Best 90's albums

[captainofbeef]

List your top 10 90's albums.

[captainofbeef]

1. Ten- Pearl Jam
2. Beck- Odelay
3. Modest Mouse- Lonsome Crowded West
4. Soundgarden- Superunknown
5. Jeff Buckley- Grace
6. Stone Temple Pilots- Core
7. REM- Automatic for the People
8. Green Day- Dookie
9. Alice in Chains- Dirt
10. U2- Achtung Baby

[PTAhole]

1. R.E.M.- Automatic for the People
2. Smashing Pumpkins- Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
3. Weezer- Blue
4. U2- Achtung Baby
5. R.E.M.- New Adventures in Hi-Fi
6. Smashing Pumpkins- Simease Dream
7. Pearl Jam- Ten
8. Rage Against the Machine- Rage Against the Machine
9. Metallica- Metallica
10. Beck- Odelay

[captainofbeef]

O God forgot Rage and Metallica
Replace Dookie with Rage and Dirt with Metallica on mine.

[captainofbeef]

Ok, forgot about the Chillis, Jane's Addiction, and Dave Matthews Band. New list.
1. Dave Matthews Band- Under the Table and Dreaming
2. Ten- Pearl Jam
3. Ritual de lo Habitual- Jane's Addiction
4. Blood, Sugar, Sex, Majik- RHCP
5. Odelay- Beck
6. Modest Mouse- Lonesome Crowded West
7. Californication- RHCP
8. Soundgarden- Superunknown
9. Dave Matthews Band- Crash
10. Jeff Buckley- Grace

[PTAhole]

Eh, I'll modifiy my list with the Chili Peppers and Dave Mathews later.

[criterionmaster]

No Battle for LA?

[captainofbeef]

Its so tough to get everything in their. I may have to do a top 25 or even 50. The 90's was such a great time for music. So much stuff their if you dig under the radio crap.

[agentknight]

I'm only just getting into music, don't kill me. Also, a top ten was too hard.

1. Radiohead - OK Computer
2. Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
3. Katatonia - Brave Murder Day
4. Autechre - Incunabula
5. Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album

[ie]

Let's see if my 90s lists aren't as sad as my other ones were...

1990
1. The Legendary Pink Dots - The Crushed Velvet Apocalypse
2. Dead Can Dance - Aion
3. Jane's Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual
4. They Might Be Giants - Flood
5. Hindu Love Gods - Hindu Love Gods
6. Depeche Mode - Violator
7. Alice in Chains - Facelift
8.
9.
10. [see below]
The Akira OST is listed under 1990, but I think it's really 1988...

1991
1. Yuzo Koshiro - Actraiser Symphonic Suite OST
2. Ali Hassan Kuban - From Nubia to Cairo (close second)
3. Nobuo Uematsu - Final Fantasy IV: Celtic Moon (close as fuck third)
4. Nobuo Uematsu - Final Fantasy IV - Original Sound Version
5. Ali Farka Touré - The Source
6. Nirvana - Nevermind
7. Earth - Extra-Capsular Extraction
8. Primus - Sailing the Seas of Cheese
9. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
10. {{Could be Blue Lines, Could be Welcome to My Dream}}

1992
1. Nirvana - Incesticide
2. The Offspring - Ignition
3. Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine by Rage Against the Machine
4. Sublime - 40 Oz. to Freedom
5. Alice in Chains - Dirt
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

1993
1. Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
2. Akira Ifukube - Gojira OST or King Kong vs. Godzilla OST
3. Dead Can Dance - Into the Labyrinth
4. Israel Kamakawiwoʻole - Facing Future
5. KRS-One - Return of the Boom Bap
6. Tad - Inhaler
7. Nirvana - In Utero
8. Yasuhiro Kawakami - Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest OST
9. Akira Ifukube - Ghidrah OST
10. The Breeders - Last Splash

1994 (Sorry, Uematsu was busy this year, so I give you a Top 15 as compensation)
1. Keiichi Suzuki, Hirokazu Tanaka - Mother 2 OST
1. Nobuo Uematsu - FF6: Grand Finale
2. Nobuo Uematsu - Final Fantasy 1987-1994
3. Nobuo Uematsu - FF6 - Original Sound Version
4. Portishead - Dummy
5. Nirvana - MTV Unplugged in New York
6. Jimi Hendrix - Jimi Hendrix: Blues
7. Molam Lao - Music from Southern Laos
8. Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary
9. Sonic Youth - Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star
10. Nobuo Uematsu - FF6 - Piano Collections
11. AC/DC - Highway to Hell
12. Rollins Band - Weight
13. Glenn Gould - 32 Shorts About Glenn Gould OST
14. The Offspring - Smash
15. Pearl Jam - Vitalogy

