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Put your iTunes/Winamp/Windows Media Player/whatever on Shuffle and list the next thirty songs that come up. No cheating to make yourself look cool!


1. Filmovi// Autopark
2. The Smallest Weird Number // Boards of Canada
3. Haltura// Gogol Bordello
4. bassic // Touane
5. Poor Leno (Royksopp's Istanbul Forever Take) // Röyksopp
6. Starman // David Bowie
7. Foreground// Grizzly Bear
8. Aisha// Death in Vegas
9. kissabillity// Sonic Youth
10. Ehh Stop (Original Mix) // Christian Burkhardt
11. Filth-Dancin' // Terry Francis
12. The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song // The Flaming Lips
13. Only This Moment // Röyksopp
14. Rocco // Death in Vegas
15. Monkey Man // Amy Winehouse
16. Eple (Boris And Michi's Eplistic-Scratch-Attack) // Röyksopp
17. Ballet for a Rainy Day // XTC
18. The Prayer (Bloc Party cover) // KT Tunstall
19. Blue Thunder // Galaxie 500
20. Tiger Mountain Peasant Song // Fleet Foxes
21. Street Flash // Animal Collective
22. On My Own // Splitting Adam
23. In The Ditch // Gang of Four
24. Modern Timing // Róisín Murphy
25. Braunovo Kretanje // Obojeni program
26. We Walk // The Ting Tings
27. Da se ne namagnetišu // Pionir 10
28. A Design For Life // Manic Street Preachers
29. The Bends // Radiohead
30. Sve da zaboravim // Repetitor

QUESTIONS:

1. Which song do you prefer, ..1 or ..30?
+ 30. Vrhunska pesma, a Autopark ima i svetlijih trenutaka od "Filmova".

2. Have you ever listened to ..12 continuously on repeat?
+ No.

3. What album is ..26 from?
+ Don't Know.

4. What do you think about the artist who did ..15?
+ Crazy :) Good voice, though.

5. Is ..19 one of your favorite songs?
+ Ma kakvi, mozda drugi put je cujem.. i ne svidja mi se. :)

6. Who does ..28 remind you of?
+ Some people i met at Exitfest. :)

7. Does ..20 have better lyrics or music?
+ Music.

8. Do any of your friends like ..3?
+ Ne poznajem ljude koji vole Gogolja. :D

9. Is ..23 from a movie soundtrack?
+ No. I guess.

10. Is ..18 overplayed on the radio?
+ Probably not.

11. What does ..21 remind you of?
+ Na vecernju setnju oko naselja.

12. Which do you prefer, ..5 or ..22?
+ 5. Never heard 22 before and (with shuffle option off) never will again. :)

13. What album is ..17 from?
+ Skylarking

14. When did you first hear ..13?
+ Two years ago... maybe.

15. What genre is ..8?
+ Trip-hop, otprilike

16. What is your favourite lyric from ...3?
+ Don't know the lyrics

17. What colour does ..4 remind you of?
+ Grey.

18. Have you ever blasted ..11 on your stereo?
+ Yes. No point playing this kind of music if you're not feeling the bass. :)

19. What genre is ..7?
+ Poseban pravac, jako popularan: Experimental (ali ne previse, kako bi ostali deo indie-rock scene)

20. Can you play ..13 on any instrument?
+ Tesko. :D

21. What is your favorite lyric from ..30?
+ Malo teksta, tako da ceo:
sve da zaboravim
ostalo je protiv mene
kako da im oprostim
ispocetka žele
ulice za hodanje
grad u kom se gubiš
velike prostore
krovove da rusim

22. What is your favorite lyric from ..23?
+ Show me a ditch and I'll dive it
I'll feel safe beyond the cares of the world

23. Would you recommend ..24 to your friends?
+ Yes.

24. Is ..2 a good song to dance to?
+ Ne. Za nesto preko minuta, tesko da ces stici da pokazes pokrete. :)

25. Do you ever hear ..16 on the radio?
+ Jok. Cuo sam mozda original par puta.

26. Is ..22 more of a nighttime or daytime song?
+ Ni danju ni nocu.

27. Does ..16 have any special meaning to you?
+ Da, to je jedina norveska rec cije znacenje znam. :)

28. Do any of your friends like ..1?
+ Yes.

29. Is ..25 a fast or slow song?
+ mid-tempo? :D

30. Is ..5 a happy or sad song?
+ Tuzna bre! Jadan Leno. :'(

31. What is one of your favorite lyrics from ..9?
+ Look into my eyes, don't you dis' me
You're so good, you could go far
I'll put you in a movie, don't you wanna
You could be a star, you could go far

32. Is ..14 better to listen to alone or with friends?
+ With somebody.

33. When did you first hear ..27?
+ Kad je Pionir 10 dao album za besplatan download. Letos valjda.

34. Name 3 other songs by the artist who did ..29?
+ All I Need, Creep, Lucky

35. Do you know all the words to ..6?
+ Nope, I don't.

36. Does ..28 have better lyrics or music?
+ Music

37. What album is ..10 from?
+ Nemam pojma. Kod mene je na nekom Magdinom top 10.

Been meaning to do this for years - here's an incomplete list of bands I've seen at least once. Good or absolutely shite, they all make the list. Bold type denotes artists that I've had the pleasure of seeing more than once.

