Hmmmmm. Earth Vs The Wildhearts or Troublegum or Chaos AD or August and Everything After or Post Historic Monsters or Fear Of A Black Planet or 30 Something or maybe Further Down The Spiral or Done And… Dusted or Pinkerton or Flood.
I Care Because You Do.
+1 for Fear of a Black Planet.
I don’t usually do these best music things because I don’t really believe it’s the way to appreciate music, but the above is what springs to mind as a couple of my favourites. don’t see them as the best tho. that’s just stupid 😉
and forgotten most of it. had loads of mix tapes i listened too constantly. my poor parents!
Okay, I really lost interest in music in the 1990s, but I am pretty knowledgeable about music in general, and can probably do pretty well in a game of 1970s and 80s music trivia. But how come I almost never recognise a single album on STW?
Do you lot deliberately play ‘choose the most obscure band/album’ game without ever revealing the rules, or even admitting to us and each other that you’re playing?
Sonic Youth – Dirty & Murray Street
Faith no More – Angel Dust
Pavement – Crooked Rain, crooked rain
Alice in Chains – Dirt
Smashing Pumpkins – Siamese Dream & Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Silverchair – Neon Ballroom
Live – Throwing Copper
To name a few, the 90s was a great time for alternative rock.
Saw that article yesterday and expected a thread to appear here, nearly did it myself.
I’m so torn, bought a number of those listed albums around release, some of which I’ve not played from start to finish for years but they were hammered at the time.
I’ll be amazed if Oasis don’t come out top on their poll, they could walk on water back when What’s The Story came out and were touted as the modern day Beatles.
But for me, it’s not so straight forward, I’ve got ~6 albums from that list. The article made me listen to Drive for the first time in years and reminded me instantly of how often I played Automatic For The People during that decade.
If I had to pick one and it was the only one I could ever listen to again it wouldn’t actually be difficult. It would be Automatic For The People.
Lots of good albums with lots of great songs but that’s the one that means more than just a collection of great songs. In the end it’s not about which is the best album it’s about the one that brings back the strongest emotions.
Do you lot deliberately play ‘choose the most obscure band/album’ game without ever revealing the rules, or even admitting to us and each other that you’re playing?
What, Fear of a Black Planet, Different Class, Screamadelica??? Hardly obscure albums! (Although Public Enemy isn’t on the list, but should be…)
Anyway, from the list I’d go with “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill”, “You’ve Come A Long Way, Baby”, and “Different Class”. Although there are some other great albums there. Gives me something to listen to today 🙂
Altern8 full on mask hysteria.only just discovered it from a charity shop cd sale.1992.very rare and amazing rave album.the 90s music was amazing for both rave and indie.glad it was my era and I went to loads of raves and gigs.lush and the charlatans had great albums too
When you look at the albums on the BBC list you realise how good the 90’s were for great music (although some disagree above) and how many of those albums have stood the test of time.
I couldnt choose, my favourite ones are about the time in my life. Maybe Never Loved Elvis by The Wonder Stuff or Coldcuts Journeys by DJ, or or…I don’t know.
Trying to be more subjective Nirvana’s Nevermind or REM Automatic for People are good shouts ( was out of time in 90’s or 80’s, prefer that I think…just nothing by that shit Beetles cover act….
When you look at the albums on the BBC list you realise how good the 90’s were for great music (although some disagree above) and how many of those albums have stood the test of time.
So glad I lived my yoof through those years.
I don’t disagree, but anyone living their yoof in preceding or subsequent decades would say exactly the same thing.
In terms of cultural smack in the teeth, the answer is probably Nevermind.
Ahhh, the 90`s. The last decade of music, before it all went to shite and albums didn’t really exist anymore and rock n roll died and everything was commercial and instantly forgettable.
Trouble with these lists is most people throw in their favourite albums. Its never a subjective list of which album contains the best song writing, musicianship, production, art work, etc etc.
and on that note some of my favourite albums from the 90`s
Gomez – Bring it on
Morcheeba – Who Can You Trust
Air – Moon Safari
Stereophonics – Word gets around
Does everyone reckon that their 20s was the best time for music?!
Yeah, heard a theory (probably on here) that the music you like when you’re about 25 or so will always sound fresh and modern, in a way that music from other decades never will.