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1990
[edit]| Release Date | Album | Artist | Genre(s) | Label | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violator | Depeche Mode | ||||
| Heaven Or Las Vegas | Cocteau Twins | ||||
| Nowhere | Ride | ||||
| Rust In Peace | Megadeth | ||||
| Bossanova | Pixies | ||||
| Goo | Sonic Youth | ||||
| Ritual De Lo Habitual | Jane's Addiction | ||||
| Repeater | Fugazi | ||||
| The La's | The La's | ||||
| Fear Of A Black Planet | Public Enemy | ||||
| I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got | Sinéad O'Connor | ||||
| Pills 'N' Thrills And Bellyaches | Happy Mondays | ||||
| The Good Son | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | ||||
| Ragged Glory | Neil Young & Crazy Horse | ||||
| People's Instinctive Travels And The Paths Of Rhythm | A Tribe Called Quest | ||||
| Reading, Writing And Arithmetic | The Sundays | ||||
| Painkiller | Judas Priest | ||||
| Shake Your Money Maker | The Black Crowes | ||||
| Flood | They Might Be Giants | ||||
| Soundtrack From Twin Peaks | Angelo Badalamenti | ||||
| Canción Animal | Soda Stereo | ||||
| Behaviour | Pet Shop Boys | ||||
| AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted | Ice Cube | ||||
| The Razors Edge | AC/DC | ||||
| Naked City | John Zorn | ||||
| Chill Out | The KLF | ||||
| Bellybutton | Jellyfish | ||||
1991
[edit]| Release Date | Album | Artist | Genre(s) | Label | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nevermind | Nirvana | ||||
| Loveless | My Bloody Valentine | ||||
| Ten | Pearl Jam | ||||
| Achtung Baby | U2 | ||||
| Blood Sugar Sex Magik | Red Hot Chili Peppers | ||||
| Spiderland | Slint | ||||
| The Low End Theory | A Tribe Called Quest | ||||
| Laughing Stock | Talk Talk | ||||
| Screamadelica | Primal Scream | ||||
| Blue Lines | Massive Attack | ||||
| Badmotorfinger | Soundgarden | ||||
| Trompe Le Monde | Pixies | ||||
| Woodface | Crowded House | ||||
| Temple Of The Dog | Temple Of The Dog | ||||
| Bandwagonesque | Teenage Fanclub | ||||
| Yerself Is Steam | Mercury Rev | ||||
| Just For A Day | Slowdive | ||||
| Goat | The Jesus Lizard | ||||
| The Orb's Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld | The Orb | ||||
| Foxbase Alpha | Saint Etienne | ||||
1992
[edit]| Release Date | Album | Artist | Genre(s) | Label | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Automatic For The People | R.E.M. | ||||
| Rage Against The Machine | Rage Against The Machine | ||||
| Dirt | Alice In Chains | ||||
| Slanted And Enchanted | Pavement | ||||
| Selected Ambient Works 85-92 | Aphex Twin | ||||
| The Chronic | Dr. Dre | ||||
| Angel Dust | Faith No More | ||||
| Little Earthquakes | Tori Amos | ||||
| Down Colorful Hill | Red House Painters | ||||
| Wish | The Cure | ||||
| Images And Words | Dream Theater | ||||
| Bone Machine | Tom Waits | ||||
| Vulgar Display Of Power | Pantera | ||||
| Harvest Moon | Neil Young | ||||
| Check Your Head | Beastie Boys | ||||
| Dry | PJ Harvey | ||||
| Copper Blue | Sugar | ||||
| Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde | The Pharcyde | ||||
| The Southern Harmony And Musical Companion | The Black Crowes | ||||
| It's A Shame About Ray | The Lemonheads | ||||
| Going Blank Again | Ride | ||||
| Generation Terrorists | Manic Street Preachers | ||||
| Love Deluxe | Sade | ||||
1993
[edit]| Release Date | Album | Artist | Genre(s) | Label | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Siamese Dream | The Smashing Pumpkins | ||||
| In Utero | Nirvana | ||||
| Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) | Wu-Tang Clan | ||||
| Souvlaki | Slowdive | ||||
| Debut | Björk | ||||
| Vs. | Pearl Jam | ||||
| Midnight Marauders | A Tribe Called Quest | ||||
| August And Everything After | Counting Crows | ||||
| Rid Of Me | PJ Harvey | ||||
| Suede | Suede | ||||
| Modern Life Is Rubbish | Blur | ||||
| Doggystyle | Snoop Dogg | ||||
| Last Splash | The Breeders | ||||
| Exile In Guyville | Liz Phair | ||||
