Official SY Gossip Top 50! Greatest Albums of the 1990s
 

SYRfox's thread did such a great job and was a lot of fun, now it is time to really go indepth into the 90s, which is debatably the most dense era of music, and inflames the most geekly tense debates in hipster album comparison history

and because of the vast amount out there and with plenty of time to have reflected on it, i shall ask you to PM me your Top 25 albums, i was thinking of doing 20 however with the large amount of great albums (and 5 SY full lenghts) it's just prudent


-> only albums released from January 1st, 1990 to December 31st 1999 included! No reissues, deluxe editions or whatever. No singles either, only albums...

-> Points will be: 25 for #1, 24 for #2, 23 for #3, etc.

-> if you wish to do less then 25, it's fine, but i totally recommend doing as much many as you can

i shall start tabulating next sunday morning, and hopefully will have the post up that afternoon

START YOUR SPINNING!!!

ridic

that's the spirit!! now i need the rest of your list

1. boredoms-super ae
2.gastr del sol-upgrade and afterlife
3. the dead c-trapdoor fucking exit
4. darkthrone-transylvanian hunger
5. beherit-drawing down the moon
6. royal trux-twin infinitives
7. thinking fellers union local 282-mother of all saints
8. polvo-today's active lifestyles
9. sun city girls-torch of the mystics
8. drive like jehu-yank crime
10. earth 2
11. john fahey-womblife
12. geto boys-geto boys
13.wu tang clan-enter the wu tang: the 36 chambers
14. deicide-legion
15. eyehategod-dopesick
16. harry pussy-what was music
17. cock esp-greatest dicks
18. u.s. maple-long hair in 2 stages
19. to live and shave in la-vedder vedder bedwetter
20. gorgoroth-pentagram
21. masonna-shock rock
22. the flying luttenbachers-destroy all music
23. the scissor girls-we people space with phantoms
24. shellac-at action park
25. caroliner-fingers of the underworld and thier unbreakable bones


ok thats it, final answer.

This is going to be really tough. I'm going to have to think about this for a while.

Cows.Daddy Has A Tail or Peacetika or Sexy Pee Story.
I can't think of 50 great records in the 90's.

im thinking about trading in "yank crime" for "ride a dove", since yank crime has way more songs on there. yup. sorry harry puss, i still love yall.

1. Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun

I don't care when it was released. That's my vote.

ok so scratch harry pussy, umm ewww, don't get tangled

Swirlies - They Spent Their Wild Youthful Days In The Glittering World Of Salons

25. Bonnie "Prince" Billy - I See a Darkness
24. Main Source - Breaking Atoms
23. Merzbow - Flare Gun
22. Pavement - Wowee Zowee
21. Guided by Voices - Bee Thousand
20. R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
19. Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup
18. Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
17. Tortoise - Millions Living Now Will Never Die
16. Tom Waits - Bone Machine
15. GZA/Genius - Liquid Swords
14. Ween - The Mollusk
13. Nas - Illmatic
12. Sigur Rós - Ágætis Byrjun
11. Radiohead - OK Computer
10. Portishead - Dummy
9. Sonic Youth - Washing Machine
8. Ween - The Pod
7. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
6. DJ Shadow - Endtroducing...
5. Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun
4. Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
3. A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
2. Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
1. Slint - Spiderland

1. Da Yoof - Washing Machine
2. Shellac of North America - At action park
3. Slint - Spiderland
4. The Ex - Starters Alternators
5. Pavement - Brighten the corners
6. Sebadoh - Bakesale
7. Pixies - Trompe le Monde
8. Blonde Redhead - In an expresion of the inexpressible
9. Autechre - LP5
10 - Jim o'Rourke - Halfway to a threeway
11 - Nirvana - In utero
12 - Weezer - Blue
13 - Mogwai - Young team
14 - gastr del sol - camoufleur
15 - Jesus Lizard - Liar
16 - Fugazi - red medicine
17 - Frank Black - Teenager of the year
18 - GVSB - Cruise yrself
19 - Tortoise - TNT
20 - My Own - Non wake up clocks
21 - Polvo - Exploded drawing
22 - Heliogabale - The full mind is alone the clear
23 - June of 44 - Engine takes to water
24 - Portishead - S/t
25 - Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup

wow
this list is:

fuck, i have to make two more changes.

