Top 20 Music Albums of the 1990s
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Medelsvensson 
Just getting started with this chart. Will add albums in increments of 10 to keep an even number.
One album per artist.
- Chart updated: 04/17/2020 23:15
- (Created: 04/11/2020 10:49).
- Chart size: 20 albums.
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Neutral Milk Hotel is the TV show that ended prematurely. The show, which upon further reflection is realized to have its short lifespan forever ingrained in its beauty. They are the Freaks and Geeks of music.
The first place of any list is always hard to pin down. Every album nerd has a multitude of potential top-spot occupants readily in mind, and they are all likely to be a well-motivated choice. In my experience of reading lists like mine, the choice tends to fall along the lines of either the conventional pick — or whichever album carries the most emotional weight for the listmaker. Oftentimes one that came along during a transitional period of their life.
When we're searching we tend to listen the most intently.
If you're already aware of this album, I couldn't argue if you catalog me as an individual of the latter persuasion. But truthfully, in whatever way I twist and turn this issue, I will always fall in line behind In the Aeroplane Over the Sea. It's the only album I know of which is conventionally brilliant while remaining one of the most singular achievements in music. Jeff Mangum speaks the story of Anne Frank with such breathtaking lyricism and while doing so he touches on some seriously universal stuff. If you've ever been in love with anything you'd have to be dead inside not to have this record make you feel.
Honorable Mentions: On Avery Island [First added to this chart: 04/17/2020]
The first place of any list is always hard to pin down. Every album nerd has a multitude of potential top-spot occupants readily in mind, and they are all likely to be a well-motivated choice. In my experience of reading lists like mine, the choice tends to fall along the lines of either the conventional pick — or whichever album carries the most emotional weight for the listmaker. Oftentimes one that came along during a transitional period of their life.
When we're searching we tend to listen the most intently.
If you're already aware of this album, I couldn't argue if you catalog me as an individual of the latter persuasion. But truthfully, in whatever way I twist and turn this issue, I will always fall in line behind In the Aeroplane Over the Sea. It's the only album I know of which is conventionally brilliant while remaining one of the most singular achievements in music. Jeff Mangum speaks the story of Anne Frank with such breathtaking lyricism and while doing so he touches on some seriously universal stuff. If you've ever been in love with anything you'd have to be dead inside not to have this record make you feel.
Honorable Mentions: On Avery Island [First added to this chart: 04/17/2020]
Year of Release:
1998
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31,123
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[First added to this chart: 04/17/2020]
Year of Release:
1994
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Rank Score:
8,939
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[First added to this chart: 04/17/2020]
Year of Release:
1994
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Rank Score:
15,845
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[First added to this chart: 04/17/2020]
Year of Release:
1999
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4,494
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Year of Release:
1996
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6,057
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Year of Release:
1991
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10,043
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1993
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12,319
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[First added to this chart: 04/17/2020]
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1995
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5,407
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[First added to this chart: 04/17/2020]
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1994
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5,162
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Top 20 Music Albums of the 1990s composition
| Year | Albums | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 2 | 10% | |
| 1991 | 1 | 5% | |
| 1992 | 0 | 0% | |
| 1993 | 1 | 5% | |
| 1994 | 4 | 20% | |
| 1995 | 2 | 10% | |
| 1996 | 4 | 20% | |
| 1997 | 2 | 10% | |
| 1998 | 3 | 15% | |
| 1999 | 1 | 5% |
| Artist | Albums | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
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| Happy Mondays | 1 | 5% | |
| Neutral Milk Hotel | 1 | 5% | |
| Oasis | 1 | 5% | |
| Nirvana | 1 | 5% | |
| Modest Mouse | 1 | 5% | |
| Nas | 1 | 5% | |
| Elliott Smith | 1 | 5% | |
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