Best Albums of the 1990s
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"Clearly influenced by Pavement, Blur re-invent themselves to produce one of the best albums of the nineties. Damon Albarn and co. try and succeed to take their music to another place. Some great songs and sounds, especially on, beetlebum, song 2, and, look inside America. Other standouts are the ..." Reply
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1997
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2,767
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"This album is a very enjoyable album and has a lot of brilliant tracks as well. While the music isn't completely unique it does have very strong instrumentation that feels frantic and very fun. The vocal is very consistent and deliver the lyrics very well. It is a reasonably unbalanced album as s..." Reply
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1994
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2,741
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"This is my personal favorite Pearl Jam album. A lot of people can't get past the couple fillery interludes, but the actual songs here are definitely their best work. Every time you listen to it it just gets better. At this point in my life I think Pearl Jam was my favorite band, unfortunately tho..." Reply
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lightmyway | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +6 votes (6 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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1994
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"i don't have this album, but 'frozen' is one of the best-produced songs of all time. anyone that disagrees is likely brain damaged." Reply
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telefunker | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +5 votes (6 helpful | 1 unhelpful)
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1998
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2,705
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"The big hits make the weaker tracks bearable on this album with the majority of the record being pretty average. There is so much repetitiveness on here that I almost feel like I'm losing my mind with the amount of times they repeat choruses. This leads to the songs being stuck in my head but not..." Reply
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1996
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2,702
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"What an absolute pleasure it was to hear this album again after many years , what a classic this one is . The 10 minute Three Days still blows my mind today. Criminally an album of this high quality sits outside the BEA overall 500 (504 at time of writing February 2018) and it deserves to be ther..." Reply
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Brad1770 | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +5 votes (5 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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1990
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"There's a lot to like here, such as muscular guitar riffs and very good songs. The album is strongest when Love lets loose on the vocals, as on "Jennifer's Body". Then some parts are too screechy for my taste, and I found the chorus and verse too repetitive at times. And the quiet-loud dynamic ge..." Reply
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1994
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2,661
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"Sounds like this band had a great time putting this record together. Kind of has a surfer vibe to it - but on steroids. And "Cannonball" is a flat out great song." Reply
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1993
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2,638
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"It's sad that this album never got as much attention as Nevermind (Nirvana) or Ten (Pearl Jam). Personally, I love Badmotorfinger slightly more than the latter and only slightly less than the former." Reply
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1991
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2,634
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"Opus 40 is a brilliant song. The album got better from that point and held up well to the end. Interesting sound on this one" Reply
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1998
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Total albums: 1,000. Page 11 of 100
Best Albums of the 1990s composition
| Year | Albums | % | |
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| 1990 | 85 | 9% | |
| 1991 | 83 | 8% | |
| 1992 | 105 | 11% | |
| 1993 | 104 | 10% | |
| 1994 | 127 | 13% | |
| 1995 | 102 | 10% | |
| 1996 | 109 | 11% | |
| 1997 | 98 | 10% | |
| 1998 | 102 | 10% | |
| 1999 | 85 | 9% |
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| Neil Young | 6 | 1% | |
| Blur | 6 | 1% | |
| The Flaming Lips | 6 | 1% | |
| Pavement | 5 | 1% | |
| Stereolab | 5 | 1% | |
| Radiohead | 5 | 1% | |
| Yo La Tengo | 5 | 1% | |
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533 | 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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Up 4 from 84th to 80th |
Up 3 from 96th to 93rd |
Up 3 from 82nd to 79th |
| Biggest fallers Biggest fallers in top 100 since last month |
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Down 3 from 80th to 83rd |
Down 2 from 60th to 62nd |
Down 2 from 79th to 81st |
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