i totally forgot gastr del sol-upgrade and afterlife, which is definitley tied for boredoms at 1.

and i have to trade in darkthrone's "transylvanian hunger", which is my favorite metal album ever recorded, for deicide's "legion".

hope you done mind these ties, but there was one hell of an underground in the 90s. seems like the worse the mainstream is, the better the underground is, case in point the 80s-today.

That came out in the 00's dude. Sorry but it's not that hard to name 10 albums from a decade, no need to name only 1 from another decade.

hahahahahahahahahaha

Link to SYR Fox's thread? I voted but I didn't know he finished.

Came out on Dec. 10 1999 in Japan, according to discogs and RYM, which is good enough for me.

damn, more records keep poppin in my head every 20 minutes, and im really tempted to add fahey's "womblife" to my list. yup, im gonna do it.

1 Lou Reed & John Cale - Songs for Drella
2 Sonic Youth - Goo
3 Nirvana - Unplugged in New York
4 Nirvana - Incesticide
5 Sonic Youth - Washing Machine
6 My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
7 Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
8 Nirvana - Bleach
9 The Jesus Lizard - Goat
10 Laurie Anderson - The Ugly One With The Jewels and Other Stories
11 Nirvana - In Utero
12 Nirvana - Nevermind
13 Sonic Youth - SYR4: Goodbye Twentieth Century
14 Sonic Youth - Experimental, Jet Set, Trash, And No Star
15 Public Enemy - Welcome to the Terrordome
16 R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
17 Pavement - Wowee Zowee
18 Brad Mehldau - Art of the Trio Volume Three: Songs
19 Johnny Cash - American Recordings
20 Dinosaur Jr - Green Mind
21 Sonic Youth - A Thousand Leaves
22 Chickasaw Mudd Puppies - 8 Track Stomp
23 Cracker - Cracker
24 Cat Power - Moon Pix
25 The Jesus Lizard - Head
26 Boredoms - Super AE
27 Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted
28 Sonic Youth- Dirty
29 V/A - Guitarrorists
30 Neil Young - Sleeps With Angels
31 Cracker - Kerosene Hat
32 Björk - Debut
33 Radiohead - The Bends
34 Sebadoh - Weed Forestin
35 The Jesus Lizard - Liar
36 Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup
37 Beck - Mellow Gold
38 U2 - Achtung Baby
39 Beck - Odelay
40 Brad Mehldau - Introducing Brad Mehldau
41 Slint - Spiderland
42 Cat Power -What Would the Community Think
43 Pixies - Doolittle
44 Bob Dylan - Time Out of Mind
45 Fugazi - Repeater
46 Daniel Johnston - Artistic Vice
47 Pavement - Brighten The Corners
48 Radiohead - OK Computer
49 Boredoms - Chocolate Synthesizer
50 Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen
51 Ween - God Ween Satan
52 Polvo - Today's Active Lifestyles
53 Sebadoh - III
54 Smashing Pumpkins - Gish
55 Jane's Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual
56 Tom Petty - Wildflowers
57 Melt-Banana - Charlie
58 Herbie Hancock & Wayne Shorter - 1 + 1
59 Royal Trux - Twin Infinitives
60 Ween - Chocolate & Cheese
61 Fugazi - In On The Kill Taker
62 Mudhoney - Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge
63 Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
64 P.J. Harvey - Rid of Me
65 Fugazi - Red Medicine
66 Hole - Pretty On The Inside
67 Ween - The Mollusk
68 Guns N' Roses - Use Your Illusion I & II
69 The Gerbils - Are You Sleepy?
70 Masada - Alef
71 Half Japanese - Bone Head
72 Sebadoh - Bakesale
73 Weezer - Weezer (Blue Album)
74 Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Orange
75 Beck - Midnite Vultures
76 Trans Am - Trans Am
77 Boss Hog - Boss Hog
78 Green Day - Dookie
79 Jack Logan - Bulk
80 Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness
81 Ween - Pure Guava
82 Pylon - Chain
83 Brad Mehldau - Something Else
84 Beastie Boys - Check Your Head
85 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - The Boatman's Call
86 Tom Waits - Mule Variations
87 Mudhoney - My Brother The Cow
88 Boredoms - Pop Tatari
89 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Majik
90 Outkast - Aquemini
91 Mudhoney - Piece of Cake
92 Mogwai - Young Team
93 Japancakes - If I Could See Dallas
94 Olivia Tremor Control - Dusk at Cubist Castle
95 Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come
96 Z-Rock Hawaii - Z-Rock Hawaii
97 Cows - Cunning Stunts
98 Dwarves - Blood, Guts & Pussy
99 Crash Worship - Espontáneo!
100 Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

