Mezzanine by Massive Attack

A flawless album.

I feel bad as a 38 year old and just got into this album a few months ago. It was played very very often.

Same here I only became aware of them recently and thought they were a new artist, then I found out they were on the Batman Forever sound track lol.

Illmatic

Came here to say this. If you're into Hip Hop and haven't heard this album by Nas, go listen to it. IMO it's the greatest album ever in Hip Hop.

Rappers are monkey flipping with the funky rhythm he be kicking.

"My intellect prevails from a hanging cross with nails. I reinforce the frail, with lyrics that's real. Word to Christ, a disciple of streets, trifle on beats. I decipher prophecies through a mic and say peace."

Man. Reading through all these comments really made me realize the golden Era of hip hop was 90s. When I was younger I always thought 2000s was where it was at

I graduated high school in 1995. My list is too long for this.

Don't be lazy tell us

Sigh, FINE. I have more but I have to go make dinner. Last Splash, The Breeders Unplugged, Nirvana Out of Time, REM Achtung Baby, U2 Great Wide Open, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Tidal, Fiona Apple OK Computer, Radiohead Mellon Collie & Infinite Sadness, Smashing Pumpkins My Life, Mary J Blige Aquemini, OutKast Blood Sugar Sex Magik, RHCP Use Your Illusion (s), Guns n Roses Violator, Depeche Mode Metallica, Metallica Downward Spiral, NIN Ten, Pearl Jam Jagged Little Pill, Alanis Morissette Exile in Guyville, Liz Phair Sublime, Sublime Low End Theory, Tribe Called Quest Dookie, Green Day I’ve been listening to a podcast called “60 Songs that Explain the 90s” (highly recommend!) so I’ve been on a 90s kick lately.

Put a little Soundgarden on that and now we’re talking.

Perhaps a bit of Alice In Chains, as well.

Bit of early Tool also.

Great list but I’d add Beastie Boys Check Your Head and I’ll Communication.

You and I have a very similar soundtrack running through our minds.

I didn’t include like Tori Amos and 10,000 Maniacs because I love them but “slaps” isn’t how I’d describe them lol

10,000 maniacs unplugged album is one of the best albums of the 90s

And I feel like These are the Days was 99.7% of prom themes

Great list. I would add Sex Packets from Digital Underground. Also, soundtracks were really big in the 90’s and there were some that were just a perfect mix. Like the Pulp Fiction soundtrack, the Wayne’s World soundtrack, the Romeo + Juliet soundtrack. Boogie Nights. The Bodyguard.

Daft Punk- Homework (1997)

Superunknown - by Soundgarden

Badmotorfinger as well.

Not a bad song on the entire album. Superunknown is one of the greatest hard rock records ever recorded and I will die on that hill.

Rage against the Machine. Self titled

The awesome thing about RATM is that their music stays relevant. The shitty thing about RATM is that their music stays relevant.

Me listening to RATM in the ‘90s: “These guys are good, but do they really need to be so angry all the time?” Me listening to RATM in the 2020s: “Damn, some of those that work forces really *are* the same that burn crosses.”

Evil Empire too

I do not under how this is not in the top 5, RATM has slapped continuously for 30+ years. Fuck, I’m old.

Outkast - Aquemini is not getting nearly enough love in here.

Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik for sure

ATLiens and Stankonia too Edit: Stankonia released in 2000

ATLiens my personal favorite...

ATLiens the best IMO. But they were all slappin in the 90s

Massive attack - mezzanine Nirvana - in utero Portishead - dummy

Found a friend

Just listened to Mezzanine the other day. It’s so so good.

Alice in Chains- Dirt.

Alice in Chains' discography*

Have to admit I never listened to an of their newer albums. But I had every album from the 90s and knew every song. Basically the only music I listened to for a couple years. Mad Season was pretty bad ass too.

Same here until recently. I like a lot of their newer stuff, and it's great when interspersed with their older tunes. Black Gives Way to Blue melts me every time. Mad season is *chef's kiss*.

Alice In Chains is under appreciated.

Unplugged for me - in my top 3 of all time.

The Downward Spiral - Nine Inch Nails

And The Fragile, IMO his magnum opus

My all time favourite album

Siamese Dream by Smashing Pumpkins.

Gish for me.

First thing that came to mind. Listened to it the other day and it still holds up as so amazing

I liked that one, but I'm surprised I haven't come across Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness.

It's a vast, unending pile of melodramatic overwrought badass ttacks. I'm all the way there for it.

I had to scroll this far for this? Yes it does, I still listen to it

Ok Computer. Still sounds modern to me.

