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Best album of the 90s

Alice in Chains - Dirt
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Vol 2
Faithless - Reverence
Faith No More - Angeldust
Green Day - Dookie
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Machine Head - Burn My Eyes
Mad Season - Above
Massive Attack - Blue Lines
Massive Attack - Mezanine
Ned's Atomic Dustbin - GHod Fodder
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
Pearl Jam - Ten
Pearl Jam - Vs
Portishead - Dummy
Rage Against the Machine
REM - Automatic for the People
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
Temple of the Dog - Temple of the Dog
The Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole
The Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation
Therapy? - Troublegum
Tool - Aenima
 
@milo - Have you tried an online share point form?

If you have the list in excel I believe you can just upload direct.
 
There's only four I think worthy of 'best album of the 90's'. Some of the albums listed I've never heard, some I've heard and not been fussed, some should be nowhere near that list.
Some have got excellent tracks, but with some 'filler' on them, so I've narrowed it down to albums I want to listen to from start to finish:
  • Beastie Boys - Check your head
  • Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
  • Happy Mondays - Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches
  • The Beta Band - The Three E.P.'s
If I had to pick one it would be Beastie Boys, but I'd have trouble choosing which one.
 
A Tribe Called Quest - Low End Theory
A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Beastie Boys - Check your head
Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
DJ Shadow - Entroducing
Frank Zappa - Strictly Commercial
Fugazi - Repeater
Guru - Jazzmatazz
Jurassic 5 - Jurassic 5
Mad Season - Above
Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted
Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Pavement - Wowee Zowee
Pavement - Brighten the Corners
Pavement - Terror Twilight
Pearl Jam - Ten
Pearl Jam - Vs
Radiohead - The Bends
Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
REM - Out of Time
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
The Wildhearts - Earth vs the Wildhearts
The Wildhearts - Phuq
 
AC/DC - Razors Edge
Bob Dylan - Time Out of Mind
David Gray - White Ladder
Frank Zappa - Strictly Commercial
Gary Moore - Still got the Blues ( the winner imo)
Guns 'n' Roses - Use Your Illusion (I and II)
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Metallica - Metallica
Nirvana - Unplugged In New York
Oasis - What's the Story Morning Glory
Pink Floyd - Division Bell
Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
The Eagles - Hell Freezes Over

That's it for me the 90's was not my best for music.
 
Common - Resurrection
Daft Punk - Homework
Fugees - The Score
Massive Attack - Blue Lines
Metallica - Metallica
Moby - Play
Mos Def - Black on Both Sides
Mos Def & Taleb Kwali - Blackstar
Nas - Illmatic
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
Nirvana - Nevermind
Notorious BIG - Ready to Die
Oasis - Definitely Maybe
Queens of the Stone Age - Queens of the Stone Age
Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Bloodsugarsexmagik
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
The Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole
The Chemical Brothers - Surrender
The Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde
The Prodigy - Fat of the Land
The Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation
The Roots - Illadelph Halflife
The Roots - Things Fall Apart
 
ended up having to leave off ones I originally suggested

Alice in Chains - Dirt
Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape
Garbage - Garbage
Guns 'n' Roses - Use Your Illusion (I and II)
Manic Street Preachers - Generation Terrororists
Megadeth - Countdown to Extinction
Metallica - Metallica
Nirvana - Nevermind
Nirvana - Unplugged In New York
Nirvana - In Utero
Oasis - Definitely Maybe
Oasis - What's the Story Morning Glory
Pearl Jam - Ten
Queens of the Stone Age - Queens of the Stone Age
Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
Skunk Anansie - Paranoid & Sunburnt
The Black Crowes - Amorica
The Chemical Brothers - Surrender
The Dogs D'Amour - More Unchartered Heights of Disgrace
The Prodigy - Fat of the Land
The Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation
The Wildhearts - Earth vs the Wildhearts
The Wildhearts - Phuq
White Zombie - Astro Creep 2000
 
Here is the full list.

Please copy and paste your choices into a new post. You've got a maximum of 25 choices. I'll tot up the votes at the weekend.

