Best Albums of the 1990s
Listed below are the best albums of the 1990s as calculated from their overall rankings in over 58,000 greatest album charts. (Chart last updated: 3 hours ago).
"This is truly a great album with surprising songs. I remember I heard the song Instant Street for the first time, I loved it immediately and I love it still. Even the last song is mesmerizing." Reply
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AleJohnMari | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +1 votes (1 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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1999
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"Gomez is consistently underrated. Bring It On is a fine debut album. "Get Myself Arrested", "78 Stone Wobble", and "Whippin' Piccadilly" are all great songs." Reply
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Romanelli | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +4 votes (4 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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1998
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637
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"I like to crank this up on my ipod when I'm feeling paricularly misanthropic, usually at work. It rocks hard and although it's a long way from being in my top 100 there are times in life when nothing's better than having this thundering through my brain." Reply
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1992
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637
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"Good is a testament to how surreal reality really is. It sounds like the clouds or water, like it's coming from a submerged level of consciousness. It's both tough and poetic, mystically concise, like remembering bits pieces of an important dream." Reply
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1992
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635
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"Very good hard rock/progressive metal album. Best 10 songs average is 91,2/100, the album gets 90/100. It's continuously strong without any lows. Far and away best song is "Silent lucidity" I'm rating at a max. Followed by "Best I can", "The thin line", "Another rainy night (without you)", "Empir..." [+] Reply
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Eastwood | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | 0 votes (0 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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1990
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633
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"Quite simply, one of the best albums ever made. dEUS arrived fully formed; grown-up's, arty, experimental, somehow inebriated and yet as coherent as hell. For a while, they were rated among right thinking folk as the finest band on the planet. WCS is a true classic." Reply
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1994
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630
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"Starts off very strong but is far too experimental for it's own good. The good is absolutely brilliant and as haunting as an abandoned mansion, but there's too many loose and unnecessary arrangements that stops this album from reaching it's full potential. " A flat out masterpiece"." Reply
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mayonaise93 | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +1 votes (1 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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1990
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630
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"After all these years I still love this album to death. It's one of a kind, and absolutely deviates miles from the mainstream music, categorizing itself under the alternative rock/pop label. But that doesn't speak to the various genres on this record actually; it's rather colourful. It's emotiona..." [+] Reply
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ilovelctr | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +2 votes (2 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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1999
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626
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"such an underrated album, far better than the uber-produced, filler-filled all eyez on me." Reply
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1996
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625
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"Bricolage opens pretty simply. A neatly arranged slowly paced track based around a smooth as fuck jazz baseline. The neat and laid-back nature of stoney-street lets you know that Tobin is into jazz, and that he's just as happy to make use of cool-jazz and smooth jazz as he is to implement the int..." [+] Reply
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1997
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624
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Total albums: 1,000. Page 44 of 100
Best Albums of the 1990s composition
| Year | Albums | % | |
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| 1990 | 84 | 8% | |
| 1991 | 85 | 9% | |
| 1992 | 102 | 10% | |
| 1993 | 108 | 11% | |
| 1994 | 127 | 13% | |
| 1995 | 104 | 10% | |
| 1996 | 108 | 11% | |
| 1997 | 99 | 10% | |
| 1998 | 99 | 10% | |
| 1999 | 84 | 8% |
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| Blur | 6 | 1% | |
| The Flaming Lips | 6 | 1% | |
| Beck | 5 | 1% | |
| Autechre | 5 | 1% | |
| Tori Amos | 5 | 1% | |
| Suede | 5 | 1% | |
| Pavement | 5 | 1% | |
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536 | 54% | |
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270 | 27% | |
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41 | 4% | |
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24 | 2% | |
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24 | 2% | |
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16 | 2% | |
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12 | 1% | |
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