Name your top 10 best alternative albums of the 90s.

red mos

In no particular order:

Pearl jam- Ten
Pearl jam- No code
Toadies- Rubberneck
Radiohead- ok computer
Smashing Pumpkins- Mellon Collie...
Mad Season- Above
Bush- sixteen stone
Alice in chains- Unplugged
Nirvana- Nevermind
Foo fighters- Foo fighters

Honorable mentions:
The Cranberries- No need to argue
Soul Asylum- Grave Dancer's union
Third eye Blind- Third eye Blind
Toadies- Hell below/stars above
Everclear- so much for the after glow/ sparkle and fade
sublime- sublime
Collective soul- collective soul

mwachsman

In no order, and since I call only use one album from each artist:

Alice In Chains - Tripod
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Live - Throwing Copper
Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
Pearl Jam - Yield
Nirvana - Nevermind
Collective Soul - Collective Soul
STP - Core
Tool - Ænima
Screaming Trees - Dust

sj.brodie

1. Pearl Jam - VS
2. Oasis - Definately Maybe
3. Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
4. Chili Peppers - Californication
5. Foo Fighters - Nothing Left To Lose
6. REM - Monster
7. Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted
8. The Stone Roses - Stone Roses
9. Metallica - Black Album
10. Social Distortion - Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell
11. Limp Bizkit - Significant Other (this is obviously a joke)

sj.brodie

shit, i forgot about appetite for destruction!

mwachsman

sj.brodie wrote:

shit, i forgot about appetite for destruction!

No you didn't, it was released in 1987.

larspjfam

1. Nevermind - Nirvana
2. Vitalogy - Pearl Jam
3. Temple of the Dog - Temple of the Dog
4. Ten - Pearl Jam
5. Vs. - Pearl Jam
6. Melloncollie and the Infinite Sadness - Smashing Pumpkins
7. Thowing Copper - Live
8. There Is Nothing Left to Lose - Foo Fighters
9. Superunknown - Soundgarden
10. The Distance to Here - Live

drew0

In no real order,

Radiohead - OK Computer
Pearl Jam - Vs.
Alice In Chains - Jar Of Flies
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Macxhine
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Tool - Aenima
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Dave Matthews Band - Before These Crowded Streets
U2 - Achtung Baby

mookeywrench

the majority of these lists are not making any sense. This guy was asking for the best alternative albums of the 90's and i'm seeing Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Collective Soul, Tool, Smashing Pumpkins, Dave Matthews, STP, RATM. In the 90's these guys were like the mainstream superstars....Pearl jam/ nirvana being the mainstream of the mainstream.

its like if this guy was asking for the best Alternative albums of today,your responses would be:

My chemical romance
Fallout boy
Green Day
Killers
Beyonce
blink 182
nickleback
staind

bryanfury

melodyman22 wrote:

Whats with this love for Radiohead there garbage.

1-Alice in Chains-Dirt
2-Stp-Purple
3-Pearl Jam-Vs
4-Gnr-Use your illusion 1
5-Soundgarden-Superunknown
6-Temple of the dog
7-The Tragically Hip-Fully Completely
8-Nirvana-Nevermind
9-Live-Throwing Copper
10-Moist-Moist

i always think people who don;t like radiohead are musically braindead. having the hip on any list of top anything proves it in this case.

smashing_pumpkin

My favorite 10 albuns are:

Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Pearl Jam - Ten
Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory?
Cranberries - No need to argue
Nirvana - Nevermind
Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Californication
Pearl Jam - VS
Radiohead - Ok Computer
Eric Clapton - Unplugged


I could have just wrote all the Smashing Pumpkins and Pearl Jam albuns, mas that would be a little too repetitive.

tonadax

are you kidding me, another top 10 of 90´s....

1. Ten, pearljam
2. Nevermind, nirvana
3. Core, stone temple pilots
4. Dirt, Alice in chains
5. Superunknown, soundgarden
6. The colour and the shape, foo fighters
7. In Utero, nirvana
8. Purple, stone temple pilots
9. Yield, pearljam
10. Siamese dream, smashing pumpkins

especial mentions:
Californication,rhcp
Sixteen tones and Razorblade suitcase, bush
Human clay, creed
Nirvana, mtv unplugged
Alice in chains, mtv unplugged
No.4, stone temple pilots
VS, pearljam

burnin-candle

mookeywrench wrote:

the majority of these lists are not making any sense. This guy was asking for the best alternative albums of the 90's and i'm seeing Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Collective Soul, Tool, Smashing Pumpkins, Dave Matthews, STP, RATM. In the 90's these guys were like the mainstream superstars....Pearl jam/ nirvana being the mainstream of the mainstream.

excellent point.