A
Adem
The Airborne Toxic Event
Alabama 3
The Aliens
All About Eve
Lily Allen
Dot Allison
Alpha
Amusement Parks on Fire
Annuals
Arab Strap
Architecture in Helsinki
Arctic Monkeys
Arrested Development
Asian Dub Foundation
B
Badly Drawn Boy
Banco de Gaia
Basement Jaxx
Bat for Lashes
The Bays
The Beat
The Beastie Boys
The Beautiful South
Beck
Beep Beep
Belle and Sebastian
Ben Folds Five
Bent
The Besnard Lakes
Big Country
Black Kids
Blondie
Blur
The Bodines
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
The Boy Least Likely To
Billy Bragg
Brainiac
Bright Eyes
The Brilliant Corners
Broken Spindles
Ian Brown
Tim Burgess
Bernard Butler
C
Terry Callier
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan
Carrie
Carter USM
Martin Carthy
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
Cast
Caterwaul
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
The Charlatans
The Charlottes
Chas N Dave
Cherry Ghost
The Cinematic Orchestra
Ross Clark & the Scarfs Go Missing
The Clerks
Clinic
The Close Lobsters
Coldcut
Coldplay
John Cooper Clarke
The Cooper Temple Clause
The Coral
Elvis Costello
Cousteau
Cranebuilders
Crazyhead
The Creatures
CUD
The Cure
D
The Darling Buds
The Datsuns
Death in Vegas
The Delgados
Delphic
Dodgy
Doves
Dreadzone
Dub Pistols
Dubtribe Sound System
Durutti Column
Bob Dylan
E
Steve Earle
Echo and the Bunnymen
Echoboy
The Eighteenth Day of May
Elbow
Electrafixion
Electric Soft Parade
Electric Sound Of Joy
Embrace
F
Fairport Convention
Th' Faith Healers
Faithless
Faith No More
The Fall
Fields of the Nephilim
Five Thirty
The Flaming Lips
Florence & The Machine
Foo Fighters
Four Tet
The Free Association
Friendly Fires
Frightened Rabbit
Fun Loving Criminals
The Futureheads
G
Ganger
Gaye Bykers on Acid
Ghost Dance
Glasvegas
Global Communication
Godflesh
Goldrush
Gomez
Jose Gonzalez
Gorkys Zygotic Mynci
The Go! Team
Grand Drive
Grass-Show
The Grave Architects
Gravenhurst
Al Green
Green on Red
Groove Armada
Guillemots
Guns N' Roses
H
Nick Harper
Rolf Harris
The Heart-throbs
Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid
The Matthew Herbert Big Band
Kristin Hersh
The Hidden Cameras
Micah P. Hinson
Hole
Jools Holland
Holy Fuck
House of Brothers
The House of Love
The Housemartins
Howlin' Rain
The Hunters Club
I
I Am Kloot
Idlewild
Interpol
Iron And Wine
It Bites
J
The Jack Rubies
Matthew Jay
The Jesus and Mary Chain
Jesus Jones
Johnny Domino
Joolz
K
Keane
The Killers
David Kitt
Kula Shaker
L
Lambchop
Leatherface
Leaves
The Levellers
The Libertines
Loop
Low
Lowgold
Lush
M
The Magic Numbers
Magnolia Electric Co.
The Majesticons
Manic Street Preachers
Mansun
Maps
Marillion
Marion
J Mascis
Massive Attack
Mega City Four
The Memory Band
The Men They Couldn't Hang
Mercury Rev
MGMT
Mia Doi Todd
The Mighty Lemon Drops
The Mission
Modest Mouse
Mono
The Montrose Avenue
John Moore And The Expressway
Morrissey
The Motorcycle Boy
Bob Mould
Mudhoney
My Bloody Valentine
Ralph Myerz and the Jack Herren Band
Mylo
N
The National
The Necks
Ned's Atomic Dustbin
The New Folk Implosion
New Model Army
New Order
Joanna Newsom
Scout Niblett
Nirvana
Now It's Overhead
O
Oasis
Okkervil River
Ooberman
Orbital
Beth Orton
P
The Pale Saints
The Parkinsons
Pavement
Penthouse
Pitman
The Pixies
The Pogues
Emma Pollock
Polytechnic
Pond
Pop Will Eat Itself
Primal Scream
The Primitives
The Prodigy
The Prudes
Public Enemy
Pulp
Q
Finlay Quaye
Queens of the Stone Age
R
Radiohead
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
Red Snapper
REM
Reverend and The Makers
Ride
Rival Schools
RJD2
Roots Manuva
Tim Rose
Run DMC
S
Saint Etienne
Saint Joan
Salvation
Samamidon
Ulrich Schnauss
Scott 4
DJ Scotch Egg
Mr Scruff
The Sea and Cake
Seafood
Shack
DJ Shadow
The Shins
Michelle Shocked
The Shortwave Set
Silver Sun
Simian
Six.by Seven
The Sleepy Jackson
Elliott Smith
The Smiths
Snuff
Sonic Youth
Soul II Soul
The Soup Dragons
Space
Spacemen 3
Sparklehorse
Spear of Destiny
Spin Spin The Dogs
Spiritualized
Spring Heel Jack
Starsailor
St. Germain
The Stills
The Stone Roses
The Streets
Joe Strummer
Subkicks
Sugar
The Sugarcubes
Sun Kil Moon
Swans
T
Tapes N Tapes
Teenage Fanclub
The Telescopes
Texas
That Petrol Emotion
Them Crooked Vultures
Richard Thompson
Throwing Muses
Glenn Tilbrook
Tindersticks
The Ting-Tings
Travis
Tricky
Tunng
Turin Brakes
The Twilight Sad
U
Ultrasound
Under Neath What
Underworld
V
The Verve
Voice of the Beehive
W
Martha Wainwright
The Walking Seeds
The Walkmen
The Waterboys
The Wedding Present
We Show Up On Radar
Whistler
White Lies
The White Stripes
Wilco
Robbie Williams
The Wisdom of Harry
Witness
The Wonder Stuff
World Domination Enterprises
The Wurzels
X
X-Press 2
Y
Yam Who
James Yorkston and The Athletes
Z
Zero 7
The Zutons

