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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