[Pyro7480]

I know I'm going to receive flack for some and/or most of my picks, but I don't care! :-)

[Pyro7480]

Ping!

[Mr. Mojo]

I'll put in a vote for Bob Dylan's Time Out of Mind (1997).

[RockinRight]

1. Motley Crue - Shout at the Devil (1983)
2. Dokken - Back for the Attack (1987)
3. Metallica - Master of Puppets (1986)
4. Skid Row - Slave to the Grind (1991)
5. Ratt - Out of the Cellar (1984)
6. Ratt - Invasion of your Privacy (1985)
7. Quiet Riot - Metal Health (1983)
8. Pantera - Cowboys from Hell (1990)
9. Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force - Rising Force (1984)
10. Van Halen - Van Halen (1978)

[cardinal4]

DMB-"Before These Crowded Streets" 1998

[Tijeras_Slim]

SOHO Hippychick
LaTour People Are Still Having Sex
Billy Ray Cyrus Achy Breaky Heart
Sir Mix-a-Lot Baby Got Back
Whale Hobo Humpin' Slobo Babe
Los Del Rio Macarena
Primitive Radio Gods Standing Outside A Boken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand

It was a special time in musical history.

[MotleyGirl70]

The 90s were a terrble decade for music. Thanks Nirvana! /s/

I would have to say Soundgarden's Superunknown

[sully777]

I know I'm going to receive flack for some and/or most of my picks, but I don't care! :-)

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Spoken like a true X'er!

I like Gin Blossoms and Foo Fighters...I'll do my part to add to the list in no particular order:

Green Day's Dookie
Red Hot Chili Peppers' Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Extreme Pornagraffitti
Sublime Sublime
Blues Traveler Four

I'll stop there. BTW, I despise anything from that sorry excuse for a band named Oasis.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

[I Hired Craig Livingstone]

I think your picks are good... "The Bends" just might be my favorite album of all time.

Some that jumped to mind that haven't been mentioned yet:

"The Downward Spiral", Nine Inch Nails. -- I'd rather say "Pretty Hate Machine" but that was 1989.

"Enema of the State", Blink 182 -- Overplayed, but captured the feeling of the time for me.

"Third Eye Blind", Third Eye Blind -- Same as above.

"Doggystyle", Snoop Doggy Dogg -- Because Dre's "The Chronic" has already been mentioned.

"You've Come a Long Way, Baby", Fatboy Slim -- The perfect piece of lighthearted party music.

"Jagged Little Pill", Alanis Morisette -- Some hate her, but I thought it had a lot of genuine honesty and feeling.

"Play", Moby -- Yeah, he's a hippie, but it's a good album.

[lesser_satan]

Smash, Ixnay on the Hombre, and Americana by The Offspring
The Black Album by Metallica
All Shook Down by The Replacements
Use Your Illusion by Guns 'n' Roses
Get a Grip by Aerosmith
Live Through This by Hole
Social Distortion (self-titled)
Bloodletting and Mexican Moon by Concrete Blonde

[I Hired Craig Livingstone]

"Ill Communication", Beastie Boys
"Rage Against the Machine", Rage Against the Machine
"Siamese Dream", Smashing Pumpkins
"Black Sunday", Cypress Hill

These are really taking me back now...

[Clemenza]

Agree about Weezer. "Buddy Holly" was the GREATEST video of the 90s as well. Supposedly me and some buddies ran down Webster Avenue in the Bronx, drunk, screaming this song at 3AM as we stumbled back to our dorms. I really don't remember this, but will have to take my ex-girlfriends word.

My favorite single of the 90s: "Never Met a Girl Like You Before." I can't remember the name of the artist, however.

[dirtboy]

In no particular order, Seal's debut album, Chris Whitley's Living with the Law, the Levellers Zeitgeist, Robbie Robertson's Contact from the Underworld of Red Boy, Tori Amos Little Earthquakes, Lucinda Williams Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, Live Throwing Copper, Grant Lee Buffalo Fuzzy, Bodeans Black and White, Not Drowning, Waving Circus.

[CaliPhant]

Why no Pearl Jam; at least Ten should be included. Weezer's Blue Album is one of the best ever.

[Rocko]

69 Love Songs by Magnetic Fields.

[Yardstick]

Good list. Interesting comments.

I agree with your Jeff Buckley, Portishead, and Radiohead picks. The rest I could take or leave. Funny how people have different tastes (One reason I hope God exists is that he'll be able to settle these aesthetic controversies once and for all. It'll finally be settled what the best 80's hair metal album was, etc.).

I would add Cake's Fashion Nugget to the list, because it's hilarious, and because the guitar riff in "Going the Distance" makes me drive 90 miles an hour. Also Richard Thompson's Mock Tudor, which has beautiful songs and some incredibly unorthodox, cathartic guitar work.

If you go here and click "Listen to him now", then scroll down a little, there's a free download of Thompson's song "Hard On Me". The solo totally comes out of left field but is perfect for the song.

[Caramelgal]

I’m forty-five and technically old enough to be your mom (wow - that’s a scary thought).

While a lot of my friends stayed stuck musically in the late seventies and early eighties, (OK like I can only listen to Journey so many times), in the nineties I “rediscovered” music. And I stay pretty current. The most recent CD’s I bought: Evanescence – The Open Door (Amy Lee – probably one of the best female rock voices ever), Pete Yorn – Nightcrawler, Little Big Town – The Road to Here (yea it’s country) and Sarah Vaughan – the Millennium Collection. Yep, I’m pretty eclectic.

My 90’s picks, not all inclusive or in any particular order:

Counting Crows, August and Everything After (1993)
Actually anything by Counting Crows makes my list.
REM, Automatic for the People (1992)
It’s hard to pick just one
U2, Achtung Baby (1991)
Have you come here to play Jesus to the lepers in your head?
Dave Matthews Band, Under the Table and Dreaming (1994)
I’ve seen DMB twice on concert. Will go see them again
Alice in Chains, MTV Unplugged (1996)
What amazing vocal harmonies
Nirvana, In Utero (1993)
I never liked Nirvana until I heard Tori Amos’s cover of Teen Sprit but Heart Shaped Box is my favorite Nirvana song.
Morphine, Cure for Pain (1993)
Rock band featuring Alto Sax
Tori Amos, Little Earthquakes (1992)
She’s a bit out there but she has a beautiful voice and writes the most haunting songs
Aimee Mann, I'm With Stupid (1995)
Forget Til Tuesday, listen to her later solo stuff, greatly under recognized song writer
Blues Traveler, Four (1994)
John Popper plays a mean harmonica
Alanis Morrisette, Jagged Little Pill (1995)
Yes she’s a bit angry but heck, we’ve all been there at least once.

[SamAdams76]

You say no Nirvana but Foo Fighters come pretty close! That Foo Fighters album is one of my alltime favorites as well. They never really matched it since.

Gin Blossoms "New Miserable Experience" is great as well, never gets tired after all these years.

The Radiohead albums creep me out. When "OK Computer" came out, I was listening to it as I drove by a fatal car wreck near my house minutes after it happened. Turned out to be a teenager that lived down the street from me. That kind of ruined the album for me and everytime I hear it, especially "Airbag", I'm reminded of that car wreck.

[Pyro7480]

BTTT

[Mr. Blonde]

I was amazed by how great Jeff Buckley's voice was when I first heard it. Hallalujah is incredible. It still blows me away.