I started in the 70's. Then the 80's. Now list your top fave of the 90's. Here's mine:
1. Boyz 2 Men-Cooleyhighharmony
2. Waiting To Exhale soundtrack
3. 2Pac-All Eyez On Me
4. R. Kelly-12 Play
5. TLC-CrazySexyCool
6. Ice Cube-Death Certificate
7. Snoop Dogg-Doggystyle
8. Bell Biv Devoe-Poison
9. Prince-Diamonds and Pearls
10. Tony, Toni, Tone-Sons Of Soul
11. Dr. Dre-The Chronic
12. Red Hot Chili Peppers-Blood, Sugar, Sex, Magik
13. D'Angelo-Brown Sugar
14. Public Enemy-Apocalypse 91:The Enemy Strikes Black
15. The Bodyguard Soundtrack
16. Prince-Emancipation
17. The Boomerang Soundtrack
18. Janet Jackson-The Velvet Rope
19. Jodeci-Definition Of A Band
20. Santana-Supernatural
Here's my list. What does yours look like?
Honorable mention props go to: MJ's-Dangerous, Hammer's-Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em, Prince-The Gold Experience, Puffy's-No Way Out, and New Edition's-Home Again.

LoDog said:

Good list. My favorites of the 90s:
1. MJ - Dangerous
2. P - The Gold Experience
3. Janet - Janet
4. Boyz II Men - CooleyHighHarmony
5. Babyface - For The Cool IN You
6. R. Kelly - R. Kelly
7. Maxwell - Urban Hang Suite
8. Luther Vandross - Your Secret Love
9. Mary J. Blige - What's the 411
10. TLC - Crazy Sexy Cool
11. Toni Braxton - Secrets
12. Madonna - Bedtime Stories
13. Janet Jackson - The Velvet Rope
14. Maze - Back to Basics
15. New Power Generation - Exodus
16. Usher - My Way
17. Boomerang soundtrack
18. Mariah Carey - Butterfly
19. Mariah Carey - Daydream
20. Waiting To exhale Soundtrack
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Oh gosh! Now this might be a list I can do.

1.the velvet rope- janet
2.my life- mary
3.toni braxton- toni
4.baduism- erykah badu
5.janet.- janet
6.never say never- brandy
7.miseducation of lauryn hill- lauryn
8.life after death- biggie smalls
9.dangerous- michael
10.crazysexycool- tlc
11.dru hill- dru hill
12.share my world- mary
13.tender lover- babyface
14.i'm your baby tonight- whitney
15.urban hangsuite- maxwell
16.cooleyhighharmony- boys 2 men
17.no way out- p diddy& family
18.forever my lady- jodeci
19.12 play- r kelly
20.waiting to exhale soundtrack

gee i dont even own 20 albums of the 90s im still expanding but these would be on my list

dangerous (mj)
nevermind(nirvana)
history (mj)
traveling without moviing (jamiroquai)
emergency on planeth earth
blood sugar sex magik ( red hot chilli peppers)
californiacation (rhcp)
super natural * santana*

Top 20!??
Man... there were only like 1-5 good albums made in the whole damn decade

The 49ers - The 49ers
Martha Wash - Martha Wash
House Music All Night Long - Cartouche
All Mixed Up - Black Box
Elegant Slumming - M People
Robin S - Robin S
Chic-ism - Chic
Crystal Waters - Crystal Waters
Clivilies and Cole Remixes - Clivilies and Cole
Bridging The Gap - Roger
Emotional Violence - Cameo
Come - Prince
Dangerous - Michael Jackson
Peace Sign - War
Clubland - Clubland
Use It Up And Wear It Out - Pat and Mick
Sports Weekend - The 2 Live Crew
The Dogs - The Dogs
69 Boyz - 69 Boyz
Erotica - Madonna
Back From The Tomb - The Egyptian Lover
Sons Of Soul - Tony, Toni, Tone
Are You Gonna Go My Way - Lenny Kravitz

Hell, there are some more but I would have to go in a closet and pull a whole bunch of cassette trays. In the 1990s, I bought mostly cassette singles or maxi singles. There weren't that many great albums in the 1990s once the 1990s really got kicked in.
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Michael Jackson-Dangerous
Janet-janet.
Mariah Carey-Butterfly
TLC-CrazySexyCool
TLC-Fanmail
Madonna-Ray of Light
Brandy
Real McCoy-Another Night
Brandy-Never Say Never
Monica-Miss Thang
Michael Jackson-HIStory
Janet-Velvet Rope
Spice Girls-Spice
Toni Braxton-Secrets
Madonna-Erotica
Dance Mix 95'
Ace of Base-The Bridge
Destiny's Child-Writings on the Wall
Mariah Carey-Daydream
Mariah Carey-Emotions

