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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"Aisha is outstanding and possibly the best song of 1999, a couple of other tracks are decent but there's a couple of duds as well" Reply
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"Shortlisted for R&B albums of the year at the 1997 Grammys. The winner was Words by Tony Rich" Reply
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"S-K's amazing and best punk album. The riffs here are uniquely brilliant with Tucker and Brownstein inventing their unique way of interlocking vocals and guitar lines "Call the Doctor", "Hubcap" "Taste Test". Aggressive feminism tracks "I'm not Waiting" and 'Taking Me Home" really hot home. Macfa..." Reply
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"Ms. Gray adds her unique voice to some great songs. As a vocalist and a songwriter she is underrated." Reply
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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
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"what? only 4 ratings? but this is a great album, isn't it?" Reply
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"When I was but a wee bit of a lad, THIS is what I dreamed Country music sounded like. Austere, plaintive & naked coupled with a crazed spiritual fervor. You can imagine my horror when I found out it was nothing more than a NEUTERED version of the hard rock of my junior high school years. Luckily ..." Reply
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"This record was such a disappointment. It's way over produced and I just felt like "so what"." Reply
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Best Albums of the 1990s composition
| Year | Albums | % | |
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| 1990 | 86 | 9% | |
| 1991 | 83 | 8% | |
| 1992 | 105 | 11% | |
| 1993 | 104 | 10% | |
| 1994 | 126 | 13% | |
| 1995 | 103 | 10% | |
| 1996 | 110 | 11% | |
| 1997 | 96 | 10% | |
| 1998 | 102 | 10% | |
| 1999 | 85 | 9% |
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| Blur | 6 | 1% | |
| The Flaming Lips | 6 | 1% | |
| Neil Young | 6 | 1% | |
| Sonic Youth | 5 | 1% | |
| R.E.M. | 5 | 1% | |
| Pearl Jam | 5 | 1% | |
| The Smashing Pumpkins | 5 | 1% | |
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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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