Best Albums of the 1990s

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851.

Labcabincalifornia 

 The Pharcyde

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"I prefer this to Bizarre Ride. Dilla's influence cannot be overstated."  Reply

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Year of Release:

1995

Appears in:

81 charts

Rank Score:

262

Rank in 1995:

93

Rank in 1990s:

851

Overall Rank:

5,196

Average Rating:

 78 (86 votes)

Comments:

7

852.

Extreme II: Pornograffitti (A Funked Up Fairy Tale) 

 Extreme

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"Nuno's guitar drives the whole album. Their creative and commercial peak. They never came close to matching this record."  Reply

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Year of Release:

1990

Appears in:

78 charts

Rank Score:

262

Rank in 1990:

74

Rank in 1990s:

852

Overall Rank:

5,201

Average Rating:

 70 (93 votes)

Comments:

1

853.

Sobrevivendo No Inferno 

 Racionais MC’s

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"The best Brazilian Rap album! The lyrics of Mano Brown are awesome. It’s really a shame that few people out of Brazil get’s to know it."  Reply

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Year of Release:

1997

Appears in:

33 charts

Rank Score:

262

Rank in 1997:

81

Rank in 1990s:

853

Overall Rank:

5,203

Average Rating:

 75 (43 votes)

Comments:

3

854.

Black Secret Technology 

 A Guy Called Gerald

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"One of the most important albums in the genre of drum and bass and surely one of the best."  Reply

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Year of Release:

1995

Appears in:

43 charts

Rank Score:

262

Rank in 1995:

94

Rank in 1990s:

854

Overall Rank:

5,204

Average Rating:

 75 (26 votes)

Comments:

1

855.

Raise 

 Swervedriver

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"'91:6 The Marionettes aka Speedballing Down The Interstate I’m just telling you what I remember. It’s not much. Mostly a blur. A memory of a memory. Faded and bleached. By the years. By the drugs too, I guess. But mostly by the years. It was 1991. I was young. Headed off to Manhattan to conquer t...""'91:6 The Marionettes aka Speedballing Down The Interstate I’m just telling you what I remember. It’s not much. Mostly a blur. A memory of a memory. Faded and bleached. By the years. By the drugs too, I guess. But mostly by the years. It was 1991. I was young. Headed off to Manhattan to conquer the world. I was already a music junkie by them. Hell. I had been for years. I headed to CBGBs as I did pretty much every night. Picked up a 40 oz of Olde English (my favorite back then) at one of those no-named Asian convenience stores that dotted the Lower East Side of Manhattan. I’m sure they’re probably all gone now. You’d always pop in there before going out to pick up a forty. They’d put it a paper bag for you so you could drink while taking the subway or even just walking the streets. Great way to get a buzz for like two dollars in one of the most expensive cities in the world. Anyways, this particular night stood out… Remember moshing? Well I was a professional. I could just give my body over to the pit. That was the secret. Become this rag doll. It’s not like I was afraid to push back or anything. I was pretty built back then. But that wasn’t the point. The point was to relax and just let go. Become this happy bouncing electron careening about. Driven by forces outside of you and in you. That’s where the high came from. You see people forget. Moshing brought you closer to the music. It was the ultimate surrender. The music would come off the stage and just take over you. And the crowd. The best thing was just to let go. And smile. And Swervedriver concocted some of the best music I’ve ever moshed to. The guitars would seemingly ping-pong back & forth and ricochet every which way. Pushing the crowd this way and that. Adam Franklin and Jimmy Hartridge, the guitarists, were like the greatest marionettes ever. As I said, the memory’s mostly gone. But, what was clear was that Swervedriver ROCKED that night. But, let’s be fair. Almost all the shoegaze bands back then rocked pretty hard. Ride. Lush. MBV. They all kicked serious ass in concert. (Well except for Slowdive. They decidedly did NOT rock. But, they were great in their own way) No. What made Swervedriver different, what made them stand out, was their ginormous debt to the American indie scene. They were easily the most American of all they peers. Sure. My Bloody Valentine’s Isn’t Anyting may have been the most important album in their record collection. But sitting right next to it - in plain sight - was Dinosaur Jr.’s Your Living All Over Me. Ok. Here it goes. Laugh if you must. But due to Adam Franklin’s laid back vocals and dreads, I always thought of Swervedriver as “that shoegaze band fronted by that reggae dude”. He was like some kind of California surf rat. It always sounds like he had just took a long drag on some spliff. Eternally stoned. And THAT was their secret ingredient. Swervedriver were like the ultimate speedball. Heroin + cocaine. Franklin’s lysergic vocals buried underneath all those swirling, driving guitars. It was like every single receptor of my cortex was being fed with something. Gaba. Beta. Alpha. Lol. Clearly it was like the best Greek party ever going on in my brain. Every single receptor being landed on & triggered at once resulting in the quintessential high. To be honest, I loved this album so much, I had the hardest time getting into Mescal Head when it came out. It just seemed like Raise Lite. I still prefer Raise today. From what I remember. Grade: A+. Essential. LittleM nailed it. It’s the perfect mix of shoe gaze and grunge. I never thought of it that way. To me it was just shoegaze. Shoegaze fronted by that reggae dude. lol. It’s only now in retrospect that I realize how much of the American Underground those cats were taking in. And sure. My Bloody Valentine’s Loveless is the best shoe gaze album of 1991. I’ll give you that. But this is number two. "  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

