Billboard #1 Albums from 1993

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now HERE's a list.

Zooropa has worn rather better than In Utero, and I like janet a lot. I like singles from Black Sunday and Doggystyle more than their host albums.

Voted for U2 because of "Lemon," "Babyface," and the fact that this is the first and last time I'd ever vote for'em.

Another for Zooropa. Don't have the urge to play In Utero much anymore.

pretty much what Alfred said, including my Zooropa vote (still my fav U2 album); I rate In Utero somewhat lower, I gather. Vs. is overlong but has at least two very good EPs contained within, and I have fond memories of In Pieces, though haven't heard it in years.

feeling warm toward In Utero because i just read the 33 1/3 about it, so voting for that.

Vs. is overlong but has at least two very good EPs contained within

"this OK album would make a great EP" is one of my least favorite critical tropes ever (i think i might have a thread about it somewhere in the archives), and your new twist makes it even more meaningless!

lol I'm not a critic, just an amateur hack, but what I'm trying to say is that I think of albums as ≠ collections of singles based on some vague sense of cohesion, and EPs as just little albums. So there are units of cohesion within Vs., like this:

EP 1:

"Go" – 3:12
"Animal" – 2:49
"Daughter" – 3:55
"Glorified G" – 3:26

EP 2:

"Rearviewmirror" – 4:44
"Rats" – 4:15
"Leash" – 3:09
"Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town" – 3:15

if your point is just that each half of the album ends with a bad/boring/long song, then yeah, I agree (although I'd save "Dissident" over some others). but all of Pearl Jam's albums are uneven, and Vs. is actually their shortest, so "overlong" isn't the word I'd use to knock it per se.

yeah you've basically got it. Another way to put it is that the album could have been a tighter collection of songs, and the reaction to the inevitable rerelease or box set would be like "holy shit these guys saved a song as big as "Dissident", wow they were snake eyes in those days".

fuck the challops, in utero

^^^^^ this

Doggystyle but likejanet. a lot, too.

Favorites are In Utero and Doggystyle, picking between them seems arbitrary. Zooropa a distant 2nd.

where are Ned and Dan? We need Songs of Faith and Devotion devotees.

all choices other than janet, music box and doggystyle are null & void. especially the nirvana one.

Black Sunday

all choices other than janet, music box and doggystyle are null & void. especially the nirvana one.

That is really rockist.

lex in closet rockism??!!?!

strange list. some absolute shite of the highest order alongside some of the year's true gems.

went with in utero

in utero. obv.

Unplugged is worse in theory than reality.

(I mean, any other contemporary Clapton album has the glossy production, whereas this is just live unadulturated instruments and is a step up.)

Not a good Billboard vintage. Voted for Depeche Mode's worst ever album.

I like this year. Even the crap is really good crap.

Still, nothing beats Janet's best album. (Or, at least, the one tied with the album on either side for the title.)

Black Sunday.

Voted for U2 because of "Lemon," "Babyface," and the fact that this is the first and last time I'd ever vote for'em.

Fuck "Lemon," the true EPIC is "Life Is a Lemon and I Want My Money Back."

i'll take my favorite nirvana album over my 4th-favorite u2 album and janet, snoop and cypress hill's singles.

i'll also note my surprise that some of these hit #1. (that billy joel album? huh.)

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Black Sunday. There's not that much variation between the different songs on it though, but it's all solid and good, so who cares?

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oh for god's sake.

awesome

ilxors be corny sometimes

Runoff of the zero votes?

Back to Broadway - Barbra Streisand
River of Dreams - Billy Joel
The Bodyguard - Soundtrack
In Pieces - Garth Brooks

losers!

:/

my problem isn't that nirvana won, but that U2 beat Snoop. straight fucked.

River of Dreams - Billy Joel 0

;_;

of the zeros I gotta go with Garth; fuck that Billy Joel record, wow the title track is an annoying p.o.s., compared to earlier doo-wop ripoffs that were totally fun.

I love how the two best-selling records out of all of these garnered exactly zero votes.

Bodyguard and Garth?

Not for nothing, but In Utero is far and beyond the best record out of everything listed, and it's not remotely surprising that it recieved more votes than all the other albums combined (except that's probably not true, but it's probably close). .. whereas Nevermind was a boring win for 1991 because it's Rolling Stone magazine's favorite Nirvana album, and because Nevermind sold 10x what In Utero did (probably also not true, my maths are no good today).

jeez, that u2 album mostly sucks. otherwise, top four is otm.

vs. shouldn't have been touched in this poll

argh i forgot how much i liked all the Get A Grip singles at the time (not just because of Alicia Silverstone)