1. stingrays
2. la onda
3. onda II
4. stingray beats

About

Jakeone, half of Process's first album act Toob, first discovered a love of electronic dance music as a young teenager stumbling around the early 90s free rave scene. Captivated by the energy of Detroit's deep bleeps meeting raucous London breaks and balls-out hardcore techno, he soon started playing the odd record at dirty basement parties and piecing beats together on a cranky old Emu Emax sampler.

The first proper break came landing a job at London's Orinoco Studios working with likes of The Chemical Brothers, Death in Vegas and more importantly the seminal, Warp-signed "fuck-off jazz" band Red Snapper. Jakeone's flair for improvising with machines found a musical ally in Snapper drummer Rich Thair, who asked him to come on board and provide a harder, more electronic edge to the band's already formidable set-up.

At the same time he was cutting his teeth as a solo performer - DJing and playing live techno and electro at London's now infamous Wang parties alongside a lot of electronic music's heavy-hitters including Radioactive Man, Plaid, Mark Broom and Andrew Weatherall. He remains a regular and crowd favourite at their nights, and many key techno acts like Dave Clarke, Laurent Garnier, Billy Nasty and Will Saul are fans of Jake's now defunct label Flameboy - an output for "off-kilter, bastardized club music" by himself as well as like-minded individuals such as Shirker, Radioactive Man, Si Begg and Vicious Pink Goo.

Meanwhile, Jakeone and Rich formed Toob, whose last album, Push Me, Pull You was arguably one of 2008's most criminally over-looked releases. Except by the critics, with Bleep.com calling it the "best leftfield pop album of 2008" and DJ mag called it "one of the best electronic dance albums of the year". Even rocker bible Q named it as 2008's "most ambitious dance album". Now also part of what Process calls its "house band" of weirdy remixers, Jake has a set of new remixes and tracks coming in 2009/2010 - alongside this, his first solo EP on the label.

For more details & links, please check out the Process Recordings website.

Reactions

"Real nice indeed" - Drums Of Death

"LaOnda's a really nice track but the 'must play' for me is the stripped down broken beat "tool" version of "Stingray Beats'.. Totally works as a track on it's own and's gonna be fun to mix up..Can't wait to play this one out.. Simple..Effective..Large!" - Jerome Hill

"Sounds really good, pretty techno!" - Matt Walsh

"Great and well creatively produced" - Alec Troniq (Microtonal / Ipoly)

"Feeling the EP" - Spam Chop (Wigflex)

"The EP sounds great! - Really enjoying the tracks." - Tim Simenon (Bomb the Bass)

"Really like Onda II and Stingray Beats particularly......unusual but really effective" - Alex Smoke

"Cool combination of electro and pumping organic techno. I will support for sure" - Laurent Garnier

"I really appreciate getting interesting music in my inbox." - James Holden

"Liking the main Stingrays track great - Granchy noises and that Onda II is mental!" - Jim Masters

""Onda II" is great -- quite intense!" - Philip Sherburne

"Digging the techno-electro-bass of La Onda. Heavy dancefloor potential." - Joe Roberts (DJmag)

"Very good, smooth and yet dangerous bass and good combo" - Dave Clarke

"Cool mix of styles on here and none of it contrived. Yet more excellence from Process." - Mitch Davis (Electric Sheep Records)

"Onda II is very cool" - DJ Dextress

"Really like all the tracks in here.. esp. Stingrays. Top stuff!" - DJ Morpheus

"It is getting darker and harder every day. Very nice one here. I like Stingrays best. Way out of Mars. Alienated techno sound." - Christopher Çolak (Dinamo 103.8 FM - Turkey)

"La Onda is proof that Mr one's time in the hands of kidnappers in Senegal was not wasted. Onda2 is proof that it scarred him deeply. Inspired tracks from a great producer." - Richard Thair (Toob / Red Snapper)

"Very nice cranking techy sounds. Thanks." - Rob Warner (Our House Magazine / Blogger)

"Onda II! Yes!" - Tommy Four Seven

"La Onda has a mad groove!" - DJ Orion (Radio YleX)

"Jakeone is always on the button!" - David Fleming (EQ Magazine)

"Dirty funky & very very good," - Martin Lampitt (Eclectic Chair on RadioReverb)

"Rotation support on BLN.FM radio, Berlin." - Tim Thaler

"Loving the stranger tracks on this release, Onda II and Stingray Beats are both great" - Max Cooper

"I really like Stingrays. Its different from a lot of stuff I get in so that is most definitely a good thing too." - Will Kinsella (Ceoltronic on RTE Pulse Radio)

"Onda II and Stingray Beats are the one for me, support!" - Erwin Kelemen (Plastic Lounge - Freies Radio Freudenstadt)

"Liking the dark vibes of Stingrays." - dillon koenig

"Great techno release. Full support" - Edwin James (Corrugated Tunnel)

"Like Stingrays!!" - Etienne de Crécy

"Stingrays is the one for me" - Dave Clarke

"I love Stingrays..... i like a lot ;-)" - Meat Katie

"Solid tunes, Full support." - Filterwolf

"Loved Toob's second LP and this has a harder/sharper club feel. 'Onda II' is relentless, solid production value on all tracks." - Alex Glen

"Really nice stuff here. Stingrays and La Onda are my favourites, nice old school feeling" - NIC LIU (Love International)

"Onda II is a great techno aggressor, cant wait to play it out tonight." - Colin John

"'Onda II' is really dark!!!" - Baggi Begovic (Los Radio)

"Nice little package... I like La Onda and the Stringray Beats... nice little DJ tool that one..." - Harry Avers (Noice!)

