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Tag: 1990s albums
L7 – Bricks Are Heavy: #654 of best 1,000 albums ever!
They can’t hear a word that we’ve said, when we pretend that we’re dead.
The Jayhawks – Tomorrow The Green Grass: #659 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Keep my real light shining.
Duran Duran – Duran Duran (The Wedding Album): #662 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Destroyed by MTV, I hate to bite the hand that feeds me.
RZA – RZA As Bobby Digital: #664 of best 1,000 albums ever!
The mic is cast to the floor and shapeshifted. Heavy as the hammer of Thor you can’t lift it.
Lord Finesse & DJ Mike Smooth – Funky Technician: #666 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Lord Finesse and DJ Mike Smooth dial up the number of the funky technician!
The Aquabats! – The Aquabats! Vs. The Floating Eye of Death! And Other Amazing Adventures, Vol.1: #668 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Hey kid! What do we got? Not a lot. So what?
Kool & The Gang – The Very Best of Kool & The Gang: #682 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Get down, get DOWN.
Pavement – Wowee Zowee: #684 of best 1,000 albums ever!
We got the money! We got the money now!
Pavement – Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain: #688 of best 1,000 albums ever!
The band that I feel I should really like more but… erases the but.
Manu Chao – Clandestino: #692 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I’m the king of bongo baby, I’m the king of bongo.
7 Year Bitch – Viva Zapata!: #694 of best 1,000 albums ever!
An exquisitely executed dose of grungy riot grrl punk rock.
Sleater-Kinney – Dig Me Out: #696 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It’s the riot grrl drama you’ve been craving.
Pilfers – Pilfers: #698 of best 1,000 albums ever!
You think it’s funny but what I say is true.
Cake – Fashion Nugget: #703 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Much like Fashion Nugget, I will survive. Yeah yeah.
Various Artists – Stax-Volt: The Complete Singles 1959-1968: #708 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Plug in and get supercharged anywhere you like with this massive 244 song compilation.
Slant 6 – Soda Pop * Rip Off: #716 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Some bands and some albums hit a bunch of my musical sweet spots at once.
Frank Black – The Cult of Ray: #718 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Another tremendous album from the cult of Frank Black.
Yolk – Caution: Social Prescriptions May Cause Side-Effects: #721 of best 1,000 albums ever!
In which I make the case for this exceptionally talented band from Binghamton, New York.
Rage Against the Machine – The Battle of Los Angeles: #724 of best 1,000 albums ever!
The Rage is relentless, in three parts.
Neutral Milk Hotel – In the Aeroplane Over the Sea: #725 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Highly unique yet strangely comforting? Just ask the king of the carrot flowers.
Mobb Deep – The Infamous: #726 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Infamous Queensbridge kid we on the scene kid.
U2 – Zooropa: #728 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Some albums are better than others.
Urge Overkill – Saturation: #729 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Alt rock with an ironic edge that still nonetheless rocks.
Public Enemy – Fear of a Black Planet: #730 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Fight the power, indeed.
Pulp – Different Class: #732 of best 1,000 albums ever!
There’s something about the vibe that takes me back to the Nag’s Head pub in Rochester, Kent.
Alanis Morissette – Jagged Little Pill: #735 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I’d tell you, but don’t make me say it… Okay, you oughta know, right?
Conehead Buddha – Rockets: #740 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Get that body up.
Madonna – Bedtime Stories: #745 of best 1,000 albums ever!
The secret’s out on this one.
Matthew Sweet – Girlfriend: #747 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Matthew Sweet is a power pop master craftsman.
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy – Big Bad Voodoo Daddy: #750 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Is the movie Swingers and Big Bad Voodoo Daddy partially responsible for my moving to the west coast from NYC? It’s a long story…
Sneaker Pimps – Becoming X: #752 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Spin, spin, sugar.
Jane’s Addiction – Ritual De Lo Habitual: #756 of best 1,000 albums ever!
A delivery of a strange and wonderful musical experience.
Catch 22 – Keasbey Nights: #758 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Day in day out and on and on and on, *this* is the version of Keasbey Nights you’ve been looking for.
Killarmy – Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars: #765 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Hip hop that’s low key yet aggressive, gritty yet groovy, heavy yet accessible.
Cornershop – When I Was Born For the 7th Time: #768 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Record scratches, catchy pop hooks, and Indian influences that will butter the soul.
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo – Live and Let Die: #770 of best 1,000 albums ever!
A hardcore underground gem from hip hop’s golden age.
10,000 Maniacs – MTV Unplugged: #772 of best 1,000 albums ever!
The magic of the live and acoustic setting shines through for Natalie Merchant and crew.
Jamiroquai – Emergency on Planet Earth: #775 of best 1,000 albums ever!
When you gonna learn?
Tori Amos – Little Earthquakes: #776 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It’s gorgeous and piercing and moving all at once.
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones – Let’s Face It: #779 of best 1,000 albums ever!
The impression that I get is that this is a rock solid collection of highly enjoyable alternative rock and pop- and punk-infused ska.
GZA – Words from the Genius: #781 of best 1,000 albums ever!
A genius by the name of GZA emerges on the scene.
Various Artists – Empire Records: The Soundtrack: #786 of best 1,000 albums ever!
A highly pleasurable mix of mid-‘90s tunes and one absolute stunner.
The Swinging Blue Jeans – The EMI Years: Best of the Swinging Blue Jeans: #787 of best 1,000 albums ever!
The grooviest, swinging, British Invasion-est music that most people these days have not (yet!) heard.
Moby – Play: #789 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It’s the ambient techno stuff, the delicate downtempo stuff, the use of strings and subtle vocals with electronic backbeats.
Pearl Jam – Ten: #790 of best 1,000 albums ever!
The pinnacle of Pearl Jam’s output. At least so far.
Blues Traveler – Four: #792 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Even upon a midnight eerie, you’re not gonna want to give this album a run-around.
Ace of Base – The Sign: #794 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Can an album be “too pop”? Please refer to the sign that says, “We’re gonna go with nope.”
Supersuckers – La Mano Cornuda: #800 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It rocks out while having run rocking out while letting YOU know that they’re… oh, just keep on reading for more.
Everlast – Whitey Ford Sings the Blues: #801 of best 1,000 albums ever!
We knew that Everlast could make us jump around, but that was just for starters as it turns out.