- The Prodigy - Music for the jilted generation
- The Offspring - Smash
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Ah, was it the Sausage Machine? I might well have been at the gig too ; I think I remember the lack of sufficient songs for an encore.
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Chicago in the mid-late 90s was unreal. Unfortunately I was about 5 years too late to move there and catch it.
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Thinking of Chicago, I forgot Bobby Conn’s phenomenal Rise Up, which is perfection from start to finish.
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Just curious if you set up 8 speakers and four different sound systems everytime you listen to zaireeka
Also I wish I had been at the 40 cassette parking lot expirements that preceed that album
I have a room dedicated to it. It’s full of masticated stuffed animals.
I have a mix-down rip. In my defense, there was a week in uni that my parents had gone on vaca that I set up four stereos and had people over regularly for listening sessions (that wasn’t going to fly in a Chicago apartment) I came to know it well and was comfortable getting a rip. Even in stereo the production is bat shit crazy. And the songs are too beautiful not to be able to listen to it when I want.
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[goa trance]
Ubar Tmar — True
MFG — New Kind Of World
Miranda — Real Rush
Astral Projection — Dancing Galaxy
UX — Ultimate Xperience
Hallucinogen — The Lone Deranger
Cosmosis — Synergy
Ominus – Ominus
[other stuff]
Diamanda Galás vs John Paul Jones — The Sporting Life
Swans — White Light From The Mouth Of Infinity
Marc Almond – Fantastic Star
Emmanuel Top — Release
Ministry — ΚΕΦΑΛΗΞΘ
Ozric Tentacles – Jurassic Shift
Ozric Tentacles – Waterfall Cities
Miranda Sex Garden — Fairytales Of Slavery
Death In June — But, What Ends When The Symbols Shatter?
Siouxsie & The Banshees — The Rapture
Nine Inch Nails — Fixed [actually a remix compilation, but whatever]
Coil — Stolen And Contaminated Songs [actually a compilation, but whatever]
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excellence
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Just of the top of my head (also, albums I don’t think have been mentioned)
Sebadoh - Bakesale
Cibo Matto - Viva! La Woman
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Extra Width
Neutral Milk Hotel - On Avery Island (always been partial to this one)
Elliott Smith - Self Titled and Either/Or
Dr. Dre -The Chronic
Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle
Sleater Kinney - Dig Me Out
Dr. Octagon - Dr. Octogonecologyst
Air - Moon Safari
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Oh yes, two pearls!
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Just a smattering sample of what I can recollect as truly standout albums to me. I tried my best to not rehash what others have already mentioned as obviously great albums.
Beck - midnight vultures
Portishead - Portishead
Beastie Boys - Ill Communication/Hello Nasty
Ice Cube - Predator
Blind Melon - Soup
Peter Gabriel - Us
Fugees - the Score
esthero - breath from another
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I really adore US. Such vulnerability! Apparently he was going through therapy at the time due in part to his wife leaving him and I can, I can really feel it in the music, somehow. I put on Secret World now and I simply don’t know of another piece of music that touches me in the same way and something like 1 out of 5 times I listen to it I cry, like I’m doing now…
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I can’t believe I forgot Jon Spencer Blues Explosion! Awesome band! Saw them a couple times live back then as well. Also dig Boss Hog.
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They were fantastic live. I saw them with Sleater Kinney in Seattle a gazillion years ago. They were both so good.
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I realized if I kept posting album covers I’d probably overload the server. I trust this lot to name all the albums I would have posted.
Well, Bone Machine is one I should have also had on my list for a start.
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Erykah Badu “Baduizm”
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I forgot all about Spoon having released in the 90s. I always think of them as a 00s band.
Yeah it was hard to leave Bone Machine off. What a record.
Oh good shout. I totally forgot this was released in the 90s. Might need to move my list around (again).
Before I made my list I had to run through this and Death Certificate again to choose. I chose Death for its urgency, but Predator is just tremendous.
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Radiohead - Ok Computer
Amon Tobin - Permutation
DJ Shadow - Entroducing
Nine Inch Nails - Fragile
Autechre - Incanabula, Envane, LP5
Aphex Twin - SAW 85-92, Come To Daddy
Chemical Brothers - Dig your own hole
Air - Premiers Symptomes
Portishead - Dummy
Wu Tang Clan - Enter the Wu Tang
GZA - Liquid Swords
Gang Starr - Moment of Truth
NAS - Illmatic
Mobb Deep - The Infamous
Boards of Canada - Music has the right to children
Probably forgot a lot 
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