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Unknown Pleasures
The Smiths
Pills 'N' Thrills And Bellyaches
90
The Complete Stone Roses
The Frenz Experiment
Definitely Maybe
The Return Of The Durutti Column
Love Bites

Manchester Classics

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Lee-Jon Ball

"I went to Manchester University because it was near the Peak District for climbing, and because of Oasis and the Stone Roses. I didn't really know about the Manchester music scene before getting there. House music and Madchester weren't in my lexicon. But the city changed me and here's some of my favourites."

  1. 01
    Unknown Pleasures · Joy Division
    From the Peter Saville duochrome front cover, Unknown Pleasures is instantly recognisable. I really started to get into Joy Division after I read a Radiohead interview about how they'd go to parties and change the music to this.
  2. 02
    The Smiths · The Smiths
    Lyrically I never much cared for the smiths until later in my twenties, when everything clicked. This debut is as original for 1980s and introduces them perfectly.
  3. 03
    Pills 'N' Thrills And Bellyaches · Happy Mondays
    The Paul Oakenfold produced third album of the Happy Mondays contains their huge hit Step On. Although a drug friendly party stomp, it hides the honest lyrics of Ryder: "Son, I'm thirty,I only went with your mother 'cause she's dirty"
  4. 04
    90 · 808 State
    A dreamlike evolution of Acid House, and one of the only dance albums I listened to in the 2000s.
  5. 05
    The Complete Stone Roses · The Stone Roses
    I should really put their first album in, but this was my first CD of the stone roses - a compilation of the first singles, and including Fools Gold, which doesn't appear on any album.
  6. 06
    The Frenz Experiment · The Fall
    I once heard a great story about the Fall, and how promotors broke into their hotel room and stole back beer they'd stolen from a venue.
  7. 07
    Definitely Maybe · Oasis (2)
    The one that kicked it off for me. A formidably reckless, cliched guitar debut from the band that hijacked the way we thought about 90s music. Laying waste to Suede, Blur and the london Britpop set. The first band I felt were mine.
  8. 08
    The Return Of The Durutti Column · The Durutti Column
  9. 09
    Love Bites · Buzzcocks
    Historical punk from Manchester with the debut of the Buzzcocks hit Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've).