Backpacking Soundtrack 1993~1998

In the mid-nineties I backpacked around the world. These are the albums I listened to.

  1. Beck

    Disorientating at first but there after brilliant.

  2. Portishead

    One of the best albums ever made.

  3. Morcheeba

    Bought a few months before leaving Hong Kong I think.

  4. My first real intro into Bowie. Not his usual stuff.

  5. I shed a hidden tear to a track on the flight home from Hong Kong to the UK when I realised I was saying goodbye to Hong Kong and the backpacking life.

  6. Another Hong Kong album.

  7. The Charlatans

    Another Hong Kong soundtrack. Bought in HMV Hong Kong where I used to spend my days off.

  8. The Chemical Brothers

    On the dance floor in Boracay, the Philippines.

  9. Björk

    I was infatuated with Björk.

  10. The Brand New Heavies

    Another Hong Kong soundtrack.

  11. Radiohead

    Legendary and they only got better after this.

  12. The Cruel Sea

    Bus journeys up the east coast of Australia.

  13. The Stone Roses

    Some say it's not as good as their first album but it's good enough for me.

  14. Tim Roth, Amanda Plummer, John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, …

    One of the few films I've seen more than once at the cinema.

  15. Blur

    I've recently started listening to this again. I thought it wouldn't hold up well but it does.

  16. Saint Etienne

    Also my inter-railing soundtrack. Listened to this on the train from Dover to London.

  17. Pet Shop Boys

    Inter-railing across Europe. Go West, but I went east.

  18. New Order

    New Order aren't keen on this but Regret made me finally walk out the door with my backpack.

  19. Found this in HMV Hong Kong and bought it on a whim.

  20. Depeche Mode

    Listened to while catching the bus home from work between Kowloon and Hong Kong Island.

  21. The soundtrack to my first trip to Japan. One night in a pub in Kyoto. Bought it on MD (an awesome format) in Hong Kong. I loved my MD player.

  22. Another Aussie soundtrack. Switched between this and Incognito a lot.

  23. Corduroy

    The soundtrack to cheap Aussie wine and free weekends in the Dandenongs.

  24. The album for our generation.

  25. Incognito

    Crossing the Australian Nullabor with this playing in the car. Not a care in the world.

  26. Electronic

    The staple album for long Indian train journeys.

Backpacking Soundtrack 1993~1998 is an album list curated by Sean Breslin:

Moved from the UK to Japan in 2001 and been here ever since. www.seanbreslin.jp

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