What are the best albums of the 1990's?

[coloradodem2005]

My Picks:

Ozzy Osbourne-No More Tears.

Metallica-Black Album

Barenaked Ladies-Gordon

Nine Inch Nails-Pretty Hate Machine

Dave Matthews Band-Crash

Blues Traveller-Four

Soundgarden-Superunknown

Nirvana-Nevermind

Pearl Jam-Ten

Alice In Chains-Dirt

Foo Fighters-The Color and Shape

Radiohead- O.K. Computer

Tool-Aenima

Rage Against the Machine-The Battle for Los Angeles

The Refreshments-Bizzy Buzzy Big and Fuzzy

Red Hot Chili Peppers-Blood Sugar Sex Magik


Your thoughts.

[MrSoundAndVision]

1. Frank Black - Teenager of the Year

Incredible album, check it out.

The Cure - Wish

[aeon flux]

4. The guy from the Pixies

one of the best 90's bands.

I also like Badmotorfinger and Superunknown,
both by Soundgarden.

[DrZhivago]

2. ummm

Blind Melon - Soup

Medeski, Martin & Wood - Shack Man

DrDre - The Chronic

Pharcyde - Bizarre ride to the...

A Tribe Called Quest - A Low End Theory

Ween - Chocolate and Cheese

[Beaker]

3. Catherine Wheel - Ferment

or just about anything by Lush.

[fudge stripe cookays]

9. I love "Black Metallic"

One of those songs always guaranteed to make me turn the volume up!

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

35. i loved their song w/ tanya donelly

from belly. can't remember the name of it though

[Dogmudgeon]

5. Seal

His eponymous album with "Prayer for the Dying" on it.

One of the best albums ever.

--bkl

[mvd]

6. I wouldn't be able to think of a solid list now, so I'll just add..

R.E.M. - Automatic For The People

[Wolfman 11]

7. my favorites

U2 - Achtung Baby

Blind Melon - Blind Melon

Pearl Jam - No Code, Yield

The Black Crowes - Shake Your Money Maker, Amorica

[populistmom]

8. My favorites are pretty girly, but...that's me

Top 4:
Sarah McLachlan- Mirrorball
Sarah McLachlan- Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
Natalie Merchant- Ophelia
REM- Monster

[RandomKoolzip]

10. Here's my post from the best songs of the 90's thread.....

Guided By Voices: "Echoes Myron."



Oh, god, there are so many, but that's the best song I've ever heard in my LIFE, let alone just the 90's. Here's a few more:

Ben Folds Five: "Emaline"
Chisel: "Innocents Abroad"
Geto Boys: "Mind Playing Tricks On Me"
Flaming Lips: "Race for the Prize"
Sleater-Kinney: "The Day you Went Away"
Harvey Danger: "Flagpole Sitta"
Elvis Costello: "This is Hell"
The Wrens: "I've Made Enough Friends"
Oasis: "don't Go Away"
Jawbox: "savory"
Everclear: "I Will Buy You a New Life"
Fastball: "the Way" (The Fastball, Harvey Danger, Oasis, and Everclear songs were all from 1998, actually a very good year for rock on the radio: I heard all of them FIRST on the radio....do you know how rare that is, for me to actually LOVE a song I hear on pop radio?!)
Excuse 17: "Watchman"
The Amps: "I am Decided"
Dr. Dre: "Let Me Ride" (The whole "Chronic" album is genius, too)
Dub Narcotic Sound System: "Ship to Shore"
The Jayhawks: "Blue"
Jason Falkner: "Don't Show me Heaven"
Jellyfish: "all is Forgiven"
Mineral: "Gloria"
Texas is the Reason: "If it's Here When We Get Back it's Ours"
Samiam: "Ordinary Life"
RuthRuth: "Mission Idiot"


And about a thousand other songs by Neutral Milk Hotel, Grant Lee Buffalo, Shudder to Think, OutKast, The Wrens, Wesley Willis, RATM, The Coctails, Fugazi, Guided by Voices, Karate, Ben Folds, Slint, Ted Leo, etc......I LOVED the 90's. I don't wanna hear any more bellyaching about the shitty music of the 90's if you were stupid enough NOT to get involved in the indie rock scene and instead settled for radio pop and corporate rock....You DO have choices, y'know.




sure, these are songs, but the albums themselves were pretty goood too.

[GOPisEvil]

12. GbV rescheduled their show here for March 6th!

:thumbsup:

[RandomKoolzip]

13. verrah nice!

I'll see ya there.

[GOPisEvil]

14. If yer into Spoon, they're playing 3/5 and 3/6.

The SXSW line-up is going to be freaking amazing, too. March is going to ROCK!!

[RandomKoolzip]

15. Wow. I love Chicago already....

Screw Nashville.

[GOPisEvil]

16. Erm...

[RandomKoolzip]

19. Oh my Gawd. I am officially an idiot.

Whoops! Sorry, I haven't been on DU for a while, and got you mixed up with the whole Chi-town crowd who've been greeting me....Oh god, the shame, the shame...

