Your FAVORITE '90s Albums
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A great decade of music. Here's mine:
1. Dangerous - Michael Jackson; first started listening to MJ heavily in 5th grade before the release of "Invincible" (a disappointment). When I heard Dangerous, something changed for me. Just love this album and my favorite by him. To me, there are so many great songs on this album.
2. Yield - Pearl Jam; favorite album from our boys and a great one as we all know. Love "In Hiding" and "Low Light". Took a couple listens and then I fell in love with this album.
3. Achtung Baby - U2; a 180-degree turn from The Joshua Tree by U2 and it's just a great record. One of my all time favorites
4. Ok Computer - Radiohead; Radiohead still maintained their sound from their first two albums and showed signs of what was to come with Kid A. Radiohead are geniuses.
5. Ten - Pearl Jam; well, we all know about this one.
6. In Utero - Nirvana; While Nevermind is great, In Utero is what got me hooked to Nirvana. That 1-2 punch of "Serve the Servants" and "Scentless Apprentice" to start off the album is great. "Serve the Servants" is my favorite Nirvana song.
7. Blood Sugar Sex Magic - RHCP; funk, funk, and more funk, to me, blended in with rock brings in a great Chili Peppers album. John Frusciante at his finest.
8. Rage Against the Machine - RATM; rap/rock/metal along with Tom Morello's bad ass playing and Zach de la Rocha's lyrics brings a one of a kind band where there were god awful immitators after this album and band came out. "Bullet in the Head" is a great track.
9. Pop - U2; I really love this album and it's a good album, but the production doesn't seem done. I hope U2 decides to rework this album like they did with the singles from the album.
10. The White Stripes - The White Stripes; their rawest album and it's a great debut. Jack White didn't find his voice yet, but his playing sent shivers down my spine when I first heard this album.
Morning Glory by Oasis and The Color and the Shape by Foo Fighters get a honorable mention to this list.
So, what are YOUR top 10 of the 90s?
1. Dangerous - Michael Jackson; first started listening to MJ heavily in 5th grade before the release of "Invincible" (a disappointment). When I heard Dangerous, something changed for me. Just love this album and my favorite by him. To me, there are so many great songs on this album.
2. Yield - Pearl Jam; favorite album from our boys and a great one as we all know. Love "In Hiding" and "Low Light". Took a couple listens and then I fell in love with this album.
3. Achtung Baby - U2; a 180-degree turn from The Joshua Tree by U2 and it's just a great record. One of my all time favorites
4. Ok Computer - Radiohead; Radiohead still maintained their sound from their first two albums and showed signs of what was to come with Kid A. Radiohead are geniuses.
5. Ten - Pearl Jam; well, we all know about this one.
6. In Utero - Nirvana; While Nevermind is great, In Utero is what got me hooked to Nirvana. That 1-2 punch of "Serve the Servants" and "Scentless Apprentice" to start off the album is great. "Serve the Servants" is my favorite Nirvana song.
7. Blood Sugar Sex Magic - RHCP; funk, funk, and more funk, to me, blended in with rock brings in a great Chili Peppers album. John Frusciante at his finest.
8. Rage Against the Machine - RATM; rap/rock/metal along with Tom Morello's bad ass playing and Zach de la Rocha's lyrics brings a one of a kind band where there were god awful immitators after this album and band came out. "Bullet in the Head" is a great track.
9. Pop - U2; I really love this album and it's a good album, but the production doesn't seem done. I hope U2 decides to rework this album like they did with the singles from the album.
10. The White Stripes - The White Stripes; their rawest album and it's a great debut. Jack White didn't find his voice yet, but his playing sent shivers down my spine when I first heard this album.
Morning Glory by Oasis and The Color and the Shape by Foo Fighters get a honorable mention to this list.
So, what are YOUR top 10 of the 90s?
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Narrowing it down to just Ten best albums was a challenge, but fun too!
So here’s my personal top 15 ablums! I still listen to them all on a regular basis!
Pearl Jam – Vitalogy
REM – Monster
Alice in Chains – Tripod
Tool - Aenima
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over the Sea
Cake – Fashion Nugget
Nirvana – Nevermind
Stone Temple Pilots - Purple
Soundgarden – Superunknown
Blind Melon – Soup
Dave Matthews Band – Before these Crowed Streets
Weezer – Blue Album
Tom Petty - Wildflowers
Bonnie “Prince” Bill – I See A Darkness
Mad Season – Above
2. Pearl Jam- Ten
3. Rage Against The Machine
4. Metallica- Black Album
5. RHCP- Californication
6. AIC- Jar of Flies
7. Soundgarden- Superunknown
8. Smashing Pumpkins- Siamese Dream
9. Foo Fighters- The Colour and the Shape
10. Guns and Roses- Use Your Illusion I+II
9/29/04 Boston, 6/28/08 Mansfield, 8/23/09 Chicago, 5/15/10 Hartford
5/17/10 Boston, 10/15/13 Worcester, 10/16/13 Worcester, 10/25/13 Hartford
8/5/16 Fenway, 8/7/16 Fenway
EV Solo: 6/16/11 Boston, 6/18/11 Hartford,
Nirvana's Nevermind, because it's an easy album to listen to, so it makes it perfect for repeat listening.
