Favorite Album of the 90's

[BluegrassCat]

So my 90's were a time of Tribe, De La, Snoop, Dr. Dre, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana and of course Pharcyde to name only a few. This is one of the albums I still love today. What about y'all?


The Pharcyde - Passin' Me By - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAfrhmIvZ_s)

[Jamie French]

1992 - TMBG - Apollo 18.

http://youtu.be/biwkHJcxkIg

[rileyk]

Both of those are great albums... Pixies "Bossanova" or Built to Spill "there's nothing wrong with love" are probably my favorites

[Willie Escalade]

I will ALWAYS love The Chronic and Doggystyle. Seriously, when it comes to the genre, too many classics were released. 2Pac, Black Moon, Wu-Tang Clan, Biggie...still some great music.

Of course I can't forget the fact that Mary J. Blige and Mariah Carey debuted during this decade...

[bassman2546]

RUSH - Counterparts.

[darkshout]

This:

Death - Crystal Mountain - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8g5QsT-RSw&feature=related)

[Merkurie]

Too many to choose just one.
But for me the Nirvana's "Nevermind" killed the 80s and started the 90s

[Quiet Reflections]

Digable Planets "Reachin'(A New Refutation of Time and Space)"
Digable Planets - Rebirth Of Slick (Cool Like Dat) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM4kqL13jGM)
Digable Planets - Where I'm From - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl-pjb7y3y0)

[Dino Velvet]

Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss

Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvuO2EvCTAE)

http://freakneck.cjb.net:8000/Music/FLACs/Slayer%20-%20Seasons%20in%20the%20Abyss%20%281990%29/Seasons%20In%20The%20Abyss.jpg

[Jamie French]

Rock.
Both of those are great albums... Pixies "Bossanova" or Built to Spill "there's nothing wrong with love" are probably my favorites

[bobby9976]

Hi

Faith No More - Angel Dust
or
U2 Achtung Baby

[JenniferParisHusband]

1992 - TMBG - Apollo 18.

http://youtu.be/biwkHJcxkIg

Jamie, excellent choice! Glad to see I'm not the only person who appreciates TMBG!


Both of those are great albums... Pixies "Bossanova" or Built to Spill "there's nothing wrong with love" are probably my favorites

Riley, Bossanova, a classic!

I personally would have added my top-5 favorites to this list.
1.) Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory?
2.) hitomi - Thermo Plastic
3.) Depeche Mode - Violator
4.) Faith No More - Angel Dust
5.) Live - Selling the Drama

[maxpower]

1992 - TMBG - Apollo 18.

http://youtu.be/biwkHJcxkIg

Great pick. I love TMBG. They play a free show every year right after Thanksgiving at Mohegan Sun Casino here in CT. I've seen them a half dozen times and they never disappoint. This past November, their equipment truck caught on fire a few days before the show, so they had to play with rented gear, and no horn section, but they were still great.


Both of those are great albums... Pixies "Bossanova" or Built to Spill "there's nothing wrong with love" are probably my favorites

Also a great pick. Pixies are perhaps my second favorite band, behind the Beatles. I've seen them a bunch of times also, both when they were first together, and on their more recent reunion tours.


The 90's were a big music decade for me, so it's impossible for me to pick a favorite, but I will list some albums I think were great (not in any particular order):

On the Mouth - Superchunk
Pinkerton - Weezer
Last Splash - The Breeders
Dig Me Out - Sleater-Kinney
The Pink Album - Tuscadero
The Real Ramona - Throwing Muses
Copper Blue - Sugar
Exile in Guyville - Liz Phair
Gish - Smashing Pumpkins
Penthouse - Luna
Icky Mettle - Archers of Loaf
Bring it Down - Madder Rose
Foo Fighters
Social Distortion
Girlfriend - Matthew Sweet
Bandwagonesque - Teenage Fanclub
American Thighs - Veruca Salt
Live Through This - Hole
Let Me Come Over - Buffalo Tom

I could keep going, but I won't as this is probably too long already and I'm boring the shit out of everyone. But the 90's were definitely a great time for music.

[lisaparadise]

IVE BEEN AROUND FOR AWHILE MORE THEN A FEW DECADES LOL BUT I REALLY THINK THE 90S WAS THE WORST DECADE IN MUSIC.THE 60S BEING THE BEST.The Sixties: Part 1 - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rklVelmLGPs&feature=related)

[napx]

Feel like a poser now... both of my two favorites were mentioned... Exhile in Guyville... and Apollo 18.