1991

Appears in:

72 charts

Rank Score:

262

Rank in 1991:

72

Rank in 1990s:

855

Overall Rank:

5,205

Average Rating:

 78 (72 votes)

Comments:

5

856.

None So Vile 

 Cryptopsy

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"Flo Mounier is one of the best, most technical drummers ever. And Eric Langolis lays down some surprisingly funky bass lines. A Must listen."  Reply

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Year of Release:

1996

Appears in:

46 charts

Rank Score:

261

Rank in 1996:

96

Rank in 1990s:

856

Overall Rank:

5,212

Average Rating:

 78 (70 votes)

Comments:

7

857.

76:14 

 Global Communication

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"This album gets talked up alot, but the praise is definitely justifiable in this instance. Fantastic!"  Reply

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Year of Release:

1994

Appears in:

65 charts

Rank Score:

261

Rank in 1994:

104

Rank in 1990s:

857

Overall Rank:

5,218

Average Rating:

 73 (62 votes)

Comments:

6

858.

River Of Dreams 

 Billy Joel

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"Billy Joel's last pop/rock album, and after the dip in quality of his last two records, Joel ends his songwriting career with his best album for well over a decade. River of dreams, has a harder rock edge than all of Joel's albums since his new wave contribution, glass houses. No man's land, kick...""Billy Joel's last pop/rock album, and after the dip in quality of his last two records, Joel ends his songwriting career with his best album for well over a decade. River of dreams, has a harder rock edge than all of Joel's albums since his new wave contribution, glass houses. No man's land, kicks off the album in fine style. As most tracks here, Joel's piano is certainly not the main instrumentation here, the only exception is the beautiful, lullabye (goodnight my angel). There's no weak tracks here, from the excellent, great wall of China, the brilliant, all about soul, and off course, the wonderful title track. The album ends well too with the millennium anthem, two thousand years, and his final goodbye to songwriting, famous last words. It's a perfect record to end on. Very good. "  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

1993

Appears in:

85 charts

Rank Score:

261

Rank in 1993:

90

Rank in 1990s:

858

Overall Rank:

5,219

Average Rating:

 72 (120 votes)

Comments:

10

859.

Hips And Makers 

 Kristin Hersh

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"Some years ago I probably would have had Hips and Makers in my overall top ten for the nineties, as I found former Throwing Muses frontwoman Kristin Hersh's voice to be stirring and spellbinding. I still do, but this album has lost a bit of its luster over the years, as it feels to me like an alb...""Some years ago I probably would have had Hips and Makers in my overall top ten for the nineties, as I found former Throwing Muses frontwoman Kristin Hersh's voice to be stirring and spellbinding. I still do, but this album has lost a bit of its luster over the years, as it feels to me like an album of its time--a celebration of a kind of nineties femininity that no longer fully resonates--rather than a timeless masterpiece. Nevertheless, "Your Ghost," with an interesting and surprising guest vocal performance from Michael Stipe, is appropriately haunting: "It's the blaze across my nightgown / It's the phone's ring.""  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

1994

Appears in:

75 charts

Rank Score:

261

Rank in 1994:

105

Rank in 1990s:

859

Overall Rank:

5,220

Average Rating:

 77 (69 votes)

Comments:

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860.

Dónde Están Los Ladrones? 

 Shakira

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"Enjoyed the entire album! I am not a great reviewer but I know what I like. Shakira is an accomplished artist...if you aren't sure of this album, listen to a few samplings with an open mind. Close your eyes and relax your mind, listen to the music and her voice..take time to enjoy."  Reply

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Year of Release:

1998

Appears in:

62 charts

Rank Score:

261

Rank in 1998:

90

Rank in 1990s:

860

Overall Rank:

5,224

Average Rating:

 74 (73 votes)

Comments:

3

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Best Albums of the 1990s composition

Top 1,000 Top 500 Top 250 Top 100

Year	Albums	%
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%

Artist	Albums	%
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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Country	Albums	%
	536	54%
	270	27%
	41	4%
	24	2%
	24	2%
	16	2%
	12	1%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	986	99%
Yes	14	1%

Live?	Albums	%
No	981	98%
Yes	19	2%

Soundtrack?	Albums	%
No	992	99%
Yes	8	1%