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

This. But I would add:

Nine Inch Nails: The Fragile
Stone Temple Pilots: Purple or Core
Dream Theater: Awake

Karma Curmudgeon: 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.

I would definitely add Dirt to the list. Though I like Undertow, I don't think it's held up as well as Tool's other albums. I blame it on bands like Staind who co-opted Maynard's vocal style.

There are a few glaring omissions, but paste is a magazine for people who love alt country, so I'm not shocked.

BTW, if you think STP, Live, Soundgarden, Third Eye Blind, Verve Pipe or Bush deserve to be on this list, you have shiat taste in music. It's alright. Lots of people do. But really. Stop posting in music threads. Your tastes are well represented. Your opinion is not needed.

and jesus. I forgot that The Verve "Urban Hymns" wasn't on there. Good lord that's an omission.

Afghan Whigs - Gentleman
Pixies - Surfer Rosa
PJ Harvey - Rid of Me
The Verve - Urban Hymns.

But really, any list without Gentleman fails. Just completely fails. My only guess is that the sort of bitterness that album brings forth can't be expressed with a twee voice and a ukulele, so it was a bit too much. An entire album about hating a mistrusting women is probably a bit much for that scene.

Multiple countries certified this album 2x Platinum.... just because it's from a 70's band doesn't mean it wasn't relevant in the 90's.

This list is shiat.

Afer thinking it over (and people beimging certain albums up), there is so much good shiat not on this list.

The lack of STP,FNM, RHCP (blood,sugar,sex,magic), is disturbing. These aren't exactly bands that are ignorable during that era.

F♥ck the 90s. The 90s sucked. I'm glad they're over.

Seriously? Looked at the top 30, and there's a lot of album inferior to this:

Seriously?

FeedTheCollapse: Though I like Undertow, I don't think it's held up as well as Tool's other albums. I blame it on bands like Staind who co-opted Maynard's vocal style.

Ya, I can see that, and I'm wouldn't even really say it's their best piece. But in my mind "best" is largely a measure of originality and impact and for me anyway, Undertow, was a revelation that metal could be hard, really smart, emotional and bass driven.But mostly, overlooking them altogether is inexcusable for a "best" list.

/gotdam right i mad

Poorlytoldjoke: But really, any list without Gentleman fails. Just completely fails. My only guess is that the sort of bitterness that album brings forth can't be expressed with a twee voice and a ukulele, so it was a bit too much. An entire album about hating a mistrusting women is probably a bit much for that scene.

I'm not saying it didn't belong on the list somewhere, but out of pure coincidence I listened to that album for the first time in years last week. For the life of me I can't recall why I liked it so much when it came out. Absolutely no criticism directed towards you or anyone else for liking it. It was just strange that I listened to it the entire way through and couldn't recall a single song that drove me to buy it when it was released.

/csb

Quite a few CDs I forgotten about after my wife stole my collection directly preceding the divorce.

Overall, I was happy with the list, I think I own better than 60% of the albums.

But then this thread delivers, with a bunch of glaring omissions.

Well done everybody.

Christ, music in the 90s sucked.

I was glad to see Archers of Loaf represented, they are one of my favorite bands ever.

Saw them in August and will see them again in May.

I agree with subby - as a matter of fact, last night was just listening to Achtung Baby and if anyone needs to know why it should be number 1 look at the most recent tour... one of the most amazing light and sound shows I've ever seen comes off a song on that album which wasn't even a single... ultra violet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUD4CQT33w4 (new window)

List is fail without....

Also, I didn't look at the list, but is there any Tupac on there? It's hard to imagine a list of 90's music without Tupac. (In my eyes, he's still one of the greatest rap lyricist of all time.)

This thread delivers!

Also,

This one farking too.

Really, list, you are going to include Illmatic but not The Blueprint? I know its obviously rock slanted, but if you are going to include hip hop (which peaked in the 90s so it really should be included) that is kind of a glaring omission.

Also, U2 sucks.

skilbride: Also, I didn't look at the list, but is there any Tupac on there? It's hard to imagine a list of 90's music without Tupac. (In my eyes, he's still one of the greatest rap lyricist of all time.)

I just noticed it wasn't either.. Apparently biggie, wu tang, and nas can make it but nothing from the west coast. Something tells me these people were from new york..

lilplatinum: Really, list, you are going to include Illmatic but not The Blueprint? I know its obviously rock slanted, but if you are going to include hip hop (which peaked in the 90s so it really should be included) that is kind of a glaring omission.

