Thumbs up to Dusty, Nirvana and Hendrix. I don't actually like Dusty's song 'I Just Don't Know etc etc', but it's kind of the soundtrack to my life, so it still owns me, lol. Musically my fave by her was 'Son of A etc etc'.
Nirvana/Hendrix brings me to the tracks I've been listening to the past couple of days. I met a guy in the supermarket the other day. It turned out he was one of my friends from when I was young and 'on the scene'. We were very lucky with our scene, it was another one of those 'magic moments' in musical history when people were creating sounds that transcended social and racial boundries to create something akin to a 'Summer of Love' for a couple of years.
Nirvana's 'Smells Like etc etc' was certainly one such anthem of those years, but the rest of their stuff was more niche to a specific sub-genre. There was so much 'new' in those years that Nirvana was just 'one of many' rather than the legend it later became. At the time any one of these groups were of equal legend with the following songs, but you wont hear them on the radio to 1/100th of the rate you'll hear less meaningful tracks from those years:
Stone Roses - Fool's Gold
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSD11dnphg0
Happy Mondays - Kinky Afro
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvS1jeZftBw
Inspiral Carpets - Move
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75ENlCgERcQ
DeeeLite - Groove is in the Heart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etviGf1uWlg
The B52's - Love Shack
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leohcvmf8kM
Snap - I've Got The Power
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BRv9wGf5pk
The KLF - Justified and Ancient
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPjggN-KByI
Basically, it didn't matter what you shoved in the tape-deck, it was PARTY TIME! And I seriously advise you take the time to fully take in each track and then realise all these sounds hit in 'unison'.