That’s my 1996, then 1997 comes back strong.
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Something along the lines of…
1990
3- Violator - Depeche Mode
2- Flood - They Might Be Giants
1- Bossanova - Pixies
HM’s- Self-titled - The La’s, Facelift - Alice In Chains, Goodbye Jumbo - World Party
1991
3- Trompe Le Monde - Pixies
2- Nevermind - Nirvana
1- Astronauts - The Lilac Time
HM’s: Achtung Baby - U2, Gish - Smashing Pumpkins, Kinky - Hoodoo Gurus, Penny Century - The Clouds
1992
3- Copper Blue - Sugar
2- Wish - The Cure
1- Nonsuch - XTC
HM’s: Dirt - Alice In Chains, Little Earthquakes - Tori Amos, Apollo 18 - They Might Be Giants, Free For All - Michael Penn
1993
3- Troublegum - Therapy?
2- Laid - James
1- Modern Life Is Rubbish - Blur
HM’s: Dusk - The The, Frosting On The Beater - The Posies, Siamese Dream - Smashing Pumpkins, Spilt Milk - Jellyfish, Together Alone - Crowded House
1994
3- Blue Album - Weezer
2- Parklife - Blur
1- Superunknown - Soundgarden
HM’s: Grace - Jeff Buckley, Dookie - Green Day, Dummy - Portishead, Reality Bites OST - Various Artists
1995 (a lowpoint of the decade, personally and musically, but what-a-3-voter!!)
3- The Bends - Radiohead
2- Mellon Collie… - Smashing Pumpkins
1- Sing To God - Cardiacs
HM: King For A Day… - Faith No More, Hifi Way - You Am I, Covered In Bruises EP - Big Heavy Stuff, Self-titled - Garbage
1996
3- In A Bar Under The Sea - dEUS
2- Amazing Disgrace - The Posies
1- Aenima - Tool
HM’s: Beautiful Freak - Eels, Self-titled - Fountains Of Wayne, Pinkerton - Weezer,
Unplugged - Alice In Chains, Future Spa - The Fauves, 1977 - Ash
1997
3- OK Computer - Radiohead
2 - Maximum Sincere - Big Heavy Stuff
1 - The Mollusk - Ween
HM’s: Guide To Better Living - Grinspoon, Self-titled - Blur, Nimrod - Green Day, Signify - Porcupine Tree
1998
3 - Jesus Hits Like The Atom Bomb - Tripping Daisy
2- Head Trip In Every Key - Superdrag
1- XO - Elliott Smith
HM’s: Almost Here - Unbelievable Truth, Lazy Highways - The Fauves, Electroshock Blues - Eels, , Gran Turismo - Cardigans, The Last Dog & Pony Show - Bob Mould, Semi-Detached - Therapy?, The Welcome Storm - Bzark, Much Against Everyone’s Advice - Soulwax
1999
3 - The Ideal Crash - dEUS
2- Utopia Parkway - Fountains of Wayne
1 - Daisies Of The Galaxy - Eels
HM’s- Apple Venus 1 - XTC, Millionaires - James, Easy - Grinspoon
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Daft punk first album?
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‘94 is a hell of a year but no one going with Jeff Buckley?
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I’ve got half a dozen ‘94 albums that can’t reach the podium but would be #1 in ‘96
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This is the year, man.
What a time to be alive!
Euroboy joins Turbonegro, and they put out one of the greatest Rock’n Roll Albums of all time.
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1990
3 - Ride - Nowhere
2 - Bad Religion - Against The Grain
1 - Fugazi - Repeater
1991
3 - My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
2 - Nirvana - Nevermind
1 - Swervedriver - Raise
1992
3 - Buffalo Tom - Let Me Come Over
2 - Sugar - Copper Blue
1 - Faith No More - Angel Dust
1993
3 - Archers Of Loaf - Icky Mettle
2 - Swervedriver - Mezcal Head
1 - Slowdive - Souvlaki
1994
3 - Weezer - Weezer (blue)
2 - Jawbox - For Your Own Special Sweetheart
1 - Jawbreaker - 24 Hour Revenge Therapy
1995
3 - Supergrass - I Should Coco
2 - Pulp - Different Class
1 - Jawbreaker - Dear You
1996
3 - Mineral - The Power Of Failing
2 - Ash - 1977
1 - Modest Mouse - This Is A Long Drive…
1997
3 - Built To Spill - Perfect From Now On
2 - Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West
1 - The Promise Ring - Nothing Feels Good
1998
3 - Melt-Banana - Charlie
2 - Refused - The Shape Of Punk To Come
1 - Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
1999
3 - Built To Spill - Keep It Like A Secret
2 - Jimmy Eat World - Clarity
1 - The Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I
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Honourable mentions are such a cop out.
