Best album of the nineties secondo DeBaser.

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John ScofieldHand Jive
Album - 9 august 1994

Pat Metheny GroupImaginary Day
Album - 7 october 1997

"Album penalized by poorly executed desires for modernism." uxo

Pat MethenyZero Tolerance for Silence
Album - 16 december 1992

Pat Metheny did it, in a single night: on December 16, 1994, at Power Station (NYC), where he recorded 39'16" of wild and electric riffing, a sort of 'Metal Machine Music' of jazz. ClareQuilty

Charlie HadenBeyond the Missouri Sky (Short Stories)
Album - 24 february 1997

If you want to get close to one of the best contemporary sounds, arm yourselves with 3D glasses and you’ll see the absolute masterpiece of this guitarist. ptr

Primal ScreamScreamadelica
Album - 23 september 1991

"Screamadelica is precisely that kind of sonic Eden—a box where everything is in its right place with no dead spots or imperfections." Battlegods

My Bloody ValentineLoveless
Album - 5 november 1991

If Van Gogh had been a rocker, he would have sounded like this. jeremy

MorphineGood
Album - 27 july 1993

"Morphine’s music was meant to be morphine for the human soul, a soul tormented by daily worries and anxieties that suddenly at night finds peace with itself and the world." Paolo_Bhimasena

Jan GarbarekRites
Album - 26 november 1998

The ship advances blindly through the fog and darkness, but suddenly a blast sharper than a siren cuts through the night and momentarily illuminates the place we find ourselves. Grasshopper

Talk TalkLaughing Stock
Album - 1991

"Laughing Stock tells us what music is and what it feels like to listen to it." nbaio

10° RadioheadOK Computer
Album - 21 may 1997

It has everything: power, sweetness, the difficulty of living, irony, social criticism, harmony, love. Giuseppinho

11° John ScofieldA Go Go
Album - 18 march 1998

12° Bill FrisellThis Land
Album - 1994

13° Marcus MillerThe Sun Don't Lie
Album - 21 may 1993

This album represents everything that is Miller’s music, it is and remains his most beautiful record, and it is certainly one of the greatest fusion releases ever. acqualife

14° NirvanaIn Utero
Album - 21 september 1993

"In Utero is, in its way, a sort of concluding manifesto if not of the entire grunge epic, at least of the Seattle scene." hypnosphere boy

It is the fusion of Scofield’s jazz-rock-blues sound with Metheny’s jazz-fusion. uxo

16° AirMoon Safari
Album - 16 january 1998

Moon Safari is a masterpiece! 10 perfect tracks, 10 musical jewels selected in a single album. Ilpazzo

17° The Jesus LizardGoat
Album - 21 february 1991

"Goat represented the right compromise between the wild component and sound quality." Overkill

18° Joshua Redman QuartetMoodswing
Album - 13 september 1994

Very "classic" and refined... and less obvious than one might think. more

19° Deep PurplePurpendicular
Album - 21 february 1996

"Purpendicular is a fresh CD renewed by the ideas provided by Morse." Mandrocker12

An immense record (along with "Siamese Dream"), sweet and bitter at the same time, which... remains one of the most beautiful of the 'nineties'. bramante

21° SlintSpiderland
Album - 15 march 1991

Beauty is the deception of the senses, the spider here is the deception to the senses. Caspasian

22° Jonny LangLie to Me
Album - 1996

Despite being only sixteen, the prodigy from Fargo showed through this album that it’s not essential to carry decades of suffering to play credible blues. joejoeblues

23° Paul WellerWild Wood
Album - 6 september 1993

"This album is about facing oneself in the mirror and bringing out everything from within oneself." Mauri

24° GusterParachute
Album - 14 november 1995

Guster themselves expressed negatively about the album, citing it as — if not a discard — one of their lesser efforts. A sort of fart. cappio al pollo

25° The Smashing PumpkinsSiamese Dream
Album - 26 july 1993

"Siamese Dream is the zenith of Smashing Pumpkins' career, far from the exaggerated grandiosity of Mellon Collie, but more sincere and humble." stargazer

