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Post by upinkzeppelin2 on Feb 3, 2008 14:47:27 GMT -5
Hello. I was hoping we could get a few people to submit their top 10 favorite albums of yesterdecade. I chose 10 because it's a small number and more people might submit lists that way. But if someone really objects we'll bring it up to 15, but no higher for that reason. Here's mine:
1. Blind Melon - Blind Melon
2. Pisces Iscariot - Smashing Pumpkins
3. OK Computer - Radiohead
4. Achtung Baby - U2
5. Ten - Pearl Jam
6. Green Mind - Dinosaur Jr.
7. The Bends - Radiohead
8. Ill Communication - Beastie Boys
9. Check Your Head - Beastie Boys
10. Gish - Smashing Pumpkins
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Post by fredrum on Feb 4, 2008 12:41:06 GMT -5
being more or less a child of the nineties, at least musically, my choices are going to reflect those which had the biggest impact on me, not necessarily the biggest artistic statement or whatever.
10. bad religion-against the grain
9. alice in chains-dirt
8. smashing pumpkins-siamese dream
7. foo fighters-the colour and the shape
6. soundagrden-superunknown
5. tool-aenima (#s 5 and 6 are my pick for the soundtrack to the apocalypse)
4. kyuss-welcome to sky valley (oh my god.......i wish i had heard of this band back then.....)
3. green day-dookie (the soundtrack to when i was fourteen)
2. nirvana-nevermind (cliche as it sounds, it changed my life)
1. local h-pack up the cats (quite easily the most overlooked album of the late nineties, most people like to write off local h as a nirvana ripoff, an also ran of the late nineties alternative scene, but in an era when most quality music was starting to go out the window, local h made a concept album, of all things, and it was good. damned good. produced by roy thomas baker, the album is more or less a story about a cold have been huge musician who instead fucks it all up and has to go back to his hometown, it is really meant to be listened to as a whole, although there are some amazing songs on it as well, especially "fine and good" and "all the kids are right". unfortunately, it got lost in record company turmoil, and even though the first single (all the kids are right) was going strong and the album got great reviews, the label opted to push some crappy nu metal instead, and this amazing album got thrown by the wayside.
there are plenty of great albums i couldn't think of, but these are the ones that have stuck with me, the ones i can listen to to this day and know every single word, even if i haven't listened to the album in years.
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Post by skovrecky on Feb 4, 2008 14:09:41 GMT -5
This is going to be a tough one for me as I thought the 90s were a brilliant decade.
1. Nirvana "Nevermind"
2. My Bloody Valentine "Loveless"
3. Pavement "Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain"
4. Wu Tang Clan "Return to the 36 Chambers"
5. Smashing Pumpkins "Siamese Dream"
6. Nine Inch Nails "The Downward Spiral"
7. Red Hot Chili Peppers "BSSM"
8. Portishead "Dummy"
9. Fugazi "Red Medicine"
10. Dr. Octagon "Octagonacylogist"
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Post by upinkzeppelin2 on Feb 4, 2008 18:43:49 GMT -5
my #11 thru #15 fwiw:
11. Grace - Jeff Buckley
12. Blood Sugar Sex Magik - Red Hot Chili Peppers
13. I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One - Yo La Tengo
14. Harvest Moon - Neil Young
15. Dirty - Sonic Youth
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Post by ScottsyII on Feb 5, 2008 10:01:33 GMT -5
Oh, this is a toughie, since the 90's is to me what say, the sixties would be to my parents - a tumultuous period full of brilliant mind alteringly, life changing musical goodness... but for what it's worth, here goes...
1. Automatic for the People - R.E.M
2. The Color and the Shape - Foo Fighters
3. Melon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - Smashing Pumpkins
4. Ok Computer - Radiohead
5. October Rust - Type O Negative
6. Lazy Highways - The Fauves
7. Together Alone - Crowded House
8. Us - Peter Gabriel
9. Hologram of Baal - The Church
10. Ways T'Burn - Underground Lovers
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Post by ScottsyII on Feb 5, 2008 10:02:51 GMT -5
But really I need enough space to do a top 100 nineties albums, since a good deal of my collection centres around this period...
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Post by skovrecky on Feb 5, 2008 11:41:28 GMT -5
Absolutely! The 90s were a brilliant decade.
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Post by phil on Feb 5, 2008 15:18:37 GMT -5
This is all I own from the 90's
without Blues, Jazz, World music that is ...
