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28. Morrissey - Vauxhall and I
March 14, 1994
Critic Score
80
5 reviews
Besides being one of Morrissey’s most vital solo albums, Vauxhall and I is also his first truly mature one, and flaws and all, it’s as essential—and as perversely alive—as ever.
18. Blur - Modern Life Is Rubbish
May 10, 1993
Critic Score
80
4 reviews
Modern Life remains a finely observed, tartly disillusioned snapshot of post-Thatcher Britain, buoyed by exquisite pop hooks.
10. The Verve - Urban Hymns
September 29, 1997
Critic Score
82
6 reviews
The Verve's affirmant melodies dance and haunt. Vocalist Richard Ashcroft even looks and sounds like a ghost. Ironic that one of the year's best rock albums moves earth without excessive stroking of the guitar.
6. Elastica - Elastica
March 13, 1995
Critic Score
88
5 reviews
With its pithy, searing songs about sex, groupies, and ennui, the self-titled 1995 debut from Elastica captured the whirlwind of the early-’90s Britpop explosion.
4. Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory?
October 2, 1995
Critic Score
85
8 reviews
What’s most striking about listening to (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? today is how, at the height of their powers, Oasis seemed to be bracing for their own eventual downfall.
1. Pulp - Different Class
October 30, 1995
Critic Score
92
8 reviews
On 1995's Different Class, Pulp and Jarvis Cocker were arty outsiders worming their way into the lives of ordinary folk, and they became pop in its most democratically widespread sense.
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