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Gunny Highway
2012-02-25 10:22:49 AM
Jello and Mojo: Prairie Home Invasion
Somethig by Gwar
Anything by NoMeansNo
Something by The Melvins
 
Shrugging Atlas
2012-02-25 10:23:19 AM
Pearl Jam's Ten barely cracks the top 20?? WTF is this shiat?
 
LeroyBourne
2012-02-25 10:23:25 AM
Didn't see The Breeders on there or They Might Be Giants.
 
dugitman [TotalFark]
2012-02-25 10:24:09 AM
drewogatory: dugitman: List is pretty big to more than glance through, but nice to see they remembered Martinis & Bikinis

/El Corazon, Girlfriend, RATM are way too low.

fark RATM. A humorless junior college level grasp of politics shouted over a shiat nu-rap metal background. Limp Bizkit for pretentious assholes.

So Nirvana is Bush for pretentious assholes?
 
Shrugging Atlas
2012-02-25 10:24:42 AM
Is Dirt not even on there?

Honestly, is this a joke?
 
Mugato [TotalFark]
2012-02-25 10:26:02 AM
No Use your Illusion?
 
1macgeek
2012-02-25 10:27:11 AM
I'm confused... was that "Best Albums of the 90's" or "Random list of talentless hacks mostly never heard from again after being the Flavor of the Week"? It's so hard to tell.
 
iron_city_ap
2012-02-25 10:27:48 AM
Howie Spankowitz: Some other notable exclusions (I may have just missed them):

Dr. Dre: The Chronic
Soundgarden: Superunknown
TLC: CrazySexyCool
Alice in Chains: Dirt
All Eyez On Me: 2pac
Beastie Boys: Ill Communication
Live: Throwing Copper
Tori Amos: Little Earthquakes
Cranberries: Everyone Else is Doing it so Why Can't We

/that's like your opinion, man

ABSOLUTELY. Granted, TLC wasn't all that ground breaking, its better than alot of the other shiat on this list. Same with Live, but it holds up really well over time, if not improves with age

/kindly remove your being from my kentucky bluegrass
 
drewogatory
2012-02-25 10:28:15 AM
dugitman: drewogatory: dugitman: List is pretty big to more than glance through, but nice to see they remembered Martinis & Bikinis

/El Corazon, Girlfriend, RATM are way too low.

fark RATM. A humorless junior college level grasp of politics shouted over a shiat nu-rap metal background. Limp Bizkit for pretentious assholes.

So Nirvana is Bush for pretentious assholes?

Nirvana might be wildly overrated but at least Cobain was a competent songwriter, something no one in RATM could claim.
 
dickfreckle [TotalFark]
2012-02-25 10:28:56 AM
I'll sorta agree with subby here. Achtung Baby was, for its time and the band's theretofore sound/image , a remarkably made album. When I first heard it (I was in high school) I went and bought tickets to the concert. I think it was called the "ZooTV" tour and it's STILL one of the most bombastic and entertaining shows I've ever seen. Motherfarking Public Enemy opened for them.

The only problem is that U2's pretty awesome attempt at innovation and reinvention kinda fell flat in later years. Bowie and, I hate to admit, Madonna both pulled similar stunts every two years and did it waaaaay better (especially Bowie). U2 just started making unlistenable crap while milking Brian Eno's name as long as they could. But Achtung itself was and still is a great farking album.
 
alexjoss [TotalFark]
2012-02-25 10:29:47 AM
Soundgarden anyone...............!
dada Puzzle
Faith No More King for a day, fool for a lifetime
The Verve Pipe Villians
3EB 1st album for sure
Live The Distance to Here plus Throwing Copper
Son volt and Uncle Tupelo? Snoozola!
 
Gunny Highway
2012-02-25 10:30:05 AM
The Meat Puppets - forbidden places (and other albums)
Anything by Refused
 
Gunny Highway
2012-02-25 10:32:00 AM
Faith No More - Angel Dust
 
Johnsnownw
2012-02-25 10:33:17 AM
I absolutely agree with #1 and #2, and that never happens.
 
Fallout Zone
2012-02-25 10:37:12 AM
marius2: Number one



Absolutely absurd that Mellon Collie isn't anywhere, let alone very high, on that list.
 
Obscure Login
2012-02-25 10:37:43 AM
blogs.houstonpress.com

This isn't on the list but there are two albums from Elliot Smith, Pavement and Wilco?
 
