Spiderland is the best album Steve Albini didn’t engineer but should of but it’s probably good he didn’t.
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Nirvana - Nevermind
Beck - Mellow Gold / Odelay
Massive Attack - Blue Lines
D’Arcangelo - Shipwreck
Mat 101 - Goodbye mum!
Reprazent - New Forms
RATM - Battle of Los Angeles
The Notwist - Shrink
QOTSA - QOTSA
Elecktroids - Elektroworld
Sonic Youth - Dirty
Pixies - Bossanova / Trompe Le Monde
Amon Tobin - Bricolage / Permutation
Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
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Oh crap I forgot Scott Walker’s Tilt. I doubt anyone will ever make an album that comes close to that… such menacing beauty!
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Skinny Puppy: Last Rights
Download: The Eyes Of Stanley Pain
Coil: Musick To Play In The Dark 1 & 2
The Young Gods: Only Heaven
Massive Attack: Mezzanine
SWANS: The Great Annihilator
Paysage d’hiver: s/t
Darkthrone: Transilvanian Hunger
Obituary: Cause Of Death
The Cure: Wish
Pan Sonic: Vakio
Plastikman: Consumed
Regis: Singles
Nine Inch Nails: Further Down The Spiral
Sleep: Dopesmoker
Monster Magnet: Dopes To Infinity
Radiohead: Ok Computer
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Nice on Superunknown and Cypress Hill. Been digging back into both Superunknown and the Cypress Hill back catalog. Both so good.
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This disc came in a tin in the US. I have one. It’s a shame this album didn’t get more attention because it’s a great IDM release.
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Yeah it’s still a great album!
I have the vinyl edition. Still taking it to gigs if there’s an opportunity to play it. 
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Bola - Soup
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Katatonia - Brave Murder Day
Tiamat - Wildhoney
Dissection - Storm of the light’s bane
Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse
Bathory - Hammerheart
Ulver - Bergtatt, Kveldssanger, Nattens Madrigal
Darkthrone - Under a Funeral Moon, Transylvanian Hunger
Immortal - Pure Holocaust
Rodan - Rusty
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Satyricon - The Shadowthrone
Fishmans - Long Season
Shellac - At Action Park
Rowland S. Howard - Teenage Snuff Film
NIN - The Downward Spiral, Broken
Low - I Could Live in Hope, The Curtain Hits the Cast
Underground Resistance - Revolution For Change, The Final Frontier
Robert Hood - Minimal Nation, Internal Empire
Orbital - Brown Album
Cat Power - What Would the Community Think?, Moon Pix
Todd Edwards - Prima Edizione
Codeine - Frigid Stars
Mayhem - Live in Leipzig, De Misteriis Dom Sathanas
Mobb Depp - The Infamous
Vic Chesnutt - At the Cut
Alice In Chains - Dirt
Sparklehorse - Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot
Lisa Germano - Happiness, Geek the Girl, Excerpt from a Love Circus
Labradford - Mi Medja Naranja
All Elliott Smith
All Drexciya
And of course everything Autechre and Future Sound of London did, and all the other usual suspects
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A selection (alphabetical) of the most played 90s releases according to my itunes sift . . . (and some below probably already mentioned to thin this down closer to the target score) …
Joseph Arthur Big City secrets
Chicago Underground Duo 12 Degrees of Freedom
Drum Island Drum Island
Innerzone Orchestra Programmed
John Lurie Fishing with John
Godspeed You! Black Emperor F# A# (infinity)
Jim O’Rourke Eureka
The Herbalizer Very Mercenary
Jock Scot My Personal Culloden
Köhn Köhn2
Money Mark Push the Button
Nurse with wound / Aranos Acts of senseless beauty
Philip Jeck Surf
Nils Petter Molvær Khmer
Pan Sonic A
The Sea and Cake Nassau
Smog Knock Knock
Spiritualized Ladies and Gentlemen we are floating in space
Stereolab Emperor Tomato Ketchup
Tortoise TNT
Robert Wyatt Shleep
Yo la Tengo I can hear the heart beating as one
You Fantastic! Homesickness
John Zorn Naked City
… and those most likely already posted in the topic …
Autechre LP5
Bjork Homogenic
Divine Comedy Casanova
DJ Shadow Endtroducing
PJ Harvey Is this desire ?
