Best Albums of the 1990s by Slant Magazine (2011)

Slant Magazine is an American online publication that features reviews of movies, music, TV, theatre, video games and more. These are their best albums of 1990s.
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Year of Release:
1997
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13,876
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1995
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6,844
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1997
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77,334
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Year of Release:
1991
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42,240
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1996
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6,850
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1992
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20,431
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1994
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19,322
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Year of Release:
1994
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17,065
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Year of Release:
1990
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2,669
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1996
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10,354
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Best Albums of the 1990s composition

Year Albums %


1990 4 4%
1991 10 10%
1992 10 10%
1993 10 10%
1994 15 15%
1995 10 10%
1996 9 9%
1997 10 10%
1998 10 10%
1999 12 12%
Artist Albums %


Beck 4 4%
PJ Harvey 3 3%
Björk 3 3%
Madonna 3 3%
Nirvana 3 3%
Janet Jackson 2 2%
Nine Inch Nails 2 2%
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Country Albums %


United States 64 64%
United Kingdom 26 26%
Mixed Nationality 3 3%
Iceland 3 3%
Ireland 2 2%
France 2 2%
Live? Albums %
No 99 99%
Yes 1 1%

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From 04/01/2019 00:44
This list is certainly rather better than some for the 1990s, but it suffer from the same fundamental problems found in virtually all magazine lists.

These problems are no doubt unconscious to the writers who vote for the albums, but they make them difficult to trust. Short-term focus and an emphasis on albums that were popular but neither special or easy to listen to repeatedly is the key issue, and the second issue is ignorance of music that may not fit in with the worldview of these professional critics.

Like ‘Rolling Stone’’s list form the 1990s, there is no metal, industrial, or post-rock in this list, and far too much “indie rock” that ranges from godawful to merely boring.
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From 02/17/2017 11:13
Great list! I love it.
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Pésima lista.
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From 02/16/2016 07:16
This is certainly a rather better list than ‘Rolling Stone’ compiled, with a few more notable albums.

Still, it is hard to rate highly when it ignores metal so completely – maybe my reading of “janitor-x” a decade ago makes me expect magazines to acknowledge what they simply do not – and puts a vastly overrated artist like Beck upfront.
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From 03/19/2014 23:39
Reads predictable and unexplored, though there are some greats in here.
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Well, it's.... certainly there.
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