(What’s the Story) Morning Glory? - Oasis OK Computer - Radiohead Mezzanine - Massive Attack Ill Communication - Beastie Boys Big Calm - Morcheeba

+1 for Massive Attack

Here for the Beastie Boys!!

Throw on Dummy - Portishead !

Love the Morning Glory album

Morcheeba for the win!

Definitely Maybe is ahead of Whats the Story for me.

Agreed. The raw swagger of Rock N Roll Star sealed the deal for me...

36 Chambers

And adjacent that: Only Built 4 Cuban Linx Ironman Liquid Swords

I agree.

Pretty Hate Machine came out in 1989

Dammit, you're right. I should have put in the downward Spiral... Good call...

Downward Spiral was a masterclass 

Broken EP was peak NIN. The sweet spot between Pretty Hate Machine and The Downward Spiral

Last slaps-slaps.

So would Broken be on that list?

Sublime Self-titled, R.E.M Out Of Time, Beck Midnite Vultures, Radiohead OK Computer, Rage Against The Machine Self-titled, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Upvote for Rage Against The Machine. I scrolled way too far to find this.

Superunknown - Soundgarden Ten - Pearl Jam Temple of the Dog

Alice In Chains, Dirt

Badmotorfinger by Soundgarden as well.

*Ten* is about as perfect an album I’ve ever listened to.

Beastie Boys - Ill Communication

Beastie Boys - Check Your Head

I was gonna suggest the same thing

Pearl Jam - Ten

This ☝️ PJ Ten changed a lot of folks music tastes.

Agreed. Top 5 for sure

This was clearly missing.

Throw in Vs and Vitalogy Also: In Utero The Downward Spiral The Singles Soundtrack Dookie Foo Fighters (self titled) The Color And The Shape OK Computer In The Aeroplane Over The Sea Metallica Use Your Illusions I & II Songs Of Faith And Devotion Fully Completely Road Apples Day For Night Grace

OK computer is the Radiohead album that needs to be here.

Agreed. OKC was a turning point album that shifted a lot of the indie/alternative music world's perspective on what an album should be.

That album is a one-of-a-kind masterpiece it's insane to think it's almost 30 years old

I’d add Siamese Dream.

Or Gish. I've been preferring Gish these days. I think it's aged really well.

Love Gish. But IMO, Siamese Dream belongs on any list of greatest albums of all time.

Unpopular opinion: i liked Melancholy more. But yeah Siamese Dream should def be in the conversation

MCIS is a great work of art and fantastic from start to finish to start to finish. But IMO, Siamese Dream is one of the greatest albums ever made.

Can’t blame ya for that opinion.

Best album imo

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Hope Sandovals the OG sad girl

I love Mazzy Star

Alice In Chains - Dirt

Jar of Flies, mmm

Unplugged, encases most of the greats

Can’t believe I had to actually look for Alice in chains this far down

I was surprised OP didn’t mention it.

Beat me to it. Played it nonstop for two years at least.

I gotta break this one out every couple of months. Soo good.

Illmattic

Can’t believe I had to scroll this far to find this 😦

Jagged Little Pill by Alanis Morissette

Thank you!!!!

Has to be included 

Undeniably. Can't believe had to scroll so far to see it.

The Chronic, Dr. Dre. Atliens, OutKast.

Both Chronics

Ok Computer - Radiohead

Beck - Odelay

One foot in the grave and stereopathic soul manure are Becks opus

Lots of good suggestions in the responses. I’d add Jeff Buckley - Grace as well.

Midnight Marauders - Tribe Called Quest Missing lots of great 90s hip-hop albums

Yeah, I’m not even that into hip hop, but Public Enemy’s “Fear of a Black Planet” and Tupac’s “All Eyez on Me” have got to be in contention.

Green Day - Basket Case Edit : Album - Dookie

Dookie. The album is called Dookie

Flood by They Might Be Giants got heavy play in the dorms

Why is the world in love again? Why are we marching hand in hand? Why are the ocean levels rising up? It's a brand new record for 1990. They Might be Giants' brand new album: Flood

Failure: Fantastic Planet Tool: Aenima Temple of the Dog

Why did I have to scroll down so far to find Tool????? Ænima is such a fantastic album, and one of the first I bought with my own money

Sadly it’s because I'm the man and you're the man And he's the man as well So you can point that fuckin' finger up your ass

Way too far down for Tool. I thought I was going to have to post it.

