Pretty sure I have three soundtracks in my nineties list…
Have you finished your 90s list yet Sal?
Anyone use any specific websites to help them compile their lists? Or did you just go through your collections?
I have an extensive list of (almost) every album I’ve ever listened to.
I found this site a while back that has a lot of info:
https://www.albumoftheyear.org/
Just click on the “Best Albums” tab and it will give you albums by year.
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Googling “albums from ____” gives you notable albums from the year, not necessarily critically acclaimed, but big artists and big sellers too. It will leave out a lot of solid Aussie releases though.
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Back in the day I liked doing an album or 2 a drive to and from uni and work. At the time Rolling Stones 500, https://www.metacritic.com/music and https://www.besteveralbums.com
Wikipedia has a page for every year titled: “19xx in music.” Which includes a list of albums released.
Eg, go here, and there’s a link to the other years of 80s up top:
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Not yet. I’ll see if I can knock it out today / tonight.
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1990.
3 - Facelift - AIC
2- Blue Sky Mining- Oils
1 - Apple - Mother Love Bone
(three votes would easily be Mixed Up, The Cure but fails the compilation rule?)
1991
3 - Damn Right I’ve got the Blues - Buddy Guy.
2- Ten - Pearl Jam
1 - Use Your Illusion II - GnR
De La Soul is dead was so close for 1 vote.
1992
3 - Dirt - Alice In Chains
2- The Southern Harmony and… - The Black Crowes
1 - Wish - The Cure
Note - Singles Soundtrack would be #2 if it qualifies?
1993
3 - Vs - Pearl Jam
2- Songs from the Rain - Hothouse Flowers
1 - Everybody else is doing it - Cranberries
1994
3 - Superunknown - Soundgarden
2- No Need to Argue - Cranberries
1 -Definitely Maybe - Oasis
1995
3 -Garbage - Garbage
2- Melloncollie…Smashing Pumpkins
1 - Edges of Twilight - The Tea Party
1996
3 - Down on the Upside - Soundgarden
2- Unplugged - Alice in Chains
1 - Aenima - Tool
1997
3 - Urban Hymms - The Verve
2- Senōr Blues - Taj Mahal
1 - Transmission - The Tea Party
1998
3 -Yield - Pearl Jam
2- Americana - The Offspring
1 - Boggy Depot - Jerry Cantrell
1999
3 - Euphoria Morning - Chris Cornell
2- Unplugged - The Corrs
1 - Triptych - The Tea Party
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I love how peoples tastes are diverse and at times incomprehensible
Rock, Grunge, Grunge, Rock …The Corrs unplugged
Everyone’s lists have something similar, and I love it!
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Soundtracks qualify…so Singles gets the 3, Dirt gets 2 and The Southern Harmony gets 1?
My interpretation was Dirt retained the 3 votes?
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Dirt stays at the top. Southern Harmony moves to 1. Wish drops off. ( sorry Robert. But don’t worry. You’re already penned in for the 80’s when I get to them) .
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Yeah, the Little Wing version in that gig is probably my favourite cover of anything, by anyone.
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Cheers.
Also nice work with The Tea Party albums…although you missed Splendor Solis (which with The Interzone Mantras) is one of the top two albums (imo).
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I have it, of course. But for most years there are plenty that miss out on top 3.
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The interesting thing about the 90’s list for me is that it’s mostly contemporary to the time, with a couple of retrospective inclusions from now. It - and the early 2000’s - is also the decade I began to lose Grandparents , was young angry , frustrated, sad, excited, obsessed, lusting , riding motorcycles, on the ■■■■ all the time, blah blah , the usual. I was all over the place and took music from any genre that took my fancy. And I was a Dad by the end of 2000. That decade was crazy.
When I do the eighties, that ratio will likely be much more even - I was very early teens- and when I get to the 70’s it will at best be formed by listening patterns generally no closer than 10 years, I suspect. But a warning, it’ll take some time to get them out. Back at work now and flat out again.
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Ok. It took me a bit to make a start on this and much more to get through it. I went with what are my personal favs rather than what I think are the best albums. I’d happily concede there are better albums in some of these years but they do not get the repeat plays that these get from me.
The 90’s
1990
3 - Entombed- Left hand path
2- Sonic Youth - Goo
1 - Depeche mode - Violator
1991
3 - Guns’n’Roses - Use your illusion 2
2- Pearl Jam - Ten
1 - Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
1992
3 - Pantera - Vulgar display of power
2- Alice in chains - Dirt
1 - Stone temple pilots - Core
1993
3 - Wu Tang clan - Enter the 36 chambers
2- PJ Harvey - Rid of me
1 - Earth Crisis - Firestorm
1994
3 - Sick of it all - Scatch the Surface
2- Green day - Dookie
1 - Soundgarden - Superunknown
1995
3 - White Zombie - Astrocreep 2000
2- At the gates - Slaughter of the soul
1 - Rancid - …and out come the wolves
1996
3 - Local H - As good as dead
2- Fountains of Wayne - Fountains of Wayne
1 - Converge - Petitioning the empty sky
1997
3 - Lagwagon - Double plaidnum
2- No use for a name - Making friends
1 - Hatebreed - Satisfaction is the death of desire
1998
3 - Black star - Mos def and Talib Kweli are black star
2- Rancid - Life wont wait
1 - Refused - The shape of punk to come
1999
3 - Prayer for cleansing - Rain in endless fall
2- No use for a name - More betterness
1 - Posion the well - The opposite of December
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That’s what this is all about…favourite albums 
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I never had the album, but had a 3 track EP with Bound For The Floor and Fritz’s Corner on it, and both those songs are absolute bangers. To add an Essendon flavour, the singer’s name is Scott Lucas.
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