The best album of the 1990s

I give you Dummy by Portishead.

Manic Street Preachers. The Holy Bible.

EOT (although I will agree that Dummy is pretty good too).

Thanks for having the gumption to pick just one. Also for agreeing I’m right. #smilingface

Cue the hand wringing procrastinators who list several…

For me it was in 1991…..Laughing Stock by Talk Talk.

Leftism

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=H_1BDl88oxo&si=U2RzC3B8mMiQMaKq

@Waderider doffs internet cap…

Dirt by Alice in Chains.

Dirt by Alice in Chains.

If you would permit me, I’d amend my previous answer to the 1996 MTV unplugged album.

The Boatman’s Call by Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds

Radiohead – The Bends

Copper Blue by Sugar (although Beaster is even finer but only an EP)

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.

Welcome to the cruel world by Ben Harper

OK Computer

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.

‘Bandwagonesque’

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‘Bandwagonesque’

A very solid contender, but shouldn’t you be voting for a Lambchop album?

Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space by Spiritualized

+1

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.

Endtroducing DJ Shadow

Lots of superb albums from the 90s though

But only because the actual best album of the 90s – ‘Pauls Boutique’ was released in 89 and is therefore technically disqualified.

I think you’ll find The Stone Roses was actually the best album of the 1990s that was realised in 1989

😉

Orbital 2 (brown album).

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

So many to pick from but for me it has to be The Bends.

Depeche Mode – Violator

Cowboy Junkies – Pale Sun Crescent Moon.