Favorite Albums of the '90s [Archive]

Masculine Todd

07-11-2008, 06:06 AM

After looking over my last.fm of late, I've come to the realization that many of the albums I've listened to recently have been from the past decade. So, I thought, "why not discuss favorite '90s albums."

So, make a list. Discuss. Go on, do it.

My 25 favorite LPs of the '90s:

Sloan -- Twice Removed
Weezer -- Pinkerton
Stereolab -- Mars Audiac Quintet
The Promise Ring -- Nothing Feels Good
Phantom Planet -- ...Is Missing
The Breeders -- Last Splash
Yo La Tango -- I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
Neutral Milk Hotel -- In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
Belle & Sebastian -- If You're Feeling Sinister
Leaders of the New School -- A Future Without a Past
Saetia -- Saetia
Blur -- Parklife
Texas is the Reason -- Do You Know Who You Are?
Sonic Youth -- Goo
The Jesus Lizard -- Goat
Radiohead -- OK Computer
Black Star -- Mos Def & Talib Kweli are Black Star
Talk Talk -- Laughing Stock
Mercury Rev -- Deserter's Song
The Old 97's -- Fight Songs
Bob Dylan -- Time out of Mind
Lifetime -- Hello Bastards
Wilco -- Summerteeth
Boards of Canada -- Music Has The Right to Children
The Roots -- Illadelph Halflife

Oh, and I know I suck, but I could never get into Bonnie "Prince" Billy's I See a Darkness, but I'm trying.

modungo

07-11-2008, 06:12 AM

After looking over my last.fm of late, I've come to the realization that many of the albums I've listened to recently have been from the past decade. So, I thought, "why not discuss favorite '90s albums."

So, make a list. Discuss. Go on, do it.

My 25 favorite LPs of the '90s:

Sloan -- Twice Removed
Weezer -- Pinkerton
Stereolab -- Mars Audiac Quintet
The Promise Ring -- Nothing Feels Good
Phantom Planet -- ...Is Missing
The Breeders -- Last Splash
Yo La Tango -- I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
Neutral Milk Hotel -- In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
Belle & Sebastian -- If You're Feeling Sinister
Leaders of the New School -- A Future Without a Past
Saetia -- Saetia
Blur -- Parklife
Texas is the Reason -- Do You Know Who You Are?
Sonic Youth -- Goo
The Jesus Lizard -- Goat
Radiohead -- OK Computer
Black Star -- Mos Def & Talib Kweli are Black Star
Talk Talk -- Laughing Stock
Mercury Rev -- Deserter's Song
The Old 97's -- Fight Songs
Bob Dylan -- Out of Time
Lifetime -- Hello Bastards
Wilco -- Summerteeth
Boards of Canada -- Music Has The Right to Children
The Roots -- Illadelph Halflife

Oh, and I know I suck, but I could never get into Bonnie "Prince" Billy's I See a Darkness, but I'm trying.

I know it's being completely obvious, but I dig One Chord to Another over Twice Removed.

Masculine Todd

07-11-2008, 06:17 AM

I know it's being completely obvious, but I dig One Chord to Another over Twice Removed.

Call me a rebel, but I enjoyed Twice Removed and Navy Blues over One Chord.

Patch

07-11-2008, 06:20 AM

The Breeders -- Last Splash
Neutral Milk Hotel -- In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
Blur -- Parklife
Sonic Youth -- Goo
Radiohead -- OK Computer
Mercury Rev -- Deserter's Song
Bob Dylan -- Out of Time
Wilco -- Summerteeth

What you have there is some first class entertainment.

DAVE

07-11-2008, 06:22 AM

REM- Out of Time and Automatic for the People
Pearl Jam- Ten and VS.
Nirvana- Incesticide, Nevermind, In Utero and Unplugged in New York
Smashing Pumpkins- Siamese Dream
Elvis Costello- Brutal Youth
Tribe Called Quest- Midnight Maruders

Just off the top of my head.

ThisSpaceForRent

07-11-2008, 06:22 AM

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1. Automatic For The People - REM
2. Gin Blossoms - New Miserable Experience
3. Ruth Ruth - Are You My Friend?
4. Stabbing Westward - Wither Blister Burn & Peel
5. Refreshments - The Bottle & Fresh Horses
6. Matthew Good Band - Beautiful Midnight
7. Michael Penn - Free For All
8. Boingo
9. Belly - King
10. Depeche Mode - Songs of Faith & Devotion
11. The The - Dusk
12. Eels - Beautiful Freak
13. Garbage - 2.0
14. Live - Secret Samadhi
15. Our Lady Peace - Happiness Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch
16. Pearl Jam - VS
17. U2 - Achtung Baby
18. Tori Amos - From The Choirgirl Hotel
19. Tool - Aenima
20. Nirvana - Nevermind

Jef UK

07-11-2008, 06:34 AM

Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
Morrisey - Bona Drag
Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted
Sebadoh - Bubble & Scrape
Weezer - Pinkerton

DAVE

07-11-2008, 06:35 AM

Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking

Hell yeah, I have to add that and the first Porno for Pyros album.

Ryan_ZOOM_Turner

07-11-2008, 06:42 AM

I have to gather my list.

