So lets forget about the election and bash ol' Yail for a while.

(no hip-hop, only one listing for a band)

1. Teenager of the Year - Frank Black
2. Siamese Dream - Smashing Pumpkins
3. Achtung Baby - U2
4. Automatic For The People - REM
5. Bossanova - The Pixies
6. Summer Teeth - Wilco
7. Keep It Like A Secret - Built To Spill
8. OK Computer - Radiohead
9. Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain - Pavement
10. Vs. - Pearl Jam
11. Chocolate and Cheese - Ween
12. 40 oz. To Freedom - Sublime
13. Whats The Story Morning Glory? - Oasis
14. Pinkerton - Weezer
15. Ritual de lo Habitual - Janes Addiction
16. Dusk At The Cubist Castle - Olivia Tremor Control
17. Copper Blue - Sugar
18. Pioughd - The Butthole Surfers
19. In The Aeroplane Over The Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel
20. Angel Dust - Faith No More
21. Space Wrangler - Widespread Panic
22. Dirt - Alice In Chains
23. The Coulour And The Shape - Foo Fighters
24. In Utero - Nirvana
25. Music - 311

edit: so whats one edit?

You voted for Dole???

Seriously though, I like the list. I still love Achtung Baby no matter that U2 has betrayed me the last 10 years.

My list, taken from my Listmania:


1. Radiohead - The Bends
2. Bjork - Homogenic
3. Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
4. Magnetic Fields, The - 69 Love Songs
5. Built To Spill - There's Nothing Wrong With Love
6. Tricky - Maxinquaye
7. U2 - Achtung Baby
8. Phair, Liz - Exile In Guyville
9. Portishead - Dummy
10. Buckley, Jeff - Grace
11. Soul Coughing - Ruby Vroom
12. Radiohead - OK Computer
13. Neutral Milk Hotel - On Avery Island
14. DJ Shadow - Endtroducing...
15. Dismemberment Plan, The - Emergency & I
16. Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs
17. Sugar - Copper Blue
18. Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
19. Belle & Sebastian - Tigermilk
20. Built To Spill - Keep It Like A Secret
21. They Might Be Giants - Apollo 18
22. Shudder To Think - Pony Express Records
23. Ned's Atomic Dustbin - God Fodder
24. Sebadoh - Bakesale
25. Massive Attack - Blue Lines

c'mon shmoo - one listing per band bro. (i love making nonexistent rules)

Teenager of the Year, eh? This is the one of the reasons why I started reading the cmj bb (and then here). Someone will post an album like this as their number one, that I personally never really gave much thought to. Now I'm going to dig it out and have to re-listen to it again.

What are your thoughts on his other solo stuff?

1. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
2. Blur - Parklife
3. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
4. Los Lobos - Kiko
5. Guided By Voices - Allien Lanes
6. Wilco - Summerteeth
7. Uncle Tupelo - No Depression
8. Shrimp Boat - Cavale
9. Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted
10. Yo La Tengo - Electr-o-Pura
11. Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend
12. Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonseque
13. Paul Weller - Wild Wood
14. Massive Attack - Mezzanine
15. Magnetic Fields - Get Lost
16. Suede - Suede
17. Shrimp Boat - Duende
18. Dogbowl - Flan (a review for the uninitiated)
19. Sloan - One Chord to Another
20. Beastie Boys - Check Your Head
21. Super Furry Animals - Radiator
22. Stereolab - Mars Audiac Quintet
23. Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs
24. Son Volt - Trace
25. Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville

So I have two each for Radiohead, NMH, and BTS, therefore I need three more, here you go:

26. Blur - Parklife
27. Bjork - Post (whoops, another repeat)
28. Sunny Day Real Estate - How It Feels To Be Something On
29. Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted
30. Public Enemy - Fear Of A Black Planet (just to make an even number)

Good list. Some you should change immediately :

'Ten' instead of 'VS'.

Definitely Maybe along with What's the Story

Dusk at a Cubist Castle would be in my top 10

Add: Purple-Stone Temple Pilots

Subtract: Music -311

Edit: Were Loveless and Stone Roses 1989 or 1990? Or are you not including 1990?

let's see if I can guess your age based on your list

I'm going to say 27

Nice one! But damn, I found this to be a hard exercise. Lotsa great stuff came outta the '90s!

