BIG BLASTS FROM THE PAST – 10 Classic Albums Turning 30 In 2025
28 December 2024
Band: OASIS
Album: (What’s The Story) Morning Glory?
Their 2nd one. The best-selling
album of the 90s in the UK.
Rolling Stone said: “What’s the Story is more than a natural progression, it’s
a bold leap forward that displays significant musical and personal growth.”
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Band: RADIOHEAD
Album: The Bends
Their second LP. It peaked at
#7 in the UK and #88 in the US.
NME wrote: “Radiohead clearly resolved to make an album
so stunning it would make people forget their own name,
never mind ‘Creep’.”
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Artist: PJ HARVEY
Album: To Bring You My Love
Her 3rd one. #12 in the UK.
The Independent (British newspaper): “Harvey’s performance makes the record stand out from its peers. A threatening, nightmarish creature. Imagine Siouxsie and the Bad Seeds”
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Band: BLACK GRAPE
Featuring 2 Happy Mondays.
Bez and Shaun Ryder.
Album: It’s Great When You’re Straight…
Their debut longplayer. No. 1 in the UK.
VOX (British music monthly): “Black Grape buzz with the
life-affirming, innovative, fuck-you spirit of true rock’n’roll”.
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Artist: TRICKY
Album: Maxinquaye
The debut of former
Massive Attack member.
Q (British music monthly): “A highly inventive and intoxicating collection.
With this debut, Tricky proves himself to be more challenging and eclectic
than his peers”.
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Band: PULP
Album: Different Class
The 5th one of the Sheffield, led by Jarvis Cocker.
No. 1 in the UK, No. 44 in the USA.
Melody Maker (former British weekly): “Bloody essential. The album’s title
alone announces that Cocker’s broadened his scope, has another axe to grind:
social
antagonism.”
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Band: LEFTFIELD
Album: LEFTISM
London-based duo’s
debut LP.
NME said: “There’s a scope and spirit, an energy and a madness to ‘Leftism’ which’ll
make it one of the few dance derived that’ll stay up there, bouncing around in the great
echo chamber of futurity for years.
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Band: GARBAGE
Album: Garbage
The Scottish/American team’s 1st one.
No. 1 in the UK, No. 20 in the US.
AllMusic: “Garbage’s self-titled debut has all the trappings of alternative rock, off-kilter arrangements, occasional bursts of noise, a female singer with a thin, airy voice but it
comes off as pop, thanks to the glossy production courtesy of drummer Butch Vig.”
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Band: THE SMASHING PUMKINGS
Album: Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness
3rd longplayer, a double one. No. 1 in the US, and the UK.
Time USA said: “The group’s most ambitious and accomplished work yet. One gets the feeling that the band charged ahead on gut instincts; the sheer scope of the album (28 songs) didn’t allow for second-guessing or contrivance.”
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Band: THE CHARLATANS
Album: THE CHARLATANS
Their 4th LP. #1 in the UK.
NME wrote: “It feels unequivocally like a statement of intent. With the various
influences, the band was capable of absorbing the sensibility wholesale, while
leaving the incriminating specifics alone.”
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