The Coctails - The Coctails
Archer Prewitt's pre-Sea and Cake band. Although, this album was made while he was splitting time between the two entities. That could explain why this is maybe the weakest entry into the band's catalog. Still, that said, it's worth listening to if you are a TSAC fan. Mines the same vein, although not quite as deeply. It's the band's last album before their final breakup and brief reunion in 2000 to say goodbye to Lounge Ax and play the final show there.

Collects a few classics and then a whole bunch of tracks from some of the best BritPop bands of the day: Pulp, Blur, Elastica, Primal Scream, including several that were otherwise unreleased.
A nice little compact snapshot of the rock music coming out of the UK in 1996.

TRACKLISTING

Lust for Life - Iggy Pop
Deep Blue Day - Brian Eno
Trainspotting - Primal Scream
Atomic - Sleeper
Temptation - New Order
Nightclubbing - Iggy Pop
Sing - Blur
Perfect Day - Lou Reed
Mile End - Pulp
1For What You Dream Of [Full On Renaissance Mix] - Bedrock, KYO
2:1 - Elastica
A Final Hit - Leftfield
Born Slippy [Nuxx] - Underworld
Closet Romantic - Damon Albarn

The Trainspotting Soundtrack was huge for me at the time. Still think it's pretty solid.

Odelay was a fixture, too. I burned myself out on it at the time, but I've since been able to come back to it and really enjoy it again.

I don't think BG (or anybody else) needs to qualify liking Sublime (especially at the time). Easy to see them as a played out radio band now, but they were great in their time.

My favorites from the year:

Dusk At Cubist Castle
Los Lobos - Colossal Head (a top 3 LL record for me)
Being There
Lyle's The Road To Ensenada

...and a few others previously mentioned. I was 21, the world was my oyster.

Put me in the pro Sublime camp.

I didn't realize this was such a great year.

Baby Fox A Normal Family
Cracker The Golden Age
dEUS In a Bar, Under the Sea
DM3 Road to Rome
Denim Denim on Ice
Fun Lovin' Criminals Come Find Yourself
James Hall Pleasure Club
Go To Blazes Waiting Around For The Crash
Heatmiser Mic City Sons
Country Dick Montana The Devil Lied To Me
Peter Perrett The One
Psychomania The Rebel Set
Sammy Tales of Great Neck Glory
Spoon Telephono
The Sugarplastic Bang! The Earth is Round
Sponge Wax Ecstatic
Throneberry Trot Out the Encores
The V-Roys Just Add Ice

Yeah, Mic City Sons and Telephono! Have no idea why people hate on Telephono. Great songs there.

Fuck yeah great. Really, there's hatred out there for that album? Damn I love it and it spawned one of my favorites on the Soft Effects, Waiting for the Kid to Come Out. Easily my top 5 songs of all Spoon.