Best Album of the Early-mid 90's?

[XemaSab]

:shrug:

(and these, note well, were the most listened to albums of my high school days :P )

[enigmatic]

1. "Spiderland"- Slint

Slint has reformed and is touring and playing "Spiderland" in it's entirety; I wish Radio Enigma had the juice to score tickets!

http://www.southern.com/southern/band/SLINT/

[asthmaticeog]

8. This is the correct answer.

:thumbsup:

[enigmatic]

15. I know l sound like the Eternal Obscure Hipster

But I really would give my left nutt to see "Washer" being played live; I really hope the rumors of Slint rehearsing new material in Louisville after the tour are true...

[asthmaticeog]

68. I'm missing all the reunions too.

I had a shot at making a Chicago show, but it sold out too quickly. "Nosferatu Man" live would HAVE to kick ass. I hope the rumors of new stuff are true, too. Maybe that For Carnation reissue set indicates that McMahan is getting back into the game?

[enigmatic]

89. Have you seen this?

From the 2005 tour:

http://recluseshow.blogspot.com/2007/02/nosferatu-man-slint.html

[asthmaticeog]

98. Wow, that's actually kind of a letdown.

Reminds me of seeing Mighty Lemon Drops once they got bigger - I'm not necessarily a proponent of big staging, but when the venues start to have balconies, bands need to learn to friggin' move around a bit.

[enigmatic]

108. They were always anti-performers, I guess

There's some stuff from this year's tour on you tube and it's really interesting to see the interplay between the band and McMahon's almost inscrutable tempo/meter signals, especially on Washer and Breadcrumb Trail. Pajo still looks like he's playing by himself in his bedroom somewhere, which I always get a kick out of seeing..

[ghostsofgiants]

91. I think I'm going to have to agree.

[MissMillie]

2. "Storyville" by Robbie Robertson or

"Whatever" by Aimee Mann

[SteppingRazor]

3. License to Ill isn't an early-mid '90s album.

Just sayin' :hi:

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

4. Licence to Ill came out in 1986

in a big way

[no name no slogan]

71. It was the soundtrack of my senior year in HS

I remember it well...

not really.

[ghostsofgiants]

96. Maybe she was thinking of Ill Communication?

That came out in '94.

[IndianaJones]

5. License to Ill is mid 80's. nt.

[Blue-Jay]

6. Wow. How long were you in high school?

:D

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

7. Nevermind came out in the fall of 91 - nothing mid-nineties about it

just sayin'

[last_texas_dem]

12. Yeah, but

the poll does say early-mid nineties...

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

16. There's nothing mid about 91

it's the 2nd freakin' year FFS

[last_texas_dem]

20. I'm reading "early-mid nineties"

as "early to mid nineties" because that's what I assume the dash implies. However, I understand your dispute if you are reading that differently. I agree that 1991 is not "mid"-nineties.

[IntravenousDemilo]

41. There's confusion between a hyphen and a dash here.

"Early-mid-1990s" (with a hyphen) would be just as you say -- 1993/1994 -- and not include 1991.

However, "early -- mid-1990s" (with a dash) would mean from the early '90s to the mid-'90s. Xema's mistake was to put a hyphen where a dash (i.e., two hyphens, preferably preceded and followed by a space) should be. I assuming she meant it as a dash rather than a hyphen. Myself, I'd have written "early- to mid-1990s", but I'm not Xema.

And, to support your argument still further, 1991 is even closer to the beginning of the decade than you thought -- it's actually the first year. Since there was no year Zero, decades begin with years that end with a "1" and finish with years that end in "0". Hence the '90s were 1991-2000. And this decade began in 2001 and will end in 2010. And this century and millennium all started in 2001 as well.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

49. The poll is early TO mid-90s.

Two separate things.

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

9. I am too hip for you and I am

going to mention something you've never heard of 'cause I suck!

Came out in '85. :wtf:

[IndianaJones]

10. Run DMC Tougher Than Leather. nt.

[Initech]

11. Come on, how can a poll like this not include Frizzle Fry?

[last_texas_dem]

13. Voted for _Ten_

'cause I prefer it to Nevermind and Pearl Jam usually gets dumped on on this site quite a bit. My favorites include Stone Temple Pilots' Core and Soul Asylum's And the Horse They Rode in on.