Afny

07-11-2008, 06:50 AM

Anything Pavement released, pretty much.

modungo

07-11-2008, 06:51 AM

1.Guided By Voices-Alien Lanes
2.Superdrag-Regretfully Yours
3.Archers of Loaf-Icky Mettle
4.Afghan Whigs-Black Love
5.Swervedriver-Raise
6.My Bloody Valentine-Loveless
7.Seaweed-Four
8.Dinosaur Jr-Hand it Over
9.Sebadoh-Bubble & Scrape
10.Sugar-Copper Blue
11.Drive-By Truckers-Pizza Deliverance
12.Pavement-Slanted and Enchanted
13.Built To Spill-Keep it Like a Secret
14.Failure-Fantastic Planet
15.Radiohead-The Bends
16.Swervedriver-Mezcal Head
17.Beastie Boys-Check Your Head
18.Sonic Youth-Dirty
19.Weezer-Pinkerton
20.Superdrag-In The Valley of Dying Stars
21.Rocket From The Crypt-Scream Dracula Scream
22.Superchunk-Foolish
23.Sloan-One Chord to Another
24.Teenage Fanclub-Grand Prix
25.Wilco-Being There

Rosemary's Baby

07-11-2008, 07:39 AM

Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
Morrisey - Bona Drag
Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted
Sebadoh - Bubble & Scrape
Weezer - Pinkerton

Never mind. Nothing to see here.

Rosemary's Baby

07-11-2008, 07:58 AM

1. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane over the Sea
2. Refused - Shape of Punk to Come
3. Weezer - Pinkerton
4. Nirvana - In Utero
5. Drive Like Jehu - Yank Crimes
6. Elliot Smith - Either/Or
7. Built to Spill - There's Nothing Wrong with Love
8. Sonic Youth - Goo
9. Pavement - Wowee Zowee
10. Radiohead - Ok Computer
11. Fugazi - Red Medicine
12. Brainiac - Hissing Pigs in a Static Choir
13. Tom Waits - Bone Machine

Something like that.

Josh!

07-11-2008, 08:02 AM

Ben Folds Five- Ben Folds Five
Fountains of Wayne- Utopia Parkway
They Might Be Giants- John Henry

DaGetHighKnight

07-11-2008, 08:02 AM

Hell yeah, I have to add that and the first Porno for Pyros album.

That's all ive been listening too for the past month. "Black Girlfriend" is one of my favorite tunes ever.

The Dean

07-11-2008, 08:08 AM

Smashing Pumpkins: Melencholly and the Infinite Sadness
Nirvana: Nevermind
Beck: Mellow Gold
Marilyn Manson: Smells like Children
Beastie Boys: Check your head
Lush: Lovelife
Sting: Ten Summoner's Tales
Weezer: Blue
Weezer: Pinkerton

Albert

07-11-2008, 08:08 AM

Time Out of Mind - Bob Dylan
Your Arsenal - Morrissey
Odelay - Beck
New Adventures in Hi Fi - R.E.M.
Blue album - Weezer
Definitely, Maybe - Oasis
Ill Communication - Beastie Boys
Trompe le Monde - Pixies
OK Computer - Radiohead
Vs. - Pearl Jam

More when I think of them!

SMACK!

07-11-2008, 08:13 AM

Albert

07-11-2008, 08:14 AM

Morrisey - Bona Drag

That's a compilation. :mad:

DAVE

07-11-2008, 08:15 AM

That's all ive been listening too for the past month. "Black Girlfriend" is one of my favorite tunes ever.

I'm officially downloading that when I get home today. Officially.

WillieLee

07-11-2008, 08:18 AM

That's a compilation. :mad:

Reissue, reissue, repackage my dear Albert.

Captain Sensation

07-11-2008, 08:55 AM

DAVE

07-11-2008, 09:08 AM

Also:
Goldfinger- self titled, and "Hang-ups".

SMACK!

07-11-2008, 09:27 AM

Pulp - Different Class
Pearl Jam - Ten
Siamese Dream - Smashing Pumpkins
Sonic Youth - 100%
Radiohead - The Bends
Blur - Blur
Beck - Odelay
Cake - Fashion Nugget
Manic Street Preachers - Everything Must Go
Moby - Everything Is Wrong
Bjork - Homogenic
Tori Amos - Little Earthquake
Weezer - Pinkerton
Tool - Undertow
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Rage Against the Machine - Evil Empire
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Sprial

Jew Mafia

07-11-2008, 09:38 AM

Also:
Goldfinger- self titled, and "Hang-ups".

