# Your top fifteen 1990s albums **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 29, 2014, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-fifteen-1990s-albums/702899 "2014-10-29T13:40:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Clawdio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d07c76/32.png) [@Clawdio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clawdio)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2014, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-fifteen-1990s-albums/702899/41 "2014-10-29T21:16:56Z")
Most of mine have mentioned so i’ll just throw out one i don’t think anyone has brought up yet: Deftones - Adrenaline ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2014, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-fifteen-1990s-albums/702899/42 "2014-10-29T21:46:48Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > You’ll love Jovanotti’s song [L’Ombelico del Mondo (Belly-button of the World).](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZY3bm93Wk4) Oooh, me likey! Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2014, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-fifteen-1990s-albums/702899/43 "2014-10-29T22:29:37Z")
I’m going to have trouble coming up with only 15, but in the interim let me note how fucking fantastic this subset of albums is: > [@woodstockbirdybird](#): > > 1. Stereolab - _Emperor Tomato Ketchup_ > 2. Yo La Tengo - _I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One_ > 3. Sleater-Kinney - _Dig Me Out_ > 4. The Magnetic Fields - _69 Love Songs_ > 5. The La’s - _The La’s_ > 6. The Feelies - _Time for a Witness_ ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2014, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-fifteen-1990s-albums/702899/44 "2014-10-29T22:40:39Z")
Some albums not mentioned previously that I’d put in my Top 15: Son Volt - _Trace_ Sigur Rós - _Ágætis byrjun_ (An album of the 2000s released in 1999) Smoking Popes - _Destination Failure_ Whiskeytown - _Faithless Street_ Alice in Chains - _Jar of Flies_ (IMMA GONNA LET YOU FINISH, BUT THIS IS GREATEST EP OF ALL TIME!) Smashing Pumpkins - _Adore_ (so very underrated) REM - _New Adventures in Hi-Fi_ (last great effort for the band) Duplicates include _Siamese Dream_, _Exile in Guyville_, _Kerosene Hat_, _In Utero_, _Ok Computer_, _Automatic for the People_, _Loveless_, _Mellon Collie_ ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2014, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-fifteen-1990s-albums/702899/45 "2014-10-29T22:54:45Z")
> [@fiddlesticks](#): > > Smashing Pumpkins - _Adore_ (so very underrated) I agree with you. It’s one of their best albums, but a lot of people at the time were bad-mouthing it for not being another _Melon Collie_ and for the whole kerfuffle about Jimmy Chamberlin getting fired. Still, \*Perfect \*and _Appels + Oranjes_ are two of my favorite songs of all time. ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2014, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-fifteen-1990s-albums/702899/46 "2014-10-29T23:00:47Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > I’m going to have trouble coming up with only 15, but in the interim let me note how fucking fantastic this subset of albums is: Why, thank you, sir! (I think you’re a “sir” - no offense intended if not!) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Universe\_Lashes\_Out](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8797f3/32.png) [@The\_Universe\_Lashes\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Universe_Lashes_Out)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2014, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-fifteen-1990s-albums/702899/47 "2014-10-29T23:09:36Z")
1. Radiohead - OK Computer 2. Guided By Voices - Alien Lanes 3. Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx 4. Dr. Dre - The Chronic 5. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane, Over the Sea 6. OutKast - Aquemeni 7. Belle & Sebastian - If You’re Feeling Sinister 8. Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West 9. Old 97’s - Too Far to Care 10. The Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen 11. Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain 12. Sonic Youth - Dirty 13. Superchunk - Foolish 14. Ice Cube - The Predator 15. Weezer (the Blue Album) ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2014, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-fifteen-1990s-albums/702899/48 "2014-10-29T23:16:05Z")
> [@woodstockbirdybird](#): > > Why, thank you, sir! (I think you’re a “sir” - no offense intended if not!) I am, and you’re welcome! 1.Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea 2.Radiohead - OK Computer 3. Sonic Youth - Dirty 4. Nick Cave - Let Love In (but I have at least four to choose from) Dammit, keep losing Internet…will finish later ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2014, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-fifteen-1990s-albums/702899/49 "2014-10-29T23:19:39Z")
> [@SpazCat](#): > > I agree with you. It’s one of their best albums, but a lot of people at the time were bad-mouthing it for not being another _Melon Collie_ and for the whole kerfuffle about Jimmy Chamberlin getting fired. Still, \*Perfect \*and _Appels + Oranjes_ are two of my favorite songs of all time. Did you check out the ginormous reissue that came out a couple weeks ago? I bought it and it’s got some pretty neat stuff on it. _Adore_ has always been one of my favorite Pumpkins albums, probably my second favorite behind _Siamese Dream_, but it’s really hard to rank, as those first four albums are pretty much unassailable. SD will always be the perfect Pumpkins album for me, though. It seems that _Adore_ has been getting more and more its fair due over the last few years. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2014, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-fifteen-1990s-albums/702899/50 "2014-10-29T23:33:12Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > I am, and you’re welcome! > 1.Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea > 2.Radiohead - OK Computer > 3. Sonic Youth - Dirty > 4. Nick Cave - Let Love In (but I have at least four to choose from) > > Dammit, keep losing Internet…will finish later Love them all but I’ve been relistening to #1 a lot lately. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2014, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-fifteen-1990s-albums/702899/51 "2014-10-29T23:50:48Z")
