I was reading the recent thread "Was Prince your favourite artist of the 1990s?" and I thought that to me, as well as many other people who wrote there, is not exactly clear what was my favourite artist of the 90's. It's certainly not something as easy to point out as the favourite 50-60-70-80's artists! But I got myself remembering the greatest albums of the 90's. I thought of sharing a thread about this. What would be your favourite album of the 90's??

With "honorable mentions" to (in no particular order, except alphabetical):

Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill

Beck - Odelay
Björk - Post
Bob Dylan - Time Out of Mind
Erykah Badu - Baduizm

Fiona Apple - When the Pawn...
Madonna - Ray of Light

Michael Jackson - Dangerous
Nirvana - Nevermind
Paul McCartney - Flaming Pie

Prince - Emancipation

Prodigy - The Fat of the Land
Radiohead - Ok Computer
REM - Automatic For the People
Rolling Stones - Voddoo Lounge

Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

TLC - CrazySexyCool

...I'll say, in my opinion, the best album of the 90's was:
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHTvP_hHX_o

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To keep things brief probably either, Suede - "dog man star", or The Verve - "urban hymns".

Yeah for me the 90s were much more about individual albums rather than individual acts.

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My top 10:

1. Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes
2. Nirvana - Nevermind
3. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
4. PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love
5. Deadsy - Commencement (1999 release)
6. Faith And The Muse - Evidence Of Heaven
7. Janet Jackson - The Velvet Rope
8. Björk - Homogenic
9. Shakira - Dónde Están Los Ladrones?
10. Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral

BrazilianOnRaspberryBeret said:

I was reading the recent thread "Was Prince your favourite artist of the 1990s?" and I thought that to me, as well as many other people who wrote there, is not exactly clear what was my favourite artist of the 90's. It's certainly not something as easy to point out as the favourite 50-60-70-80's artists! But I got myself remembering the greatest albums of the 90's. I thought of sharing a thread about this. What would be your favourite album of the 90's??

With "honorable mentions" to (in no particular order, except alphabetical):

Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill

Beck - Odelay
Björk - Post
Bob Dylan - Time Out of Mind
Erykah Badu - Baduizm

Fiona Apple - When the Pawn...
Madonna - Ray of Light

Michael Jackson - Dangerous
Nirvana - Nevermind
Paul McCartney - Flaming Pie

Prince - Emancipation

Prodigy - The Fat of the Land
Radiohead - Ok Computer
REM - Automatic For the People
Rolling Stones - Voddoo Lounge

Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

TLC - CrazySexyCool

...I'll say, in my opinion, the best album of the 90's was:
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHTvP_hHX_o

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My favorite.

This would be hard for me... I'll have to think about it for a bit. Definitely be a few that people have already posted, but probably a lot of electronic and maybe some jazz stuff, too. I just wanted to respond right not by saying...

Holy shit sextonseven! Deadsy's Commencement!?! Are you serious?! Have we talked about this before!? That's one of my all-time favorites and most people have never even heard of them.

crazysexycool

erotica

brown sugar

baduizm

dangerous

janet

velvet rope

bedtime stories

jagged little pill

relish

very necessary

wildest dreams

gold experience

i know im forgetting some....

Here are my top 10, though not in any order

Michael Jackson-Dangerous

Janet-Velvet Rope

janet.

Michael Jackson-BOTDF

TLC-Crazysexycool

Spice Girls-Spice

Mariah Carey-Butterfly

Mariah Carey-Emotions

Michael Jackson-HIStory

Brandy

It is a bit too disparate...

