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Doof 90s Deep Dive Complete

A list of the top 100 discoveries since I started trawling through the '90s the last 4 months. Next year I'll be moving on to the'80s and '00s as I slowly spread out from the year 1994 (my favourite year for music).
1the bathers
Kelvingrove Baby


5/5

sophisti pop
2The Bathers
Sunpowder


5/5

sophisti pop
3Dirty Three
Horse Stories


5/5

instrumental americana
4Six Finger Satellite
Severe Exposure


5/5

noise rock/post punk?
5Suzanne Langille
Let the Darkness Fall


5/5

ambient folk/acoustic
6The Bathers
Lagoon Blues


5/5

sophisti pop
7Silver Jews
The Natural Bridge


5/5

indiepop/rock
816 Horsepower
Sackcloth 'n' Ashes


5/5

americana/alt country/rock
9Dirty Three
Dirty Three


5/5

instrumental americana
10The Grifters
Crappin' You Negative


5/5

indie rock/lo fi
11Smoke (USA)
Heaven On A Popsicle Stick


5/5

weird country stuff with horns and Tom Waits style vocals
12neil young
Harvest Moon


5/5

country rock/mellow
13Amon Tobin
Bricolage


4.5/5

IDM/jazzy drum n bass
14Gillian Welch
Hell Among the Yearlings


4.5/5

country/folk
15Amon Tobin
Permutation


4.5/5

IDM/jazzy drum n bass
16Dog Faced Hermans
Hum of Life


4.5/5

arty/noisy post punk
17Golden Smog
Weird Tales


4.5/5

alt country
18The Apartments
A Life Full of Farewells


4.5/5

jangly chamber misery pop
19Smoke (USA)
Another Reason To Fast


4.5/5

more Smoke (see above)
20Pete Rock and CL Smooth
The Main Ingredient


4.5/5

jazzy hip hop with added scratching
21Dog Faced Hermans
Those Deep Buds


4.5/5

arty/noisy post punk
22the bathers
Pandemonia


4.5/5

sophisti pop
23Caustic Resin
Fly Me To The Moon


4.5/5

noisy rock/alt
24the necks
Aquatic


4.5/5

minimal/jazz
25And Also The Trees
The Klaxon


4.5/5

arty goth pop/rock
26Kitchens Of Distinction
The Death of Cool


4.5/5

jangle meets shoegaze
27The Flaming Lips
Zaireeka


4.5/5

yeah yeah the youtube version - shoot me
28Black Dog Productions
Bytes


4/5

techno/IDM
29morphine
Good


4/5

alt jazz rock/cheese rock
30Pete Rock and CL Smooth
Mecca and the Soul Brother


4/5

jazzy hip hop
31Daniel Johnston
1990


4/5

manchild sob rock
32The Handsome Family
Through the Trees


4/5

gothic americana
33Adam F
Colours


4/5

drum n bass
34Scott Walker
Tilt


4/5

weird pop
35The Future Sound of London
Lifeforms


4/5

ambient/techno
36Robert Wyatt
Dondestan


4/5

sort of folk
37matmos
The West


4/5

'folktronica' (no no comeback - it's good, almost a 4.5, really)
38Autechre
LP5


4/5

IDM
39Photek
Modus Operandi


4/5

drum n bass
40The Future Sound of London
Dead Cities


4/5

ambient/techno
41Goldie
Timeless


4/5

drum n bass (pretty sure i'd heard most of it before but here it is anyway)
42godflesh
Pure


4/5

industrial metal (best Godflesh oh yes)
43Six by Seven
The Things We Make


4/5

psychedelic alt rock
44luna
Pup Tent


4/5

indie whatever
45Company Flow
Funcrusher Plus


4/5

early abstract hippity hop
46The Apartments
Fête Foraine


4/5

chamber pawp
47Thinking Fellers Local 282
I Hope It Lands


4/5

experimental...? (and one of their best! if not their actual best!)
48Emperor
In the Nightside Eclipse