26° Dave Holland QuintetPoints of View
Album - 1998

27° NirvanaNevermind
Album - 23 september 1991

I like Nirvana because they are really pissed off and they make you want to get pissed off too. El minchia

28° ToolÆnima
Album - 17 september 1996

Ænima is a miracle of about eighty minutes with no weak points or decline in style. lucarandi80

29° Jeff BuckleyGrace
Album - 15 august 1994

"...she is the tear that will remain suspended in my soul forever..." Keith

30° Bruce SpringsteenThe Ghost of Tom Joad
Album - 21 november 1995

"The ghost of Tom Joad still hasn’t found peace, lingering around today’s camps alongside highways." Grasshopper

31° SlowdiveSouvlaki
Album - 1 june 1993

Here, if I had to go to the Creator, I would like this album as the soundtrack in my room, where I could finally rest in peace for the first time in my life. Anatas

32° Nine Inch NailsThe Downward Spiral
Album - 8 march 1994

Trent Reznor’s mind has been infected by a particular disease called nihilism. zioMaynard

33° Rage Against the MachineRage Against the Machine
Album - 6 november 1992

The idea of combining the band’s numerous musical characteristics with provocative politically-themed lyrics is simply brilliant. manikin

34° Sigur RósÁgætis byrjun
Album - 1999

The instruments, varied and orchestrated sublimely, weave the threads of a net that eventually surrounds you without even giving you notice. Rivo

"A triumphant chorus of magmatic noise, combined with dynamics of a power and intensity perhaps still unmatched even now in the new century of experimentation." Marcel Proust

36° SantanaSupernatural
Album - 15 june 1999

The unmistakable notes... are like thin and sharp rays of sunlight that strike our chest, warming it immediately. Paolos

37° The Flaming LipsThe Soft Bulletin
Album - 17 may 1999

"A family of timpani arrives to open the dance, like a waterfall thrown out of bed." zaireeka

38° The God MachineScenes From The Second Storey
Album - 1 january 1993

"Scenes From The Second Storey is the sum of all the emotions you can experience in life and it strikes like a lightning bolt through your ears." tia

39° Mike SternOdds & Evens
Album - 1991

40° PortisheadDummy
Album - 22 august 1994

What is this stuff? Hyper-depressed dub? Melancholic white soul? luludia

41° Neutral Milk HotelIn the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Album - 10 february 1998

Jeff M. is one of the most sensitive talents of his generation. Mario

42° NasIllmatic
Album - 19 april 1994

Nas shines on this record particularly for his lyrics, simply superb: the extensive use of metaphors, a much richer vocabulary than the average American rapper. mgcgio

43° Built to SpillPerfect From Now On
Album - 28 january 1997

Close your eyes. Take a leap into space, accompanied by a faint voice telling you about a huge metal sphere, a sound you have already heard, an unattainable perfection. eNJoy_mUSiC

44° Red House PaintersDown Colorful Hill
Album - 15 september 1992

"Mark Kozelek wouldn’t downsize music; he offers humility and well-done music... Down Colorful Hill represents this." pana

45° Hash Jar TempoUnder Glass
Album - 1999

Static drones characterized by a latent entropic nature, dangerously entropic, evolve by swallowing each other up in a sleeping mute morning. Appestato mantrico

46° JawbreakerDear You
Album - 12 september 1995

Punk rock with heart and brain more

47° Robben FordSupernatural
Album - 13 july 1999

48° Supreme DicksThe Unexamined Life
Album - 1993

49° MorphineCure for Pain
Album - 14 september 1993

Morphine managed to coin a genre all their own in an absolutely original way. Bleach

50° Red Hot Chili PeppersBlood Sugar Sex Magik
Album - 24 september 1991

Any comment is meaningless in describing the ’90s FunkRock pillar. disco_stu

51° SoundgardenSuperunknown
Album - 7 march 1994

"Let Me Drown" is the first true masterpiece, with a beautiful, dark, and angry riff that suits Chris Cornell's wonderful vocals. diamond_darrell