But I have to say that the most important album is Pearl Jam 10... anyone in genX knows Jeremy and Evenflow.

[JenniferParisHusband]

IVE BEEN AROUND FOR AWHILE MORE THEN A FEW DECADES LOL BUT I REALLY THINK THE 90S WAS THE WORST DECADE IN MUSIC.THE 60S BEING THE BEST.The Sixties: Part 1 - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rklVelmLGPs&feature=related)

Best albums of the 60's, that would be an interesting thread, might require a lot of thought too.

[blur1380]

Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Radiohead - OK Computer
The Chronic - Dr. Dre
Daft Punk - Homework

To be honest there were so many different styles in the 90's I wouldn't be able to choose. It's funny to say that a single decade could be the best. For example, the 90's built off of the rock bands in the late 60's early 70's. The rock bands of the 60's and 70's built off of the blues legends of the 40's and 50's. Hell if you look at most of the hit songs from the 60's and 70's, they were mostly covers from the likes of Muddy Waters and Robert Johnson. Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to speak poorly of the 60's. It's just great to watch the evolution of music and the see the inspirations that birthed it.

[theone1982]

Nirvana-In Utero

[Tara Emory]

Great pick. I love TMBG. They play a free show every year right after Thanksgiving at Mohegan Sun Casino here in CT. I've seen them a half dozen times and they never disappoint. This past November, their equipment truck caught on fire a few days before the show, so they had to play with rented gear, and no horn section, but they were still great.



Also a great pick. Pixies are perhaps my second favorite band, behind the Beatles. I've seen them a bunch of times also, both when they were first together, and on their more recent reunion tours.


The 90's were a big music decade for me, so it's impossible for me to pick a favorite, but I will list some albums I think were great (not in any particular order):

On the Mouth - Superchunk
Pinkerton - Weezer
Last Splash - The Breeders
Dig Me Out - Sleater-Kinney
The Pink Album - Tuscadero
The Real Ramona - Throwing Muses
Copper Blue - Sugar
Exile in Guyville - Liz Phair
Gish - Smashing Pumpkins
Penthouse - Luna
Icky Mettle - Archers of Loaf
Bring it Down - Madder Rose
Foo Fighters
Social Distortion
Girlfriend - Matthew Sweet
Bandwagonesque - Teenage Fanclub
American Thighs - Veruca Salt
Live Through This - Hole
Let Me Come Over - Buffalo Tom

I could keep going, but I won't as this is probably too long already and I'm boring the shit out of everyone. But the 90's were definitely a great time for music.


Exile in Guyville is in permanent rotation in my car's cd player. Liz Phair was far more interesting when she sung off key about being a slut at age 12..

and always been into that Pixies/Breeders/Throwing Muses clusterfuck of related bands,..

and a TMBG fan since about '89...

-Tara

[Jamie French]

I'm not gonna guess how old you are but in 89 I was 10, which means my first exposure to TMBG was from Tiny Toons, when they featured those two videos... one for Istanbul, the other for Particle Man... is your story similar?


Exile in Guyville is in permanent rotation in my car's cd player. Liz Phair was far more interesting when she sung off key about being a slut at age 12..

and always been into that Pixies/Breeders/Throwing Muses clusterfuck of related bands,..

and a TMBG fan since about '89...

-Tara

[Tara Emory]

I dont recall the Tiny Toons bit, but I do know that the Istanbul song was popular enough to strike a chord with artsy types in my middle and high school. To be a teenager and aware of someone as offbeat (for the time) as Kate Bush is pretty much as out of the box as you can get, when AOR/MOR radio still dominated the airwaves.

actually, it also turns out that a lot of what i mentioned were also sorta local bands. TMBG i think grew up in Lincoln Mass, and the Throwing Muses were from Newport RI.

-Tara

[Jamie French]

Yeah, Lincoln Mass. My first exposure was the cartoon show... wasn't till I was 14 or 15 that I found out they were an actual band and had nothing to do with that cartoon. Saw the Birdhouse video at 3am on MTVs Alternative Nation, and it was all over for me.

