best 90's albums. help me out!

[nmsles]

I'm a long-time reader but rare poster of these forums (mostly the just announced and hey seth boards) and i figure you all would be the best to ask for help with buying a good 90's collection.
 
 i.e. what are the best pixies/bloody valentine/sonic youth albums to go with? or any other bands i just must listen to.  educate me.

[chaz]

If you want the best of the Pixies and Sonic Youth you're in the wrong decade.  Try the 80's instead.

[Dr. Anton Phibes]

I'm really trying to forget the MAJORITY of the nineties,music wise,but that's just me....

[lancha]

my favorite 90s albums:
 
 radiohead - ok computer
 my bloody valentine - loveless
 prodigy - fat of the land
 sigur ros - agaetis bryjun
 portishead - dummy
 massive attack - mezzanine
 boards of canada - music has the right to children

[SPARX]

This should get you started:
 
 http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~tewing/ned/nedmain.html

[vansmack]

Candlebox

[HoyaSaxa03]

i don't know why i keep pimping pitchfork on here lately (maybe it's because they feed my lust for lists), but this is a good starting point

[you be betty]

Originally posted by chaz:
  If you want the best of the Pixies and Sonic Youth you're in the wrong decade.  Try the 80's instead.

pfft, wrongo.  check out Goo and Dirty by Sonic Youth.  
 
 also,
 Different Class by Pulp
 Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain by Pavement
 Grace AND ALSO Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk by Jeff Buckley
 Telephono by Spoon
 Odelay by Beck
 Handsome Western States by Beulah
 Moon Safari by Air
 In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
 
 and all the obligatory Radiohead, MBV, Elliott Smith, Ben Folds Five, i will think of more later...

[ggw]

Originally posted by HoyaSaxa03:
  i don't know why i keep pimping pitchfork on here lately (maybe it's because they feed my lust for lists), but this is a good starting point

I actually like Pitchfork, but I think their nineties list was pretty lame.  There might be only fifteen albums on there that I would define as essential.  Pitchfork did a much better job with the seventies and eighties.

[SPARX]

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
     

Originally posted by HoyaSaxa03:
  i don't know why i keep pimping pitchfork on here lately (maybe it's because they feed my lust for lists), but this is a good starting point

I actually like Pitchfork, but I think their nineties list was pretty lame.  There might be only fifteen albums on there that I would define as essential.  Pitchfork did a much better job with the seventies and eighties. [/b]

At least they had the sense to put NMH over Nevermind. The link I posted had MBV #1 and Pitchfork had it #2. They were both on the right track with that one. MBV took elements of what got the J&MC rolling and ran with it.

[chaz]

As someone who was actually alive in the 80's and saw sonic youth in said decade....I say pfft wrongo x 10 to you.
 
 Goo is a good album, Dirty is ok, but Daydream Nation is by far their masterpiece and one of the best records of the era.  Sister is not far behind.  None of their 90's stuff comes close to either of these two. (imho).  Sorry, but your smoking crack if you think their best work came in the 90's.

Originally posted by you be betty:
   

Originally posted by chaz:
  If you want the best of the Pixies and Sonic Youth you're in the wrong decade.  Try the 80's instead.

pfft, wrongo.  check out Goo and Dirty by Sonic Youth.  
 
 also,
 Different Class by Pulp
 Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain by Pavement
 Grace AND ALSO Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk by Jeff Buckley
 Telephono by Spoon
 Odelay by Beck
 Handsome Western States by Beulah
 Moon Safari by Air
 In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
 
 and all the obligatory Radiohead, MBV, Elliott Smith, Ben Folds Five, i will think of more later... [/b]

[you be betty]

Originally posted by chaz:
  As someone who was actually alive in the 80's and saw sonic youth in said decade....I say pfft wrongo x 10 to you.
 
 Goo is a good album, Dirty is ok, but Daydream Nation is by far their masterpiece and one of the best records of the era.  Sister is not far behind.  None of their 90's stuff comes close to either of these two. (imho).  Sorry, but your smoking crack if you think their best work came in the 90's.  

Originally posted by you be betty:
   

Originally posted by chaz:
  If you want the best of the Pixies and Sonic Youth you're in the wrong decade.  Try the 80's instead.

pfft, wrongo.  check out Goo and Dirty by Sonic Youth.  
 
 also,
 Different Class by Pulp
 Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain by Pavement
 Grace AND ALSO Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk by Jeff Buckley
 Telephono by Spoon
 Odelay by Beck
 Handsome Western States by Beulah
 Moon Safari by Air
 In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
 
 and all the obligatory Radiohead, MBV, Elliott Smith, Ben Folds Five, i will think of more later... [/b]

[/b]

I don't think those are their best albums, either, but they are pretty darn good and she's looking for good stuff that came out in the 90s.  Though Goo might be my second or third favorite Sonic Youth album.  You didn't have to be alive in the 80s to spot good music - I have the others, too.

[Herr Professor Doktor Doom]

Originally posted by you be betty:
   You didn't have to be alive in the 80s

:eek:

[miss pretentious]

weezer - pinkerton   :cool:

[Mobius]

couple o' good ones:
 
 GBV - Alien Lanes
 Spiritualized - Lazer Guided Melodies