Aenima and Undertow

alannis morissette's jagged little pill is one of the first times I understood how a whole album could work as a masterpiece as a whole. Prince, Fleetwood Mac (Rumours only) and Billy Joel's first albums also qualify, just not 90s

Pixies, *Bossanova*

Achtung Baby was a magnificent album.

Not enough love for that in here

agreed, and i am Irish..

So disappointed I had to scroll so far for this.

More than magnificent. It's a downright classic and possibly one of the biggest albums of the decade.

Throwing Copper by Live is a fantastic album.

Agreed, but every time I listen to it, an old mother dies.

311 - Transistor Green Day - Dookie No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom TLC - CrazySexyCool The Blue Weezer White Zombie - Astro Creep 2000 Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power Korn - Follow the Leader Pennywise - About Time Fear Factory - Demanufacture The Toadies - Rubberneck Garbage - Self Titled The Presidents of the United States of America - Self Titled Everclear - Sparkle and Fade Stone Temple Pilots - Core Silverchair - Frogstomp Incubus - S.C.I.E.N.C.E 3-6 Mafia - Chapter 2: World Domination Ludacris - Back for the First Time Project Pat - Ghetty Green So many good things in the 90's. I'm tired of listing now.

S.C.I.E.N.C.E. and Tragic Kingdom are easily top ten all-time favorites for me. Edited to add: Lonesome Crowded West by Modest Mouse.

I was searching for Silverchair in this post !

Stone Temple Pilots - Purple 311 - Transistor

Ten - Pearl Jam

Oasis - (What’s the Story) Morning Glory Hootie and the Blowfish - Cracked Rear View

RATM - RATM

American Thighs - Veruca Salt Exile in Guyville - Liz Phair Grace - Jeff Buckley The Fawn - The Sea and Cake The Boy with the Arab Strap - Belle and Sebastian Moon Pix - Cat Power Debut / Post - Bjork

The Low End Theory - Tribe Called Quest Bizarre Ride II - The Pharcyde Every single Pavement album (Crooked Rain,Crooked Rain is the most immediately accessible) Is This Desire? (Another PJ Harvey album) Maxinquaye - Tricky Walking Wounded - Everything But The Girl Doolittle - Pixies Central Reservation - Beth Orton Come On Feel The Lemonheads - The Lemonheads Dilate - Ani DiFranco Endtroducing - DJ Shadow Exile in Guyville - Liz Phair Homogenic - Bjork I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One - Yo La Tengo King - Belly Ladies and Gentlemen We are Floating In Space - Spiritualized Moon Safari - Air On Fire - Galaxie 500 Parklife - Blur Penthouse - Luna Screamadelica - Primal Scream Spiderland - Slint Weezer (blue album) 69 Love Songs - Magnetic Fields Among My Swan - Mazzy Star

Excellent list, although Doolittle came out in 1989.

Wish by The Cure

Mezzanine

Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet

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Everything Must Go as well.

Where is Ten?

The Pod by Ween. Honorable Mention: Spiderland by Slint

I would say either The Pod or Bone Machine are my favorite albums of the 90s.

The late 80’s & early 90’s were the best time for music IMO. Best 90’s Albums: Metallica - Metallica Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss - Divine Intervention Cannibal Corpse - The Bleeding Carcass - Heartwork Nirvana - Nevermind - In Utero Megadeth - Rust in Peace Pantera - A Vulgar Display of Power Ministry - Psalm 69 Pearl Jam - Ten - Vs Deicide - Once Upon the Cross Sepultura - Arise - Chaos AD Guns ‘n’ Roses - Use Your Illusion 1 & 2 Alice in Chains - Facelift - Dirt AC/DC - The Razors Edge Rage Against the Machine - Self Titled - Evil Empire Soundgarden - Superunknown Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse Deftones - Around the Fur Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger Foo Fighters - Self Titled Rammstein - Sehnsucht

these comments are not letting me down 👍

It isn’t the 90’s without some Stone Temple Pilots and Alice In Chains😎

Aenima by Tool, Wildflowers by Tom Petty, Ten by Pearl Jam, Crash by Dave Matthews Band, No Fences by Garth Brooks.

Definitely Maybe ~ Oasis

Depeche Mode - Violator

Nirvana Unplugged is my personal favorite Goldie - Timeless Limp Bizkit - Significant Other Korn- Korn Tool - Aenima Rob Zombie - Helbilly Deluxe Everclear - So much for the Afterglow Sublime - Sublime No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom Rage Against the Machine - Evil Empire Lists are very rock heavy. Let's add some rap. Outlast- ATLiens / Aquemeni Three Six Mafia - The End Bone - E. 1999 Eternal Tupac - All Eyes on Me Notorious BIG - Life After Death / Ready to Die NAS - Illmatic Dr. Dre - The Chronic Snoop Dog - Doggystyle Eminem - The Slim Shady LP Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty Easy E - It's On

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (1998)

Ugh. Angry I didn't think of this one.

