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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"This is far too glum for me. Cmon, sing happy songs!" Reply
"takes a little longer to get into than reading writing and the maths, but it's ultimately the better of the two albums. a little more adult. a little less cutesy. musically, more confident. more mature. less snark. more romance." Reply
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"sorry but this bored me.1 or 2 tracks decent,but its sending me to sleep" Reply
"This is not the original track listing, but the 10th anniversary edition listing. On the original rease in 1994, substitute Thank You for The Rain Song. Thank You was the second track on the original album." Reply
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"This record is dark, pretty strong and really quite underrated. "Aisha", for example, is a psychedelic epic and one of the very best tracks of the 90s. The rest of the record also has that scuzzy, trippy vibe veering from noise pop to trip hop. It may sound like little more than a sum of its infl..." [+] Reply
"One of the best G-Funk albums of all time, only a hair shy of being up there with the likes of Doggystyle in my opinion." Reply
"Not as consistently good as Cosmic Thing but a pretty good record." 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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Best Albums of the 1990s composition
| Year | Albums | % | |
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| 1990 | 85 | 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 | 84 | 8% |
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| Blur | 6 | 1% | |
| Neil Young | 6 | 1% | |
| The Flaming Lips | 6 | 1% | |
| Pearl Jam | 5 | 1% | |
| Manic Street Preachers | 5 | 1% | |
| Autechre | 5 | 1% | |
| The Smashing Pumpkins | 5 | 1% | |
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533 | 53% | |
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269 | 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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Down 1 from 24th to 25th |
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