 2:49

466 Suede - She's in Fashion 4:52

467 Ash - Shining Light 5:10

468 Coldplay - Shiver 4:59

469 Travis - Side 3:55

470 Starsailor - Silence Is Easy 3:40

471 Keane - Silenced by the Night 3:16

472 Travis - Sing 3:49

473 The Supernaturals - Smile 3:43

474 Editors - Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors 4:59

475 Doves - Snowden (Rich Costey Mix) 4:11

476 Bloc Party - So Here We Are 3:53

477 Embrace - Someday 5:38

478 Ash - Sometimes 4:09

479 Keane - Somewhere Only We Know 3:55

CD28

480 Coldplay - Speed of Sound 4:48

481 Muse - Starlight 4:01

482 Stereophonics - Step on My Old Size Nines 3:57

483 Arctic Monkeys - Still Take You Home 3:10

484 Radiohead - Subterranean Homesick Alien 4:29

485 Hard-Fi - Suburban Knights 4:31

486 Muse - Supermassive Black Hole 3:31

487 The Other Two - Super Highways 5:03

488 Saint Etienne - Sylvie 4:02

489 The Pigeon Detectives - Take Her Back 3:17

490 Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out 3:59

491 The Courteeners - Take Over the World 3:44

492 The Music - Take the Long Road and Walk It 4:53

493 Coldplay - Talk 5:11

494 Embrace - Target 4:28

495 Feeder - Tender 4:14

496 The Courteeners - That Kiss 3:47

497 Doves - There Goes the Fear 6:56

CD29

498 Ash - There's a Star 4:22

499 Coldplay - Things I Don't Understand 4:53

500 Franz Ferdinand - This Fire 3:34

501 Arctic Monkeys - This House Is a Circus 3:11

502 Keane - This Is the Last Time 3:27

503 Starsailor - This Time 3:31

504 Hard-Fi - Tied Up Too Tight 4:50

505 The Libertines - Time for Heroes 2:39

506 Gay Dad - To Earth with Love 5:04

507 Athlete - Tourist 3:55

508 Geneva - Tranquillizer 3:33

509 Coldplay - Trouble 4:30

510 Feeder - Tumble and Fall 4:20

511 Travis - Turn 4:24

512 The Libertines - Up the Bracket 2:38

513 The Zutons - Valerie 3:55

514 Arctic Monkeys - The View from the Afternoon 3:38

515 Coldplay - Viva la Vida 4:02

516 Franz Ferdinand - Walk Away 3:36

517 Ash - Walking Barefoot 4:12

CD30

518 Coldplay - Warning Sign 5:31

519 Keane - We Might as Well Be Strangers 3:12

520 Coldplay - What If 4:57

521 The Courteeners - What Took You So Long? 3:39

522 Arctic Monkeys - When the Sun Goes Down 3:20

523 Travis - Where You Stand 3:39

524 Gomez - Whippin' Piccadilly 3:12

525 Coldplay - White Shadows 5:28

526 Travis - Why Does It Always Rain on Me? 4:24

527 Athlete - Wires 4:17

528 Embrace - Wonder 4:26

529 Travis - Writing to Reach You 3:42

530 Coldplay - Yellow 4:29

531 Kaiser Chiefs - You Can Have It All 4:22

532 Idlewild - You Held the World in Your Arms 3:22

533 The Pigeon Detectives - You Know I Love You 3:03

534 Embrace - You're Not Alone 4:30

535 Coldplay - Fix You (Radio Edit) 4:57

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