:rock:

Cactusakic

07-11-2008, 09:47 AM

Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
Breeders - Last Splash
Garbage - Garbage
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Moby - Play
Nada Surf - High/Low
New Order - Republic
N.I.N - The Downward Spiral
Nirvana - In Utero
Offspring - Smash
Pearl Jam - Ten
Pixies - Bossanova
Primal Scream - Screamadelica
Prodigy - Muisc For The Jilted Generation
Radiohead - OK Computer
R.E.M. - Monster
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
Tom Waits - Bone Machine
Tom Waits - Mule Variations

Jew Mafia

07-11-2008, 09:52 AM

Fumbling Towards Ecstasy - Sarah McLachlan
Surfacing - Sarah McLachlan
Radiohead - The Bends
Nirvana - Unplugged
NIN - The Downward Spiral
Garbage - 2.0
Portishead - Live
Bloodhound Gang - Use Your Fingers
Live - Throwing Copper
RHCP - Blood Sugar Sex Magic
Patti Rotherberg - Between The 1 and the 9
Poe - Hello
Geto Boys - We Can't Be Stopped
West Side Connection - Bow Down
Weezer - Blue
Sublime - Self Titled
Oasis - What's The Story Morning Glory?
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Beastie Boys - Ill Communications
The Offspring - Smash
Alice in Chains - Unplugged
Green Day - Dookie
Everclear - Sparkle & Fade
Empire Records Soundtrack
Natural Born Killers Soundtrack
The Crow Soundtrack

Cactusakic

07-11-2008, 09:57 AM

Empire Records Soundtrack
Natural Born Killers Soundtrack
The Crow Soundtrack

We are allowed soundtracks?

In that case, I'd probably replace New Order and Primal Scream from my list with:

The Crow Soundtrack
Singles Soundtrack

but only just.

justjeffery

07-11-2008, 10:01 AM

After looking over my last.fm of late, I've come to the realization that many of the albums I've listened to recently have been from the past decade. So, I thought, "why not discuss favorite '90s albums."

So, make a list. Discuss. Go on, do it.

My 25 favorite LPs of the '90s:

Sloan -- Twice Removed
Weezer -- Pinkerton
Stereolab -- Mars Audiac Quintet
The Promise Ring -- Nothing Feels Good
Phantom Planet -- ...Is Missing
The Breeders -- Last Splash
Yo La Tango -- I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
Neutral Milk Hotel -- In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
Belle & Sebastian -- If You're Feeling Sinister
Leaders of the New School -- A Future Without a Past
Saetia -- Saetia
Blur -- Parklife
Texas is the Reason -- Do You Know Who You Are?
Sonic Youth -- Goo
The Jesus Lizard -- Goat
Radiohead -- OK Computer
Black Star -- Mos Def & Talib Kweli are Black Star
Talk Talk -- Laughing Stock
Mercury Rev -- Deserter's Song
The Old 97's -- Fight Songs
Bob Dylan -- Out of Time
Lifetime -- Hello Bastards
Wilco -- Summerteeth
Boards of Canada -- Music Has The Right to Children
The Roots -- Illadelph Halflife

Oh, and I know I suck, but I could never get into Bonnie "Prince" Billy's I See a Darkness, but I'm trying.

Ive not heard a single one of those from start to finish...

adventure metal

07-11-2008, 10:02 AM

Judas Priest - Painkiller 1990
Guns N Roses - Use Your Illusion 1991
Extreme - III Sides to every Story 1992
Danny Elfman - Batman Returns soundtrack 1992
Weezer - Blue 1994
Van Halen - Balance 1995
Ozzy - Ozzmosis 1995
Manowar - Louder Than Hell 1996
Helloween - Time of the Oath 1996
Hans Zimmer - The Rock soundtrack 1996
Stratovarius - Visions 1997
Rhapsody - Symphony of Enchanted Lands 1998
Sonata Arctica - Ecliptica 1999

Ziolko

07-11-2008, 10:03 AM

Radiohead - The Bends
Radiohead - OK Computer
Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville
Jawbox - For Your Own Special Sweetheart
Jawbox - Jawbox
Jesus Lizard - Down
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Now I Got Worry
Rocket From the Crypt - Scream Dracula Scream
Mad Season - Above
Cake - Fashion Nugget
Salt - Asculate
Sebadoh - Harmacy
Supergrass - In It For The Money
Blur - 13
Saturday Morning Cartoon's Greatest Hits
Weezer - Blue
Dambuilders - Encendedor

PeterSparker

07-11-2008, 10:03 AM

Bob Dylan -- Out of Time

I'm thinking you meant Time Out Of Mind, and I agree.

Bob Dylan - Time Out Of Mind
The Verve - Urban Hymns (where's the fucking love for this album?? Might be my favorite of the decade!!)
Nirvana - In Utero
Billy Bragg & Wilco - Mermaid Avenue
Notorious BIG - Ready To Die
Red Hot Chili Peppers - BloodSexSugarMagik
Jane's Addiction - Nothing Shocking
Tom Petty - Wild Flowers
Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
Radiohead - The Bends/OK Computer
Weezer - Blue Album
Alanis Morrisette - Jagged Little Pill
Neil Young - Sleeps With Angels
A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
Elvis Costello - Mighty Like A Rose
Garbage - V2.0
NIN - The Downward Spiral
Juliana Hatfield - Become What You Are
Prince - Come
Oasis - What's The Story Morning Glory?
Jeff Buckley - Grace

Off the top of my head, I'm sure I'll think of 20 more as soon as I hit submit...

Ziolko

07-11-2008, 10:08 AM

Crap, I forgot:

Jeff Buckley - Grace
Blue Meanies - Full Throttle

Shawn DePasquale

07-11-2008, 10:14 AM

WHY DO THEY ROCK SO HARD - REEL BIG FISH - Oct. 1998.

