I wanted to get this up as quickly as possible, so here's Tony's list and I'll continue to massage it as the day goes on.

For those that haven't participated in the other thread, what we are doing is making a top whatever for a particular year in each thread. However many records you care to rank, have at it. Later on I will aggregate the lists and come up with a board top ten (which may or may not be surprising)

Barry Adamson * The Negro Inside Me (Mute)
Afghan Whigs * Gentlemen (Elektra)
American Music Club * Mercury (Reprise)
Apache Indian * No Reservations (4th & Broadway)
Aphex Twin * Selected Ambient Works 85-92 (Apollo)
Apollo 9 * Nothing Matters (Trixie)
Archers Of Loaf * Icky Mettle (Alias)
Arcwelder * Pull (Touch & Go)
Autechre * Incunabula (Wax Trax)
The Auteurs * New Wave (Hut)
Baaba Maal * Lam Toro (Island/Palm Pictures)
Babe The Blue Ox * Je m'Appelle Babe EP (Homestead)
Babe The Blue Ox * Box (Homestead)
Bad Religion * Recipe For Hate (Epitaph)
Basehead * Not In Kansas Anymore (Imago)
Beck * Stereopathic Soul Manure (Flipside)
Bettie Serveert * Palomine (Matador)
Big Chief * Mack Avenue Skullgame (Sub Pop)
Big Star * Columbia: Live At Missouri University 4/25/93 (Zoo)
Bikini Kill * Pussy Whipped (Kill Rock Stars)
Björk * Debut (Elektra)
Frank Black (4AD)
Blind Idiot God * Cyclotron (Disc Union)
The Blue Humans * Clear To Higher Time (New Alliance)
Blue Rodeo * 5 Days in July
Blur * Modern Life Is Rubbish (Food/EMI)
The Boo Radleys – Giant Steps (Creation/Columbia)
Boredoms * Pop Tatari (Reprise)
Boss * Born Like Gangsterz DJ (East-West)
Boss Hog * Girl + EP (Amphetamine Reptile)
Brainiac * Smack Bunny Baby (Grass)
Brand Nubian * In God We Trust (Elektra)
The Breeders * Last Splash (4AD/Elektra)
Jeff Buckley * Live At Sin-e EP (Columbia)
Buffalo Tom * Big Red Letter Day (Beggars Banquet)
Built To Spill * Ultimate Alternative Wavers (C/Z)
Butterfly Child * Onomatopoeia (Rough Trade/Hitit!)
The Candy Skins * Fun?
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds * Live Seeds (Mute/Elektra)
Chokebore * Motionless (Amphetamine Reptile)
Clutch * Transnational Speedway League (East West)
Cocteau Twins * Four Calendar Cafe (Capital)
Holly Cole * Don't Smoke in Bed
Lloyd Cole * Weird Vibes
Ry Cooder * Music By Ry Cooder 1980-1993 (WB)
Ry Cooder & V.M. Bhatt * A Meeting by the River (Water Lily Acoustics)
Cop Shoot Cop * Suck City EP (Interscope)
Counting Crows - August and Everything After
The Cows * Sexy Pee Story (Amphetamine Reptile)
Crash Test Dummies - God Shuffled His Feet
Cynic * Focus (Roadrunner)
Cypress Hill * Black Sunday (Ruffhouse)
Dick Dale * Tribal Thunder (Hightone Records)
Das EFX * Straight Up Sewaside (East West)
Dead Can Dance * Into the Labyrinth (4AD)
Death * Individual Thought Patterns (Combat)
De La Soul * Buhloon Mindstate (Tommy Boy)
Ani DiFranco * Puddle Dive
Digable Planets * Reachin': A New Refutation . . . (Pendulum)
Digital Underground * The Body Hat Syndrome (Tommy Boy)
Dinosaur Jr. * Where You Been (Sire/WB)
Disco Inferno * Summer's Last Sound/A Rock To Cling To EPs (Rough Trade)
