Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s by Onater

My Top 20 songs of the 90s:
10. Mazzy Star - Fade Into You (So Tonight That I Might See, 1993)
9. Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space (Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space, 1997)
8. Pavement - Gold Soundz (Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain, 1992)
7. The Tragically Hip - Fiddler's Green (Road Apples, 1991)
6. Sonic Youth - The Diamond Sea (Washing Machine, 1995)
5. R.E.M. - Find The River (Automatic For The People, 1992)
4. R.E.M. - Nightswimming (Automatic For The People, 1992)
3. The Tragically Hip - Escape Is At Hand For The Travellin' Man (Phantom Power, 1998)
2. The Tragically Hip - Bobcaygeon (Phantom Power, 1998)
1. The Tragically Hip - Ahead By A Century (Trouble At The Henhouse, 1996)

• Chart updated: 03/27/2019 09:15
• (Created: 10/25/2016 00:34).
• Chart size: 100 albums.

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31. (30) 1

Henry's Dream 

 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

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"And the tears that we will weep today will all be washed away by the tears that we will weep, we'll weep again tomorrow."

Favourite Tracks: Straight To You, Papa Won't Leave You Henry, Brother My Cup Is Empty, I Had A Dream Joe [First added to this chart: 08/17/2017]

Year of Release:

1992

Appears in:

215 charts

Rank Score:

981

Rank in 1992:

30

Rank in 1990s:

325

Overall Rank:

1,735

Average Rating:

 77 (277 votes)

Comments:

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32. (29) 3

Heaven Or Las Vegas 

 Cocteau Twins

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"Might just been Heaven or Las Vegas, but you're much more brighter than the sun is to me."

Favourite Tracks: Heaven Or Las Vegas, Cherry-Coloured Funk, Iceblink Luck, Fotzepolitic, Pitch The Baby [First added to this chart: 09/05/2017]

Year of Release:

1990

Appears in:

785 charts

Rank Score:

9,826

Rank in 1990:

2

Rank in 1990s:

33

Overall Rank:

161

Average Rating:

 84 (819 votes)

Comments:

52

33. (25) 8

Spiderland 

 Slint

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"I'm the only one left. The storm took them all."

Favourite Tracks: Good Morning Captain, Washer, Breadcrumb Trail, Nosferatu Man [First added to this chart: 01/06/2017]

Year of Release:

1991

Appears in:

1,023 charts

Rank Score:

13,851

Rank in 1991:

4

Rank in 1990s:

17

Overall Rank:

93

Average Rating:

 84 (1,239 votes)

Comments:

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34. (35) 1

Ask The Ages 

 Sonny Sharrock

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You really just can't got wrong with Pharaoh Sanders blowing his brains out through his sax.

Favourite Tracks: Many Mansions, Who Does She Hope To Be, Promises Kept [First added to this chart: 10/26/2017]

Year of Release:

1991

Appears in:

77 charts

Rank Score:

381

Rank in 1991:

54

Rank in 1990s:

649

Overall Rank:

3,789

Average Rating:

 79 (56 votes)

Comments:

2

35. (16) 19

Road Apples 

 The Tragically Hip

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"Well, little girls come on Remembrance Day, placing flowers on his grave. She waits in the shadows till after dark just to sweep them all away."

Music from Canadians for Canadians. At the time I'm writing this, I'm going to see them live in two days.
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The above comment is a relic of happier times.

Favourite Tracks: Fiddler's Green, Three Pistols, Long Time Running, Cordelia, The Last Of The Unplucked Gems, Little Bones [First added to this chart: 10/24/2016]

Year of Release:

1991

Appears in:

77 charts

Rank Score:

354

Rank in 1991:

58

Rank in 1990s:

699

Overall Rank:

4,054

Average Rating:

 74 (65 votes)

Comments:

5

36. (20) 16

Roman Candle 

 Elliott Smith

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"I want to hurt him. I want to give him pain. I'm a roman candle. My head is full of flames."

Favourite Tracks: No Name #1, Last Call, Roman Candle, Condor Ave, No Name #3 [First added to this chart: 11/13/2017]

Year of Release:

1994

Appears in:

171 charts

Rank Score:

1,076

Rank in 1994:

45

Rank in 1990s:

302

Overall Rank:

1,602

Average Rating:

 79 (267 votes)

Comments:

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37. (21) 16

The Soft Bulletin 

 The Flaming Lips

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"Tell everybody waiting for Superman, that they should try to hold on the best they can. He hasn't dropped them, forgot them, or anything. It's just too heavy for Superman to lift."