Massive Attack Blue Lines
Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral
Portishead Dummy
Radiohead OK Computer
Tricky Maxinquaye
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I'll be super chuffed if anybody else is over any of these three (less familiar?) releases from above ...
1997
Jock Scot My Personal Culloden
Jock Scot (literally one only for the Scots in the room … essential break-up listening too)
Jock Scot â My Personal Culloden (1997, CD) - Discogs
1999
(hard to find any links on this - astonishing bedroom album afaict from Jurgen De Blonde - so good) … okay just read some of bio and he supported sonic youth, so maybe not that off-piste
it was recorded to mini-disc, sounds great !!
(Köhn)² | Köhn | KRAAK
Stream studiomuscle | Listen to Köhn - (Köhn)2 playlist online for free on SoundCloud
1998
glorious lofi assemblage
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I loved what I heard of YouFantastic! but haven’t heard this release.
No Bowie on your list?
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I was into Outside at the time, a lot, but it hadn’t translated into repeated listening - most other 90s Bowie I have but don’t really get around to somehow
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Big yes to Philip Jeck and Smog!
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Not mentioned so far, some great albums:
Wire - Manscape
Jon Hassell - City: Works of fiction
808 State - ex:el
Cath Carroll - England made me
Laika - Silver apples of the moon (and others)
Benjamin Lew - Le parfum du Raki
David Bowie - 1. Outside
Jane Siberry - Maria
Bel Canto - Magic box (and others)
Malka Spigel - Hide
Richard Horowitz & Sussan Deyhim - Majoun
Thomas Köner / Nijiumu / Pauline Oliveros & Randy Raine-Reusch / Paul Schütze - Driftworks
Jah Wobble - Deep space (and many others)
Matmos - Quasi-Objects
edit to add, from the corners of my (re-)collection:
Hector Zazou - Sahara blue (the first pressing, including David Syvian’s contributions)
Bedouin Ascent - Science art & ritual
Moloko - Do you like my tight sweater?
Young Gods - Only heaven
Leila - Like weather
Legion Of Green Men - Floating in shallow water
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An absolutely fantastic record. I saw them play quite a lot (and supported them one time too) and they were always excellent live.
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Yeah, that record and the preceding EP were so exciting. I saw them play one of their early sets in that venue in Mornington Crescent (with @robinrimbaud supporting) and they were so new that they had run out of material by the time they were asked to play an encore.
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Some serious OST as well. Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown still get some spin here!
Trainspotting OST was iconic.
Buena Vista Social Club was a huge wave then.
Radiohead’s OKC is still one of my favorite albums.
Portishead’s Live at NYC, I still remember stoping the car to enjoy the album broadcast on the radio in avant-premiere.
Blur - Modern Life is Rubbish, I loved it that chords were written in the tiny booklet.
Mr Bungle’s California might be from 2000, but I still remember discovering the band a bit before with Disco Volante, it was like everything was possible.
Björk and Tricky were huge then, their collab on Post was and still is a beauty.
I still love all Tricky’s production from these years. Maxinquaye, wow.
DJ Krush got some nice albums, Meiso might be the one I listened to the most, but I now prefer Jaku and Message at the Depth.
I have to admit my girlfriend got me into U2’s Achtung Baby, I still love this album…
Talking about this, my daughter is currently into Oasis, big time.
I can’t deny I shout their songs more than once, and now again ^^
My son is more into Nirvana’s Nevermind. Almost perfect album indeed.
Cypress Hill and Beastie Boys got me into hip-hop, I use to despise it but their beats and flow smashed the door open.
I then discover the Wu Tang’s 36 chambers.
Red Hot Chili Peppers made me discover Jane’s Addiction’s Kettle Whistle, I love this album.
The Herbaliser’s Very Mercenary featuring Jean Grae, I’ve seen them a few times on stage, funky memories.
Massive Attack on stage was impressive, I had never experienced such sub frequencies… Mmm Mezzanine yum.
My Bloody Valentine’s Loveless is IMO a classic.
As I play the guitar again, some songs from Jeff Buckley’s Grace came back… I think I’ve offered this album to every member of my family ^^
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I think the albums from decades earlier are my favorites but…
Earthling is great 90’s bowie for me
GY!BE is a great band indeed. Saw them live in Oslo a couple of years back, fantastic
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That was a great period of cross fertilisation between all genres of music in my mind. Laika we’re amazing and actually Guy ended up being our sound man with my band Githead with Colin Newman of Wire. What a small world indeed!!
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