What's your favourite 90's albums?

did a quick search, couldn't find anything. apologies if this has been done recently.

was hoping to keep it to 10, but that's near on impossible! let's say 15..

anyway, here's mine, in no particular order:

Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dreams
Blind Melon - Soup
Nirvana - In Utero
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Radiohead - OK Computer
Dr Dre - The Chronic
De La Soul - De La Soul is Dead
Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
Beastie Boys - Check Your Head
Nas - Illmatic
DJ Shadow - Entroducing
Main Source - Breaking Atoms
Weezer - Weezer

please feel free to contribute. thanks!

 

Hard to nail it down to 15! I also made a rule to myself to not have multiple albums from one band (also hard).

Blind Melon - Soup
Dinosaur Jr - Where you Been?
Nirvana - In Utero
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
Weezer - Pinkerton
Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen
Radiohead - Ok Computer
You Am I - Hourly Daily
Faith No More - King for a day......
Tool - Aenima
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Pearl Jam - No Code
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Something for Kate - Beautiful Sharks

 

Grant Lee Buffalo - Fuzzy, Mighty Joe Moon, Copperopolis
The Residents - Freak Show
Porcupine Tree - Up The Downstair, The Sky Moves Sideways, Stupid Dream
Shack - Waterpistol, H.M.S. Fable
Robert Rich - Propagation
Steve Roach - Origins, The Dream Circle
Bob Dylan - Time Out of Mind
The Orb - Orbus Terrarum, Orblivion
Sparks - Gratuitous Sax & Senseless Violins
Jonathan Richman - I, Jonathan
Scott Walker - Tilt
Devil Doll - Sacrilegium
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Björk - Homogenic
Caroliner Rainbow Susans and Bruisins - The Cooking Stove Beast

 

Too many to list! Here are a few:

Rollins Band-End of Silence
Marilyn Manson-Holywood
Tori Amos-all of them
Fiona Apple-Tidal
Porno for Pyros-ST
Pantera-all of them
Tool-Opiate, Undertow, Aenima
Weezer-Blue
Smashing Pumpkins-all of them
Soundgarden-all of them
Elastica-ST
Pixies-Bossanova
BJM-Their Satanic Majesties Second Request
Beck-Odelay
STP-Tiny Music
Black Crowes-all of them

I can go on and on!

edit:
Urge Overkill-Exit the Dragon (one of my absolute favorites and I almost forgot!)

second edit:
Slayer, GNR, NIN....

 

released in 2000. swap in mechanical animals?

 

In no particular order

• Uncle Tupelo - Anodyne
• Medicine - The Burried Life
• Jason Falkner - Present Author Uknown
• Jason Falkner - Can You Still Feel
• The Semantics - Powerbill
• The Olivia Tremor Control - Dusk at Cubist Castle
• Eric Johnson - Venus Isle
• Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beat as One
• The Boo Radleys - Giant Steps
• Sonny Sharrock - Ask the Ages
• Air - Moon Safari
• Owsley - Owsley

 

The Silencers : Dance to the holy man.

 

Wow, I'm probably forgetting a bunch but I'll give it a shot:

• Hole - Celebrity Skin
• Nirvana - Nevermind
• Jeff Buckley - Grace
• Weezer - Weezer
• Pearl Jam - Ten
• Urge Overkill - Saturation
• Beck - Odelay
• Stone Temple Pilots - Tiny Music...Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop
• Black Crowes - The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion
• Alice In Chains - Dirt
• Singles - Soundtrack
• Temple of the Dog - Temple of the Dog
• Mother Love Bone - Apple

 

I remember these are the ones I kept playin' the hell out back then.

Prince & The New Power Generation ~ Love Symbol album

Lenny Kravitz ~ Are You Gonna Go My Way

Lenny Kravitz ~ Mama Said

Dave Stewart & The Spiritual Cowboys ~ s/t

Dave Stewart & Spiritual Cowboys ~ Honest

Soundgarden ~ Badmotorfinger

Soundgarden ~ Superunknown

Pearl Jam ~ Ten

Pearl Jam ~ Vs

John Mellencamp ~ Whenever We Wanted

 

Off the top of my head – never done one of these before so perhaps far from definitive and not in any real order (except maybe for the first two) and completely subject to revision….


Yo La Tengo – Painful
Luna – Penthouse
The Beta Band – Three EPs
DJ Shadow - …Entroducing
My Bloody Valentine – Loveless


Tom Waits – Bone Machine
Massive Attack – Mezzanine
Stereolab – Mars Audiac Quintet
Mercury Rev – Deserter’s Songs
Firewater – Get off the Cross


Belle & Sebastian – The Boy with the Arab Strap
Jane’s Addiction – Ritual De Lo Habitual
Nirvana – Unplugged in New York
Portishead – Dummy
One of Nick Cave’s…. Maybe Good Son, Let Love In… Henry’s Dream

 

Lots of great ones listed!