Albert

07-11-2008, 10:34 AM

Also:
Goldfinger- self titled, and "Hang-ups".

I liked those albums too, but I've been too embarrassed to admit so in many, many years.

Another 20 cent goodbye!

BGPu

07-11-2008, 10:50 AM

Faith No More - Angel Dust
Mr. Bungle - Disco Volante
Mr. Bungle - California
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
Atari Teenage Riot - Delete Yourself
Weezer - The Blue Album
2Pac - All Eyez On Me
Marilyn Manson - Antichrist Superstar
Propogandhi - How to Clean Everything
Soulwax - Much Against Everyone's Advice
Cibo Matto - Stereo Type A
Godflesh - Us & Them
South Park - Bigger Longer & Uncut Soundtrack

Shawn DePasquale

07-11-2008, 10:55 AM

I liked those albums too, but I've been too embarrassed to admit so in many, many years.

Another 20 cent goodbye!

Embarrassed?

Good music's good music.

Now if your favorite was Goldfingers Stomping Ground I could understand but these two albums still hold up as some great ska/punk

DAVE

07-11-2008, 10:57 AM

I liked those albums too, but I've been too embarrassed to admit so in many, many years.

Another 20 cent goodbye!

I hardly know you. Is it too late to even try?

/(. . )/

07-11-2008, 10:57 AM

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7h0m45

07-11-2008, 10:59 AM

greatest album of the 90s

Dr Dre- 2001

PeteL

07-11-2008, 10:59 AM

My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Radiohead - OK Computer
Spiritualized - Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
Curve - Doppleganger/Pubic Fruit
Suede - s/t & Dog Man Star
Portishead - Dummy/P
Garbage - Garbage
Blur - Parklife
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Pretty much all of Digital Hardcore Recording's catalog
Haujobb - Freeze Frame Reality
NIN - The Downward Spiral
A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
Wu Tang Clan - Enter The 36 Chambers
The Pharcyde - Bizzare Ride To The Pharcyde
Cypress Hill - s/t

There's a lot more I can't remember

DAVE

07-11-2008, 11:00 AM

greatest album of the 90s

Dr Dre- The Chronic
fixed that, for you!

Shawn DePasquale

07-11-2008, 11:01 AM

I hardly know you. Is it too late to even try?
That looks like a tube of cookie dough.:mistrust:

7h0m45

07-11-2008, 11:02 AM

fixed that, for you!

ha, that's my second.

DAVE

07-11-2008, 11:04 AM

That looks like a tube of cookie dough.:mistrust:

Mine she said then, is like a small pencil with broken lead!

Albert

07-11-2008, 11:09 AM

greatest album of the 90s

Dr Dre- 2001

Y'all wanna run around and talk about guns like I ain't got none
WHAT DO YOU THINK, I SOLD THEM ALL?

PeterSparker

07-11-2008, 11:12 AM

Wu Tang Clan - Enter The 36 Chambers

Aw, see there's a classic I forgot. :(

Shawn DePasquale

07-11-2008, 11:12 AM

Mine she said then, is like a small pencil with broken lead!

ALL TOGETHER NOW:

RABIS GOT THE PUPPY DOGS AND NOW I REALLY NEED MY MOM I BOUGHT HER FLOWERS OH WOE IS ME IT SUCKS I STILL THINK MABLE...

SHE'S THE BOMB!

:)

CougarTrace

07-11-2008, 11:13 AM

Nirvana - Smells like Teen Spirit
Santana - Supernatural
Oasis - can't remember it had Wonderwall

Jew Mafia

07-11-2008, 11:20 AM

ALL TOGETHER NOW:

RABIS GOT THE PUPPY DOGS AND NOW I REALLY NEED MY MOM I BOUGHT HER FLOWERS OH WOE IS ME IT SUCKS I STILL THINK MABLE...

SHE'S THE BOMB!

:)

Fuck her

and her cat :)

Shawn DePasquale

07-11-2008, 11:22 AM

Fuck her

and her cat :)

Jew Mafia....JEW just put a smile on my face.

:)

Masculine Todd

07-11-2008, 11:44 AM

1. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane over the Sea
2. Refused - Shape of Punk to Come
3. Weezer - Pinkerton
4. Nirvana - In Utero
5. Drive Like Jehu - Yank Crimes
6. Elliot Smith - Either/Or
7. Built to Spill - There's Nothing Wrong with Love
8. Sonic Youth - Goo
9. Pavement - Wowee Zowee
10. Radiohead - Ok Computer
11. Fugazi - Red Medicine
12. At the Drive-in - Relationship of Command
13. Brainiac - Hissing Pigs in a Static Choir
14. Tom Waits - Bone Machine

Something like that.

Can't believe I left off Either/Or and Bone Machine. Great albums.

Oh, and Relationship of Command was released in 2000.

PeteL

07-11-2008, 11:48 AM

Man, I forgot Either/Or too.

And In The Aeroplane.

And Pavement.

Etc...

Too much good stuff.

Masculine Todd

07-11-2008, 11:59 AM

I'm thinking you meant Time Out Of Mind, and I agree.

Oops. Yep. I suck.