Anyways, enjoy SXSW! (Oh, my face is so red right now.....)

[GOPisEvil]

20. Well, I have met a lot of those folks...great people!

We do talk a lot amongst ourselves...it's an easy mistake. Crap happens.

Wait until XNASA comes for his visit here...total CHAOS! :-)

[RandomKoolzip]

22. Yeah, they seem like really cool, nice people.

Man, the things I say before breakfast. I gotta wake up fiirst before I start posting......


I think we're all gonna form a new band once I meet all of them.

[GOPisEvil]

11. OK - here's some...

Nirvana - Nevermind
Radiohead - OK Computer
Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
Weezer - Weezer
Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Son Volt - Straightaways

[Aristus]

17. 'All The Pain Money Can Buy' by Fastball is definitely one of them.

'Bloodletting' by Concrete Blonde is another. Great stuff.

"Out Of My Head" from 'ATPMCB' sounds like a tribute to the Beatles, circa Abbey Road. The guitar interlude is pure George Harrison.

[Loonman]

18. NIN - The Downward Spiral

Filter - Shortbus

Catherine Wheel - Chrome

Jesus & Mary Chain - Automatic

Boingo - Boingo

Love Spit Love - Love Spit Love

REM - Automatic For The People

The Cure - Wish

Engines of Aggression - EP

Low Pop Suicide - On The Cross of Commerce

Big Catholic Guilt - EP

Nirvana - Nevermind

Fugazi - Instrument Soundtrack

Verve - A Storm in Heaven

Verve - A Northern Soul

Prince - The Gold Experience

Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies EP

Mad Season - Above

Depeche Mode - Violater

Jane's Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual

1,000 Homo DJs - Supernaut EP

Sister Machine Gun - The Torture Technique

[Spider Jerusalem]

21. Hmmm...

First, a comment: NIN's "Pretty Hate Machine" came out in '89.

Now my list of the best Nineties albums...

Pixies - Bossanova

Massive Attack - Blue Lines, Mezzanine

Tricky - Maxinquaye

Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Let Love In

The Future Sound of London - Dead Cities

Soul Coughing - Ruby Vroom

Portishead - Dummy

Barry Adamson - Oedipus Schmoedipus

Johnny Cash - American Recordings

Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Volume II

David Bowie - 1. Outside

Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

Radiohead - The Bends

Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile

REM - Automatic For The People

[loftycity]

23. Throw in Stone Temple Pilots

I got to see them in the early 90's and 2 years ago. They are good.
And the Lead Singer is perfectly crazy enough for Rock n Roll.
Bless his heart

[grannylib]

24. Good addition; I would throw in any Crowded House/Neil Finn albums

just because I don't think Neil can be bested as a songwriter/performer...really nothing he's ever done that I have disliked.

[fudge stripe cookays]

25. Fudge-Striped 90s picks...

Afghan Whigs- 1965
" - Congregation
Ned's Atomic Dustbin- God Fodder
" - Brainbloodvolume
The Pursuit of Happiness- Where's the Bone?
The Tragically Hip- Fully Completely
Bruce Cockburn- Nothing But a Burning Light
The Church - Priest=Aura
The Posies - Frosting on the Beater
Lucinda Williams - Sweet Old World
Jeff Buckley- Grace
Rosanne Cash- The Wheel
Shawn Colvin- Fat City
The Wonder Stuff- Construction for the Modern Idiot
Southern Culture on the Skids- Dirt Track Date
Cake - Fashion Nugget
Soundgarden - Louder than Love (technically 89, but....)

[Red_Storm]

26. some...........

Time Out Of Mind - Bob Dylan
Urban Hymns - The Verve
Illmatic - Nas
My Life - Mary J. Blige
The Bends - Radiohead
Ten & Vitalogy - Pearl Jam
Mexican Moon - Concrete Blonde
Return Of The Boom Bap - KRS-One
Out of Time & Automatic For The People - R.E.M.
The Battle Of Los Angeles - RATM
The Boy With The Arab Strap - Belle and Sebastian
Supernatural - Santana
Being There - Wilco
The Low End Theory - A Tribe Called Quest
Central Reservation - Beth Orton

[tigerbeat]

27. in no particular order

The La's - The La's
Nevermind - Nirvana
Copper Blue - Sugar
Automatic for the People - REM
Exile in Guyville - Liz Phair
Bee Thousand - Guided by Voices
Weezer (blue album) - Weezer
I'm With Stupid - Aimee Mann
Amazing Disgrace - The Posies
Either/Or - Elliott Smith
Apple Venus (Volume One) - XTC
OK Computer - Radiohead
The Soft Bulletin - The Flaming Lips
If You're Feeling Sinister - Belle and Sebastian
The Color and the Shape - Foo Fighters
Spilt Milk - Jellyfish
Apollo 18 - They Might Be Giants

[Liberal Classic]

28. Collective Soul

Hints, Allegations, & Things left unsaid.