2pac - All Eyes On Me
A Tribe Called Quest - Low End Theory
A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
Aaliyah - One in a Million
AC/DC - Razors Edge
Air - Moon Safari
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Vol 2
Aphex Twin - The Richard D. James Album
Aqua - Aquarium
Beastie Boys - Check your head
Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
Beck - Odelay
Belle and Sebastian - If You Are Feeling Sinister
Big Pun - Capital Punishment
Bjork - Debut
Bluetones - Expecting to Fly
Blur - Parklife
Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
Bob Dylan - Time Out of Mind
Bon Thugs n Harmony - E1999 Eternal
Bonnie "Prince" Billy - I See a Darkness
Boyzone - A Different Beat...
Brand New Heavies - Brother Sister
Brooklyn Funk Essentials - Cool and Steady and Easy
Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
Common - Resurrection
Company Flow - Funcrusher Plus
D*note - Coming Down
Daft Punk - Homework
David Gray - White Ladder
De La Soul - De La Soul Is Dead
Depeche mode - Violator
DJ Food - Recipe for Disaster
DJ Shadow - Entroducing
Dogg Pound - Dogg Food
Dr Dre - The Chronic
Dr. Octagon - Octagonecologyst
Ed Rush and Optical - Wormhole
Electronic - Electronic
Everclear - Sparkle and Fade
Faith no More - Angeldust
Faithless - Reverence
Faithless - Sunday 8 pm
Feeder - Polythene
Flaming Lips - Soft Bulletin
Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape
Frank Black - Teenager of the Year
Frank Zappa - Strictly Commercial
Freak Power - Drive Thru Booty
Fugazi - Repeater
Fugazi - Red Medicine
Fugees - The Score
Gang Starr - Step In the Arena
Gang Starr - Moment of Truth
Garbage - Garbage
Gary Moore - Still got the Blues
Genius/GZA - Liquid Swords
Ghostface Killah - Ironman
Godspeed You Black Emperor! - F# A# Infinity
Goldie - Timeless
Gomez - I need TP for my bunghole
Gomez - Liquid Skin
Green Day - Dookie
Groove Armada - Vertigo
Grooverider - Mysteries of Funk
Guided by Voices - Bee Thousand
Guided by Voices - Alien Lanes
Guns 'n' Roses - Use Your Illusion (I and II)
Guru - Jazzmatazz
Half Man Half Biscuit - Four Lads Who Shook The Wirral
Happy Mondays - Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches
Hijack - The Horns of Jericho
Ice Cube - Death Certificate
James Taylor Quartet - In the Hand of the Inevitable
Jamiroquai - Emergency On Planet Earth
Jamiroquai - Return of the Space Cowboy
Jane's Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Jurassic 5 - Jurassic 5
Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Leftfield - Leftism
Lenny Kravitz - Are You Gonna Go My Way
LL Cool J - Mama Said Knock You Out
Machine Head - Burn My Eyes
Mad Season - Above
Madonna - Erotica
Madonna - Ray of Light
Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
Manic Street Preachers - Generation Terrororists
Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible
Massive Attack - Blue Lines
Massive Attack - Protection
Megadeth - Countdown to Extinction
Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs
Metallica - Metallica
Method Man - Tical
Michael Jackson - History
Michael Jackson - Dangerous
Missy Elliott - Supa Dupa Fly
Mobb Deep - The Infamous
Moby - Play
Mogwai - Young Team
Morcheba - Morcheba
Morrissey - Vauxhall and I
Mos Def - Black on Both Sides
Mos Def & Taleb Kwali - Blackstar
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Nas - Illmatic
Ned's Atomic Dustbin - GHod Fodder!
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Nicolette - Now Is Early
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
Nirvana - Nevermind
Nirvana - Unplugged In New York
Nirvana - In Utero
Notorious BIG - Ready to Die
Oasis - Definitely Maybe
Oasis - What's the Story Morning Glory
Ocean Colour Scene - Moseley Shoals
Ol' Dirty Bastard - Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version
Orbital - Orbital 2 (Brown Album)
Orbital - Snivilisation
Origin Unknown (and others) - Sound in Motion
Outkast - Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik
Outkast - Aquemini
Palace Music - Viva Last Blues
Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted
Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Pavement - Wowee Zowee
Pavement - Brighten the Corners
Pavement - Terror Twilight
Pearl Jam - Ten
Pearl Jam - Vs
Pink Floyd - Division Bell
Pixies - Bosa Nova
PJ Harvey - Rid of Me
Portishead - Dummy
Pressure Drop - Elusive
Primal Scream - Screamadelica
Prince and The New Power Generation - Love Symbol
Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
Pulp - Different Class
Queens of the Stone Age - Queens of the Stone Age
Radiohead - The Bends
Radiohead - OK Computer
Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Lynx
Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Bloodsugarsexmagik
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
REM - Automatic for the People
REM - Out of Time
Ride - Nowhere
Ride - Going Blank Again
Roni Size and Reprezent - New Forms
Scott Walker - Tilt
Shack - Waterpistol
Shed 7 - Maximum High
Simply Red - Stars
Skunk Anansie - Paranoid & Sunburnt
Skunkhour - Skunkhour
Slint - Spiderland
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Snoop Doggy Dogg - Doggystyle
Sonic Youth - Goo
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
Spice Girls - Spice
Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen, We Are Floating in Space
Squarepusher - Music Is Rotted One Note
St Etienne - Foxbase Alpha
Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup
Stereolab - Mars Audiac Quintet
Stone Temple Pilots - Purple
Suede - Suede
Super Furry Animals - Fuzzy logic
Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque
Teenage Fanclub - Grand Prix
Temple of the Dog - Temple of the Dog
The Auteurs - Now I'm a Cowboy
The Beta Band - The Three E.P.'s
The Black Crowes - Amorica
The Breeders - Last Splash
The Breeders - Pod
The Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole
The Chemical Brothers - Surrender
The Chemical Brothers - Exit Planet Dust
The Dogs D'Amour - More Unchartered Heights of Disgrace
The Eagles - Hell Freezes Over
The La's - The La's
The Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde
The Prodigy - Fat of the Land
The Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation
The Roots - Illadelph Halflife
The Roots - Things Fall Apart
The Wildhearts - The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld
The Wildhearts - Earth vs the Wildhearts
The Wildhearts - Phuq
Therapy? - Troublegum
TLC - CrazySexyCool
Tom Waits - Bone Machine
Tool - Aenima
Tortoise - TNT
Tricky - Maxiquaye
U2 - Achtung Baby
Ugly Kid Joe - Americas Least Wanted
Ultramagnetic MCs - Funk Your Head Up
Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman
Underworld - Second Toughest in the Infants
White Zombie - Astro Creep 2000
Wilco - Being There
Wu Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
Young Disciples - Road to Freedom