Caley Tibbittz

07-11-2008, 12:28 PM

1. U2 - Achtung Baby
2. The Verve Pipe - Villains
3. Garth Brooks - In Pieces
4. U2 - Pop
5. The Verve Pipe - (Self-Titled)

6. Sarah McLachlan - Surfacing
7. Dave Matthews Band - Before These Crowded Streets
8. Dave Matthews Band - Crash
9. Milla Jovovich - The Divine Comedy
10. Sheryl Crow - The Globe Sessions

11. U2 - Zooropa
12. The Wallflowers - Bringing Down The Horse
13. Dave Matthews Band - Under The Table And Dreaming
14. Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill
15. Cherry Poppin' Daddies - Rapid City Muscle Car

16. Garth Brooks - The Chase
17. Savage Garden - (Self-Titled)
18. New Radicals - Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too
19. Barenaked Ladies - Stunt
20. Natalie Merchant - Ophelia

21. Sarah McLachlan - Fumbling Towards Ecstacy
22. Fiona Apple - When The Pawn...
23. Tori Amos - From The Choirgirl Hotel
24. Cherry Poppin' Daddies - Kids On The Street
25. Matchbox 20 - Yourself Or Someone Like You

Duncan Sheik's self-titled album and Chantal Kreviazuk's Under These Rocks And Stones almost made the top 25. I feel bad Jewel's not on this list, but her best album came out in 2001.

Kurt Russell Crowe

07-11-2008, 12:36 PM

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Rosemary's Baby

07-11-2008, 01:37 PM

Can't believe I left off Either/Or and Bone Machine. Great albums.

Oh, and Relationship of Command was released in 2000.

You appear to be right. Why was I thinking 1998?

juampi

07-11-2008, 02:23 PM

Faith No More - Angel Dust
Mr. Bungle - California
Jane's Addiction - Ritual De Lo Habitual
Living Colour - Time's Up
Mano Negra - Casa Babylon
Portishead - Dummy
Tricky - Maxinquaye
Beastie Boys - Ill Comunication
Pantera - Cowboys From Hell
Oasis - Definitely Maybe
Blur - 13
Smashing Pumpkins - Gish
Depeche Mode - Ultra
Bad Religion - The Gray Race
Tom Petty - Into The Great Wide Open

Dusto

07-11-2008, 03:10 PM

That's a compilation. :mad:

So is Hatful of Hollow, which is the best Smiths album. But Bona Drag is barely a compilation. Only two of the songs appear on any proper Morrissey album (and both of those on Viva Hate). That leaves twelve songs that were never on any other albums, and with the other two they make fourteen of the best songs in his catalogue, all of which flow together really nicely. This is like arguing that Panda Bear's "Person Pitch" is a compilation because so many of the tracks had been released on singles, or that Magical Mystery Tour is a compilation because half was a soundtrack and the other half was a collection of British singles. It's an album, it's Morrissey's best, and it's one of the best of the 90's.

iGotKittyPryde

07-11-2008, 03:11 PM

Automatic for the People by R.E.M.
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain by Pavement
Doolittle by The Pixies
The Bends & OK Computer by Radiohead
If You're Feeling Sinister by Belle and Sebastian
Either/Or by Ellliot Smith
Something to Write Home About by The Get Up Kids
Ben Folds Five by Ben Folds Five
Lonesome Crowded West by Modest Mouse
Mule Variations by Tom Waits
Weezer (The Blue Album) & Pinkerton by Weezer

As for order? I'd probably put 'If You're Feeling Sinister', 'Automatic for the People', 'Pinkerton' and 'Crooked Rain...' as my top few.

Albert

07-11-2008, 03:12 PM

So is Hatful of Hollow, which is the best Smiths album. But Bona Drag is barely a compilation. Only two of the songs appear on any proper Morrissey album (and both of those on Viva Hate). That leaves twelve songs that were never on any other albums, and with the other two they make fourteen of the best songs in his catalogue, all of which flow together really nicely. This is like arguing that Panda Bear's "Person Pitch" is a compilation because so many of the tracks had been released on singles, or that Magical Mystery Tour is a compilation because half was a soundtrack and the other half was a collection of British singles. It's an album, it's Morrissey's best, and it's one of the best of the 90's.

It's a compilation, but I like it too.

Your Arsenal is better!

Dusto

07-11-2008, 03:21 PM

Your Arsenal is good, but it's less dynamic than Bona Drag. It's probably number two on my list. Ringleader of the Tormentors might be number three.

Andreas

07-11-2008, 04:11 PM

Lush: Lovelife

That's a great pick!

Andreas

Petey Parker

07-11-2008, 04:44 PM

In no particular order

Oasis - Definitely Maybe
Oasis - (What's The Story) Morning Glory?
Blur - Modern Life Is Rubbish
Blur - Parklife
Suede - Dog Man Star
Suede - Coming Up
Ash - 1977
Pulp - Different Class
Pulp - This Is Hardcore
The Verve - Urban Hymns
Supergrass - In It For The Money
Radiohead - The Bends
Radiohead - OK Computer

Tom G.

07-11-2008, 05:15 PM

Some I haven't seen on here yet

Cure - Disintegration, Wish
Depeche Mode - Violator
Jellyfish - Bellybutton, Spilt Milk
Flaming Lip - The Soft Bulletin
Morrissey - Vauxhall and I
Green Day - Dookie
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magic

Humphrey_Lee

07-11-2008, 09:35 PM

Uh...

