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

Bremerton

Sublime - Sublime
Everclear - Sparkle and Fade
Pearl Jam - Ten
Incubus - Make Yourself
Weezer - Blue
Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies
Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Californication
Pearl Jam - VS
Radiohead - The Bends
Nirvana - Unplugged


Close Omissions

Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
STP - Core
Third Eye Blind - Third Eye Blind
Mad Season - Above
Radiohead - Ok Computer

enharmonic

I tried to do this...but then I realized that there were too many incredible records to come out in the 90s, and I got sad.

alobar

1. Radiohead- OK Computer
2. Flaming Lips- Soft Bulletin
3. Neutral Milk Hotel- In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
4. Bonnie "Prince" Billy- I See A Darkness
5. Beastie Boys- Check Your Head
6. Nirvana- Nevermind
7. A Tribe Called Quest- Low End Theory
8. Pearl Jam- No Code
9. Pavement- Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
10. Built To Spill- Keep It Like A Secret

pearljam_addiction

Collin wrote:

I love this album!

Its one of the best albums of all time, its so incredibly good, i love listening to it.. i just wish they reformed and started making some music again

red mos

pearljam_addiction wrote:

Its one of the best albums of all time, its so incredibly good, i love listening to it.. i just wish they reformed and started making some music again

I am so glad I got a chance to see them live Back in Aug 1996. The Cranberries put on a great live show, and toad the wet sprocket opened.

pearljam_addiction

red mos wrote:

I am so glad I got a chance to see them live Back in Aug 1996. The Cranberries put on a great live show, and toad the wet sprocket opened.

i had tix for the philly show back in 1996 at the Newly constructed Corestates Center ( now Wachovia Center), but the cancelled the show the day of because Dolores was sick , i was devestated for weeks and i never got to see them again afterwards

bladworth116

1. R.E.M. (New Adventures in Hi-Fi)
2. R.E.M. (Automatic for the People)
3. Blind Melon (Soup)
4. Screaming Trees (Dust)
5. Catherine Wheel (Happy Days)
6. The Verve Pipe (Villains)
7. The Tragically Hip (Day for night)
8. Bush (The Science of Things)
9. The Tea Party (Transmission)
10. Live (Secret Samahdi)

Bleakest Harvest

The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie & the Infinite Sadness
Live - Throwing Copper
Alice in Chaines - Dirt
Pearl Jam - Ten
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
Tool - Aenima
Faith No More - King for a Day, Fool for a Lifetime
R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
Porcupine Tree - Stupid Dream

Honourable mentions:
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Henry's Dream
Melvins - Houdini
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
Stone Temple Pilots - No. 4
Temple of the Dog - S/T

OutOfBreath

Alternative 90s, eh? that's half my back-catalogue Only 1 album pr band, well, here goes.

Pearl Jam - Yield (had to agonize a bit there)
Soundgarden - Superunknown (their masterpiece)
Alice In Chains - Dirt (RIP Layne)
Nirvana - In Utero (I like this the most. A lot more oomph, edge and insanity than critic fave Nevermind)

That takes care of the seattle scene. Now for other "alternative" cds. I will apply the term liberally.

System Of A Down - System Of A Down (Schizophrenic and overflowing in a good way)
Incubus - SCIENCE (good funky thing going that declined over following albums)
Faith No More - Angel Dust (Patton's masterpiece in my eyes)
Tool - Ænima (truly a timeless masterpiece, and I count it alternative)
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie (double cd with everything. A little bit for everyone.)
Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine (Classic righteous RAGE)

That's my list. But that's 10 records from what makes up over half my sizeable collection. Many hard choices there.

(edit) Damn, no room for NIN in there and many others worthy of mention. I refrained from mentioning Motorpsycho, as few of you have heard of them, but they should definitely be on the list. Ach, what's done is done.

Peace
Dan

Pearl_Jam_Necklace

Bush-sixteen stone
Alice in chains-face lift,dirt
Nirvana-nevermind,bleach,incesticide
pearl jam-ten,vs,vitalogy,no code,yield
candlebox-candlebox
smashing pumpkins-all of them
mother love bone-
singles soundtrack
temple of the dog
white zombie-la sexorcista-devil music vol.1
the toadies-possum kingdom

Pearl_Jam_Necklace

omg forgot this one,,
Live-throwing copper
live-secret samdhi

South of Seattle

1. Mike Watt - Ballhog or Tugboat?
2. Pearl Jam - No Code
3. Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
4. Nirvana - Nevermind
5. Soundgarden - Superunknown
6. Heatmiser - Mic City Sons
7. Everclear - Sparkle and Fade
8. Queens of the Stone Age - R
9. Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West
10. Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen

Sexy2aFault

1.)Pearl Jam- Vs/Ten/Vitalogy
2.)Pixies- Bossanova
3.)Pavement - Slanted
4.)Foo Fighters - Colour/Nothing Left to Lose
5.)Rage- Evil Empire
6.)Radiohead- OKComputer/Bends
7.)Beastie Boys- Hello Nasty/Check your Head
8.)Weezer- Blue/Pink
9.)HYPE!- Orig Mtn Sndtrk/Singles -Orig Mtn Sndtrk
10.)RHCP-Californication/Bloodsugarsexmajik

Charlie the man

1. Blind Melon - Blind Melon (1992)
2. Stone Temple Pilots - Purple (1994)
3. Pearl Jam - Vs. (1993)
4. Nirvana - In Utero (1993)
5. Alice In Chains - Dirt (1992)
6. Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger (1991)
7. R.E.M. - New Adventures In Hi-Fi (1996)
8. Temple Of The Dog - Temple Of The Dog (1991)
9. Mad Season - Above (1995)
10. Beck - Mellow Gold (1994)

Echoes

thanks for the laughs, dudes

Klumpie

Echoes wrote:

thanks for the laughs, dudes

Where is your top 10???

catefrances

grace - jeff buckley

My3rdEye

Tool - Aenima
Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
Quicksand - Manic Compression
Pearl Jam - Vs.
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Helmet - Meantime
Alice in Chains - Facelift
Temple of te Dog - TOTD
Pantera - Cowboys from Hell
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

Echoes

Klumpie wrote:

Where is your top 10???

I'll think of it at work an put it up when I get home, okay?

Klumpie

Echoes wrote:

I'll think of it at work an put it up when I get home, okay?

Great, maybe I can discover some new stuff.