Favourite Tracks: Waitin' For A Superman, Race For The Prize, Feeling Yourself Disintegrate, A Spoonful Weighs a Ton [First added to this chart: 10/24/2016]

Year of Release:

1999

Appears in:

1,230 charts

Rank Score:

12,067

Rank in 1999:

2

Rank in 1990s:

23

Overall Rank:

118

Average Rating:

 83 (1,484 votes)

Comments:

119

38. (54) 16

The Shape Of Punk To Come (A Chimerical Bombination In 12 Bursts) 

 Refused

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"I got a bone to pick with capitalism, and a few to break."

Favourite Tracks: Liberation Frequency, Worms of the Senses/Faculties of the Skull, New Noise, Tannhäuser/Derivé, Summerholiday Vs. Punkroutine [First added to this chart: 10/21/2017]

Year of Release:

1998

Appears in:

266 charts

Rank Score:

2,077

Rank in 1998:

14

Rank in 1990s:

161

Overall Rank:

861

Average Rating:

 77 (304 votes)

Comments:

14

39. (79) 40

Illmatic 

 Nas

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"I never sleep, ‘cause sleep is the cousin of death."

Favourite Tracks: N.Y. State Of Mind, It Ain't Hard To Tell, Memory Lane (Sittin' In Da Park), Life's A Bitch [First added to this chart: 01/03/2017]

Year of Release:

1994

Appears in:

1,313 charts

Rank Score:

18,495

Rank in 1994:

2

Rank in 1990s:

12

Overall Rank:

65

Average Rating:

 86 (1,536 votes)

Comments:

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40.

Geek The Girl 

 Lisa Germano

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"Spider, spider, crawl up my leg, guilty and poison-free. I wish that I could be like you."

Favourite Tracks: ...a Psychopath, Cry Wolf, Trouble, Cancer of Everything, Geek The Girl

Year of Release:

1994

Appears in:

162 charts

Rank Score:

1,498

Rank in 1994:

37

Rank in 1990s:

224

Overall Rank:

1,182

Average Rating:

 77 (155 votes)

Comments:

12

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Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s composition

Year	Albums	%
1990	4	4%
1991	7	7%
1992	9	9%
1993	7	7%
1994	16	16%
1995	11	11%
1996	14	14%
1997	10	10%
1998	10	10%
1999	12	12%

Artist	Albums	%
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	5	5%
The Tragically Hip	4	4%
Elliott Smith	4	4%
Belle And Sebastian	3	3%
Aphex Twin	3	3%
Yo La Tengo	3	3%
Tom Waits	2	2%
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Country	Albums	%
	49	49%
	27	27%
	6	6%
	5	5%
	3	3%
	3	3%
	3	3%
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Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s chart changes

Biggest climbers
Up 40 from 79th to 39th Illmatic by Nas
Up 40 from 66th to 26th Selected Ambient Works 85-92 by Aphex Twin
Up 30 from 50th to 20th Dummy by Portishead

Biggest fallers
Down 26 from 26th to 52nd Pinkerton by Weezer
Down 23 from 18th to 41st Laughing Stock by Talk Talk
Down 19 from 16th to 35th Road Apples by The Tragically Hip

New entries
All The Pretty Little Horses by Current 93
Blue Lines by Massive Attack
Thunder Perfect Mind by Current 93
Geek The Girl by Lisa Germano
Sing To God by Cardiacs
Richard D. James Album by Aphex Twin
Hvis Lyset Tar Oss by Burzum
Storm Of The Light's Bane by Dissection

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Vision Creation Newsun by ボアダムス [Boredoms]
MTV Unplugged In New York by Nirvana
Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory by Dream Theater
Goo by Sonic Youth
Violator by Depeche Mode
Nevermind by Nirvana
Ten by Pearl Jam
Images And Words by Dream Theater

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80/100	10/18/2019 10:25	mickilennial	717	77/100
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From CharlieBarley 02/15/2017 02:03

Great 90s chart with 20 in common with mine. Good to see REM's Automatic at number one. One of my very favourite 90s albums. Brings back good memories. And good to see Slint and plenty of Radiohead. Ace,

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