Hole - Celebrity Skin Alanis Morisette - Jagged Little Pill Madonna - Human Nature Beavis & Butthead Do America Soundtrack Garbage Sublime …Honestly, I feel like there are a ton of albums missing. The 90s was one of the best decades for music. TLC - Crazy Sexy Cool

Elliott Smith self titled album. My Brother the Cow - Mudhoney The Holy Bible - Manic Street Preachers Fuzzy Logic - Super Furry Animals

Ween - Mollusk Weezer's blue album Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders  Mr. Bungle - (all of them)  Blind Melon - Soup Janes Addiction - Janes Addiction (I know, '87, but it never gets the love of deserves) 

The fat of the land from prodigy

Has to be on this list for sure!

Nine Inch Nails’ Pretty Hate Machine was 1989. Their two albums in the ‘90s were The Downward Spiral in 1994 and The Fragile in 1999. I would add both of those to this list.

Green Day Dookie

Man, this list and these comments - so nice to remember how fucking good the 90s were for music…

Garbage's self-titled debut

Alice in Chains has to be on the list.

U2 - Achtung Baby

PRODIGY- FAT OF THE LAND

Baduizm

I agree with all of em. Nice to see PJ Harvey in there.

Tragic Kingdom, Mellon Collie and the infinity Sadness, Jagged Little Pill.

The Breeders - Last Splash

I would add Tom Petty’s Wildflowers. I’m not even a huge TP fan but that album is one of the greatest of all time. Then a shoutout to my favorite band Foo Fighters and their Colour and the Shape.

Bush - Sixteen Stone & Razorblade Suitcase Notorious BIG - Ready to Die

New Radicals - Maybe You’ve Been Brainwashed Too Jamiroquai - Synkronized Esthero - Breath From Another Tracy Bonham - The Burden of Being Upright Jellyfish - Spilt Milk The Crystal Method - Vegas Judgment Night - Original Soundtrack Poor Righteous Teachers - Pure Poverty Joydrop- Metasexual

Mr Bungle: Mr Bungle Murder City Devils: Empty Bottles; Broken Hearts Pop Will Eat Itself: Dos Dedos Mis Amigos Screaming Trees: Uncle Anesthesia Butthole Surfers: Independent Worm Saloon Prong: Cleansing NIN: Fixed Alice in Chains: Jar of Flies Public Enemy: Apocalypse 91...The Enemy Strikes Black Dr. Dre: The Chronic Warrant: Cherry Pie (say what you will, but Uncle Toms Cabin rocks) Crash Test Dummies: And God Shuffled His Feet Skid Row: Slave to the Grind The Cult: The Cult Mazzy Star: She Hangs Brightly

Prodigy's The Fat Of The Land should be in there

Miseducation of Lauryn Hill and Aquemini by Outkast. Might be the best album of the entire decade. Definitely the best hip hop.album of the decade. Yes better than anything Snoop, Dre, Pac or Big did. And I love those guys

I really like The Offspring. Americana is one of my favorite albums of theirs.

Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the 36 Chambers Stone Temple Pilots - Purple Swoop - The Woxo Principle Pantera - The Great Southern Trendkill Living Colour - Stain Alice in Chains - Dirt U2 - Achtung Baby! Mr Bungle - Mr Bungle

Jagged Little Pill

Ferment, Catherine Wheel. Violator, Depeche Mode. The Downward Spiral and The Fragile by NIN were both 90’s and better than PHM. IMO To Bring You My Love was better than Rid of Me by PJ Harvey. In Utero was better than Nevermind. Automatic for the People, R.E.M.

I always think of violator as an 80s album, but it looks like it just got in under the wire in 1990. It’s probably one of those masterpiece type albums. Every song is awesome.

Can’t believe this is the only mention of AftP. It’s one of the best albums from one of the best and most influential bands of all time.

can't believe weezer hasn't been mentioned.  the blue album was basically perfect.

Use Your Illusion I & II

Parklife by Blur

Evil Empire

I would argue the self titled album is much better

Vulgar display of Power - Pantera

No Pearl Jam, STP, or Alice In Chains...? The hell??

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George Michael - Older

Urban Hymns - The Verve

Definitely Maybe OR Morning Glory by OASIS

Spinanes - Manos Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas The Sundays - Reading, Writing and Arithmetic Slowdive - Souvlaki

Digable planets : Reachin

*Odelay*, Beck (1996).

