The 25 Best British Debut Albums of the '90s According to Radio X

The 90s were one of the most fertile and revolutionary periods in the history of British music. A decade in which alternative rock broke out of the underground circuit to conquer the charts, britpop turned a new generation of bands into mass phenomena, and electronic music helped redraw the boundaries of popular music. From the Manchester of Charlatans, Inspiral Carpets and Oasis to the Bristol of Massive Attack and Portishead, by way of the London of Blur and Suede, the British scene went through a season of extraordinary creativity. Retracing that season is Radio X, which has selected the 25 best British debut albums of the 90s, offering a snapshot of the decade's many musical souls. More than a ranking, the selection is a journey through ten years of transformation, with the albums presented in chronological order of release: from the Sundays in 1990 to Muse in 1999.

So here, in chronological order, are the 25 best British debut albums of the 90s, according to Radio X (full feature here).

The Sundays – Reading, Writing And Arithmetic (gennaio 1990)
Inspiral Carpets – Life (aprile 1990)
The Charlatans – Some Friendly (ottobre 1990)
Ride – Nowhere (ottobre 1990)
The Farm – Spartacus (marzo 1991)
Massive Attack – Blue Lines (aprile 1991)
Electronic – Electronic (maggio 1991)
Blur – Leisure (agosto 1991)
Saint Etienne – Foxbase Alpha (settembre 1991)
Manic Street Preachers – Generation Terrorists (febbraio 1992)
PJ Harvey – Dry (marzo 1992)
Radiohead – Pablo Honey (febbraio 1993)
Suede – Suede (aprile 1993)
The Verve – A Storm In Heaven (giugno 1993)
Portishead – Dummy (agosto 1994)
Oasis – Definitely Maybe (agosto 1994)
Elastica – Elastica (marzo 1995)
Supergrass – I Should Coco (maggio 1995)
Ash – 1977 (maggio 1996)
Super Furry Animals – Fuzzy Logic (maggio 1996)
Space – Spiders (settembre 1996)
Mansun – Attack Of The Grey Lantern (febbraio 1997)
Stereophonics – Word Gets Around (agosto 1997)
Gomez – Bring It On (aprile 1998)
Muse – Showbiz (ottobre 1999)

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