52° BeckOdelay
Album - 17 june 1996

"Odelay is a melting pot of sounds and rhythms that blend into a new and coherent language." joe strummer

53° SparklehorseVivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot
Album - 26 september 1995

The songs are islands of wrenching beauty. zaireeka

54° NeurosisThrough Silver in Blood
Album - 12 april 1996

Few albums possess an intensity comparable to Through Silver In Blood. ZiOn

55° SlowdiveJust for a Day
Album - 2 september 1991

Their sound weaves dreamlike visions, settling deep within the soul, between the breath and the heartbeat. serestoppone

56° FugaziIn on the Kill Taker
Album - 30 june 1993

These gentlemen have preserved a unique, inimitable, morally steadfast artistic integrity for twenty years. Blackdog

57° FugaziRepeater
Album - 19 january 1990

If ours were a better world, Fugazi probably wouldn’t be remembered solely for their political image. NickGhostDrake

58° Faith No MoreAngel Dust
Album - 8 june 1992

Mike Patton who has the habit of changing skin with every track! Perez1

59° Lisa GermanoGeek the Girl
Album - 1994

A childlike voice speaking words (a sort of reason different for everyone). luludia

60° Alice in ChainsDirt
Album - 29 september 1992

If suffering had a voice, it would not be much different from Staley’s. Rooster

61° Massive AttackMezzanine
Album - 17 april 1998

Close your eyes. Imagine running your finger over the globe... It is a voice that speaks, an ancient voice that belongs to the whole world. Ynamusic

62° DusterStratosphere
Album - 24 february 1998

A record does not necessarily have to be hard or 'soft.' It is the essence of the music that counts, and Duster, ethereal and simple, are the type of group that will never be important on a global level, nor will they revolutionize the world of music. Owen56

63° Mercury RevYerself Is Steam
Album - 1991

"Yerself Is Steam is an intense, hallucinated, wild album." Mr. Wolf

64° Dirty ThreeOcean Songs
Album - 31 march 1998

The violin is the true protagonist of Ocean Songs, sometimes soothing, sometimes tempestuous. CosmicJocker

65° PavementSlanted and Enchanted
Album - 30 april 1992

Pavement invades you, they lend themselves to all kinds of listening, from attentive and presumptuously cultured to free, evasive, and completely uncritical. negativenein

66° RadioheadThe Bends
Album - 8 march 1995

There are no songs written just to fill space; each has its own logic and independent life. Sallu

67° Jane's AddictionRitual de lo habitual
Album - 28 august 1990

"Ritual De Lo Habitual managed to avoid the pitfalls of déjà vu and reinvent the band’s sound matrix." donjunio

68° Godspeed You! Black EmperorF# A# oo
Album - 17 february 2004

At the end of each listen... a feeling of anxiety, darkness, ominous foreboding... all sensations that are certainly not positive. humax4

69° Dinosaur Jr.Green Mind
Album - 19 february 1991

"Green Mind contains songs that could easily be considered among the most beautiful of the 90s and the entire discography of Dinosaur Jr." alessioIRIDE

70° SoundgardenBadmotorfinger
Album - 8 october 1991

"Soundgarden absorb rebellion and blasphemy into their titanism, blending... Zeppelin-like echoes and noisy intrusions." omegabass

71° FugaziEnd Hits
Album - 14 april 1998

End Hits is the definitive Fugazi album, the one that makes you think "it couldn’t get better than this; now they should disband and let others reckon with their work." ngw

72° Bad ReligionAgainst the Grain
Album - 23 november 1990

Bad Religion the true boundary between American Metal and Punk, between the violent reminiscences of the former and the existential disorders of the latter. CaptainHowdy

73° John ZornNaked City
Album - 1990

The album is unsettling, an unbelievable punch in the balls for how logical this work is. Armand

74° R.E.M.Automatic for the People
Album - 6 october 1992

Days tasting like dust and that persistent insistence on wanting to suffer for everything because it’s only with pain that starts from within that you reach the ultimate limit of closeness to the soul. giov

"Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space remains a timeless masterpiece of alternative music, a sort of 'Dark Side of the Moon' of the '90s." Cervovolante

76° CodeineFrigid Stars
Album - 1990

This record is no longer just a record, it is a mental state so strong and penetrating that it doesn’t leave you and gnaws at your mind. kloo

77° LowI Could Live in Hope
Album - 18 february 1994

'The album tells a story in a depressed manner, but it doesn’t always narrate depression.' lux

78° Tom PettyWildflowers
Album - 1 november 1994

"Wildflowers is Petty’s personal jukebox and collects the various musical tastes that have influenced his work throughout his entire career." currahee72

79° Leonard CohenThe Future
Album - 24 november 1992

The entire album is suffused with an atmosphere of sinister premonitions and the end of something. Mario

80° The RootsThings Fall Apart
Album - 23 february 1999

If you thought hip-hop was just sampled beats, well, with this band you can think again, here there is music played with real instruments. frank favano

81° FugaziRepeater + 3 Songs
Album - 1 march 1990

82° ShellacAt Action Park
Album - 24 october 1994

Absolute masterpiece: the momentum and fury here are certainly not repressed. humax4

83° RideNowhere
Album - 15 october 1990

Nowhere should be lived as an authentic experience beyond one’s tastes and the inevitable comparisons. francis

84° MelvinsBullhead
Album - 1991

‘...King Buzzo, a voice that seems to come from some deep cosmic recess, filled with pain and frustration.’ birobiro

85° PrimusSailing the Seas of Cheese
Album - 14 may 1991

"The number ONE and it could not be otherwise with the brilliant name they bear." De...Marga...

86° PolvoExploded Drawing
Album - 30 april 1996

"Crumbling Down... enters your head like a kamikaze enters a building." Kurtd

87° Blur13
Album - 15 march 1999

13 is the definitive album of a band that has moved from brit-pop to a much more open vision of rock. easycure

88° Wynton Marsalis SeptetCiti Movement
Album - 26 january 1993

89° MogwaiCome On Die Young
Album - 29 march 1999

"Each single track here hides a small treasure to keep, little secrets never revealed." rob

90° Nick Cave & The Bad SeedsThe Good Son
Album - 10 april 1990

The Bad Seeds ferry the 'ink king' into a purgatory of poignant repentance. roBetto

91° Pearl JamTen
Album - 27 august 1991

"If Nirvana's album was the contemplation of pain, this is the way out of it." joe strummer

92° MotorpsychoBlissard
Album - 19 february 1996

"Sinful, Wind-borne offers moments of such intensity that I remain motionless at every listen because nothing else needs to be done when everything is already there." VortexSurfer

93° BlurParklife
Album - 25 april 1994

Parklife today can be the true emblem of Britpop alongside Different Class and Morning Glory. 2000

94° Buena Vista Social ClubBuena Vista Social Club
Album - 23 june 1997

Anyone who associates only the 'salsa' genre with the Caribbean island musically risks making a big mistake and thus missing out on the originality of music. Mauri

95° Mazzy StarSo Tonight That I Might See
Album - 5 october 1993

Hope Sandoval whispering to you indolent and aching among the fabric: 'you will end up asleep or in love among the folds of this album'. Mario

96° Tom WaitsMule Variations
Album - 14 april 1999

"I didn't marry a man, I married a mule" blechtrommel

97° Simple MindsReal Life
Album - 15 april 1991

"My whole life flashes before my eyes" listening to the intro of 'Banging On The Door.' Abraham

98° PavementCrooked Rain Crooked Rain
Album - 14 february 1994

Pavement were probably the band that in the ’90s most significantly shaped the indie scene. josi_

99° Bark PsychosisHex
Album - 14 february 1994

"‘Absent Friend’, 8 minutes and twenty seconds of closed eyes, of free diffusion of relaxation, of pure-state elegance." betotal

100° EelsElectro-Shock Blues
Album - 21 september 1998

"Look at all the people with the flowers in their hands / they put the flowers on the box / that’s holding all the sand / that was once / that was once you." ScaRy1