Here is my top 10

Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill

Beck - Odelay
Björk - Post
Bob Dylan - Time Out of Mind
Erykah Badu - Baduizm

Fiona Apple - When the Pawn...
Madonna - Ray of Light

Michael Jackson - Dangerous
Nirvana - Nevermind
Paul McCartney - Flaming Pie

Prince - Emancipation

Prodigy - The Fat of the Land
Radiohead - Ok Computer
REM - Automatic For the People
Rolling Stones - Voddoo Lounge

Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

TLC - CrazySexyCool
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

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Guns N' Roses - Use ur illusion I & II

Daft Punk - Homework

Prince - Diamonds & Pearls

Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine

Björk- Homogenic

ok ok Nirvana should be in the liste.. but i m not that big big fan of this style.

Favorite albums of the 90's (in no particular order):

1) TLC - CrazySexyCool

2) Alanis Morrisette - Jagged Little Pill

3) Prince - Emancipation

4) Prince - Love Symbol

5) D'Angelo - Brown Sugar

6) Fiona Apple - When the pawn...

7) Jay-Z - In My Lifetime Vol.2: Hard Knock Life

8) Outkast - Aquemini

9) Janet Jackson - Velvet Rope

10) Lauryn Hill - The miseducation of...

11) Makaveli - The 7 Day Theory

12) Dr Dre - The Chronic

13) Korn - Follow The Leader

1. Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication
2. Nirvana Nevermind
3. Radiohead The Bends
4. Prince Chaos and Disorder
5. Michael Jackson HIStory: Past, Present and Future - Book I
6. U2 Achtung Baby
7. Prince Emancipation
8. Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York
9. Michael Jackson Dangerous
10. Radiohead OK Computer

^ Top ten, in order.

Also, not in order:

Bjork Homogenic

Bruce Springsteen The Ghost Of Tom Joad

Hanson Middle Of Nowhere

James Laid

Janet Jackson The Velvet Rope

Julian Lennon Photograph Smile

Nirvana In Utero

Prince/NPG: Diamonds and Pearls, The Gold Experience, Crystal Ball/The Truth, Newpower Soul

R. Kelly R.

Sean Lennon Into The Sun

The Notorious B.I.G. Life After Death

Yoko Ono/IMA Rising

Favourite: The Bliss Album...? (Vibrations of Love and Anger and the Ponderance of Life and Existence) - PM Dawn

Honourables:

MCMXC a.D. - Enigma

The Fragile - NiN

The Gold Experience - Prince

Dos Dedos Mis Amigos - Pop Will Eat Itself

Praise the Fallen - VNV Nation

The Predator - Ice Cube

[FLA]vour of the Weak - Front Line Assembly

Do You Wanna Ride? - Adina Howard

Wow...I loved each of these albums. Good Calls.

RKJCNE said:

Yeah for me the 90s were much more about individual albums rather than individual acts.

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sextonseven said:

My top 10:

1. Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes
2. Nirvana - Nevermind
3. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
4. PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love
5. Deadsy - Commencement (1999 release)
6. Faith And The Muse - Evidence Of Heaven
7. Janet Jackson - The Velvet Rope
8. Björk - Homogenic
9. Shakira - Dónde Están Los Ladrones?
10. Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral

The rest of my top 50 taken from this thread http://prince.org/msg/8/377165 a few months ago:

11. Sonic Youth - Goo

12. PJ Harvey - Rid Of Me
13. Pizzicato Five - Playboy & Playgirl

14. U2 - Achtung Baby
15. Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
16. Tori Amos - To Venus And Back
17. Janet Jackson - Janet.
18. Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
19. Lenny Kravitz - Mama Said
20. Le Tigre - Le Tigre

21. The Time - Pandemonium
22. Deee-Lite - World Clique
23. Depeche Mode - Violator
24. Tori Amos - Under The Pink
25. Madonna - Erotica
26. Prince - The Gold Experience
27. Hole - Live Through This
28. Original Motion Picture Soundtrack - Singles
29. Madonna - Ray of Light
30. Type O Negative - October Rust

31. Tori Amos - Boys For Pele
32. Fiona Apple - Tidal
33. Rancid - ...And Out Come The Wolves
34. Curve - Cuckoo
35. Wendy & Lisa - Girl Bros.
36. Sleater Kinney - Dig Me Out
37. Cranes - Forever
38. Rosetta Stone - Adrenaline
39. Mors Syphilitica - Mors Syphilitica
40. Gitane Demone - Am I Wrong?

