[Dr T]

lists seem a ukb favourite and the albums of the decade one got me thininking about the 90's
you'll have to give me a bit of a break as I had all my teenage years in the 90's so....

anyways in no particular order a top 10 albums

Nevermind - Nirvana (actually I prefer the live at Reading 92 album that's just come out - better than the tape I wore out back in the day as it doesn't have Steve Lemacq saying "you're listening to Nirvana, live from Reading, on Radio 1" every 2 songs - the live stuff just had that little bit more energy...)

Angel Dust -Faith No More

Troublegum - Therapy?

Monster - REM

Siamese Dream - Smashing Pumpkins

Second thoughest in the Infants - Underworld

Beautiful Freak - Eels

Copper Blue - Sugar

Grand Prix - Teenage Fanclub

... And out come the Wolves - Rancid

Soul Searching Sun - Life of Agony

Dookie - Green Day

Placebo - Placebo

The Bends - Radiohead

Rage against the Machine - Rage against the Machine

The Black Album - Metallica

Psalm 69: The Way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs - Ministry

Bone Machine - Tom Waits

Where you been - Dinosaur Jr

Under the Western Freeway - Grandaddy

Sorry - was going to be a top 10 but I got carried away, will stop now 

(would have put some Carter USM in but hindsight shows that they were an amazing live/singles band but they never actually produced a great album - same goes for most of the Brit Pop and Madchester stuff...)

[dave]

Now we're talking:

nas - illmatic
wu tang - 36 chambers
gza - liquid swords
jay-z - reasonable doubt
prodigy - experience
prodigy - jilted generation
prodigy - fat of the land
chemical brothers - dig your own hole
portishead - dummy
queen - greatest hits II

[magpie]

Dummy - Portishead
Blue Lines - Massive Attack
Introducing - DJ Shadow
Play - Moby
Nevermind - Nirvana (or maybe the MTV Live in New York one)
Dookie - Green Day
Air - Moon Safari
Black Sunday - Cypress Hill
Angel Dust -Faith No More
Throwing Copper - Live
Definitely Maybe - Oasis
The Stones Roses - The Stone Roses (that was 90's, wasn't it?)

There's probably more...

[Fiend]

Killing Joke - Pandemonium

God Machine - Scenes From The Second Story

God Machine - One Last Laugh In A Place Of Dying

Bolt Thrower - Realm Of Chaos

Bolt Thrower - 4th Crusade

Carcass - Necrotism: Descanting The Insalubrius

Carcass - Heartwork

Primus - Sailing The Seas Of Cheese

Primus - Frizzle Fry

Pantera - Cowboys From Hell

[Iesu]

taste dependent?

what about best albums of 1991?

[Falling Down]

Stone Roses (that was 90's, wasn't it?)

Nope. Clue... there was a 20th anniversary edition released this year. 

[Fiend]

taste dependent?

My selection isn't.

[cofe]

Second coming.

[Andy F]

God Machine - Scenes From The Second Story

God Machine - One Last Laugh In A Place Of Dying

Seconded.

I'll add

Tool - Undertow and AEnima
AIC - Dirt
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
Screaming Trees - Dust
NIN - The Downward Spiral

[GCW]

Steve Vai- Passion and Warfare.
Carcass stuff, esp Necroticism
Pantera-  Cowboys from Hell
Lots of Richard D James stuff
Burzum- Burzum
Slayer- Seasons in the Abyss
Godflesh- Songs of Love and Hate

There's so many, I could go on forever.

[rp]

primal scream screamadelica

[Johnny Brown]

Second coming.

Seconded.

[robertostallioni]

Most of Maggers & Daves lists, plus..

Manu Chao, Clandestino '98.


Gang Starr, Daily Operation '92


Leftfield, Leftism '95


Pulp, Different class '95


Radiohead, OK Computer 97


RHTP, Blood Sugar Sex Magik '91


Ice T, Original Gangster '91


NWA, Straight outta Compton, '88 (Cough)

[dave]

Any takers for dr dre's 2001, i think that came out in 1999. Wall to wall bangers.

[robertostallioni]

You, me and eminem

Nowadays everybody wanna talk like they got something to say
But nothin comes out when they move they lips
Just a buncha gibberish
And muthafuckas act like they forgot about Dre

[dave]

back when cube....

[lagerstarfish]

 

[Jaspersharpe]

I'm happy to vote Straight Outta Compton the best album of the 90's even if it doesn't qualify.

