Music: What are your Top 10 Nineties Albums?

[TheAngryHank]

No STP

WILL make a list..love the 90s

 

[Aladyyn]

Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Deströyer 666 - Unchain the Wolves
No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom
Master's Hammer - Rituál
Michael Jackson - Dangerous
Nifelheim - Nifelheim
Botch - We Are The Romans
The Gathering - Nighttime Birds
Poison the Well - The Opposite Of December... A Season Of Separation
Portishead - Dummy

 

[Leafsdude7]

1) Barenaked Ladies - Stunt (1998)
2) U2 - Achtung Baby (1991)
3) Counting Crows - August And Everything After (1993)
4) Matchbox 20 - Yourself Or Someone Like You (1996)
5) Our Lady Peace - Happiness...Is Not A Fish That You Can Catch (1999)
6) Tragically Hip - Phantom Power (1998)
7) Goo Goo Dolls - Dizzy Up The Girl (1999)
8) Vertical Horizon - Everything You Want (1999)
9) Grapes Of Wrath - These Days (1991)
10) Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Let's Face It (1997)

HM: Jann Arden - Living Under June (1994), Tom Cochrane - Mad Mad World (1991), Bruce Cockburn - Breakfast In New Orleans, Dinner In Timbuktu (1999), Dave Matthews Band - Under The Table And Dreaming (1996), Enya - Shepherd Moon (1991), Melissa Etheridge - Your Little Secret (1995), Amanda Marshall - Amanda Marshall (1996)

 

[Babe Ruth]

Siamese Dream - Pumpkins
End of Silence - Rollins Band
Ten - Pearl Jam
Magnified - Failure
Black Aria- G. Danzig
A Place in the Sun - Lit
Dirt - Alice In Chains

Siamese Dream was my favorite album of the decade..

 

[Burnoutboi]

I don’t think the 2nd half of SFNB is perfect. It’s a bit of a letdown after the first half, but what wouldn’t be? I should check out the b-sides I guess.

‘Start Again’ is the best song I’ve heard by them. I have not heard all their albums, though.

Seeing Grand Prix as Norman’s favorite is nice. It’s an incredible album.

To me, TFC took a major slide after SFNB. I’m still a huge fan, but nothing they’ve done past it really does as much for me.

As for the b-sides, they do roaring covers of The Pastels ‘Nothing To Be Done’ and Bevis Fronds ‘He’d Be A Diamond’.

There are so many great albums I forgot to mention : the first two Weezer releases are excellent, Twang Twang Shock A Booms debut Me So Twangy is some great lo fi pop. And dear lord I just about slapped myself when I omitted Utopia Parkway and the self titled album from Fountains Of Wayne.

 

[Acadmus]

I'll pare this list down to 10 tomorrow. If I can. Sticking also to an "only one album by any artist" format or else it'd get ridiculous.

Perverse - Jesus Jones
Chrome - Catherine Wheel
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - Smashing Pumpkins
The Bends - Radiohead
Grave Dancers Union - Soul Asylum
Mighty Joe Moon - Grant Lee Buffalo
Out of Time - R.E.M.
Friction, Baby - Better Than Ezra
What's the Story (Morning Glory)? - Oasis
Violator - Depeche Mode
Fountains of Wayne - Fountains of Wayne
Weezer (aka the Blue Album) - Weezer
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain - Pavement
Stranger Than Fiction - Bad Religion
The Man Who - Travis
On - Echobelly
Star - Belly
Coming Up -Suede
Kerosene Hat - Cracker
Dookie - Green Day
Saturation - Urge Overkill
Ten - Pearl Jam
The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion - The Black Crowes
Resident Alien - Spacehog
Achtung Baby - U2
Purple - Stone Temple Pilots
New Miserable Experience - Gin Blossoms
Dos Dedos Mis Amigos - Pop Will Eat Itself
Laid - James
Too High to Die - Meat Puppets
Villains - The Verve Pipe
The Great Escape - Blur
Altered Beast - Matthew Sweet

 

[Ouroboros]

Gorguts - Obscura
Incantation - Onward To Golgotha
diSEMBOWELMENT - Transcendence Into The Peripheral
Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger
Thomas Köner - Permafrost
Dmitri Shostakovich - The String Quartets [Fitzwilliam String Quartet]
Poul Ruders - Solar Trilogy [Schønwandt/Odense Symphony Orchestra]
Burzum - Filosofem
Alexander Scriabin - Complete Piano Sonatas [Marc-Andre Hamelin]
Béla Bartók - The 6 String Quartets [Takács Quartet]
Paysage d'Hiver - Paysage d'Hiver
At The Gates - The Red In The Sky Is Ours
Ludwig van Beethoven - The Late String Quartets [Alban Berg Quartet]
RRI Gamelan - Klênêngan Session of Solonese Gamelan I
The Chasm - Deathcult For Eternity: The Triumph

I went way over and still didn't get anywhere close to getting everything I wanted on the list. It was a struggle for me to even get 10 down for the 70's, but I could have went to 50 here easily.

