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Best Albums of the 1990s

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  1. Mermaid Avenue

    Mermaid Avenue

    Billy Bragg & Wilco

    Elektra, 1998

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “California Stars”, “At My Window Sad and Lonely”, “One by One”

  2. One Foot in the Grave

    One Foot in the Grave

    Beck

    K, 1994

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “Asshole”, “Hollow Log”, “He’s a Mighty Good Leader”

  3. Cure for Pain

    Cure for Pain

    Morphine

    Rykodisc, 1993

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “I’m Free Now”, “Buena”, “Cure for Pain”

  4. A Century Ends

    A Century Ends

    David Gray

    Caroline, 1993

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “Shine”, “Birds Without Wings”, “Let the Truth Sting”

  5. Hollywood Town Hall

    Hollywood Town Hall

    The Jayhawks

    Def American, 1992

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “Waiting for the Sun”, “Nevada, California”, “Crowded in the Wings”

  6. Down on the Upside

    Down on the Upside

    Soundgarden

    A&M, 1996

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “Burden in My Hand”, “Switch Opens”, “Pretty Noose”

  7. She Hangs Brightly

    She Hangs Brightly

    Mazzy Star

    Capitol, 1991

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “Give You My Lovin”, “Halah”, “By My Angel”

  8. Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde

    Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde

    The Pharcyde

    Delicious Vinyl, 1992

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “Passing Me By”, “Otha Fish”, “Soul Flower (Remix)”

  9. Harmacy

    Harmacy

    Sebadoh

    Sub Pop, 1996

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “Prince-S”, “On Fire”, “Ocean”

  10. Hello Nasty

    Hello Nasty

    Beastie Boys

    Grand Royal, 1998

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “Remote Control”, “Interagalactic”, “The Negotiation Limerick File”

  11. Zooropa

    Zooropa

    U2

    Island

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “The Wanderer”, “Some Days Are Better Than Others”, “Zooropa”

  12. LP2

    LP2

    Sunny Day Real Estate

    Sub Pop, 1996

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “8”, “Theo B”, “5/4”

  13. Violator

    Violator

    Depeche Mode

    Mute, 1990

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “Personal Jesus”, “Enjoy the Silence”, “Policy of Truth”

  14. Pinkerton

    Pinkerton

    Weezer

    DGC, 1996

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “The Good Life”, “El Scorcho”, “Pink Triangle”

  15. Debut

    Debut

    Björk

    Elektra, 1993

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “Human Behaviour”, “Big Time Sensuality”, “Aeroplane”

  16. Dig Your Own Hole

    Dig Your Own Hole

    The Chemical Brothers

    Astralwerks, 1997

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “Where Do I Begin”, “Setting Sun”, “Block Rockin’ Beats”

  17. Green Mind

    Green Mind

    Dinosaur Jr.

    Sire, 1991

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “The Wagon”, “Thumb”, “Green Mind”

  18. What's the Story Morning Glory

    (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?

    Oasis

    Epic, 1995

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “Wonderwall”, “Champagne Supernova”, “Hello”

  19. Fountains of Wayne

    Fountains of Wayne

    Fountains of Wayne

    Tag/Atlantic, 1996

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “Radiation Vibe”, “Everything’s Ruined”, “Sink to the Bottom”

  20. Trace

    Trace

    Son Volt

    Warner Bros., 1995

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “Route”, “Live Free”, “Drown”

  21. Duncan Sheik

    Duncan Sheik

    Duncan Sheik

    Atlantic, 1996

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “Out of Order”, “Home”, “In the Absence of Sun”

  22. Purple

    Purple

    Stone Temple Pilots

    Atlantic, 1994

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “Still Remains”, “Big Empty”, “Interstate Love Song”

  23. The Road to Ensenada

    The Road to Ensenada

    Lyle Lovett

    Curb, 1996

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “Private Conversation”, “Her First Mistake”, “Fiona”

  24. Badmotorfinger

    Badmotorfinger

    Soundgarden

    A&M, 1991

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “Outshined”, “Rusty Cage”, “Jesus Christ Pose”

  25. Urban Hymns

    Urban Hymns

    The Verve

    Virgin, 1998

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “Bitter Sweet Symphony”, “Lucky Man”, “Catching the Butterfly”

