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Post by Mr. Atari on Jun 15, 2006 18:37:58 GMT -5
So I was just in a big debate with a friend about '90s music.
He contends that the bulk of the decade's music consisted of corporate one-hit wonders and mainstream acts trying to pass themselves off as underground hip.
I think there were good bands who put out good albums.
So he challenged me to come up with 25 great albums from the decade.
I need your help. What say you?
Any style or genre counts, as long as you consider it a great album.
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Post by Unsavory on Jun 15, 2006 18:55:44 GMT -5
They're not particularly my style of music but you have significant releases from Nirvana (particularly with Nevermind), Pearl Jam, and The Red Hot Chili Peppers (Blood, Sugar, Sex, Magic). This was also the decade of Metallica's Black Album. Not a favorite to all but still a success.
My favorites from the decade though are:
Tool - Undertow (I don't expect this to make the final cut, but I still love it.)
Tool - Aenima (If I could just add one to the list, it would be this. Epic album about personal change and growth exploring the full spectrum of human emotion and thought.)
Radiohead - The Bends (Considered by many the best Radiohead album.)
Radiohead - OK Computer (Nominated for Best Album of the Year, as if that matters.)
Primus - Frizzle Fry (My favorite Primus record.)
Rage Against the Machine (Self Titled) (Significant 90s band, and the only good group to ever mix a hip-hop style with rock.)
Alice in Chains - Dirt (Sick of thinking up justifications.)
Too bad Disintegration was '89.
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Post by Captain Hygiene on Jun 15, 2006 19:26:09 GMT -5
Can't think of anything I liked in the 90's. Some good 80's stuff and the occasional accidental good stuff in the 2000's but that's about it.
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Post by Phantom Engineer on Jun 15, 2006 19:33:27 GMT -5
Bob Dylan, Time Out Of Mind (1997)
Grammy winner for album of the year. Sometimes they get it right.
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Post by Shep on Jun 15, 2006 20:38:37 GMT -5
Oasis-"Definitely Maybe."
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Post by Captain Hygiene on Jun 15, 2006 20:59:07 GMT -5
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Post by gabraham on Jun 16, 2006 11:44:42 GMT -5
Nirvana-Nevermind
Nirvana-In Utero
Dr. Dre-The Chronic
Jane's Addiction-Ritual De Lo Habitual
Ice Cube-Death Certificate
Tribe Called Quest-The Low End Theory
Bjork-Post
Dj Shadow-Entroducing
Radiohead-Ok Computer
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Post by Skellen on Jun 16, 2006 11:59:46 GMT -5
Lot's of good ones here, I'll only add a couple...
Ten by Pearl Jam
Dubnobasswithmyheadman by Underworld
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Post by Unsavory on Jun 16, 2006 14:15:15 GMT -5
I agree with Ten by Pearl Jam. I could have sworn it was 1989, before I originally posted, but it's a 90's album.
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Post by hopesfall on Jun 16, 2006 14:17:59 GMT -5
Cave-In - Until Your Heart Stops
At The Drive-In - In/Casino/Out
Propagandhi - Less Talk, More Rock
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Post by jinny on Jun 16, 2006 16:07:58 GMT -5
Weezer released The Blue Album and Pinkerton in the 90s, they're 2 damn good albums.
Pavement released some good albums too, I've only heard Crooked Rain Crooked Rain, Wowee Zowee and Brighten the Corners though but they're good albums.
Le Tigre's first album was released in '99 I think.
The Pixies released 2 albums in the early 90's; Bossanova and Trompe Le Monde.
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Post by losingmydignity on Jun 16, 2006 18:25:56 GMT -5
Yeah, Pixies and Pavement to name many.
Actually, outside the sixties the 90's is my favorite "decade" for music, though I admit a lot of it is electronic dance music and not exactly about a great album.
Anway, still a lot of good stuff.
Almost everything Sonic Youth put out.
Frank Black: Teenager of the Year
Jesus Lizard :{hell, all their stuff}Liar
All of Lisa Germano's albums
Nick Cave and the BS: Let Love In and Boatman's Call
PJ Harvey: Rid of Me
Sugar: Beaster ep and their first album
Dinosaur Jr.: Green Mind and Where You Been?
Nirvana: In Utero
C J Bolland: Electronic Highway
Adorable {so much better than Oasis, why doesn't anyone know them?}: Against Perfection
Ministry's albums, and Nine Inch Nails and all kinds of cool industrial stuff...I could go on and on and on.
I'm betting people who like the more album orientated rock era of the 70's are the ones who don't care for the 90's.
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Post by MonsterX on Jun 16, 2006 18:44:54 GMT -5
Plush by Stone Temple Pilots is still a kick ass hard rock album. Ten has been so overplayed that I sometimes forget how great it is. There’s lots of good stuff that I am too tired to remember right now but those spring to mind.
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Post by Emperor Cupcake on Jun 16, 2006 19:37:12 GMT -5
I just graduated from high school in 1990, so it seems that I would be able to think of lots and lots of good albums that came out then, but most of the stuff I like is late 70's to late 80's, then some stuff today. I liked all the albums Nick Cave put out in the 90's, especially "Let Love In." The Fall's "The Infotainment Scan" is fabulous. Peter Murphy's "Cascade" was good, from 1995. I think the first Cinema Strange album came out in 1994, and I love that. Even though it's not cool, I like a lot of the Sisters of Mercy ripoff, second wave goth rock albums from that time, by bands like Nosferatu and Rosetta Stone and The Shroud. I was never hugely into the grunge thing or Nirvana, though I did like "Nevermind." I think the 90's was a time for me when I kind of lost interest in newer music, then had it rekindled later. Then again, maybe loads of stuff came out in the 90's that I love and I just can't think of it right now.
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Post by frodo on Jun 16, 2006 21:14:28 GMT -5
Hi All! I'm a friend of crowfan. I'm new to MST3K and boards in general, so pleas be patient with me. I'm a big Tolkien fan if you didn't guess. The 90's... I have had the usual Foo Fighters/Bush music, but I also had stuff like Eugenius, Teenage Fanclub, and Polara in my CD collection. I heard one of you is into Porcupine Tree. I have "Signify", "On The Sunday of Life" and "In Absentia". I'm still kicking myself for not getting "Stars Die" when I could have. Forgive me?
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