In light of the recent loss of Chris Cornell, I say we get a post going of our favorite rock albums of the 90s.

GO!

SOAD - Self-titled
Nirvana - In Utero
Radiohead - OK Computer
MBV - Loveless
The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Mudhoney - Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge
Sonic Youth - Washing Machine
The Breeders - Last Splash
PJ Harvey - Is This Desire?
The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin

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Falcons, Braves, Bulldogs and Hawks

Geto Boys, Poison Clan, UGK, Eightball & MJG, OutKast, Goodie Mob

25. Fugazi - steady diet of nothing
24. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
23. Unwound - Repetition
22. Sunny Day Real Estate - How it feels to be something on
21. Nirvana - Nevermind
20. The Breeders - last splash
19. Follow for now - (self-titled)
18. Primal Scream - vanishing point
17. Fishbone - Give a monkey a brain and he'll swear he's the center of the universe
16. Pearl Jam - no code
15. Radiohead - The bends
14. Faith NYC (Felice Rosser) - Time to fall in love again
13. The Verve - Urban Hymns
12. Sunny Day Real Estate - lp2 (Pink album)
11. Fishbone - The reality of my surroundings
10. The Veldt - love at first hate
9. Stone Temple Pilots - Tiny music...songs from the Vatican Gift shop
8. Bad Brains - God of love
7. Rage against the machine - evil empire
6. Mudhoney - tomorrow hit today
5. The Amps - Pacer
4. Radiohead - OK Computer
3. Pavement - Wowee Zowee
2. Fugazi - end hits
1. Jonathan Fire*Eater - wolf songs for lambs

(just gonna go alphabetic by year, the titles **surrounded by asterisks** will denote my favorites from that year)

1990:
Aztec Camera — Stray
Cocteau Twins — Heaven or Las Vegas
**Codeine — Frigid Stars**
The Durutti Column — Obey the Time
The Field Mice — Skywriting
Happy Mondays — Pills `n` Thrills and Bellyaches
Kitchens of Distinction — Strange Free World
Mazzy Star — She Hangs Brightly
**The Sundays — Reading, Writing and Arithmetic**
The Trashcan Sinatras — Cake
Uncle Tupelo — No Depression
Neil Young + Crazy Horse — Ragged Glory

1991:
Crowded House — Woodface
Dinosaur, Jr. — Green Mind
**The Feelies — Time for a Witness**
**The Field Mice — For Keeps**
The Jazz Butcher — Condition Blue
The KLF — The White Room
My Bloody Valentine — Loveless
The Ocean Blue — Cerulean
Tom Petty + the Heartbreakers — Into the Great Wide Open
**Rain Tree Crow — Rain Tree Crow**
Slint — Spiderland
Slowdive — Just for a Day
Stereolab — Switched On {compilation}
**Talk Talk — Laughing Stock**
Throwing Muses — The Real Ramona

1992:
Blind Mr. Jones — Stereo Musicale
Codeine — Barely Real {EP}
The Comsat Angels — My Mind's Eye
**The Cure — Wish**
The Durutti Column — Red Shoes
Gavin Friday — Adam N Eve
PJ Harvey — Dry
**Kitchens of Distinction — The Death of Cool**
Morrissey — Beethoven Was Deaf
**Morrissey — Your Arsenal**
R.E.M. — Automatic for the People
**Riverside — One**
Shrimp Boat — Duende
Slovenly — Highway to Hanno's
Stereolab — Peng!
Sugarcubes — Stick Around for Joy
The Sundays — Blind
The Verve — The Verve {EP}
Roger Waters — Amused to Death
XTC — Nonsuch
Neil Young — Harvest Moon
10,000 Maniacs — Our Time in Eden

1993:
Aztec Camera — Dreamland
Mark Burgess + the Sons of God — Zima Junction
Crowded House — Together Alone
Bob Dylan — World Gone Wrong
PJ Harvey — Rid of Me
Mazzy Star — So Tonight That I Might See
Northern Picture Library — Alaska
**The Ocean Blue — Beneath the Rhythm + Sound**
**The Reegs — Rock the Magic Rock**
Shrimp Boat — Cavale
**Slowdive — Souvlaki**
Stereolab — The Groop Played "Space Age Bachelor Pad Music"
Stereolab — Refried Ectoplasm (Switched On, Volume 2) {compilation}
Stereolab — Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements
**David Sylvian + Robert Fripp — Damage {live}**
David Sylvian + Robert Fripp — The First Day
The The — Dusk
**The Trashcan Sinatras — I've Seen Everything**
Uncle Tupelo — Anodyne
The Verve — A Storm in Heaven

1994:
**Bark Psychosis — Hex**
Beck — Mellow Gold
Blind Mr. Jones — Tatooine
The Coctails — Peel
Codeine — White Birch
Dinosaur, Jr. — Without A Sound
Everything But the Girl — Amplified Heart
The Jesus + Mary Chain — Stoned and Dethroned
Kitchens of Distinction — Cowboys and Aliens
Morrissey — Vauxhall & I
Northern Picture Library — Postscript {compilation}
Tom Petty — Wildflowers
Pink Floyd — The Division Bell
Portishead — Dummy
R.E.M. — Monster
The Sea and Cake — The Sea and Cake
Stereolab — Mars Audiac Quintet
Neil Young + Crazy Horse — Sleeps With Angels

1995:
Björk — Post
Mark Burgess + Yves Altana — Paradyning
The Coctails — The Coctails
Edwyn Collins — Gorgeous George
The Comsat Angels — The Glamour
The Finn Brothers — Finn
Gavin Friday — Shag Tobacco
**Chris Isaak — Forever Blue**
**Lorelei — Everyone Must Touch the Stove**
Morrissey — Southpaw Grammar
**Radiohead — The Bends**
The Sea and Cake — The Biz
The Sea and Cake — Nassau
**Slowdive — Pygmalion**
Throwing Muses — University

1996:
**The American Analog Set — The Fun of Watching Fireworks**
Fiona Apple — Tidal
Beck — Odelay
Belle + Sebastian — If You're Feeling Sinister
Belle + Sebastian — Tigermilk
The Cure — Wild Mood Swings
Everything But the Girl — Walking Wounded
Mazzy Star — Among My Swan
.0.rang — Field and Waves
The Ocean Blue — See
R.E.M. — New Adventures in Hi-Fi
Stereolab — Emperor Tomato Ketchup
**Throwing Muses — Limbo**
Trembling Blue Stars — Her Handwriting
Wilco — Being There

1997:
**The American Analog Set — From Our Living Room to Yours**
Björk — Homogenic
Björk — Telegram {compilation}
David Bowie — Earthling
Edwyn Collins — I'm Not Following You
Dinosaur, Jr. — Hand it Over
For Against — Shelf Life
**Portishead — Portishead**
Archer Prewitt — In the Sun
**Radiohead — OK Computer**
**The Sea and Cake — The Fawn**
The Sea and Cake — Two Gentlemen {EP}
Sigur Rós — Von
**Solbakken — Limited Brazen Sound**
Stereolab — Dots and Loops
Stereolab — Aluminum Tunes (Switched On, Volume 3) {compilation}
The Sundays — Static & Silence

1998:
**The American Analog Set — The Golden Band**
Antarctica — 23:03 {EP}
Beck — Mutations
Belle + Sebastian — The Boy With the Arab Strap
The Bellows — Outside
**The Durutti Column — Time Was GIGANTIC. . . When We Were Kids**
Roddy Frame — The North Star
**PJ Harvey — Is This Desire?**
Kristin Hersh — Strange Angels
**Mark Hollis — Mark Hollis**
Natalie Merchant — Ophelia
Portishead — Roseland NYC {live}
Pullman — Turnstyles & Junkpiles
R.E.M. — Up
**Trembling Blue Stars — Lips That Taste of Tears**
**Unkle — Psyence Fiction**

1999:
**Antarctica — 81:03**
**Fiona Apple — When the Pawn. . .**
Beulah — When Your Heartstrings Break
Death Cab for Cutie — Something About Airplanes
**Everything But the Girl — Temperamental**
Kristin Hersh — Sky Motel
**Invincible — Venus**
**Midsummer — Catch and Blur**
Tom Petty + the Heartbreakers — Echo
**Sam Prekop — Sam Prekop**
Archer Prewitt — White Sky
Red Hot Chili Peppers — Californication
**Sigur Rós — Ágætis Byrjun**
**Solbakken — Pinanti**
Stereolab — Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night
**David Sylvian — Dead Bees on a Cake**
Travis — The Man Who
Wilco — Summerteeth
XTC — Apple Venus: Volume One

I'm sure I missed a ton of stuff, but there we have it.


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Thanks for assembling it. A fair amount here that I don't recognize, and a lot I had just plain forgotten about.

