1

The God Machine • Scenes From The Second Storey

12

Yo La Tengo • I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One

13

Rage Against the Machine • Rage Against the Machine

16

Sparklehorse • Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot

30

White Zombie • La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Vol. 1

33

Stereolab • Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements

64

Neutral Milk Hotel • In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

65

Lambchop • I Hope You're Sitting Down / Jack's Tulips

118

Belle and Sebastian • If You’re Feeling Sinister

121

Red Stars Theory • Life in a Bubble Can Be Beautiful

145

Queens of the Stone Age • Queens of the Stone Age

155

Three Mile Pilot • The Chief Assassin to the Sinister

159

Blonde Redhead • In an Expression of the Inexpressible

175

The Olivia Tremor Control • Music From the Unrealized Film Script, Dusk at Cubist Castle

185

The American Analog Set • From Our Living Room to Yours

195

The Magnetic Fields • The Charm of the Highway Strip

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  • DanyMorrison
    13 feb 18
    I don't know if you have to keep going, but I really don't understand anything about the '90s, except for Nirvana and Radiohead. But that doesn't mean that, looking at your list, I won't listen to some of these albums.
     
  • DanyMorrison
    16 feb 18
    An essential ranking in the world of rankings. This one couldn't be missed.
    Nice ranking: albums unknown to me but, in my opinion, essential.
     
    • Johnny b.
      16 feb 18
      Thank you Danny, here are my 90s with all my musical phases, from the loudest to the most subdued.
  • Almotasim
    16 feb 18
    Applause on an open stage. Especially: 2, 13, 17, 21, 23, 30, 31, 32, 34, 35, 36, 37, 50, 54, 66, 70, 71, 74, 95.
     
    • Almotasim
      16 feb 18
      I’ve lost my mind.
    • Johnny b.
      16 feb 18
      This time I'm happy with my ranking or list; it truly reflects my nineties. Many things are missing (Electronics, Hip Hop, Italian artists, and other genres), but I preferred to respect subjectivity more than objectivity. Leaving out Air, Massive Attack, DJ Shadow, Bark Psychosis, Neil Young, Flaming Lips, Pixies, Sonic Youth, Frank Black, Depeche Mode, Buffalo Tom, Pulp, Cohen, and so many others was tough. Making a list with more than a hundred names didn’t seem necessary. Thank you for the always appreciated visit.
    • Almotasim
      16 feb 18
      Your extreme and meticulous consistency is commendable! Then the majority of the excluded, that beautiful list as well, gave their best in other decades.
    • Almotasim
      27 dec 20
      12!!!!!!!!! What an album!!!!!!!!
  • Johnny b.
    27 feb 18
    Corrected the error on Tom Waits: not Rain Dogs but Bone Machine.
     
  • CosmicJocker
    22 jun 18
    Very stimulating ranking (besides being for connoisseurs)...many of the albums and bands you mention are also my reference points...but just off the top of my head: "Rusty" by Rodan?
     
    • Johnny b.
      22 jun 18
      It was one of those painful choices to make it onto a list of a hundred names. Rusty album stunning.