Angel Dust
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 25 June 2015 02:38 (eight years ago) link
Dry or Check Your Head. dgaf about most of the rest, at least not in 2015.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 25 June 2015 04:59 (eight years ago) link
Before I check for myself, any thoughts on how 3 Years, 5 Months and 2 Days in the Life of... sounds in 2015? I'm nervous.
― The New Gay Sadness (cryptosicko), Thursday, 25 June 2015 05:02 (eight years ago) link
1. Selected Ambient Works 85-922. The Chronic
― example (crüt), Thursday, 25 June 2015 05:32 (eight years ago) link
oh man no Love Deluxe? if i'm honest with myself, SAW 85-92
― misterjoshua, Thursday, 25 June 2015 05:44 (eight years ago) link
Sugar's Copper Blue is the best rock album here.
― Darin, Thursday, 25 June 2015 06:43 (eight years ago) link
I intensely love some of these albums but I might love U.F.Orb the most. It was utterly transformative.
― It's The 1985 Micky Dolenz Toyota Spring Sales Event! (Old Lunch), Thursday, 25 June 2015 10:30 (eight years ago) link
After loving so much from 90-91, there's only one album I've really listened to from the list: UFOrb. A lot of classics, that I've checked out at times, but only UFOrb have I really dug into. There must be a bunch of 12'' and EPs which isn't on the list.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 25 June 2015 10:58 (eight years ago) link
so many quite good albums by so many great bands in this list. Aphex, Pavement, RATM, REM, Tom Waits, Beastie Boys, FNM - and yet none of these are my favourites by any of the acts.
― cod latin (dog latin), Thursday, 25 June 2015 11:04 (eight years ago) link
Slanted and Enchanted
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 25 June 2015 12:28 (eight years ago) link
SAW 85-92, just over Automatic for the People. Also really love Dirty, Copper Blue, Check Your Head and a few others but this doesn't look as strong a list as 1991.
― Gavin, Leeds, Thursday, 25 June 2015 12:54 (eight years ago) link
Albums that I had actually heard in '92 and that were most important to me then, in rough order of importance:
R.E.M. - Automatic for the PeopleFaith No More - Angel DustTori Amos - Little EarthquakesBeastie Boys - Check Your Head
― It's The 1985 Micky Dolenz Toyota Spring Sales Event! (Old Lunch), Thursday, 25 June 2015 13:12 (eight years ago) link
Sugar over Disposable Heroes for me, and I do love me some DHOH.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 25 June 2015 15:25 (eight years ago) link
it's weird how clearly this is the year that i began to grow disappointed/estranged from pop. Bone Machine and Sugar are the most diagnostic of this, but Pavement in a weird way too. After some of the atomic bombs of '91 this shit just seemed so lame. I probably could have easily gone in the electronic music direction if I'd encountered the right things then or been hanging around with the right ppl but I went in the classical/experimental direction instead. Honestly to my tastes the only great collective surge about early 90s pop was east coast hip hop and I didn't get that at the time.
― demonic mnevice (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 25 June 2015 15:36 (eight years ago) link
Pavement.
― it's not arugula science (WilliamC), Thursday, 25 June 2015 15:46 (eight years ago) link
I ruined a perfectly good guitar trying to make the noises Tom Morello made on the RATM album so they have to win my vote.
― challop (Willl), Thursday, 25 June 2015 15:48 (eight years ago) link
it's weird how clearly this is the year that i began to grow disappointed/estranged from pop.
I'm right there with you. I'm an unabashed fan of the bulk of popular music from, like, the early '60s through about '92 or '93. There's still stuff I like from that point on (and there was certainly a fair share of crap before that), but finding the good stuff involves a lot more cherrypicking. One of the main culprits in the mid-'90s in particular was the increasing popularity of the blandest AC imaginable.
― It's The 1985 Micky Dolenz Toyota Spring Sales Event! (Old Lunch), Thursday, 25 June 2015 16:01 (eight years ago) link
Have to go with It's a Shame About Ray, such a great little album.
― intheblanks, Thursday, 25 June 2015 16:21 (eight years ago) link
This thread has got me listening to Automatic For The People again. It's such a beautiful record, and it's not hard to see why it was what it was at the time. At one point, I thought I'd burned out on the singles from this album, and certainly during the time I was listening to a lot of R.E.M., I found myself listening to this one not as much as the others simply because I felt I'd overplayed the hell out of it. At the moment, though, the singles from this album feel a little bit more fresh to me, although it's mainly the album tracks that I'm drawn to: 'Monty Got A Raw Deal', 'Star Me Kitten', 'Find The River', 'Try Not To Breathe' etc.
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Friday, 26 June 2015 01:07 (eight years ago) link
Oh shit, 'Find The River' was a single! I'd totally forgotten about that... probably because it wasn't as ubiquitous as 'Everybody Hurts', 'Man On The Moon' or even 'Nightswimming'.