Favorite song: Smells Like Teen Spirit
Radiohead's OK Computer. It's just so lush, the guitar tone is incredible, the lyrics are ace, and the sound on a whole is pretty inimitable.
Favorite Song (at the moment): The Tourist
In Flames' Whoracle. This is getting into metal territory, but this is another album the production plays a big part in my liking. The guitars just sound huge, and the riffs and melodies are there to back it up.
Favorite Song: The Hive
Stone Temple Pilots' Tiny Music...Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop, because it shows an evolved STP, not just their grunge clone early days. The jazz influence that colors the album creates a great atmosphere, and works well with Weiland's then-new vocal style.
Favorite Song: Adhesive
Pearl Jam's Vitalogy. It's raw, visceral, punky, and inspired. Which is everything that made their early days so glorious.
Favorite Song: Corduroy
Nine Inch Nails' The Fragile. This album is fucking daunting. The amount of songs, the layers and layers of sound, the abrasiveness and the softness intertwining...it's a landmark.
Favorite Song: Just Like You Imagined
Weezer's Blue Album. Simply put, this album is summery and fun. I can listen to it anytime, regardless of my mood.
Favorite Song: My Name is Jonas
Weezer's Pinkerton. I didn't think I'd have two albums from the same band, but Pinkerton is such a different beast compared to their other work that it deserves mention. It got me through a rough patch of high school, and at the time I could really relate to Rivers' lyrics. Now that I'm a bit more mature, I can still find enjoyment in the dark mood of the album, and the raw guitars.
Favorite Song: Butterfly
Muse's Showbiz. It's a strong debut, and it also presents a slightly more stripped down and down-to-earth version of Muse, which is a nice change considering their penchant for all things epic. It's another album I think has a great overall "mood" to, and all the songs fit together to make it an enjoyable listen.
Favorite Song: Sunburn
Soundgarden's Superunknown. It's the first record I ever got from an actual record store, so that in itself holds some meaning for me. But I quickly came to realize why the clerk told me to "play it loud", and it became one of my favorite records in short order. Out of all the grunge music I avidly listened to (not that I don't anymore), Superunknown has aged the best for me so far.
Favorite Song: My Wave/Like Suicide, can't pick one.
I think I went a little too in-depth.
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The album that turned me into a music fanatic. Amazing song after amazing song. I honestly don't know what to say about this one, but it's an absolute masterpiece from one of the few remaining bands that matter.
2. Nas - Illmatic
The greatest rap album of all time, it features excellent jazzy production paired with Nas' impeccable wordplay. "Life's a Bitch" features the best guest verse ever (courtesy of AZ) and I can't help but quote this record all the time whenever I think I'm badass. "I don't sleep, 'cuz sleep is the cousin of death". Unbelievable.
3. Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
No other album has enabled me to become "lost" in its sonic landscape quite like this one. "After the Flood" is the greatest song ever. No, wait, "New Grass" is. Oh, I forgot about "Ascension Day"! Mindblowing stuff.
4. Slint - Spiderland
This album really creeped me out for awhile, but I would keep coming back to it nonetheless, and now it's one of my favorite records period. A precursor of sorts to modern post rock, "Good Morning, Captain" is one of the best songs ever.
5. R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
While I love R.E.M.'s '80s work just as much as the next guy, this is nonetheless a masterpiece. Beautiful song after beautiful song.
6. U2 - Achtung Baby
While people consider it fun to insult Bono and Co. these days, they forget all of the amazing music that they've made. This is no exception. "Zoo Station," and the rest of this record, forever changed my perception of this band.
7. Elliott Smith - XO
This guy should be much more of a legend than he already is. "Waltz #2" is a perfectly written song.
8. Nirvana - MTV Unplugged in New York TIE with Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
It's hard for me to get into these grunge records as I used to, but Nirvana's MTV Unplugged proves that, even removed of much of his sonic attack, Cobain is as poignant a songwriter as anybody was. Also, "Where Did You Sleep Last Night?" is the greatest cover of all time. I absolutely love Pearl Jam, and Eddie Vedder is pretty much my hero, but whenever I listen to them I usually revert back to live boots rather than their records. Vitalogy always stuck out, however. "Corduroy" is the jam.
9. Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West
This is Modest Mouse at their most trashy and visceral, and the whole thing is strangely captivating, particularly "Teeth Like God's Shoeshine," which is one of the gnarliest openers ever penned.