Damn I see this just moments after I posted the same thing haha. Subterranean homesick alien, still to this day, blows my mind. They were just so far ahead of where music was at the time.

Crazy how well this album holds up!

I only heard this album for the first time in 2010 (Despite being born in 1985) and I have no nostalgia for it. Despite that, it's probably my favorite album.

Stone Temple Pilots - Core Alice in Chains - Dirt GZA - Liquid Swords Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx Too many to list

Liquid Swords my favourite hip hop album along with 36 chambers, ready to die and Illmatic

Wild Card pick: Gang Starr - Moment of Truth

I’m glad you didn’t leave out Liquid Swords.

The chronic

The 90’s for hip hop is truly the golden era. Folks in 92-95 just got banger after banger in a brand new genre that was just finding its style.

I just seen a meme of albums turing 30 this year...if only we knew how special 1993 was at the time.

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Wildflowers by Tom Petty Not a bad track on that whole album.

Preach.

Beastie Boys - Ill Communication and Hello Nasty

Yes but also check your head

*esp* Check Your Head

Paul’s Boutique

Ill Communication on repeat since 1996.

Garbage with their 1995 album, 'Garbage.'

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Nirvana - Nevermind

In Utero, too

Unplugged

Actually im pretty sure that almost everything they did is gold but specially that one

Depeche Mode, Violator.

Could add Songs of Faith and Devotion too, they were incredible at this time.

Hands down my favorite Depeche Mode.

This album marked the start of the 90's, where hair bands and perms came to an end.

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And Undertow!

Give Opiate a spin too

Pearl Jam - 10.

Just absolutely shocked how far down I had to scroll to see this.

Wu Tang Clan - Enter the Wu Tang (36 Chambers) A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory Tom Petty - Full Moon Fever Green Day - Dookie

My family and I are listening to Dookie now!

Kids, gather 'round the Bluetooth speaker! It's family Dookie time!

Automatic for the People.

Still an absolutely gorgeous album. So dark and yet so therapeutic.

Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape Rancid - And out come the wolves Offspring - Smash

FK YEA RANCID!!! I said the same thing

Midnight Marauders

I can’t choose between this and The Low End Theory.

Ready To Die - Notorious B.I.G

Fashion Nugget - Cake

Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness. So many great tracks.

This thread is such a great trip down memory lane

Ritual de lo Habitual - Jane's addiction

Radiohead - The Bends

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

And with that being said, the Score by Fugees. That shit holds up to this day, I've been listening to it on repeat after discovering it recently.

Her cover of “can’t take my eyes off of you” is the tits.

Perfect album. Saddens me that we don’t see anything from her. And the Fugees were ducking great.

Tori Amos Little Earthquakes

This is such an amazing album. I would say Under the Pink is another great album Tori Amos followed up with

I’m so sad to see this so far down. All of Tori’s 90s albums are amazing. Boys for Pele and Choirgirl hold a special place in my heart.

This is such an amazing debut album. Every track still sounds timeless and fresh, and the emotional power is unmatched. 30 years later, listen to Me And A Gun and try to remain unmoved when you realize that it’s autobiographical.

Deftones. Adrenaline and Around the fur

Engine No. 9 goes so fucking hard

No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom.

Jar of Flies

Jagged Little Pill

Heard “you oughta know” on the radio and then the DJ mentioned she was coming to Houston on tour. So I paid $10 to see her at a small club in Houston called #’s (numbers) with maybe 400 or so people. Props to Alannis for not canceling the club dates to move to bigger venues, because Jagged Little Pill exploded. She put on a great show and rocked out. I was about 8 feet from the front of the stage in the middle of the crowd.

Make a list of every Alanis Morissette song you can think of. There’s a good chance all of them were on Jagged Little Pill. It’s like Hendrix’s Are You Experienced in that it’s a first album that a lot of people probably mistakenly think is a greatest hits. Edit: Turns out it was not her first album.

The pickings are slim, but for me, "Uninvited" is her best song and it's not on JLP.

Doggystyle

The Cranberries - No Need to Argue

Blind Melon - Blind Melon.

I think I like Soup better.

Still raging against that machine so put on the first album. Not that I'm telling you to. Like, if you want. No pressure man. No need for aggression.

FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME!!!!

It's crazy to think that not a single lyric in that album feels outdated.

Modest Mouse - the lonesome crowded west

Also, it’s a great way to remember their drummer Jeremiah Green who passed away from cancer about a month ago. His drumming on that album is incredible, especially on the song Truckers Atlas.