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Friday, 26 June 2015 01:14 (eight years ago) link
a good year. Copper Blue and Lazer-Guided Melodies are probably the two that I've returned to the most over the years.
― too young for seapunk (Moodles), Friday, 26 June 2015 01:54 (eight years ago) link
since we have a holiday here in the US this next week, this will be the last year for a few weeks.
― Bee OK, Friday, 26 June 2015 15:31 (eight years ago) link
SAW vs Angel Dust
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Friday, 26 June 2015 15:34 (eight years ago) link
Ten more great ones that come to mind: Pale Saints, Catherine Wheel, Unrest, Beat Happening, Iris DeMent, Gang Starr, Bettie Serveert, The Chills, Saint Etienne, Mega City Four. What a year, esp. for debuts. Though of those only Pale Saints would have challenged my R.E.M. vote.
― geoffreyess, Friday, 26 June 2015 18:30 (eight years ago) link
Spiritualized
― Οὖτις, Friday, 26 June 2015 18:32 (eight years ago) link
Aphex or S&E. I guess the former, if I'm being honest but I do adore so many times on S&E.
― kraudive, Friday, 26 June 2015 19:08 (eight years ago) link
Cuh. Tunes.
i love that Pale Saints album, one of my favorites from this year along with starting my love affair with the Boo Radleys with the release of Everything's Alright Forever.
― Bee OK, Saturday, 27 June 2015 01:53 (eight years ago) link
here are the next 20:
32 Neil Young - Harvest Moon33 Cesaria Evora - Miss Perfumado34 Helmet - Meantime35 L7 - Bricks are Heavy36 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Henry's Dream37 Lou Reed - Magic and Loss38 Pete Rock and C.L. Smooth - Mecca and the Soul Brother39 Screaming Trees - Sweet Oblivion40 Prince & The New Power Generation - O(+> ("Love Symbol Album")41 Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Devotional Songs/Devotional & Love Songs42 Mary J. Blige - What's the 411?43 En Vogue - Funky Divas44 Manic Street Preachers - Generation Terrorists45 The Tragically Hip - Fully Completely46 Ice Cube - The Predator47 Buffalo Tom - Let Me Come Over48 The Cure - Wish49 Basehead - Play with Toys50 Freedy Johnston - Can You Fly51 Bikini Kill - Bikini Kill EP/The C.D. Version of the First Two Records
― Bee OK, Saturday, 27 June 2015 18:28 (eight years ago) link
i would vote for wish and if it was a choice it would probably even get my vote over the original 30.
― Bee OK, Saturday, 27 June 2015 18:29 (eight years ago) link
That Tom Waits album was my first Tom Waits album (but I didn't listen to it until the early oughts), and the album that got me into Tom Wait's catalog, so....
Also, I 13 years old in 1992, but I have yet to hear most of these albums, so I'm interested to see how this poll goes. Even though the 90s covered ages 11 through 20 for me -- and I probably listened to as much music then as I do now -- the 90s is probably my least favorite decade from the last 55 years of pop music. I just find that most canonical albums from that decade just don't hold up as well compared to what came before or since.
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Saturday, 27 June 2015 23:16 (eight years ago) link
the 90s is probably my least favorite decade from the last 55 years of pop music. I just find that most canonical albums from that decade just don't hold up as well compared to what came before or since.
Yup.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 27 June 2015 23:25 (eight years ago) link
I can't even remember what I listened to from 90-95 or so, and my cd shelves aren't offering any clues. Punk and jazz, I guess.
― it's not arugula science (WilliamC), Saturday, 27 June 2015 23:32 (eight years ago) link
I've actually spent some time in the last year or two trying to reconnect with things I liked in the 90s. It works sometimes, but mostly it doesn't. And what almost never happens is me finding something from the 90s that I've never heard before and it adding anything of value to my life. Really, except for the first couple years' worth of shoegaze/baggy/hip hop/grunge, the 90s is a total dead zone.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 27 June 2015 23:36 (eight years ago) link
I probably like all of these as much as anything that made the Top 30:
32 Neil Young - Harvest Moon40 Prince & The New Power Generation - O(+> ("Love Symbol Album")44 Manic Street Preachers - Generation Terrorists47 Buffalo Tom - Let Me Come Over
Also, I get that Erotica wasn't well received at the time, but it doesn't even rank in the Top 50?!
― The New Gay Sadness (cryptosicko), Sunday, 28 June 2015 00:05 (eight years ago) link
My problem with the 90s primarily is that the disparity between one half and the other in terms of visible, 'canonical' stuff is huge.
― Master of Treacle, Sunday, 28 June 2015 01:35 (eight years ago) link
Your Arsenal. No competition.
― austinato (Austin), Sunday, 28 June 2015 01:46 (eight years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Monday, 29 June 2015 00:01 (eight years ago) link
ratm's debut more acclaimed than saw85-92? gtfo
― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 29 June 2015 01:40 (eight years ago) link
It's between S+E and UFOrb for me. S+E had a bigger impact on me at the time, but I'm probably more likely to listen to UFOrb nowadays...
