Yeah, I absolutely thought that the New Radicals CD was one of the most overlooked ever and I'm glad I liked their hit single and bought the album. I would have loved to see them live.

A truly marvellous list of choices, you guys…..special nods to the people who mentioned:

Radiohead, Yo La Tengo, Air, MBV, Bjork, Jeff Buckley, Smashing pumpkins, Beck, A Tribe called quest, Dr Octagon, Sonic Youth, Basement Jaxx, Beck, Pavement, Beastie Boys, Flaming Lips, Portishead Primal Scream, Underworlds, Belle & Sebastian, Chemical Brothers, Elliott Smith, Boards of Canada, Bonnie Prince, Nas, Nirvana, Los Lobos, REM, Prodigy, the Roots, Fountains of wayne, Lucinda Williams, Aphex Twin, Tortoise, Buena Vista, Dirty Three…..

Me….I’ll going to settle with (for now):

Ltj Bukem - “Logical Progression”
Stereolab – “Aluminum Tunes: Switched on, Vol 3”
Material – “Hallucination Engine”
Wu Tang Clan – “Enter The Wu-Tang (36 chambers)”
Pearl Jam – “Ten”
Tricky – “Maxinquaye”
Mercury Rev – “deserter’s Songs”
Praxis – “Transmutation (Mutatis Mutandis)
Massive Attack – “Blue Lines”
Fugazi – “Repeater”
Dj Shadow – “Entroducing”

Fetish

1 Superchunk "foolish"
2 Sebadoh "bakesale"
3 Elliott Smith "either/or"
4 Archers of Loaf "icky mettle"
5 Beck "odelay"
6 Sunny Day Real Estate "how it feels..."
7 Braid "frame and canvas"
8 Nirvana "in utero"
9 Ben Folds Five "s/t"
10 Weezer "pinkerton"

after much deliberation, here is what i've come up with:

10. olivia tremor control - dusk at the cubist castle
09. blur - 13
08. beastie boys - check your head
07. brainiac - hissing prigs in the static couture
06. belle and sebastian - if you're feeling sinister
05. eels - electro-shock blues
04. super furry animals - radiator
03. radiohead - ok computer
02. dismemberment plan - emergency & i
01. neutral milk hotel - in the aeroplane over the sea (probably the greatest thing ever)

Surprisingly (or not) I only had to fill in a few holes from my Desert Island Discs list. I, too, am a product of the '90s...

1) R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
2) Radiohead - OK Computer
3) U2 - Achtung Baby
4) Social Distortion - Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell
5) Pearl Jam - Ten
6) Jeff Buckley - Grace
7) Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes
8) Guided by Voices - Bee Thousand
9) Elliott Smith - XO
10)The Flaming Lips – The Soft Bulletin

I'm glad you reworked your desert island list to fit the 90s, aeshadow. Somehow, I missed the mention of Social Distortion's Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell that time around. Now that you've mentioned it again, I think it's going to have to knock Lucinda Williams off my list and drop it in front of Iris DeMent. I think a few tracks SBH&H have been part of the pre-show mix at every Springsteen tour since the album came out.

You set me to thinking. I checked out the band's Web site and was happy to find a news item dated June 19th indicating they're in the studio mixing a new album. I couldn't be happier. I was afraid we wouldn't see another after Dennis Dannell died in 2000.

Thanks for jogging my poor memory!

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No particular order:

Soundgarden, Superunknown (No-one's mentioned them yet?!)
Oasis, (What's the Story) Morning Glory?
Radiohead, OK Computer
Dead Can Dance, Aion
Ghazal, As Night Falls on the Silk Road
Future Sound of London, Lifeforms
Phish, A Picture of Nectar
King's X, Faith, Hope, Love
Loreena McKennitt, Book of Secrets
Midnight Oil, Earth and Sun and Moon

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U2's Actung Baby is the greatest album of the 90's.

Soundgarden "Superunkown" was great
Tool "Lateralus" and "Opiate"
Nirvana "Nevermind"

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Year-by-year.....

1990 - BELLYBUTTON – Jellyfish
1991 - NEVERMIND - Nirvana
1991 - BANDWAGONESQUE - Teenage Fanclub (honourable mention)
1992 – can’t think of one (most folks would probably pick “AUTOMATIC FOR THE PEOPLE”)
1993 – FROSTING ON THE BEATER - The Posies (tie)
1993 - SPILT MILK – Jellyfish (tie)
1994 – WEEZER – Weezer
1995 - BEN FOLDS FIVE - Ben Folds Five
1996 - DUSK AT CUBIST CASTLE - The Olivia Tremor Control
1997 - KON TIKI - Cotton Mather
1998 - XO - Elliott Smith
1999 - UTOPIA PARKWAY - Fountains of Wayne


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Originally posted by flem_snopes:
Year-by-year.....