 

[BigBadBruins7708]

No STP

WILL make a list..love the 90s

same...I could make a top 30 and still agonize over what got left off.

Pearl Jam - Vitality
Outkast - Aquemini
Offspring - Smash
STP - Core
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Fugees - The Score
Weird Al - Bad Hair Day
Oasis - Whats the Story
RHCP - Blood, Sugar, Sex, Magik

all are also on my "top 10" besides the actual 10 I went with.

also, anyone else who was a kid in the early 90s, fess up and add this to your list:

Ace of Base - The Sign

 

[b1e9a8r5s]

same...I could make a top 30 and still agonize over what got left off.



also, anyone else who was a kid in the early 90s, fess up and add this to your list:

Ace of Base - The Sign

 

[NyQuil]

Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Air - Moon Safari
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Wu Tang Clan - Enter the Wu Tang (36 Chambers)
Pearl Jam - Ten
Nas - Ilmatic
Tragically Hip - Day for Night
Stone Temple Pilots - Purple
Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Weezer - Blue Album

 

[peate]

This is getting a little out of my comfort zone, but besides the ones quoted multiple times already, I liked the ones below in no specific order, leaning on the fairer sex...what can I say, I'm a sucker for a melody.

Portishead - Dummy
Bjork - Post
Alanis - Jagged little pill
Eric Clapton - Unplugged
Fiona Apple - Tidal
Cake - Fashion nugget
Sarah McLachlan - Surfacing
Santana - Supernatural
Extreme - ExtremeIIornograffitti
Cheryl Crow - Tuesday night music club

Honorable mentions:
Madonna - Ray of light
Natalie Merchant - Tigerlily
Jewel - Pieces of you

And maybe the top selling album of that decade, I didn't check:

Come on over by Shania

Edit: To the censor bot: Great emoticon in that Extreme title, couldn't have done it better myself.

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

Forgot to mention the "Unplugged" albums that Nirvana and especially Alice In Chains did

Both are masterpieces.

 

[The Macho King]

Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Nas - Illmatic
Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang
Gza - Liquid Swords
Nirvana - Nevermind
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt
Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss
Judas Priest - Painkiller
Rage Against the Machine - S/T

 

[Frankie Blueberries]

Any love for Dear You by Jawbreaker?

 

[Nalens Oga]

Man....I have good taste in music, though it's hard to go wrong in the 90s unless you start naming mainstream pop acts or shitty grunge bands.

 

[TheAngryHank]

#1 STP core

The rest in any order
White zombie devil music V1
Anthrax sound if white noise
Beasties Ill communication
Smashing pumpkins Simaese dream
Nirvana never mind
Eminem Shady LP
Dr Dre Cronic
Alice in chains dirt
Soundgarden bad motoorfinger
Megadeath sympathy of destruction

HM Green Jello . ...half kidding

 

[The Nuge]

#1 STP core

The rest in any order
White zombie devil music V1
Anthrax sound if white noise
Beasties Ill communication
Smashing pumpkins Simaese dream
Nirvana never mind
Eminem Shady LP
Dr Dre Cronic
Alice in chains dirt
Soundgarden bad motoorfinger
Megadeath sympathy of destruction

HM Green Jello . ...half kidding

Awesome list. I considered every single one of those albums. Another one I forgot about is Tonight the Stars Revolt! by Powerman 5000

 

[TheAngryHank]

Awesome list. I considered every single one of those albums. Another one I forgot about is Tonight the Stars Revolt! by Powerman 5000

Impossible to rank for me but Core is the best cover to cover with sound of white noise being next and Nirvana all three effing great cover to cover.No need to skip a song..
PM 5k is great... many didn't make my list, candle box is one.

 

[The Macho King]

#1 STP core

The rest in any order
White zombie devil music V1
Anthrax sound if white noise
Beasties Ill communication
Smashing pumpkins Simaese dream
Nirvana never mind
Eminem Shady LP
Dr Dre Cronic
Alice in chains dirt
Soundgarden bad motoorfinger
Megadeath sympathy of destruction

HM Green Jello . ...half kidding

Symphony of Destruction over Rust in Peace...

The Onion said it best:

https://entertainment.theonion.com/humanity-still-producing-new-art-as-though-megadeth-s-1819578062

Edit: OMG I f***ing forgot. Album is Countdown to Extinction (also like the worse song on the album).