  26. Being There

    Being There

    Wilco

    Sire/Reprise, 1996

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “Kingpin”, “What’s the World Got in Store”, “Red-Eyed and Blue”

  27. Bring It On

    Bring It On

    Gomez

    Virgin, 1998

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “Free to Run”, “Here Comes the Breeze”, “Get Miles”

  28. Soul's Core

    Soul’s Core

    Shawn Mullins

    SMG/Columbia, 1998

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “Twin Rocks, Oregon”, “Ballad of Billy Joe McKay”, “Gulf of Mexico”

  29. Foo Fighters

    Foo Fighters

    Foo Fighters

    Roswell/Capitol, 1995

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “Floaty”, “For All the Cows”, “I’ll Stick Around”

  30. Recovering the Satellites

    Recovering the Satellites

    Counting Crows

    DGC, 1996

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “Recovering the Satellites”, “Children in Bloom”, “Mercury”

  31. Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

    The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

    Lauryn Hill

    Sony, 1998

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “Doo Wop (That Thing)”, “Everything Is Everything”, “Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You”

  32. Is Terrified

    The Dismemberment Plan Is Terrified

    The Dismemberment Plan

    DeSoto, 1997

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “The Ice of Boston”, “This Is the Life”, “Respect Is Due”

  33. The Colour and the Shape

    The Colour and the Shape

    Foo Fighters

    Capitol, 1997

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “Everlong”, “My Hero”, “See You”

  34. Lost and Foundered

    Lost and Foundered

    Citizens’ Utilities

    Mute, 1996

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “Roadkill”, “Blood Bath”, “Yakima”

  35. Dirt

    Dirt

    Alice in Chains

    Columbia, 1992

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “Would?”, “Rooster”, “Them Bones”

  36. Irresistible Bliss

    Irresistible Bliss

    Soul Coughing

    Slash/Warner Bros., 1996

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “Lazybones”, “The Idiot Kings”, “Soundtrack to Mary”

  37. Yield

    Yield

    Pearl Jam

    Epic, 1998

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “In Hiding”, “Do the Evolution”, “Given to Fly”

  38. Blood Sugar Sex Magik

    Blood Sugar Sex Magik

    Red Hot Chili Peppers

    Warner Bros., 1991

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “Breaking the Girl”, “Under the Bridge”, “I Could Have Lied”

  39. Kiko

    Kiko

    Los Lobos

    Slash/Warner Bros., 1992

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “Dream in Blue”, “Angels With Dirty Faces”, “Two Janes”

  40. full Isaac

    full Isaac

    Lotion

    SpinArt, 1994

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “La Boost”, “She Is Weird City”, “Tear”

  41. Clouds Taste Metallic

    Clouds Taste Metallic

    The Flaming Lips

    Warner Bros., 1995

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “This Here Giraffe”, “Bad Days”, “”

  42. Marc Cohn

    Marc Cohn

    Marc Cohn

    Atlantic, 1991

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “Silver Thunderbird”, “True Companion”, “Walking in Memphis”

  43. Tidal

    Tidal

    Fiona Apple

    Work, 1996

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “Never Is a Promise”, “Criminal”, “Sleep to Dream”

  44. Above

    Above

    Mad Season

    Columbia, 1995

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “River of Deceit”, “All Alone”, “Long Gone Day”

  45. Dulcinea

    Dulcinea

    Toad the Wet Sprocket

    Columbia, 1994

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “Windmills”, “Inside”, “Fall Down”

  46. Pete and Pete

    Musc From The Adventures of Pete & Pete

    Polaris

    Mezzotint, 1994/1999

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “Hey Sandy”, “Ashamed of the Story I Told”, “She Is Staggering”

  47. Welcome to the Cruel World

    Welcome to the Cruel World

    Ben Harper

    Virgin, 1994

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “Walk Away”, “Breakin’ Down”, “Forever”

  48. When the Pawn

    When the Pawn…

    Fiona Apple

    Work, 1999

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “Get Gone”, “Fast As You Can”, “Limp”

  49. Mama Said Knock You Out

    Mama Said Knock You Out

    LL Cool J

    Def Jam, 1990

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “Mama Said Knock You Out”, “Around the Way Girl”, “6 Minutes of Pleasure”