41. Switchblade Symphony - Serpentine Gallery
42. Belly - King
43. Hole - Celebrity Skin
44. Café Tacuba - Revés/Yo Soy
45. Cocteau Twins - Heaven Or Las Vegas
46. PJ Harvey - Is This Desire
47. Portishead - Portishead
48. Maxwell - Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite
49. Dinosaur Jr - Green Mind
50. Kenickie - At The Club

Cerebus said:

Holy shit sextonseven! Deadsy's Commencement!?! Are you serious?! Have we talked about this before!? That's one of my all-time favorites and most people have never even heard of them.

Love, love, love the 1999 Sire promo of Commencement. Not so much the official release a few years later. "She Likes Big Words" is one of my favorite songs ever. I've talked about Deadsy occasionally here in other 90s music threads, but the only orger who ever replies is dancerella. I did finally start one thread on them earlier this year, but predictably it sank immediately without much action: http://prince.org/msg/8/374213

just ONE? impossible

If I had to pick one, I would go with the album that both brought me to utter disbelief in God then took me straight to my true relationship with God:

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yanowha said:

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an album recorded and released in 1989, and considered a late-80s landmark

I think you meant janet. or The Velvet Rope

I LOVE:

Metallica - Metallica

Scorpions - Crazy World
R.E.M. - Out of Time

Michael Jackson - Dagerous

Depeche Mode - Violator
Guns N Roses - Use Your Illusion 1|2

Prince - The Gold Experience

R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
Radiohead - OK Computer
U2 - Achtung Baby
Massive Attack - Blue Lines

also I like:

No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom

Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill

Pink Floyd - The Division Bells

Michael Jackson - HIStory

TLC - CrazySexyCool

Madonna - Ray of Light

Depeche Mode-Ultra

Queen - Innuendo

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication

If I must choose only one, then I guess I'll go with Metallica

JoeTyler said:

yanowha said:

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an album recorded and released in 1989, and considered a late-80s landmark

I think you meant janet. or The Velvet Rope

No, I didn't. A&M werked this album until 1991. That's my story and I'm stickin' to it.

Some of my favorites are:

Velvet Rope- Janet Jackson

Ray Of Light- Madonna

Dangerous- Michael Jackson

HIStory- Michael Jackson

Erotica- Madonna

Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill- Lauryn Hill

Me Against The Music- 2Pac

Come- Prince

Illmatic- Nas

12 Play- R. Kelly

One In A Million- Aaliyah

Age Ain't Nothin' But A Number- R. Kelly with Aaliyah on vocals

Emotions- Mariah Carey

Daydream- Mariah Carey

My Love Is Your Love- Whitney Houston

Interesting lists. Some of these albums I heard a lot about before (Liz Phair, PJ Harvey, Hole, Tori Amos), but I confess I haven't listened to them yet.

Dren5, when I remembered When the pawn it was the only other album that got me in doubt whether my favourite 90's album was really The Miseducation, if I had to pick only one. When the pawn was a tremendous record and marked my adolescence.

sextonseven, very intriguing list. About half of your 30 albums I never listened to. I'll check these. Curious to see a Spanish Shakira record in your top 10, I haven't heard that album. Her debut Spanish album Pies Descalzos (1995) was a fever pop hit in South America including Brazil, maybe like Macarena or The Spice Girls took the planet for a moment also in the 90's.

Many people citing Janet Jackson. I absolutely love the Control album. I heard about all the singles from her other albums, but they haven't catched me as the Control album. Now think I'll give them a try.