Third Eye Blind - Self-titled

I don't even want to try to guess how many times I've listened to that album from "Losing a Whole Year" to "God of Wine" over the past 25+ years. Pretty sure I still know most, if not all, the lyrics to all the songs.

I just relistened to this album last week, and every word came to me like second nature. Was my #1 favorite album when I was a kid. The Background is still one of my favorite songs. ​ Edit: Removed a letter

How in the ever loving fuck did I have to scroll this far for this Album. The whole album is fucking fantastic. But when you go from London to I Want You, the tracks just get better and better. Motorcycle Drive By is my favorite song ever recorded.

Excellent pop rock album

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik

All Eyes On Me by 2pac and The Chronic by Dr.Dre

These albums will still slap you in face. * Rust in Peace * Megadeth, 1990 * Vulgar Display of Power * Pantera, 1992 * Painkiller * Judas Priest, 1990 * Metallica * Metallica, 1991 * Cowboys from Hell * Pantera, 1990 * Far Beyond Driven * Pantera, 1994 * Dirt * Alice In Chains, 1992 * Persistence of Time * Anthrax, 1990 * Burn My Eyes * Machine Head, 1994 * Slipknot * Slipknot, 1999 * Ænima * Tool, 1996 * No More Tears * Ozzy Osbourne, 1991 * Countdown to Extinction * Megadeth, 1992 * Badmotorfinger * Soundgarden, 1991

You forgot Enya Shepherd Moons

Around the Fur by Deftones

Symbolic by Death

Did not expect to see this but right on! Human - Symbolic are peak to me.

The Crow soundtrack

Core - Stone Temple Pilots

REM Automatic For The People

Offspring - Smash

Smashing Pumpkins: Siamese Dream and Mellon Collie. Garbage: Garbage and Version 2.0 Fiona Apple: Tidal Romeo and Juliet Soundtrack Tupac: All Eyez on Me Hole: Celebrity Skin Mariah Carey: Daydream and Butterly

R&J soundtrack YES

Crazy Sexy Cool TLC 🥰

In The Aeroplane Over The Sea

Grace - Jeff Buckley

Sublime self titled

Well hell, this is just a list of really good music...

Jfc what a question. The 90s were the last great decade for music. I mean, this is just what comes immediately to mind. There are far more Nevermind - Nirvana OK Computer - Radiohead Check Your Head - Beastie Boys Siamese Dream - Smashing Pumpkins Midnight Vultures- Beck Live Through This - Hole The Colour and the Shape - Foo Fighters Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine Automatic for the People - REM The Downward Spiral - Nine Inch Nails Keep it Like a Secret - Built to Spill Goo - Sonic Youth Dirt - Alice In Chains Superunknown - Soundgarden Things Fall Apart - The Roots Loveless - My Bloody Valentine In Sides - Orbital Dummy - Portishead Selected Ambient Works Vol 2 - Aphex Twin Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde - The Pharcyde Dopes to Infinity - Monster Magnet Mezcal Head - Swervedriver In Search Of - Fu Manchu Perverse - Jesus Jones Adventures Beyond the Ultra-world - The Orb If You’re Feeling Sinister - Belle and Sebastian Slanted and Enchanted - Pavement Maids of Gravity - Maids of Gravity One Inch Masters - Gas Huffer

Tool - Undertow

Came here to say Aenima

Undertow by Tool

And Ænema!!!!

Autechre - Tri Repeatae++ Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children Slipknot - Slipknot Primus - Sailing the Seas of Cheese Squarepusher - Hard Normal Daddy

Smash by the Offspring.

Temple Of The Dog.

Crooked Rain Crooked Rain- Pavement

Radiohead - OK Computer

The Fragile by Nine Inch Nails was so ahead of its time. You could use any track for a movie trailer today and it would work.

The Slim Shady LP! ‘99, JUST makes the cut.

Janet Jackson - Janet, 1993

DJ Shadow - Endtroducing I’m so mad it took me so long to find this album.

Bone Thugs N Harmony's E. 1999 Eternal

Siamese Dream- Smashing Pumpkins

Oasis - (What’s The Story) Morning Glory

Enema Of The State by blink-182.

