Handsome B. Wonderful: Oh shiat, hipsters have retroactively infected the 90s.

Seriously, though, that explains a lot of the list. The biggest giveaway is the White Stripes self-titled. Nobody seemed to care about the band until "White Blood Cells" came out.

You know, for the kids:


90. Tricky - maxinquaye (1995)
89. The Sundays - Reading, Writing and Arithmetic (1990)
88. Old 97's - Fight Songs (1999)
87. Morrissey - Bona Drag (1990)
86. Built to Spill - Keep It Like A Secret (1999)
85. Victoria Williams - Loose (1994)
84. Fugees - The Score (1996)
83. Arrested Development - 3 Years, 5 Months and 2 Days in the Life Of (1992)
82. Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape (1997)
81. Archers of Loaf - Vee Vee (1995)
80. Fatboy Slim - You've Come a Long Way, Baby (1998)
79. Guster - Lost and Gone Forever (1999)
78. Pedro the Lion - It's Hard to Find a Friend (1998)
77. Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine (1992)
76. Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album (1996)
75. Daft Punk - Homework (1997)
74. Pulp - Different Class (1995)
73. Sugar - Copper Blue (1992)
72. Matthew Ryan - May Day (1997)
71. Sam Phillips - Martinis and Bikinis (1994)
70. Sonic Youth - Goo (1990)
69. Patty Griffin - Flaming Red (1998)
68. Nas - Illmatic (1994)
67. Steve Earle - El Corazon (1997)
66. Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet (1990)
65. Massive Attack - Mezzanine (1998)
64. Björk - Post (1995)
63. The Jayhawks - Hollywood Town Hall (1992)
62. the notorious b.i.g. - ready to die (1994)
61. Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend (1991)
60. Fiona Apple - Tidal (1996)
59. Gillian Welch - Revival (1996)
58. Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary (1994)
57. Blur - Parklife (1994)
56. The Beta Band - The Three EPs (1998)
55. Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) (1993)
54. Son Volt - Trace (1995)
53. Green Day - Dookie (1994)
52. Elliott Smith - XO (1998)
51. Jellyfish - Spilt Milk (1993)
50. The White Stripes - The White Stripes (1999)
49. Grifters - Crappin' You Negative (1994)
48. Bob Dylan - Time Out of Mind (1997)
47. Uncle Tupelo - March 16-20, 1992
46. Weezer - Pinkerton (1996)
45. The Roots - Things Fall Apart (1999)
44. Ben Folds Five - Whatever and Ever Amen (1997)
43. Built to Spill - There's Nothing Wrong With Love (1994)
42. Outkast - Aquemini (1998)
41. Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville (1993)
40. Billy Bragg and Wilco - Mermaid Avenue (1998)
39. Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted (1992)
38. Johnny Cash - American Recordings (V) (1994)
37. The Innocence Mission - Glow (1995)
36. Portishead - Dummy (1994)
35. Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West (1997)
34. A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory (1991)
33. Moby - Play (1999)
32. They Might Be Giants - Flood (1990)
31. Emmylou Harris - Wrecking Ball (1995)
30. Mark Heard - Satellite Sky (1992)
29. Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels... (1998)
28. Guided By Voices - Bee Thousand (1994)
27. Vigilantes of Love - Killing Floor (1992)
26. Tom Waits - Bone Machine (1992)
25. Wilco - Being There (1996)
24. Uncle Tupelo - Anodyne (1993)
23. Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream (1993)
22. Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One (1997)
21. Oasis - (What's The Story) Morning Glory? (1995)
20. DJ Shadow - ...Endtroducing... (1996)
19. Wilco - Summerteeth (1999)
18. Pearl Jam - Ten (1991)
17. Counting Crows - August and Everything After (1993)
16. Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (1998)
15. Elliott Smith - Either/Or (1997)
14. Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister (1996)
13. The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs (1998)
12. Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (1994)
11. Radiohead - The Bends (1995)
10. The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin (1999)
9. Weezer - Blue Album (1994)
8. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless (1991)
7. R.E.M. - Automatic for the People (1992)
6. Beck - Odelay (1996)
5. U2 - Achtung Baby (1991)
4. Jeff Buckley - Grace (1994)
3. Nirvana - Nevermind (1991)
2. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (1998)
1. Radiohead - OK Computer (1997)

/Agree, list fails without Dirt.
//Jeff Tweedy still won't sleep with you, Paste Magazine. You are a magazine and not a person.

fatimcgee: What a surprise...#1 and #2 are hipster shiat.

\Gross
\\Nevermind should be #1, the album popularized and kicked off an entire genre.
\\\August and Everything After @ #17?! WTHF?!?!?!?

Since when is Radiohead a "hipster" band????

List is absolutely missing Before These Crowded Streets by DMB, I know they're not everyone's favorite band on this site, but that album is fantastic.

Just going to guess: No Jellyfish, and therefore list fail.

Replace Siamese Dream with Gish and now you're talking.

No list is complete without Joe

DKinMN: Just going to guess: No Jellyfish, and therefore list fail.

Guess again

How Pearl Jam's Ten isn't in the top 10 is the biggest mystery of this list.

That's pretty trolltastic, but obviously #10 should be #1, as it was and remains the best album since at least Pink Floyd's The Wall.

Tad_Waxpole: Since when is Radiohead a "hipster" band????

