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Hearts on Fire Anthology Spotify
Phil Cordell
release date Oct. 1, 2008 publisher: (C) 2014 Союз Мьюзик по лицензии Angel Air / (P) 2014 Союз Мьюзик по лицензии Angel Air
Feb. 14, 2026 listened
Apart from 'Red Lady', nothing grabbed me.
UK PhilCordell
His 'n' Hers Spotify
Pulp genre: Britpop
release date April 18, 1994 publisher: Island
His 'n' Hers is the fourth studio album by English rock band Pulp, released on 18 April 1994 by Island Records. It proved to be the band's breakthrough album, reaching number nine on the UK Albums Chart, and was nominated for the 1994 Mercury Music Prize. In 1998, Q magazine readers voted it the seventieth greatest album of all time, while it was placed at number 110 in the book Virgin All-Time Top 1000 Albums.
Too Rye Ay Spotify
Dexys Midnight Runners
release date July 22, 1982 publisher: UMG Recordings
Jan. 23, 2026 listened
There is so much more to Dexys than just "Come On, Eileen", and you don't even have to go far to find it: Plan B, Jackie Wilson Said, I'll Show You etc right on the same album.

Hardcore Celtic speed soul FTW! :)
DexysMidnightRunners UK Pop Soul 1980s
Natalia Lafourcade Spotify
Natalia Lafourcade
release date July 5, 2002 publisher: Sony
Jan. 23, 2026 listened
Great début, full of verve & joy.

(Except for Mírame, Mírate, which is so out of keeping with the rest of the album that I suspect a record exec insisted on having a formulaic ballad.)
2000s NataliaLafourcade Mexico Pop Spanish
Dummy NeoDB Spotify Douban Discogs
8.4 (5 ratings) Portishead genre: Electronic
release date Aug. 22, 1994 publisher: Go! Beat / London
Dummy is the debut studio album by English electronic music band Portishead, released on 22 August 1994 by Go! Beat Records.

The album received critical acclaim and won the 1995 Mercury Music Prize. It is often credited with popularising the trip hop genre, and is frequently cited in lists of the best albums of the 1990s. Dummy was certified triple platinum in the UK in February 2019, and had sold 920,000 copies in the United Kingdom as of September 2020. Worldwide, the album had sold 3.6 million copies by 2008.
Café Bleu Spotify
The Style Council
release date Jan. 1, 1984 publisher: Polydor
Jan. 15, 2026 listened
Crossing genres like soul, jazz, funk & rap, it scores some misses but also some awesome hits, like My Ever Changing Moods.
Jazz SophistiPop UK PaulWeller Soul
Bizarro Spotify Discogs NeoDB
The Wedding Present genre: Indie Rock / Post-punk / Pop-punk / Noise Pop
release date Oct. 23, 1989 publisher: RCA
The Wedding Present's second studio album—and first "proper" album for RCA—came soon after the Ukrainian John Peel Sessions / Українські Виступи в Івана Піла folk music side project.

Technically speaking, only one single was taken from the album, "Kennedy", which provided the band with their first Top 40 hit, reaching #33. In early 1990, The Wedding Present re-recorded "Brassneck" with Steve Albini, which reached #24 in the UK charts. The single and its B-sides were later included on U.S. release of the album, and are also included on the Singles 1989-1991 compilation. The US CD version contains the Wedding Present's cover of "Box Elder", an early song by then unknown American band Pavement. A remastered CD version, released by BMG Camden in 2001, also features the B-sides of the "Kennedy" single, including a cover version of the Tom Jones hit "It's Not Unusual".