Best Albums of the 1990s
Explore the best albums of the 1990s, based on over 2 million album rankings across 60,000 charts.
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"The darker and much shorter companion piece to the excellent, Copper blue. It's certainly not as instant as it's predecessor and is a lot more hard work to get into. It's still a very good record slightly tarnished by the fact that the vocals are so low down in the mix making them impossible to u..." [+] Reply
"I prefer the single-CD edition of this album, that came out in 1995! It omits the tracks "Beautiful Sister", "Giftland" and "Sungravy" and contains edited versions of "Leave It Like That", "The Wheel" and "On My Pillow"." Reply
"Very good irish folk rock album. Best 10 songs average is 88,8/100 and the album can get very good 90/100. It's a special genre of music, I like it anyway. And this album is really strong. Several songs have asian themes, good sound. Best song is "Rain street" 95/100, the only song I've already k..." [+] Reply
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"awesome, highly-influential band." Reply
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"This album is a rare gem. All the songs are sublime. Fun and sometimes strange lyrics (If you were a tree, I would carve my name into your side and you will not cry, because trees don't cry)point that this valentine album is not your average love album. The music is grand, with big orchestration,..." [+] Reply
"Touch Me I'm Sick - The Ultimate Grunge Song." Reply
"This album is one of the best and the worst at the same time. Endless personality." Reply
"This was one of the first albums I ever bought as a little kid. No one can tell me with a straight face that "I Want You" isn't ~perfect 90's pop~" Reply
"I liked the eerieness of the music and the edgy production, sounds innovative. Lots of offbeat elements which keep things interesting, such as off the wall backing vocals especially from Blue Raspberry (e.g., "Mr. Sandman"). And they create a uniquely dark mood on most of the tracks. Pretty uniqu..." [+] Reply
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1994
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219
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"For whatever reason I always liked this more than Fugazi. It's heavy and unrelenting but not at all boring." Reply
Total albums: 1,000. Page 98 of 100
Best Albums of the 1990s composition
| Year | Albums | % | |
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| 1990 | 87 | 9% | |
| 1991 | 83 | 8% | |
| 1992 | 106 | 11% | |
| 1993 | 104 | 10% | |
| 1994 | 127 | 13% | |
| 1995 | 102 | 10% | |
| 1996 | 110 | 11% | |
| 1997 | 97 | 10% | |
| 1998 | 102 | 10% | |
| 1999 | 85 | 9% |
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| Blur | 6 | 1% | |
| The Flaming Lips | 6 | 1% | |
| Neil Young | 6 | 1% | |
| Alice In Chains | 5 | 0% | |
| Sonic Youth | 5 | 0% | |
| R.E.M. | 5 | 0% | |
| Pearl Jam | 5 | 0% | |
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534 | 53% | |
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270 | 27% | |
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39 | 4% | |
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28 | 3% | |
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23 | 2% | |
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16 | 2% | |
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12 | 1% | |
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Best Albums of the 1990s chart changes
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