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Natalia Lafourcade Spotify
Natalia Lafourcade
release date 2002-07-05 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
8.3 (7 ratings) Portishead genre: Electronic
release date 1994-08-22 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 1984-01-01 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 1989-10-23 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".
Pieces Of A Man Spotify
Gil Scott-Heron
release date 1971-01-12 publisher: BMG
Jan. 13, 2026 listened
Opening with the classic "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised", Scott-Heron's debut studio album delivers yet more great tracks like joyful ode to jazz "Lady Day & John Coltrane", the blistering drama of "Home is Where the Hatred Is" etc in this jazz-funk-soul magnum opus.
Funk Jazz JazzFunk USA 1970s
Fin de Siècle Spotify
The Divine Comedy
release date 1998-08-31 publisher: Divine Comedy
Jan. 12, 2026 listened
'National Express' never fails to bring joy to my heart, but the whole concept album impresses, too.

But then what do you expect when a chamber pop songsmith like Neil Hannon sits in a flat in Clapham listening to Jacques Brel, playing pirate games on the Playstation & musing on the end of the 20th century? :)
UK 1990s TheDivineComedy ChamberPop
Life Spotify
The Cardigans
release date 1995-03-01 publisher: Universal / This Compilation
Jan. 12, 2026 listened
'Carnival' and 'Rise & Shine' are 2 of my favourite songs of the 90s, but my first time listening to the whole album.

Most of the rest of the album enjoyable without being special, although I did get a kick out of the easy-listening version of 'Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath'! :D
1990s TheCardigans Sweden EasyListening Pop
Funky Kingston Spotify
Toots & The Maytals
release date 1973-01-10 publisher: © 1990 The Island Def Jam Music Group / ℗ 1990 The Island Def Jam Music Group