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

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  • red mos
    red mos Posts: 4,953
    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
    PJ: 10/14/00 06/09/03 10/4/09 11/15/13 11/16/13 10/08/14
    EV Solo: 7/11/11 11/12/12 11/13/12
  • mwachsman
    mwachsman Posts: 474
    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
    "So, you must really love Led Zeppelin. That’s the oldest shirt I’ve ever seen on someone who wasn’t a bum."
    "Hey, if God didn’t want me to wear it so much, he wouldn’t have made them rock so hard."
  • sj.brodie
    sj.brodie Posts: 468
    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
    sj.brodie Posts: 468
    shit, i forgot about appetite for destruction!
  • mwachsman
    mwachsman Posts: 474
    sj.brodie wrote:
    shit, i forgot about appetite for destruction!

    No you didn't, it was released in 1987.
    "So, you must really love Led Zeppelin. That’s the oldest shirt I’ve ever seen on someone who wasn’t a bum."
    "Hey, if God didn’t want me to wear it so much, he wouldn’t have made them rock so hard."
  • larspjfam
    larspjfam Posts: 1
    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
    drew0 Posts: 943
    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
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    Madison Square Garden 6/25/08
  • mookeywrench
    mookeywrench Posts: 6,095
    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
    bryanfury Posts: 461
    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.
    those undecided, needn't have faith to be free
  • smashing_pumpkin
    smashing_pumpkin Posts: 40
    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.
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  • tonadax
    tonadax Posts: 594
    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
    burnin-candle Posts: 158
    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.
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  • off_the_record
    off_the_record Posts: 843
    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
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  • Pearl Jam and toast
    Pearl Jam and toast Posts: 4,475
    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.
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  • off_the_record
    off_the_record Posts: 843
    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.
    Cheat the odds that made you
    Brave to try to gamble at times
  • Pearl Jam and toast
    Pearl Jam and toast Posts: 4,475
    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.
    Come on pilgrim you know he loves you..

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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)
  • Collin
    Collin Posts: 4,931
    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
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  • pearljam_addiction
    pearljam_addiction Posts: 668
    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
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  • Collin
    Collin Posts: 4,931
    pearljam_addiction wrote:
    4) The Cranberries- Everybody Else Is doing It so why Cant we

    I love this album!
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