[Richie Crouch]

Siamese Dream - Smashing Pumpkins

Fuck yes. My favourite album of all time 

I'd add to that:

Mellon Collie - Smashing Pumpkins
Entroducing - DJ Shadow
Stone Roses - Stone Roses
The Colour and the Shape - Foo Fighters

[robertostallioni]

  with Jay-S.

Whilst researching the above I refound Ice T's 99 problems on his home invasion album, a precursor to Jay-Z's track of the same name. Worth a listen i you have Spotify....

[rich d]

Christ I feel old - was going to put stone roses stone roses and ice t power - both from the 80s - I'll get my walking stick!

[Nibile]

i share many of the above!!!
i would add
the end of silence rollins band
stories from the city pj harvey
incesticide nirvana
ill communication beastie boys
come find yourself fun lovin criminals
mother's milk rhcp

[Joepicalli]

RATM- RATM
Both brilliant and topical: I hope you've all bought Killing in the Name. We must deliver the virtual equivalent of a model of Milan Cathedral to Mr. Cowell's nose.

[Nibile]

We must deliver the virtual equivalent of a model of Milan Cathedral to Mr. Cowell's nose.

ah joe,
that poor idiot did more to help berlusconi come out of a difficult moment, than all of his marketing experts.
media went crazy for him, and he started talking like a martyr. for the first time i was scared to post a comment on facebook, they are tracking everyone who types "berlusconi". it's awful, i feel very uncomfy in italy right now, we are breathing a heavy heavy air.
sorry 

[Joepicalli]

We must deliver the virtual equivalent of a model of Milan Cathedral to Mr. Cowell's nose.

ah joe,
that poor idiot did more to help berlusconi come out of a difficult moment, than all of his marketing experts.
media went crazy for him, and he started talking like a martyr. for the first time i was scared to post a comment on facebook, they are tracking everyone who types "berlusconi". it's awful, i feel very uncomfy in italy right now, we are breathing a heavy heavy air.
sorry 

Also  sorry
I was actually surprised at how unhappy I was at what happened to Berlusconi. He is beyond this sort of petty stuff. His model of media controling Demagoguery  masqueraiding as democracy might just be Italy's political lagacy to the  politics of the 21st centuary in the way that fascism was its contribution to the 20th.
Buy Rage against the Machine its our only hope.

[soapy]

many of the above are standards, great standards


also of merit:

90 - cocteau twins - heaven or las vegas
91 - the jesus lizard - goat
92 - pavement - slanted and enchanted
93 - wu tang clan - enter the wu tang
94 - brainiac - bonsai superstar
95 - scott walker - tilt
96 - beck - odelay
97 - daft punk - homework
98 - neutral milk hotel - in the aeroplane over the sea
99 - squarepusher - music is one rotted note

[DaveC]

Straight Outta Compton? 2001?  I'm sorry if you're talking Dr Dre & 1990s then surely it should be....

Anyway, my other favourites from the 90s:
Heaven or Las Vegas, Cocteau Twins
Debut, Bjork - nearly included Homogenic as well.
Black Sunday, Cypress Hill
Toward the Within, Dead Can Dance (live)
Violator, Depeche Mode
76:14, Global Communication
and/or Blue LInes & Protection, Massive Attack.
Loveless, My Bloody Valentine
Fat of the Land, Prodigy.
The Bends & OK Computer, Radiohead
Doggystyle, Snoop Dogg.
Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, The Sundays - really I could put all their albums on this list but the first edges the others out.
Blood, This Mortal Coil.

For goodness sake, DON'T start a thread on the 80s!

[GCW]

Fuck, how did I forget:

Pink Floyd- The Division Bell

[benpritch]

shellac - at action park. totally amazing, gets better every time you listen to it.

[Pantontino]

Loads of great albums already listed, but I thought it worth mentioning the following classics:

The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
The Beta Band - The Three Eps
Fugazi - Repeater
Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs
Bonnie Prince Billy - I see a Darkness
Guided by Voices - Alien Lanes

[Houdini]

RATM- RATM

[barf] Fuck you, I won't tidy my bedroom! [/barf]


I vote:



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and



and

[Houdini]

Ah, I see soaps n Ben beat me to them

[Houdini]

  but

... Berlusconi. He is beyond this sort of petty stuff.

No he's not.  Demonstrably.

[magpie]

Stone Roses (that was 90's, wasn't it?)

Nope. Clue... there was a 20th anniversary edition released this year.

That should have given me a clue really, shouldn't it.   

Can't believe I forgot Leftism. 