Leader O'Cola
2012-02-25 10:38:28 AM
scope1000: Metallica


Bullshiat.
That album is 100% emblematic of everything wrong with metal
 
Macular Degenerate
2012-02-25 10:40:48 AM
You click-thru monkeys actually clicked on all 9 pages of that crap? WTF is wrong with you people?
 
The1andonlyZack
2012-02-25 10:42:00 AM
fark U2...really..REALLY...garrrrrbage
 
Giltric [TotalFark]
2012-02-25 10:42:23 AM
Leader O'Cola: scope1000: Metallica


Bullshiat.
That album is 100% emblematic of everything wrong with metal

That album is what stopped metal artists from recording in a garbage can and getting into a studio for a more polished and fuller sound.

It was good for the genre.
 
Obscure Login
2012-02-25 10:42:24 AM
Fallout Zone: marius2: Number one



Absolutely absurd that Mellon Collie isn't anywhere, let alone very high, on that list.

Just insane. The worst song on Mellon Collie is better than anything Pavement has ever made.

/Why do these "Best of the 90s" listmakers all love Pavement so much?
 
SharkTrager
2012-02-25 10:42:46 AM
iron_city_ap: Even though I like both, no way in hell is Enter the Wu Tang better than Fear of a Black Planet.

Going to have to disagree on that. Wu Tang is more commercial, but PE has been far more important.
 
The Voice of Doom
2012-02-25 10:43:03 AM
1macgeek
I'm confused... was that "Best Albums of the 90's" or "Random list of talentless hacks mostly never heard from again after being the Flavor of the Week"? It's so hard to tell.

Must be the first, because in contrast to those albums or groups I actually remember a lot of stuff that would fit the second category.
I think I even have one of those "The Best Hits of $year" compilations from 1995 or 1996 somewhere; but those are rather country-specific so it wouldn't be a surprise instead of a hipster-ish remark if most (non-Euopeans) have probably never heard of most of those.
I remember a lot of Eurodance-.stuff that would fit that description - someone already posted an "Ace of Base" album cover, for example.
 
Ironclad2
2012-02-25 10:44:43 AM
Howie Spankowitz: Some other notable exclusions (I may have just missed them):

Dr. Dre: The Chronic
TLC: CrazySexyCool
All Eyez On Me: 2pac
Beastie Boys: Ill Communication


Agreed, especially on these points. The list maker paid hip-hop and rap some lip service in the introduction paragraph, had B.I.G. and Public Enemy on page 3, then just about forgot about them as generes.

Also, I didn't see Snoop Dogg's Doggystyle. Was it on there?
 
Obscure Login
2012-02-25 10:45:04 AM
Macular Degenerate: You click-thru monkeys actually clicked on all 9 pages of that crap? WTF is wrong with you people?

Click on "Print" at the top of the first page and you'll get everything on one page.
 
SharkTrager
2012-02-25 10:46:17 AM
Giltric: Leader O'Cola: scope1000: Metallica


Bullshiat.
That album is 100% emblematic of everything wrong with metal

That album is what stopped metal artists from recording in a garbage can and getting into a studio for a more polished and fuller sound.

It was good for the genre.

A friend worked on that album. One of his first major projects. Of course that meant a lot of gopher work. Hearing him talk about Metallica was a real eye opener. One of his regular tasks was to run to the newsstand to pick up Lars imported Scandinavian gay porn. He was also offered a job for $60,000/yr to go on tour and make their espresso, which he didn't take.

/RIP Devin
 
Anderson's Pooper
2012-02-25 10:46:55 AM
Marillion - Brave

Weird Al - Running With Scissors
 
fergalicious
2012-02-25 10:47:06 AM
I will duck into this thread only long enough to say that I agree with everyone else that that list is utter crap, and leave without offering any suggestions as to what I would put in it, as no such list could ever satisfy anyone, let alone everyone.

/NMH is the most elaborate prank played on pretentious "music" enthusiasts in the history of the world
 
Wonderduck
2012-02-25 10:47:55 AM
I've got four of the albums on the list (Matthew Sweet, Liz Phair, TMBG, Pearl Jam).

I've got about three-quarters of the albums listed in this thread.

I know which one I trust more.
 
endtimethirtyfour
2012-02-25 10:48:57 AM
waiting for "0 best of the '00s" list
 
Gunny Highway
2012-02-25 10:50:33 AM
2.bp.blogspot.com

If you haven't heard it you should add it to you list. One of the most fun albums ever.
 
Mr. Chainsaw [TotalFark]
2012-02-25 10:51:10 AM
img.noiset.com

Ahem.
 
