Definitive 90's Considerations
Obviously 100 slots is not enough to claim all the spots for "the" albums of my (currently) favorite decade of music. With all that said, here's just another 100 albums that deserve at least some mention in the 90's whether it be to popularity or just general approval (at least on this site). |
1 | | A Tribe Called Quest The Low End Theory
Hip-Hop + Jazz Fusion |
2 | | The Afghan Whigs Gentlemen
Grunge + Alternative Rock |
3 | | Agalloch Pale Folklore
Black Metal + Post Metal + Folk |
4 | | Air Moon Safari
Electronica + Downtempo |
5 | | Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill
Pop Rock + Alternative Rock |
6 | | Archers of Loaf Icky Mettle
Noise Rock + Post Hardcore |
7 | | Bad Religion Generator
Hardcore + Punk |
8 | | Beck Mellow Gold
Alternative Rock + Folk + Lo-Fi
I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me? |
9 | | Ben Folds Five Whatever and Ever, Amen
Pop Rock |
10 | | Boredoms Pop Tatari
Noise Rock + Psychedelia + Experimental |
11 | | Built to Spill Perfect from Now On
Lo-Fi + Alternative Rock |
12 | | Catherine Wheel Chrome
Shoegaze + Psychedelia + Alternative Rock
A very pale version of Smashing Pumpkins, but still have a little more distortion than Whipping Boy. |
13 | | Cave In Until Your Heart Stops
Metalcore + Prog Rock + Alternative Rock |
14 | | Chapterhouse Whirlpool
Shoegaze + Electronic |
15 | | Chokehold Content With Dying
Hardcore |
16 | | Codeine The White Birch
Post Rock + Alternative Rock |
17 | | Cradle of Filth Cruelty and the Beast
Death Metal + Gothic + Black Metal |
18 | | The Cranberries No Need to Argue
Dream Pop + Alternative Rock
Za-um-bie! Za-um-bie! |
19 | | Crowbar Crowbar
Sludge Metal + Doom Metal |
20 | | Crowded House Woodface
Pop Rock |
21 | | Cryptopsy None So Vile
Death Metal + Grind |
22 | | Current 93 All the Pretty Little Horses
Folk + Industrial + Psychedelia |
23 | | Curve Come Clean
Shoegaze + Industrial + Alternative Rock |
24 | | Cypress Hill Cypress Hill
Hip-Hop + Psychedelia |
25 | | De La Soul De La Soul Is Dead
Hip-Hop + Jazz |
26 | | Death The Sound of Perseverance
Death Metal + Prog Metal + Thrash Metal |
27 | | Death in June Rose Clouds of Holocaust
Folk + Industrial + Post Punk |
28 | | DJ Shadow Endtroducing...
Trip-Hop + Electronica + Hip-Hop |
29 | | Down NOLA
Sludge Metal + Stoner Rock |
30 | | Digable Planets Blowout Comb
Hip-Hop + Jazz |
31 | | Dissecting Table Ultimate Psychological Description II
Noise Rock + Industrial |
32 | | Dr. Octagon Dr. Octagonecologyst
Trip-Hop + Hip-Hop |
33 | | Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory
Prog Rock + Prog Metal |
34 | | Electric Wizard Come My Fanatics...
Doom Metal + Stoner Rock + Psychedelia |
35 | | Eyehategod Take as Needed for Pain
Sludge Metal + Hardcore + Doom Metal |
36 | | Fates Warning A Pleasant Shade of Gray
Prog Metal + Heavy Metal + Power Metal |
37 | | Filter Short Bus
Industrial + Alternative Rock
HEEEEEEEEY MAAAAAAAAN! HAAAAAAAS GUUUUUUN! |
38 | | Fiona Apple Tidal
Indie Pop + Alternative Rock + Jazz |
39 | | Fishbone The Reality of My Surroundings
Ska + Funk + Alternative Rock |
40 | | The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin
Psychedelia + Dream Pop + Experimental |
41 | | The Flower Kings Stardust We Are
Folk + Prog Rock |
42 | | Foo Fighters The Colour and the Shape
Grunge + Alternative Rock
Personally overrated, and I blame Everlong being put on radio repeat... |
43 | | Front Line Assembly Tactical Neural Implant
Industrial + Metal + Electronica |
44 | | Garbage Version 2.0
Post Punk + Electronica + Alternative Rock |
45 | | Gamma Ray Somewhere Out in Space
Heavy Metal + Power Metal |
46 | | Gang Starr Moment of Truth
Hip-Hop |
47 | | Goldfinger Hang-ups
Ska + Pop Punk
Anyone else remember the first Tony Hawk's Pro Skater for N64 w/ the blue cartridge? Ah, nostalgia...
