Name your 5 Favorite Rock Albums of the 90s in order from 1-5.

[ndj101982]

Maybe it's because I'm not a teenager now, or because music has just gone increasingly downhill over the past decade, but I loved the alternative rock of the 90's. Here are my top 5 albums of the 90s in order.


1. Pinkerton - Weezer

2. Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - Smashing Pumpkins

3. The Bends - Radiohead

4. Insomniac - Green Day

5. What's the Story Morning Glory - Oasis

 

[gluestick]

I like your list...actually its close to what I would have said (though I'm not much of a Green Day fan). Here's mine:
Pearl Jam- 10
Alice in Chains- Unplugged
Radiohead- OK Computer
Weezer- Blue Album
Smashing Pumpkins- Melancholy

 

[ndj101982]

I like your list...actually its close to what I would have said (though I'm not much of a Green Day fan). Here's mine:
Pearl Jam- 10
Alice in Chains- Unplugged
Radiohead- OK Computer
Weezer- Blue Album
Smashing Pumpkins- Melancholy

Great list. It was tough. Weezer Blue and Pinkerton are probably my 1 and 2 favorites, but I wanted to go top five favorite albums from five different artists. Otherwise my list would've been Pinkerton, Blue Album, Ok Computer, Bends, Mellon Collie.......with Siamese Dream sitting just outside on the bubble.

As for Green Day , much like Weezer, they have put out pop punk dogshit since the turn of the century. Seems like the angst of their 20s quickly disappeared when the band members hit their 30s and found out that pop music sells better and makes them more money. I didn't think Dookie was great, but I enjoyed Insomniac.

Notice NO Nirvana on the list. I think they were heavily overrated, and his untimely death made them seem better than they actually were. Kind of the "art is more appreciated when the artist dies" type of things with them I feel. Alice and Chains was great, but I didn't grow to appreciate them until much more recently so I didn't include them because I haven't heard much of their stuff from the 90's, though I'm sure it's pretty great.

 

[leafstk]

Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies
Radiohead - OK Computer
Radiohead - The Bends
Beck - Odelay
Pink Floyd - Division Bell 😛

 

[ndj101982]

Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies
Radiohead - OK Computer
Radiohead - The Bends
Beck - Odelay
Pink Floyd - Division Bell 😛

Beck Odelay is definitely in my top 10. It's funny, because my list from the 90s would also serve as my top 5 list from the past 20 years since I haven't heard a decent album in the 2000s.

 

[leafstk]

^agreed!

 

[ndj101982]

^agreed!

my 6-10 would look like:

6. Weezer - blue album
7. Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
8. Radiohead - OK Computer
9. Beck - Odelay
10. Rage Against the Machine - Evil Empire


Damn, how awesome were the 90s? You just don't hear this kind of quality music anymore.

 

[Jagermeistered]

The 90's was an awesome time for the rock music industry, so many albums tie with each other. I can't make a list...

All I can say is Screeching Weasel are the forefathers of pop-punk, and all of their albums sit high on my list.

 

[unit5610]

1. Trompe Le Monde - The Pixies
2. Spooky - Lush
3. Where You Been? - Dinosaur Jr.
4. Everyone Else is Doing It so Why Can't We? - The Cranberries
5. Extra Virgin - Olive

 

[Dave2112]

I noted that the topic was albums of the 90's, not just albums from "90's bands" so....

5) Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes (Set the stage for female artists of the 90's and one of the best track-for-track albums of all time, even though calling it "rock" IS a bit of stretch here. But, I'm Dave, so it counts)

4) The Flys - Holiday Man (One of THE most underrated acts of the 90's. EVERY track on this album is a fave of mine. They had a unique sound in a time of endless clones, and it is too bad they only lasted two albums. Seriously, if you can get this album, get it.)

3) Phish - A Picture of Nectar (Phish epitomized the 90's for me...especially since I was dragged kicking and screaming into the decade. Living around Vermont at the time Phish became popular, I remember seeing them as a bar band at the very club (Nectar's) that bore the album's name.)

2) Phish - Rift (Arguably the best Phish album of original material. I miss Phish.)

1) Rush - Counterparts (This album saw Rush ditch the over-synthed albums of the 80's (which I DID like), and out-grunge the grunge movement. They did it by returning to dirty sound, but with a couple decades of expertise in songwriting. Songs like "Stick It Out", "Animate" and "Cut To The Chase" are those kinds of tunes that bands like Pearl Jam wished they'd written.)

 

[SlaverTickler]

Rock? The 90's? I though Rock went on vacation in the 90's and (sucky) Grunge Music filled in while it was away.

 

[InspectorJapp]

1. Marillion - Brave
2. Giant - Time To Burn
3. Tyketto - Don't Come Easy
4. Bruce Springsteen - Human Touch/Lucky Town
5. Damn Yankees - Damn Yankees

 

[Dave2112]

Oh hell yeah...You gotta add Marillion's "Brave" to any 90's list. 🙂

 

[Frowg]

Dinosaur Jr.-Where you been?
Belly-Star
Pearl Jam-10
Nirvana-Nevermind
Soundgarden-Badmotorfinger

 

[TklDuo-Drew]

The London Quireboys- "A Bit Of What You Fancy"
The Black Crowes- "Shake Your Moneymaker"
Masters of Reality-"Masters of Reality"
Screaming Trees-"Sweet Oblivion"
Johnny Cash-"Unchained"





Drew

 

[Dave2112]

Ok, I hate these "list" threads, because you always wind up thinking of great additions after the fact.

Like...for the 90's...Rik Emmett's Absolutely.

The first solo album by Triumph frontman and guitar god Rik Emmett. THIS is the album I think Triumph was trying to do when they recorded Sport of Kings.

If I had ten albums for the rest of my life, Absolutely is one of them.