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Yeah, so much choice of brilliant music, must be hard to know where to start.
It's a fair point but you tend to gravitate to what your friends and what's popular at the time.
Takes a few years to find and appreciate the stuff the came before I think
I'll top and tail the decade:
Also sort of agree the most innovative period was from the late eighties till about 94-95.
Maxinquaye, Leftism ,Dummy all been listed. I would add Bothy Culture by Martyn Bennett
And Revival by Gillian Welch and David Rawlings
+1 for prodigy
Others that still make my playlist alot not already mentioned from the early 90s
Seven by James
Levelling the Land by The Levellers
White Room by KLF
Looking through my (digital) collection these albums are kind of essential for me...
Fugazi - 13 Songs
Bongwater - The power of pussy
Momus - Hippopotamus
PJ Harvey - Dry
Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
Stina Nordenstam - And she closed her eyes
Royal Trux - Thank you
Palace Music - Viva last blues
Etienne de Crécy - Super Discount
Gillian Welch - Revival
Björk - Homogenic
Daft Punk - Homework
Cat Power - Moon pix
Gillian Welch - Hell among the yearlings
Arvo Pärt - Kanon Pokajanen
Bonnie “Prince” Billy - I see a darkness
Fiona Apple - When the pawn
Mogwai - Come on die young
Underworld - Beaucoup fish
Nevermind.
Definitely maybe.
Both generic.
Both had a massive effect on music and youth culture for their respective countries and beyond.
Plenty of other rubbish I like, nothing obscure:
NIN - the downward spiral
Smash - the offspring.
Tiger milk - belle and Sebastian.
Eminem - slim shady LP
Manic Street Preachers -the holy bible
Therapy? - troublegum
Slipknot - slipknot
Tool - aenima
Poison Idea - Feel the Darkness.
RIP to Thee Slayer Hippy who drummed on that album and died this week 🙁
The two that spring to mind for me are:
Depeche Mode - Violator
Ride - Nowhere
Definitely Maybe, Dookie and Nevermind are the anglo-saxon albums I still enjoy playing along with.
The 90s were the MTV years. I stopped playing records and just left the TV on with MTV. There were some great MTV sets (and live sets on other channels inspired by the unplugged series) that beat any studio album produced in the 90s IMO:
Nirvana, Clapton, The Cure, Die Arzte, the Pretenders, Goldman and Oasis at their best:
Cypress hill - temples of boom (their creative high
point? 😖
Jesus jones- doubt
Lagowski- wire science
Fluke- six wheels on my wagon;
Orbital- brown album
Beta Band – 3 ep’s
I once heard that in a record shop and liked it so much I bought 5 copies
Prodigy, Music for a Jilted Genereation
The Verve, Urban Hymns
Dr Dre, 2001
Fugees, The score
Oasis, Definitely Maybe/Whats the story morning Glory
Eminem, Slim Shady LP/Marshall Mathers LP
David Grey, White Ladder
Nirvana, Nevermind
Boards of Canada - Music has the Right to Children