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

parel jam
parel jam Posts: 7,223
edited October 2006 in Other Music
Since I grew up in the 90s and seen lots of alternative rock videos on MTVs Rocktober I was wondering...what is your top 10?

Name only 1 album per band (otherwise we only see Pearl Jam over here ;) )

Mine:

1. Nirvana - Nevermind
2. Pearl Jam - Yield
3. Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine
4. Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
5. Incubus - Make Yourself
6. Soundgarden - Superunknown
7. Radiohead - OK Computer
8. Faith No More - King For A Day, Fool For A Lifetime
9. Alice In Chains - Dirt
10. Offspring - Smash
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  • bryanfury
    bryanfury Posts: 461
    1) Radiohead - OK Computer
    2) Nirvana- Incesticide
    3) Pearl Jam- Yield
    4) Smashing Pumpkins- Siamese Dream
    5) Rage- Rage
    6) Radiohead- The Bends
    7) Pearl Jam - No Code
    8) Bush - 1st disc (sorry, guilty pleasure :)
    9) Sebadoh- III
    10) Smashing Pumpkins- Mellon Collie

    sorry, i knowthere are 3 duplicates, but its the truth.
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  • Julien
    Julien Posts: 2,457
    1. PJ - Vitalogy
    2. Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon collie...
    3. Faith no more - king for a day
    4. bush - sixteen stone
    5. Foo fighters - the colour and the shape
    6. Jimmy eat world - bleed american
    7. Incubus - S.C.I.E.N.C.E.
    8. Live - throwing copper
    9. soundgarden - superunknown
    10. Stone temple pilots - purple

    I think that's it...
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  • Klumpie
    Klumpie Posts: 2,649
    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)
  • zircona1
    zircona1 Posts: 293
    OK, I'll play.

    1. Beck - Odelay
    2. R.E.M. - Monster
    3. Nirvana - In Utero
    4. Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible
    5. Radiohead - OK Computer
    6. Elastica - s/t
    7. Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
    8. Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
    9. Rancid - ...And Out Come the Wolves
    10. Live - Throwing Copper
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  • Todd76
    Todd76 Posts: 1,469
    10) Slowdive - Souvlaki
    9) Faith No More - Angel Dust
    8) Spiritualized - Pure Phase
    7) Sloan - Twice Removed
    6) Pavement - Wowee Zowee
    5) the Dandy Warhols - Come Down
    4) Eric's Trip - Love Tara
    3) Sonic Youth - Dirty
    2) the Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
    1) Sebadoh - Bakesale

    Honourable Mentions:

    the Rheostatics - Whale Music
    Dinosaur Jr - Where You Been
    Radiohead - OK Computer
    My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
    Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
    Stereolab - Transient Random Noise Bursts With Announcements
    Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
    Nirvana - In Utero
    the Cure - Wish
    Hayden - Everything I Long For
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  • intodeep
    intodeep Posts: 7,249
    Pearl Jam- No Code
    Radiohead- Ok computer
    Red Hot Chili Peppers- BSSM
    Soundgarden- Badmoterfinger
    Alice in Chains- Dirt
    Dinosaur Jr-Where ya Been
    Smashing Pumpkins- Siamese Dream
    Built to spill- Perfect From Now On
    Modest Mouse- Lonesome Crowded West
    Flaming Lips- Soft Bulletin
    Neutral Milk Hotel- In an Aeroplane over the Sea
    Pavement-Crooked Rain Crooked Rain
    Janes Addiction- ritual de lo habitual
    queens of the stone age- rated r
    tool-anemia ( are they alternative... probalby not)
    Kyuss- Welcome to sky valley


    I could not choose 10 i'm sorry :(
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  • sadprofessor
    sadprofessor Posts: 1,034
    Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
    Where you Been - Dinosaur Jr.
    The Downward Spiral - NIN
    Vitalogy - PJ
    Odelay - Beck
    Bee Thousand - Guided by Voices
    Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain - Pavement
    Radiohead - Ok computer
    Soft Bulletin - Flaming Lips
    Murder Ballads - Nick Cave
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  • CrownofThornsMSG1
    CrownofThornsMSG1 Posts: 172
    1) Radiohead- Ok Computer
    2) Nirvana- In Utero
    2) Pearl Jam- Vs.
    4) Red Hot Chili Peppers- Blood Sugar Sex Magik
    5) Tool- Aenima
    6) Rage Against The Machine-Self Titled
    7) Alice In Chains- Dirt
    8) Nine Inch Nails- Pretty Hate Machine
    9) Smashing Pumpkins- Siamese Dream
    10) Soundgarden- SuperUnknown
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  • direwolf74
    direwolf74 Posts: 1,622
    Only 10?? Alright, I'll give it a shot.