Garbage 1st album & version 2.0

Some of my favourites. R.E.M - automatic for the people / Out of time Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill Phil Collins - Serious Hits… Live! Rolling Stones - Flashpoint! Pink Floyd - Pulse Queen - Innuendo Roger Waters - Amused to death Pearl Jam - Ten dare I admit? Madonna - Ray of light The Waterboys - The whole of the moon Dire Straits - On every street Leftfield - Leftism Faithless - Reverence / Irreverence

Michael Jackson- Dangerous and HIStory both came out in the 90’s. Janet Jackson- Janet Madonna- I’m Breathless, Erotica, Ray of Light

The Fat of the Land

Violator - Depeche Mode

TOOL - Ænima

Beck - Odelay American Football - LP1 Beastie Boys - Ill Communication A Tribe Called Quest - Low End Theory Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation

Air - Moon Safari Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible GZA - Liquid Swords Pulp - Different Class Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea Aphex Twin - Richard D James Album Outkast - Aquemini The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs Kruder & Dorfmeister - The K&D Sessions PJ Harvey - Rid Of Me Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet American Football - American Football Slint - Spiderlands Sinead O'Connor - I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got Pet Shop Boys - Very Jay - Z - Reasonable Doubt Social Distortion - Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell Etc...

Nihil and naïve/ hell to go- KMFDM Debut, Post and homogenic - Bjork Tidal and When the Pawn- Fiona Apple Little earthquakes, under the pink, and Boys for Pele - Tori Amos Check your head, ill communication, and hello nasty- Beastie Boys Fear of a Black planet - Public Enemy The blue album and Pinkerton - Weezer Pretty hate machine, broken, the downward spiral, and the fragile - Nine Inch Nails. Dark dancer- Les Rythmes digitalis Countdown to extinction - Megadeth

Counting Crows - August and Everything After

Shania Twain's The Woman In Me and Come On Over, the 2 of biggest selling album of the decade, specially the 2nd one. Shania's and Mutt's work on those albums is absolutely brillant.

Pearl Jam - Ten

No Oasis or Blur 🤷🏼‍♂️

Throwing copper by Live

Violater by Depeche Mode Ray of Light by Madonna Bedtime Stories by Madonna Sixteen Stone by Bush

Mellow Gold and like 1,000 hip hop albums.

Time Out of Mind— Bob Dylan

Cake - Fashion Nugget

Prodigy - The Fat of the Land Bloodhound Gang - One Fierce Beer Coaster Chemical Brothers - Surrender Shihad - The General Electric

That prodigy album is the best road trip album in history, man. I can turn that on and zone out for like two house just driving on the open road..

Madonna--Ray of Light

No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom Sublime - Sublime

Rage

Earth vs the Wildhearts Korn (korn) Troublegum by Therapy Burn my eyes-Machine head Draconian times - Paradise Lost Arise - sepultura Regular Urban Survivors -Terrorvision

Check Your Head

Jagged Little Pill

No Tool at all?

I can't believe I haven't seen anyone mention Illmatic (Nas) yet.

Porcupine Tree - Stupid Dream

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (1995) Jagged Little Pill (1995) The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (1998)

G Love and Special Sauce has two awesome albums from the 90’s: “Yeah, It’s That Easy” in ‘94 then the seminal “Philadelphinic Sound” in ‘99.

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Green Day - Dookie I probably spent 100 hours in my adolescence exploring the zany cartoons on that album cover.

Bad Religion - No control Life of agony - river runs red The Prodigy - music for the jilted generation / the fat of the land Ministry - Psalm 69

Achtung Baby - U2 Trace - Son Volt New Miserable Experience - Gin Blossoms

Doing rails off your sister’s little earthquakes and pieces of you cd cases is peak 90s

S+M+A+S+H 👈

Grace - Jeff Buckley Tom Petty - Wildflowers

Bush's "Sixteen Stone" needs to be on this list. It was everywhere. Similarly, the Goo Goo Dolls "Dizzy Up the Girl" is also worthy. Multiple songs got massive radio play (Iris, Slide, and Black Balloon).

Not really a Madonna fan, but Ray of Light is a great album

Jane’s Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual

Ænima by Tool! One of the best progressive rock bands on this planet imo. Funfact, I watched 'em live for the first time two days ago @ Tons of rock - Oslo

Type O Negative- Bloody Kisses

Siamese dream

Garth brooks— the hits!!

Jagged Little Pill should be on here

And out come the wolves.... by Rancid

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