1995
1. Jeremy Soule - Secret of Evermore OST
2. The Rolling Stones - Stripped
3. Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters
4. Genius / GZA - Liquid Swords
5. White Zombie - Astro-Creep: 2000
6. Sam Mangwana - Rumba Music
7. AC/DC - T.N.T.
8. Killer Instinct OST
9.
10.

1996
1. Israel Kamakawiwoʻole - In Dis Life
2. Dave Matthews Band - Crash
3. Beck - Odelay
4. Apocalyptica - Plays Metallica by Four Cellos
5. Rage Against the Machine - Evil Empire
6. Tool - Ænima
7. April March - Paris in April
8. Nirvana - From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah
9. Sepultura - Roots
10.

1997
1. Radiohead - OK Computer
1. Nobuo Uematsu - Final Fantasy VII
1. Hitoshi Sakimoto - Final Fantasy Tactics
2. Wu-Tang Clan - Wu-Tang Forever
3. Plaid - Not for Threes
4. Sweet 75 - Sweet 75
5. Ravi Shankar - Chants of India
6. Rammstein - Sehnsucht
7. Jimi Hendrix - First Rays of the New Rising Sun
8. Buena Vista Social Club - Buena Vista Social Club
9. Paul McCartney - Flaming Pie
10. µ-Ziq - Lunatic Harness

1998 (You thought 1994 was bad? Neither did I.)
1. Yasunori Mitsuda - CREID
1. Yoko Kanno - Cowboy Bebop
1. Yoko Kanno - No Disc
1. Portishead - Roseland NYC Live
2. Yoko Kanno - Vitaminless
3. Massive Attack - Mezzanine
4. Koji Kondo - The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time OST
5. Jimi Hendrix - BBC Sessions
6. Bucketbead - Colma
7. Metallica - Garage Inc.
8. Bôa - Race of a Thousand Camels
9. Blue Chip Orchestra - Red Sky Beat
10. Kazuki Muraoka - Metal Gear Solid OST

1999 (You thought 1990-1998 was bad?)
1. Metallica - S&M
1. Yoko Kanno - Blue
1. Israel Kamakawiwoʻole - IZ in Concert
1. Ali Farka Touré - Niafunké
1. Sigur Rós - Ágætis byrjun
2. Yoko Kanno - Music for Freelance
3. Nobuo Uematsu - Final Fantasy VIII
4. Toumani Diabaté - New Ancient Strings
5. Blue Man Group - Audio
6. Rage Against the Machine - The Battle of Los Angeles
7. Megadeth - Risk
8. Buckethead - Monsters & Robots
9. Foo Fighters - There Is Nothing Left to Lose
10. Santana - Supernatural

Overall, not too bad. I need to get on 1992 and rock it 'til it hurts, but other than that, hey, I actually filled out these lists. Some would only apply for Top 5s, but that's how it looks right now.

[captainofbeef]

1990
1. Neil Young- Ragged Glory
2. Jane's Addiction- Ritual de lo Habitual
3. Alice in Chains- Facelift
4. The Black Crowes- Shake Your Moneymaker
5. Public Enemy- Fear of a Black Planet
6. Megadeth- Rust in Peace
7. Depeche Mode- Violator
8. Primus- Frizzle Fry
9. Mother Love Bone- Apple
10. Sonic Youth- Goo

1991
1. U2- Achtung Baby
2. Pearl Jam- Ten
3. Red Hot Chili Peppers- Blood Sugar Sex Magik
4. A Tribe Called Quest- Low End Theory
5. Guns 'N Roses- Use Your Illusion I/II
6. Neil Young- Weld
7. Temple of the Dog- Temple of the Dog
8. Death- Human
9. Bela Fleck and the Flecktones- Flight of the Cosmic Hippo
10. Nirvana- Nevermind

1992
1. R.E.M.- Automatic for the People
2. Rage Against the Machine- Rage Against the Machine
3. Dr. Dre- The Chronic
4. Alice in Chains- Dirt
5. The Black Crowes- The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion
6. Eric Clapton- Unplugged
7. Sublime- 40 OZ. to Freedom
8. Dream Theater- Images and Words
9. Phish- A Picture of Nectar
10. King Crimson- The Great Deceiver: Live 1973-1974