10. A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
Pretty much the go-to "alternative" hip-hop band, these guys are songwriters first and foremost, and this record (along with The Low End Theory, which I could have easily included as well) proves it. "Electric Relaxation" is too good.
2. Alice In Chains- Dirt ('92)
3. Nirvana- In Utero ('93)
4. Metallica- Metallica ('91)
5. Soundgarden- Superunknown ('94)
6. Stone Temple Pilots- Core ('92)
7. Radiohead- OK Computer ('97)
8. Smashing Pumpkins- Siamese Dream ('93)
9. Tool- Aenima ('96)
10. White Zombie- Astro-Creep: 2000 ('95)
honorbale mention:
Green Day- Dookie ('94)
Offspring- Smash ('94)
Dave Matthews Band- Crash ('96)
Rage Against The Machine- Battle Of Los Angeles ('99)
Foo Fighters- The Colour And The Shape ('97)
Alanis Morrisette- Jagged Little Pill ('95)
Prodigy- Fat Of The Land ('97)
Pearl Jam- Yield ('98)
10/31/09- Philly
5/21/10- NYC
9/2/12- Philly, PA
7/19/13- Wrigley
10/19/13- Brooklyn, NY
10/21/13- Philly, PA
10/22/13- Philly, PA
10/27/13- Baltimore, MD
4/28/16- Philly, PA
4/29/16- Philly, PA
5/1/16- NYC
5/2/16- NYC
9/2/18- Boston, MA
9/4/18- Boston, MA
9/14/22- Camden, NJ
9/7/24- Philly, PA
9/9/24- Philly, PA
Eddie Vedder- 6/25/11- Philly, PA
RNDM- 3/9/16- Philly, PA
of course Pearl Jam with "Ten" and "Yield"
Tool "Undertow", "Aenima"
Godsmack "Godsmack"
Metallica "Metallica (or the Black Album)"
Deftones "Around the Fur"...set the tone for the great "White Pony" which came out in early 2000
Korn "Korn"
Smashing Pumpkins "Gish"
Hole "Live Through This"
NIN "The Downward Spiral"..."Pretty Hate Machine" (1989) is brilliant
Marilyn Manson "Antichrist Superstar"
Tragically Hip "Fully Completely", "Day for Night"
bonus tracks:
STP "Core"
Nirvana "Nevermind"
Soundgarden "Badmotorfinger"
Ministry "Psalm 69"
Jane's Addiction "Ritual de lo Habitual"
'94 Detroit
'10 Columbus
'11 Detroit (Eddie solo), Toronto 1 and 2, Ottawa, Hamilton
'13 London, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
'14 Detroit
'16 Ottawa, Toronto 1 and 2, Chicago 1 and 2
'18 Chicago 1 and 2
'22 Hamilton, Toronto
Vitalogy - Pearl Jam
No Code - Pearl Jam
Ten - Pearl Jam
Jar of Flies - Alice In Chains
Wildflowers - Tom Petty
Temple of the Dog
Blood Sugar Sex Magic - RHCP
(What's the Story) Morning Glory? - Oasis
Glace - Jeff Buckley
The Bends
OK Computer
Tiny Music
Purple
Use Your Illusion 1 and 2
Soft Bulletin
Zep BBC Sessions
Siamese Dream
Pot USA-S/T
Neil Young- Harvest Moon
Pearl Jam- No Code
Radiohead- The Bends
Rage Against the Machine- Battle of Los Angeles
The Tragically Hip- Phantom Power
Neil Young- Ragged Glory
Red Hot Chili Peppers- Blood Sugar Sex Magic
Sonic Youth- Dirty
Beastie Boys- Hello Nasty
Pearl Jam - Ten
Sublime - Sublime
Soundgarden - Down on the Upside
Tool - Lateralus
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie
Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies
Temple of the Dog - Self
Rage Against the Machine - Self
Stone Temple Pilots - Core
No specific order
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Pearl Jam- No Code
Pearl Jam- Ten
Alice in Chains- Jar of Flies
Radiohead- The Bends
Faith No More- Angel Dust
Stone Temple Pilots- Purple
Smashing Pumpkins- Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Ben Folds Five- The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner
Incubus- Make Yourself
Blind Melon - self titled
Candlebox - self titled
Pearl Jam - Yield
Pearl Jam - Ten
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
STP - Purple
STP - Core
AIC - Dirt
Temple of the Dog
Mad Season
Soundgarden - Superunkown
I can't count...sue me...
Pearl Jam - No Code (1996) - my favorite album of all time
Pearl Jam - Vs. (1993)
Pearl Jam - Ten (1991)
Pearl Jam - Yield (1998)
Ben Harper - Fight For Your Mind (1995)
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik (1991)
Tom Petty - Wildflowers (1994)
R.E.M. - New Adventures in HiFi (1997?)
