The Great Blitz Album Survey...Favourite Albums Across The Years...The 90s

London Calling, Unknown Pleasures, Entertainment! and The Specials?

Bleach, Disintegration, Doolittle, Paul’s Boutique?

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Metal Box, Cut. Stone Roses.

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Aye, it’s your show man, we’re just living in it…

…lotta 70s talk here though…

Ready for the 1930s when you guys are.

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Lead Belly and Duke Ellington go allright.

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Machine Gun Etiquette.

70s it is then :slight_smile:

Don’t want to get picky but doesn’t Neu need an !?
Anyway here’s a later version of their signature tune, sort of tune that needs 2 drummers.

And here’s the original classic.

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Think The Killers nicked the intro to that in one of their tracks…

Yep… this one… pretty obvious when you hear the Neu! original…

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70s Thread is now up:

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That sure sounds like a Krautrock motorik beat. Not the only ones to dip into Neu! Lots of punk bands used it too.

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Get back to your covid riddled, toast crumb strewn sickbed…and work on your 70s list.

If you’re good, I’ll let you pick the next decade :grin:

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:smile::smile:

I have to make short term goals. The path towards 30 best albums of the 70’s begins by finding 1 first. I’ll see how i go after that.

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1990

3 Fear of a Black Planet- Public Enemy
2 Cowboys From Hell - Pantera
1 Ritual De Lo Habitual - Jane’s Addiction

1991

3 Nevermind - Nirvana
2 Metallica- Metallica
1 Ten - Pearl Jam

1992

3 RATM -RATM
2 Check Your Head - Beastie Boys
1 Body Count - Body Count

1993

3 Undertow - Tool
2 Black Sunday - Cypress Hill
1 In Utero - Nirvana

1994

3 Ill Communication- Beastie Boys
2 Superunknown - Sound Garden
1 MTV Unplugged in New York - Nirvana

1995

3 The Bends - Radiohead
2 King for a Day - FNM
1 Demanufacture - Fear Factory

1996

3 Aenima - Tool
2 Evil Empire - RATM
1 Murder Ballads - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

1997

3 OK Computer - Radiohead
2 Guide to Better Living - Grinspoon
1 Unit - Regurgitator

1998

3 Garage Inc. - Metallica
2 Hello Nasty - Beastie Boys
1 System of a Down - System of a Down

1999

3 The Battle of Los Angeles- RATM
2 Slipknot - Slipknot
1 Baby One More Time - Britney Spears

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We have quite a few similarities

I know that most of you won’t rate these, but here you go. Have included HMs, but only where I haven’t seen them mentioned earlier. (Yes, Nevermind would get a HM, but there’s no point listing it) In 1995 my HMs ran to about 10 albums so I just left it out. This is my list, and some of these albums I can’t listen to, except for a shot of nostalgia in 2025, but at the time they were meaningful, while others I have grown to love now. There is no rhyme nor reason as to why I’ve listed albums from either side of that divide. Anyway, here you go …

1990
3 – They Might be Giants - Flood
2- The Breeders - Pod
1 – Midnight Oil - Blue Sky Mining

1991
3 – Clouds - Penny Century
2- REM - Out of Time
1 – Frente – Whirled (EP)
HM: Headless Chickens - Body Blow (although I have the 93 version), Yothu Yindi – Tribal Voice

1992

3 – PJ Harvey - Dry
2- Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted
1 – Frente - Marvin

1993

3 – The Breeders - Last Splash
2- PJ Harvey - Rid of Me
1 – Belly - Star
HM: Bjork – Debut

1994

3 – Pavement - Crooked rain crooked rain
2- Portishead - Dummy
1 – Liz Phair - Whip-Smart
HM: The Simpletons EPs Smother & Nod had enough good tracks to make a great album

1995

3 – PJ Harvey – To Bring You my Love
2- Tricky – Maxinquaye
1 – Garbage – Garbage
HM: too many to list

1996

3 – Sleater Kinney – Call the Doctor
2- Beck - Odelay
1 – Fiona Apple - Tidal
HM: DJ Shadow – Endtroducing

1997

3 – Ani DiFranco – Living in Clip (Live)
2- Ben Harper – The Will to Live
1 – The Lucksmiths – A Good Kind of Nervous

1998

3 – Ani DiFranco – Little Plastic Castle
2- Billy Bragg and Wilco – Mermaid Avenue
1 – Belle and Sebastian – The Boy with the Arab Strap
HM : Air - Moon Safari, Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, Cat Power - Moon Pix, Ping - abcde

1999

3 – Fiona Apple – When the Pawn…
2- Lamb – Fear of Fours
1 – Sleater Kinney – The Hot Rock

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Also a late HM for Magic Dirt - Friends in Danger (1996)

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@frosty asked me to send you this on his behalf…

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1990

3 - Midnight Oil - Blue Sky Mining
2 - Divinyls - Divinyls
1 - Van Morrison - The Best of Van Morrison

1991

3 - Nirvana - Nevermind
2 - Pearl Jam - Ten
1 - Screaming Jets - All For One

1992

3 - Simple Minds - Glittering Prize
2 - Hunters & Collectors - Cut
1 - ZZ Top - Greatest Hits

1993

3 - Nirvana - In Utero
2 - Lenny Kravitz - Are You Gunna Go My Way
1 - Aerosmith - Get a Grip

1994

3 - Rolling Stones - Voodoo Lounge
2 - The Beatles - Live at the BBC
1 - Pearl Jam - Vitalogy

1995

3 - Everclear - Sparkle and Fade
2 - Oasis - Morning Glory
1 - Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill

1996

3 - Wallflowers - Bringing Down the Horse
2 - Pearl Jam - No Code
1 - Rage Against the Machine - Evil Empire

1997

3 - Midnight Oil - 20,000 Watt R.S.L
2 - Faith No More - Album of the Year
1 - Bob Dylan - Time Out of Mind

1998

3 - Bob Dylan - Bootleg Series 4
2 - Hole - Celebrity Skin
1 - Offspring - Americana

1999

3 - Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Californication
2 - Blur - 13
1 - Santana - Supernatural

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