For me, two songs that defined the 1990′s were ‘Unfinished Sympathy’ by Massive Attack and ‘Creep’ by Radiohead. Two songs that are good enough to grace any decade, two songs that are simply outstanding. But musically, how good was this decade? I’ve selected another fourteen songs that I think deserve to be heard – but what do you think?

What were your musical highlights of the 90′s?

01. Unfinished Sympathy – Massive Attack (Blue Lines)
02. Starseed – Our Lady Peace (A Decade)
03. Last Goodbye – Jeff Buckley (Grace)
04. Midnight In A Perfect World – DJ Shadow (Endtroducing…)
05. Iris – Goo Goo Dolls (Dizzy Up the Girl)
06. Cannonball – Albert Lee (Speechless)
07. Joga – Bjork (Greatest Hits)
08. Mr. Jones – Counting Crows (Best Of)
09. Little Fluffy Clouds – The Orb (The Orb’s Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld)
10. Wonderful – Everclear (Songs From An American Movie Vol. One: Learning How To Smile)
11. Loser – Beck (Mellow Gold)
12. Babys Coming Back – Jellyfish (Bellybutton)
13. Fade Into You – Mazzy Star (So Tonight That I Might See)
14. Longing In Their Hearts – Bonnie Raitt (Grammy Nominees 1995)
15. It Will Rain For A Million Years – Porcupine Tree (On The Sunday Of Life…)
16. Creep – Radiohead (Pablo Honey)

The Unfinished Creep mix (116 mb) will be available here to download for the next fortnight (until midnight on 22 February 2011).

One of my bestest virtual friends – Bert has made such an impact to this website with his pure love of music, his wide range of musical tastes and his ability to view our world in such a lovely way…… and I do miss him. He’s currently half way up a Spanish mountain breathing in some wonderful air (I hope) and will soon be back with us in’shallah.

In the meantime here’s some songs from LZ, Spacey, Techy, Cheezy and myself for Bert to let him know that he ain’t far from our thoughts.

[01] The Good, The Bad, The Ugly – Ennio Morricone [Soundtrack]
[02] Tiger Feet – Mud [The Gold Collection]
[03] Desert Nights – Lonnie Liston Smith [Introducing]
[04] Yulunga (Spirit Dance) – Dead Can Dance [Toward the Within]
[05] Cool for Cats – Squeeze [Greatest Hits]
[06] Take a Walk in the Wilderness – The Business [All Fool's Day]
[07] Jammin’ – Bob Marley [Greatest Hits]
[08] Caribbean Moon – Kevin Ayers [The Best of Kevin Ayers]
[09] How Many Miles Must We March – Ben Harper [Welcome to the Cruel World]
[10] Grandma Told Grandpa – Lightnin’ Hopkins [Cadillac Blues]
[11] Here Comes The Breeze – Gomez [Bring It On]
[12] Learning How to Smile – Everclear [Songs from an American Movie Vol. One]
[13] You Sexy Thing – Hot Chocolate [I Love To Party]
[14] Future Proof – Massive Attack [100th Window]
[15] Strength in Numbers – The Music [Strength in Numbers]
[16] Jeff Buckley – Hallelujah [Grace]
[17] Set Me Free – Chris Rea [Auberge]
[18] Kashmir – London Philharmonic Orchestra [Kashmir: The Symphonic Led Zeppelin]
[19] Living on the Open Road – Delaney & Bonnie [To Bonnie From Delaney]
[20] Long May You Run – Neil Young [Decade]

The Songs for Bert mix (121 mb) will be available here to download for the next month (until midnight on 15th December 2010) until Bert’s return.

I have been listening the this song for the past 34 minutes as I have several versions in my itunes library ranging from Buckley to Shrek to K. D . Lang and they all have their merits.

Let me stick my neck out here and say my favorite has to be Buckley’s version as it was the first time I’d heard the song and it is just so good.

Good website for you as I don’t really have much more to say except that my pups all love the Shrek version and are now playing it very loudly to wind me up

Well he certainly has achieved this and more.

Released on May 18, 2009 ‘Elsewhere’ is the follow-up to Matthews’ first album ‘Passing Stranger’, which I believe is still one of the best albums of the past few years, going Silver in the UK, winning him an Ivor Novello and contains one of my favourite songs ‘Dream Song’ (watch out for for this to be included in a future music mix).

The songs on ‘Elsewhere’ are darker than his debut album but not black, more a different shade of grey. Listen to ‘Fractured’, ‘Jagged Melody’ and ‘12 Harps’ a duet with Led Zeppelin front man Robert Plant and you will realize the depth of feeling found here. Also look out for a wide mix of different instruments – a flute on ‘Jagged Melody’, a lovely bit of trumpet on ‘Suddenly You Figure Out’ – mmm nice, certainly creating a mood.

I like this album and recommend it to all who enjoyed his debut and to all who like good songs, great voice and lyrics that make you think a bit.