| So Tonight That I Might See | Mazzy Star | ||||
| Red House Painters | Red House Painters | ||||
| Songs Of Faith And Devotion | Depeche Mode | ||||
| Painful | Yo La Tengo | ||||
| Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? | The Cranberries | ||||
| Gentlemen | The Afghan Whigs | ||||
| Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements | Stereolab | ||||
| Wild Wood | Paul Weller | ||||
| Tindersticks | Tindersticks | ||||
| Very | Pet Shop Boys | ||||
| Orbital | Orbital | x | |||
1994
[edit]| Release Date | Album | Artist | Genre(s) | Label | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grace | Jeff Buckley | ||||
| Illmatic | Nas | ||||
| Dummy | Portishead | ||||
| Weezer (Blue Album) | Weezer | ||||
| Definitely Maybe | Oasis | ||||
| The Downward Spiral | Nine Inch Nails | ||||
| MTV Unplugged In New York | Nirvana | ||||
| Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain | Pavement | ||||
| Superunknown | Soundgarden | ||||
| Parklife | Blur | ||||
| Dookie | Green Day | ||||
| Ready To Die | The Notorious B.I.G. | ||||
| Let Love In | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | ||||
| The Holy Bible | Manic Street Preachers | ||||
| Dog Man Star | Suede | ||||
| Ill Communication | Beastie Boys | ||||
| Bee Thousand | Guided By Voices | ||||
| Purple | Stone Temple Pilots | ||||
| Live Through This | Hole | ||||
| Throwing Copper | Live | ||||
| Smash | The Offspring | ||||
| Mellow Gold | Beck | ||||
| Music For The Jilted Generation | The Prodigy | ||||
| Protection | Massive Attack | ||||
| Vauxhall And I | Morrissey | ||||
| Wildflowers | Tom Petty | ||||
| I Could Live In Hope | Low | ||||
| Selected Ambient Works Volume II | Aphex Twin | ||||
| Welcome To Sky Valley | Kyuss | ||||
| His 'N' Hers | Pulp | ||||
| American Recordings | Johnny Cash | ||||
| Diary | Sunny Day Real Estate | ||||
| Blade Runner | Vangelis | ||||
| Dubnobasswithmyheadman | Underworld | ||||
| Geek The Girl | Lisa Germano | ||||
| Hex | Bark Psychosis | ||||
| CrazySexyCool | TLC | ||||
| Yank Crime | Drive Like Jehu | ||||
| Teenager Of The Year | Frank Black | ||||
| At Action Park | Shellac | ||||
1995
[edit]| Release Date | Album | Artist | Genre(s) | Label | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Bends | Radiohead | ||||
| (What's The Story) Morning Glory? | Oasis | ||||
| Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness | The Smashing Pumpkins | ||||
| Different Class | Pulp | ||||
| Post | Björk | ||||
| Liquid Swords | GZA/Genius | ||||
| Jagged Little Pill | Alanis Morissette | ||||
| To Bring You My Love | PJ Harvey | ||||
| Elliott Smith | Elliott Smith | ||||
| The Infamous | Mobb Deep | ||||
| Maxinquaye | Tricky | ||||
| Wowee Zowee | Pavement | ||||
| Garbage | Garbage | ||||
| Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... | Raekwon | ||||
| I Should Coco | Supergrass | ||||
| Alien Lanes | Guided By Voices | ||||
| Elastica | Elastica | ||||
| Symbolic | Death | ||||
| Leftism | Leftfield | ||||
| Wrecking Ball | Emmylou Harris | ||||
| 94diskont. | Oval | ||||
| Timeless | Goldie | ||||
1996
| Release Date | Album | Artist | Genre(s) | Label | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| If You're Feeling Sinister | Belle And Sebastian | ||||
| Pinkerton | Weezer | ||||
| Endtroducing..... | DJ Shadow | ||||
| Ænima | Tool | ||||
| Odelay | Beck | ||||
| Long Season | Fishmans | ||||
| Soundtracks For The Blind | Swans | ||||
| ATLiens | OutKast | ||||
| Everything Must Go | Manic Street Preachers | ||||
| The Score | Fugees | ||||
| Sublime | Sublime | ||||
| Murder Ballads | Nick Cave | ||||
| Richard D. James Album | Aphex Twin | ||||
| New Adventures In Hi-Fi | R.E.M. | ||||
| Beautiful Freak | Eels | ||||
| Reasonable Doubt | Jay-Z | ||||
| All Eyez On Me | 2Pac | ||||
| Being There | Wilco | ||||
| Tidal | Fiona Apple | ||||
| Emperor Tomato Ketchup | Stereolab | ||||
| Millions Now Living Will Never Die | Tortoise | ||||
