2008 marks 50 years of British rock'n'roll. To celebrate we run through some of the greatest tracks to have emerged from these isles, decade-by-decade, one decade a day - and today it's the turn of...

The ‘90s

Robbie Williams
Angels
The song that saved him from the scrapheap - and gave Britain an alternative national anthem.

Massive Attack
Unfinished Sympathy
Surely the best British soul song ever. The sound of rain drizzling down glass is almost audible.

Pulp
Common People
In which the 31-year-old Jarvis Cocker brilliantly skewered the middle class’s patronising relationship with the working class. Watch the Glasto ’95 crowd go mental at 2.15.

The Prodigy
Firestarter
Liam Howlett’s Essex misfits channeled the punk spirit of ’77 into pounding electronica.

Manic Street Preachers
A Design For Life
Post-Richey Edwards they dropped the literary posturing in favour of an impassioned tribute to the British working class.

Underworld
Born Slippy (Nuxx)
Common People for clubbers, the Romford trio’s biggest hit was as ambivalent about ‘90s hedonism as Jarvis Cocker was about Cool Brittania.

The Verve
Bitter Sweet Symphony
From the title’s allusion to classical music to Richard Ashcroft’s very Northern sense of defiance, The Verve’s biggest anthem encapsulated a timeless British spirit.

Cornershop
Brimful Of Asha
This tribute to Bollywood star Asha Bhosle was cultural confusion at its finest – though it took a remix from Fatboy Slim to take it to Number 1.