4/5

black metal
49Dead Can Dance
Into the Labyrinth


4/5

goth/world
50swell
41


4/5

lo fi indie
51Alejandro Escovedo
Gravity


4/5

bluesy/acoustic singer songwriter
52Kitchens Of Distinction
Strange Free World


4/5

jangle meets shoegaze
53underworld
Beaucoup Fish


4/5

dance/house/techno
54Rae and Christian
Northern Sulphuric Soul


4/5

downtempo across various genres
55Dirty Three
Ocean Songs


4/5

instrumental americana
56Time Machines
Time Machines


4/5

drone
57The Lounge Lizards
Queen of All Ears


4/5

jazz/experimental
58Misfits
Static Age


4/5

goth/punk (ok, wasn't recorded in the 90s, just released in the 90s)
59Edge of Sanity
Crimson


4/5

concept metal mutli subgenre bla
60Burzum
Filosofem


4/5

lo fi black metal
61Mayhem
De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas


4/5

black metal
62Richard Buckner
Bloomed


4/5

americana
63devil doll
The Sacrilege of Fatal Arms


4/5

symphonic goth nonsense
64Gallon Drunk
You, The Night...and the Music


4/5

punk/noise/blues rock
65Dog Faced Hermans
Mental Blocks For All Ages


4/5

more dogfaced
66Zap Mama
Zap Mama


4/5

afro group a capella
67Silver Bullet
Bring Down The Walls No Limit Squad Returns


4/5

hip hop
68Gang Starr
Step in the Arena


4/5

hip hop
69Fields of the Nephilim
Elizium


4/5

atmos goth
70A Tribe Called Quest
People's Instinctive Travels & The Paths of Rhythm


4/5

happy hip hop
71Bloomsday (UK)
Fortuny


4/5

pop rock/sophisti pop
72Killing Joke
Extremities, Dirt & Various Repressed Emotions


4/5

intense/raw industrial tinged post punk? (possibly the best KJ?)
73Lustmord
Heresy


4/5

dark wet the bed ambient
74Tom Russell
The Man From God Knows Where


4/5

folk/country storytellin'
75Surgeon
Force + Form


4/5

intense techno
76Richard Youngs
Sapphie


4/5

super sad folk
77The Crystal Method
Vegas


4/5

da big beat
78Mike Johnson
Year of Mondays


4/5

sad indie rock (year of mondaysknowhowyoufeelmate)
79Tetsu Inoue
Organic Cloud


4/5

organic ambient
80Global Communication
76:14


4/5

ambient techno
81Lustmord
The Place Where The Black Stars Hang


4/5

dark ambient
82burzum
Hvis lyset tar oss


4/5

lo fi black metal
83Autechre
Incunabula


4/5

IDM
84The Grifters
One Sock Missing


4/5

scrappy shit
85Jonathan Richman
I, Jonathan


4/5

clever clever pop rock
86Treepeople
Something Vicious for Tomorrow / Time Whore


4/5

indie/post hardcore
87And Also The Trees
Green Is The Sea


4/5

goth stuff
88John Prine
The Missing Years


4/5

comeback special country
89coil
Love's Secret Domain


4/5

weird shit
90John Fahey
God, Time and Causality


4/5

american primitivism
91Pinback
This Is a Pinback CD


4/5

slightly emo indie that's actually good everyone on Sput recognise the distinction I make here today
92MF DOOM
Operation: Doomsday


4/5

hip hop
93emperor
Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk


4/5

black metal
94The Paradise Motel
Left over life to kill


4/5

indie/dream pop
95Cul De Sac
China Gate


4/5

post rock/experimental
96Freakwater
Old Paint


4/5

americana/folk/country
97BT
Ima


4/5

trance/dance
98Flying Saucer Attack
Further


4/5

drone/psychedelic/ambient
99Souls of Mischief
93 'til Infinity


4/5

hip hop
100Ali Farka Touré
The Source


4/5

songhai blues baby
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