Rage Against the Machine
Absolute rager of a timeless album
100% this.
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
The Offspring - Smash
Faith No More - King for a day, fool for a lifetime
Kruder and Dorfmeister - DJ Kicks
God, so many of those listed already are contenders but ultimately it's got to be
OK Computer
But could be any one of a hundred really
But thinking about it SHOULD be Orb live 93
Smashing Pumpkins – Siamese Dream
The Offspring – Smash
Faith No More – King for a day, fool for a lifetime
Kruder and Dorfmeister – DJ Kicks
The thread's "best album". C'mon man, show some backbone and commit!
None of my suggestions. RATM self-titled without a doubt
There’s a duff track on Blue Lines?!
Yeah - Hymn of the big wheel.
So many great tracks on Blue Lines but (IMO) that track prevents it being a great album
Honestly, so many great albums through the 90’s, some absolutely groundbreaking. I managed 39 gigs just in one year in that decade, and trying to pin down one just isn’t possible, tbh.
These are the bands and albums from the 90’s that made a huge and lasting impact on me.
Massive Attack -Mezzanine,
Portishead - Dummy,
Soundgarden - Superunknown,
Faith No More - Angel Dust,
Belly - Star,
Pixies - Trompe le Monde,
Radiohead - OK Computer,
Screaming Trees - Dust,
Aimee Mann - I’m With Stupid,
Cowboy Junkies - The Caution Horses.
I saw all of them through the decade, apart from Pixies and Radiohead.
@llama This is a surprise why?
No-one said Loveless yet? Still sounds like nothing else (though the only distinct sound is the drumroll at the beginning), best listened to at a volume that makes your house shake, nearly bankrupted Creation records (partly because instead of recording the drum track, Shields sampled O’Ciosaig’s drumming then sequenced it) and with special guest chinchillas…
Most underrated would have to be Ride the Fader by Chavez, Dust by Screaming Trees (glad it’s not just me @CountZero) or Troublegum, which I managed to get into the student rag Classic Albums column.
Doggystyle and the soundtrack to Friday.
Wowee Zowee was better, you know…
(I also have a copy of Gary Young’s Hospital, which… isn’t)
Troublegum.
A particularly good record in the car when you want to rag it's head off, or at any other time when you want to forget the wife is a massive arsehole.
Hmmm... after the 80s brought you likes of Eddie Van Halen Randy Rhodes, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Yngwie Malmsteem, Billy Sheehan, Gary Moore, and more into the mainstream, the 90s were all rather disappointing to me.
I'll throw a couple more into the mix that were on repeat for a tour of the Former Yugoslavia in '98.
Korn - Follow The Leader
The Offspring - Americana
Well done on that Aimee Mann album. That was lovely.
Hmmm… after the 80s brought you likes of Eddie Van Halen Randy Rhodes, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Yngwie Malmsteem, Billy Sheehan, Gary Moore, and more into the mainstream, the 90s were all rather disappointing to me.
Get wid da yoot, grandad
after the 80s brought you likes of Eddie Van Halen Randy Rhodes, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Yngwie Malmsteem
So people basically ****ing a guitar, no thanks.
RATM ST and Dust are absolutely classic albums. Paul's Boutique Vs. Stone Roses is no contest really. The Beasties take that honour purely from the fact the album basically changed hip-hop music production and the way sampling is used to a huge degree.
Hard to pick, but to suggest something not spotted in the thread so far...
REM- Automatic For The People
Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
I'd also be happy with already mentioned Fear of a Black Planet or Blue Lines. Or Maxinquaye.
I don't agree with maccruiskeen that a duff track stops an album from being excellent - for example I love Zep 4, and that has Stairway to ****ing Heaven on it.
Shouting End of Life
Oysterband
Hard to pick, but to suggest something not spotted in the thread so far…
REM- Automatic For The People
If you like REM and you have Netflix you could do worse than look up the Song Exploder episode about Losing My Religion (it'll also be on the podcast).
I was going to suggest "3ft high and rising" but it looks to have been released in 1989, maybe it was a little later in the uk that they became known.
So for me it would be a tossup between "dummy" and "moon safari" and since dummy was the first ssuggestion on the thread I will go for moon safari.
But there were many great albums in the decade, I could change my mind in 5 mins time and choose something completely different.
A few already posted that would be in my top ten.
I was thinking Elastica or Check Your Head, but if I had to chose a current favourite it would be Urban Hymns by the Verve.
Edgelords gotta be edgy I guess.
Goes for about £150 on Discogs in mint condition.
Already mentioned above ( a bit cryptically)
Boards of Canada - Music has the right to Children
Selected ambient works and leftism also good shouts.
I'd have gone with The Prodigy Experience, rather than Music for the Jilted Generation
Oooh edit to add (spill over idea from 2000s thread)
Daft Punk - Homework
I’d go with Soundgarden – Superunknown or pretty much any thing from Faith no More from the 90’s
God Shuffled His Feet, Crash Test Dummies.
The album in late 1995 that changed my cultural life was Timeless - Goldie, that'd be in my top 5.
However, the 90's best album is Logical Progression - Ltj Bukem. To this day still contains quite possibly the all time greatest dj mix.
Not going to pretend I can say what the best album of the 1990s is. That sort of objective rating is impossible given the breadth and variety of music produced during that decade. Even when trying to settle on my favourite album of the 1990s I am probably stuck choosing between two, they both mean a lot to me but even with my moderately limited musical tastes they're still too different to really compare - Faith No More's Angel Dust and Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot by Sparklehorse.
If I thought for longer I'd probably come up with other contenders too.
Nine Inch Nails : The Downward Spiral.
Not a happy listen but the sound design, recording and mixing of guitar and synths was way ahead of the curve and still sounds excellent today. As an angsty teenager it was right up my alley and as a slightly less angsty forty something I can appreciate all the technical aspects of it, while connecting with my inner teenager.
I'd throw in Metalica's black album as well.
I can’t narrow it down to ten albums, let alone one.
Some great suggestions.
I'd drop Wild Wood in as a favourite.
