I’ve been enjoying Landscape A Go-Go, a boxed set of albums, live recordings, remixes and rarities from a band you’re most likely to know for just one single. It’s absolutely enormous and apparently doesn’t even exhaust the archive: despite only having three conventionally released albums the band played residencies and regular gigs for years, very often recording them on their own gear. Started out as a nine-piece jazz band, slimmed down to eight and then five, but almost exclusively did instrumental pieces until their second album, the magnificently titled From the Tea-rooms of Mars … to the Hell-holes of Uranus. The jazzier instrumental stuff is terrific, demonstrating their adoption and adaptation of emerging synthesizer technology, before they eventually gained wider recognition as a synth-pop band… with a trombonist. A really terrific collection of tunes.
Norman Fucking Rockwell! is my intro into Lana Del Rey. Been playing the album for the last few months to get a good listen to it.
You’re welcome.
I’ve spotted a design flaw. I fear that either the needle can’t reach the vinyl, or the vinyl can’t rotate. Either way, I think you’ve been scammed!
Laser stylus, no worries.
I’m afraid it’s a new obsession
I graduated in 1996. So the 90s are my formative decade in many things–also music.
In my mind the 90s had great music.
But then…
Almost 10 years ago, the girls and I decided it was a good idea to go to a 90s themed party at the local concert place. A friend who was over last night remembered and said “OMG and I was driving and couldn’t even drink, it was soooo bad.” Me? I couldn’t drink enough to make it better. They played all the most awful eurodance/boy-girl-group songs you might not care to remember and the worst of it was, we were much older than most everyone else there (even 10 years ago) and the kids knew all the lyrics and sang along… the guys singing along to Britney was … an experience I don’t care to remember, but sadly, I do.
So with that in mind and the kids in our circle being old enough to make their own playlists that they want to run at parties if nothing else is “on”… I spent quite a bit of time this week collecting all my favorite songs from back then and a few extras that you just have to have on such a list.
I took care to omit all the songs that get on my nerves after 10 seconds of recognition (well mostly I kept a few weirdos).
And then I stumbled across the stupidest of stupid things: My favorite song from back then is Insomnia from Faithless. THERE IS NO GOOD VERSION OF IT ON TIDAL. 
The big monster mix has no vocals, the radio edit is too short and all other versions just modify the song too much. How can this happen? I have the original 10 minute single edit I loved so much as MP3. Punishment for using music streaming I guess. I went with the monster mix and the radio edit therefore…
Despite that horrible shortcoming, the list is now on repeat at the house.
(list here)
Insomnia is a good pick. I think most of my favourite music is probably 90s, but I doubt I would hear much of it at a 90s event.
(Skimmed your list: Bjork, Massive Attack, Prodigy, Rage Against the Machine are a few more favourites. Notably absent from your list would be Portishead, Chemical Brothers, Jurassic 5, Alabama 3…)
Portishead and Chemical Brothers are omissions I might yet fix 
We also found “my” version of Insomnia on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OHZoUcuoNw
I’ll ask Tidal if it is possible to add. They apparently have a “request” service.
Insomnia is incredible. God is a DJ is also a banger.
Faithless were amazing when I saw them live. I finally saw The Chemical Brothers last year
I’m a similar age to you
Pick a Part that’s New by the Phonics
Acquiesce by Oasis (and many others)
Poison by The Prodigy
Smells Like Teen Spirit
Most of my Spotify is 90s alternative/ indy
I’m wondering if I can nick your playlist
Of course you can
I omitted Oasis on purpose, I am sooooo sick of Wonderwall.
I admit that back at the time when I was listening to albums there were a very select few the rest I only know the popular songs…
Albums that come to mind that I listened to a lot are Björk, Massive Attack, Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, U2, Lenny Kravitz, and later the goth metal like Tristania and Sins of Thy Beloved. I also have some earlier stuff I love a lot but David Bowie didn’t do a lot of music in the 90s that I listened to. And the Matrix “soundtrack” 
It was the technical bit - I was hoping I could copy the link and open it in Spotify but it didn’t work
My very non curated playlist
There are some incredible Oasis songs (and “I hope, I think, I know” doesn’t get enough praise) but I’ve always hated Wonderwall from the very first time I heard it.
I thought it was Wonderwall that I couldn’t hear without remembering the (deliberately bad comedy elevator music) Mike Flowers Pops version, but it turns out I was confusing it with Richard Cheese doing Coldplay’s Yellow. When I hear Yellow I keep waiting for the rhumba to make it better.
Outside is still a spectacularly good rock&roll album, and well worth listening to.
As an aside, I went to see a show on that tour, which was co-headlined with Nine Inch nails. I went with a bunch of friends from college. Due to forgetting the venue was in a different time zone, we missed most of the (horrible) opening act. I don’t know if they were so bad, the audience went to sleep, or if they’d all just taken lots of tranquilizers but it was the lamest crowds at an outdoor show I’ve ever seen. The venue staff cleared out the lame people from the mosh pit, and moved us and maybe 100 others who were actually into the show up there. Both bands were clearly playing to that group, and not the crowd at large.
I cannot approve of this policy enthusiastically enough 
Came here to mention Mike flowers. Beaten to it