Followed closely by Dosage.

[sendero]

29. yummy

Endtroducing - DJ Shadow
Sublime - Sublime
Selection Sixteen - Squarepusher
Heaven or Las Vegas = Cocteau Twins
Protection - Massive Attack
Queer - The Wolfgang Press
Dummy - Portishead
Odelay - Beck
Mars Audiac Quintet - Stereolab
Timeless - Goldie

[FrankBooth]

30. Must chime in

In no particular order:

Nirvana - Nevermind
Pearl Jam - 10, Vs.
The Posies - Frosting on the Beater, Amazing Disgrace, Success
Guided By Voices - Alien Lanes, Bee Thousand
Apples in Stereo - Tone Soul Evolution, Her Wallpaper Reverie
Built To Spill - Keep it Like a Secret
Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted; Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain; Wowee Zowee; Brighten the Corners
Dandy Warhols - Come Down
Beck - One Foot in the Grave, Mellow Gold
Cypress Hill - Black Sunday
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Son Volt - Trace
Radiohead - The Bends; OK Computer
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Sublime - 40 Oz. to Freedom; Sublime
Supersuckers - Must Have Been High
Uncle Tupelo - Anodyne
Elliott Smith - Either, Or; X/O; Elliott Smith
Wilco - A.M.; Being There; Summerteeth
Frank Black - Frank Black; Teenager of the Year; Frank Black and the Catholics

Every Pixies Album that came out in the 90s.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

31. Neil Young & Crazy Horse: Ragged Glory (1990)

...Kurt Loder, even though he is considered a tool by many, reviewed this one in Rolling Stone and called Young "The King of Rock & Roll."

Other than the fact that it is one of the greatest albums of all time, its special appeal comes from the fact that it wiped away the bitter aftertaste of Young's regrettable, experimental, fruitless decade on Geffen Records in the 80s. Young was quite amused that David Geffen sued him unsuccessfully for making a series of albums on his label that "did not sound like Neil Young." If your dream is to hear Young croon rockabilly tunes like "Kinda Fonda Wanda," head for the Geffen discs pronto.

It was the biggest "up yours" since Lou Reed released "Metal Machine Music." Young left Geffen, returned to his original label Reprise, and a year after "Freedom" and its phenomenal track "Rockin' In The Free World" released "Ragged Glory"...which really, really, REALLY "sounds like Neil Young."

By the way, coloradodem2004, I'm with ya on the Ozzy, Metallica and Soundgarden. Transcendent stuff.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

34. that makes the list

just for 'fuckin up' if no other reason

[fudge stripe cookays]

38. I concur!

Crap! Can't believe I forgot the album with my favorite Neil song! Grrrrrr.....

[PVnRT]

32. "Evil Empire" should be the RATM album on the list

I would add Snoop's "The Doggfather" to the list.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

33. u2 - achtung baby, r.e.m. - automatic for the people, the cure - wish

are my top 3 picks

also:
blur - parklife, the great escape, and 13
sonic youth - dirty
u2 - zooropa and pop (massively underrated)
supergrass- i should coco
radiohead - the bends
depeche mode - violator
pearl jam - yield (other albums had better singles, but i've always thought this was their most solid album)

nirvana - nevermind (almost an obligatory answer - but still true)

juliana hatfield - become what you are
dandy warhols - come down
sinead o ' connor - i do not want what i haven't got
10,000 maniacs - our time in eden
patti smith - gone again
le tigre - selftitled
smashing pumpkins - siamese dream

[MissMillie]

36. Aimee Mann

1993: Whatever


and Shawn Colvin, 1997: A Few Small Repairs

[PragMantisT]

37. Offspring - Smash

Lyle Lovett - Joshua judges Ruth
Sugar - File under: easy listening
Steely Dan - Alive in America
Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Sleeps with Angels
Old and In the Way - That High Lonesome Sound

[dolgoruky]

39. Happy Mondays

Pills and thrills and bellyaches... By far

[MrSlayer]

40. Slayer - Seasons In the Abyss, Divine Intervention, Undisputed Attitude..

and Diabolus in Musica.
Megadeth - Rust In Peace
Alice In Chains - Dirt
The Haunted - The Haunted
Porno for Pyros - Porno for Pyros
Mr. Bungle - Mr. Bungle


Not everything was shit in the 90's, just most of it.

[Whitacre D_WI]

41. By year:

1990 - Pixies "Bossanova"
1991 - Ice-T "O.G. Original Gangster"
1992 - Bassholes "Blue Roots"
1993 - Frank Black "Frank Black"
1994 - Guided by Voices "Crying Your Knife Away"
1995 - Inhalants "Inhalants"
1996 - Thee Headcoats "In Tweed We Trust"
1997 - Oblivians "Play 9 Songs with Mr. Quintron"
1998 - Neutral Milk Hotel "In the Aeroplane over the Sea"
1999 - April March "Chrominance Decoder"