Oh yeah, and Green Day already had it's mention. You don't a second spot w/ Dookie - don't get greedy GD! |
48 | | Goodie Mob Still Standing
Hip-Hop |
49 | | Jawbox For Your Own Special Sweetheart
Post Hardcore + Noise Rock + Alternative Rock |
50 | | Jay-Z Reasonable Doubt
Hip-Hop |
51 | | Jimmy Eat World Clarity
Emo + Pop Punk |
52 | | Katatonia Brave Murder Day
Doom Metal + Gothic + Prog Metal |
53 | | Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band Trouble Is...
Blues + Rock |
54 | | King Crimson THRAK
Jazz Fusion + Experimental
An album inspired from Tool's music... Thought this inspiration thing was the other way around, at least from prior Tool interviews. |
55 | | Melt-Banana Speak Squeak Creak
Noise Rock + Punk + Grind |
56 | | Mercury Rev Boces
Dream Pop + Psychedelia + Alternative Rock |
57 | | Meshuggah Destroy Erase Improve
Thrash Metal + Prog Metal + Experimental |
58 | | MF DOOM Operation: Doomsday
Hip-Hop |
59 | | Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West
Lo-Fi + Alternative Rock |
60 | | Moonspell Irreligious
Gothic + Black Metal + Industrial |
61 | | Mother Tongue Mother Tongue
Blues + Hard Rock |
62 | | My Dying Bride Turn Loose the Swans
Doom Metal + Gothic + Death Metal |
63 | | Nas Illmatic
Hip-Hop |
64 | | Neurosis Through Silver in Blood
Post Metal + Sludge Metal |
65 | | Nightwish Oceanborn
Gothic + Power Metal |
66 | | Novembre Classica
Black Metal + Prog Metal + Doom Metal |
67 | | Orphaned Land El Norra Alila
Folk + Prog Metal |
68 | | OutKast ATLiens
Hip-Hop + Funk + Soul |
69 | | Ozzy Osbourne No More Tears
Heavy Metal + Hard Rock |
70 | | Paradise Lost Draconian Times
Doom Metal + Gothic + Electronica |
71 | | Pearl Jam Ten
Grunge + Alternative Rock |
72 | | PJ Harvey To Bring You My Love
Blues + Punk + Alternative Rock |
73 | | Primal Scream Screamadelica
Electronica + Psychedelia + Experimental |
74 | | Primus Frizzle Fry
Funk + Alternative Rock + Experimental |
75 | | Psychotic Waltz Into the Everflow
Psychedelia + Prog Metal + Heavy Metal |
76 | | Public Enemy Fear of a Black Planet
Hip-Hop
Personally, this an overrated album. At least it's a historical album. |
77 | | Red House Painters Red House Painters
Indie Folk + Indie Rock |
78 | | Reel Big Fish Turn the Radio Off
Ska + Pop Punk |
79 | | Refused The Shape of Punk to Come
Hardcore + Post Hardcore |
80 | | R.E.M. Automatic for the People
Post Punk + Alternative Rock |
81 | | Ride Going Blank Again
Britpop + Shoegaze + Alternative Rock
Pulp was also another consideration but this album was aesthetically more appealing for some reason. |
82 | | Sebadoh Bakesale
Lo-Fi + Alternative Rock |
83 | | Slint Spiderland
Math Rock + Post Rock + Post Hardcore |
84 | | Sparklehorse Good Morning Spider
Lo-Fi + Alternative Rock |
85 | | Spiritual Beggars Another Way To Shine
Stoner Rock + Hard Rock |
86 | | Stone Temple Pilots Core
Grunge + Alternative Rock |
87 | | Strapping Young Lad City
Death Metal + Industrial + Prog Metal |
88 | | Strung Out Twisted By Design
Punk |
89 | | Sunny Day Real Estate Diary
Post Hardcore + Emo |
90 | | Talk Talk Laughing Stock
Pop Rock + Post Rock + Jazz |
91 | | The Tea Party The Edges Of Twilight
Folk + Hard Rock + Industrial
Like their Transmission album better (THAT is the industrial one), but we wouldn't have that album w/o this one first. |
92 | | Tiamat Wildhoney
Doom Metal + Gothic |
93 | | Toadies Rubberneck
Grunge + Alternative Rock
Pretty cool that they're planning on making another album after so much time. |
94 | | Today Is the Day Willpower
Noise Rock + Hardcore + Grind |
95 | | Tricky Maxinquaye
Trip-Hop + Electronica |
96 | | Unsane Total Destruction
Noise Rock + Metal + Post Hardcore |
97 | | W.A.S.P. The Crimson Idol
Heavy Metal + Hard Rock |
98 | | Ween The Mollusk
Noise Rock + Psychedelia + Experimental |
99 | | Weezer Pinkerton
Pop Punk + Alternative Rock |
100 | | Whipping Boy Heart Worm
Shoegaze + Alternative Rock |
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