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Your Top Three Favourite Albums From The 90s?

This is tough, will have to have a good think about this, but for starters

Rage against the machine - Battle of Los Angeles (Sleep now in the fire, well, funk rock does not get better than this, video is a masterclass in music video making)
Radiohead - Ok Computer (Masterclass in how to follow up a masterpiece, that is, make an album so good is defies logic)
Soundgarden - Superunknown (best rock album of the 90's by some margin IMO, My wave being one of my favourite heavy rock tracks of all time)

Purchased lots of obscure, little known artists in the 90's, would need to scour through the hoard.
 
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Boatman's Call (1997)
Tom Waits - Mule Variations (1997)
Suede - Dog Man Star (1994)

PJ Harvey - Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea (misses out by just one year, 2000)

The 90s was the decade that reawakened my interest in music having previously been locked in the 60s. 1997 was a year to rival 1967.
 
Khmer - Nils Petter Molvaer
Peace Beyond Passion - Meshell Ndegeocello
Two Blocks From The Edge - Michael Brecker
 
Young Disciples-Road to Freedom
Little Axe-The Wolf That House Built
Everything But The Girl-Walking Wounded

I could pick loads more from this decade.
 
Mega City 4 - Who Cares Wins.
Mega City 4 - Sebastopol Road
Senseless Things - The first of Too Many
Gene Loves Jezebel - Kiss of Life
Gene Loves Jezebel - Heavenly Bodies

Beacons of light in a sea of mediocrity.
 
U2 - Achtung Baby
Frank Black - Teenager of the Year
Steve Earle - Train a Comin’

Of course it was a decade of 2 halfs

Mark Ribot - The Prosthetic Cubans
Detroit Cobras - Mink, rabbit or rat
Jon Spenser Blues Explosion -ACME

indeed a great musical decade, the last great one for albums?

.sjb
 
It's tough to name just three albums, but here's my top three all the same:

Kula Shaker - K
Massive Attack - Protection
Portishead - Dummy

On the subs bench are:

Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill
Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory
Finley Quaye - Maverick A Strike

Honourable Mention:

Crowded House - Recurring Dream: The Very Best of Crowded House
 
Surely the decade of Rap & R&B - mind you in my house every decade is like that:

Erykah Badu - Baduizm
Nas - Illmatic
A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
 
Todays top three, off the top of my head:

Leslie Winer - Witch
Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
The Necks - Hanging Garden
 
My most played albums in the 90's were probably Screamadelica, I Should Coco and Decksanddrumsandrocknroll.
 
This reads like a great charity shop CD shopping list - the majority of these titles are readily available for 25p - £1. Snap them up.
 
I seem to have inadvertently missed out one of my 90s favourites; Black Grape's 'It's Great When You're Straight ... Yeah'
 
cjarchez said:
Not for me, Ten is still tops with Yield coming in second. After that nothing really stands out as an album.
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I do have Ten on cd, I will have another listen. I heard Vs first (by a few years) so I bet I will be biased.
 
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