As always, I feel it is odd to rank things, but I'll give it a shot.

1. My Bloody Valentine- Loveless
2. Guided By Voices- Bee Thousand
3. Fugazi- Repeater
4. Sonic Youth- Goo
5. Pavement- Wowee Zowee
6. Polvo- Exploded Drawing
7. Shellac- At Action Park
8. Don Caballero- What Burns Never Returns
9. Slint- Spiderland
10. Fugazi- In on the Killtaker
11. Fugazi- Red Medicine
12. Pavement- Brighten the Corners
13. Drive Like Jehu- Yank Crime
14. Karp- S/T
15. Sonic Youth- A Thousand Leaves
16. The Pixies- Surfer Rosa
17. The Pixies- Trompe Le Monde
18. Polvo- Celebrate the New Dark Age
19. Polvo- Today's Active Lifestyles
20. Dr. Octagon- Dr. Octagonacolagyst
21. Nirvana- In Utero
22. Thee Speaking Canaries- Songs for the Extra Terrestrially Challenged
23. Thinking Fellers Union Local 282- Funeral Pudding
24. Polaris- Music From the Adventures of Pete and Pete
25. Modest Mouse- The Lonesome and Crowded West

Honorable Mentions:
Archers of Loaf- Icky Mettle
Swirlies- Blonder Tongue Audio Baton
Chavez- Gone Glimmering
Spiritualized- Ladies and Gentleman, We Are Floating in Space
Sonic Youth- Experimental Jet Set, Trash, and No Star
Sonic Youth- Washing Machine
Sonic Youth- Dirty
Polaris- Music from the Adventures of Pete and Pete

Surfer Rosa is from 1988, as is It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back.

Don't know if I can do this. I'm pretty bad at making lists.

1. john fahey - god, time, and causality
2. boredoms - vision creation newsun
3. sun city girls - torch of the mystics
4. slint - spiderland
5. thinking fellers union local # 282 - mother of all saints
6. gastr del sol - upgrade and afterlife
7. drive like jehu - yank crime
8. polvo - today's active lifestyles
9. mr. bungle - disco volante
10. boredoms - super ae
11. slowdive - pygmalion
12. shellac - at action park
13. the jesus lizard - goat
14. koenjihyakkei - viva koenji
15. leo kottke - one guitar, no vocals
16. stereolab - transient random noise bursts with announcements
17. unsane - scattered, smothered, and covered
18. caroliner - rise of the common woodpile
19. pavement - slanted and enchanted
20. royal trux - twin infinitives
21. the cows - cunning stunts
22. swirlies - blonder tongue audio baton
23. the dillinger escape plan - calculating infinity
24. melt banana - charlie
25. the melvins - bullhead

something like that.

forgot about this.. great, great album.
unfortunately the only one i've ever heard by them.