Bad Religion - "Generator"
Bad Religion - "Recipe For Hate"
Less Than Jake - "Losing Streak"
Less Than Jake - "Hello Rockview"
Rancid - "...And Out Come the Wolves"
Strung Out - "Suburban Teenage Wasteland Blues"
Strung Out - "Twisted by Design"
The Suicide Machines - "Destruction by Definition"
Refused - "Sound of Punk to Come"
Third Eye Blind - "S/T" (That's right, I fucking said it!)
Stone Temple Pilots - "Core"
Reel Big Fish - "Why Do They Rock So Hard?"
Offspring - "Smash"
NOFX - "Punk in Drublic"
Lit - "A Place in the Sun"
Lifetime - "Jersey's Best Dancers"
Kid Dynamite - "S/T"
Kid Dynamite - "Shorter, Faster, Louder"
Green Day - "Nimrod"
Descendents - "Everything Sucks"
The Bouncing Souls - "Maniacal Laughter"
The Bouncing Souls - "Hopeless Romantic"
Blink 182 - "Dude Ranch"
Anti-Flag - "New Kind of Army"
Alkaline Trio - "Goddammit"
AFI - "Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes"
AFI - "Black Sails in the Sunset"

ChuckMcButcalf

07-11-2008, 09:41 PM

It won't be cool to say but...

Third Eye Blind - Self Titled.

There. It it had to be said.

Humphrey_Lee

07-11-2008, 09:43 PM

It won't be cool to say but...

Third Eye Blind - Self Titled.

There. It it had to be said.

HAH! LOOK RIGHT ABOVE YOU! I WIN!!! :)

ChuckMcButcalf

07-11-2008, 09:45 PM

HAH! LOOK RIGHT ABOVE YOU! I WIN!!! :)

... I obviously can't read... but... YEAH 3EB!!! WOOOT!!!!!

Shepherd

07-11-2008, 09:58 PM

1. Neutral Milk Hotel - In an Aeroplane Over the Sea (one of the best albums ever).
2. REM - Automatic for the People
3. Death Cab for Cutie - Something about Aeroplanes (this changed how I viewed music forever when it first came out. DCFC has better albums, but this is what started the ride).
4. Built to Spill - Keep it Like a Secret
5. Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
6. Weezer - Pinkerton
7. The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulliten
8. Nirvana - In Utero
9. Pearl Jam - vs.
10. Rufus Wainwright - Rufus Wainwright
11. Radiohead - OK Computer
12. Johnny Cash - American Recordings (and the whole "American" series, really).
13. Elliott Smith - Either/Or
14. Aphex Twin - The Richard D. James Album
15. The Beta Band - The Three EPs

Off the top of my head, but I'm probably missing some good ones.

R

niceguyeddie

07-11-2008, 10:03 PM

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/db/Static-X_-_Wisconsin_Death_Trip.JPG

i remember almost blowing out my ears to that one.

Scotty

07-11-2008, 10:17 PM

Pearl Jam-Versus
Nirvana- Never Mind
Dre Dre- The Chronic
REM Automatic for the People
Beck- Odelay
Pink Floyd- The Division Bell
Singles- Original Sound Track
Garth Brooks- Roping the Wind
Stone Temple Pilots- Purple
Toad the Wet Sprockets- dulcinea
Boys II Men- Cooleyhighharmony
Gin Blossoms- New Miserable Experience
Tool- Aniema
The Band- Jericho
Soundgarden- Super Unknown
Live- Secret Samadei
counting crows- August and Everything After
Reel Big Fish- Turn the Radio Off
Madonna- Erotica
Oasis- What's the Story Morning Glory
Matchbox Twenty- Yourself or Someone like you
Sponge- Wax Estatic
Seven Mary Three- Rock Crown
Toadies- Possum Kingdom
Pearl Jam- Vitology
NIN-Broken
Sponge-Wax Ecstatic
Dave Matthews-Before these Crowded Streets
Sublime-Sublime
tori amos- Under the pink
Crash Test Dummies- The Ghost the haunts me
No Doubt- No Doubt
Green Day- Kerplunk

killingyouguy

07-11-2008, 10:18 PM

Alright, before I list the following, I want to explain that before high school and to a greater extent college, I had zero taste in music. I always listened to very generic stuff. That said:

Will Smith - Big Willie Style
Spice Girls - Whatever the fuck it wall called - Spice World or some shit - or was that the movie?
Tog+her - the fucking MTV boy band. I thought it was hilarious.
Space Ghost's Coast to Coast like soundtrack or sometihng, very ninieties
I consider this an album - the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater sonudtrack - though that's really late nineties, 99 in fact.
The Best of Darrly Hall and John Oates - which I still listen to to this day
The Gin Blossoms - New Misterably Experience (still love)
Sammy Hagar Van Halen
Hanson - dude, it was mostly my brother, and he dragged me into listening to it

And lots of one hit wonders

I swear to god, I'm not that lame now. I swear.

