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

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.

From Bach 02/17/2017 11:13 | #185807

Great list! I love it.

From splashfoop 08/15/2016 21:16 | #172945

Pésima lista.

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.

From mickilennial 03/19/2014 23:39 | #106918

Reads predictable and unexplored, though there are some greats in here.

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