 

[BigBadBruins7708]

#1 STP core

The rest in any order
White zombie devil music V1
Anthrax sound if white noise
Beasties Ill communication
Smashing pumpkins Simaese dream
Nirvana never mind
Eminem Shady LP
Dr Dre Cronic
Alice in chains dirt
Soundgarden bad motoorfinger
Megadeath sympathy of destruction

HM Green Jello . ...half kidding

good call on White Zombie.

Hellbilly Deluxe just missed my top 10. to me that's the best album he's done either solo or in WZ

 

[Acadmus]

I'll pare this list down to 10 tomorrow. If I can. Sticking also to an "only one album by any artist" format or else it'd get ridiculous.

Perverse - Jesus Jones
Chrome - Catherine Wheel
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - Smashing Pumpkins
The Bends - Radiohead
Grave Dancers Union - Soul Asylum
Mighty Joe Moon - Grant Lee Buffalo
Out of Time - R.E.M.
Friction, Baby - Better Than Ezra
What's the Story (Morning Glory)? - Oasis
Violator - Depeche Mode
Fountains of Wayne - Fountains of Wayne
Weezer (aka the Blue Album) - Weezer
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain - Pavement
Stranger Than Fiction - Bad Religion
The Man Who - Travis
On - Echobelly
Star - Belly
Coming Up -Suede
Kerosene Hat - Cracker
Dookie - Green Day
Saturation - Urge Overkill
Ten - Pearl Jam
The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion - The Black Crowes
Resident Alien - Spacehog
Achtung Baby - U2
Purple - Stone Temple Pilots
New Miserable Experience - Gin Blossoms
Dos Dedos Mis Amigos - Pop Will Eat Itself
Laid - James
Too High to Die - Meat Puppets
Villains - The Verve Pipe
The Great Escape - Blur
Altered Beast - Matthew Sweet

Ok, attempting to pare this down to the 10 albums I absolutely couldn't live without:
Perverse - Jesus Jones
Chrome - Catherine Wheel
Stranger Than Fiction - Bad Religion
Violator - Depeche Mode
Laid - James
Altered Beast - Matthew Sweet
Mighty Joe Moon - Grant Lee Buffalo
Friction, Baby - Better Than Ezra
Grave Dancers Union - Soul Asylum
The Great Escape - Blur

I think that's my list...it's a hard choice to cut some of those albums. And I have to add Superunknown to that shortlist of cuts, I knew I'd forget something.

 

[Bjorn Le]

The 1990s sometimes get the hipster argument that they weren't very good but they have a pretty good argument for the best decade of music. The rock is smart, heavy, sophisticated and artistic (a sharp rebuke to the 1980s and most of the 1970s). You get the latter age 0f the Golden Age of hip-hop and smart gangsta rap. You have a solid punk revival. And the pop music I find considerably less irritating than post-2000 pop music. So many iconic artists who will stand the test of time.

I don't think I could do a top-10 album list.

silverchair - frogstomp
Rage Against the Machine - RAGM
Rancid - out come the wolves
Cypress Hill - Black Sunday
Funkdoobiest - Brothas Doobie
Guns and Roses - Use your Illusion 1 and 2
Nas - Illmatic
Fugees - The Score
2Pac - All eyez on me
Nirvana - Nevermind

Good to see Cypress Hill mentioned early. Probably the most underrated commercial successful hip-hop acts of the late Golden Age.

 

[Gordon Lightfoot]

The 1990s sometimes get the hipster argument that they weren't very good but they have a pretty good argument for the best decade of music. The rock is smart, heavy, sophisticated and artistic (a sharp rebuke to the 1980s and most of the 1970s). You get the latter age 0f the Golden Age of hip-hop and smart gangsta rap. You have a solid punk revival. And the pop music I find considerably less irritating than post-2000 pop music. So many iconic artists who will stand the test of time.

I don't think I could do a top-10 album list.



Good to see Cypress Hill mentioned early. Probably the most underrated commercial successful hip-hop acts of the late Golden Age.

I could never get into Cypress Hill. They just came across as gimmicky and almost like a novelty act.

 

[BigBadBruins7708]

I could never get into Cypress Hill. They just came across as gimmicky and almost like a novelty act.

same here.

To me they are like Jimmy Buffett or Grateful Dead...either you get it and love it, or you dont. There's no middle ground

 

[Bjorn Le]

I could never get into Cypress Hill. They just came across as gimmicky and almost like a novelty act.

I think that comes from a Spanish-speaking group doing mainstream rap. They ran into that problem originally too with their labels wanting them to be a latin hip-hop group (which has an audience it's just pretty) niche and they didn't want to do that.

You can not like them, but I don't think you can call them a gimmick or a novelty act. They were always pretty authentic and they outlasted most hip hop artists and groups from their era.