Hey mate…just need a few amendments from you as per below.
Cheers
1990
2 - Divinyls - Divinyls (released 1991)
1 - Van Morrison - The Best of Van Morrison (no compilations/best ofs allowed)
1992
3 - Simple Minds - Glittering Prize (no compilations/best ofs allowed)
1 - ZZ Top - Greatest Hits (no compilations/best ofs allowed)
1997
3 - Midnight Oil - 20,000 Watt R.S.L (no compilations/best ofs allowed)
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1990
2 - The Pixies - Bossanova
1 - Midnight Oil - Blue Sky Mining
1992
3 - R.E.M - Automatic for the People
1 - The Wallflowers - The Wallflowers
1997
3 - John Fogarty - Blue Moon Swamp
Cheers
The irony about that selection from the 90s is that it probably had a lot to do with recency bias. The car dj (my daughter) is quite enamoured with that album and it has grown on me.
Did anyone consider stereolab? Heard a few songs of theirs recently but not an album.
1990
3 Depeche Mode - Violator
2 Midnight Oil - Blue Sky Mining
1 Alice in Chains - Facelift
1991
3 Rush - Roll The Bones
2 Queen - Innuendo
1 U2 - Achtung Baby
1992
3 Blind Melon
2 Barenaked Ladies - Gordon
1 REM - Automatic for the People
1993
3 Rush - Counterparts
2 Jamiroquai - Emergency on Planet Earth
1 Aimee Mann - Whatever
1994
3 Jamiroquai - Return of the Space Cowboy
2 Green Day - Dookie
1 Jeff Buckley - Grace
1995
3 Collective Soul (Blue album)
2 Blind Melon - Soup
1 Presidents of the United States of America
1996
3 Rush - Test for Echo
2 Dave Matthews Band - Crash
1 Incognito - Beneath the Surface
1997
3 Ben Folds Five - Whatever and Ever Amen
2 Collective Soul - Disciplined Breakdown
1 Radiohead - OK Computer
1998
3 The Superjesus - Sumo
2 Barenaked Ladies - Stunt
1 Dave Matthews Band - Before These Crowded Streets
1999
3 Ben Folds Five - The Unauthorised Biography of Reinhold Messner
2 Jamiroquai - Synkronized
1 Foo Fighters - There is Nothing Left to Lose
Tough to find a third album from a couple of these years.
You’d already given that the 3 votes 
Good call on Ben Folds Five.
Sorry to nitpick, but this was released in June 1989. Great album all the same.
Yep …google search shows it was released 20 June 1989.
Could you send through a replacement please @SeventeenthFlag
whoops, sorry, rushed the reply this morning before work 
AC/DC - Razors Edge
Gentle reminders for those of you who haven’t posted a 90s list yet:
@magicalcharlie
@saladin need to complete
@Touchedontheline
@wimmera1 need to complete
1990
3 Depeche Mode - Violator
2 The KLF - Chill Out
1 Jane’s Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual
1991
3 Massive Attack - Blue Lines
2 U2 - Achtung Baby
1 Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
1992
3 REM - Automatic for the People
2 Faith No More - Angel Dust
1 The Cure - Wish
1993
3 Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
2 Depeche Mode - Songs of Faith and Devotion
1 U2 - Zooropa
1994
3 Portishead - Dummy
2 Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
1 Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley
1995
3 Pulp - Different Class
2 Radiohead - The Bends
1 Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
1996
3 Tricky - Pre-Millennium Tension
2 REM - New Adventures in Hi-Fi
1 Weezer - Pinkerton
1997
3 Radiohead - OK Computer
2 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Boatman’s Call
1 Depeche Mode - Ultra
1998
3 Pulp - This Is Hardcore
2 Smashing Pumpkins - Adore
1 Air - Moon Safari
1999
3 XTC - Apple Venus Vol. 1
2 The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
1 Bonnie Prince Billy - I See A Darkness
Interesting some of the commentary about 1990; my three picks for that year are among my all-time favourite albums, and I also wanted to include selections from Sinead O’Connor, The La’s, Ride and Slayer. '91 and '94 had more great stuff than you could poke a stick at, but I struggled with several of these years, especially '93 and '95.
Depeche Mode is really an outlier for me… I’m generally not a fan of electronic music at all. But there’s three or four tunes on that album I still hear today and they hold up. It is certainly one of those albums in my collection that kinda looks odd sitting next to all my Rush and Steely Dan records.
I really do like that album, but unfortunately I spoiled the experience for myself.
I had copies of the Andy Partridge & Colin Moulding demos (from which the AV1 and Wasp Star songs came) for several years before the albums came out.
I’d lived with them, played them ad nauseum, digested and memorised every single note, discussed and dissected them on-line with other XTC devotees.
When the final products came out, the experience was… I dunno… jarring. It was more a case of hearing changes (where lyrics had been changed, where solos or backing vocals had been added), bemoaning what great songs in demo form had not been recorded etc than taking in the whole experience. Hell, even the different running order was difficult to get used to. As an example, I still reckon the Green Man demo is better than the final version (which overcooked it to the point where it sounds like Sting…)
I can listen to the albums now and acknowledge most songs were improved in their final form, but even 25 years later, they are still a somewhat problematic experience.
I vowed after that I would never listen to pre-release recordings ever again… I even try to avoid advance single releases.
respect
1991
3 U2 - Achtung! Baby
2 RHCP - BSSM
1 The Cruel Sea - This Is Not The Way Home
HMs : Woodface, Out of Time, Whirled, Pocket Full Of Kryptonite Ten.
1992
3 Madonna - Erotica
2 RATM - RATM
1 Faith No More - Angel Dust
1993
3 Counting Crows - August And Everything After
2 U2 - Zooropa
1 Neil Young - Unplugged
1994
3 Nirvana - Unplugged in New York
2 Natural Born Killers - OST
1 Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
1996
3 DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
2 The Eels - Beautiful Freak
1 Beck - Odelay
(very difficult year and I feel like I’ve forgotten someone or more than one someones)
1997
3 The Whitlams - Eternal Nightcap
2 Radiohead - OK Computer
1 Regurgitator - Unit
1998
3 Air - Moon Safari
2 Paul Kelly - Words and Music
1 Massive Attack - Mezzanine
1999
3 Randy Newman - Bad Love
2 Aimee Mann/OST - Magnolia
1 Robbie Williams - The Ego Has Landed
@swoodley There. Done.