I still really enjoy Third Eye Blind's self-titled debut. They've never matched it, or really seemed to try to.

Also, ATLiens is my favorite Outkast album. "Babylon" blows me away to this very day. Thank god Cunninlynguists carry the torch for good Georgia rap now that Outkast has slowed down.

I haven't actually posted my top ten from this decade yet so here goes:

10. Brian Jonestown Massacre - Strung Out In Heaven (1998)
09. Sloan - Navy Blues (1998)
08. Superdrag - Head Trip in Every Key (1998)
07. Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (1994)
06. Sleater-Kinney - Dig Me Out (1997)
05. Archers of Loaf - Icky Mettle (1994)
04. Uncle Tupelo - Anodyne (1993)
03. Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend (1991)
02. Spoon - Series of Sneaks (1998)
01. Guided by Voices - Bee Thousand (1994)

These are all records that I listened to a lot at the time and I still put them on fairly regularly. For a full list of my honorable mentions check out my 100 Favorite Albums of the 1990s List if you haven't already.

Being born in 1980, the 90's will probably always be my darling decade musically (even though I listen more to albums from the 00's), so I love this thread. Here we go with the top 10. It's obviously a list of personal favourites rather than "greatest albums generally":

1. Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane over the sea (1998)
2. Laibach - Nato (1994)
3. The Tables - Shady Whims and Obstacles (1990)
4. Radiohead - OK Computer (1997)
5. Olivia Tremor Control - Black Foliage (1999)
6. Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs (1999)
7. Chumbawamba - Anarchy (1994)
8. Super Furry Animals - Radiator (1997)
9. Flaming Lips - Soft Bulletin (1999)
10. The Butchies - Population 1975 (1999)

Such a nice year 1999...

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Originally posted by DimsiRupsi:
8. Super Furry Animals - Radiator (1997)

This is such a great album.

I have a top 10 of the 1990's on my computer, but one of these days I'll do a top 50 or 100. Here's what I have, although it's pretty run of the mill.

1. Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted
2. Guided by Voices - Bee Thousand
3. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
4. Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One
5. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
6. Belle and Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
7. Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
8. The Silver Jews - American Water
9. Liz Phair - Exile In Guyville
10. The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin

Awww....just 10?

1. OK Computer - Radiohead
2. The Lonesome Crowded West - Modest Mouse
3. In The Aeroplane Over The Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel
4. Blue Lines - Massive Attack
5. The Soft Bulletin - The Flaming Lips
6. Mogwai Young Team - Mogwai
7. Goo - Sonic Youth
8. Homework - Daft Punk
9. Post - Bjork
10. The Orb's Adventure Beyond the Ultraworld - The Orb

aphex twin - richard d james album
aphex twin - selected ambient works, vol. 1
i mother earth - scenery and fish
olivia tremor control - dusk at the cubist castle
raekwon - only built 4 cuban linx
wu tang clan - 36 chambers
GZA - liquid swords
boards of canada - music has the right to children
amon tobin - permutation
company flow - funcrusher plus
dr. octagon - dr. octagonecologyst
seefeel - quique
guided by voices - bee thousand
my bloody valentine - loveless
sebadoh - III
talk talk - laughing stock

1. Depeche Mode - Violator (1990)...the perfect pop record, every song could've been a hit single, every song should've.
2. Coil - Love's Secret Domain (1991)...total audio drugs - it's amazing to listen to an electronic masterpiece like this now knowing that the best music software out then was like Cakewalk 2.0.
3. Roger Waters - Amused To Death (1992)...lyrically, Roger's best - just as relevant today, maybe even a bit prophetic.
4. Clock DVA - Buried Dreams (1990)...the evil genius, dark-electronics album that all those pseudo-industrial/EBM/rivethead bands later tried to re-create, but never could.
5. Archers of Loaf - All The Nations Airports (1995)...AOL fans may argue that Icky Meddle or Vee-Vee were better, but I just think this one had more depth to it.
6. Insides - Euphoria (1994)...very subtle/modest beats, harmonies, and breathy vocals - yet everyone should play this album before, during, and/or after sex at some point in their lifetime - it's that sensual and seductive.
7. Zoviet France - What Is Not True (1993)...the best ambient record that no one's ever heard, probably way out of print unfortunately.
8. The Hope Blister - Smiles OK (1998)...the sequel to This Mortal Coil is masterfully produced - every sound, every note just pierces you.
9. Slowdive - Pygmalion (1995)...This is what happens when god's choir smokes some serious hash and plays through a hundred reverb and delay pedals...pedals...pedals...pedals...still, it was hard to pick this one over other shoegazer classics like their Soulvaki album or Cocteau Twins' Heaven or Las Vegas or My Bloody Valentine's Loveless.
10. TIE!!! Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds "Let Love In" (1994) vs. "Murder Ballads" (1996)...can't decide on this one, but they both deserve to be in the top 10 - one's got songs about love and the other's got songs about murder, both got the genius of soul.

