Name just one.

Here's mine…

Superdrag - Regretfully Yours (1995)

Hmm..gotta be Nine Inch Nail's "The Downward Spiral" (1994)

cant name one:

GOLD EXPERENCE
MECHANICAL ANIMALS
SYMPHONY OR DAMN
DOWNWARD SPIRAL

"Grace"-Jeff Buckley

Tori Amos - "Boys For Pele" (1996)
Brilliant!
Absolutely brilliant!

U2 - Achtung Baby


(runner up: REM - Automatic For the People)

Jeff Buckley- Grace

Axchi696 said:

Yeah. And, yup.

Sananda Maitreya (TTD): Vibrator

excuse yourself Serious --- but wasnt that Terence Trent D'arby at around that time !!!

i only say that ... cause that was mine ... and you beat me to it !

Symphony or Damn all the way

I'm a total fucking cliche, I know, but it's Nirvana's "Nevermind" album. Thinking back on that record makes me think of how it must have been for my mom when "Sgt. Pepper" was first released, and how amazing it must have been to experience such a zeitgeist over a genuinely good piece of music.

MisterMan38 said:

Yeah at that time he still called himself TTD
And may I add that you have a brilliant taste in music

Supa Dupa Fly-Missy Elliott
Kaleidescope-Kelis

played these two OUT.

jacktheimprovident said:

Great choice

Wu-Tang Forever ...By Wu-tang Clan 1997

"Martha Wash" - Martha Wash

i should go back ... and try to figure out ... if my fav is Vibrator .. or Symphony or damn ... hmmmm

first impulse is Vibrator tho ....

(and right back at ya ... with the taste in music ...others will probably copy after us )

Anxiety said:

It's only become a cliche to some people. That album hasn't lost any of its power with time. Good choice.

Serious said:

Also Pearl Jam-Vs, The Singles Soundtrack, The Gold Experience (of course), Wendy & Lisa-Eroica, Oasis -Definitley Maybe

For some reason, I dunno so don't ask... Smashing Pumkins double album, "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness"

That album had always inspired me to be creative... I haven't listened to it in a while (3 yrs.). I am starving now.

I don't know if I could pick just one. The 90's were my musical coming of age and I value that decade more than I can say.

But here are some that I think are among the best the decade had to offer.

Homogenic - Bjork
Debut and Post were amazing, but she reached a new plateau with this one.

Maxinquaye - Tricky
There are others by him that I like just as well, but this will always be his landmark.

Rid Of Me - PJ Harvey
Everyone seems to prefer To Bring You My Love, but this one's where it's at. Maybe the fiercest alternative album of the decade.

Achtung Baby! - U2
I love all of their 90's output, but this will always be their peak.

Check Your Head - Beastie Boys
Them at their funk/punkiest. Never a dull moment. This album is so fucking cool that anyone who listens to it automatically becomes cool.

Exile In Guyville - Liz Phair
18 songs and all of them classics. It's sketchy and unfinished sounding and blunt and hilarious and tragic all at the same time.

Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness - The Smashing Pumpkins
Them at their most messy and bombastic. It's so over the top, but there are so many great songs, it's hard to deny.

Boys For Pele - Tori Amos
All 5 of her 90's albums are among my favorites. Something about this one hits me so hard though. Maybe it's the stories behind the songs. Maybe it's the mythological feel. Maybe it's the meandering trip it takes you on. Maybe it's that haunted piano.

Erotica and Ray of Light - Madonna
Impossible for me to choose. Madonna's 2 sides at their finest. Her most in your face, controversial and confrontational and her most refined, inspired and spiritual represented perfectly on these 2 albums. They're so far removed, they almost seem part of different decades.

The Richard D. James Album - Aphex Twin
So beautiful and fresh. Like Bjork said, "what classical music will be one day."

And although Prince wasn't very important to the decade as a whole, he had many of my favorite albums during that time period. Diamonds & Pearls, , Come and The Truth are all among my favorites of his. It's too bad he couldn't translate that to the masses.

The album from the 90s I listen to the most would be Madonna's Ray of Light. When that came out I just couldn't believe that at her age when she looked almost finished she managed to produce the finest album of her career.

Other favourites include Loveless by My Bloody Valentine and Urban Hymns by The Verve. Nirvana are also well covered.

A few years ago I would have chosen Grace by Jeff Buckley but now I think it's way overrated.

Mine would be Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill

It's the first album I ever bought myself (when I was 9) and I still love it!

My Bloody Valentine - Loveless

ok, just because i can't help but make a list, here are the other albums i would choose as my most favoritest of the '90s:

2. ok computer - radiohead
3. diva - annie lennox
4. live through this - hole
5. bright red - laurie anderson
6. rid of me - pj harvey
7. tiger bay - st. etienne
8. outside - david bowie
9. the downward spiral - NIN
10. come - prince

Janet - The Velvet Rope (1997). I played this album to death.





Singlehandedly changed the way I looked at music.