"Squelchy beats, love it" - Stevie Lost Foy (dancemuzik.com)

"Onda II is pretty crazy! And stringray beats are very cool." - Mateo Murphy

"Stringrays = Peak time WEAPON! " - Lewis Ryder

"Stingrays is a great tech house track. Onda II is a nice driving techno beat. Will be playing both of those tracks and supporting this EP." - DJ Tronic

"Stingray Beats is a wicked tool." - Chris Power (Drowned In Sound)

"Onda is good" - DJ Hell

"Stingrays is crazy cool" - Ricky Ryan


-- PROCESS Recordings

Won't put it on my profile, because it's already far too long:



metawirt's top 50 albums (overall)
1. Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth (279)

2. The Gun Club - Fire of Love (222)

3. Die Skeptiker - Harte Zeiten (183)

4. Kevin Blechdom - Eat My Heart Out (165)

5. Gudrun Gut - I Put A Record On (163)

6. Au Pairs - Playing With a Different Sex (162)

7. Attwenger - Dog (161)

8. Von Südenfed - Tromatic Reflexxions (161)

9. Screamin' Jay Hawkins - Cow Fingers And Mosquito Pie (160)

10. Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! (160)

11. Audionom - Retrospektiv (153) 12. Attwenger - Sun (152)

13. Thee Headcoats - Beached Earls (149)

14. Butthole Surfers - Psychic... Powerless... Another Man's Sac (149)

15. Fred Frith - Speechless (149)

16. The Beguiled - Blue Dirge (146)

17. Death From Above 1979 - You're A Woman, I'm A Machine (146)

18. The Gossip - That's Not What I Heard (146)

19. The Jazz Butcher - A Scandal in Bohemia (144)

20. Soul Coughing - Ruby Vroom (144)

21. Hüsker Dü - Zen Arcade (138)

22. Au Pairs - Equal But Different - BBC Sessions 1979-1981 (135)

23. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (135)

24. Grinderman - Grinderman (131)

25. Die Haut - Sweat (130)

26. mclusky - mclusky Do Dallas (128)

27. Big Black - The Hammer Party (125)

28. The Tiger Lillies - Ad Nauseam (124)

29. Red Lorry Yellow Lorry - Paint Your Wagon (124)

30. International Pony - We Love Music (123)

31. Lydia Lunch with the Anubian Lights - Champagne, Cocaine & Nicotine Stains (122)

32. The Jazz Butcher - The Gift Of Music (121)

33. Brian Eno & David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (120)

34. New Bomb Turks - !!Destroy-Oh-Boy!! (120)

35. Andre Williams - The Black Godfather (119)

36. A.K. Klosowski & Pyrolator - Home Taping Is Killing Music (119) 37. Oblivians - Play 9 songs with Mr. Quintron (118)

38. The Tiger Lillies - Low Life Lullabies (118)

39. The Moldy Peaches - The Moldy Peaches (118)

40. Billie Holiday - Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday On Columbia (1933-1944) (117)

41. Death in Vegas - The Contino Sessions (116)

42. Galaxie 500 - Peel Sessions (116)

43. The Martini Henry Rifles - Superbastard (113)

44. Blues Explosion - Damage (113)

45. Fun Lovin' Criminals - Come Find Yourself (112)

46. The Flying Lizards - The Flying Lizards (112)

47. Matmos - The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast (111)

48. The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Now I Got Worry (111)

49. The Jam - At the BBC (111)

50. Camper Van Beethoven - Telephone Free Landslide Victory (109)

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^{My top 500 albums (list) | My top 50 albums (normalized)}

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Previously: My top 200 tracks 1990-99 Pt.01a: 200 to 181
Previously: My top 200 tracks 1990-99 Pt.01b: 180 to 161
Previously: My top 200 tracks 1990-99 Pt.02a: 160 to 141
Previously: My top 200 tracks 1990-99 Pt.02b: 140 to 121
Previously: My top 200 tracks 1990-99 Pt.03a: 120 to 101

100
Girls Against Boys
Kill the Sexplayer
Cruise Yourself
1994

Remarkably one of two bands in todays forty that have two bassists, never a common setup in alternative rock, never mind any other genre. GVSB are one of my favourite bands and have been for many years, despite a now long period of inactivity other than occasional gigs. This single - their commercial breakthrough, really - was featured on the Clerks soundtrack, and it's deep-down-and-dirty grooves are a good representation of where GVSB were at the time. They flirted with electronics and major labels subsequently, but this track comes from the middle of a golden period where the band frankly didn't put a note wrong for three albums.

99
Nine Inch Nails
Somewhat Damaged
The Fragile
1999

The awesome opening track from one of the most self-indulgent, overblown albums I've ever heard (really, this album would have benefitted from being cut down to a single CD - although it would have been some of the vocal tracks I'd cut), this is cleverly built to add one layer at a time before exploding into a trademark freakout for the close. An impressive track live nowadays, too...