1993
1. Pearl Jam- Vs.
2. Dave Matthews Band- Remember Two Things
3. Nirvana- In Utero
4. Wu Tang Clan- Enter the Wu Tang (36 Chambers)
5. Snoop Dogg- Doggystyle
6. Neil Young- Unplugged
7. Sepultura- Chaos. AD
8. Death- Individual Thought Patterns
9. Tool- Undertow
10. Frank Zappa- The Yellow Shark

1994
1. Dave Matthews Band- Under the Table and Dreaming
2. Pearl Jam- Vitalogy
3. Soundgarden- Superunknown
4. Nirvana- MTV Unplugged
5. Tom Petty- Wildflowers
6. Pavement- Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
7. Jeff Buckley- Grace
8. Alice in Chains- Jar of Flies
9. Notorious B.I.G.- Ready to Die
10. Nine Inch Nails- The Downward Spiral

1995
1. Radiohead- The Bends
2. Neil Young- Mirrorball
3. Genius/GZA- Liquid Swords
4. Death- Symbolic
5. Ben Harper- Fight for Your Mind
6. Phish- A Live One
7. Porcupine Tree- The Sky Moves Sideways
8. Red Hot Chili Peppers- One Hot Minute
9. Autechre- Tri Repetae
10. Pulp- Different Class

1996
1. Dave Matthews Band- Crash
2. Tool- Aenima
3. Beck- Odelay
4. Sublime- Sublime
5. The Roots- Illadelph Halflife
6. Alice in Chains- MTV Unplugged
7. Outkast- ATliens
8. Pearl Jam- No Code
9. Bell and Sebastian- If You're Feeling Sinister
10. R.E.M.- New Adventures in Hi-Fi

1997
1. Dave Matthews Band- Live at Red Rock 95
2. Radiohead- OK Computer
3. Modest Mouse- The Lonesome Crowded West
4. U2- Pop
5. Built to Spill- Perfect From Now On
6. Daft Punk- Homework
7. Elliot Smith- Either/Or
8. Buena Vista Social Club- Buena Vista Social Club
9. The Notorious B.I.G.- Life After Death
10. Emperor- Anthems to Welkin at Dusk

1998
1. Dave Matthews Band- Before These Crowded Streets
2. Bruce Springsteen- Tracks
3. Neutral Milk Hotel- In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
4. Pearl Jam- Yield
5. Beck- Mutations
6. Rush- Different Stages/Live
7. Bela Fleck and the Flecktones- Left of Cool
8. Lucinda Williams- Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
9. Black Star- Mos Def and Talib Kweli are Black Star
10. Outkast- Aquemini

1999
1. Rage Against the Machine- The Battle of Los Angeles
2. The Flaming Lips- The Soft Bulletin
3. Red Hot Chili Peppers- Californication
4. Nine Inch Nails- The Fragile
5. Tom Waits- Mule Variations
6. Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds- Live at Luther College
7. Opeth- Still Life
8. Mos Def- Black on Both Sides
9. Agalloch- Pale Folklore
10. The Roots- Things Fall Apart

[ie]

You've decked out your 90s lists nicely.

[captainofbeef]

Yea, though I'm a bit ashamed about having DMB atop like 5 of the lists.

[PTAhole]

I'll do a top five for each decade, don't feel like doing a top ten for each year.

1. Achtung Baby by U2
2. Automatic for the People by R.E.M.
3. Siamese Dream by The Smashing Pumpkins
4. Weezer (Blue Album) by Weezer
5. Slanted and Enchanted by Pavement

[ie]

May 2, 2008 18:16:02 GMT -5 captainofbeef said:

Yea, though I'm a bit ashamed about having DMB atop like 5 of the lists.

I feel the same way for Uematsu Nobuo, so let's agree that both are awesome and be on our way.

May 3, 2008 5:01:42 GMT -5 PTAhole said:

I'll do a top five for each decade, don't feel like doing a top ten for each year.

1. Achtung Baby by U2
2. Automatic for the People by R.E.M.
3. Siamese Dream by The Smashing Pumpkins
4. Weezer (Blue Album) by Weezer
5. Slanted and Enchanted by Pavement

Lame, although I guess it's lamer that I haven't heard any of those.



1998 was a good year.