The Divine Comedy * Liberation (V2)
Dog Faced Hermans * Hum Of Life (Project A Bomb)
Don Caballero * For Respect (Touch & Go)
The Draghounds * Last Stop 'Til Ninth Street (Crackpot)
Slim Dunlap * The Old New Me
Einsturzende Neubauten * Tabula Rasa (Mute)
Eleventh Dream Day * El Moodio (Atlantic)
Engine Kid * Astronaut EP (C/Z)
Erectus Monotone * Close Up EP (Merge)
Fat Joe Da Gangsta * Represent (Relativity)
fIREHOSE * Mr. Machinery Operator (Columbia)
Fishbone * Give A Monkey A Brain . . . (Columbia)
Flaming Lips * Transmission From The Satellite Heart (WB)
The Fleshtones - Beautiful Light
Freestyle Fellowship * Innercity Griots (4th & Broadway)
Fugazi * In On The Kill Taker (Dischord)
Gallon Drunk * From the Heart of Town (Sire/Reprise)
Gastr del Sol * The Serpentine Similar (Drag City)
Gibson Bros. * Memphis Sol Today! (Sympathy)
Girls Against Boys * Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby (Touch & Go)
God And Texas * Criminal Element (TKO Empire/Restless)
Goo Goo Dolls - Superstar Car Wash
Nanci Griffith * Other Voices, Other Rooms
The Grifters * One Sock Missing (Sangri-la)
Guided By Voices * Vampire On Titus (Scat)
Guru * Jazzmatazz, Vol. 1 (Chrysalis)
Gutterball * Gutterball
Half Japanese * Fire In The Sky (Safe House)
Hammerhead * Ethereal Killer (Amphetemine Reptile)
PJ Harvey * Rid Of Me (Island)
His Name Is Alive * Mouth By Mouth (4AD)
Ice * Under The Skin (Pathological)
The Indians - Indianism
Intelligent Hoodlum * Tragedy - Saga of a Hoodlum (A&M)
Chris Isaak - San Francisco Days
IZ (Israel Kamakawiwo Ole) - Facing Future
Janitor Joe * Big Metal Birds (Amphetemine Reptile)
The Jazz Butcher Conspiracy * Waiting For The Love Bus (Creation)
The Jesus Lizard * Lash EP (Touch & Go)
Johnboy * Pistolswing (Trance Syndicate)
The Jungle Brothers * J. Beez Wit The Remedy (WB)
Paul K. And The Weathermen * Garden Of Forking Paths (SilenZ)
Kam * Neva Again (East-West)
Khaled * N'ssi N'ssi (Mango)
King Kong * Funny Farm (Drag City)
L.L. Cool J. * 14 Shot to the Dome (Def Jam)
Labradford * Prazision LP (Kranky)
Mark Lanegan * Whiskey For the Holy Ghost (Sub Pop)
The Loud Family * Plants And Birds And Rocks And Things
Luna * Slide EP (Elektra)
Luscious Jackson * In Search of Manny EP (Grand Royale)
M People * Living (Epic)
The Magnetic Fields * The House Of Tomorrow EP (Merge)
Main * Firmament (Beggars Banquet)
Man Or Astro-Man? * Album #1 (Estrus)
Mazzy Star * So Tonight That I Might See (Capitol)
Maria McKee * You Gotta Sin To Get Saved (Geffen)
Sarah McLachlan * Fumbling Towards Ecstacy (Arista)
The Melvins * Houdini (Atlantic)
Mercury Rev * Boces (Beggars Banquet)
Metalheads * Angel EP (Synthetic)
Milk * Ear (Spanish Fly)
Monie Love * In a Word or 2 (WB)
Monster Magnet * Superjudge (A&M)
Moonshake * Eva Luna/Big Good Angel EP (Too Pure)
Morbid Angel * Covenant (Giant)
Mule (Quarterstick)
Me'Shell Ndgeg'Ocello * Plantation Lullabies (Maverick)
Shara Nelson * What Silence Knows (Cooltempo)
Naked City * Radio (Avant)
New Model Army * The Love Of Hopeless Causes (Epic)
Nirvana * In Utero (Geffen)
Nirvana * From The Muddy Bankds Of The Wishkah 1989-1993 (Geffen)