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Just giving credit where it’s due…
I’m a child of the 60s so the 90s is a foreign country to me. But with this and Spotify I’m impressed. Also I found You Am I 25 years after the fact but how fkn good were they live???!
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I get it, but that’s half the task. Leaving out albums you really, really don’t want to.
I had no Blur on the list, despite being top 4 or 5 on the list for 94 and 97.
Plus, I reckon I could do a 3-2-1 for every month of 1994 and it’d still be tough.
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See, if chumpires gave HM’s you could see where the votes should have been going, instead of farking Cripps…
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1991 is…impossible.
But I’ll do it.
Have to, to move on…
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I reckon I’ve listened to about 8 of those albums. So for the sake of diversity, I’m gonna try a few of the others. I kicked off with Archers Of Loaf. Track 1 good. Next few have been a bit 
. This could be quite the mission.
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1990
3 - Ragged Glory - Neil Young & Crazy Horse
2 - Ritual De Lo Habitual - Jane’s Addiction
1 - Bossanova - Pixies
1991
3 - Nevermind - Nirvana
2 - Weld - Neil Young & Crazy Horse
1 - Blood Sugar Sex Magik - RHCP
1992
3 - The Chronic - Dr Dre
2 - RATM - RATM
1 - Automatic For The People - REM
1993
3 - In Utero - Nirvana
2 - Siamese Dream - Smashing Pumpkins
1 - Vs - Pearl Jam
1994
3 - Ready To Die - Biggie
2 - Dookie - Green Day
1 - Korn - Korn
1995
3 - Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness - Smashing Pumpkins
2 - Me Against The World - 2Pac
1 - What’s The Story Morning Glory - Oasis
1996
3 - Fashion Nugget - Cake
2 - Ænema - Tool
1 - All Eyez On Me - 2Pac
1997
3 - Life After Death - Biggie
2 - Whatever And Ever Amen - Ben Folds Five
1 - Blur - Blur
1998
3 - You’ve Come A Long Way, Baby - Fatboy Slim
2 - Follow The Leader - Korn
1 - Hello Nasty - Beastie Boys
1999
3 - Californication - RHCP
2 - Enema Of The State - Blink 182
1 - 2001 - Dr. Dre
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I have gaps but man, 1990 is a vast desolate sonic wasteland for me…
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1990
3-Goo - Sonic Youth
2-Wishlist - Falling Joys
1-Yummy - Hardons
1991
3-Nevermind - Nirvana
2- Achtung Baby - U2
1-Greenmind - Dinosaur Jnr
1992
3- Dirty - Sonic Youth
2- Its a shame about ray - Lemonheads
1- Dry - PJ Harvey
1993
3-Where you been - Dinosaur Jnr
2-Last splash - Breeders
1-Sound as ever - You am i
1994
3-Ill communication - Beastie boys
2-Monster - REM
1-Dream it down - Underground lovers
1995
3 - HiFiWay - You am i
2- Mellon Collie - Smashing Pumpkins
1-Elastica - Elastica
1996
3-Odelay - Beck
2- Among my swan - Mazzy Star
1-Rushall station - Underground lovers
1997
3-Showworld - Redd Kross
2-Boatmans Call - Nick Cave
1-Blur - Blur
1998
3- Is this desire - PJ Harvey
2-Moon Safari - Air
1-Celebrity Skin - Hole
1999
3- 13 - Blur
2- White Stripes - White Stripes
1- Surrender - Chemical brothers
Enjoyed that. 92/96/98 were my thin years. 91/93/94/97 were tough deciding on the final 3.
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I don’t know about other genres, maybe it was a golden age of US punk, I seriously wouldn’t know.
But for pop rock, particularly in this country, it’s the death throes of Farnsy/Barnesy/Diesel.
It’s MC Hammer.
Roxette and Milli Vanilli and Michael Bolton and also Hair Metal doing ballads.
It’s dire, and 1991 had to happen and couldn’t come quickly enough.
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Don’t do it to yourself. I’m not gonna listen to yours.
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It was also the era of “baggy” from the UK.
You know, that electro-clash pop-rock… think Jesus Jones, EMF, Happy Mondays, Soup Dragons, Inspiral Carpets, The Beloved, Carter USM, Pop Will Eat Itself, BAD II etc. A bunch of blokes wearing oversize clothes and sporting brushed-foward Caesar haircuts. A few nice singles in there, but fark me… most of it was bloody awful. Music for popping disco biscuits, but absolutely shithouse when listened to sober…