1. Copyright Circle C
2. Spoon A Series Of Sneaks
3. Rancid Life Won't Wait
4. Frank Black Teenager Of The Year
5. World Party Goddbye Jumbo
6. Morphine Cure For Pain
7. Soul Coughing Ruby Vroom
8. Aimee Mann I'm With Stupid
9. Joe Henry Trampoline
10. Richard Buckner Since
11. Grant Lee Buffalo Mighty Joe Moon
12. Marah Let's Cut The Crap And Hook Up Later Tonight
13. The Pietasters Willis
14. Dramarama Vinyl
15. Uncle Tupelo Anodyne
16. Ween Pure Guava
17. Gene Olympian
18. Macy Gray On How Life Is
19. The Donnas Skintight
20. Sparklehorse Good Morning Spider
21. Sublime Sublime
22. Bongwater The Power Of Pussy
23. Rheostatics Melville
24. DM3 Road To Rome
25.Tricky Maxinquaye

im a pretty big fan of it; i was glad that after "The Cult of Ray" (which i think is his weakest) he switched to the Catholics cncept:

All of the Catholics albums are recorded "live" (!) in the studio to two track tape with zero overdubs--an incredible feat these days (consider #2 on my list being the polar opposite) and really cool on albums like Black Letter Days where on a given track there may be 2 or three guitars, bass two (2!) pedal steels, drums and lead & backing vocals all being recorded live in studio....Hooking back up with Eric Drew Feldman was a good idea too.

i think that frank is a talented songwriter still good enough to write a true gem or two per record AND a guy who a. operates under the radar and b. is still enough of an artist to indulge his various...well, indulgences...

29

and radcliffe: yeah dude, its hard, i tried not to put too much thought

lockness: 1990 counts (achtung, bossanova, ritual); had to check on pretty hate machine (nov '89 which is what i thought) loveless and stone roses just didnt make the cut this time (check in next week they might)
more on "defending 311 Music" later...

***obscurist, indie-snob list pending***

OK, here's a first draft without any rankings and without much thought. Maybe change it later, maybe not


Stereolab - Emeperor Tomato Ketchup
Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted
Tricky - Maxinquaye
Radiohead - OK Computer
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Luna - Bewitched
Olivia Tremor Control - Dusk At Cubist Castle
Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
Portishead - Dummy
Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I
Built To Spill - Perfect From Now On
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane, Over the Sea
Bjork - Homogenic
Laika - Silver Apples of the Moon
PJ Harvey - Dry
Yo La Tengo - Electr-O-Pura
Bob Dylan - Time Out of Mind
Flaming Lips - Soft Bulletin
Cat Power - Moon Pix
Tindersticks - II
Hector Zazou - Sahara Blue
Catherine Wheel - Chrome
Black Heart Procession - Number 2
Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West

My list taken from shmoo

My top 25 (my apologies in advance for any rule violations):

25. Boards of Canada - Music Has a Right to Children
24. Fugazi - 13 Songs
23. Massive Attack - Mezzanine
22. Morphine - Cure for Pain
21. Guided By Voices - Mag Earwhig!
20. Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
19. Ned's Atomic Dustbin - God Fodder
18. Air - Moon Safari
17. The Wedding Present - Seamonsters
16. Janes Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual
15. Soul Coughing - Ruby Vroom
14. Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I
13. Portishead - Dummy
12. Sebadoh - Bakesale
11. Aphex Twin - Richard D James Album
10. The Verve - A Storm in Heaven
9. Built To Spill - Keep It Like a Secret
8. Radiohead - The Bends
7. Red House Painters - Songs for a Blue Guitar
6. Afghan Whigs - Gentleman
5. Dinosaur Jr - Green Mind
4. Ride - Nowhere
3. DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
2. Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted
1. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless

not repeating any artists...

1. Juliana Hatfield--Only Everything
2. Guided By Voices--Alien Lanes
3. The Fugees--The Score
4. Smashing Pumpkins--Siamese Dream
5. The Amps--Pacer
6. The Breeders--Last Splash
7. Blur--Modern Life is Rubbish
8. Dressy Bessy--Pink Hearts Yellow Moons
9. Olivia Tremor Control--Music From the Unrealized Film Script: Dusk at Cubist Castle
10. Cornershop--Woman’s Gotta Have It
11. Wyclef Jean--Presents The Carnival
12. Sonic Youth--Washing Machine
13. The Sundays--Static and Silence
14. Foo Fighters--Foo Fighters
15. Weezer--Weezer
16. Robert Pollard--Not in My Airforce
17. Stone Temple Pilots--Tiny Music…Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop
18. 311--311
19. Sunny Day Real Estate--How it Feels to be Something On
20. The Apples in stereo--Fun Trick Noisemaker
21. Sleater-Kinney--Dig Me Out
22. Liz Phair--Whip-smart
23. Radiohead--The Bends
24. Chavez--Ride the Fader
25. Gomez--Bring it On

Come to the Plan!

