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I've featured a lot of pictures looking north on Elizabeth Street, but from memory this is one of the few taken looking south. This was taken on Thursday, at around 4:30 pm, as I am grumpy waiting for the 4:20 express.

Sunday Top Five!

A wisp of melancholy and an intense feeling of being old accompanied my oversight of a "best singles on the past decade" list online yesterday evening. More precisely, I either failed to recognise, or flippantly dismissed most of the entries.

You see, my formative musical years happened some time prior to the year 2000. Thus, today's list. In chronological order, I present to you My Five Favourite Record Albums of the 1990s!
U2: Achtung Baby

R.E.M.: Automatic for the People

Pulp: Different Class

Radiohead: OK Computer

Wilco: Summerteeth


Just missing the cut were a long list, culled to a very short list that included: Manic Street Preachers' The Holy Bible; Portishead's Dummy; Guided by Voices' Alien Lanes; Pavement's Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain; Radiohead's The Bends; and Spiritualized's Ladies and Gentlemen, We Are Floating in Space.

No place for the Macarena, unfortunately.

What else have I missed? Who have I dissed?

Feel free to voice your dissatisfaction.
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Frank said…
You may feel Father Time's weighty hand on your shoulder now but wait until you realize the latest list of Golden Oldies is too recent to include your favorites.
23 August 2009 at 10:59
Sue said…
I am in awe that you can condense a whole decade of music into just a list of five! I am hopeless at that sort of thing...trying to choose only a handful! That's why I end up not doing lists.
23 August 2009 at 15:03
Kris McCracken said…
Frank, it is a cruel truth.
24 August 2009 at 09:46
Kris McCracken said…
Sue, I could have easily done a top 200, but that would take too long...
24 August 2009 at 09:46
findingmywingsinlife said…
I would have to say I'm in agreement with R.E.M.'s Automatic for the People. I wore out the cassette tape I had of that album.
25 August 2009 at 06:39
Kris McCracken said…
Findingmywingsinlife, a terribly good album that. However, it is interesting how I still hate The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight today almost as much as I did in 1992...
25 August 2009 at 13:28
Vince said…
I really enjoyed some of that neo-rock grunge stuff that came out in the 90s like Pearl Jam's ten and Vitalogy, Nirvana's Nevermind and my favourite of that genre from the period: Superunknown by Soundgarden, with one of my favourite songs of all time Black Hole Sun (in D tuning an' all ....)

I may have put Powderfinger's Internationalist, Crowded House's Together Alone, and Rage Against The Machine's self-titled album in, as well.

Midnight Oil's Blue Sky Mining is one of my real favourites, too...

the list would go on...of course

I would have to put "Pink Floyd" (even w/o Waters) Pulse live set in my top five. Such an awesome sound.
27 August 2009 at 20:43
Kris McCracken said…
No room for Simply Red, Vince?
28 August 2009 at 13:26
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