Alex Main

07-11-2008, 10:29 PM

My Bloody Valentine - Loveless

TonyFleecs

07-12-2008, 02:12 AM

Saw the wackness tonight. It reminded me that hip-hop is not nearly as good as it was in 1994.

Masculine Todd

07-12-2008, 05:00 AM

You appear to be right. Why was I thinking 1998?

That's the year In/Casino/Out was released.

silverboy

07-12-2008, 05:10 AM

Masculine Todd

07-12-2008, 05:10 AM

Dusto

07-12-2008, 05:12 AM

Some I haven't seen on here yet

Cure - Disintegration

1989

The Cheap-Arse Film Critic

07-12-2008, 05:12 AM

Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too by New Radicals. About as perfect a pop album as you'll ever hear.

DAVE

07-12-2008, 08:08 AM

Downloaded and listening to Stone Temple Pilots' Purple right now. Great album and it holds up well. Good summer music.

Masculine Todd

07-12-2008, 10:30 AM

Sean Lennon's first album was pretty solid. Just listened to it. It was released in '98.

Shawn DePasquale

07-12-2008, 11:48 AM

Losing Streak - Less Than Jake

Albert

07-12-2008, 11:52 AM

Your Arsenal is good, but it's less dynamic than Bona Drag. It's probably number two on my list. Ringleader of the Tormentors might be number three.

Ringleader is great, but the second side has some weak moments. It's a lot better than You Are The Quarry, which I enjoyed a great deal when it came out, but sounds very much like a product of 2004, rather than the kind of timeless quality the best Morrissey songs have.

silverboy

07-12-2008, 12:45 PM

Off the top of my head:
Barenaked Ladies - Born on a Pirate Ship
Ben Folds Five - s/t and Whatever and Ever Amen
Counting Crows - August and Everything After
Foo Fighters - The Colour and The Shape
Guster - Lost and Gone Forever
Jude - No One is Really Beautiful
New Radicals - Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too
Nirvana - Nevermind, In Utero and MTV Unplugged
Our Lady Peace - Clumsy and Happiness...
Silverchair - Neon Ballroom
Weezer - Blue Album and Pinkerton

I also remembering enjoying a lot of music from Gin Blossoms, Goo Goo Dolls, Matchbox 20, Third Eye Blind, Fastball, Marcy Playground, Semisonic, and other such bands.

Happy Time Harry

07-12-2008, 01:14 PM

Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend
Nirvana- In Utero
U2- Actung Baby
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Beastie Boys- Ill Communication
Pearl Jam - Ten
Sublime - Sublime
Beck - Odelay
Radiohead - Amnesiac
Depeche Mode- Violator
Foo Fighters - The Color and the Shape
Radiohead - The Bends

BClayMoore

07-12-2008, 04:11 PM

1. If You're Feeling Sinister - Belle & Sebastian
2. Fruit of Life - The Wild Colonials
3. Grace - Jeff Buckley
4. The Boy With the Arab Strap - Belle & Sebastian
5. Vinyl - Dramarama
6. Girlfriend - Matthew Sweet
7. Whatever - Aimee Mann
8. Tigermilk - Belle & Sebastian
9. The Bends - Radiohead
10. Ben Folds Five - Ben Folds Five

The nineties were an amazing decade for albums.

-BCM

greg donovan

07-12-2008, 05:23 PM

Eric Clapton - From the Cradle
Sting - Ten Summoners Tales
Phish - Rift
R.E.M. - Automatic For the People
Santana - Supernatural
The Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty & Ill Communication
Red Hot Chili Peppers - BloodSexSugarMagik

Andreas

07-13-2008, 07:35 AM

Jack, Pioneer Soundtracks (1996)
Uncle Tupelo, Still Feel Gone & March 16-20, 1992 (1992)
Momus, Twenty Vodka Jellies (1996)
Martin Newell, The Off White Album (1995)
Tomasz Stanko, A Farewell to Maria (1994)

Paul Weller, Paul Weller (1992)
Cibo Matto, Stereo Type A (1999)
Louis Philippe, Delta Kiss (1993)
Bedlam Rovers, Land of No Surprises (1995)
Komeda, What Makes It Go? (1998 )

Eggstone, Spanish Slalom (1998 )
Papas Fritas, Helioself (1997)
Achinoam Nini, Achinoam Nini (1997)
The Divine Comedy, Liberation (1993)
Cornelius, 69/96 (1995)

Bis, The New Transistor Heroes (1997)
Scarlet's Well, Strange Letters (1999)
Poison Girl Friend, Shyness (1993)
Olivia Tremor Control, Dusk at Cubist Castle (1996)
Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack Until the End of the World (1991)

Brian Wilson, Imagination (1998 )
Rebecca Pidgeon, The Raven (1994)
Blumfeld, L'�tat Et Moi (1995)
Georgie Fame, Three Line Whip (1994)
Pizzicato Five, Happy End of the World (1997)

Andreas

Shev

07-13-2008, 08:43 AM

OK, first album on my list technically belongs to the 80s as it was released in 89, but because the band helped define a large part of the early 90s music (particularly in the UK) I'll include it...