1990 - BELLYBUTTON – Jellyfish
1991 - NEVERMIND - Nirvana
1991 - BANDWAGONESQUE - Teenage Fanclub (honourable mention)
1992 – can’t think of one (most folks would probably pick “AUTOMATIC FOR THE PEOPLE”)
1993 – FROSTING ON THE BEATER - The Posies (tie)
1993 - SPILT MILK – Jellyfish (tie)
1994 – WEEZER – Weezer
1995 - BEN FOLDS FIVE - Ben Folds Five
1996 - DUSK AT CUBIST CASTLE - The Olivia Tremor Control
1997 - KON TIKI - Cotton Mather
1998 - XO - Elliott Smith
1999 - UTOPIA PARKWAY - Fountains of Wayne

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That's a nice, power pop friendly, list. I would put Bandwagonesque ahead of Nirvana. It's nice to see someone else who knows Kon Tiki...

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That's a nice, power pop friendly, list.

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Yeah, I guess you could say I'm sort of fixated on the genre.

40 years after I bought my first Beatles record, and I'm still chasing down the next great power pop album.


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Originally posted by philosopherEric:
Here's my list...(NB...after the 2000's thread, I found one record that I thought was from the 00's in the 90's, calling for a rethink...)

1. Jayhawks-Hollywood Town Hall
2. REM-Automatic for the People
3. Matthew Sweet-Girlfriend
4. Jellyfish-Bellybutton
5. American Music Club-Everclear OR Mercury
6. Fountains of Wayne-Utopia Parkway
7. Echo & The Bunnymen-What Are You Going to Do with Your Life?
8. Uncle Tupelo-No Depression/Anodyne
9. Red House Painters-s/t (the "Rollercoaster" cover)
10. The La's-s/t
11. Jason Falkner-Author Unknown/Can You Still Feel?
12. Bottle Rockets-24 Hours a Day

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I have to add another one...the Hormones Where Old Ghosts Meet. More on this one in the "Lost Classics" topic very soon!

In no order

Melvins - Bullhead
Voivod - Angel Rat
Screaming Trees - Dust
Cryptopsy - None so Vile
Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley
Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen, We're Floating in Space
Radiohead - The Bends
Olivia Tremor Control - Black Foliage: Animation Music Vol. 1
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Ragged Glory
Randy Newman - Bad Love
NoMeansNo - 0+2=1
The Legendary Pink Dots - The Crushed Velvet Apocalypse
Melt-Banana - Speak Squeak Creak
Lancaster County Prison - Death Waltz 2000
Napalm Death - Fear Emptiness Despair
Holy River Family Band - Haida Deities
Sleep - Holy Mountain
Loudon Wainwright III - Career Moves
Tom Waits - Bone Machine

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In no order

Melvins - Bullhead
Voivod - Angel Rat
Screaming Trees - Dust
Cryptopsy - None so Vile
Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley
Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen, We're Floating in Space
Radiohead - The Bends
Olivia Tremor Control - Black Foliage: Animation Music Vol. 1
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Ragged Glory
Randy Newman - Bad Love
NoMeansNo - 0+2=1
The Legendary Pink Dots - The Crushed Velvet Apocalypse
Melt-Banana - Speak Squeak Creak
Lancaster County Prison - Death Waltz 2000
Napalm Death - Fear Emptiness Despair
Holy River Family Band - Haida Deities
Sleep - Holy Mountain
Loudon Wainwright III - Career Moves
Tom Waits - Bone Machine

Nice list. I think I prefer Harris' Scorn work over Napalm Death, though. Of course, Thrash metal was never my thing. Good call on the LPD also.

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Nice list. I think I prefer Harris' Scorn work over Napalm Death, though. Of course, Thrash metal was never my thing. Good call on the LPD also.

I like Scorn too but I prefer Old Lady Drivers w/ James Plotkin, the underground Zappa, whose grindcore origins mutated to industrial and dark electronic realms. Jon Zorn contributes a sax solo in Lo Flux Tube and Musical Dimensions of Sleakstak, Formula are excellent too. Napalm Death is a long time favourite band of mine. Scum and From Enslavement to Obliteration were a huge factor on Zorn taking the punk/ grind jazz, under 1 min burst route in the late 80s.

Another 90s favourite of mine is the Japanese band Boris' Absolutego. Close to an hour of the heaviest possible drone. They take their name from the Melvins' Bullhead opener. Their albums were out on Fangs Anal Satan but soon went OOP I guess. Absolutego was reissued in 2001 on Southern Lord.

Oh, btw Lancaster County Prison's album doesn't belong on the list since it's a 2000 one. I'm getting too used to mentioning it that it had to run over here haha.

Sorry to come in late, Hemorrohoids, but I'm glad to see a little love for Randy Newman's Bad Love and Loudon Wainwright III's Career Moves. Terrific albums from a couple of masters.

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i know it's the last album of their dubious recording career, and that it's basically a Frank Black solo album, but anybody who throws in the Pixies "Trompe le Monde" will have to admit it deserves a mention as possibly the most overrated and written off record in recent memory. And no, i'm not just saying this because the Pixies are back en vogue.

Hey, Steven, can you clarify what the hell you said or at least mean? Dubious recording career? Most-overrated AND written-off? I think you like the album, but it's hard to know for sure. I LIKE it.