I admit, I loved R.Kelly's self titled album back then too, now it's in my 'get rid of it' pile
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In no particular order:

0+> - Prince and the New Power Generation
The Gold Experience- 0+>
112 (self Titled)
Cooleyhighharmony-Boys II Men
II-Boyz to Men
Toni Braxton (self titled)
CrazySexyCool-TLC
Doggystyle-Snoop Dog
The Chronic-Dr. Dre
Janet-Janet Jackson
A Closer Look (this may or may not count since it's an album of remixes)-Babyface
For the Cool in You-Babyface
Dru Hill (self titled)
Waiting to Exhale Sountrack-various artists
New Jack City Soundtrack-various artists
Cool Relax-Jon B.
All Eyez on Me-Tupac
Very Necessary-Salt n Pepa
Dangerous-Michael Jackson



Special Mentions: Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite-Maxwell, Rhythm Nation 1814- Janet Jackson
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lowkey said:

Tender Lover came out in 1989...not 90.

daPrettyman said:

I put it on mt list, too. Now I have to replace it with one of m "special mentions."

Radiohead OK Computer
U2 Acthung Baby
D'angelo Voodoo
Terence Trent D'arby Symphony Or Damn
Prince The Gold Experience
Crowded House Together Alone
Radiohead The Bends
Donald Fagen Kamirikiad
D'angelo Brown Sugar
Bjork Homogenic
Bjork Post
Jackson Browne I'm Alive
Prince Graffiti Bridge
Suede Dog Man Star
Beck Odelay
Black Grape It's Great When Your Straight
Tori Amos Boys For Pele
Bjork Debut
Prince Diamonds And Pearls
Prince Symbol
Prefab Sprout Jordan: The Comeback
Michael Jackson Dangerous
Sheryl Crow Tuesday Night Music Club
Crowded House Woodface
World Party Goodbye Jumbo
Beck Mutations
BLur Parklife
Mercury Rev Deserter's Songs
Wilco Being There
World Party Bang
The Black Crowes Amorica
U2 Zooropa
Suede Suede
Morrissey Vauxhal And I
Blur The Great Escape
Boo Radleys Giant Steps
Prince Come
TTD Vibrator
Supergrass I Should Coco
Tim Finn Before And After
David Bowie Black Tie White Noise
Prince Emancipation
Suede Coming Up
Prefab Sprout Andromea Heights
Blue Nile Peace At Last
Morrissey Your Arsenal
Portishead Dummy
Wilco Summerteeth
Jeff Buckley Grace
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1. Jeff Buckley - Grace
2. Bob Dylan - Time Out Of Mind
3. Marilyn Manson - antichrist superstar
4. David Bowie - Outside
5. Johnny Cash - ameican recordings
6. Bob Dylan - world gone wrong
7. Prince - come
8. Dwight Yoakam - This time
9. John Mayer - Inside wants out
10. Prince - The Gold Experience
11. David Bowie - Earthling
12. Manic street preachers - this is my truth tell me yours
13. Nirvana - nevermind
14. George Strait - Blue Clear Sky
15. Prince - Emancipation
16. NIN - the fragile
17. Madonna - ray of light
18. Michael jackson - Dangerous
19. *Nsync - nsync
20. Cher - believe
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1.Beck-Odelay
2.Notorious Big-Ready to Die
3.U2-Achtung Baby
4.Nirvana-Nevermind
5.Dr.Dre-The Chronic
6.NIN-Downward Spiral
7.Marilyn Manson-Antichrist Superstar
8.Madonna-Ray of light
9.Pearl Jam-Ten
10.A tribe called Quest-The low end theory
11.Moby-Play
12.Shania Twain-Come on over
13.Garth Brooks-No fences
14.Radiohead-OK Computer
15.Korn-Korn
16.Ice Cube-Death Certificate
17.Bjork-Homogenic
18.Johnny Cash-American Recordings I
19.Depeche Mode-Violator
20.Guns and Roses-Use your Illusion (I & II)
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FuNkeNsteiN said:

I hope this thread will help you to see that you're terribly mistaken.