[last_texas_dem]

95. I'll also add

Smash by the Offspring as that's definitely an album I played to death when I was in high school (though that was several years past its release and several years after the mid-nineties as well!). For me, it still hold up, though; I know it's not "real" punk (I don't really like "real" punk anyway) but it's a great hard rock album, IMHO.

[Wetzelbill]

14. "Cracked Rear View" - Hootie and The Blowfish

and yeah, eff off the whole lot of ya!!!

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

17. Ten also came out in 91 - you shoulda checked the dates before you filled

out the subject line

[Fran Kubelik]

18. dude, chill

She said early to mid nineties. Which includes all those early 90s right up through the mid ones. ;)

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

22. I will not chill "dude"!

If you start a poll about music of a certain period then make choices about that period!

[Fran Kubelik]

24. Ok, I will agree to that.

If you will agree that you should improve your reading comprehension before you go jumping down someone's throat about their MUSIC POLL. Take a deep breath, friend.
You have better choices for the early to mid nineties? Click other and elaborate. Geez.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

26. My reading comprehension doesn't make the 80's the 90s

I have many choices but that's not the issue "friend"

[Fran Kubelik]

28. OMG

She screwed up on one title. The rest are in the early nineties and the mid nineties, as advertised.

Does it really matter????

Do you even have an opinion on this shit?

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

31. Yes it effing matters! But the best album from that era is Enter the 36 Chambers

The Wu is coming through to a theater near you and gets funk like a shoe

[IndianaJones]

34. great album. nt.

[last_texas_dem]

32. I'm still not seeing how 1991 isn't in the early nineties

If she had made the poll "1990-1996" both of those years and all of the years in-between would have been included. Why isn't the same true for "early-mid nineties"?

[bamacrat]

21. Really, early constitutes 90-92, mid would be 93-96.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

23. That's what I'm saying

thank you

[Fran Kubelik]

25. ugh

:banghead:

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

27. and 1986 isn't even in the same decade

:mad:

[Fran Kubelik]

29. Let me guess.

You're actually a character from the book/movie High Fidelity. You work(ed ) in a record store and made fun of people for buying mainstream pop records. You not only know the release dates of all these records, but their catalog numbers as well. You organize your collection of obscure indie vinyl by sub-category.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

38. I bet this is what your poll would look like.

What's the best Jazz album?

1) Pet Sounds
2) Bat Out of Hell
3) The Ghostbusters Soundtrack

etc..

I organize my shit by overall timbre spectrum if you must know

[Fran Kubelik]

42. I don't even know what point you're trying to make.

Except that you're a condescending ass. You succeeded there. Congrats!

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

45. And you have succeeded in entering my elite ignore list

Good day to you!

:hi:

[Fran Kubelik]

46. Anyone who can't have a civilized music conversation

...without getting his panties in a wad doesn't deserve to read what I have to say anyway. :rofl:

I still say - chill out dude. Life's too short to get THAT worked up over something.

[last_texas_dem]

47. Amen. eom

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

48. Ok - so anyway - Of the choices there Licensed to Ill hands down

I prefer Siamese Dream to Nevermind. I think I played Nevermind too much in High School.

Which do you prefer?

[Bennyboy]

19. Junta...Phish..Dave Matthews...

Under the table and dreaming, Blues Traveler IV.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

30. DJ Shadow - Entroducing...

[Fran Kubelik]

37. be careful - that might not fit CSTT's criteria of mid-90s

:scared:

great record though!

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

40. It wasn't from 19 freaking 86

But it is an all time classic

[Starbucks Anarchist]

50. Indeed!

:hi:

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

52. I keed I keed

O8)

[ghostsofgiants]

93. Definitely worthy of a mention.

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[underpants]

35. "Saturation" Urge Overkill and "Girlfriend" Mathew Sweet

Both are great albums

[Arugula Latte]

56. Matthew Sweet deserved to be a much bigger star

He made a big splash with that album and then ... what? :shrug:

[underpants]

58. I heard that he basically sold out his old band

I heard this from a big music fan back in the day. Sweet's band got a contract when they were playing in Athens-Mathew worked it so that HE got the deal and dumped the two other guys. He ended up in Nebraska (where he was from) and basically disappeared. He wasn't too popular in the music world.

But then that is just what I heard :shrug:

[CrownPrinceBandar]

57. "Saturation" is a GREAT album............

and "Girlfriend" is no slouch either, although I'm a bigger "Altered Beast" fan.