[dave]

Straight Outta Compton? 2001?  I'm sorry if you're talking Dr Dre & 1990s then surely it should be....

much as I love that album and has some all time solid gold bangers on it, it's just nowhere near as good an overall album as doggystyle or 2001. The quality really tails off in the back half.

[DaveC]

You're entitled to your opinion.....but you're wrong! 

[Obi-Wan is lost...]

Any and all of Mazzy Star's albums, probably 'She hangs brightly' if i had to pick one.   

[grumpycrumpy]

R L Burnside's ' Come on In ' ..... Seriously malevolent blues performed by a bloke who said on being convicted for murder ' I didn't mean to kill the sonofabitch , I only meant to shoot him in the head ' .
 Awesome .....

[SA Chris]

Some good stuff so far!

Also

Orbital - In Sides

Happy Mondays - Thrills Pills

REM - Out of Time

Underworld - Second Toughest

Ash - 1977

Reef - Glow

Supergrass - In it for the Money

Gomez - Bring it On

Dead Elvis - Death in Vegas

Groove Armada - Vertigo

Stereophonics - Performance and Cocktails
Pearl Jam - 10

Paul Weller - Wild Wood

Soundgarden - Superunknown

Counting Crows - August and Everything After

Chemical Brothers - Exit Planet Dust

[Dr T]

Reef - Glow

true - should have had that too
my top ten is having to display charactoristics of quantum calculations to fit everything in 

[nai]

Forgot all about Glow & Bring It On.  Top calls both

Also add Stanley Road as well as Wild Wood.

Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Let's Face It.
Edna's Goldfish - Elements of Transition.
Jane's Addiction - Ritual de lo habitual
Julian Cope - Peggy Suicide
New Fast Automatic Daffodils - Pigeonhole
Chemical Brothers - Dig your own hole

[Dr T]

Jane's Addiction - Ritual de lo habitual

and that - to be honest thought it was an 80's record but I am, as usual, wrong
3 days must be one of the best single tracks of the decade...

[magpie]

R L Burnside's ' Come on In ' ..... Seriously malevolent blues performed by a bloke who said on being convicted for murder ' I didn't mean to kill the sonofabitch , I only meant to shoot him in the head ' .
 Awesome .....

That's one of my dad's Christmas presents! 

Can't believe I left Orbital off my list! 

[DaveC]

R L Burnside's ' Come on In ' ..... Seriously malevolent blues performed by a bloke who said on being convicted for murder ' I didn't mean to kill the sonofabitch , I only meant to shoot him in the head ' .
 Awesome .....

That's one of my dad's Christmas presents! 

You're buying 90s stuff for your dad? Now I really am feeling old!

[magpie]

You're buying 90s stuff for your dad? Now I really am feeling old!

Fear not, he's pushing 60.  I had no idea it was 90s, I thought it would be much older, like the rest of the random music he demands as gifts, he must be feeling trendy this year. 

[grumpycrumpy]

R L Burnside's ' Come on In ' ..... Seriously malevolent blues performed by a bloke who said on being convicted for murder ' I didn't mean to kill the sonofabitch , I only meant to shoot him in the head ' .
 Awesome .....

That's one of my dad's Christmas presents! 

Good choice .....

[Jaspersharpe]

You're buying 90s stuff for your dad? Now I really am feeling old!

There was a bird on the radio the other day who said she liked "a lot of those old bands" from the mid nineties like Blur and Pulp because her Dad was into them.  :'(

[SA Chris]

the The - Dusk

New Order - Republic

[cowboyhat]

Can't believe people are going for the prodigy and chemical brothers stuff, feels to me like they have dated. I couldn't listen to them now, except maybe Dig Your Own Hole.

[SA Chris]

Can't believe people are going for the prodigy and chemical brothers stuff, feels to me like they have dated.

Quite a few of the Albums on my list get listened to very rarely, if ever. Chose them on the basis of how much I liked them at the time, not now.

[Andy F]

I should also add:
Pearl Jam - VS (wayyy better than Ten IMHO)
Paw - Jessie
Sugar - Copper Blue

[Graeme78]

Burn My Eyes-Machine Head
Great Southern Trendkill-Pantera
Nola-Down
Our Problem-Iron Monkey
Necroticism -Carcass
To ride straight-Entombed

I tend to struggle with picking favourirtes from the 90's 00's I stopped buying new music a few years ago so it all seems to come from the same sort of era, leading me to conclude that I'm old because most new music is shit and has all been done before. 

[Mike Tyson]

Certainly agree with Reef and Gomez being in there, brilliant.

I may well get abuse for this, but for me this album was amazing. Still one of my favourite albums of all time.

 

Gatecrasher Red!