Let's have your votes.
 
Let's have your votes.
De La Soul - De La Soul Is Dead
Depeche mode - Violator
Fugees - The Score
Faithless - Reverence
Faithless - Sunday 8 pm
Groove Armada - Vertigo
Guns 'n' Roses - Use Your Illusion (I and II)
Jamiroquai - Return of the Space Cowboy
Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Leftfield - Leftism
Lenny Kravitz - Are You Gonna Go My Way
LL Cool J - Mama Said Knock You Out
Madonna - Erotica
Michael Jackson - Dangerous
Michael Jackson - History
Moby - Play
Notorious BIG - Ready to Die
Pink Floyd - Division Bell
Prince and The New Power Generation - Love Symbol
Simply Red - Stars
REM - Automatic for the People
Snoop Doggy Dogg - Doggystyle
The Chemical Brothers - Exit Planet Dust
The Prodigy - Fat of the Land
U2 - Achtung Baby

Edit: had 26 entries.
 
I know I'm allowed to choose 25, but I'm gonna boil it down to a couple.

IMO, the 90's was the best for hip-hop and dance music. Some people think the late 80's for hip-hop, but imo most of that stuff sounds very dated, whereas when you listen to the best 90's hip-hop, it stands the test of time. I think with other genres, say rock or metal, it is easy to argue that other decades had the superior music in those genres.

There were many great hip-hop albums in this decade. The one I'm choosing isn't my favourite, but it spawned so many other good albums and is an excellent album in it's own right. It was put forward by quite a few other posters:

Wu-Tang Clan -- Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

My other pick is a dance album. I decided to go for what I think is the best album from one of the most successful dance acts of all time.

The Prodigy -- Music for The Jilted Generation
 
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