And now, to try and match Todd76's awesome list....;)

in no order

Drive Like Jehu - Yank Crime
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over Sea
Mr Bungle - Disco Volante
The Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I
Boredoms - Super Ae
Fugazi - Red Medicine
Modest Mouse - Lonesome Crowded West
Built To Spill - Perfect From Now On
Spoon - Series Of Sneaks
Tortoise - Tortoise

Actually, bringing it down to 10 was impossible. These 10 just came to mind.

off_the_record

burnin-candle wrote:

excellent point.

And now, to try and match Todd76's awesome list....;)

in no order

Drive Like Jehu - Yank Crime
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over Sea
Mr Bungle - Disco Volante
The Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I
Boredoms - Super Ae
Fugazi - Red Medicine
Modest Mouse - Lonesome Crowded West
Built To Spill - Perfect From Now On
Spoon - Series Of Sneaks
Tortoise - Tortoise

Actually, bringing it down to 10 was impossible. These 10 just came to mind.

thats a real good 10

Pearl Jam and toast

Soundgarden - Superunknown
Pearl Jam - Yield
Radiohead - Ok Computer
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Temple of the Dog - s/t
Blind Melon - Soup
Nirvana - In Utero
Beck - Odelay
Modest Mouse - Lonesome Crowded West

That Self-Employed one album rule is harsh.

off_the_record

mookeywrench wrote:

the majority of these lists are not making any sense. This guy was asking for the best alternative albums of the 90's and i'm seeing Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Collective Soul, Tool, Smashing Pumpkins, Dave Matthews, STP, RATM. In the 90's these guys were like the mainstream superstars....Pearl jam/ nirvana being the mainstream of the mainstream.

exactly. not to mention there were MUCH better albums than the albums from those bands.

Pearl Jam and toast

bryanfury wrote:

i always think people who don;t like radiohead are musically braindead.

I agree completely.


BTW, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Alice.. WERE the alternative.. esp. in 1991.. they killed hairmetal. Granted they were a reluctantly mainstream alternative.. The definition of that word is constantly changing.

Klumpie

1. The God Machine - One Last Laugh in a Place of Dying... (1994)
2. Mr. Bungle - California (1999)
3. Slint - Spiderland (1991)
4. Talk Talk - Laughing Stock (1991)
5. The God Machine - Scenes from the Second Storey (1993)
6. Porcupine Tree - Stupid Dream (1999)
7. Death - Symbolic (1995)
8. Dream Theater - Metropolis Part 2: Scenes from a Memory (1999)
9. Godspeed You Black Emperor! - F# A# (Infinity) (1998)
10. Mark Lanegan - Whiskey for the Holy Ghost (1994)

Collin

In no order:

Pearl Jam - Ten
Nirvana - Nevermind
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie
Mazzy Star - So Tonight That I Might See
Blind Melon - Soup
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Temple of the Dog - Temple of the Dog
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Mad Season - Above
Tool - Ænima

pearljam_addiction

1) Pearl Jam- No Code
2) Pearl Jam- VS
3) Stone Temple Piolots- Core
4) The Cranberries- Everybody Else Is doing It so why Cant we
5) Nirvana- Nevermind
6) Smashing Pumpkins- Melloncollie and Infinite Saddness
7) Alice In Chains- Dirt
8) Red Hot Chili Peppers- Blood Sugar Sex Magic
9) Counting Crows- August and Everything After
10 Weezer- Blue Album

Honorable Mentions-

Radio Head- Ok computer
Blind Melon- Self titled/ and Nico
Rage against the Machine - Evil Empire
Stp- Purple
The Cranberries- No need to Argue
Smashing Pumpkins- siamese Dreams
Sound Garden - Superunknown
Pearl Jam- Ten
Nirvana- In utero

Collin

pearljam_addiction wrote:

4) The Cranberries- Everybody Else Is doing It so why Cant we

I love this album!