98
Pearl Jam
Jeremy
Ten
1992

Still a shocking, powerful song even now, this is a rare example of a video adding to an already astonishing track. Everything about this track has a sense of foreboding, right from the bassline that opens the track, and the lyrics do a great job of giving you an idea of what is going on, but not the whole story, wrapping parts of it in metaphors ("Jeremy spoke in class today") which the video makes explicit at the very end. By a long chalk (in my view) PJ's finest moment, and making an eloquent statement on an issue that was to become rather too common in the media in the following decade or two.

97
Spahn Ranch
Locusts
The Coiled One
1995

Let's be honest - in industrial circles, it seems you either love Spahn Ranch or you really, really don't. I can see how their later stuff, featuring much more in the way of dub and house influences, not to mention some other unexpected directions, could be divisive, but I always thought that The Coiled One was an album that had a slightly wider appeal. Even so, it was chock full of sampled, cyclic guitar riffs, strange-sounding beats that were almost-live-drums-but-not-quite, and then Athan Maroulis' warm but detached vocals. All of these come together to amazing effect for this track (side note: I'd never even known of the existence of this video until writing this...)

96
Rob Zombie
Living Dead Girl
Hellbilly Deluxe
1998

Now an astonishing eleven years old, this track - like all of Zombie's best - hasn't dated a minute. With it's old horror B-movie samples, slinky, bass-heavy prowl, anthemic chorus - not to mention the bonkers video based on The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari - how was this ever going to fail?

95
The Levellers
Liberty Song
Levelling the Land
1991

I was a big Levellers fan in the 90s. No, I didn't have dreadlocks, or a dog on a string, but I did have an appreciation of a nakedly political band who had a good line in folkish-rock. I've seen them live a few times - they have always been an awesome live band - and this rabble-rousing call-to-arms is one of their greatest live tracks and a big fan favourite, even after all these years. Another that I didn't know had a video, too…

94
The Prodigy
Their Law
Music for the Jilted Generation
1994

Talking of protest, this album was a huge statement against the Criminal Justice Act of 1994, and it's most obvious statement was this rocking collaboration with Pop Will Eat Itself: "Fuck 'em and their law". Hulking great beats Prodigy-style, and vocals and guitars PWEI-style. A meeting of minds that worked so well it's amazing it wasn't done again...

93
Radiator
Who Is Your God
Radiator
1998

Another of those bands who had a fleeting glimpse of "fame" and vanished, Radiator were an intriguing electronic/industrial-rock band who only ever made one album (I understand they were another band to suffer from the rash of major label rationalisation at the end of the decade). The album was good, but it was the final, climactic track that was the pick - a steadily build-up, exploding into a techno-metal dancefloor monster, before reaching even greater heights as the song stampedes through just four frantic minutes.

92
Tindersticks
Can We Start Again?
Simple Pleasure
1999

Tindersticks' jazzy, bluesy music is meant for the darkness, for smoky rooms where people go to escape from life…and as such, are perhaps not quite loved as much as they should be. For this album, they introduced a soulful influence that produced this extraordinarily tender single, with Stuart Staples' baritone vocals the utterly perfect match.

91
Will Haven
I've Seen My Fate
El Diablo
1997

An absolutely fearsome live band back when they first appeared on various support bills in the UK (they nearly cleared half the Astoria when supporting Pitchshifter once, they were that loud - a rumbling juggernaut of fury), it was brutal tracks like this sludgy, hardcore monster that sealed our approval. Judging on the oppressiveness and heaviness of this track, the fate forseen was not good, and this was an attempt to simply scare the fates away. Judging on the fact that Grady Avenell has recently rejoined the reformed band, it could be said to have worked well.

90
Kenickie
Punka
At The Club
1994

A bunch of Sunderland teenagers form a band, and write, in the main, songs about going out on the lash. Which made this album marvellous fun - and, it should be added, is one of my girlfriend's favourite albums ever - however this track is where it deviated slightly from the core subject. This track - a three-minute powerpop masterpiece - is a viciously sneering put-down of the mid-90s lo-fi scene and those who were, umm, "more indie than thou". It's not hard to side with Kenickie when they produce a song with this much wit...

89
Ned's Atomic Dustbin
Kill Your Television
God Fodder
1990

Long maligned in the press, this band were always rather better than the music press would have you believe. Their finest moment is still the opening track on their debut, though, a rampaging, two-bass attack seemingly about a somewhat testy relationship that has happily endured twenty years and still sounds great.

88
Björk
One Day
Debut
1993

Björk's first solo album-proper is a wonderfully diverse collection of songs, that gave a good idea of just how broad-minded a musician she was. From frankly odd musings on human nature, to sexuality, to simply losing it in a club, lyrically things were just as strange. At the heart of the album, though, was this gorgeous, tender declaration of love and hope that was a lot less complex than the rest of the album, and in this case all the better for it.

87
Jane's Addiction
Three Days
Ritual de lo Habitual
1990

Jane's most majestic moment, this epic, eleven minute masterpiece is a track worth persevering with. Apparently telling the tale of a lover's tryst involving Perry Farrell and two others, it's lyrics are never exactly candid, but really, this is all about the music. It's vast length allows it to unfold gradually, and is evidence of just how talented a band of musicians JA were. You get guitar solos, bass solos, drum solos, and the most awe-inspiring climax to the song, that was even more extraordinary live when i saw it earlier this year.