Nice remembrance of Daft Punk's Homework and No Doubt's Tragic Kingdon - there were a lot of great and catchy songs there. I enjoyed these albums very much too. Daft Punk's arrival was hugely influential to house music. Although I feel that their best album was, instead, 2001's Discovery. I'd definitely say Discovery was one of the best 00's albums, maybe we can share a thread about that other day.

Nice to see pretty much all of us agree that Dangerous was one of the greatest of the 90's. It has always been overcasted by his earlier much acclaimed albums (Thriller, Bad, Off the wall), but I still think that Dangerous, although very different from these others, and maybe because of it, really stood out: great songs, singing (Who is it, In the closet), powerful/edgy sound, the greatest new jack swing album, really marked an era.

Nice also to see Tina Turner's Wildest Dreams. I althought I haven't actually heard that album, I'm a huge admirer of Tina. These veterans (Tina, and the ones I mentioned, Paul, Stones and Dylan), actually did pretty well in the 90's. Although The Stone's Voodoo Lounge was a good record, but clearly not in the same level as their 70's and 60's albums, I believe that not only the acclaimed Time Out of Mind but also McCartney's Flaming Pie (dedicated to his late wife Linda), rank easlily as some of the best albums of these two artist's VERY distinguished catalogs, which is not a small thing to say. Listen to Flaming Pie's Heaven on a Sunday or Somedays on youtube and try not to cry - I mean, the homage he pays his wife and the collection of excelent songs makes that album really remarkable.

Heaven on a sunday

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Evg8C2864mY

Somedays
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnC9UmFrdkw


I think that Rid of Me, The miseducation, Ray of light, Dangerous, CrazySexyCool, Velvet rope, Live through this, Ok computer, Automatic for the people, When the pawn and Homogenic are the ones getting more love. Wonder how it would be if it was a survey in which all the members would point at least a top three, then we'd see how the org saw the 90's (and maybe other decades/genres too).

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yanowha said:

JoeTyler said:

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an album recorded and released in 1989, and considered a late-80s landmark

I think you meant janet. or The Velvet Rope

No, I didn't. A&M werked this album until 1991. That's my story and I'm stickin' to it.

Good for you

BrazilianOnRaspberryBeret said:

Wonder how it would be if it was a survey in which all the members would point at least a top three, then we'd see how the org saw the 90's (and maybe other decades/genres too).

It was done a while ago.. http://prince.org/msg/8/332968. It would be interesting to do it again, especially since I didn't participate in the last one.

CrabalockerFishwife said:

BrazilianOnRaspberryBeret said:

Wonder how it would be if it was a survey in which all the members would point at least a top three, then we'd see how the org saw the 90's (and maybe other decades/genres too).

It was done a while ago.. http://prince.org/msg/8/332968. It would be interesting to do it again, especially since I didn't participate in the last one.

I loved those org music polls. The 60s poll was never finished!

The Miseducation of Lauryen Hill is by far one of the most substantial 90s albums. Its definitely one of my favorites.

Some of My Favorites Include:

-Nirvana- nevermind

Michael Jackson- Dangerous

janet jackson- Janet

Janet jackson- the Velvet Rope

Prince- Album

Stone Temple Pilots- Purple

All Eyes on Me- 2Pac

All of Tupac and Biggie's albums

The 90s was a very great musical decade rock- wise, and its my decade too

Here is my Top 20:

1. Radiohead - OK Computer
2. U2 - Achtung Baby
3. Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
4. Tori Amos - Boys for Pele
5. Nirvana - In Utero
6. Annie Lennox - Diva
7. Nirvana - Nevermind
8. Radiohead - The Bends
9. Pet Shop Boys - Very
10. Pearl Jam - Vs.
11. Jane's Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual
12. Sinead O'Connor - I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got
13. Alice in Chains - Dirt
14. R.E.M. - Automatic For the People
15. Depeche Mode - Violator
16. Edie Brickell & New Bohemians - Ghost of a Dog
17. The Cure - Wish
18. Tori Amos - From The Choirgirl Hotel
19. Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
20. Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill