Best 90's albums in retrospect

[*Stormy*]

Of course we'll all have the same #1-

AB!!!

after that is the question. What do you say? It wasn't a great decade for music IMO.

1- AB
2- What's the Story Morning Glory- Oasis
3- Out of Time- REM
4- Grave Dancer's Union- Soul Asylum
5- Californication- Red Hot Chili Peppers

No, I'm not going to pick POP or Zooropa, or Nevermind or 10 because they are not my favorites. Make your own list!

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~"A little out of touch, little insane, just easier than dealin' with the pain!" ~Soul Asylum, "Runaway Train"

 

[*Stormy*]

Okay so maybe this was a bad idea. Never mind.

 

[Foxxern]

AB
POP
Oasis - Be Here Now
Radiohead - OK Computer
Radiohead - The Bends
Oasis - Definitely Maybe
The Wallflowers - Bringing Down The Horse
Zooropa
Oasis - What's the Story Morning Glory
Travis - The Man Who
Gin Blossoms - New Miserable Experience
matchbox twenty - mad season
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
Depeche Mode - Violator

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[sulawesigirl4]

hmm...off the top of my head.

AB - U2
Zooropa - U2
Ok Computer - Radiohead
POP - U2
The Bends - Radiohead

Yeah, lots of variety in MY list.

 

[*Stormy*]

I would like to add

Gin Blossoms: New Miserable Experience
Wallflowers: Bringing Down the Horse

I forgot about those!

I hope no one feels obligated to put some U2 on there if they don't really want to just because they're your favorite band. I'm still waiting for the Nevermind and Ten fans.

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~"A little out of touch, little insane, just easier than dealin' with the pain!" ~Soul Asylum, "Runaway Train"

 

[david]

U2 - Achtung Baby: U2's return album, and the one that established them as a real rock band that can survive their own 80's success.

Nirvana - Nevermind: I can't say anything else about this album that hasn't already been said. We all know what it did for the music industry in the early 90's.

Soundgarden - Superunknown: This album is pure intelligent hard rock bliss. 15 songs on this album and all of them could of been released as singles. Soundgarden was one of the last few bands that actually had good songs from start to finish on their albums.

Jeff Buckley - Grace: Haunting. This only hinted at what he could of done, had he not died 3 years later.

REM - Automatic For The People: I liked this album more than Out Of Time. I believe had they not released Out Of Time and put Losing My Religion on AFTP it would of been a master piece.

Jane's Addiction - Ritual De La Habitual: Art rock at it's best. This album released in 1990 was ahead of it's time and was a small signal for the big change that was to occur in the industry a year later. Great Album.

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[mug222]

1. Tie--Achtung Baby (U2)
1. Tie--Summerteeth (Wilco)

3. In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (Neutral Milk Hotel)

4. OK Computer (Radiohead)

5. Automatic For the People (REM)

6. Mutations (Beck)

7. Loveless (My Bloody Valentine)

That's pretty much it.

 

[Achtung Zooropa]

No particular order here:

U2 - Zooropa
U2 - Achtung Baby
Oasis - Be Here Now
Oasis - Definately Maybe
Radiohead - OK Computer
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
Air - Moon Safari
Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
R.E.M. - New Adventures in Hi-Fi
Primal Scream - Screamadelica
Depeche Mode - Ultra
The Prodigy - Fat of the Land
The Verve - Urban Hymns
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Morrissey - Vauxhall and I
Metallica - The Black Album

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[ericb]

U2- Achtung Baby
Goo Goo Dolls- Dizzy Up The Girl
No Doubt- Tragic Kingdom
Alanis Morissette- Jagged Little Pill
Madonna- Ray Of Light

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

and of course

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[mug222]

Originally posted by ericb:
U2- Achtung Baby
Goo Goo Dolls- Dizzy Up The Girl
No Doubt- Tragic Kingdom
Alanis Morissette- Jagged Little Pill
Madonna- Ray Of Light

Seriously?

 

[elevatedmole]

No particular order.

Garbage, Version 2.0
Moby, Play
U2, Pop
U2, Zooropa
U2, AB
Passengers, OS1

Gavin Friday, Shag Tobacco
Gavin Friday, Adam 'n' Eve

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"You must not look down on someone just 'cos they are 14 years old. When I was that age I listened to the music of John Lennon and it changed my way of seeing things, so I'm just glad that 14 year olds are coming to see U2 rather than group X." - Bono, 1988

 

[Mulholland Drive]

Originally posted by david:
U2 - Achtung Baby: U2's return album, and the one that established them as a real rock band that can survive their own 80's success.

Nirvana - Nevermind: I can't say anything else about this album that hasn't already been said. We all know what it did for the music industry in the early 90's.

Soundgarden - Superunknown: This album is pure intelligent hard rock bliss. 15 songs on this album and all of them could of been released as singles. Soundgarden was one of the last few bands that actually had good songs from start to finish on their albums.

Jeff Buckley - Grace: Haunting. This only hinted at what he could of done, had he not died 3 years later.

REM - Automatic For The People: I liked this album more than Out Of Time. I believe had they not released Out Of Time and put Losing My Religion on AFTP it would of been a master piece.

Jane's Addiction - Ritual De La Habitual: Art rock at it's best. This album released in 1990 was ahead of it's time and was a small signal for the big change that was to occur in the industry a year later. Great Album.

Good choices.

 

[wertsie]

Good topic! Let's see if I can crank out ten here...

1. AB
2. POP
3. Zooropa
4. REM: Automatic for the People
5. REM: Out of Time
6. Pearl Jam: Ten
7. Nirvana: Nevermind
8. The Cranberries: the one with "Zombie" on it. The title escapes me!

Okay, no, I can't...At least, not right now. I'll maybe get back to you on this!

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[Salome]

1. R.E.M. - Out of Time
2. Palace Music - Arise, therefore
3. Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Now I got Worry
4. U2 - Zooropa
5. R.E.M. - Automatic for the people
6. Aphex Twin - Classics
7. The Pixies - Bossanova
8. U2 - Achtung Baby
9. Guided by Voices - Alien Lanes
10. Los Lobos - Kiko

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[Jack4U]

01. U2 - Achtung Baby
02. U2 ? POP
03. U2 - Zooropa

04. Radiohead ? The Bends
05. Radiohead ? OK Computer

06. Pearl Jam - Ten
07. Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness
08. Garbage - Version 2.0
09. Moby ? Play
10. Depeche Mode ? Ultra

Oasis - Definately Maybe
Oasis - What's the Story Morning Glory
REM - Automatic For the People
Garbage - Garbage
Portishead ? Dummy
Pearl Jam ? Vs.
Pearl Jam ? Vitalogy
Passengers - OS1
Depeche Mode ? Ultra
The Verve - Urban Hymns
Nirvana ? Nevermind
Roger Waters ? Amused To Death
Pink Floyd ? The Divison Bell...

 

[wannabe]

To add one that I don't think has been mentioned...

Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream

 

[qball7200]

Originally posted by mug222:


3. In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (Neutral Milk Hotel)

B]

I just started listening to this recently, good album. My top 5 of the 90s at the moment, in alphabetical order:

Radiohead - OK Computer
Radiohead - The Bends
Tool - Aenima
U2 - Achtung Babay
U2 - POP

 

[Flaming Friar Sr]

Originally posted by Salome:
7. The Pixies - Surfer Rosa

aaahhh good ol' '88

my faves:

1 u2-ab
2 pixies-bossanova
3 u2-pop
4 pearl jam-versus
5 lou reed-magic and loss
and dozens at 6




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[Seconds]

I can't believe alot of you picked POP as one of your favorite top 5 albums of the decade. This forum should be called
"Anything U2 does is Perfection, no matter how mediocre". But, I won't get more into it as this is a losing argument. Am I going to get bashed for saying this?

So here are my top 5 in no particular order.