86
Pitchshifter
W.Y.S.I.W.Y.G.
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1998

This album was Pitchshifter's big breakthrough to the metal mainstream, moving from their heavier, Godflesh-influenced sound of before into a drum'n'bass-punk-metal hybrid that came along at just the right time. I'm hardly short of highlights to pick from this album, either, such was the strength of it, but I've plumped for the big live favourite that is always welcome to hear. As usual it has a subtle political theme, but for once it's all about the music, the punk charge and then electronic breakdowns with the stomping 'pit finale...

85
Portishead
Strangers
Dummy
1994

One of a number of tracks on this album that sound like they had been beamed in from another planet, so different did they sound at the time - Beth Gibbons' scratchy, distant vocal in the verses, the heavy, lumbering beats for other parts, the exquisite melancholy of it all. What's all the more remarkable is that over fifteen years and three albums, they have never been short of enthralling and unique (try as they might, no band has ever even come close to sounding like Portishead).

84
Tricky
Suffocated Love
Maxinquaye
1995

I'll say more about the wonder that is this album at a later point, so for now I'll concentrate on just the one song. And that one song is this glorious, after-dark lament of two lovers giving their views on a relationship that may or may not be falling apart. Either way, it's a song utterly dripping with lust and eroticism, but never becoming seedy as some songs that try this do.

83
Skinny Puppy
WARLOCKed
Warlock EP
1990

The mighty Puppy's finest five or six minutes (someone is going to slay me for this, I'm sure), I've never had any clue as to what nivek ogre was on about, but no matter - this is an awesome track that is unusually simple in structure for SP. Little more than the thumping beat, the odd synth line and sample, and Ogre's vocals, it's far less dense, and in this case all the better for it - also one of SP's more melodic moments, it's been a staple of the live set for years, and with good reason...

82
Brainiac
Sexual Frustration
Bonsai Superstar
1996

The track that frankly, should have made Brainiac stars. It never quite worked out like that, although by the time Tim Taylor died in a car crash a few years later, they were recording their major-label debut. When the track first starts on record, it's a storm of distortion and Taylor's voice is buried within, but all it takes is one guitar chord for things to snap into focus, and it all kicks off from there. Basically Taylor detailing how he isn't getting any, the music is as chaotic as his mind, going on the lyrics, and in a parallel universe this would have been the all-conquering hit it deserved to be.

81
Death in Vegas
Aisha
The Contino Sessions
1999

This album had an extraordinary amount of praise lavished on it, and that was partly down to the exquisite sound and mood, and also down to the amazing vocal performances gained from the guests that joined in. The pick of them, though, was this utterly demented appearance from Iggy Pop, ranting and raving about a serial killer who may or may not be confined to his head. The low-end rumble of the music matches Iggy's crazy delivery perfectly, and the video is just as fucked up.