-thebigfunk

~ i could still snort you under the table ~

if you list a lot of records and THEN say

"I'm sure I missed a TON..."


then were you really listing "favorites"?


how can you forget a "favorite"?

how can you have a "ton" of "favorites"?

Obviously any definition of the word favorite that include "TONS" of something that you are sure you've "forgotten" is a very "weak" definition of the word "favorite."

Okay, dude.

He asterisked favorites for each year. I didn't count, but a few per year = between 20-25 favorites for a decade. Seems pretty reasonable to me.

I, for one, appreciate the context.

And have we really fallen so far that we'd rather launch into a kneejerk argument over the semantics and scope of the word "favorite" rather than, I don't know, try to pivot toward a conversation about the music itself?


-thebigfunk

~ i could still snort you under the table ~

They're all my favorites.



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however the statement you chose to end that list with

"I'm sure I missed a ton of stuff..."

suggests whatever judgement you were using was not "geared" to really "pinpoint" anything truly "meaningful" to you.


How could you be "sure" you missed a "ton" of "stuff"?

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os·ti·na·to
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And I'll use Neil Young as an example, I would consider Ragged Glory and Sleeps With Angels as rock albums but not necessarily Harvest Moon.

I know I wasn't entirely clear on what I was looking for but how many albums on your list are along the lines of Harvest Moon where they may not be traditional rock albums?

(or at least what I would consider them to be)

1990:
Aztec Camera — Stray {alternative/jangle pop}
Cocteau Twins — Heaven or Las Vegas {shoegaze/dream pop}
Codeine — Frigid Stars {slowcore/shoegaze}
The Durutti Column — Obey the Time {Madchester}
The Field Mice — Skywriting {jangle/dream pop}
Happy Mondays — Pills `n` Thrills and Bellyaches {Madchester}
Kitchens of Distinction — Strange Free World {shoegaze/dream pop}
Mazzy Star — She Hangs Brightly {slowcore/dream pop}
The Sundays — Reading, Writing and Arithmetic {jangle}
The Trashcan Sinatras — Cake {jangle}
Uncle Tupelo — No Depression {roots rock}
Neil Young + Crazy Horse — Ragged Glory {roots rock}

1991:
Crowded House — Woodface {alternative pop}
Dinosaur, Jr. — Green Mind {noise rock}
The Feelies — Time for a Witness {jangle}
The Field Mice — For Keeps {jangle/dream pop}
The Jazz Butcher — Condition Blue {jangle/dream pop}
The KLF — The White Room {alternative/electronic}
My Bloody Valentine — Loveless {shoegaze/dream pop}
The Ocean Blue — Cerulean {jangle}
Tom Petty + the Heartbreakers — Into the Great Wide Open {roots rock}
Rain Tree Crow — Rain Tree Crow {post-rock}
Slint — Spiderland {post-rock/noise}
Slowdive — Just for a Day {shoegaze/dream pop}
Stereolab — Switched On {alternative/dream pop}
Talk Talk — Laughing Stock {post-rock}
Throwing Muses — The Real Ramona {alternative pop}

1992:
Blind Mr. Jones — Stereo Musicale {shoegaze/dream pop}
Codeine — Barely Real {slowcore/shoegaze}
The Comsat Angels — My Mind's Eye {alternative rock}
The Cure — Wish {alternative/dream pop}
The Durutti Column — Red Shoes {jangle/post-rock}
Gavin Friday — Adam N Eve {alternative pop}
PJ Harvey — Dry {alternative rock}
Kitchens of Distinction — The Death of Cool {shoegaze/dream pop}
Morrissey — Beethoven Was Deaf {alternative/jangle}
Morrissey — Your Arsenal {alternative/jangle}
R.E.M. — Automatic for the People {alternative pop}
Riverside — One {jangle/dream pop}
Shrimp Boat — Duende {post-rock}
Slovenly — Highway to Hanno's {post-rock}
Stereolab — Peng! {alternative/dream pop}
Sugarcubes — Stick Around for Joy {alternative/dream pop}
The Sundays — Blind {jangle}
The Verve — The Verve {shoegaze/dream pop}
Roger Waters — Amused to Death {art rock}
XTC — Nonsuch {jangle/alternative pop}
Neil Young — Harvest Moon {roots rock}
10,000 Maniacs — Our Time in Eden {jangle/alternative pop}