The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
The Stone Roses - Second Coming
Oasis - Definitely Maybe
The La's - The La's
The Cranberries - Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?
The Bluetones - Expecting To Fly
Cast - All Change
The Verve - A Northern Soul
The Verve - Urban Hymns
Belle & Sebastian - Tigermilk
Foo Fighters - The Colour And The Shape
Ian Brown - Unfinished Monkey Business
Ian Brown - Golden Greats
Travis - Good Feeling
Travis - The Man Who
Oasis - What's The Story (Morning Glory)?

Scotty

07-13-2008, 08:49 AM

I hate my self forgetting this but

Lyle Lovett- I love everybody some of the best songs put in an album and according to him it was stuff he just had lying around.

Tom Burgos

07-25-2008, 05:15 AM

TITANIC- Soundtrack
Lauryn Hill- The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill
Alanis- Jagged Little Pill
Hootie And The Blowfish- Cracked Rear View
Celine Dion- Let's Talk About Love
Madonna- Ray Of Light
Tracy Bonham- The Burdens Of Being Uptight
Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris- The Western Wall
James Blundell- Age Of Grace
Enya- Shepherd Moons
Enya-The Memory Of Trees
Ray Kennedy- What A Way To Go
Spice Girls- Spice

JoeE

07-25-2008, 05:27 AM

Doolittle by The Pixies

A great album, but Doolittle came out in 1989.

JoeE

07-25-2008, 05:32 AM

In no particular order:

Radiohead - OK Computer
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space
Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Tom Waits - Mule Variations
Sonic Youth - Dirty
Portishead - Dummy
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over the Sea
Mogwai - Young Team
Radiohead - The Bends

(amazing just how many of my favorites are Brit albums)

PeteL

07-25-2008, 05:50 AM

I can't believe I forgot Ferment & Chrome, both by Catherine Wheel.

Masculine Todd

07-25-2008, 06:39 AM

Whatever happened to The Jesus Lizard?

jason hissong

07-25-2008, 06:40 AM

Oasis- Definitely Maybe and What's the Story.

CWebb

07-25-2008, 06:55 AM

I know I'll forget some but:

Pearl Jam- Ten, Vs, Vitalogy
Nirvana- Nevermind, In Utero
Alice in Chains- Dirt
Rage Against the Machine- Battle for Los Angeles, RATM
Foo Fighters- The Colour and Shape

Ziolko

07-25-2008, 07:47 AM

Whatever happened to The Jesus Lizard?

Broke up. David Yow sings with other bands and their guitarist Duane tours with Hank Williams III (at least at last check he does).

Ziolko

07-25-2008, 07:48 AM

And I 100% suck for not mentioning Mad Season - Above.

Kman00001

07-25-2008, 08:01 AM

I'm not doing a "top 20" or whatever. My collection is right next to me...so here's my exhaustive list. 8-)

AC/DC - Ballbreaker
Angus Soundtrack
Anthrax - Sound of White Noise
Anti-Flag - A New Kind of Army
Bride of Chucky Soundtrack
Bush - Sixteen Stone
Corrosion of Conformity - Wiseblood
The Crow Soundtrack
Days of the New - Self-titled
Faith No More - Album of the Year
Fear Factory - Obsolete
Filter - Short Bus
Godsmack - Self-titled
Goo Goo Dolls - A Boy Named Goo (their last good album, IMO)
Gravity Kills - Self-titled and Perversion
Green Day - Dookie
Green Jelly - Cereal Killer and 333
Gwar - Ragnarok
Helmet - Aftertaste
Incubus - S.C.I.E.N.C.E. and Make Yourself
Jimmie's Chicken Shack - Pushing the Salmanilla Envelope
Kidneythieves- Trickster and Zer0space
KMFDM - Symbols and Adios
Live - Throwing Copper and Secret Samadhi
Local H - As Good as Dead
Lost Highway Soundtrack
Machine Head - Burn My Eyes, The More Things Change, and Burning Red
Marilyn Manson - Antichrist Superstar
Matrix Soundtrack
Metallica - Black Album
Nine Inch Nails - Broken, The Downward Spiral, and The Fragile
Nirvana - Unplugged in New York
Offspring - Smash, Ixnay on the Hombre, and Americana
Orgy - Candyass
Our Lady Peace - Clumsy
Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power and The Great Southern Trendkill
Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
Primus - Antipop
Prong - Cleansing and Rude Awakening
Rage Against the Machine - Self-titled, Evil Empire, and Battle for LA
Rammstein - Sehnsucht
R.E.M. - Automatic For the People and Monster
Rob Zombie - Hellbilly Deluxe
Seal - Um...his 1991 and 1994 albums. They both seem to be Self-titled
Sepultura - Against (sorry Sepultura fans)
Singles Soundtrack
Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss and Diabolus in Musica
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream, Mellon Collie, and Adore
Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger and Superunknown
Spawn Soundtrack
Sponge - Rotting Pinata
Stabbing Westward - Ungod, W,B,B,&P, and Darkest Days
Staind - Dysfunction
Static-X - Wisconsin Death Trip
Stone Temple Pilots - Core and Purple
Sugar Ray - Floored
System of a Down - Self-titled
311 - Self-titled
Tool - Opiate, Undertow, and Aenima
Weezer - Blue and Pinkerton
White Zombie - Astro Creep 2000