― o. nate, Monday, 29 June 2015 02:22 (eight years ago) link
If Heavenly's Le Jardin De Heavenly was here, I'd be sorely tempted to vote for that.
― o. nate, Monday, 29 June 2015 02:28 (eight years ago) link
This list makes me sad because I was the ideal age to appreciate these albums at the time, and I do remember bits and pieces of many of them, yet not a single one means anything to me today. I haven't even listened to any of them in 23 years except for Dirty, and that only because reading Kim Gordon's book reminded me of it.
― Josefa, Monday, 29 June 2015 05:17 (eight years ago) link
irl i know no one who thinks this
― billstevejim, Monday, 29 June 2015 05:38 (eight years ago) link
90s so >>>>>> 80s for me
― Lee626, Monday, 29 June 2015 05:42 (eight years ago) link
albeit through haze of nostalgia, slanted & enchanted (no question) for me
― drash, Monday, 29 June 2015 05:52 (eight years ago) link
the 90s is probably my least favorite decade from the last 55 years of pop music. I just find that most canonical albums from that decade just don't hold up as well compared to what came before or since
I think I can pretty much endorse this statement, although there are a scattered few albums from 1990-1993 that I might go back to today, though it's not extremely likely
― Josefa, Monday, 29 June 2015 05:56 (eight years ago) link
That statement is utter horseshit, especially in the realms of dance, techno and hip-hop.
― I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Monday, 29 June 2015 13:36 (eight years ago) link
also there are three albums in the next 20 (Wish, The Predator, Funky Divas) that are better than everything in the top 30
― I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Monday, 29 June 2015 13:37 (eight years ago) link
A lot of my favorite albums were released in the '90s. However, while I regularly discover, say, albums from the '70s that are surprising and amazing and that sound fresh and great and new, I don't seem to have that experience as much with '90s albums that I'm only now hearing for the first time.
― It's The 1985 Micky Dolenz Toyota Spring Sales Event! (Old Lunch), Monday, 29 June 2015 13:43 (eight years ago) link
Part of this is living through the 90s as someone aware of and capable of hunting down cool, interesting albums as they were released rather than being a child or unborn.
― I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Monday, 29 June 2015 13:46 (eight years ago) link
This is true. It's definitely the decade when I was the most on top of what was being released at the time.
― It's The 1985 Micky Dolenz Toyota Spring Sales Event! (Old Lunch), Monday, 29 June 2015 13:51 (eight years ago) link
The idea that the '90s were drought years for pop is insane to me. As soon as R&B and hip-hop started charting on the Hot 100, radio became so much more awesome.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 29 June 2015 14:12 (eight years ago) link
Not sure how Mom afforded it but having MTV in the 90s was the greatest thing that ever happened to me.
― geoffreyess, Monday, 29 June 2015 14:23 (eight years ago) link
MTV was literally the only inlet for new music during my first two years of high school (early '90s) while living in the middle of nowhere (and then to only a slightly lesser degree during the following two years spent a touch nearer to civilization). Its impact on my musical taste cannot be overstated.
― It's The 1985 Micky Dolenz Toyota Spring Sales Event! (Old Lunch), Monday, 29 June 2015 14:32 (eight years ago) link
Well, it's true that at the time it seemed like there was plenty of new and interesting kinds of dance/techno/hip-hop stuff to listen to, even on the radio, but for some reason I don't feel very emotionally connected to that music today, as good as it may have been. I still get a kick out of putting on an old disco LP or an '80s freestyle record, but most of the '90s stuff is mentally filed away as stuff I liked back then, for just a moment. It may have something to do with what kind of dance music is imprinted on you at whatever your impressionable age was.
― Josefa, Monday, 29 June 2015 16:13 (eight years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Tuesday, 30 June 2015 00:01 (eight years ago) link
I was aged 16-25 over the course of the 90s and was on top of all the music as it was happening and was really excited about it at the time, but look back on nearly all of it now with disinterest or contempt. No idea why that is, as I don't have particularly bad life associations with the decade. I just think most of the music isn't as good as I'd convinced myself it was.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 30 June 2015 01:03 (eight years ago) link
kiko deserved a vote
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 30 June 2015 01:04 (eight years ago) link
All of these acts released music during the 90s that I consider to be among the music I've ever heard:
OrbitalPortisheadSquarepusherAphex TwinErykah BaduWu-Tang Clan (as a group and solo)A Tribe Called QuestDe La SoulTLCToni BraxtonPJ HarveyThe Jesus and Mary ChainThe ProdigyOutkast2PacSnoop DoggBabyfaceMadonnaNine Inch NailsIce CubeUnderworld
― I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Tuesday, 30 June 2015 17:46 (eight years ago) link
I'd follow suit but the list of the music I've ever heard would be super, super long.
In seriousness, though, there's also a lot of overlap in my own personal Venn diagram of 'best music ever' and 'best music of the '90s'.
― Piggy Soup (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 30 June 2015 17:55 (eight years ago) link