1993:
Aztec Camera — Dreamland {alternative/jangle}
Mark Burgess + the Sons of God — Zima Junction {roots/dream pop}
Crowded House — Together Alone {alternative pop}
Bob Dylan — World Gone Wrong {folk rock}
PJ Harvey — Rid of Me {alternative rock}
Mazzy Star — So Tonight That I Might See {slowcore/dream pop}
Northern Picture Library — Alaska {dream pop}
The Ocean Blue — Beneath the Rhythm + Sound {jangle}
The Reegs — Rock the Magic Rock {shoegaze/dream pop}
Shrimp Boat — Cavale {post-rock}
Slowdive — Souvlaki {shoegaze/dream pop}
Stereolab — The Groop Played "Space Age Bachelor Pad Music" {alternative/dream pop}
Stereolab — Refried Ectoplasm (Switched On, Volume 2) {alternative/dream pop}
Stereolab — Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements {alternative/dream pop}
David Sylvian + Robert Fripp — Damage {post-rock}
David Sylvian + Robert Fripp — The First Day {post-rock}
The The — Dusk {art rock}
The Trashcan Sinatras — I've Seen Everything {jangle/dream pop}
Uncle Tupelo — Anodyne {roots rock}
The Verve — A Storm in Heaven {shoegaze/dream pop}

1994:
Bark Psychosis — Hex {post-rock}
Beck — Mellow Gold {alternative/noise rock}
Blind Mr. Jones — Tatooine {shoegaze/dream pop}
The Coctails — Peel {jangle}
Codeine — White Birch {slowcore/shoegaze}
Dinosaur, Jr. — Without A Sound {alternative/noise rock}
Everything But the Girl — Amplified Heart {jangle/alternative pop}
The Jesus + Mary Chain — Stoned and Dethroned {alternative rock}
Kitchens of Distinction — Cowboys and Aliens {shoegaze/dream pop}
Morrissey — Vauxhall & I {alternative/jangle}
Northern Picture Library — Postscript {dream pop}
Tom Petty — Wildflowers {roots rock}
Pink Floyd — The Division Bell {art rock}
Portishead — Dummy {alternative/electronic}
R.E.M. — Monster {alternative rock}
The Sea and Cake — The Sea and Cake {jangle/post-rock}
Stereolab — Mars Audiac Quintet {alternative/dream pop}
Neil Young + Crazy Horse — Sleeps With Angels {roots rock}

1995:
Björk — Post {alternative/electronic}
Mark Burgess + Yves Altana — Paradyning {alternative/dream pop}
The Coctails — The Coctails {jangle/post-rock}
Edwyn Collins — Gorgeous George {alternative pop}
The Comsat Angels — The Glamour {alternative/post-rock}
The Finn Brothers — Finn {roots rock}
Gavin Friday — Shag Tobacco {alternative/electronic}
Chris Isaak — Forever Blue {roots rock}
Lorelei — Everyone Must Touch the Stove {noise/post-rock}
Morrissey — Southpaw Grammar {alternative rock}
Radiohead — The Bends {alternative rock}
The Sea and Cake — The Biz {jangle/post-rock}
The Sea and Cake — Nassau {jangle/post-rock}
Slowdive — Pygmalion {post-rock}
Throwing Muses — University {alternative rock}

1996:
The American Analog Set — The Fun of Watching Fireworks {slowcore/dream pop}
Fiona Apple — Tidal {alternative/chamber pop}
Beck — Odelay {alternative pop}
Belle + Sebastian — If You're Feeling Sinister {jangle}
Belle + Sebastian — Tigermilk {jangle}
The Cure — Wild Mood Swings {alternative pop}
Everything But the Girl — Walking Wounded {alternative/electronic}
Mazzy Star — Among My Swan {slowcore/dream pop}
.0.rang — Field and Waves {post-rock}
The Ocean Blue — See {jangle}
R.E.M. — New Adventures in Hi-Fi {alternative pop}
Stereolab — Emperor Tomato Ketchup {alternative/dream pop}
Throwing Muses — Limbo {alternative rock}
Trembling Blue Stars — Her Handwriting {jangle}
Wilco — Being There {roots rock}