Ok I don't have a copy of my original Listmania #1, but I'd probably change 1/2 the albums on that list.

So... off the top my head (oh, and in no particular order):

1. Radiohead- The Bends
2. Modest Mouse- Lonesome Crowded West
3. Portishead- Dummy
4. Massive Attack- Mezzanine
5. Beck- Midnite Vultures
6. Nirvana- Nevermind
7. Red Hot Chili Peppers- Bloodsugarsexmagik
8. Sunny Day Real Estate- How It Feels to Be Something On
9. Built to Spill- Keep It Like a Secret
10. Everything But the Girl- Walking Wounded
11. Elliott Smith- Either/Or
12. The Flaming Lips- Transmissions From the Satellite Heart
13. The Dismemberment Plan- Emergency & I
14. Death Cab for Cutie- Something About Airplanes
15. Spoon- Series of Sneaks
16. DJ Shadow- Entroducing....
17. Sublime- s/t
18. The Cure- Wish
19. Belle & Sebastian- If You're Feeling Sinister
20. Sigur Ros- Agaetis Byrjun
21. Bjork- Post
22. Smashing Pumpkins- Mellon Collie & the Infinite Sadness
23. Tricky- Maxinquaye
24. Placebo- Without You I'm Nothing
25. Weezer- Blue Album

Fuck, that was hard eliminating all the hip-hop from the 90s.

It's on the top of my do to list. I promise I'll make one before the year is out!

1. Sugar - Copper Blue
2. DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
3. Beth Orton - Trailer Park
4. Son Volt - Trace
5. KoRn S/T
6. Fugazi - 13 Songs
7. Wilco - Being There
8. Nirvana - Nevermind
9. Gomez - Liquid Skin
10. Deftones - Around The Fur
11. Built To Spill - Keep It Like A Secret
12. Therapy? - Nurse
13. Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen
14. Jimmy Eat World - Clarity
15. Weezer S/T (blue)
16. Jane's Addiction - Ritual De Lo Habitual
17. Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
18. Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
19. Aphex Twin - Richard D James Album
20. Primus - Sailing The Seas Of Cheese
21. Helmet - Meantime
22. Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Question The Answers
23. Sunny Day Real Estate - How It Feels To Be Something On
24. Tricky - Pre-Millenium Tension
25. Tom Waits - Mule Variations

im well aware of the rules however...
1. Radiohead - The Bends
2. Radiohead - OK Computer
3. Ride - Nowhere
4. Pulp - Different Class
5. Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible
6. Faith No More - Angel Dust
7. Slowdive - Souvlaki
8. Weezer - Pinkerton
9. Fugazi - Repeater
10. Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over the Sea
11. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
12. Refused - The Shape Of Punk To Come
13. Flaming Lips - Soft Bulletin
14. Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted
15. Afghan Whigs - Gentleman
16. Mr Bungle - California
17. Air - Moon Safari
18. Jesus and Mary Chain - Honey's Dead
19. Jeff Buckley - Grace
20. Verve - Urban Hymns
21. Mogwai - Young Team
22. Massive Attack - Protection
23. Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
24. Nirvana - MTV Unplugged
25. Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One

26. Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs
27. At The Drive-In - In Casino Out
28. Pixies - Trompe Le Monde
29. Morphine - Cure For Pain
30. Beck - Odelay

[quote="spinningplates"]im well aware of the rules however...

you just can't follow them? haha. like your list. the s/t Mr. Bungle really should have made my list b/c the honest thing about my list is that some of my choices have a lot to do with albums that changed my life and that one did.

i like all you peoples' lists. thanks. and keep it up.

streching a bit cause both EPs were released 88/89, which is why i put Repeater on the list not 13 Songs.

People should really learn to follow the rules...

I've been trying to make a top 30 albums of the 90s for quite some time. I think I gave up. I think I can probably do top 5 though:

1. Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the 36 Chambers
2. Radiohead - The Bends
3. Boards Of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children
4. Wilco - Summerteeth
5. Oasis - Definitely Maybe

...shit, that's not true, probably.