U2 - Achtung Baby

Love 'em or hate 'em, one of the biggest of the 90's.

 

Cracked Rear View


Kamakiriad


Trial by Fire


Dangerous


Still Waters

 

Nirvana: Nevermind
Pavement: Slanted and Enchanted
Prince: The Gold Experience
Sleater-Kinney: Dig Me Out
Liz Phair: Exile in Guyville
Beck: Odelay
R.E.M.: Out of Time
LL Cool J: Mama Said Knock You Out
Soundgarden: Superunknown
Lucinda Williams: Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
Old 97's: Fight Songs
Belle and Sebastian: If You're Feeling Sinister

 

The Beatles - `Anthology `1, 11 & 111

 

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness ~ Smashing Pumpkins
Siamese Dream ~ Smashing Pumpkins
Ten ~ Pearl Jam
American Recordings ~ Johnny Cash
Mavericks ~ Chris Stamey & Peter Holsapple
Swamp Ophelia ~ Indigo Girls
Check Your Head ~ Beastie Boys
Ill Communication ~ Beastie Boys
Superunknown ~ Soundgarden
Vitalogy ~ Pearl Jam
Automatic For the People ~ R.E.M.
Monster ~ R.E.M.
Harvest Moon ~ Neil Young

 

David Bowie - Outside
Neil Young - Sleeps with Angels
Radiohead - The Bends
Radiohead - Ok Computer
Mr. Bungle - Disco Volante
Mr. Bungle - California
Fiona Apple - When the Pawn...
Johnny Cash - American Recordings
Ben Folds Five - Reinhold Messner
Beck - Mutations
Beck - Odelay
Beck- Stereopathetic Soul Manure
Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
Bob Dylan - Time out of Mind
Brian Wilson & Van Dyke Parks- Orange Crate Art

 

Slowdive, "Souvlaki"
My Bloody Valentine, "Loveless"
Ride, "Nowhere"
Oasis, "(What's the Story) Morning Glory?"
Primal Scream, "Vanishing Point"
Radiohead, "The Bends"
The Verve, "A Storm in Heaven"
Spiritualized, "Ladies and Gentlemen..."
The Church, "Priest = Aura"
Mojave 3, "Ask Me Tomorrow"

I feel like I'm forgetting something obvious. It was a fantastic decade.

 

Super Furry Animals- Guerrilla
Negativland- Dead Dog Records (came with their book, "Fair Use")
The Residents- Have A Bad Day
Tipsy- Trip Tease
Knodel-The White Hole
Flaming Lips- The Soft Bulletin
The Beta Band- The Three E.P.'s

 

Angela Kaset - Sanctuary 1997
Angelo Badalementi - Twin Peaks 1990
Angels of Venice - Music For Harp, Flute & Cello 1994
Angels of Venice - Awake Inside a Dream 1996
Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister 1996
Belle & Sebastian - Tigermilk 1996
Belle & Sebastian - The Boy With The Arab Strap 1998
Belly - Star 1993
Bert Jansch - The Ornament Tree 1990
Bert Jansch - When The Circus Comes To Town 1995
Beulah - Handsome Western States 1997
Beulah - When Your Heartstrings Break 1999
Blackmore's Night - Shadow of The Moon 1997
Blackmore's Night - Under a Violet Moon 1999
Bob Martin - River Turns The Wheel 1997
Bruce Cockburn - Nothing But a Burning Light 1991
Cathryn Craig - Porch Songs 1995
Channel Light Vessel - Automatic 1994
Channel Light Vessel - Excellent Spirits 1996
Cotton Mather - Kon Tiki 1997
Crowded House - Woodface 1991
Dirk Hamilton - Sufferupachuckle 1996
Donovan - Sutras 1996
Dougie MacLean - Whitewash 1990
Eno & John Cale - Wrong Way Up 1990
Eric Matthews - It's Heavy in Here 1995
Eva Cassidy - Songbird 1998
Eva Trout - Along Woodland Rides 1995
Gordon Haskell - Butterfly in China 1996
Heather Nova - Oyster 1994
Heidi Berry - Love 1991
Heidi Berry - Heidi Berry 1993
High Llamas - Gideon Gaye 1994
Iris Dement - Infamous Angel 1992
Japancakes - If I Could See Dallas 1999
Jimmy Webb - Ten Easy Pieces 1996
Joni Mitchell - Night Ride Home 1991
Joni Mitchell - Turbulent Indigo 1994
Joni Mitchell - Taming the Tiger 1998
Joy & Lara - These Strange Days 1997
Kate Campbell - Songs From The Levee 1994
Kendra Smith - The Guild of Temporal Adventurers 1992
Kendra Smith - Five Ways of Disappearing 1995
Kristin Hersh - Hips & Makers 1994
Linda Ronstadt - Dedicated 1996
Lori Carson - Where it Goes 1995
Lucinda Williams - Sweet Old World 1992
Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road 1998
Mae Moore - Dragonfly 1995
Martin Newell - The Greatest Living Englishman 1995
Mary Black - Babes in The Wood 1991
Mary Chapin Carpenter - Stones in The Road 1994
Mike Nesmith - Live at The Britt 1992
Nanci Griffith - Flyer 1994
Nanci Griffith - Other Voices, Other Rooms 1993
Neil Young - Ragged Glory 1990
Neil Young - Harvest Moon 1992
Neil Young - Unplugged 1993
Rosanne Cash - Interiors 1990
Rosanne Cash - 10 Song Demo 1996
Sam Phillips - Omnipop 1996
Sarah Harmer - Songs For Clem 1999
Sarah McLachlan - Fumbling Towards Ecstasy 1993
Sean Lennon - Into The Sun 1998
Shawn Colvin - A Few Small Repairs 1996
Tal Bachman - Tal Bachman 1999
Tarnation - Gentle Creatures 1995
Tarnation - Mirador 1997
The Arlenes - The Arlenes 1999
The Grays - Ro Sham Bo 1994
The Pearlfishers - The Strange Underworld of The Tall Poppies 1997
The Pernice Brothers - Overcome By Happiness 1998
The Scud Mountain Boys - Massachusetts 1996
The Wondermints - Wondermints 1995
The Wondermints - Wonderful World of The Wondermints 1996
Tom Petty - Into The Great Wide Open 1991
Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes 1992
Valensia - Gaia 1993
Valensia - Valensia 1994
Van Dyke Parks & Brian Wilson - Orange Crate Art 1995
Van Morrison - Hymns To The Silence 1991
Van Morrison - The Philosopher's Stone 1998
Venice - Born and Raised 1997