Its fark, if it isn't shiatty metal it is going to be accused of being hipster.

Tad_Waxpole: fatimcgee: What a surprise...#1 and #2 are hipster shiat.

\Gross
\\Nevermind should be #1, the album popularized and kicked off an entire genre.
\\\August and Everything After @ #17?! WTHF?!?!?!?

Since when is Radiohead a "hipster" band????

marius2: Number one

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...if Billy had cut out all the crap and only released one disc with the good songs on it.

Trapper439: [4.bp.blogspot.com image 600x600] (Alice n Chains)


I agree, not even on the list.

And neither is DM's Violator... not even in the top 90? really?


list is fail.

Neutral Milk Hotel at #2? Who the fark are they?

pacmanner: Replace Siamese Dream with Gish and now you're talking.

^^^ This..

And holy fark. I just noticed.. No Dinosaur Jr? LOLOLOLOL Holy faillist.

No Alanis and her "Jagged Little Pill" huh?

Evil Kirk vs Bad Ash: Ladies and gentlemen, the most obvious troll headline since the last one.

You have shiatty taste in music.

Boognish is not pleased. Ween was jipped once again

I am zero for 90 on that list. Most of them Ive never heard of, and the ones I have heard of, I cant stand. No wonder the 90's sucked for me.

Leader O'Cola: scope1000: Metallica


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

Says the guy that thinks cookie monster crap is good music.

Warmachine999: I am zero for 90 on that list. Most of them Ive never heard of, and the ones I have heard of, I cant stand. No wonder the 90's sucked for me.

What wee you listening to?

List fail

skilbride: 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)

CSB time:

I was at the video shoot for City of Blinding Lights...after U2 had played COBL about 15 times in a row, they did a quick set. I started yelling for them to play Ultraviolet, and had about 10 people around me started chanting with me. It didn`t happen, but I was glad to see I wasn`t the only one who loved that song so much.

I love that song...I`m so glad they decided to bring it out of retirement for the 360 Tour.

a "best of the 90s" list without Nine Inch Nails, RHCP, Stone Temple Pilots, Marilyn Manson, and Tool? really?

/list could use some DMB, to boot.
//and more CanCon! :/

fark U2. There, I said it. Because nobody else around here has the guts.

rickycal78: Says the guy that thinks cookie monster crap is good music.

waaah

IMDWalrus: Handsome B. Wonderful: Oh shiat, hipsters have retroactively infected the 90s.

Seriously, though, that explains a lot of the list. The biggest giveaway is the White Stripes self-titled. Nobody seemed to care about the band until "White Blood Cells" came out.



it may be a bit retroactive, but that kind of logic doesn't really dispute the quality of the album.


robertus: //Jeff Tweedy still won't sleep with you, Paste Magazine. You are a magazine and not a person


well, he could roll up the magazine...

More Bungle!

As a kid I loved the "Three Little Pigs" music video.

A lot to click through, but no Ice Cube? Looks like I may have to use my AK

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More Bungle!

But why would you post their worst album? I love Mr. Bungle as much as the next guy but that album was shiat.

list fails without this:

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Boognish is not pleased. Ween was jipped once again

Came to say this. Leaving this as my vote:

The maker of the list is trying way to hard to be cool and obscure.

And fails badly.

I'm just going to keep suggesting albums that came out in the wrong decade.

Actually, not a bad list. I don't care how much crap I get, but these two should be on there:

Just noticed NIN Broken is also missing.. Which I guess would explain how Ministry is also missing.. The people polled are mongoloids.

Macular Degenerate: You click-thru monkeys actually clicked on all 9 pages of that crap? WTF is wrong with you people?

Lots of info per page. Not horrible choices. Isn't copypasta for clicks. Meh I read it.

9beers: Evil Kirk vs Bad Ash: Ladies and gentlemen, the most obvious troll headline since the last one.

You have shiatty taste in music.

And yet I'm not the one trying to glorify U2... it's okay Francis. I have a deep understanding of music that most people don't. Literary connections and themes often overlooked by simple minded folk like yourself. But don't feel bad about being ignorant to what you are presented with. I'm sure you get some limited enjoyment from what you think you hear and desperately try in vain to comprehend.

both things have been said but...

glad to see Jellyfish, Spilt Milk on there
and wish they would have included any of the 3 Mr. Bungle albums.

No Depeche Mode's "Violator"



/typical

I was hoping for some Blind Melon and was disappointed :(

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

They left that out? Seriously? If they were going to pay lip service to the hip-hop genre, that one really should be at the top. It is just a gold mine of great songs, and really established 2Pac as a musical legend.

List fails without Jawbreaker, Tool, Primus, The Melvins, Refused, Fitz of Depression, Jawbox and tons more I can't think of.

And not that I loved it or anything, but Sublime and Cake were the only albums you could play at a party in high school that everyone was ok with. That's worth something I suppose.

2 Radiohead albums in the top 11. List fails and is hipster bullshiat.

Bands/Artists mysteriously not appearing in this list:
Dr. Dre
Snoop
Eminem
Metallica
Alice in Chains
Tool
Faith No More
Tupac
Dinosaur Jr.
Garbage
Ween
Nine Inch Nails
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Beastie Boys
Marilyn Manson
Mr. Bungle

add more here

I'm sure the author could have left off a couple Pavement/Wilco/Uncle Tupelo/Weezer albums and still had a solid list.