Dave Matthews Band - Before These Crowded Streets (1998)
Phish - Billy Breathes (1995)
Honorable Mention -
Ben Harper - The Will to Live
Ben Harper - Welcome to the Cruel World
Ben Harper - Burn to Shine
Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape
The Roots - Things Fall Apart
R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
Radiohead - OK Computer
Tom Petty - She's the One (soundtrack)
Tom Petty - Echo
Primus - Pork Soda
Primus - Sailing the Seas of Cheese
Primus - Frizzle Fry
Primus - The Brown Album
Beck - Odelay
Beck - Mellow Gold
...and many more!
9. Jane's Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual
8. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
7. Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
6. Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley
5. Eels - Electro Shock Blues
4. The Tragically Hip - Day For Night
3. Radiohead - OK Computer
2. Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
1. Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Pearl Jam- vs
Pearl Jam- vitalogy
Pearl Jam- yield
RHCP- blood sugar
STP- core
STP- purple
Pantera- vulgar display of power
Metallica- metallica
NIN- downward spiral
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Why not (V) (°,,,,°) (V) ?
wilco - being there
nas - illmatic
flaming lips - soft bulletin
blind melon - nico
erykah badu - live
pearl jam - no code
my morning jacket - tennessee fire
radiohead - the bends
wilco - summerteeth
radiohead - ok computer
oasis - definitely maybe
pearl jam - vitalogy
sonic youth - washing machine
the roots - things fall apart
nirvana - nevermind
oasis - what's the story morning glory?
This is in no particular order, and there are probably some better albums, but these 10 are still in my somewhat regular rotation 10+ years after first hearing them. That has to count for something, right?
PJ - No Code
PJ - Yield
STP - Tiny Music
Counting Crows - August and Everything After
Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds - Live at Luther College
Social Distortion - Social Distortion
Bob Dylan - Time Out of Mind
Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
Johnny Cash - American Recordings
DMB - Under the Table & Dreaming
Honorable Mention:
Rest of PJ's 90's albums (could interchange in the top 10 as my mood changes)
Dr Dre - The Chronic
Nirvana - Nevermind
STP - Purple
Social Distortion - White Light, White Heat, White Trash
Old 97's - Too Far to Care
Tom Petty - Wildflowers
Yo Yo Ma - Bach: The Cello Suites
U2 - Achtung Baby
Nirvana - MTV Unplugged
was like a picture
of a sunny day
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
― Abraham Lincoln
Pearl Jam - Vs
Pearl Jam - Yield
U2 - Achtung Baby
Neil Young - Harvest Moon
REM - Automatic For The People
Tom Petty - Wildflowers
Neil Young - Mirrorball
Bob Dylan - Time Out Of Mind
Foo Fighters - There Is Nothing Left To Lose
Vs
Angel Dust
Soup
The Holy Bible
New Adventures in Hi-Fi
Ritual de lo Habitual
Low End Theory
Siamese Dream
Temple of the Dog
Illmatic
PJ albums, at the moment!! -
1,Vs 2,Vitalogy 3,No Code 4,Yield 5,Ten 6,Backspacer, 7Pearl Jam 8,Binaural 9,Riot Act.
Therapy? - Infernal Love
Down - N.O.L.A
Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
REM - New Adventures in Hi-Fi
Pantera - Far Beyond Driven
Pearl Jam - Yield
NIN - The Downward Spiral
Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley
The Gathering - Mandylion
"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
That's an album I bought at the time it came out and then never listened to it. Now, only a couple of the songs have held up for me.
Ten
Jar of Flies
Gibson Amphitheatre (Los Angeles): 10/7/09
yeah... I loved that album for a while, but I can't really remember the last time that I felt the desire to listen to it.
I'm a bit surprised that Counting Crow's August & Everything After didn't make anyone else's list.
was like a picture
of a sunny day
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
― Abraham Lincoln
Soundgarden: Superunknown
Dr. Dre: The Chronic
Biggie: Ready to Die
Radiohead: The Bends
outkast: ATLiens
UGK: Ridin Dirty
Radiohead: OK Computer
Matchbox Twenty: You or Someone Like you
Nirvana: In Utero
Alice in Chains: Jar of Flies
As you can see I listened to quite a lot of hip hop in the 90's but they're still some of the best rap albums ever produced, imo.
REM - Out of Time
Sonic Youth - Goo
RHCP - BSSM
White Stripes - White Stripes
I love Wu Tangs first album and I didn't give them an honorable mention.
"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers--Songs and Music from Motion Picture "She's the One"
June of 44--Tropics and Meridians
Lungfish--Talking Songs for Walking
Chokebore--Anything Near Water
Morphine--Yes
Ben Harper--Fight For Your Mind
Fugazi--Red Medicine
The Jesus Lizard--Show
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion--Orange