Best 1990s Electronic Songs

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   Personal Jesus

   Depeche Mode · from Violator (1990) · Album scores 91/99

   Blues guitar, synths, and a reach-out-and-touch-faith chorus.

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   Unfinished Sympathy

   Massive Attack · from Blue Lines (1991) · Album scores 98/99

   The strings, the groove — trip-hop at its peak.

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   Xtal

   Aphex Twin · from Selected Ambient Works 85-92 (1992) · Album scores 92/99

   Warm, melodic ambient techno.

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   Glory Box

   Portishead · from Dummy (1994) · Album scores 99/99

   Trip-hop at its most cinematic and aching.

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   Cowgirl

   Underworld · from Dubnobasswithmyheadman (1994) · Album scores 92/99

   Hypnotic, building progressive house.

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   Hyperballad

   Björk · from Post (1995) · Album scores 92/99

   Waking before dawn and throwing things off cliffs — strangely tender.

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   Hell Is Round the Corner

   Tricky · from Maxinquaye (1995) · Album scores 91/99

   Woozy, paranoid Bristol trip-hop.

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   Around the World

   Daft Punk · from Homework (1997) · Album scores 85/99

   One phrase, one bassline, seven minutes — perfect.

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   Block Rockin' Beats

   The Chemical Brothers · from Dig Your Own Hole (1997) · Album scores 78/99

   Big beat at its most bluntly effective.

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    Firestarter

    The Prodigy · from The Fat of the Land (1997) · Album scores 82/99

    The breakdown that collapsed festival tents in 1997.

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    Setting Sun

    The Chemical Brothers · from Dig Your Own Hole (1997) · Album scores 78/99

    Lennon's 'Tomorrow Never Knows' reconstructed as rave.

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    Da Funk

    Daft Punk · from Homework (1997) · Album scores 85/99

    The chunky, distorted calling card that announced them.

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