best 90's albums. help me out!

I'm a long-time reader but rare poster of these forums (mostly the just announced and hey seth boards) and i figure you all would be the best to ask for help with buying a good 90's collection.

i.e. what are the best pixies/bloody valentine/sonic youth albums to go with? or any other bands i just must listen to. educate me.

If you want the best of the Pixies and Sonic Youth you're in the wrong decade. Try the 80's instead.

I'm really trying to forget the MAJORITY of the nineties,music wise,but that's just me….

my favorite 90s albums:

radiohead - ok computer
my bloody valentine - loveless
prodigy - fat of the land
sigur ros - agaetis bryjun
portishead - dummy
massive attack - mezzanine
boards of canada - music has the right to children

This should get you started:

http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~tewing/ned/nedmain.html

Candlebox

i don't know why i keep pimping pitchfork on here lately (maybe it's because they feed my lust for lists), but this is a good starting point

Originally posted by chaz:
If you want the best of the Pixies and Sonic Youth you're in the wrong decade. Try the 80's instead.

pfft, wrongo. check out Goo and Dirty by Sonic Youth.

also,
Different Class by Pulp
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain by Pavement
Grace AND ALSO Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk by Jeff Buckley
Telephono by Spoon
Odelay by Beck
Handsome Western States by Beulah
Moon Safari by Air
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

and all the obligatory Radiohead, MBV, Elliott Smith, Ben Folds Five, i will think of more later…

Originally posted by HoyaSaxa03:
i don't know why i keep pimping pitchfork on here lately (maybe it's because they feed my lust for lists), but this is a good starting point

I actually like Pitchfork, but I think their nineties list was pretty lame. There might be only fifteen albums on there that I would define as essential. Pitchfork did a much better job with the seventies and eighties.

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:

Originally posted by HoyaSaxa03:
i don't know why i keep pimping pitchfork on here lately (maybe it's because they feed my lust for lists), but this is a good starting point

I actually like Pitchfork, but I think their nineties list was pretty lame. There might be only fifteen albums on there that I would define as essential. Pitchfork did a much better job with the seventies and eighties.

At least they had the sense to put NMH over Nevermind. The link I posted had MBV #1 and Pitchfork had it #2. They were both on the right track with that one. MBV took elements of what got the J&MC rolling and ran with it.

As someone who was actually alive in the 80's and saw sonic youth in said decade….I say pfft wrongo x 10 to you.

Goo is a good album, Dirty is ok, but Daydream Nation is by far their masterpiece and one of the best records of the era. Sister is not far behind. None of their 90's stuff comes close to either of these two. (imho). Sorry, but your smoking crack if you think their best work came in the 90's.

Originally posted by you be betty:

Originally posted by chaz:
If you want the best of the Pixies and Sonic Youth you're in the wrong decade. Try the 80's instead.

pfft, wrongo. check out Goo and Dirty by Sonic Youth.

also,
Different Class by Pulp
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain by Pavement
Grace AND ALSO Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk by Jeff Buckley
Telephono by Spoon
Odelay by Beck
Handsome Western States by Beulah
Moon Safari by Air
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

and all the obligatory Radiohead, MBV, Elliott Smith, Ben Folds Five, i will think of more later…

Originally posted by chaz:
As someone who was actually alive in the 80's and saw sonic youth in said decade….I say pfft wrongo x 10 to you.

Goo is a good album, Dirty is ok, but Daydream Nation is by far their masterpiece and one of the best records of the era. Sister is not far behind. None of their 90's stuff comes close to either of these two. (imho). Sorry, but your smoking crack if you think their best work came in the 90's.

Originally posted by you be betty:

Originally posted by chaz:
If you want the best of the Pixies and Sonic Youth you're in the wrong decade. Try the 80's instead.

pfft, wrongo. check out Goo and Dirty by Sonic Youth.

also,
Different Class by Pulp
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain by Pavement
Grace AND ALSO Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk by Jeff Buckley
Telephono by Spoon
Odelay by Beck
Handsome Western States by Beulah
Moon Safari by Air
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

and all the obligatory Radiohead, MBV, Elliott Smith, Ben Folds Five, i will think of more later…

I don't think those are their best albums, either, but they are pretty darn good and she's looking for good stuff that came out in the 90s. Though Goo might be my second or third favorite Sonic Youth album. You didn't have to be alive in the 80s to spot good music - I have the others, too.

Originally posted by you be betty:
You didn't have to be alive in the 80s

:eek:

weezer - pinkerton :cool:

couple o' good ones:

GBV - Alien Lanes
Spiritualized - Lazer Guided Melodies

Originally posted by you be betty:

Originally posted by chaz:
If you want the best of the Pixies and Sonic Youth you're in the wrong decade. Try the 80's instead.

pfft, wrongo. check out Goo and Dirty by Sonic Youth.

also,
Different Class by Pulp
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain by Pavement
Grace AND ALSO Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk by Jeff Buckley
Telephono by Spoon
Odelay by Beck
Handsome Western States by Beulah
Moon Safari by Air
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

and all the obligatory Radiohead, MBV, Elliott Smith, Ben Folds Five, i will think of more later…

I've got all the spoon, elliott smith, pavement, ben folds, radiohead, beck, buckley and some gbv, so i'm covered in those respects.

Originally posted by you be betty:
…and all the obligatory Radiohead, MBV, Elliott Smith, Ben Folds Five, i will think of more later…

Q: In what world are Ben Folds Five albums considered "obligatory" in a top albums of the 1990's list?

A: In "crazy, myopic scenester girl" world?

What a great list of albums you all bought in the 2000's you've all created. You might as well add the Beta Band's 3 EP's to your list before it gets simply diregarded as not "insightful" enough.

Those of you that were alive in the 90's really bought (and played the hell out of):

Pearl Jam - 10
Jane's Addiction - Ritual De Lo Habitual
Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
Cowboy Junkies - The Trinity Sessions
Counting Crows - August and Everything After…
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Fugees - The Score
REM - Automatic for the People
Oasis - What's the Story Morning Glory
The Verve - Urban Hymms
U2 - Auchtung Baby

And because I'm from So Cal I'll also readily admit to also playing the hell out of…

Social Distortion - Social Distortion
No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom
Dr. Dre - The Chronic

OK seriously here's what I really rocked most in the 90's, that actually came out in that decade. I'm keeping this this list down to stuff I was actually listening to in the 90's, keeping off stuff that may have come out then that went undiscovered until later. Making this list makes me realize 2 things - Much of what I now consider great from the 90's I did not turn on too until the 00's, and also that the 80's were a much better time for music.

Breeders - Pod
Smashing Pumkins - Gish
Pixies - Doolittle
Thee Hypnotics - Come Down Heavy
Shudder to Think - Pony Express Record
Mazzy Star - So Tonight that I Might See
Cop Shoot Cop - Ask Questions Later
Nirvana - Never Mind, In Utero
Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen
Sunny Day Real Estate - S/T
Flaming Lips - Soft Bulletin
Fugazi - Repeater
Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentleman
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads, Henry's Dream

My favorite 90's music

Jane's Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual
Morrissey - Your Arsenal
Weezer - Blue Album
R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
R.E.M. - Monster
Breeders - Last Splash
Depeche Mode - Violator (this may have come out in 89, but I listened to it in the 90's)
The Cure - Distinigration
Blind Melon - Blind Melon
Radiohead - OK Computer
Pearl Jam - Ten
Nirvana - Nevermind
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Pavement (anything)
Fugazi (all of it)
Pixies
The Specials

lots of other stuff…