| This Is A Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To Think About | Modest Mouse | ||||
| Music From The Unrealized Film Script: Dusk At Cubist Castle | The Olivia Tremor Control | ||||
| Second Toughest In The Infants | Underworld | ||||
| In Sides | Orbital | x | |||
1997
[edit]| Release Date | Album | Artist | Genre(s) | Label | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OK Computer | Radiohead | ||||
| Homogenic | Björk | ||||
| Either/Or | Elliott Smith | ||||
| Urban Hymns | The Verve | ||||
| Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space | Spiritualized® | ||||
| The Lonesome Crowded West | Modest Mouse | ||||
| The Colour And The Shape | Foo Fighters | ||||
| F♯ A♯ ∞ | Godspeed You! Black Emperor | ||||
| The Boatman's Call | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | ||||
| Perfect From Now On | Built To Spill | ||||
| The Fat Of The Land | The Prodigy | ||||
| I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One | Yo La Tengo | ||||
| Blur | Blur | ||||
| Time Out Of Mind | Bob Dylan | ||||
| Homework | Daft Punk | ||||
| Buena Vista Social Club | Buena Vista Social Club | ||||
| Mogwai Young Team | Mogwai | ||||
| Portishead | Portishead | ||||
| The Mollusk | Ween | ||||
| Dig Your Own Hole | The Chemical Brothers | ||||
| Third Eye Blind | Third Eye Blind | ||||
| Dig Me Out | Sleater-Kinney | ||||
| Baduizm | Erykah Badu | ||||
| Dots And Loops | Stereolab | ||||
| Whatever And Ever Amen | Ben Folds Five | ||||
| The Velvet Rope | Janet Jackson | ||||
| Bricolage | Amon Tobin | ||||
| Word Gets Around | Stereophonics | ||||
1998
| Release Date | Album | Artist | Genre(s) | Label | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| In The Aeroplane Over The Sea | Neutral Milk Hotel | ||||
| Mezzanine | Massive Attack | ||||
| Moon Safari | Air | ||||
| Aquemini | Outkast | ||||
| The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill | Lauryn Hill | ||||
| Music Has The Right To Children | Boards Of Canada | ||||
| XO | Elliott Smith | ||||
| Deserter's Songs | Mercury Rev | ||||
| Ray Of Light | Madonna | ||||
| Electro-Shock Blues | Eels | ||||
| Car Wheels On A Gravel Road | Lucinda Williams | ||||
| This Is Hardcore | Pulp | ||||
| The Boy With The Arab Strap | Belle And Sebastian | ||||
| Without You I'm Nothing | Placebo | ||||
| The Shape Of Punk To Come (A Chimerical Bombination In 12 Bursts) | Refused | ||||
| Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star | Black Star | ||||
| Queens Of The Stone Age | Queens Of The Stone Age | ||||
| TNT | Tortoise | ||||
| System Of A Down | System Of A Down | ||||
| The Three E.P.'s | The Beta Band | ||||
| American Water | Silver Jews | ||||
| Mermaid Avenue | Billy Bragg & Wilco | ||||
| Ocean Songs | Dirty Three | ||||
| Mark Hollis | Mark Hollis | ||||
1999
| Release Date | Album | Artist | Genre(s) | Label | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ágætis Byrjun | Sigur Rós | ||||
| The Soft Bulletin | The Flaming Lips | ||||
| Californication | Red Hot Chili Peppers | ||||
| 13 | Blur | ||||
| Play | Moby | ||||
| Summerteeth | Wilco | ||||
| 69 Love Songs | The Magnetic Fields | ||||
| Emergency & I | The Dismemberment Plan | ||||
| Keep It Like A Secret | Built To Spill | ||||
| The Slim Shady LP | Eminem | ||||
| When The Pawn... | Fiona Apple | ||||
| The Battle Of Los Angeles | Rage Against The Machine | ||||
| American Football | American Football | ||||
| Mule Variations | Tom Waits | ||||
| The Fragile | Nine Inch Nails | ||||
| Black On Both Sides | Mos Def | ||||
| 2001 | Dr. Dre | ||||
| Things Fall Apart | The Roots | ||||
| I See A Darkness | Bonnie 'Prince' Billy | ||||
| The Man Who | Travis | ||||
| 98.12.28 Otokotachi No Wakare | Fishmans | ||||
| Vision Creation Newsun | Boredoms | ||||
| The White Stripes | The White Stripes | ||||
| Operation: Doomsday | MF DOOM | ||||
| Surrender | The Chemical Brothers | ||||
| Bocanada | Gustavo Cerati | ||||
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