 

Jeff Lynne - Armchair Theatre
Traveling Wiburys - Vol 3
Roy Orbison - King Of Hearts
Public Enemy - Fear Of A Black Planet
Public Enemy - Apocalypse 91 - The Enemy Strikes Black
Ice Cube - Death Certificate
Simply Red - Stars
Bon Jovi - Keep The Faith
Queen - Innuendo
Brian May - Back To The Light
E.L.O Pt.2 - E.L.O Pt.2
Beautiful South - Choke
Beautiful South - 0898 Beautiful South
Wet Wet Wet - High On The Happy Side
Radiohead - OK Computer
The Prodigy - Music For The Jilted Generation
The Prodigy - The Fat Of The Land
Oasis - Definitely Maybe
Oasis - (What's The Story) Morning Glory
Kylie Minogue - Kylie Minogue
Kylie Minogue - Impossible Princess
Guns 'n' Roses - Use Your Illusion 2 (Blue Album)

 

01. Public Enemy - Apocalypse 91...The Empire Strikes Back (1991)
02. Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole (1997)
03. Tricky - Maxinquaye (1995)
04. GZA/Genius - Liquid Swords (1995)
05. 16 Horsepower - Sackcloth 'n' Ashes (1996)
06. Maurizio - MCD (1997)
07. Jeru The Damaja - The Sun Rises In The East (1994)
08. Tindersticks - II (1995)
09. Meshuggah - Chaosphere (1998)
10. Flaming lips - The Soft Bulletin (1999)


Honorable mentions:
11. The Boo Radleys - Giant Steps (1993)
12. Ulver - Bergtatt: Et Eeventyr I 5 Capitler (1995)
13. Underworld - Second Toughest In The Infants (1996)
14. Ministry - Psalm 69 (1992)
15. Kruder & Dorfmeister - The K&D Sessions (1998)
16. Autechre - Tri Repetae (1995)
17. Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die (1996)
18. Zap Mama - Zap Mama (1991)
19. PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love (1995)
20. µ-Ziq - Tango N' Vectif (1993)
21. Nick Cave - Let Love In (1994)
22. A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory (1991)
23. Ween - The Pod (1991)
24. Outkast - Aquemini (1998)
25. Black Dog Productions - Bytes (1993)
26. Tom Waits - Bone Machine (1992)
27. Happy Mondays - Pills, Thrills & Bellyaches (1990)
28. Björk - Homogenic (1997)
29. Underground Resistance - X-101 (1991)
30. Beck - Odelay (1996)

 

Forgot this one.


Nevermind

 

1. Post minstrel syndrome - the negro problem
2. Pretty on the inside - hole
3. Sleeps with angels - Neil Young
4. Middle class revolt - the Fall

Lots of others

 

Core & Purple - Stone Temple Pilots

 

Megadeath, symphony of destruction. Rump shaker, Anything from 2-live crew, Snaps' everybody dance....