Here they are in no particular order.
Ten - Pearl Jam
Cracked Rearview - Hootie & the Blowfish
Purple - Stone Temple Pilots
Dookie - Green Day
Blue Album I Weezer
Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness - Smashing Pumpkins
Get a Grip - Aerosmith
Vitalogy - Pearl Jam
Insomniac - Green Day
Unplugged in New York - nirvana
The Colour and the Shape - Foo Fighters
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10 comments:
The fact that you have two Green Day albums makes this list irrelevant.
Jesus Christ, this is accurate. By God! I guess it's expected for me to say Siamese Dream deserves a spot. I'd take out Get a Grip.
Quick! Name the top eleven albums of the 2000s! .... .... ....
The 90s were the greatest.
I would throw Nirvana off. They started that whole "mom and dad screwed up my life and I want everyone to know about it" genre of music.
The 90's were great, but the 80's were greater.
Pat,
I see where you're coming from with the Nirvana thing. That's why Unplugged in New York is the only one of their albums to make it. That album was great on so many levels. By stripping away the distorted power chords and screaming, their music was actually very melodic.
Ryan,
Chris actually tried to backpedal and take back his nomination for Get A Grip, but I wouldn't let him. Aerosmith has always been a great band (except for maybe recently). Get a Grip was the album that brought them from their 80's arena rock phase and into the 1990's rock forum. That album essentially made them relevant, maybe even necessary, to another generation of listeners.
Mike,
The album that got me, and so many others around my age, into music was Dookie. Start to finish, that album is a classic. As for Insomniac, the argument can be made that it's even better than Dookie. Regardless, Green Day was great in the 90's and leaving them off this list would be wholly inaccurate. I don't think a good band's old work should be discounted for it's latter-day sins. And next tim you come to town, you owe me a case of beer.
Needs more-
The Offspring- SmashREM- MonsterBush- Sixteen StoneLive- Throwing CopperThe 80's still own the 90's, though.
take off bootie and the hoefish
Joe, your comment was perfectly said. Good work. Insomniac is just as good as Dookie. Kinda like Mr. Hyde to Dookie's Dr. Jekyll.
Ty, brilliant runner-up choices. All very integral to the growing up in the 90s experience.
I hate Pearl Jam and everything Eddie Vedder stands for...other than that, great list.
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