Posted on 10/22/2006 10:42:07 AM PDT by Pyro7480
a few more...in no special order:
Nirvana - Nevermind
Pearl Jam - Ten
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Metallica - Metallica (black album)
Queensryche - Empire
Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
On Weezer - the Blue Album is good, but Pinkerton is far better.
I know I'm late to this thread, but...
My top 10 for the 90's (not necessarily in order):
1. Social Distortion - Live at the Roxy
All the greatest songs by my favorite band, accompanied by the between-song ramblings of Mike Ness. Perfect.
2. Quicksand - Manic Compression
Very underrated band, not very well-known, but really good. Sort of similar to Tool, but without the pretentious edge. Self-titled first album is also really good.
3. Helmet - In the Meantime
The first band to play around so excessively with drop-tunings, stop-and-start rythyms, guitar feedback, etc. Way better than all subsequent bands who turned these into cliches.
4. Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Let's Face It
Best album from the whole mid-to-late 90's ska craze.
5. Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power
I'm not usually into metal, especially stuff this heavy, but Pantera is the exception.
6. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Everyone of my generation owns a copy of this album. Helped define "alternative" for the 90's.
7. Jawbreaker - Dear You
I would actually put this as a toss-up against their previous record, 24 Hour Revenge Therapy. Excellent band.
8. Rancid - Life Won't Wait
They finally took ripping off the Clash as far as they could take it. While Tim Armstrong sure ain't no Joe Stummer, this album is still better than a lot of the crap that came out in the 90's.
9. Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Probably the only rap album released in the 90's that I liked.
10. Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
Are they flaming leftists? Yeah. Do they know how to rock? Hell yeah. So I'll let it slide.
Honorable mention: The Johnny Cash American Recordings series (some of which were not released in the 90's).
I love Pinkerton, so it definitely gets an honorable mention from me.
Yeah, I have some Lush albums. "Gala" is by far the best of their stuff. Everything after that just seemed to be weaker copies of the same songs. Now that you mention it, I guess I do have quite a few "shoegazing" albums (I also have some My Bloody Valentine) but overall I tend to like particular bands versus styles. For example, I mostly can't stand metal, but I really like the early Metallica albums like "Master of Puppets".
That's why I download! I get the music. They don't get my money.
I'll agree with you on most of that list are good but I would have to put Ten, Vitalogy, and Yield in there. All 3 of them in the top 10. I'd also maybe add August and Everything After. I've seen the Gin Blossoms several times in concert. For a few years, I think my Discman consisted entirely of a rotation of Ten, Dookie, August, and New Miserable Experience.
The Worst of the Jefferson Airplane.
(Currently listening to DSOTM)
Ooooops.... wrong decade.... wrong DNA.... wrong lifeforms!
Where is Amadeus when you need him?
Too gone.
Too long.
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