I had to double check because I thought for sure it came out in 88 or 89 but it actually came out in the 90's.

There are 1 or 2 SCG releases I like "better" but that's probably their greatest album, so I felt that was the one I needed to include.

1. slint - spiderland
2. john frusciante - smile from the streets you hold (atsonicpark, you still need to listen to this hah)
3. sonic youth - washing machine
4. melt banana - scratch or stitch!
5. the flaming lips - the soft bulletin
6. polvo - today's active lifestyles
7. rodan - rusty
8. shellac - at action park
9. built to spill - perfect from now on
10. deftones - white pony
11. weezer - pinkerton
12. melvins - bullhead
13. sun city girls - torch of the mystics
14. slowdive - pygmalion
15. the jesus lizard - liar
16. my bloody valentine - loveless
17. fugazi - repeater
18. boris - amplifier worship
19. kyuss - blues for the red sun
20. manic street preachers - the holy bible
21. richard youngs - sapphie
22. autechre - amber
23. red house painters - red house painters I
24. the dillinger escape plan - calculating infinity
25. bark psychosis - hex

Obviously not in EXACT ORDER. This was sorta hard. If I could include soundtracks then I'd put Howard Shore's soundtrack to Crash in there.

I forgot all about rusty.

And yeah I need to listen to that frusciante fuck.

Most people think the album's a joke... though I think it's beautiful. Hopefully you'll see my view on it.

You should see the reaction I get when I show the album to Red Hot Chili Peppers fans... they run a mile. Which also brings up another funny point, RHCP spend MILLIONS on their production... yet the majority of tracks on that album were recorded on a shitty tape recorder/boombox.

Most people don't hear the random bong sounds throughout the album hah.

d/l'ing now my friend.

My friend Greg, who's favourite bands include RHCP and Aerosmith, said to me a few months ago that he finally "got" the album and that it's his favourite album now.

I think we became better friends after that haha. Nice to see not everyone around my village is a close-minded idiot.

I've noticed more than one person nominate Melt Banana's Charlie over their vastly superior effort for Tzakik. Pricks.

Well don't look at me, I voted for Scratch or Stitch! Which no one will really agree with, but it's all opinion in the end.

It's a better call. I'm not disagreeing with it. But Charlie is simply the wrong choice.

lechaoscestmoi,

Just so you know, I PM'ed pantophobia my top 25 only. Sorry you are so upset that I listed a hundred that you felt the need to neg rep me and call me a "twat." I suppose it's not too far of a stretch to guess that you're a either a sexist idiot or merely an aper of those quirky Brits who quite boringly and routinely use "twat" as a derogatory term. Perhaps you are both. I refrained from any lobbying in the other best of '00s listing thread, but haven't here.

Watch your mouth kid, or you're gonna find yourself floating home.

Hah, awesome. atari rules.

bla bla i see that you are deeply hurt because of a neg rep, sorry for ruining your day... twat.

Can't be arsed to do more than 10:

1. Slint - Spiderland
2. MBV - Loveless
3. Mogwai - Young Team
4. Primal Scream - Screamadelica
5. The Second Tindersticks Album
6. Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
7. The Delgados - Peloton
8. Mercury Rev - Yerself Is Steam
9. Arab Strap - Mad For Sadness
10. GYBE! - F#A#oo

Charlie is by far my fav. Melt Banana album, followed by Teeny Shiny. The Tzadik one -- is that the live album? Yeah, it's good.

derek, this frusciante album is fucking amazing.

Reminds me of a really heroined-out guy who decided to try to cover lick my decals off baby in its entirety after only hearing it once, with almost no production values whatsoever and no other band members to speak off. Great shit!

fuck it im just gonna make a top 25 and get rid of the ties

1. A Thousand Leaves

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