Friday: My top 200 tracks 1990-99 Pt.04: 80 to 41

Depeche Mode
Pearl Jam
Feeder
Snow Patrol
Death in Vegas
Kula Shaker
Editors

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1 Them - It's All Over Now Baby Blue
as used in "Basquiat"
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2 Underworld - Born Slippy
as used in "Trainspotting"
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3 Gioacchino Rossini - The Thieving Magpie
as used in "Clockwork Orange"
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4 Love and Rockets - This Heaven
as used in "The Doom Generation"
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5 Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley
as used in "Fritz The Cat"
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6 Tom Waits - Innocent When You Dream (78)
as used in "Smoke"
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7 M.I.A. - Paper Planes
as used in "Slumdog Millionaire"
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8 Dick Dale - Misirlou
as used in "Pulp Fiction"
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9 Simon & Garfunkel - The Only Living Boy in New York
as used in "Garden State"
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10 Stealers Wheel - Stuck In The Middle With You
as used in "Reservoir Dogs"
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11 T. Rex - Cosmic Dancer
as used in "Billie Elliott"
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12 Joy Division - Atmosphere
as used in "Control"
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13 Mulatu Astatke - Yekermo Sew
as used in "Broken Flowers"
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14 Laura Nyro - It's Gonna Take a Miracle
as used in "A Home At The End Of The World"
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15 Iggy Pop - Lust For Life
as used in "Trainspotting"
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16 Bob Dylan - Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again
as used in "Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas"
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17 Wendy Rene - After Laughter (Comes Tears)
as used in "Gegen Die Wand"
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18 Dinah Washington - What A Difference A Day Makes
as used in "Lola Rennt"
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19 Bobby Womack - Across 110th Street
as used in "Jackie Brown"
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20 Iron & Wine - Such Great Heights
as used in "Garden State"
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21 The Stranglers - Golden Brown
as used in "Snatch"
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22 Bob Marley & The Wailers - Is This Love
as used in "In The Name Of The Father"
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23 The Soggy Bottom Boys - I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow
as used in "O Brother Where Art Thou"
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24 The Velvet Underground - Venus In Furs
as used in "The Doors"
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25 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Red Right Hand
as used in "Scream"
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26 The Doors - The End
as used in "Apocalypse Now"
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27 Sam Cooke - A Change Is Gonna Come
as used in "Malcolm X"
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28 DeVotchKa - How It Ends
as used in "Little Miss Sunshine"
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29 Esquivel - Mucha Muchacha
as used in "The Big Lebowski"
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30 Van Morrison - Gloria
as used in "The Outsiders"
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31 Tom Waits - Little Drop of Poison
as used in "Shrek 2"
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32 Bob Marley & The Wailers - Burnin' And Lootin'
as used in "La Haine"
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33 Eddie Vedder - The Wolf
as used in "Into The Wild"
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34 Louis Armstrong - What A Wonderful World
as used in "Bowling For Columbine"
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35 Nancy Sinatra - Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)
as used in "Kill Bill"
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36 Hot Chocolate - You Sexy Thing
as used in "Boogie Nights"
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37 Folk Implosion - Nothing Gonna Stop
as used in "Kids"
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38 Sergei Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No.3
as used in "Shine"
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39 Nine Inch Nails - Closer
as used in "Se7en"
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40 Simon & Garfunkel - Scarborough Fair/Canticle
as used in "The Graduate"
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41 Derek and the Dominos - Layla
as used in "GoodFellas"
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42 Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive
as used in "Airplane"
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43 Death in Vegas - Girls
as used in "Lost In Translation"
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44 Dusty Springfield - Son Of A Preacher Man
as used in "Pulp Fiction"
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45 Ludwig van Beethoven - Für Elise
as used in "Elephant"
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46 Public Enemy - Fight The Power
as used in "Do The Right Thing"
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47 The Pogues - Summer In Siam
as used in "Basquiat"
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48 Smith - Baby It's You
as used in "Death Proof"
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49 Daniel Lanois - The Maker
as used in "Sling Blade"
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50 Harry Nilsson - Coconut
as used in "Reservoir Dogs"
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51 Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit
as used in "Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas"
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52 David Bowie - Cat People
as used in "Inglorious Basterds"
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53 The Pogues - The Old Main Drag
as used in "My Own Private Idaho"
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54 Cowboy Junkies - Sweet Jane
as used in "Natural Born Killers"
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55 Blind Willie Johnson - Let Your Light Shine On Me
as used in "The Ladykillers"
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56 Sigur Rós - Samskeyti
as used in "Mysterious Skin"
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57 Pixies - Where Is My Mind?
as used in "Fight Club"
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58 Santo & Johnny - Sleep Walk
as used in "La Bamba"
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59 Gary Jules - Mad World
as used in "Donnie Darko"
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76 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Requiem
as used in "Amadeus"
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61 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - From Her To Eternity
as used in "Der Himmel Über Berlin"
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62 Marilyn Manson - I Put A Spell On You
as used in "Lost Highway"
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63 Bruce Springsteen - Streets of Philadelphia
as used in "Philadelphia"
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64 Carl Orff - O Fortuna
as used in "The Doors"
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65 Creedence Clearwater Revival - Fortunate Son
as used in "Forrest Gump"
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66 George Gershwin - An American In Paris
as used in "As Good As It Gets"
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67 Seu Jorge - Rebel Rebel
as used in "The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou"
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68 Elliott Smith - Between The Bars
as used in "Good Will Hunting"
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69 The Kinks - Dedicated Follower Of Fashion
as used in "In The Name Of The Father"
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70 Patsy Cline - Crazy
as used in "C.R.A.Z.Y."
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71 Smog - Cold Blooded Old Times
as used in "High Fidelity"
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72 Charles Trenet - La Mer
as used in "The Diving Bell and The Butterfly"
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73 Nine Inch Nails - Dead Souls
as used in "The Crow"
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74 Meat Beat Manifesto - Paradise Now
as used in "The Doom Generation"
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75 U2 - Daddy's Gonna Pay for Your Crashed Car
as used in "The Pillow Book"
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76 Richard Berry - Loui Loui
as used in "Coffee And Cigarettes"
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77 Giacomo Puccini - Madame Butterfly
as used in "Natural Born Killers"
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78 Patti Smith - Dancing Barefoot
as used in "The Basketball Diaries"
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79 The McCoys - Hang On Sloopy
as used in "The People vs Larry Flynt"