Onyx * Bacdafucup (RAL/Columbia)
The Orb * Live 93 (Island)
Orbital 2 (ffrr)
The Palace Brothers * There Is No One What Will Take Care Of You (Drag City)
Paris * Sleeping with the Enemy (Scarface)
Pavement * Watery, Domestic EP (Matador)
Pearl Jam * Vs. (Epic)
Pegboy * Fore EP (Quarterstick)
Pere Ubu * Story of My Life (Imago)
The Pharcyde * Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde (Delicious Vinyl)
Pitchblende * Kill Atom Smasher (Cargo)
PM Dawn * The Bliss Album? (Polygram)
Polvo * Today's Active Lifestyles (Merge)
The Pooh Sticks * Million Seller
Posies * Frosting On The Beater (DGC)
Pram * The Stars Are So Big . . . (Too Pure)
Prince * The Love Symbol (Paisley Park)
Queen Latifah * Black Reign (Motown)
Redd Kross * Phaseshifter
Red Red Meat (Perishable)
Rocket From The Crypt * Circa: Now! (Interscope)
Romanthony * Fall From Grace (EastWest)
Royal Trux * Cats And Dogs (Drag City)
Saint Etienne * So Tough (WB)
Salt-N-Pepa * Very Necessary (London)
Seam * The Problem With Me (Touch & Go)
Sebadoh * Bubble And Scrape (Sub Pop)
Seefeel * Quique (Too Pure)
Patti Scialfa * Rumble Doll
Scorn * Vae Solis (Earache)
Sepultura * Chaos A.D. (Roadrunner)
Shaggy * Pure Pleasure (Virgin)
Shrimp Boat * Cavale (Bar None)
Six Finger Satellite * The Pigeon Is The Most Popular Bird (Sub Pop)
Sloan * Smeared (Murderrecords)
Small 23 * True Zero Hook (Alias)
Smashing Pumpkins * Siamese Dream (Virgin)
Smog * Julius Caesar (Drag City)
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion * Extra Width (Matador)
Steel Pole Bath Tub * The Miracle of Sound In Motion (Boner)
Stereo MC's * Connected (Polygram)
Stereolab * Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements (Elektra)
Stereolab * Space Age Batchelor Pad Music EP (Too Pure)
Stereolab * Low Fi EP (Too Pure)
Suede (Columbia)
Suede * The Drowners EP (Columbia)
Sun City Girls * Valentines for Matahari (Majora)
Superconductor - Hit Songs For Girls
Swans * Omniscience [live] (Young God)
Swervedriver * Mezcal Head (A&M)
Tar * Toast (Touch & Go)
Tar * Clincher EP (Touch & Go)
Teenage Fanclub * Thirteen (Geffen)
The The * Dusk (Epic)
Tool * Undertow (Zoo)
The Tragically Hip * Fully Completely (UMG)
Transglobal Underground * Dream of 100 Nations (Nation)
A Tribe Called Quest * Midnight Marauders (Jive)
Type O Negative * Bloody Kisses
µ-ziq * Tango 'N Vectif (Rephlex)
Uncle Tupelo * Anodyne (Sire/Reprise)
Unrest * Perfect Teeth (4AD)
Unwound * Fake Train (Kill Rock Stars)
Urge Overkill * Saturation (Geffen)
Caetano Veloso & Gilberto Gil * Tropicalia 2 (Elektra)
Verlaines * Way Out There (Slash)
The Verve * A Storm In Heaven (Vernon Yard)
Tom Waits * The Black Rider (Island)
The Walkabouts * Satisfied Mind (Creativeman)
The Walkabouts * New West Motel (Cargo)
Walt Mink * Bareback Ride (Caroline)
Paul Westerberg * 14 Songs
World Party * Bang!
Wu-Tang Clan * Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) (Loud)
Steve Wynn - Kerosene Man
Dwight Yoakam - This Time
Yo La Tengo * Painful (Matador/Atlantic)
Young Disciples * Road To Freedom (Talkin' Loud)

