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

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  • Bremerton
    Bremerton Posts: 279
    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
    enharmonic Posts: 1,917
    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.
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  • alobar
    alobar Posts: 310
    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
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  • pearljam_addiction
    pearljam_addiction Posts: 668
    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
    "I Will Scream my Lungs out 'til it fills this Room "

    " I Will Feel Alive as Long as I am Free"

    "Are We Getting SomeThing Out Of this All Encompassing Trip? Makes Much More Sense To Live In The Present Tense"

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  • red mos
    red mos Posts: 4,953
    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.
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  • pearljam_addiction
    pearljam_addiction Posts: 668
    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
    "I Will Scream my Lungs out 'til it fills this Room "

    " I Will Feel Alive as Long as I am Free"

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  • bladworth116
    bladworth116 Posts: 344
    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
    Bleakest Harvest Posts: 127
    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
    OutOfBreath Posts: 1,804
    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.

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  • Pearl_Jam_Necklace
    Pearl_Jam_Necklace Posts: 501
    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
    ...It's only after disaster that we can be resurrected...
    it's only after you've lost everything ...that you are free to do anything....(Fight Club)

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  • Pearl_Jam_Necklace
    Pearl_Jam_Necklace Posts: 501
    omg forgot this one,,
    Live-throwing copper
    live-secret samdhi
    ...It's only after disaster that we can be resurrected...
    it's only after you've lost everything ...that you are free to do anything....(Fight Club)

    ... I'll ride the wave...where it takes me....
  • South of Seattle
    South of Seattle West Seattle Posts: 10,724
    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
    NERDS!
  • Sexy2aFault
    Sexy2aFault Posts: 388
    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
    Charlie the man Posts: 116
    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)
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  • Echoes
    Echoes Posts: 1,279
    thanks for the laughs, dudes
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  • Klumpie
    Klumpie Posts: 2,649
    Echoes wrote:
    thanks for the laughs, dudes

    Where is your top 10???
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
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  • My3rdEye
    My3rdEye Posts: 927
    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
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  • Echoes
    Echoes Posts: 1,279
    Klumpie wrote:
    Where is your top 10???


    I'll think of it at work an put it up when I get home, okay?
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  • Klumpie
    Klumpie Posts: 2,649
    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.

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