1997:
The American Analog Set — From Our Living Room to Yours {slowcore/dream pop}
Björk — Homogenic {alternative/electronic}
Björk — Telegram {alternative/electronic}
David Bowie — Earthling {art rock}
Edwyn Collins — I'm Not Following You {alternative pop}
Dinosaur, Jr. — Hand it Over {alternative/noise rock}
For Against — Shelf Life {jangle}
Portishead — Portishead {alternative/electronic}
Archer Prewitt — In the Sun {jangle}
Radiohead — OK Computer {alternative/post-rock}
The Sea and Cake — The Fawn {jangle/post-rock}
The Sea and Cake — Two Gentlemen {jangle/post-rock}
Sigur Rós — Von {dream pop/post-rock}
Solbakken — Limited Brazen Sound {noise/post-rock}
Stereolab — Dots and Loops {alternative/dream pop}
Stereolab — Aluminum Tunes (Switched On, Volume 3) {alternative/dream pop}
The Sundays — Static & Silence {jangle}

1998:
The American Analog Set — The Golden Band {slowcore/dream pop}
Antarctica — 23:03 {shoegaze/post-rock}
Beck — Mutations {alternative pop}
Belle + Sebastian — The Boy With the Arab Strap {jangle}
The Bellows — Outside {jangle}
The Durutti Column — Time Was GIGANTIC. . . When We Were Kids {jangle/post-rock}
Roddy Frame — The North Star {jangle}
PJ Harvey — Is This Desire? {alternative/dream pop}
Kristin Hersh — Strange Angels {folk rock}
Mark Hollis — Mark Hollis {post-rock}
Natalie Merchant — Ophelia {alternative pop}
Portishead — Roseland NYC {alternative/electronic}
Pullman — Turnstyles & Junkpiles {folks rock}
R.E.M. — Up {alternative pop}
Trembling Blue Stars — Lips That Taste of Tears {jangle}
Unkle — Psyence Fiction {electronic/post-rock}

1999:
Antarctica — 81:03 {electronic/shoegaze/post-rock}
Fiona Apple — When the Pawn. . . {alternative pop}
Beulah — When Your Heartstrings Break {alternative/jangle pop}
Death Cab for Cutie — Something About Airplanes {alternative/jangle pop}
Everything But the Girl — Temperamental (alternative/electronic}
Kristin Hersh — Sky Motel {alternative pop}
Invincible — Venus {alternative/dream pop}
Midsummer — Catch and Blur {shoegaze/dream pop/post-rock}
Tom Petty + the Heartbreakers — Echo {roots rock}
Sam Prekop — Sam Prekop (jangle/post-rock}
Archer Prewitt — White Sky {jangle}
Red Hot Chili Peppers — Californication {alternative rock}
Sigur Rós — Ágætis Byrjun (dream pop/post-rock}
Solbakken — Pinanti {noise/post-rock}
Stereolab — Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night {alternative/dream pop}
David Sylvian — Dead Bees on a Cake {post-rock}
Travis — The Man Who {alternative/jangle pop}
Wilco — Summerteeth {roots rock}
XTC — Apple Venus: Volume One {alternative/art rock}

Hopefully, that helps to clarify a little bit. I know I could be a little more specific in most cases, but I figure you probably know (or have a pretty good idea of) what most of these sound like.



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You put the two albums I used as an example in the same category lol

Harvest Moon I would consider more singer/songwriter-folk than roots rock no?

I distinguish between "roots rock" and "folk rock" by the use of electric instruments.

To me, if something is more on the folk side, it's acoustic-based. This is why "all acoustic" albums on the list by Bob Dylan, Kristin Hersh, Pullman, etc. are tagged "folk rock."

Now, on the other hand, "roots rock" is based on the same sort of "Americana" type sound, but there's more of a reliance on a traditional rock band lineup (drums/bass/guitars) and a clearly defined backbeat. Sure, there will also be acoustic guitars, and maybe even a lot of twang, but it's all carried by a conventional group of "rock band" musicians. This is why stuff like Wilco, Uncle Tupelo, Tom Petty, etc. are tagged "roots rock."

Hope that clarifies a bit more.


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Been meaning to force myself to listen to 90s Rock which is an era that I almost completely skipped out on at the time... Put together a solid playlist from Apple Music based on some of these recomendation.

I have listened to or have on my 'to listen to' list a majority of these albums, but there's a lot in here I either haven't heard of or simply forgot about. Great list!

Live - Throwing Copper
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Pearl Jam - Vitalogy

*Renegades came out in 2000 but I'll throw it in there too

No mention of the Black Crowes?!?

They were a great southern boogie rock band who released five great to very good albums during their artistic peak in the 90's.

I was hooked the first time I heard their cover of Otis' "Hard to Handle"...

I thought it was good but it didn't stick with me at the time. I really liked "A conspiracy" when it was a new single but I dragged and dragged around before finally buying the CD of "Amorica"

I probably would have liked the "Tall" album they were recording before "Amorica" that they released the tracks a decade later. I recently checked out one of the tracks from the "Tall" sessions on youtube and thought it was pretty good.

Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come (an OK Computer-esque leap for a hardcore band...it showed the genre how it could mature and grow gracefully)

Slint - Spiderland (20 years ahead of its time and still would fit in perfectly in modern indie rock in 2017)

PJ Harvey - Her Whole Discography (quiet as kept the premier pure rock musician of the 90's and still relevant in this era too)

Melvins - Their 90's work is basically the sound metal music in this decade; in sludge rock we trust.

Nine Inch Nails - the sounds they were able to wrest out of old synths and the production software of the time is insane, The Downward Spiral is a triumph of studio production in addition to just good ass rock songwriting

Failure - Fantastic Planet. Just a lushly textured rock album that pushed the space rock concept to its logical conclusion. Another album that could come out in 2017 and be right at home...their songs have been covered on albums like A Perfect Circle and Paramore


Honorable Mention:

Stone Temple Pilots - don't get the respect they deserve...most critically acclaimed bands would kill to have a run like they had for those first four albums. I am not even a huge fan like that but periodically when i get into a 90's grunge flashback setlist I am shocked how solid their work was

Toadies - Rubberneck (such a great album for a band to basically be a one hit wonder)

these are in no particular order...just my absolute favorites from the 90's that I keep near me at all times.

Soundgarden - Down on the Upside

Soungarden - Superunknown

Temple of the Dog (self-titled)

Stone Temple Pilots - Purple

Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream

Live - Throwing Copper

The Black Crowes - The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion

Weezer - Blue Album

A.I.C. - Dirt

Creed - My Own Prison

Metallica - Metallica (the Black Album)

...I'm from the era when A.I. was the answer, now they think ai is the answer - Marlon Craft

living color TYpe

Green Day Dookie

Soundgarden superunknown

alice in chains dirt

Nirvana Unplugged

rage against the machine evil empire

lucious jackson electric honey

primus pork soda

mistermaxxx R.Kelly, Michael Jackson,Stevie wonder,Rick James,Marvin Gaye,El Debarge, Barry WHite Lionel RIchie,Isleys EWF,Lady T.,Kid creole and coconuts,the crusaders,kc sunshine band,bee gees,jW,sd,NE,JB

Miami Heat, New York Yankees,buffalo bills

The 90's are my musical mine since I was too into hip hop to pay much attention. Now that hip hop is...well Ive been going back and relying on questionable personal taste from my white friends and coworkers. This gives me more lodes to delve into. This period of rock is awesome like hip hop.

Taking shots in the dark/that's a bad call
Going straight for your head/ gotta saw it off

The 90's are my musical mine since I was too into hip hop to pay much attention. Now that hip hop is...well Ive been going back and relying on questionable personal taste from my white friends and coworkers. This gives me more lodes to delve into. This period of rock is awesome like hip hop.

Taking shots in the dark/that's a bad call
Going straight for your head/ gotta saw it off

___

it is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. - sherlock holmes

(*Definitely Maybe and Tragic Kingdom)

It was mostly all hip hop for me back then.
Portishead's "Dummy" too.

every single album by Pavement
first two Weezer Albums
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Slowdive - Souvlaki (my favorite album out of all of these)
Red House Painters - Rollercoaster
Radiohead - OK Computer
Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine
Soda Stereo - Dynamo
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Nirvana - MTV Unplugged

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As if their 80's weren't bad enough-and it was terrible-dey lost it completely in de 90's.

Anyway (same shit as always...) and in no order:

Jesus Lizard-head, goat, liar
Kyuss-blues from te red sun, welcome to skyvalley
Danzig-II:Lucifuge, 'ow de gods kill
Fugazi-just pick one before End 'its
Matthew Sweet-Girlfriend (and Posies-Frosting... and Teenage Fanclub "bandwagonesque" for EVEN more melodic big Star worship...)
Soundgarden-badmotorfinger
Eggstone-EVERYTiNG (for wimp-"rock", dey killed it; sweden FTW!!!)
Cardigans-Life (international edition, see above)
Cows-Cunning stunts, effete and ..., Sexy Pee story
Royal Trux-Twin infinitives, Cats and dogs (<dis one, no real rocker should miss IMO; "Twin..." is more art-school)
Union Carbide Productions-From influence to ignorance
hellacopters-first two (action rock! MC5!!!)
Slint-Spiderland (tired of dis style, still, great record and VERY influential)
Lucinda Williams-Car wheels... (90's roots-rock! And it does NOT sound like Counting Crowes (or Pearl Jam) or loser Traveller or hootie! Yay!!!)
Polvo-Todays active lifestyles (sure, lame "indie"-vocals but guitar-interplay=coolest since Television, arguably beefheart!!!)
Melvins-bullhead, houdini, lysol, maggot-bigreg is right for once; SO influential...
Popsicle-Laquer (swedish jangle-pop!!! catchy like ABBA!!!)
Unsane-first; everyting else sounds de same, just worse (still dope!!!)!!!
US Maple-Long Hair in Three Stages (90's Trout mask...)
Trumans Water-Spasm smash XXXoxox and ass (sp?), Godspeed the punchline (I swear, peope didn't "get" dis John Peel-hyped act; *I* did... and dey ruled!!!)
Tar-Jackson ("mediocre" record... that rules!!! hard to explain)
hammerhead-Into the Vortex, Duh! the big city (RAAAAA!!!)

OK, "Loveless" as well... it's good...

Anyway, most of my favorite 90's record tend to be noisy and aggressive; that is NOT due to me not liking melodic music; NO-and dis is *essence*-I prefer melodic stuff from 60's-EARLY 70's; I simply don't hear meaningful progression in "pop-rock" after that, on contrary, it only gets worse... UNIFORMLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Seriously, a melodic 60's garage-rock noname like Dovers take a dump on most later melodic rock... and dey dropped like 3 singles!!! Tell me again why I should bother??? No, E ngland is NOT an answer...

EDI avemnts first two (and EPs) still works; rest was "indie-rock (tm)" and dull. On dat note inosaur Jr-hand it over!!! Mascis knocked it out here!

EDIT2:helmet-Strap it on and "Meantime". Its easy to blame dem for nu-metal and Pantera/90's Sepultura (and Tool (yuck!)). Doesn't take anything away from hteir initial freshness and originality... more their followers who fucked it up by failing to "overstand" less-is-more...

>Kyuss-blues from te red sun, welcome to skyvalley

and was like 'I know that band name from somewhere...'

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album ---> http://greenwoodburns.bandcamp.com/releases
Soundcloud ---> http://soundcloud.com/greenwood-burns

my own stuff -->http://soundcloud.com/lonesomedstringband

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special place in my heart. I was born in late '82, and really didn't dive deep into music until about 92/93, so my preferences have always been skewed towards the early-mid 90s. Plus, I just happen to love a lot of the music that was created in that first half of the 90s.

With that said, putting together a list of favorites is pretty tough bc I'm a completest and know I will neglect so many damn albums I loved.

My list is not ranked so don't overthink it. Some of the albums I will list I know aren't necessary 'great' albums, but at one point were GREAT to me and influenced me in some capacity.

Probably #1 to me then and still a personal favorite is Weezer's Blue Album. To me, it's like the perfect marriage of so many musical styles and aesthetics I love about that time period. Even though I was really a 'jock' type kid, at that period in my life I had long hair, skate-boarded, and dressed the part.

Some albums I really love, but maybe didn't 'get' or know about at the time:

My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas (really, I love all their stuff, but more so now in retrospect)
Yo La Tengo - I can Hear the Heart Beating as One, Painful,
Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain, Slanted & Enchanted
Belle and Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Pixies - all their 90s releases
Portishead - Dummy
Elliot Smith - Either/Or
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Ride - Nowhere
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Splint - Spiderland
Mark Lanegan - Whiskey for the Holy Ghost
The Cure - Wish
The Sundays - Reading, Writing, and Arithmatic

Albums I really dug at the time (and some I still love):

Dinosaur Jr. - Green Mind
Pennywise - Unknown Road
NOFX - Punk in Drublic
DGC Rarities - some complitation of a bunch of 'alt-rock' songs released on DGC. Don't even remember how I stumbled upon this, but I played the hell out of it.
The Lemmonheads - It's a Shame about Ray
Temple of the Dog
Ween - The Mollusk
Ben Folds Five - Ben Folds Five
Rage Against the Machine - RATM, Evil Empire, Battle of LA
Toadies - Rubberneck
Tool - Anema
Incubus - Make Yourself
Sublime - 40 oz to Freedom
The Cranberries - No Need to Argue
Toad the Wet Sprocket - Fear, Dulcinea
Blind Melon - self-titled and Soup
Sonic Youth - Goo
Fugazi - Repeater
Green Day - 1,039 Smoothed out Slappy Hours, Dookie
Helmet - Betty, Strap it On
Live - Throwing Copper
Radiohead - the Bends, OK Computer
Oasis - What's the Story Morning Glory?, Definitely Maybe
The Black Crowes - The Southern Harmony...Amorica
Tom Petty - Wildflowers
U2 - Achtung Baby, Zooropa
REM - Automatic for the People
The Flaming Lips - the Soft Bulletin
Pearl Jam - all their albums
Beck - Odelay, Midnight Vultures, Mutations
RHCP - Blood Sugar Sex Magic
Jane's Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
SoundGarden - Superunknown
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit, Unplugged
ALice in Chains - Unplugged
Counting Crows - August and Everything Else After
STP - Core and Purple