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80 Boy George - The Crying Game
as used in "The Crying Game"
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81 The Jimi Hendrix Experience - If 6 Was 9
as used in "Point Break"
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82 Girls Against Boys - Kill the Sexplayer
as used in "Clerks"
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83 The Young Rascals - Groovin'
as used in "Platoon"
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84 Portishead - Roads
as used in "Tank Girl"
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85 Ben E. King - Stand by me
as used in "Stand By Me"
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86 Junior Murvin - Police & Thieves
as used in "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels"
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87 Annie Lennox - Don't Let It Bring You Down
as used is "American Beauty"
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88 Richard Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra: Einleitung
as used in "2001: A Space Odyssey"
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89 Frank Zappa - Dirty Love
as used in "The Ice Storm"
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90 The Smiths - There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
as used in "500 Days Of Summer"
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91 Ali Farka Touré - Ai Du
as used in "L'Auberge Espagnole"
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92 George Baker Selection - Little Green Bag
as used in "Reservoir Dogs"
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93 Charlie Parker - April In Paris
as used in "Basquiat"
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94 Nena - 99 Luftballons
as used in "Boogie Nights"
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95 Echo & The Bunnymen - People Are Strange
as used in "The Lost Boys"
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96 Richard Wagner - Ride Of The Valkyries
as used in "Apocalypse Now"
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97 Tommy James and The Shondells - Crimson And Clover
as used in "Coffee And Cigarettes"
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98 Bono & Gavin Friday - In the Name of the Father
as used in "In The Name Of The Father"
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99 Brian Eno - By This River
as used in "Y Tu Mama Tambien"
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100 Louis Armstrong - La Vie En Rose
as used in "Wall-E"
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101 Sonic Youth - Superstar
as used in "Juno"
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102 Ludwig van Beethoven - 9th Symphony
as used in "Clockwork Orange"
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103 Nortec Collective - Babel
as used in "Babel"
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104 Johnny Cash - Tennessee Stud
as used in "Jackie Brown"
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105 Elton John - Tiny Dancer
as used in "Almost Famous"
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106 Big Mama Thornton - Sing Out For Jesus
as used in "Vanishing Point"
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107 ZZ Top - Tush
as used in "Dazed and Confused"
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108 Gerard McMann - Cry Little Sister
as used in "The Lost Boys"
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109 Timmy Thomas - Why Can't We Live Together
as used in "Boys Don't Cry"
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110 Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - American Girl
as used in "Silence Of The Lambs"
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111 Pat Travers - Snortin' Whiskey
as used in "Sideways"
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112 Elvis Presley - A Little Less Conversation
as used in "Oceans Eleven"
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113 Urge Overkill - Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon
as used in "Pulp Fiction"
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114 Sly & The Family Stone - Everyday People
as used in "Milk"
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115 Massive Attack - Daydreaming
as used in "Nowhere"
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116 Nancy Sinatra - These Boots Are Made for Walkin'
as used in "Full Metal Jacket"
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117 The Troggs - Love Is All Around
as used in "Get Real"
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118 Chavela Vargas - Paloma negra
as used in "Frida"
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119 The Velvet Underground - Pale Blue Eyes
as used in "The Diving Bell And The Butterfly"
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120 Bill Withers - Who Is He (And What Is He to You)?
as used in "Jackie Brown"
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121 The Church - Under The Milky Way
as used in "Donnie Darko"
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122 Roy Orbison - In Dreams
as used in "Blue Velvet"
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123 The Coasters - Down In Mexico
as used in "Death Proof"
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124 Harry Nilsson - Everybody's Talkin'
as used in "Midnight Cowboy"
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125 Diamanda Galas - I Put A Spell On You
as used in "Natural Born Killers"
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126 Guns N' Roses - You Could Be Mine
as used in "Terminator II"
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127 Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me)
as used in "Velvet Goldmine"
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128 Ludwig van Beethoven - Ode to Joy
as used in "Raising Arizona"
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129 Bob Marley & The Wailers - Three Little Birds
as used in "I Am Legend"
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130 Sonny & Cher - I Got You Babe
as used in "Groundhog Day"
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131 Zapp & Roger - More Bounce to the Ounce
as used in "La Haine"
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132 Yma Sumac - Ataypura
as used in "The Big Lebowski"
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133 Ray LaMontagne - You Are The Best Thing
as used in "I Love You, man"
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134 P.I.L. - This is Not A Love Song
as used in "Waltz With Bashir"
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135 The Trashmen - Surfin' Bird
as used in "Full Metal Jacket"
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136 Celia Cruz - La Vida Es Un Carnaval
as used in "Amores Perros"
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137 Georg Friedrich Händel - Atalanta, HWV 35, Act I: Care selve, ombre beate
as used in "Funny Games"
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138 Nirvana - Something In The Way
as used in "Jarhead"
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139 ZZ Top - Mexican Blackbird
as used in "From Dusk 'Till Dawn"
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140 Alphaville - Forever Young
as used in "Lilya 4-Ever"
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141 Nina Simone - My Baby Just Cares For Me
as used in "Shallow Grave"
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142 Soft Cell - Tainted Love
as used in "Bruno"
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143 Lynyrd Skynyrd - That Smell
as used in "Blow"
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144 Wang Chung - Dance Hall Days
as used in "Bachelor Party"
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145 Bryan Ferry - More Than This
as used in "Lost In Translation"
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146 Edith Piaf - Milord
as used in "The Bucket List"
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147 David Bowie - Let's Dance
as used in "Charlie Wilson's War"
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148 Johnny Cash - Ring Of Fire
as used in "U-Turn"
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149 Selena - God's Child (Baila Conmigo)
as used in "Blue In The Face"
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150 Gipsy Kings - Hotel California
as used in "The Big Lebowski"
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Sep-2006 Underworld - Born Slippy 3
Oct-2006 The Cardigans - Lovefool 24
Nov-2006 Muse - Can't Take My Eyes Off You 18
Dec-2006 Mindless Self Indulgence - Shut Me Up 20
Jan-2007 Test Icicles - Circle Square Triangle 53
Feb-2007 Patrick Wolf - The Libertine 81
Mar-2007 Patrick Wolf - The Libertine 130
Apr-2007 Arctic Monkeys - Brianstorm 9
May-2007 Adele - My Same 32
Jun-2008 Rob Dougan - Clubbed to Death 11
Jul-2008 Rob Dougan - Clubbed to Death 89
Aug-2008 Fluke - Absurd (Whitewash Edit) 60
Sep-2008 Fluke - Absurd 77
Oct-2008Metronomy - Holiday 46
Nov-2008 Fluke - Absurd 101
Dec-2008 Le Tigre - Deceptacon 53
Jan-2009 Bright Eyes - Lover I Don't Have to Love 91
Feb-2009 Muse - Supermassive Black Hole 2
Mar-2009 Radiohead - Talk Show Host 20
Apr-2009 The Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist 40
May-2009 Armand van Helden - You Don't Know Me (feat. Duane Harden) 31
Jun-2009 Savage Garden - To the Moon and Back 25
Jul-2009 Death in Vegas - Dirge 139
Aug-2009 Lady GaGa - Poker Face 94
Sep-2009 Laura Marling - Night Terror 76
Oct-2009 Justin Timberlake - Like I Love You 22