Gunny Highway
2012-02-25 10:51:44 AM
endtimethirtyfour: waiting for "0 best of the '00s" list

You sound old.
 
Gunny Highway
2012-02-25 10:52:40 AM
Gunny Highway: endtimethirtyfour: waiting for "0 best of the '00s" list

You sound old.

Or you were making a joke. Apologies
 
Lurk sober post drunk
2012-02-25 10:53:35 AM
interesting list, but as has been already said, it needs tool, pixies, alice in chains, beastie boys, primus. cause that's good music.

imo.
 
Bartleby the Scrivener
2012-02-25 10:57:33 AM
Forgot flaming donkey wrench's epic triple album, meet your beater, beat your meeter, and the ballad of morris the flatulant aardvark
 
Igor Jakovsky
2012-02-25 10:59:18 AM
Gunny Highway: Faith No More - Angel Dust

I love that one, might have to bust out the old case logic cd case and have a listen.

/I really need to convert all my old cds over to mp3
 
yelmrog
2012-02-25 11:01:14 AM
I really love Uncle Tupelo, Elliott Smith, and Built to Spill, but I don't think they deserve more than one entry on the top 90 albums of the 90's.
 
Gunny Highway
2012-02-25 11:04:08 AM
Igor Jakovsky: Gunny Highway: Faith No More - Angel Dust

I love that one, might have to bust out the old case logic cd case and have a listen.

/I really need to convert all my old cds over to mp3

There was a period of time when that was all I was
Listening to. The back end is unbelievable.
 
GendoIkari
2012-02-25 11:08:40 AM
While I've always agreed with #1 (it's topped so many best albums lists) and is just sublime; #2 is utter shiate, while I'm the last person in the world who should go around calling things "Hipster" or whatnot, Neutral Milk Hotel is the most Hipster bullshiat imaginable, next to say The Decemberists, which is also Hipster bullshiat.
 
FeedTheCollapse
2012-02-25 11:10:13 AM
marius2: Number one

[upload.wikimedia.org image 400x352] (Melon Collie and the Infinite Sadness)



I really liked that album was I was 14, but relistening to it a few months ago was a bit of a downer. It really hasn't held up well and though I'm certainly not one to put down depressing music, Corgan's whining is a bit off-putting once you leave your teenage years. I've also always thought it was an overly long album as well.


wildstarr: FeedTheCollapse: Nevermind is the greatest album of the 90s for people who don't know shiat about music.

HAHAHA...actually, when I read that, it proves YOU don't know shait about music.



Is this the "popular, therefore it is a classic" argument?
 
Funbags
2012-02-25 11:11:32 AM
I just love OK Computer, puts me to sleep every time!


/Seriously, no Superunknown = FIAL
 
FeedTheCollapse
2012-02-25 11:15:52 AM
drewogatory: Nirvana might be wildly overrated but at least Cobain was a competent songwriter, something no one in RATM could claim.



I think it's the lyrics that bother me most about RATM. I really liked them in High School, but now it seems like the only people who like them now are people who don't really give a shiat about politics until someone writes a song about a political topic. It was also really weird to see the polished, MTV-ised music videos for Battle of Los Angeles.


I do think RATM was otherwise good.
 
master of unlocking
2012-02-25 11:16:52 AM
Illmattic is way too low. There's other things wrong with that list, but not having illmattic in, at the very least, the top 10, is the most egregious.
 
Karma Curmudgeon
2012-02-25 11:19:42 AM
The 90 best albums of the 90s. for hipsters.

/you leave both Dirt and Undertow off your best of the 90's list it just goes to show you know nothing about an entire genre of music. Both are easily top ten if you have any appreciation for hard rock.
 
ten miles high
2012-02-25 11:21:28 AM
greatsouthernbrainfart.files.wordpress.com
 
Andric
2012-02-25 11:22:02 AM
R Kelly's Doo Doo Butter: Curiously absent
farm4.static.flickr.com

Seconded!
 
Igor Jakovsky
2012-02-25 11:22:58 AM
list fails without Chumbawamba
 
kukukupo
2012-02-25 11:26:31 AM
A curious list. It is missing many of the better albums from the 90's.

STP, Soundgarden, Dream Theatre, Alice in Chains, Primus, Tool, Live, etc
 
Giltric [TotalFark]
2012-02-25 11:28:01 AM
I liked lists like this better better when their writers weren't going through estrogen replacement therapy.
 
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