  50. Crash

    Crash

    Dave Matthews Band

    RCA, 1996

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “Drive In, Drive Out”, “#41”, “Lie in Our Graves”

  51. Achtung Baby

    Achtung Baby

    U2

    Island, 1991

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses”, “One”, “The Fly”

  52. Trailer Park

    Trailer Park

    Beth Orton

    Heavenly, 1996

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “She Cries Your Name”, “Whenever”, “Touch Me With Your Love”

  53. Left of Cool

    Left of Cool

    Béla Fleck & The Flecktones

    Warner Bros., 1998

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “Shanti”, “Big Country”, “Trane to Conamarra”

  54. No Code

    No Code

    Pearl Jam

    Epic, 1996

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “Present Tense”, “Red Mosquito”, “In My Tree”

  55. Make

    Make Yourself

    Incubus

    Sony, 1999

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “Pardon Me”, “Nowhere Fast”, “I Miss You”

  56. Either/Or

    Either/Or

    Elliott Smith

    Kill Rock Stars, 1997

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “Angeles”, “Between the Bars”, “Rose Parade”

  57. Live Through This

    Live Through This

    Hole

    DGC, 1994

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “Asking For It”, “Doll Parts”, “Miss World”

  58. Siamese Dream

    Siamese Dream

    Smashing Pumpkins

    Virgin, 1993

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “Rocket”, “Disarm”, “Mayonaise”

  59. Ten

    Ten

    Pearl Jam

    Epic, 1991

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “Release”, “Oceans”, “Porch”

  60. In Utero

    In Utero

    Nirvana

    DGC, 1993

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “All Apologies”, “Heart-Shaped Box”, “Pennyroyal Tea”

  61. Keep It Like a Secret

    Keep It Like a Secret

    Built to Spill

    Warner Bros., 1999

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “The Plan”, “Else”, “Carry the Zero”

  62. Central Reservation

    Central Reservation

    Beth Orton

    Arista

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “Pass in Time”, “Love Like Laughter”, “Central Reservation (The Then Again Version)”

  63. The Will to Live

    The Will to Live

    Ben Harper

    Virgin, 1997

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “Glory & Consequence”, “Roses From My Friends”, “I Shall Not Walk Alone”

  64. Us

    Us

    Peter Gabriel

    Real World, 1992

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “Secret World”, “Washing of the Water”, “Digging in the Dirt”

  65. 1998

    In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

    Neutral Milk Hotel

    Merge, 1998

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “In the Aeroplane Over the Sea”, “Two-Headed Boy Part 2”, “The King of Carrot Flowers Parts 2 and 3”

  66. Into the Sun

    Into the Sun

    Sean Lennon

    Grand Royal, 1998

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “Breeze”, “Two Fine Lovers”, “Bathtub”

  67. Up

    Up

    R.E.M.

    Warner Bros., 1998

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “Walk Unafraid”, “Sad Professor”, “Daysleeper”

  68. Are You Gonna Go My Way?

    Are You Gonna Go My Way

    Lenny Kravitz

    Virgin, 1993

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “Heaven Help”, “Sugar”, “Are You Gonna Go My Way?”

  69. Willis

    Willis

    Willis

    self-released, 1996

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “Freakynuts”, “New Melody”, “Freeway”

  70. Moon Safari

    Moon Safari

    Air

    Astralwerks, 1998

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “All I Need”, “Ce Matin La”, “Kelly Watch the Stars”

  71. Sweet Oblivion

    Sweet Oblivion

    Screaming Trees

    Epic, 1992

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “No One Knows”, “Nearly Lost You”, “Dollar Bill”

  72. Pale

    Pale

    Toad the Wet Sprocket

    Columbia, 1990

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “Corporal Brown”, “Don’t Go Away”, “Come Back Down”

  73. Remember Two Things

    Remember Two Things

    Dave Matthews Band

    Bama Rags/RCA, 1993

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “The Song That Jane Likes”, “One Sweet World”, “Seek Up”

  74. PUSA

    The Presidents of the United States of America

    The Presidents of the United States of America

    Pop Llama/Columbia, 1995

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “Peaches”, “Fleather Pluckn”, “Boll Weevil”

  75. The Freddy Jones Band

    The Freddy Jones Band

    The Freddy Jones Band

    Capricorn, 1992

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “This Time Around”, “The Puppet”, “In a Daydream”

  76. New Adventures in Hi-FI

    New Adventures in Hi-Fi

    R.E.M.