- Wilco : Being There
- Radiohead : OK Computer
- Beck - Odelay
- Lucinda Williams : Car Wheels on Gravel Road
- Nick Cave : Murder Ballads and/or Boatman's call
- Sigur Ros : Agaetis Birjun
- PJ Harvey : Rid of Me
- R.E.M. : Automatic for the People
- Emmylou Harris : Wrecking Ball
- Tom Waits : Bone Machine
- Tori Amos : Little Earthquake
- Alanis Morissette : Jagged Little Pill
- Bob Dylan : Time Out of Mind
- Red House Painters : "Rollercoaster"
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Post by ScottsyII on Feb 5, 2008 16:18:43 GMT -5
Ya know Phil, that's probably a pretty darn good sampling of all that is right about the nineties... :-)
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Post by Matheus on Feb 5, 2008 17:34:15 GMT -5
Sorry, I couldn't go any less than 15... order is not that important.
= The Shape of Punk to Come - Refused
= Live Through This - Hole
= In Utero - Nirvana
= Erotica - Madonna
= Dig Me Out - Sleater-Kinney
= Homework - Daft Punk
= The Fragile - Nine Inch Nails
= From the Choirgirl Hotel - Tori Amos
= When the Pawn Hits the Conflicts He Thinks like a King
What He Knows Throws the Blows When He Goes to the Fight
And He'll Win the Whole Thing 'Fore He Enters the Ring
There's No Body to Batter When Your Mind Is Your Might
So When You Go Solo, You Hold Your Own Hand
And Remember That Depth Is the Greatest of Heights
And If You Know Where You Stand, Then You Know Where to Land
And If You Fall It Won't Matter, Cuz You'll Know That You're Right - Fiona Apple
= The Bends - Radiohead
= Homogenic - Bjork
= In on the Kill Taker - Fugazi
= Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie - Alanis Morissette
= The Chronic - Dr. Dre
= Ray of Light - Madonna
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Post by wayved on Feb 7, 2008 23:53:21 GMT -5
10. Lotion-Full Isaac
09. Sleepy Eyed-Buffalo Tom
08. Emperor Tomato Ketchup-Stereolab
07. Copperopolis - Grant Lee Buffalo
06. OK Computer-Radiohead
05. Wilco-Summerteeth
04. Sea and Cake - Nassau
03. Hayden - Everything I long For
02. My Bloody Valentine-Loveless (if I am not mistaken it came out in 1990 in the states)
01. Alien Lanes-Guided By Voices
This top 10 of the 90s just doesnt work... theres too much good music...I would say top 50. But these are off the top of my head...there are so many more.....
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Post by Thorngrub on Feb 13, 2008 17:19:12 GMT -5
off the top of my head while holding my breath:
ten pearl jam
amused to death roger waters
siamese dream smashing pumpkins
rage against the machine ratm
dirt alice in chains
korn korn
the fragile nine inch nails
iSsuEs korn
aenima tool
no code pearl jam
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Post by Galactus on Feb 13, 2008 23:50:06 GMT -5
= In on the Kill Taker - Fugazi This is my favorite Fugazi album, I don't see it mentioned much though. |
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Post by luke on Feb 14, 2008 11:36:20 GMT -5
10. Pack Up the Cats- Local H (fred is right!)
09. Twice Removed- Sloan
08. Dirt- Alice In Chains
07. In Utero- Nirvana
06. Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain- Pavement (yeah, I see the irony in putting this behind a Pumpkins album)
05. Lonesome Crowded West- Modest Mouse
04. Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness- Smashing Pumpkins
03. In the Aeroplane Over the Sea- Neutral Milk Hotel
02. OK Computer- Radiohead
01. Siamese Dream- Smashing Pumpkins
There's about a billion 90s albums I completely love, so there's really no point in me putting more albums on here because there would be so many. But yeah, stuff like Mezzanine, Bossanova, No Code, Purple (sorry "corporate rock" haters, it's a classic), both Garbage albums, Loveless, BSSM, Dirty, Bone Machine...there's just too many.
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Post by Matheus on Feb 14, 2008 13:00:20 GMT -5
= In on the Kill Taker - Fugazi This is my favorite Fugazi album, I don't see it mentioned much though. It's one of my favorites, but I'm a huge "Argument" fan... that came out post-90's. If it were a 90's album, it would have came out at the top of my list. |
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