    The Tragically Hip- Day for Night
    Nirvana- Nevermind
    Pearl Jam- Vs.
    Wilco- Being There
    Rheostatics- Whale Music
    The Lowest of the Low- Shakespeare, My Butt
    Radiohead- The Bends
    Weeping Tile- Cold Snap
    Change of Heart- Smile
    Red Hot Chili Peppers- Blood Sugar Sex Magik
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  • audiodave
    audiodave Posts: 1,623
    CrownofThornsMSG1 wrote:
    8) Nine Inch Nails- Pretty Hate Machine

    I could be really pedantic and tell you that pretty hate machine was released in 1989...but I won't.

    :D
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  • bryanfury
    bryanfury Posts: 461
    Todd76 wrote:
    10) Slowdive - Souvlaki
    9) Faith No More - Angel Dust
    8) Spiritualized - Pure Phase
    7) Sloan - Twice Removed
    6) Pavement - Wowee Zowee
    5) the Dandy Warhols - Come Down
    4) Eric's Trip - Love Tara
    3) Sonic Youth - Dirty
    2) the Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
    1) Sebadoh - Bakesale

    Honourable Mentions:

    the Rheostatics - Whale Music
    Dinosaur Jr - Where You Been
    Radiohead - OK Computer
    My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
    Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
    Stereolab - Transient Random Noise Bursts With Announcements
    Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
    Nirvana - In Utero
    the Cure - Wish
    Hayden - Everything I Long For

    LOVE the Sebadoh reference. bakesale is a great album!
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  • GRIMMY
    GRIMMY Posts: 370
    Pearl jam
    Smashing Pumkins
    Everclear
    return of the rentals
    Humm
    Nirvana
    grimmy
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Mercury Rev - Yerself Is Steam
    Morphine - Cure For Pain
    Beck - Stereopathic Soulmanure
    Pearl Jam - Ten
    My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
  • off_the_record
    off_the_record Posts: 843
    Todd76 wrote:
    10) Slowdive - Souvlaki
    9) Faith No More - Angel Dust
    8) Spiritualized - Pure Phase
    7) Sloan - Twice Removed
    6) Pavement - Wowee Zowee
    5) the Dandy Warhols - Come Down
    4) Eric's Trip - Love Tara
    3) Sonic Youth - Dirty
    2) the Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
    1) Sebadoh - Bakesale


    thats a great top 10 man. best one so far.
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  • NakedClown
    NakedClown Posts: 545
    No particular order - my top 10 fav.

    LIVE - Throwing Copper
    LIVE - Secret Samadhi
    Our Lady Peace - Clumsy
    Pearl Jam - All of them
    Counting Crows - August and Everything After
    Counting Crows - Recovering the Sattelites
    7M3 - Rock Crown
    Tool - Aenima
    Bush - Sixteen Stone (first concert)
    Toad the Wet Sprocket - Dulcinea & Fear

    Honourable Mention:

    311 - 311
    Guster - Goldfly
    Finger Eleven - Tip
    Screaming Trees - Dust
    Bodeans - Go Slow Down

    Guilty pleasure: Verve Pipe - Villains
  • Horos
    Horos Posts: 4,519
    Probably a little biased:

    Yield
    Vitalogy
    vs.
    No Code
    Ten
    Temple of the Dog
    Apple
    Shine
    Mad Season
    Brad
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  • melodyman22
    melodyman22 Posts: 326
    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
  • Todd76
    Todd76 Posts: 1,469
    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

    You pick terrible shit like STP, G'n'R, Live and Moist and call Radiohead garbage - thats messed up (but not surprising i guess - theres no accounting for taste).....to each their own, I don't mean to trash your list but ya kinda started it
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  • Todd76
    Todd76 Posts: 1,469
    off_the_record wrote:
    thats a great top 10 man. best one so far.

    Thanks - what do I win :)
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    and they all eat rainbows and pooh butterflies!
  • ramspam
    ramspam Posts: 130
    Faith No More- Angel Dust
    Mr. Bungle- Mr. Bungle
    Pearl Jam- No Code
    Pixies- Trompe Le Monde
    Soundgarden- Badmotorfinger
    Alice in Chains- Dirt
    Flaming Lips- Soft Bulletin
    Radiohead- The Bends
    Rage Against the Machine- Rage Against the Machine
    Smashing Pumpkins- Mellon Collee and the Infinite Sadness
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