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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"Our love lines grew hopelessly tangled, and the bells in the chapel went jingle... jangle..."
I have a theory that this is secretly a concept album, with the theme being of a protagonist searching for love from various sources, and never truly finding it. Starting out with Do You Love Me, Cave tells the story of falling in love with a girl though he knew from the start it wouldn't work out. Nobody's Baby Now is about his pain after the breakup, and him turning to religion in search of acceptance there. Loverman seems to be a deranged attempt at seducing and possibly raping a woman. Jangling Jack seems detached from the rest of the album, but note the similarity between the title and the "jingle jangle" line from both versions of Do You Love Me. God only knows what Red Right Hand is actually about, whether the "tall handsome man" is a drug dealer, the media, the government, a priest, god himself, or just some abstract force of temptation. What matters is that the song ends with an obsession, even love for this figure, as "you'll see him in your nightmares, you'll see him in your dreams," even though they were in control the whole time: "You're one microscopic cog in his catastrophic plan, designed and directed by his red right hand." The title track is perhaps the most obvious example of the theme in the album, as Cave tells of the pains he has went through in all his experiences with love. Thirsty Dog is Cave trying to find forgiveness his sins, maybe in an attempt to reacquire a lost love. It Ain't Gonna Rain Anymore is the realization that he is alone, and will never truly be able to find the love he seeks in his lifetime... and so, in Lay Me Low, he completely snaps and commits suicide, convincing himself that people will only appreciate him for who he was when he is gone: "They'll bang a big old gong, the motorcade will be ten miles long, the world will join together for a farewell song, when they put me down below." The finale, a dark reprise of the opening track, begins with what seems to be Cave entering the afterlife: "I'm grazing with the dinosaurs and the dear old horses." Eventually, the focus shifts to a memory of Cave's childhood, putting a sinister twist on the album: when he was raped in a theatre as a boy. As he repeats the question he has asked throughout the album, "do you love me, like I love you," you hear the voice of who is presumably his rapist answering "I love you, handsome." The only time that he ever finds the love he seeks on the album is here, in this horrible memory, which was probably the cause of all of the self-doubt and need for acceptance that is behind the lyrics of this whole thing. So it's pretty much a masterpiece and one of the greatest albums ever.
Favourite Tracks: Red Right Hand, Law Me Low, Do You Love Me? (Part 2), Do You Love Me?, Loverman [First added to this chart: 06/02/2017]
I have a theory that this is secretly a concept album, with the theme being of a protagonist searching for love from various sources, and never truly finding it. Starting out with Do You Love Me, Cave tells the story of falling in love with a girl though he knew from the start it wouldn't work out. Nobody's Baby Now is about his pain after the breakup, and him turning to religion in search of acceptance there. Loverman seems to be a deranged attempt at seducing and possibly raping a woman. Jangling Jack seems detached from the rest of the album, but note the similarity between the title and the "jingle jangle" line from both versions of Do You Love Me. God only knows what Red Right Hand is actually about, whether the "tall handsome man" is a drug dealer, the media, the government, a priest, god himself, or just some abstract force of temptation. What matters is that the song ends with an obsession, even love for this figure, as "you'll see him in your nightmares, you'll see him in your dreams," even though they were in control the whole time: "You're one microscopic cog in his catastrophic plan, designed and directed by his red right hand." The title track is perhaps the most obvious example of the theme in the album, as Cave tells of the pains he has went through in all his experiences with love. Thirsty Dog is Cave trying to find forgiveness his sins, maybe in an attempt to reacquire a lost love. It Ain't Gonna Rain Anymore is the realization that he is alone, and will never truly be able to find the love he seeks in his lifetime... and so, in Lay Me Low, he completely snaps and commits suicide, convincing himself that people will only appreciate him for who he was when he is gone: "They'll bang a big old gong, the motorcade will be ten miles long, the world will join together for a farewell song, when they put me down below." The finale, a dark reprise of the opening track, begins with what seems to be Cave entering the afterlife: "I'm grazing with the dinosaurs and the dear old horses." Eventually, the focus shifts to a memory of Cave's childhood, putting a sinister twist on the album: when he was raped in a theatre as a boy. As he repeats the question he has asked throughout the album, "do you love me, like I love you," you hear the voice of who is presumably his rapist answering "I love you, handsome." The only time that he ever finds the love he seeks on the album is here, in this horrible memory, which was probably the cause of all of the self-doubt and need for acceptance that is behind the lyrics of this whole thing. So it's pretty much a masterpiece and one of the greatest albums ever.
Favourite Tracks: Red Right Hand, Law Me Low, Do You Love Me? (Part 2), Do You Love Me?, Loverman [First added to this chart: 06/02/2017]
Year of Release:
1994
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"Out of sorrow entire worlds have been built. Out of longing great wonders have been willed."
Favourite Tracks: Into My Arms, (Are You) The One That I've Been Waiting For?, People Ain't No Good, Lime Tree Arbour [First added to this chart: 01/03/2017]
Favourite Tracks: Into My Arms, (Are You) The One That I've Been Waiting For?, People Ain't No Good, Lime Tree Arbour [First added to this chart: 01/03/2017]
Year of Release:
1997
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4,594
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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]
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
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986
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"They ask me if I feel remorse and I answer, why of course! There's so much more I could have done if they'd let me!"
Favourite Tracks: Stagger Lee, Song Of Joy, The Curse Of Millhaven, Death Is Not The End, O'Malley's Bar [First added to this chart: 07/29/2017]
Favourite Tracks: Stagger Lee, Song Of Joy, The Curse Of Millhaven, Death Is Not The End, O'Malley's Bar [First added to this chart: 07/29/2017]
Year of Release:
1996
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2,173
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"Father, why are all the children weeping? Oh they are merely crying son. Oh are they merely crying, father? Yes, true weeping is yet to come."
Favourite Tracks: The Ship Song, The Good Son, The Weeping Song, Foi Na Cruz [First added to this chart: 07/29/2017]
Favourite Tracks: The Ship Song, The Good Son, The Weeping Song, Foi Na Cruz [First added to this chart: 07/29/2017]
Year of Release:
1990
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2,070
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Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s composition
| Year | Albums | % | |
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| 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% |
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| 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% | |
| Pulp | 2 | 2% | |
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49 | 49% | |
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27 | 27% | |
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Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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From CharlieBarley 02/15/2017 02:03
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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