James didn’t have today’s digital audio workstations which make creating more glitchy, skittery, and cerebral dance music possible, and what results is an album that sounds like a template for other albums to jump off of. Regularly touted as one of the best electronic albums of all time, S elected Ambient Works 85–92 is an infinitely listenable set of tracks that are ambient in their simplicity and repetition, but also more energetic than one would expect from the genre. It re-entered the dance chart just after the release of Aphex Twin's 2014 album Syro.” - Wikipedia In 2012, Selected Ambient Works 85–92 was named the greatest album of the 1990s by Fact. “Selected Ambient Works 85–92 is the debut studio album by Aphex Twin, the pseudonym of British electronic musician Richard D. #8 The Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II the Pharcydeįinally, here’s some others, voted onto NPR’s all-time best albums by women list: #2 Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the MachineĪnd here’s a few more I’m grabbing from further down the list: #1 Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92 Onto the music, here’s what our trusty members rate as the year’s top 5 albums: The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was broken up, Bush and Yeltsin proclaimed a formal end to the Cold War, Bill Clinton was elected president and Mae Jemison became the first African American woman to go into space, on board Endeavour STS-47. You can also read all the other entries I’ve written so far by heading to the lovely index page here. If you want to know more, I wrote an introduction to the ‘challenge’ here. Over what will likely be the next few years I’m going to be ranking and reviewing the top 5 albums - plus a fair few extras - according to users on (think IMDB for music) from every year from 1960 to the present.
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