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Fun? and other 1990s album titles

Following his selection of seventy British album titles of the 1970s, and eighty from the 1980s, ALWYN TURNER chooses ninety of the best/worst titles of the 1990s.


Electric Landlady (1991) – Kirsty MacColl

Free Peace Sweet (1996) – Dodgy

Stranglers in the Night (1992) – The Stranglers

Troublegum (1994) – Therapy?

Schubert Dip (1991) – EMF

Avant Hard (1999) – Add N to (X)

Let Us Play! (1997) – Coldcut

Mourning Has Broken (1991) – Sabbat

Praise the Lard (1991) – Pig


The Holy Bible (1994) – Manic Street Preachers

Come My Fanatics (1997) – Electric Wizard

Breaking God’s Heart (1998) – Hefner

Heavenly vs Satan (1991) – Heavenly

Jehovahkill (1992) – Julian Cope

Laughing on Judgement Day (1992) – Thunder

Happy in Hell (1992) – The Christians

The Principle of Evil Made Flesh (1994) – Cradle of Filth


Sex and Travel (1993) – Right Said Fred

Sex and Misery (1996) – Voice of the Beehive

Sex and Death (1994) – The Durutti Column

Pills ‘n’ Thrills and Bellyaches (1990) – Happy Mondays

Decksandrumsandrockandroll (1998) – Propellerheads

Safe Sex, Designer Drugs and the Death of Rock ’n’ Roll (1994) – Baby Chaos

Wheelers, Dealers, Christine Keelers (1993) – S*M*A*S*H/These Animal Men

Extremities, Dirt and Various Repressed Emotions (1990) – Killing Joke

Fear, Emptiness, Despair (1994) – Napalm Death


Suits (1994) – Fish

Fake (1994) – Adorable

Fun? (1993) – The Candyskins

Cake (1990) – Trashcan Sinatras

Bang! (1993) – World Party

Laugh (1997) – Terry Hall

Stoosh (1996) – Skunk Anansie


Anarchy (1994) – Chumbawamba

Let Them Eat Bingo (1990) – Beats International

Middle Class Revolt (1994) – The Fall

Beat the Bastards (1996) – The Exploited

Banking, Violence and the Inner Life Today (1990) – McCarthy

I Blame the Government (1998) – Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine


F-Punk (1995) – Big Audio Dynamite

Cyberpunk (1993) – Billy Idol

Freek Funk (1997) – Luke Slater

Skunkworks (1996) – Bruce Dickinson

P.H.U.Q. (1995) – The Wildhearts


Snivilisation (1994) – Orbital

Orblivion (1997) – The Orb

Ozzmosis (1995) – Ozzy Osbourne

Sabresonic (1993) – The Sabres of Paradise

Headcoatitude (1991) – Thee Headcoats

Strangeitude (1991) – Ozric Tentacles

Schizophonic (1999) – Geri Halliwell

Screamadelica (1991) – Primal Scream

Psychedelicatessen (1994) – Threshold

Incunabula (1993) – Autechre

Dehumanizer (1992) – Black Sabbath

Jugulator (1997) – Judas Priest

Philophobia (1998) – Arab Strap

Boomania (1990) – Betty Boo

Oomalama (1992) – Eugenius


Feed Me Weird Things (1996) – Squarepusher

Barafundle (1997) – Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci

Fat Bob’s Feet (1991) – The Toy Dolls

Kamikaze Shirt (1993) – Fischer-Z

Subliminal Sandwich (1996) – Meat Beat Manifesto

Emperor Tomato Ketchup (1996) – Stereolab

Peasants, Pigs and Astronauts (1999) – Kula Shaker


Motor Driven Bimbo (1999) – Rockbitch

Do You Like My Tight Sweater? (1995) – Moloko

Never Mind the Methadone (1997) – Sheep on Drugs

Daddy Always Wanted Me to Grow a Pair of Wings (1995) – Credit to the Nation

The Stars Are So Big, The Earth Is So Small… Stay as You Are (1993) – Pram

Voyage to the Bottom of the Road (1997) – Half Man Half Biscuit


Lovegod (1990) – The Soup Dragons

Naughty (1992) – Adamski

Erotica (1992) – The Darling Buds

Toolbox (1990) – Ian Gillan

Cleopatra Grip (1990) – The Heart Throbs

Shaving Peaches (1998) – Terrorvision 

Throbbing Pouch (1995) – Wagon Christ

Gush (1995) – Lowlife

Queer (1991) – Thompson Twins

Your Arsenal (1992) – Morrissey

Bilingual (1996) – Pet Shop Boys

Bastards (1993) – Motörhead


It Is the Business of the Future to Be Dangerous (1993) – Hawkwind

Pre-Millennium Tension (1996) – Tricky

Millennium Fever (1995) – Apollo 440

pitchshifter.com (1998) – Pitchshifter

marillion.com (1999) – Marillion

J-Tull Dot Com (1999) – Jethro Tull


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