Phew. It was already wearing thin.
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1990 (desolate wasteland)
3 - Blue Sky Mining - Midnight Oil
2 - Heaven or Las Vegas - Cocteau Twins
1 - The Good Son - Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
1991 (Loveless is a monument for me)
3 - Loveless - My Bloody Valentine
2 - Leisure - Blur
1 - Woodface - Crowded House
1992 (a good vintage)
3 - Angel Dust - Faith No More
2 - Automatic For The People - REM
1 - Hit To Death In The Future Head - The Flaming Lips
1993 (Aus albums I got back to when into the bands as a teen)
3 - Shashavaglava - Spiderbait
2 - Sound As Ever - You Am I
1 - The Honeymoon Is Over - The Cruel Sea
1994 (amazing year I had very little idea was happening because I was listening to Fox FM)
3 - Grace - Jeff Buckley
2 - Dummy - Portishead
1 - Weezer - Weezer
1995 (The Bends is huge)
3 - The Bends - Radiohead
2 - The Unfinished Spanish Galleon of Finley Lake - Spiderbait
1 - Fight For Your Mind - Ben Harper
1996 (13 years old me first getting into music)
3 - Ivy & The Big Apples - Spiderbait
2 - Odelay - Beck
1 - Tigermilk - Belle & Sebastian
1997 (#1 album ever for me + some formative Aus Gold)
3 - OK Computer - Radiohead
2 - Slightly Odway - Jebediah
1 - Unit - Regurgitator
1998 (we were feasting and we didn’t know it)
3 - Internationalist - Powderfinger
2 - Queens of The Stone Age - Queens of The Stone Age
1 - You Am I’s #4 Record - You Am I
1999 (festival going era dawns for me)
3 - Showbiz - Muse
2 - The Soft Bulletin - The Flaming Lips
1 - Summerteeth - Wilco
fun exercise thanks @swoodley
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Absolutely concur.
Right Here Right Now is killer.
Heh. Just looked it up and Ned’s is ‘91.
But yeah, cracking singles, no albums.
Maaaaaybe I could have found room for Pills Thrills, but nah.
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Good Son is a good shout.
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Something interesting I noticed is that only 3 of my number 1s are albums I discovered and loved in the year of release, with 1992 being the earliest when I was 16 (Buffalo Tom), followed by others when I’d reached my 20s (Built To Spill). Others I had to discover and understand how good they were after the fact.
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I’m usually years too late.
Edit: Nothing’s Shocking probably took me…20 years?
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Yes sir 
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Over half of mine are being enjoyed in retrospect if Im honest. Especially the early part of the decade. I was 14 in 1993 and I can say without hesitation The Jerky Boys was without doubt my favourite album at the time…not sure they’ll make the cut here though.
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Gents.
Greatest album of all time.
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Im aggressivly hungover and Mrs Dogga has agreed to drive home from Hepburn Springs. What a legend…
This exercise has taken up most of the drive and my mind off the hangover. Way harder than I thought.
Sorry 1990…you failed to get a look in at all…
1990
3 - I
2- Got
1 - Nothin
1991
3 - Wretch - Kyuss
2- Apocalypse 91 - Public Enemy
1 - Nevermind - Nirvana
1992
3 - Blues For the Red Sun Kyuss
2- Sleeps Holy Mountain - Sleep
1 - The Predator - Ice Cube
1993
3 - Doggystyle - SnoopDogg
2- Sound As Ever - You Am I
1 - The Nashville Sessions - Townes Van Zandt
1994
3 - Too Bad Jim - RL Burnside
2- Chocolate and Cheese - Ween
1 - Welcome To Sky Valley - Kyuss
1995
3 - Hi Fi Way - You Am I
2- Wiesenhiemer - Custard
1 - Orange - Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
1996
3 - Now I Got Worry - Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
2- 12 Country Golden Greats Ween
1 - In Search Of - Fu Manchu
1997
3 - Most Things Haven’t Worked Out - Junior Kimbrough
2- The Action is Go - Fu Manchu
1 - The Mollusk - Ween
1998
3 - Let it Burn - Nebula
2- QOTSA Self Titled (man they suck now…this is such a great record)
1 - Silky - Andre Williams
1999
3 - Top To Center - Nebula
2- Red Dirt - Andre Williams
1 - Mule Variations - Tom Waits
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Some of my favourites right there.
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Phew…this is a bigger task than I thought it would.
Could I ask that voters (from now on) post their choices with Band Name first…and then the album.
It’s how I’m entering the data into my spreadsheet so will make it a lot easier to do.
Thanks 
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1990
3 - Charmed Life - Billy Idol
2 - Blue Sky Mine - Midnight Oil
1 - Recycler - ZZ Top
1991
3 - Metallica - Metallica
2 - Ten - Pearl Jam
1 - Divinyls - Divynils
1992
3 - Dirt - Alice In Chains
2 - Wish - The Cure
1 - Welcome To Wherever You Are - INXS
1993
3 - Earth and Sun and Moon - Midnight Oil
2 - Wild Wood - Paul Weller
1 - Undertow - Tool
1994
3 - Jar of Flies - Alice In Chains
2 - Dummy - Portishead
1 - Sixteen Stone - Bush
1995
3 - Garbage - Garbage
2 - Mellon Collie… - Smashing Pumpkins
1 - The Bends - Radiohead
1996
3 - Placebo - Placebo
2 - Breathe - Midnight Oil
1 - Fashion Nugget - Cake
1997
3 - Still Waters - Bee Gees
2 - Ok Computer - Radiohead
1 - Album of the Year - Faith No More
1998
3 - Version 2.0 - Garbage
2 - Susan Tedeschi - Just Won’t Burn
1 - Redneck Wonderland
1999
3 - Californication - Red Hot Chilli Peppers
2 - Easy - Grinspoon
1 - Showbiz - Muse
oops, just saw your previous post!
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I seriously love your passion.
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The first gulf war being televised on TV in must of had an impact on art. What an incredible year of music.
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The simplicity of basically having one repeating chord in the intro, and most of the verse, in Regular John was amazing. Agreed, how the once mighty have fallen.
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Breath was '96
Did you mean ‘Earth and Sun and Moon’ ?
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OK I’m skewing away from grunge to give some other genres their due
1990
3 - Depech Mode - Violator
2- The KLF - chill out
1 - 12th Man - 12th Man again 
1991
3 -The KLF - White Room
2- The Orb - Adventure beyond the Ultraworld
1 - A tribe called quest - low end theory
1992
3 - RATM - untitled
2- Prodigy - Experience
1 Aphex Twin - selected ambient works
1993
3 - Wu Tang Clan - Enter the Wu Yang
2- Bjork - Debut
1 - Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese dream
1994
3 - Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation
2- Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman
1 - Portiahead - Dummy
1995
3 - Leftfield - Leftsim
2-Oasis - what’s the story
1 - Smashing Pumpkins - infinite collie
1996
3 - Tool - aenema
2- DJ Shadow - Entroducing
1 - Sasha and Digweed - Northern Exposure
1997
3 - Prodigy -Fat of the land
2- Radiohead - OK computer
1 - Chemical Brothers - Dig your own hole
1998
3 - Massive Attack - Mezzanine
2- Unkle - Pysience Fiction
1 - Air - Moon Safari
1999
3 - Sigur Ros - *Ágætis byrjun
2- Chemical Brothers - Surrender
1 - Mos Def - Black on both sides.
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Hey mate…Achtung Baby was released in November 1991.
Please amend
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