[underpants]

61. oh AND ........... ................. U2's "Achtung Baby"

great album

[mainegreen]

36. Disco Volante in '95. Angel Dust in '92. Entombed: Clandestine in '91, LOA Voodoo-U in '94

Closer was rather good too!

So hard to choose.

I could add like 10 more, but I totally wont.

[av8rdave]

39. I'd go with Throwing Copper (Live) or Jar of Flies (Alice in Chains)

[Dulcinea]

51. Another vote for "Throwing Copper."

I love "I Alone."

[av8rdave]

53. That, Lightning Crashes, All Over You...there are a lot of great songs on that one

[ceile]

43. "Singles" soundtrack, "Dirt" Alice in Chains

Probably the best soundtrack ever put together.

[GOPisEvil]

67. Once again, you have an excellent answer.

:thumbsup:

[ceile]

103. Why, thank you, sir.

How ya been?

[6000eliot]

44. XTC "Nonsuch" and Matthew Sweet "Girlfriend."

[AlCzervik]

54. Violator by Depeche mode

[mitchum]

55. Low and Sweet Orchestra "Goodbye To All That"

[CrownPrinceBandar]

59. "Angel Dust" by Faith No More........

"Southern Harmony and Musical Companion" - Black Crowes
"Badmotorfinger" - Soundgarden
"Pure Guava" - Ween
"La Sexorcisto" - White Zombie
"Undertow" - Tool
"Superjudge" - Monster Magnet
"Good To Be Gone" - Soulhat
"Gish" - The Smashing Pumpkins
"Achtung Baby" - U2 (restored my faith in them after Joshua Tree)

[MrScorpio]

60. There is only ONE ANSWER, Massive Attack's BLUE LINES

Check it out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1svI-owtWA

Unfinished Sympathy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHj2i6dlVZU

Daydreaming

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD4Wj3qlru4

Be Thankful

[mikeytherat]

106. Great album, though I'm more of a "Mezzanine" fan.

mikey_the_rat

[JVS]

62. THE CHRONIC

[bigwillq]

74. I second that (nt)

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

75. I almost third that

36 Chambers was better - but not by much

[LostInAnomie]

80. Ex-fucking-actly!

Best rap album ever made, IMHO.

[Shakespeare]

63. "Gish" by the Pumpkins is far, far superior to "Siamese Dream." n/t

[ok_cpu]

64. I pick 'dis one

Soundtrack of my Sr. year.




And dat one depending on how "mid" we're going

[idgiehkt]

65. PJ Harvey's "Rid of Me" is what I would picl

I voted for "Ten" though. It's becoming increasing cool to diss Nirvana, where for a while it was cool to diss Pearl Jam. I think they are both great bands that contributed alot and I am really glad I was young when they were out and in my 20's in the 90's in general.

[Strawman]

100. I'll second that

That's an outstanding record from beginning to end.

[GOPisEvil]

66. "Copper Blue" by Sugar

OK, so maybe it isn't the best, but it's pretty darn good.

[opiate69]

69. "Undertow" - Tool

[MrSlayer]

70. Ice Cube - "Death Certificate"

Fucking album slams.

Of course Slayer's "Seasons in the Abyss" and "Divine Intervention" go without saying.

[LostInAnomie]

84. I still think "The Predator" is Ice Cube's best album.

I can't tell you how many times during my teen years I got drunk listening to that album at my friend's house.

[no name no slogan]

72. "LOVELESS" by My Bloody Valentine

Honorable mention to "Screamadelica" by Primal Scream

[Zomby Woof]

73. I'll name 11

Frank Zappa - "Civilization Phaze III" ('94)
Morbid Angel - "Blessed Are The Sick" ('91)
Allman Brothers Band - "Shades of Two Worlds" ('91)
Robert Cray Band - "Midnight Stroll" ('90)
Neil Young and Crazy Horse - "Ragged Glory" ('90)
Lou Reed - "Magic and Loss" ('93)
Gov't Mule - "Gov't Mule" ('95)
Warren Zevon - "Mr. Bad Example" ('91)
Pearl Jam - "Vitalogy" ('94)
The Wallflowers - "The Wallflowers" ('92)
Slayer - "Seasons In The Abyss" ('90)

[Zomby Woof]

76. Oh!

And "Kiko" by Los Lobos. (make it a dirty dozen albums)

I KNEW I would forget an important one. :crazy:

[frogcycle]

77. sorry,

there haven't been any worthy albums since 1974

grump grump curmudge

[WildEyedLiberal]

78. WHERE is "Achtung Baby"?

This list is deficient without Achtung Baby!

[Starbucks Anarchist]

79. That's a good one.

I have a hard time deciding between that one and Zooropa. :hi:

[WildEyedLiberal]

82. I never could get much into Zooropa

"Stay (Faraway So Close)" is a good song, but the rest of it is a bit too avant garde for me. Although I do think Zooropa is the last really talented album U2 made, even if it's not my personal favorite. They've had some good *songs* recently, but the albums have been hit and miss.

Achtung Baby, on the other hand, I could listen to start to finish an indefinite number of times; it's that good.

:hi:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

83. I love "Numb."

:D

Rattle & Hum is another good album, though not a '90s one.

[WildEyedLiberal]

85. Have you seen the Rattle & Hum documentary?

It's pretty sweet, although Bono had pretty heinous hair.

Pretty much all of 80s U2 is just plain awesome. The Joshua Tree is one of the best albums ever, by any artist, period. And I just love the raw bleeding heart passion of War.

U2 is the one huge megaband I am completely unashamed to admit that I LOVE.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

86. Haven't seen it yet.

Actually, it's the only '80s U2 album I have -- I'm more familiar with 1991 until now, though I have heard some of the '80s singles.

Most of the music I listen to is by people who are already dead, but one of my megabands I'm not ashamed to love, aside from U2, is AC/DC.

:headbang: ;)

[WildEyedLiberal]

87. Oh man you gotta get Joshua Tree and War

Two more albums that are great start to finish. The 80s Greatest Hits is an OK compilation, but I wouldn't recommend it if you already have "Rattle" since a lot of the songs are the same. But there are a lot of great non-single tracks on both Joshua and War.

And, dude, OMG, I love 80s metal. AC/DC, Slayer, Dio - :headbang:

Not so much the hair metal like Warrant and Cinderella and Poison though, :rofl:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

88. I will, and I agree about the hair metal.

:puke: :rofl:

[underpants]

102. #61

:hi:

[LostInAnomie]

81. LaSexorcisto by White Zombie

Even though I said "The Chronic" up thread. I reserve the right to contradict myself!

[hfojvt]

90. I have never heard of these albums, who are the artists

and I use that word loosely. Is 'ten' the soundtrack from the Bo Derek movie?

[ghostsofgiants]

94. Did you live under a rock in the ealy '90s?

"Ten" is by Pearl Jam
"Nevermind" is by Nirvana
"Siamese Dream" is by Smashing Pumpkins
"Licence to Ill" is by Beastie Boys
"Downward Spiral" is by Nine Inch Nails

[hfojvt]

104. I still live under a rock

Why do you hate rocks? Actually in the 1990s I lived in a small Wisconsin town that only had one radio station which was a country/pop station. Viroqua and Madison were very close but the local station seemed to be smeared all over the dial. Instead of WVRQ of Viroqua there would be an echo of WRCO. I did not mind their format though, they played alot of classic 70s and 80s hits.

I also rarely buy albums, although in the 1990s I joined Columbia music house and bought about 100 CDs, mostly greatest hits, but also some of the country that I liked. I have heard songs from Pearl Jam, Nirvana, and Beastie Boys, and really hated those songs, but have never heard anything, that I know of, from the other two.

Now that I have most of my CDs on my computer, I remain blissfully unaware of new and popular stuff that I probably would not like anyway.

[ghostsofgiants]

92. I'm going to agree with enigmatic's vote for Slint...

But Nation of Ulysses' "13-Point Program to Destroy America" and Fugazi's "Repeater" and "Steady Diet Of Nothing" all rank pretty high for me.

[regnaD kciN]

97. Eno/Cale - Wrong Way Up

[mikeytherat]

99. "Bellybutton" and "Spilt Milk" from Jellyfish

mikey_the_rat

[grace0418]

101. Together Alone by Crowded House

I'm not hip, nor do I suck. I just think this was the best album to come out during those years.

[losthills]

105. Uncle Tupelo

No Depression

[enigmatic]

107. "Still Feel Gone" was my second choice

They are my all-time favorite band and it's virtually impossible to pick the best out of the four, but "Still Feel Gone"'s songs are the stronest, and (even though I'm a Jay guy)it's really where Jeff Tweedy discovered his songwriting voice..

[gbate]

109. Under the Table and Dreaming by Dave Matthews Band.