[bassman2546]

IVE BEEN AROUND FOR AWHILE MORE THEN A FEW DECADES LOL BUT I REALLY THINK THE 90S WAS THE WORST DECADE IN MUSIC.THE 60S BEING THE BEST.The Sixties: Part 1 - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rklVelmLGPs&feature=related)

I used to think that too until the first decade of the new millenium drew to a close. Let's see if this decade can top it.

[heiddidosse]

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[Erika1487]

White Zombie - La Sexorcisto :rock2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANLPDFfdvrM

[BellaBellucci]

Metallica (self-title)
Pearl Jam - Ten
Nirvana - Nevermind
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
Sarah McLachlan - Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
Counting Crows - August and Everything After
Soundgarden - Superunkown

... and pretty much anything from MTV Unplugged: Nirvana, 10,000 Maniacs, Eric Clapton, Rod Stewart.

There's no WAY I could pick just one.

~BB~

[thekretch]

Great list Max Power! I would have to name Mercury Rev "Deserters Songs", The Flaming Lips "The Soft Bulletin" and Neutral Milk Hotel "In The Aeroplane Over The Sea" as the three best "indie" albums of the nineties. Those three albums set up a decade of pitchfork fanboys.

[southern81]

Metallica-Enter Sandman Official Video 1991 [HD] - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEoCM85Mz4s&feature=fvst)

[Nicole Dupre]

PJ Harvey "Rid of Me"

Tool "Aenima"

[noble1337]

NIN- the downward spiral
radiohead- OK computer

[southern81]

some one posted about it so i looked and its funny
Istanbul - Tiny Toons
Istanbul - Tiny Toons - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqJXxHi6RwQ)

[liisawinklergirl]

sorry im a little pop chick so EROTICA by Madonna ranks up there for me hehehe :)

[Prospero]

Every decade in the history of popular music has its own characteristics – but all build upon the music that came before. The 1950s laid the bedrock of most of what followed (though the blues and country music that informed rock and roll started far earlier. The first recorded appearance by a bluesman in the UK was Champion jack Dupree in the 1940s). The 1960s synthesised all sorts of elements from the 1950s and introduced new ones (especially once pop musicians started to experiment with hallucinogenic drugs and discovered “world” music) and revitalised the rock music that had grown bland and anaemic by the end of the 1950s. (All those Bobbys and rickys).

By the 1970s some of that energy had produced the bloated and silly music of the progressive rock era and that bred a resurgance of pure rock in the shape of punk and also the birth of re-energised black music in the forms of rap, hip hop etc. It also saw the beginners of new forms – from figures such as David Bowie and the music of 1960s bands like the Yardbirds and Cream harden into the birth of heavy metal. Led Zeppelin bred a million imitators. In the 1980s the Punk moment had lost its impetus became somewhat decadent with glam rock and such musical/fashion movements (in the UK) as the new romantics with performers as Boy George and his imitators.

For individuals coming of age in these decades each era presented them with fresh sounds as the background to adolescence. But the music of the previous era still survived – sometimes in a anaemic form. So Elvis for instance played on into the 60s and 70s, but seldom achieved the raw heat of his 50s rock’n’roll. The solo Beatles never achieved that élan that marked their group music. The Stones thundered on becoming an ever more comedic version of themselves.

But mElvis Costello offered a unique new songwriting talent. ajor new artists emerged in all genres. Springsteen in the 1980s revitalised rock. Grandmaster Flash and Public Enemy were (for me) the best that rap ever offered – politicised and white hot. Punk striped away the banal pomposity of progressive rock to offer lean, clean and abrasive music – the Clash, The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, Television, Talking Heads and – for me – the finest music of all – Patti Smith.

This same retrenchment and resurgance and remaking continues apace. With new forms always emerging into the light.

So the 1980s? Best albums? Some of my favourites

Time out Of Mind – Bob Dylan
American Recordings Vol 1 and 2 – Johnny Cash
Automatic For The People –REM
Bone Machine - Tom Waits
The Black Rider – Tom Waits
Mule Variations –Tom Waits
The Juliet Letters –Elvis Costello
Painted from Memory – Elvis Costello
Dummy - Portishead
Murder Ballads – Nick Cave
Weird Nightmare – a tribute to Charlie Mingus produced by hal Wilner
Diamonds and pearls – Prince
Yellow Moon – The Neville Brothers
Forget about it – Alison Krauss
Magic and loss – Lou Reed
Last of The Independents – The pretenders