DElete
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JoeTyler said:

Nah.
Looking at this lists just proves me right.
If shit like 'Nevermind' and 'OK Computer' is the best the nineties has to offer, Imma pass on the whole decade.

In no particular order:

Prince - The Gold Experience
Janet Jackson - Janet
TLC-CrazySexyCool
Prince - Come
Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
D'Angelo - Brown Sugar
The Fugees - The Score
RHCP - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Radiohead - The Bends
Radiohead - Ok Computer
Nas - Illmatic
Notorious B.I.G. - Ready to Die
Aerosmith - Get a Grip
Prince -
Tony! Toni! Toné! - The Revival
Marc Anthony - Todo a Su Tiempo
Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty
Boyz II Men - Cooleyhighharmony
Madonna - Erotica
Janet Jackson - The Velvet Rope

Oh crap, I love 90's music!! This is gonna be hard

I know WAY too many of these albums.

I am so 90's.

Exactly. The majority of the stuff I listed from the 1990s wasn't even hits and the stuff that was hits in the 1990s was a bunch of dull bullshit. I didn't think a decade could get any duller than the 1990s but the 2000s proved me wrong. Actually, nothing is any different from this decade than the majority of the 1990s. Boring, midtempo, stripped down shit hop still rules the airwaves and the stuff that isn't shit hop never gets past midtempo. It's like kids these days have switched places with old people (in the past, old people hated fast music and young people loved it....now, it's the opposite).
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vainandy said:

Don't you mean 199Quad?

Yeah, that's the one...I guess....it's the one with "Riding High" on it. Most of my 1990s stuff is cassettes and they are in trays in the bottom of my closet. I haven't pulled them out in a while.
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vainandy said:

Cassettes
Haven't played one of thoes in a while.

I've recorded most of my old cassettes onto CDs but I haven't gotten around to the 1990s stuff yet. With the invention of the CD recorder, I was glad to put those cassettes onto CD because cassettes do not age well.....all that sounding dropping and sound being muffled and stuff....not to mention having to do all that fast forwarding and rewinding.

1 ) Grant McLennan - Horsebreaker Star
2 ) Smog - red apple falls
3 ) Pernice Brothers - Overcome By Happiness
4 ) Gavin Bryars - Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet
5 ) Scott Walker - Tilt
6 ) Scud Mountain Boys - Massachusetts
7 ) High Llamas - Hawaii
8 ) Robert Wyatt - shleep
9 ) Plastikman - Musik
10 ) Lyle Lovett - Joshua Judges Ruth
11 ) Handsome Family - Through the Trees
12 ) Bonnie Prince Billy - I See A Darkness
13 ) The Fall - Extricate
14 ) Loop - Gilded Eternity
15 ) The Chills - Submarine Bells
16 ) Julian Cope - Peggy Suicide
17 ) Jimmie Dale Gilmore - After Awhile
18 ) The Pooh Sticks - The Great White Wonder
19 ) bob dylan - time out of mind
20 ) lucinda williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road

damosuzuki said:

No Transient Random Noise-Bursts with Announcements or Mars Audiac Quintet?

GangstaFam said:

Transient would be bubbling under for me right now - a year ago it probably would have made the cut. These things are always shifting. I'm not able to be consistent with my rankings, unlike your brother.

I don't like MAQ as much as Transient, though I really love a handful tracks on it. And shamefully enough, to this day I still have not listened to Emperor Tomato Ketchup. I'll have to fix that one of these days.

You still need to post a list, by the way.

damosuzuki said:

I'm so utterly shit at these things though that I usually skip 'em altogether.

You MUST get ETK ASAP! Have you heard Dots & Loops? That's just as great.

GangstaFam said:

Haven't heard Dots & Loops either. Long story short - I went through a bit of a pinch financially around the time ETK came out, and couldn't afford to buy any music - a painful situation for me. By the time I regained my footing, I had lost a little interest in the band and never went back to pick up the albums I missed. I'm sure I'll buy it one of these days - just a question of me spotting it when my mood is receptive.

Same thing happened with Prince, actually - Emancipation came out around that time and I really just couldn't afford to buy it. When I finally was able to afford it, I didn't feel like buying it anymore, and I haven't bought a new Prince release since. Maybe I need to work on my loyalty a bit.