My list:

1) Arcwelder - Pull
2) Seam - The Problem with Me
3) Honcho Overload - Smiles Everyone
4) Archers of Loaf - Icky Mettle
5) Polvo - Today's Active Lifestyles
6) Grifters - One Sock Missing
7) Nirvana - In Utero
8) Guided by Voices - Vampire on Titus
9) Superchunk - On the Mouth
10) Urge Overkill - Saturation
11) Steakdaddy 6 - Arkadelphia
12) Brainiac - Smack Bunny Baby
13) Small 23 - True Zero Hook
14) Frank Black - S/T
15) Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
16) Spinanes - Manos
17) El Inquilino Comunista - S/T
18) Jawbreaker - 24 Hour Revenge Therapy
19) Mercury Rev - Boces
20) Built to Spill - Ultimate Alternative Wavers

The Boo Radleys – Giant Steps (Creation/Columbia)

I know I’m the only one on this board who will vote for it but still…

Dinosaur Jr. - Where You Been is the greatest album of all time.

I don't think I could make it to 20...not a very deep year imo

I may be forgetting some things but here's a preliminary top dozen:

1. The Auteurs “New Wave”
2. Morphine "Cure for Pain"
3. Afghan Whigs “Gentlemen”
4. Teenage Fanclub “Thirteen”
5. Mark Lanegan “Whiskey For the Holy Ghost”
6. The The “Dusk”
7. Matt Keating "Tell It To Yourself"
8. Young Disciples “Road To Freedom”
9. Lloyd Cole “Bad Vibes”
10. Catherine Wheel "Chrome"
11. Nirvana “In Utero”
12. Frank Black S/T
13. Jellyfish "Spilt Milk"
14. Uncle Tupelo “Anondyne”
15. Dinosaur Jr. “Where You Been”

edit: to remove Dr Dre and add morphine
2nd edit to add matt keating, catherine wheel and jellyfish

my list:

1 The Verve * A Storm In Heaven (Vernon Yard)
2 Afghan Whigs * Gentlemen (Elektra)
3 Archers Of Loaf * Icky Mettle (Alias)
4 Morphine * Cure for Pain (Rykodisc)
5 Uncle Tupelo * Anodyne (Sire/Reprise)
6 Superchunk - On The Mouth
7 Suede (Columbia) (fuck you billy g and radcliffe)
8 Swervedriver * Mezcal Head (A&M)
9 Sebadoh * Bubble And Scrape (Sub Pop)
10 Dinosaur Jr. * Where You Been (Sire/WB)
11 Luna * Lunapark (Elektra)
12 Yo La Tengo * Painful (Matador/Atlantic)
13 Pearl Jam - Vs
14 Bettie Serveert * Palomine (Matador)
15 Blur * Modern Life Is Rubbish (Food/EMI)
16 Guided By Voices * Vampire On Titus (Scat)
17 The The * Dusk (Epic)
18 Nirvana * In Utero (Geffen)
19 Buffalo Tom * Big Red Letter Day (Beggars Banquet)
20 Smashing Pumpkins * Siamese Dream (Virgin)

edit for inclusion of superchunk
edit 2 for pj
edit 3 for morphine

1. Shrimp Boat - Cavale
2. Paul Weller - Wild Wood
3. Flaming LIps - Transmissions From the Satellite Heart
4. Blur - Modern Life Is Rubbish
5. Prince - O(+>
6. Suede - Suede
7. The Auteurs - New Wave
8. Yo La tengo - Painful
9. Uncle Tupelo - Anodyne
10. Nirvana - In Utero

The Chronic was released in December 1992.

Then you f'ed up last time because it was one of your ten options in the 1993 poll

Yeah I know. I think we had that discussion in that thread...

New list:

1. Nirvana * In Utero (Geffen)
2. Mercury Rev * Boces (Beggars Banquet)
3. Flaming Lips * Transmission From The Satellite Heart (WB)
4. Wu-Tang Clan * Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) (Loud)
5. µ-ziq * Tango 'N Vectif (Rephlex)
6. Stereolab * Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements (Elektra)
7. Morphine * Cure for Pain (Rykodisc)
8. Yo La Tengo * Painful (Matador/Atlantic)
9. Don Caballero * For Respect (Touch & Go)
10. The Blue Humans * Clear To Higher Time (New Alliance)

11. Tom Waits * The Black Rider (Island)
12. Pavement * Watery, Domestic EP (Matador)
13. Autechre * Incunabula (Wax Trax)
14. Uncle Tupelo * Anodyne (Sire/Reprise)
15. Boredoms * Pop Tatari (Reprise)
16. PJ Harvey * Rid Of Me (Island)
17. Fugazi * In On The Kill Taker (Dischord)
18. Aphex Twin * Selected Ambient Works 85-92 (Apollo)
19. The Palace Brothers * There Is No One What Will Take Care Of You (Drag City)
20. Brainiac * Smack Bunny Baby (Grass)

This one'll take a while.

