Best Albums / Tracks of the 90s

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#102

Way too many to mention but…

The Devil Dogs - Saturday Night Fever
Oblivians - Soul Food
Pantera - Far Beyond Driven
Rancid - And out comes the wolves
Hellacopters - Supershitty to the max
Rage Against The Machine - st
Snapcase - Lookinglasself
Blood For Blood - Outlaw Anthems
GG Allin - Freaks, Faggots, Drunks & Junkies
Sick Of It All - Scratch the surface
Unbroken - Live. Love. Regret
Battery - Only the diehard remain
Spider Babies - All fucked up
The Candy Snatchers - Human Zoo
The Dirtys - You should be sinnin’
US Bombs - The World
Turbonegro - Ass Cobra
Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang
Mobb Deep - The Infamous
Nas - Illmatic
Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle
Cypress Hill - Black Sunday
Company Flow - Funcrusher Plus
ONYX - Bacdafucup
Naughty By Nature - 19Naughty3
INI - Center Of Attention
Group Home - Livin Proof
Outkast - ATLiens
Fugees - The Score
Show & AG - Goodfellas
Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
GZA - Liquid Swords
Portishead - Dummy
Kruder & Dorfmeister - K&D Sessions
Joey Beltram - Places
JB3 - Close Grind
Neil Landstrumm - Brown by August
Neil Landstrumm - Bedrooms and Cities
Cristian Vogel - Absolute Time
The Advent - Sound Sketches
Regis - Gymnastics
Surgeon - Basictonalvocabulary
Daft Punk - Homework

I could go on and on and on…

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#103

All these great albums, and not many have even touched all the house/techno/dnb/jungle/breakbeat singles! What a great decade for music, minus all the pop and generic “alternative” bands.

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#104

Great list. That Zorn album blew my friends minds when I played it for them.

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#105

I just hope they got their zizazig ah in the end, never did find out.

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#106

I figured people around here might feel more strongly about singles, which is why I included “tracks” in the OP. I grew up on albums myself, but I know singles can have the same power for people.

But that might be shooting myself in the foot as I already have too much to listen to from this thread.

No question.

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#107

Snap! The Power
Snap! Madams Return
FGTH Relax; Power of Love,…

#108

Very impressed with a lot of the lists above :heartbeat: I was really still listening to a lot of 80s US hardcore (punk) bands in the 90s, but not too many classic albums from the 90s. And in the 90s probably spent most of my time listening to J-Pop, 70s reggae and drum 'n bass.

I struggled to whittle it down even this much…

1990 Fugazi - Repeater
1990 Ministry - In Case You Didn’t Feel Like Showing Up (Live)
1990 Bitch Magnet - Ben Hur
1990 Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
1990 Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet

1991 Dinosaur Jr - Green Mind
1991 My Bloody Valentine - Loveless

1991 808 State - ex:el
1991 The Orb - Adventures Beyond the Underworld

1992 Sonic Youth - Dirty
1992 Gang Starr - Daily Operation
1993 Pavement - Crooked Rain Crooked Rain
1993 Wu Tang Clan - 36 Chambers

1994 Pizzicato Five - Made in USA
1994 Massive Attack - Protection

1995 The Cardigans - Life
1995 DJ Krush - Meiso
1995 Buju Banton - Til Shiloh
1995 The Chemical Brothers - Exit Planet Dust
1995 Moby - Everything is Wrong

1996 LTJ Bukem - Logical Progression
1996 DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
1996 Aphex Twin - Richard D. James

1997 Björk - Homogenic
1997 Photek - Modus Operandi
1997 Mogwai - Young Team
1997 Radiohead - OK Computer
1997 Daft Punk - Homework

1998 4Hero - Two Pages
1998 UNKLE - Psyence Fiction
1998 Air - Moon Safari

1999 Orbital - The Middle of Nowhere
1999 Sigur Ros - Ágaetis Byrjun
1999 Basement Jaxx - Remedy

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#109

I really wanted to add that one too, but I went off NIN quite a bit after Pretty Hate Machine, as well as Ministry (even more so) in the 90s. Same with the Pixies - they were one of my all time favourites, but was so dissapointed by Bossanova and Trompe le Monde.

#110

:heart:

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#111

90s was the best decade for music so It’s impossible for me to make a list, there’s so many great albums and artists.

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#112

Like, how do you compare Eyehategod and Björk? Which is better?

#113

Both! Neither!

Have you seen these lists? Theyre all over the place, genre neutral.
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But Bjork. Definitely Bjork.

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#114

Yeah, my problem is that there’s so many that making a list for me is impossible.

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#115

I would like to read a list of your favourites that have not yet been mentioned in this thread.

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#116

I’d need to read the whole thread :frowning:

#117

Air - Moon Safari
Portished - Dummy
Les Rhythms Digitale - Darkdancer

There are too many individual tracks to list but those three albums sprang to mind

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#118

The 90s were great for a lot of styles of music including post hardcore but the straight edge hardcore was totally rubbish with the exception of Shelter. I suffered through many shows seeing awful bands like Snapcase, Floorpunch and Mouthpiece who not only made crap music but had such an absolutely obnoxious fanbase of kick boxing knuckleheads who likely started going to hardcore shows because they didn’t make the football team.

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#119

Not a fan of metallic hardcore? There’s a bunch that I really like, like Archangel and many of the NYC bands.

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#120

No not really… I guess I had moved along at that point from hardcore. Only so many power chords I could handle I guess and didn’t like the idea of getting kicked in the head with an errant foot while standing at the edge of the pit.

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#121

“Mantra” was one I had to remove to keep my list down. Ray Cappo owes me 50p! (Didn’t have change and he was manning the merchandise store). I really liked the Hare Krishna stuff despite being strictly atheist.

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