Best Albums of the '90's...

Non-Phish General
#1

Will, thank you for this idea. We’ve had a good 8 years now to reflect on the good, the bad, and the downright unlistenable from the '90’s, and I want to know what stands out as the best to all of you.

IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER:

My Bloody valentine _ loveless
(damn my keyboard is all messed up for some reason)
Ween _ pure guava
Ween _ the mollusk
Jane’s Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual
Spiritualized _ ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space
prince _ Cream
Prince _ The gold experience
Gandharvas _ kicking in the water
Spacemen 3 _ Recurring
moe. _ No Doy
Sonic Youth - Washing Machine
Sonic Youth - Dirty
Sugar - Copper Blue
Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted
Dinosaur Jr - Green Mind
Fugazi - Repeater
Peter Gabriel - Us
and of course every Phish Album can stand on it’s own. I’m sure I’m missing some, but speak up or shut up…let’s see your favorites.

#2

Well, I’ll list a few. They are not all amazing musically, but are nice reminders of the time and what I was up to then so no doubt people will disagree with a lot.

De La Soul - De La Soul Is Dead
Rage Against The Machine - RATM
Oasis - (What’s The Story) Morning Glory?
Tribe Called Quest - Low End Theory
311 - 311
Fugees - The Score
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Sublime - Second-hand Smoke
Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty
Jurassic 5 - J5 LP

…there are more but I’m going to take a shower.

#3

great choices! i’m impressed - didn’t think too many people into Phish also liked SM 3 and Fugazi.

i’ll add:

Modest Mouse - Lonesome Crowded West
Pavement - Crooked Rain Crooked Rain
DJ Shadow - Entroducing…
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Outkast - ATLiens
BlackStar - BlackStar
The Flaming Lips - Transmissions from a Satellite Heart
Radiohead - The Bends
The Jesus Lizard - Goat
Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One
Pixies - Bossanova
Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album
Wu-Tang Clan - 36 Chambers
The Roots - Things Fall Apart

i could go on and on but i’ll let others take over.

#4

Great topic! I def. agree with Repeater, In the Aeroplane…, Loveless, Copper Blue, and Crooked Rain

I’m gonna think on this one and post tomorrow. There are so many great choices!

#5

some of my favorites that immediately came to mind…











…more to come probably

#6

#7

What about Nirvana: Nevermind

Counting Crows: August and everything after

Damn alot of the ones I thought of are already listed…I’ll have to think more on this.

#8

Any Hootie and the Blowfish album!!!

#9

#10

#11




Honorable mentions to:

Blood Sugar Sex Magic
Hoist

Best live compilation:

JGB, 1991

#12

Whoops, a lot of these were already mentioned. Good call on the Tool and STP, Will, those albums are amazing!

#13

I, for the longest time, didn’t realize that anyone but my buddy and I listened to Spacemen 3. Seriously, it was like 5 years after we started listening to them that I finally met someone else who even knew who they were. They are in my Top 5 bands of the '80’s and they would be in the Top 5 for the '90’s if they would have released on more album, but I guess Dreamweapon kind of counts. Other than Phish, they are the #1 band I would like to see reunite.

#14

are you sure they’re all still alive? i can only begin to imagine the drug use…

but yeah, i actually just recently got into Spacemen 3. my buddy at school turned me on to them about 6 months ago and i was real glad to be hip to 'em. good shit!

#15

for the record, “taking drugs to make music to take drugs to” might be the greatest album/b-sides/whatever title of all time.

#16

^^ They’re alive. J Spaceman has Spiritualized going. Sonic, on the other hand, he’s been kind of lost for the last ten years or so. He did an album called EAR with Kevin Sheilds from My Bloody Valentine back in the mid-'90’s and had his Spectrum project for a little. If and when Sonic makes a comeback it should be huge.

#17

Hmmm…let’s see…

Wow…guess now that I think about it, the 90’s DID have some good stuff. Silly me. And yeah, I only list Rift but that’s the only studio album I really still listen to from the 90’s. The funny thing with bands like the Barenaked Ladies and Fiona Apple, I list them but those are the ONLY albums I like from those bands…weird, I guess…

Stevo

#18

Some heavy heavy shit here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1890_in_music

#19

oh my god. Sonic + Shields? such a thing exists!?

how is it? tell me more! i must know about this.

#20

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:fvfrxq8jldke

Experimental Audio Research (E.A.R.)

Experimental Audio Research is a group formed around Peter Kember (a.k.a. Sonic Boom), formerly of Spacemen 3. To quote from the liner notes of the first E.A.R. full-length release, Mesmerised, "E.A.R. is a loose affiliation of non-resident “sound makers” including from time to time Sonic Boom (Spectrum, Spacemen 3), Kevin Martin (God), Kevin Shields (My Bloody Valentine), and Eddie Pr