Definitely not a great year.

It was an awesome year in my opinion.

1. The Tragically Hip * Fully Completely (UMG) <--not in the list
1a. Pearl Jam * Vs (Epic) <--not in the list
2. Yo La Tengo * Painful (Matador/Atlantic)
3. PJ Harvey * Rid Of Me (Island)
3a. Liz Phair * Exile on Guyville (Matador)
3b. Counting Crows * August and Everything After (Geffen)
4. Nirvana * In Utero (Geffen)
5. Smashing Pumpkins * Siamese Dream (Virgin)
6. Sloan * Smeared (Murderrecords) <--not in the list
7. The Breeders * Last Splash (4AD/Elektra)
8. Mercury Rev * Boces (Beggars Banquet)
9. Frank Black (4AD)
10. Saint Etienne * So Tough (WB)
11. Luscious Jackson * In Search of Manny EP (Grand Royale)
12. Pavement * Watery, Domestic EP (Matador)
13. Sarah McLachlan * Fumbling Towards Ecstacy (Arista)
14. Cypress Hill * Black Sunday (Ruffhouse)
15. Dinosaur Jr. * Where You Been (Sire/WB)
16. Blur * Modern Life Is Rubbish (Food/EMI)
17. Beck * Stereopathic Soul Manure (Flipside)

Granted, I haven't heard a lot of the stuff on your list, and I've wanted to check out that Seam album for a while.

pj harvey - rid of me
jellyfish - spilt milk
GbV - vampire on titus
uncle tupelo - anodyne (my least favorite UT record)
teenage fanclub - thirteen
american music club - mercury
aimee mann - whatever
nirvana - in utero
joe henry - kindness of the world
liz phair - exile in guyville

how you can possibly have Black Sunday and not Enter the Wu-Tang on your list is beyond me. you people should be ashamed of yourselves.

I don't have a full list, but I'm gonna put Type O Negative's Bloody Kisses (missing) on it.

Never heard Enter the Wu-Tang, don't own it, not on the list, not much of a hip-hop fan.

1. Superchunk * On The Mouth
2. Palace Bros * There is No-One What Will Take Care of You
3. Wu-Tang Clan * Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
4. Autechre * Incunabula ('93 UK release?)
5. Uncle Tupelo * Anodyne
6. Teenage Fanclub * Thirteen
7. Pavement * Watery, Domestic EP
8. Nirvana * In Utero
9. The Jesus Lizard * Lash EP
10. The Auteurs * New Wave
11. Beck * Stereopathic Soul Manure
12. Frank Black * S/T
13. Digable Planets * Reachin’
14. Boredoms * Pop Tatari
15. Gastr Del Sol * The Serpentine Similar
16. Eric’s Trip * Love Tara
17. The Afghan Whigs * Gentleman
18. Swervedriver * Mezcal Head
19. Dinosaur Jr * Where You Been
20. A Tribe Called Quest * Midnight Marauders
21. Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians * Respect
22. Spinanes * Manos

Good call on this. I'm gonna have to edit it into my list.

You guys are gonna end up convinving me that I need to listen to Superchunk.

1. wu-tang
2-20: who cares

There's no way in hell that Shrimp Boat should be listed here.


I'll go with:

The Posies - Frosting On The Beater
Nirvana - In Utero
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Dead Can Dance - Into The Labrynth
Sarah McLachlan - Fumbling Towards Ecstacy
Sepultura - Chaos A.D.
Mazzy Star - So That I Might See


I feel like there is a lot of other stuff in 1993 that's not being recognized here but I'm not wading into my cd collection and digging stuff out.

edit:

Jesus and The Mary Chain?
Underworld?
Helmet?