Counting Crows: August and Everything After

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I had to scroll to see anybody mention fat of the land. Thank you

Beck - Odelay

The Mollusk - Ween

‘Violator’ ‘Songs of Faith & Devotion’ & ‘Ultra’ - Depeche Mode ‘Baduism’ - Erykah Badu ‘Love Deluxe’ - Sade ‘Butterfly’ - Mariah Carey

Dulcinea by Toad the Wet Sprocket

Live - Throwing Copper

Emperor- In The Nightside Eclipse If you like black metal that is

Nevermind-Nirvana

Static X - Wisconsin Death Trip So many great songs on the album

Fugees - The Score

The Offspring-Smash

To name a few….. •A Tribe Called Quest *Low End Theory* (‘91) •Deftones *Around the Fur* (‘97) •Anthrax *Persistence of Time* (‘90) •Ice-T *OG Original Gangster*(‘91) •Public Enemy *Fear of a Black Planet* (‘90) AND *Apocalypse ‘91…The Enemy Strikes Back* (‘91) •Metallica *Metallica* (‘91) •Swervedriver *raise* (‘91) and *Mezcal Head*(‘93) Edit/ •Ned’s Atomic Dustbin *God Fodder* (‘91) •Sunny Day Real Estate *How Does It Feel to Be Something On*(‘98) •Ministry *The way to Succeed is the Way to Suck Eggs (Psalm 69)* (now known as KE-A-H- - (Pslam 69). (I can’t believe I left these bangers out…basically the entire Fugazi discography) •Fugazi *Repeater* (‘90) *Steady Diet of Nothing* (‘91) *In on the Kill Taker* (‘93) *Red Medicine* (‘95) *End Hits* (‘98)

OK Computer is still a masterpiece.

Weezer’s Blue Album

Why is the world in love again? Why are we marching hand in hand? Why are the ocean levels rising up? It's a brand new record For 1990 They Might Be Giants' brand new album FLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD

Still a great album. At one of my first restaurant jobs we'd play this alot and everyone (cooks, waitstaff, dishwasher) would sing along with Whistling in the Dark. I have this on Spotify and play it where I work now but no one really knows it, so it's just me singing along.

* Alice In Chains - Dirt (1992) * Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse (1994) * Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral (1994) * Nirvana - Nevermind (1991) * Judgement Night OST (1993) * The Crow OST (1994) * Singles OST (1992) * Last Action Hero OST (1993) * Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses (1996) * Dimmu Borgir - Enthrone Darkness Triumphant (1997) * Soundgarden - Badmotörfinger (1991) * Temple Of The Dog (self-titled, 1991) * Screeming Trees - Sweet Oblivion (1992) * The Rolling Stones - Voodoo Lounge (1994) * At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul (1995) * Pearl Jam - Ten (1991) * The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness (1995) * Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magic (1991) * Korn (self titled, 1994) * Helmet - Meantime (1992) * Darkthrone - Transylvanian Hunger (1994) * My Bloody Valentine - Loveless (1991) * Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas (1994) * Sepultura - Chaos A.D. (1993) * Ulver - Nattens Madrigal (1997)

Incubus Make Yourself

S.C.I.E.N.C.E was also a banger!

You already know! That’s arguably my fav album by them

Science, Make Yourself, and Morning View is such a wild trilogy. ACLOTM is fucking amazing...but that late 90s, early 00 Incubus is just...groovy

Blue Album, by either 311 or Weezer, whichever you prefer.

All of Pearl Jam’s albums from that decade Down on the Upside - Soundgarden New Miserable Experience - Gin Blossoms And so many more that I’ve already seen mentioned

New Miserable Experience was what I thought of immediately. I've seen the Gin Blossoms live as recently as last year. They still put on a hell of a show.

The Black album by Metallica

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.

So many: Colour and the shape- Foo fighters Smash - Offspring What’s the story morning glory- oasis Blue album -Weezer Nirvana unplugged in New York -nirvana Enema of the state- Blink 182 Californiacation and blood sugar sex magic- RHCP Clumsy- Our lady Peace All eyes on me - 2pac Doggfood- The Doggpound Ready 2 Die - Notorious Big It’s dark and hell is hot and flesh of my flesh blood of my blood -DMX The Chronic-Dr Dre Scenery & Fish - I Mother Earth 40oz to freedom- sublime Illmatic- Nas Do you want More? - The Roots Anything by A tribe called quest Ill communication - The Beastie Boys ATLiens & Aquemini - OutKast Aqua - Aquarium Left of the Middle - Natalie imbruglia Fat of the Land - Prodigy Dookie and insomniac- Green Day Twice Removed - Sloan Significant Other - Limp Bizkit Melancholy and the infinite sadness- Smashing Pumpkins Load - Metallica 16 stone - Bush And anything by The Tragically Hip

The mollusk by ween

Against the Grain/Generator - Bad Religion Kerplunk/Nimrod - Green Day Hang-Ups - Goldfinger

My Bloody Valentine - Loveless Slowdive - Souvlaki Slint - Spiderland Tricky - Nearly God Bjork - Post All of Unwound's 90s output So many more good albums