Achtung Baby - U2
Nevermind - Nirvana
OK Computer - Radio Head
Ultra - Depeche Mode
Urban Hymns - The Verve

 

[Anticipation-is-a-liar]

1. Actung Baby -U2
2. Pop- U2
3. Zooropa
4. Violater- Depheche Mode
5. Ultra- Depeche Mode
6. Nirvana- Smells Like Teen Spirit
7. Radiohead- Ok Computer
8. Samshing Pumpkins-Melon/infinite Sadness
9. Primus- Sailing the Seas of Cheese
10. 10- Pearl Jam

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[Foxxern]

Originally posted by Seconds:
I can't believe alot of you picked POP as one of your favorite top 5 albums of the decade. This forum should be called
"Anything U2 does is Perfection, no matter how mediocre".

Personally, I can't believe people who don't absolutely love POP. But that's me.

Am I going to get bashed for saying this?

Maybe.



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Change is the only constant

 

[scatteroflight]

Originally posted by Seconds:
I can't believe alot of you picked POP as one of your favorite top 5 albums of the decade. This forum should be called
"Anything U2 does is Perfection, no matter how mediocre". But, I won't get more into it as this is a losing argument. Am I going to get bashed for saying this?

Count on it--but not by me!



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[wertsie]

Originally posted by Seconds:
I can't believe alot of you picked POP as one of your favorite top 5 albums of the decade. This forum should be called
"Anything U2 does is Perfection, no matter how mediocre". But, I won't get more into it as this is a losing argument. Am I going to get bashed for saying this?

Believe it or not, some of us actually LIKE POP. Actually, I would list it among my favorite U2 albums. It's a matter of opinion, I guess.



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[Danospano]

My personal favorites from the 1990's:

1991 U2: Achtung Baby
1991 REM: Automatic for the People
1992 Pearl Jam: Ten
1993 Meat Loaf: Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell
1992 Leonard Cohen: The Future
1997 U2: Pop
1994 Soundtrack: Pulp Fiction

 

[Salome]

Originally posted by Flaming Friar Sr:
aaahhh good ol' '88

dammit, I meant "The Pixies - Bossanova"



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Salome
Shake it, shake it, shake it

 

[camiloj]

I disagree (about 9-s being bad for music). I think the 90s were a great time for music if you were musically diverse. I was 23-32 in the 90s and very much into music. Here are some of my favorites that still hold up for me...

Achtung Baby - U2
Out of Time - R.E.M.
Viloator - Depeche Mode
Nevermind - Nirvana
I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got - Sinead O'Connor
Live Through This - Hole
Ava Adore - Smashing Pumpkins
The Miseducatuion of Lauryn Hill - Lauryn Hill
August and Everything After - Counting Crows
All Shook Down - The Replacements
Throwing Copper - Live
New Adventures in Hi-Fi - R.E.M.
Sheryl Crow - Sheryl Crow (her awesome self-produced 2nd album)
Real Life - Simple Minds
Vs - Pearl Jam
Melon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - Smashing Pumpkins
Jagged Little Pill - Alanis Morissete
Pop-U2
Zooropa - U2
Vitalogy - Pearl Jam
Our Time in Eden - 10,000 Maniacs
Dangerous - Michael Jackson (his last great work)
Pablo Honey - Radiohead
Californication - Red Hot Chili Peppers
What's the Story Morning Glory- Oasis
The Globe Sessions _ Sheryl Crow
Pet Your Friends - Dishwalla
Fear - Toad the Wet Sprocket
No Need to Argue - The Cranberries
Garbage (the first and best one)
Erotica - Madonna
Godfodder - Ned's Atomic Dustbin
Cake - The Trashcan Sinatras



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[camiloj]

mistake double post

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[rafmed]

U2 Achtung Baby
Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
REM Automatic for the People
Moby Play
Pearl Jam Ten
Bjork Post
U2 Zooropa
U2 Pop
Passengers: Original Sountracks
Radiohead The Bends
James Laid
Nirvana Unpluged



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[gherman]

Did anyone mention Jeff Buckley-Grace

What a great Fuckin' Album.

A definate gem!