Thanks for having the gumption to pick just one. Also for agreeing I'm right. #smilingface
Cue the hand wringing procrastinators who list several...
Dirt by Alice in Chains.
If you would permit me, I'd amend my previous answer to the 1996 MTV unplugged album.
Radiohead - The Bends
1996 MTV unplugged album (Alice in Chains)
That could well be the end of the thread right there. So much brilliant metal/rock/grunge in the 90s but amongst that this stands out.
Elizium by fields of the nephilim, just a masterpeice of gothy joy with a light dusting of flour
Nevermind. Nirvana.
Music for the Jilted Generation-The Prodigy
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Blue Lines - Massive Attack
Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space by Spiritualized
Don't know what was in the water in 1997, but that plus OK Computer and Urban Hymns makes it my top album year ever.
Copper Blue by Sugar (although Beaster is even finer but only an EP)
Beaster is amazing, and it was marketed as an album and featured in the album chart at the time etc. so you can have it. Was the only cassette album I ever bought that was the same tracks on both sides of the tape!
Generation Terrorists - Manics
If you want something chilled then Moon Safari by Air
1990's I was 15-25 and so much of my music is from that decade it's hard to name one. But I will mention The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion by The Black Crowes. It's the album I go back to most frequently, it's got me through the bad times and made the good times even better. It's a close run with their Amorica album which has the better songs. The 90's were amazing, my sixteen year old daughter loves the 90's too.
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‘Bandwagonesque’
A very solid contender, but shouldn't you be voting for a Lambchop album?
Blue Lines – Massive Attack
Would be a contender except its got one duff track on it
I'm going to say 'Odelay'. But only because the actual best album of the 90s - 'Pauls Boutique' was released in 89 and is therefore technically disqualified.
Bookmarking this thread as there's so much good music I haven't listened to for ages
Crikey, name one, based purely on probably my most listened - Arrested Development MTV Unplugged.
https://www.discogs.com/release/2161674-Arrested-Development-Unplugged
Itching to say one more.
'Mezzanine' - Massive Attack although 'In Sides' by Orbital is also up there
Would be a contender except its got one duff track on it
There's a duff track on Blue Lines?!
Nevermind.
Conveniently, at the beginning of the decade as well to pave the way for everything that came after. But also, most of (if not all) the choices on here are by definition, the choices of middle aged white men, so there's that.
We are all old bastards
Cowboy Junkies - Pale Sun Crescent Moon.
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Volume 2.
One of my most vivid memories is the first play of that record, being literally floored by how different it was.
William Orbit’s Strange Cargo - Hinterland.
I’m torn between it and an eponymous debut album from a different genre where every song is cracking. No-one has mentioned it yet. But in keeping with the OP’s earlier direction, I’ll remain off the fence.
(Nevermind would have made my top 3)
Rage Against the Machine
Absolute rager of a timeless album.
Beasty Boys Ill Communication