    Warner Bros., 1996

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “E-Bow the Letter”, “New Test Leper”, “Be Mine”

  77. There Is Nothing Left to Lose

    There Is Nothing Left to Lose

    Foo Fighters

    RCA, 1999

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “Next Year”, “Generator”, “Aurora”

  78. Weezer

    Weezer

    Weezer

    DGC, 1994

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “Say It Ain’t So”, “Buddy Holly”, “Undone (The Sweater Song)”

  79. Breathing Tornados

    Breathing Tornados

    Ben Lee

    Grand Royal, 1999

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “Nighttime”, “Ship My Body Home”, “Birthday Song”

  80. Emergency & I

    Emergency & I

    The Dismemberment Plan

    DeSoto, 1999

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “You Are Invited”, “The City”, “Spider in the Snow”

  81. Grandpaw Would

    Grandpaw Would

    Ben Lee

    Grand Royal, 1995

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “Away With the Pixies”, “Green Hearts”, “Pop Queen”

  82. Superunknown

    Superunknown

    Soundgarden

    A&M, 1994

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “Superunknown”, “The Day I Tried to Live”, “Like Suicide”

  83. Wildflowers

    Wildflowers

    Tom Petty

    Warner Bros., 1994

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “A Higher Place”, “Wildflowers”, “Time to Move On”

  84. Jar of Flies

    Jar of Flies

    Alice in Chains

    Sony, 1994

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “I Stay Away”, “Don’t Follow”, “Nutshell”

  85. Billy Breathes

    Billy Breathes

    Phish

    Elektra, 1996

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “Waste”, “Taste”, “Prince Caspian”

  86. Living With the Law

    Living With the Law

    Chris Whitley

    Columbia, 1991

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “Living With the Law”, “Big Sky Country”, “I Forget You Everyday”

  87. Happy Nowhere

    Happy Nowhere

    Dog’s Eye View

    Sony, 1995

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “Speed of Silence”, “Bulletproof and Bleeding”, “The Prince’s Favorite Son”

  88. Odelay

    Odelay

    Beck

    DGC, 1996

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “The New Pollution”, “Devil’s Haircut”, “Jack-Ass”

  89. Before These Crowded Streets

    Before These Crowded Streets

    Dave Matthews Band

    RCA, 1998

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “The Dreaming Tree”, “Spoon”, “Pig”

  90. Nobody's Cool

    Nobody’s Cool

    Lotion

    SpinArt, 1995

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “Rock Chick”, “Blind for Now”, “Switch”

  91. Anodyne

    Anodyne

    Uncle Tupelo

    Sire, 1993

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “Fifteen Keys”, “Acuff-Rose”, “Slate”

  92. The Bends

    The Bends

    Radiohead

    Capitol, 1995

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “Black Star”, “Just”, “High and Dry”

  93. OK Computer

    OK Computer

    Radiohead

    Capitol, 1997

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “Paranoid Android”, “Subterranean Homesick Alien”, “No Surprises”

  94. Under the Table and Dreaming

    Under the Table and Dreaming

    Dave Matthews Band

    BMG, 1994

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “Warehouse”, “Dancing Nancies”, “Typical Situation”

  95. Nevermind

    Nevermind

    Nirvana

    DGC, 1991

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “Come As You Are”, “In Bloom”, “Smells Like Teen Spirit”

  96. vs.

    vs.

    Pearl Jam

    Epic, 1993

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town”, “Rearviewmirror”, “Indifference”

  97. August & Everything After

    August & Everything After

    Counting Crows

    DGC, 1993

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “Perfect Blue Buildings”, “Omaha”, “Anna Begins”

  98. Out of Time

    Out of Time

    R.E.M.

    Warner Bros., 1991

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “Losing My Religion”, “Texarkana”, “Me in Honey”

  99. Dirt Floor

    Dirt Floor

    Chris Whitley

    Messenger, 1998

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “Wild Country”, “Dirt Floor”, “Accordingly”

  100. Automatic for the People

    Automatic for the People

    R.E.M.

    Warner Bros., 1992

    Read Notes

    Choice Cuts: “Find the River”, “Try Not to Breathe”, “Nightswimming”