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83. Thomas Newman, People are Afraid to Merge

Newman's Less than Zero soundtrack. Strange film. Doesn't really adhere to the book, taking a more Nancy Reagan/'Just Say No' tack with a young Robert Downey Jr. disintegrating under the weight of addiction - something he'd later do for real. It's silly and heavy handed, but I like it. If nothing else, it's an incredible time capsule.

The soundtrack to gazing into your parents' swimming pool.

 
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84. YoungBoy Never Broke Again, Run It Up

I haven't kept up with him, but he seemed to have a brilliant one out every week in 2018. This one, Diamond Teeth Samurai and Overdose being the cream of the crop. That instrumental's pristine. A harp with diamond strings.

 
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85. Saint Etienne, Like A Motorway (Skin Up, You're Already Dead - Autechre remix)

It's verging on naff electronica, but they just about pull it off. Similar quality to AFX's Stepping Filter 101 in that there's an ethereal melancholy to it that puts me in mind of winding through the purples, browns and greys of the British moors as evening creeps in.

 
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89. The Stooges, Down on the Street

Propulsion. It lights a fire under you. A cliche, but it really is music for breaking things. The rhythm section's like a coiled spring. You get some release via Iggy and Ron, but the backbone never loosens; gritting your teeth and on the verge of frenzy.

 
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90. Sixpence None The Richer, Kiss Me

She's All That. The moment Laney comes down the stairs.

The late-90s American romcom's something of a guilty pleasure of mine. It's difficult to tell how much of it's nostalgia and how much of it's just me being a bit of a sap, but I do genuinely enjoy a fair few of them. It's part of the package of American culture my generation were sold - along with nu-metal, basketball, hip-hop, wrestling and skating - which made England, and particularly school in England - they get to wear their own clothes every day!? - even less appealing than it already was.

 
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94. Carmine Coppola, Voyage

About twelve years ago I went through a period of watching Apocalypse Now almost religiously, culminating in buying a sheet of acid and a load of weed, filling a mate's living room with plants and watching Redux three times. We lost track of what was going on about two thirds of the way through the second viewing, but I don't think it mattered by that point.

 
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99. Arvo Part, Tabula Rasa I

Transcendent.

The first time I heard this I had an incredibly vivid image of a young woman running through deserted streets under an overcast sky, doors and shutters closed, wind whipping tiles from roofs. The world was coming down and nobody would help her.

Somehow I knew she was running for a church. I never saw her reach it, but I knew that was where she was going.

 
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