Radiohead, OK Computer Green Day - Dookie Eric Johnson: Ah! Via Musicom Sugar - Copper Blue Bad Religion - Stranger than Fiction Joe Satriani - Self-Titled Joe Satriani - Crystal Planet Yes - The Ladder Steve Stevens - Flamenco A Go-Go Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters Foo Fighters - There Is Nothing Left to Lose Marc Bonilla - EE Ticket Deep Purple - Purpendicular Deep Purple - Abandon Steve Morse - Coast to Coast ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2014, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-fifteen-1990s-albums/702899/52 "2014-10-30T01:12:55Z")
A lot of my faves have been mentioned and I’m too lazy to put together a full list. But I will mention one that hasn’t been mentioned: Moby - Play. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2014, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-fifteen-1990s-albums/702899/53 "2014-10-30T01:18:22Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Did you check out the ginormous reissue that came out a couple weeks ago? I bought it and it’s got some pretty neat stuff on it. I have not heard of this yet. Now I have to look for it. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2014, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-fifteen-1990s-albums/702899/54 "2014-10-30T01:36:58Z")
I am so. Fucking. Sad. That the station that cropped up in Cleveland last year that would play a ton of 90s music is now gone. What an awesome decade for music!! ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2014, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-fifteen-1990s-albums/702899/55 "2014-10-30T01:52:56Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > Love them all but I’ve been relistening to #1 a lot lately. It’s an amazing album…I think it’s my overall favorite of the 90’s. > [@Maserschmidt](#): > > 1.Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea > 2.Radiohead - OK Computer > 3. Sonic Youth - Dirty > 4. Nick Cave - Let Love In (but I have at least four to choose from) 1. Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup 2. Weezer - blue album 3. Superchunk - This is Where the Strings Come In 4. Pavement - Wowee Zowee 5. Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville 6. Nirvana - nevermind 7. Wilco - Summerteeth 8. Jane’s Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual 9. PJ Harvey - Rid of Me 10. Nick Cave - The Boatman’s Call 11. Guided By Voices - Under the Bushes, Under the Stars This was very difficult. ---
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2014, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-fifteen-1990s-albums/702899/56 "2014-10-30T02:08:17Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > It’s an amazing album…I think it’s my overall favorite of the 90’s. > > 1. Jane’s Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual > > This was very difficult. 1. Never heard of them before, just listened on spotify, think I may need to buy 2. Saw JA supporting The fields of the Nephilim at the Brixton Academy waaaaayy back , this is another album that should make the list. 3. No shit , and looking through this thread is going to lead to a nostalgic few plays list being made up for aeroplane time. ---
**Author:** ![jovan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/0ea827/32.png) [@jovan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jovan)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2014, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-fifteen-1990s-albums/702899/57 "2014-10-30T02:12:43Z")
Some of these were already mentioned, but some I guess are a little bit more obscure. In alphabetical order: **A Tribe Called Quest** - The Low-End Theory **Aphex Twin** - The Richard D. James Album **Björk** - Post **DJ Shadow** - …Endtroducing **Jeff Buckley** - Grace **Laika** - Sounds of the Satellites **Manu Chao** - Clandestino **Massive Attack** - Blue Lines **Me, Mom and Morgentaler** - Shiva Space Machine **PJ Harvey** - To Bring You My Love **Portishead** - Dummy **R.E.M.** - Automatic for the People **Stereolab** - Emperor Tomato Ketchup **Tom Waits** - Mule Variations **Tricky** - Maxinquaye ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2014, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-fifteen-1990s-albums/702899/58 "2014-10-30T03:17:48Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > Well, I’m pleased to see that my musical tastes overlap with no one. But here’s my list: > > Richard Thompson – Rumor and Sigh (1952 Vincent Black Lightning, anyone?) > > Dar Williams – The Honesty Room > > Stones in the Road – Mary Chapin Carpenter > > Freedom and Rain – The Oysterband and June Tabor > > Solace – Sarah McLachlan > > Patty Griffin – Living With Ghosts > > Loreena McKennitt – The Visit > > October Project – October Project > > Waterboys – Room to Roam (because Fisherman’s Blues was an 80’s album) > > Deserters – Oysterband > > Retrospective – Jack Hardy (yes, you’ve never heard of him, but he was the center of the Greenwich Village folk scene for many years) > > Salamander Crossing – Bottleneck Dreams > > Bill Morrissey – Standing Eight (or maybe Inside, it’s a tough call) > > Dream Cafe – Greg Brown > > Steve Forbert – The American in Me > A few honorable mentions: > > Whatever – Aimee Mann (knocked down in the the honorable mentions mostly for lack of room, but partly because the ever present whiff of gothy self pity grates after a while.) > > Little Earthquakes – Tori Amos > > Never Enough – Melissa Etheridge > > Cowboy Junkies Pale Sun/Crescent Moon It overlaps with mine. Thank you for making my list for me, **Finagle**. (Though I’d scoot Living With Ghosts up to the top and substitute Too Long in the Wasteland, by James McMurtry and XO, by Elliott Smith for, …something or other.) ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2014, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-fifteen-1990s-albums/702899/59 "2014-10-30T05:24:20Z")
Lots of mine have been mentioned but I’ll add these. Morphine-_Cure for Pain_ and _Yes_. Hard to choose between these two. Both are excellent. Soul Coughing-_Ruby Vroom, Irresistible Bliss_ and _El Oso_ could all make the list but I would probably go with _Irresistible Bliss_. Marcy Playground-_Marcy Playground_ and _Shapeshifter_. They get labeled as one hit wonders for “Sex and Candy” but their first two albums are great. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2014, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-fifteen-1990s-albums/702899/60 "2014-10-30T21:02:52Z")
> [@Accidental\_Martyr](#): > > Soul Coughing-_Ruby Vroom, Irresistible Bliss_ and _El Oso_ could all make the list but I would probably go with _Irresistible Bliss_. I almost added _El Oso_ to my list. I haven’t heard the others. I foresee a lot of music acquisition in my near future. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-fifteen-1990s-albums/702899.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-fifteen-1990s-albums/702899.md?page=4)