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Originally posted by DimsiRupsi:
10. The Butchies - Population 1975 (1999)

Great pick! I really love me some Kaia Wilson. What a voice.

I'm not very good at making these lists - too disorganized - but let me name some favorites, in no particular order:

Weezer - Pinkerton
Beat Happening - You Turn Me On
Emperor - Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk
The Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I
Sonic Youth - Dirty
Fugazi - Repeater
Helium - The Dirt of Luck
Jawbreaker - Bivouac
Lifetime - Jersey's Best Dancers
The KLF - The White Room
Rocket from the Crypt - Scream, Dracula, Scream!
Sleater-Kinney - Call the Doctor
Lucinda Williams - Sweet Old World
Missy Elliott - Supa Dupa Fly
Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power
Plastikman - Music
The Posies - Amazing Disgrace
Sugar - Copper Blue
The Wrens - Secaucus
Richard Thompson - Mirror Blue
Sepultura - Chaos A.D.

I'm sure that doesn't even touch the tip of the iceberg. It was a pretty good decade.

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Originally posted by odysseyandoracle:
Sleater-Kinney - Call the Doctor

great pick in the SK catalogue

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Originally posted by radio_josh:
1. Depeche Mode - Violator (1990)...the perfect pop record, every song could've been a hit single, every song should've.

5. Archers of Loaf - All The Nations Airports (1995)...AOL fans may argue that Icky Meddle or Vee-Vee were better, but I just think this one had more depth to it.

Nice choice for first. I'd consider myself an AoL fan and don't find your choice surprising, it's more melodic than either Icky or Vee Vee but it still has an edge. I'm just glad to see them mentioned.

Archers of Loaf's "All the nations airports" is amazing. If I ever get around to making my top 50 favorite albums list, that one would be on there.

Still have to catch up on this thread, but I'll post my (strictly subjective) top 10 anyway:

1. Radiohead – OK Computer
2. Supergrass – I should coco
3. REM – Automatic for the people
4. Pearl Jam – Vitalogy
5. Belle and Sebastian – If you’re feeling sinister
6. Weezer – Pinkerton
7. Blur – Leisure
8. NoFX- White trash, two heebs and a bean
9. Bad Religion – Against the grain
10. Suede – Suede

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Originally posted by I should coco:
Still have to catch up on this thread, but I'll post my (strictly subjective) top 10 anyway:
4. Pearl Jam – Vitalogy

i've noticed that when a PJ album is included in one of these types of lists, Vitalogy comes up actually more often than Ten et Vs., which I find cool actually, cuz that's the one i'd pick too.

My list is more mainstream/diverse but oh well...

1: Radiohead - OK Computer
2: Nirvana - Nevermind
3: Fatboy Slim - You've Come a Long Way
4: Fugees - The Score
5: Oasis - Morning Glory
6: Wu-Tang - 36 Chambers
7: Portishead - Dummy
8: Flaming Lips - Soft Bulletin
9: Primal Scream - Screamadelica
10: Belle & Sebastian - Feeling Sinister

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Originally posted by brainofp:

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Originally posted by I should coco:
Still have to catch up on this thread, but I'll post my (strictly subjective) top 10 anyway:
4. Pearl Jam – Vitalogy

i've noticed that when a PJ album is included in one of these types of lists, Vitalogy comes up actually more often than Ten et Vs., which I find cool actually, cuz that's the one i'd pick too.

I always prefered No Code, and I only recently discovered that popular opinion sees it as a black sheep in the family.

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Originally posted by Shadrach:

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Originally posted by brainofp:

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Originally posted by I should coco:
Still have to catch up on this thread, but I'll post my (strictly subjective) top 10 anyway:
4. Pearl Jam – Vitalogy

i've noticed that when a PJ album is included in one of these types of lists, Vitalogy comes up actually more often than Ten et Vs., which I find cool actually, cuz that's the one i'd pick too.

I always prefered No Code, and I only recently discovered that popular opinion sees it as a black sheep in the family.

I'm with the popular opinion then
I never liked No Code, it was a huge disappointment to me when it came out, and even though I later appreciated it more, I still don't like it much.

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Originally posted by Shadrach:

I always prefered No Code, and I only recently discovered that popular opinion sees it as a black sheep in the family.

I think Vitalogy and No Code probably hold up the best. I really liked Ten and Vs. back in the 90s, but they sound really dated to me now. Jack Irons was also the best drummer they ever had. The drum work on "In My Tree" is pretty awesome.

i agree that Jack Irons was the best they had; i was kinda bummed when he left.
No Code to me is interesting to listen to but not the one i'd grab first when i want to listen to PJ. "Black sheep" is a pretty description of it but to me, not in a bad way. it's just different.

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8. NoFX- White trash, two heebs and a bean

Seriously the best NOFX AND best pop/punk album ever!