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1993 – my year in music

What could be more ridiculous than trying to rank the thousands of singles and albums you’ve bought and heard over a lifetime? Here we go …

I ranked these albums and singles in December 2024 as I didn’t do it at the time.

	Top albums of 1993

1	Blur	Modern Life Is Rubbish
2	Dodgy	The Dodgy Album
3	Kate Bush	The Red Shoes
4	Sultans of Ping FC	Casual Sex In The Cineplex
5	Radiohead	Pablo Honey
6	Carter USM	Post Historic Monsters
7	Thousand Yard Stare	Mappamundi
8	Senseless Things	Empire Of The Senseless
9	Divine Comedy	Liberation
10	Björk	Debut
11	Power Of Dreams	Positivity
12	Belly	Star
13	Jellyfish	Spilt Milk
14	Jesus Jones	Perverse
15	Eat	Epicure
16	Stereolab	The Groop Played Space Age Bachelor Pad Music
17	Smalltown Parade	Get Beautiful
18	Back To The Planet	Mind + Soul Collaborators

The albums I played to death:

These aren’t necessarily the same as my favourite albums now, but the ones I remember buying on release and playing over and over and over again.

01/02/93	Sultans of Ping FC	Casual Sex In The Cineplex
22/02/93	Radiohead	Pablo Honey
10/05/93	Blur	Modern Life Is Rubbish
24/05/93	Dodgy	The Dodgy Album
28/08/93	Various Artists	Bend It! 93
06/09/93	Carter USM	Post Historic Monsters
01/11/93	Kate Bush	The Red Shoes

	Top tracks of 1993

1	Blur	Chemical World
2	Blur	Popscene
3	Belly	Feed The Tree
4	Salad	Kent
5	Carter USM	Lean On Me I Won't Fall Over
6	Connells	'74-'75
7	Breeders	Cannonball
8	Kate Bush	Lily
9	Bang Bang Machine	Technologica
10	Juliana Hatfield Three	My Sister
11	Dodgy	Lovebirds
12	Kate Bush	Big Stripey Lie
13	Sultans of Ping FC	Give Him A Ball (And A Yard Of Grass)
14	Saint Etienne	You’re In A Bad Way
15	Salad	Diminished Clothes
16	Dodgy	Water Under The Bridge
17	Radiohead	Ripcord
18	Sultans of Ping FC	Veronica
19	Thousand Yard Stare	Version Of Me
20	Radiohead	Creep
21	Saint Etienne	Who Do You Think You Are
22	Mega City Four	Iron Sky
23	Dodgy	Stand By Yourself
24	Radiohead	Lurgee
25	Pulp	Razzmatazz
26	Blur	Colin Zeal
27	Credit To The Nation	Call It What You Want
28	Blur	Star Shaped
29	Blur	Coping
30	Blur	Advert
31	Belly	Gepetto
32	Radiohead	Anyone Can Play Guitar
33	Blur	For Tomorrow
34	Stereolab	French Disko
35	Blur	Pressure On Julian
36	Carter USM	Lenny And Terence
37	Blur	Turn It Up
38	Blur	Oily Water
39	Blur	Blue Jeans
40	Carter USM	The Music That Nobody Likes
41	Blur	I'm Fine
42	Blur	Villa Rosie
43	Belly	Slow Dog
44	Björk	There's More To Life Than This [Recorded live at the Milk Bar toilets]
45	Dodgy	Grand Old English Oak Tree
46	Divine Comedy	Bernice Bobs Her Hair
47	Blur	Miss America
48	Catatonia	New Mercurual Heights
49	Kate Bush	Why Should I Love You
50	Madder Rose	Beautiful John
51	Dodgy	Never Again
52	Blur	Young And Lovely
53	Dodgy	As My Time Goes By
54	Thousand Yard Stare	What's Your Level?
55	Carter USM	Stuff The Jubilee
56	Dodgy	Cold Tea
57	Afghan Whigs	Debonair
58	Kate Bush	The Song Of Solomon
59	Wonder Stuff	On The Ropes
60	Frank and Walters	Funky Cold Medina
61	Kate Bush	Rubberband Girl
62	Nirvana	The Man Who Sold The World
63	Thousand Yard Stare	Tragedy No. 6
64	Mega City Four	Wallflower
64	Chumbawamba	Timebomb
65	Kate Bush	The Red Shoes
66	Thousand Yard Stare	God's P45
67	Kate Bush	And So Is Love
68	Kingmaker	Playground Brutality
69	Sultans of Ping FC	Let's Go Shopping
70	LMNO Pelican	Wangley Dan
71	Kate Bush	Moments Of Pleasure
72	Mazzy Star	Fade Into You
73	Kate Bush	Eat The Music
74	Björk	Venus As A Boy
75	Chumbawamba and Credit To The Nation	Enough Is Enough
76	Levellers	This Garden
77	Midnight Oil	Truganini
78	Sultans of Ping FC	Do Re Mi (So Far So Good)
79	Blur	Sunday Sunday
80	Senseless Things	Primary Instinct
81	Jamiroquai	Too Young To Die
82	Blur	Garden Central
83	Fußgängerzone	I Love My Frank & Walters Long Sleeve T-Shirt
84	Sultans of Ping FC	Xmas Bubblegum Machine
85	Jellyfish	Joining A Fan Club
86	Blur	Maggie May
87	Senseless Things	Homophobic Asshole
88	Jesus Jones	The Devil You Know
89	Kate Bush	Top Of The City
90	Sultans of Ping FC	Clitus Clarke
91	Power Of Dreams	Cathy's World
92	Boo Radleys	Barney
93	Kate Bush	Constellation Of The Heart
94	Jellyfish	The Ghost At Number One
95	Senseless Things	Hold It Down
96	Kate Bush	You're The One
97	Candyskins	Wembley
98	Sultans of Ping FC	Miracles
99	Voodoo Queens	Supermodel Superficial
100	Shampoo	Bouffant Headbutt
101	Divine Comedy	The Pop Singer's Fear Of The Pollen Count
102	Midway Still	Counting Days
103	U.S.U.R.A.	Open Your Mind
104	Carter USM	A Bachelor For Baden Powell
105	One Dove	White Love (Radio Mix)
106	Ween	Push th' Little Daisies (Shitless Radio Edit - No Shit)
107	Eve's Plum	Blue
108	New Order	World (The Price of Love)
109	Cornershop	England's Dreaming
110	Senser	The Key
111	Carter USM	Mid Day Crisis
112	Carter USM	Spoilsports Personality of The Year
113	Cornershop	In The Days Of Ford Cortina
114	Jesus Jones	Idiot Stare
115	Björk	Big Time Sensuality
116	Eat	Epicure
117	Blaggers ITA	Abandon Ship
118	Family Cat	Airplane Gardens
119	Blaggers ITA	Stresss
120	Huggy Bear	Her Jazz
122	Bivouac	The Bell Foundry
123	Back To The Planet	Please Don't Fight
124	Bivouac	Good Day Song

	My favourite cover versions of 1993

1	Frank and Walters	Funky Cold Medina
2	Nirvana	The Man Who Sold The World
3	Sultans of Ping FC	Do Re Mi (So Far So Good)
4	Blur	Maggie May
5	Sultans of Ping FC	Miracles

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