Thursday, July 19, 2012

The Dream of the 90s is Alive on this Post

I loved (and still do love) the 90s and being the lover of music that I am, the thing about the 90s that I love the most is the music that the decade produced. So, here's a list of (and an ode to) my favorite albums from the 90s.
Disclaimer: I did not discover several of these until the 2000s or even later but because they came out in the 90s they go on this list.
Disclaimer 2: I recommended 2 songs from each album for you to get a taste of what the album sounds like but try think of them as just parts to the whole of the greater albums that they belong to.

1990: An off year in music? I was listening to Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em by MC Hammer and To the Extreme by Vanilla Ice so it was at least an off year for me. 

1991: Achtung Baby, U2    
          Listen to: So Cruel and Love is Blindness

1992: Automatic for the People, R.E.M.    
          Listen to: Sweetness Follows and The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight

1993: Pablo Honey, Radiohead    
          Listen to: Thinking About You and Prove Yourself

1994: Weezer, Weezer    
          Listen to: In the Garage and Only in Dreams

1995: Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, The Smashing Pumpkins    
          Listen to: Here is No Why and Bodies  

          The Bends, Radiohead     
          Listen to: Planet Telex and Just

1996: Odelay, Beck    
          Listen to: Hotwax and Sissyneck

1997: OK Computer, Radiohead     
          Listen to: Let Down and Exit Music (For a Film)

1998: It's Hard to Find a Friend, Pedro the Lion    
          Listen to: Bad Diary Days and Secret of the Easy Yoke  

          In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, Neutral Milk Hotel    
          Listen to: Ghost and Two-Headed Boy

1999: The Soft Bulletin, The Flaming Lips    
          Listen to: The Spiderbite Song and The Gash

Other Great 90s Albums:
Sixteen Stone, Bush
Fashion Nugget, Cake
Prolonging the Magic, Cake
Collective Soul, Collective Soul
A Boy Named Goo, The Goo Goo Dolls
Dookie, Greenday
Insomniac, Greenday
Throwing Copper, Live
Clarity, Jimmy Eat World
Nevermind, Nirvana
(What's the Story) Morning Glory?, Oasis
Ten, Pearl Jam
Vs, Pearl Jam
Vitalogy, Pearl Jam
No Code, Pearl Jam
Out of Time, R.E.M.
Monster, R.E.M.
Blood Sugar Sex Magik, The Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Californication, The Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Siamese Dream, The Smashing Pumpkins
Superunknown, Soundgarden
Rubberneck, The Toadies
Pop, U2
Zooropa, U2
Pinkerton, Weezer
A.M., Wilco
Being There, Wilco
Electr-O-Pura, Yo La Tengo