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Falcons, Braves, Bulldogs and Hawks

Geto Boys, Poison Clan, UGK, Eightball & MJG, OutKast, Goodie Mob

a) it sounds so 90s, c) it was 1990 before I dove into it, and c) it's so damn great. I recently played the whole thing through on a car ride, windows down, full volume, and it was glorious. When I think of great 1990s rock, this is the sound I think of - music that's both hard and soft at the same time and in just the right ways.

But it was 1989. *shrug*

See also: Vulgar Boatmen "You & Your Sister."

Anyhow. I'll break it up a little bit:

Jangle & more-or-less straightforward roots-rock

The Sundays - Reading, Writing, Arithmetic (jangle, 1990)
Uncle Tupelo - Anodyne (roots rock, 1993)
Richard Thompson - Rumor & Sigh (singer-songwriter, 1991)
John & Mary - Weedkiller's Daughter (jangle, 1993)
Ani Difranco - gonna go with Living in Clip; it's about the most 'rock' she got (roots rock, 1997)
Pernice Brothers - Overcome By Happiness (Chamber Pop)
The Iguanas - Super Ball (NOLA Latin rock)
Col. Bruce Hampton & the Aquarium Rescue Unit - s/t (jazz rock with a bit of bluegrass thrown in)
Soul-Cialist Escape in Lost Homeland (Japanese roots-rock with Irish and Okinawan influences and an Albert Ayler medley)


Celtic, Japanese & global roots-rock
Boiled in Lead - Orb (global roots-punk)
Dead Can Dance - Toward the Within (global roots rock)
Ashley MacIsaac - Hi, How Are You Today? (Canadian Celtic rock)
Levellers - Levelling the Land (British roots rock)
3 Mustaphas 3 - Shopping (Balkan/global roots-rock)
Ivo Papasov & His Bulgarian Wedding Band - Orpheus Ascending (Balkan roots-rock)
Marta Sebastyen - Apocrypha (Hungarian new-age trad synth pop)
Mouth Music - s/t, mo-di (electroCeltic, worldbeat)
The Boom - Tropicalism, 0 Degrees (global/Brazilian roots-rock from Japan); Japaneska (Okinawan/Jamaican-influenced rock) (this band's whole 1990s output is a winner though)
Kodo - Ibuki (okay not a rock album, but Bill Laswell's production makes it hit like one. It's a rock album by FEEL if not by strict genre assignation.)
Shokichi Kina & Champloose - CHAMPLOO! (Okinawan roots rock)
Shoglenifty - Venus in Tweeds (Celtic rock)


Ska:
v/a - Skaville Japan!
v/a - Mash It Up '93, More Ska & Bluebeat
Mighty Mighty Bosstones - More Noise & Other Disturbances
Bim Ska La Bim - Live at the Paradise


AND:
Brand New Heavies s/t (funk)

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so I'm in a band now:
album ---> http://greenwoodburns.bandcamp.com/releases
Soundcloud ---> http://soundcloud.com/greenwood-burns

my own stuff -->http://soundcloud.com/lonesomedstringband

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Hole-Live Through This
Nirvana - In Utero
Built To Spill - Keep It Like A Secret
Frank Black - Teenager Of The Year
Mazzy Star - She Hangs Brightly
Smashing Pumpkins - pisces iscariot
Soundgarden - Down On The Up Side
Radiohead- Okay Computer
PJ Harvey - Rid Of Me
Jesus Lizard - Goat
Nirvana - Nevermind
Soundgarden - Super Unknownwn
Stone Temple Pilots - Tiny Music
Green Day - Insomniac
Blur - Parklife
Nivana - Bleach
Pixies - Bossanova
Smashing Pumpkins- Gish
Radiohead - The Bends