Sorry, Reasonable Doubt... FTFM.

Okay, now I looked through the list and it's total crap. No Tupac, Third Eye Blind, Dr. Dre, or any of the pop stuff that was fairly big in the 90's. (You can't just exclude it because it's poppy, for instance, Madonna's "Ray of Light" in 1998 was a masterpiece and probably one of her best albums.)

BUT, I saw that Oasis was somewhere in the 20's and it reminded me of something that I talked about at a bar last weekend.

What if Kurt Cobain had lived, but Noel Gallagher had died - would What's the Story Morning Glory become Nevermind?

Think about it....

skilbride: What if Kurt Cobain had lived, but Noel Gallagher had died - would What's the Story Morning Glory become Nevermind?

Hmm two grossly overrated albums, two douchebags.. I could see that they could be interchangable.

Missing



/The buck dich onstage performance is the best of the 90s
//Just ask the Worcester, MA police

lilplatinum: I just noticed it wasn't either.. Apparently biggie, wu tang, and nas can make it but nothing from the west coast. Something tells me these people were from new york..

That happens all the time on these lists and it kinda pisses me off. My boyfriend is a DJ and I've always had a love for all types of music, but I find it hard to find a list of the best albums of any time frame because it's always put out by someplace that focuses on one type of music.

ALSO, Eminem - The Slim Shady LP in 1999. It's hard to argue that wasn't a game changer for rap.

Good call on Clutch, Lard, and Ministry

Overrated != bad

scope1000: Regardless of what you think of them NOW....

Metallica's 1991 black album brought Heavy Metal to the mainstream, caused all other metal bands to shift course, and stopped Kurt Cobain from being the ONLY guitar you ever hear on the radio that year.


List threads always bring out the derp, but there isn't a facepalm pic on the internet large enough to cover this one.

It's obvious that hipsters don't listen to metal. If they did, you'd be hard pressed to not include

Neurosis - through Silver and blood
Clutch - Elephant Riders
Tool - Aenima

As far as hip hop, not sure how Arrested Development makes it, but say, Jay Z The Blueprint or Goodie Mobs "Still Standing" don't.

Anyone ever wonder what happens when Cee Lo fans start looking into his back catalog? I hope they find Still Standing and it blows their mind the way it did mine.

Lol what a list. The only people who actually enjoy that crap are people who were teenagers/early twenties in the 90's. Everyone else's ears are not affected by nostalgia and what to forget about the decade of grumbling

That list sucks and #1 is insulting. No Faith No More is a bigger joke among others listed in this thread missing too. fark this list.

HappyHarryHardOn: Seriously? Looked at the top 30, and there's a lot of album inferior to this:

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Screamadelica is one of those albums I've never understood the appeal of beyond 1991. It certainly has some great songs, but quite a bit of it is dated even a few years after it came out. Vanishing Point would probably be a better entry if you had to choose a Primal Scream album.

Oh shiat, hipsters have retroactively infected the 90s.

I'd reproduce my top 90 of the 90s list for everyone, but the bands I like are so obscure they never got out of the garage. But whatever you like sucks cause you don't really understand music and you're a tool of corporate marketing and your sheeple friends.

Poorlytoldjoke: Anyone ever wonder what happens when Cee Lo fans start looking into his back catalog? I hope they find Still Standing and it blows their mind the way it did mine.

THIS THIS THIS THIS

I am not going to lie, I was totally one of those people who when Cee Lo blew up over the past two years I was like, welcome to the 90's, glad you finally joined us.

I like how the people biatching about Hipsters are by and large not contributing anything to the thread. How about posting some of the entries you'd like to see?

It is a good list.

I actually own, or have heard 80% of the albums.

Sadly, the punk to come didn't sound like this.

This should have been on there too.

Poorlytoldjoke: It's obvious that hipsters anyone with tastes don't doesn't listen to metal. If they did, you'd be hard pressed to not include

FTFY

As far as hip hop, not sure how Arrested Development makes it, but say, Jay Z The Blueprint or Goodie Mobs "Still Standing" don't.

The blueprint didn't make it because it was released in 2001, but Reasonable Doubt should be on any list.

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Sadly, the punk to come didn't sound like this.

Any of their albums would work. I think that was a
Good choice if they had bothered to do some lesser known albums.

Broktun: It is a good list.

I actually own, or have heard 80% of the albums.

That doesn't make 80% of them `best of' anything though.