Your top 5 the 90's alt.rock albums?

Grunge and britpop records excluded from this thread!

Tick your faves(top 5 if you have them) from the list and name your personal top 5, which can be outside this list.

 

Jeff Buckley - Grace

I'm not sure who is alternative.

 

Early Radiohead I always took as being tied in with Britpop.

 

My favorite.

 

I vote for 4

Pixies - Bossanova
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Radiohead - The Bends
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral

other big favorites that are not in the list:

Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine ‎– The Love Album 1992
Cocteau Twins ‎– Heaven Or Las Vegas 1990
The Cure - Wish 1992
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds ‎– The Good Son

 

Bends
Angel Dust
Odelay

 

There are too many albums to name. I have to narrow it down by artists or bands that came out with at least one album that I liked in the 90's. Finally, it's going to be more than 5. Not all are "alternative" in the strictest sense and the way we might have used the term back in the 90's but the word doesn't mean too much to me.

1. Pere Ubu
2. Swans
3. The Residents
4. Royal Trux
5. Come
6. Cocteau Twins

 

Red Hot Chilli
Pixies
Jeff Buckley
U2
Beck

 

Automatic For The People
The Bends
plus
Lemonheads - It's A Shame About Ray
Liquor Giants - self-titled
Sloan - One Chord To Another

I could throw a few more anywhere on the list but the Lemonheads album is easily in the top three.

 

Of course --- Swans! the magnificent White Light From The Mouth Of Infinity , Love of Life , The Great Annihilator , Soundtrack for the blind.

 

Hmm, I would say they were more grunge/rock

 

King Crimson...Alternative rock?

 

REM
Jeff Buckley
Morphine
The Afghan Whigs
Blind Melon

 

Melvins should probably be in there.

 

Grunge metal.

 

My bad Zach - thank you. I missed the OP's preface and just looked at poll. Consequently, I have edited my post. If I could, I would include "Thrak".

 

Alice In Chains - Dirt
Janes - Ritual
Kevin Gilbert - Thud
eels - Electro-Shock Blues
Radiohead - OK Computer

 

Yep, great album!

 

Screamadelica with no votes so far.

 

R.E.M - Automatic for the People
Wilco - Summerteeth
Pixies - Bossanova
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Morphine - Cure for Pain

Deluxe edition bonus vote:
The Breeders - Last Splash

 

Not sure about all the choices belong in the alt. Rock category.

 

Where's AIC and Pearl Jam!?

 

I'd personally go with the first eels record, but yeah, they belong here for sure. Definitely OK Computer too. One of the top two or three definitive alternative albums of all time I think. The Wikipedia entry is (for once) a handy reminder of how utterly unexpected it was at the time (alternative indeed, even for rabid fans of The Bends), and the extent to which its reputation may even still be growing...

Maybe the biggest one missing for me personally is My Bloody Valentine, Loveless, one of my all-time favorites. Not far behind, Sugar's Copper Blue. It was named NME's Record of the Year for 1992, and spawned a top 30 single and high-rotation video with one of early decade's greatest singles imo. Poppier than the rest of the album, which falls squarely in the alt rock category...but hey, a poppy single on alt rock album never hurt anybody.

 

I think Pearl Jam would fit into Grunge for the original poster.

 

Alt-rock was just pop or regular rock in the 90s. It was one of the dominant sounds and wasn't "underground" at all. What would it have been "alt" to?