Best albums of the 90s?

[replika]

Mine Are:
1. Nevermind - Nirvana
2. Badmotorfinger - Soundgarden
3. Grinspoon - Grinspoon (EP, 1995)
4. Regurgitator - Tu Plang (1996, LP.)
5. Regurgitator - Unit (1998, LP)
6. Helmet - Meantime (1992, LP.)
7. Acid Bath - When The Kite String Pops (1994, LP.)
What are yours?

[Polverrati]

Tool - Undertow
Korn - Korn
Mushroomhead - M3
Hatebreed - Satisfaction is the Death of Desire
System of a Down - System of a Down
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Faith No More - King for a Day, Fool for a Lifetime
Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle Earth

[crunchyfrog]

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Not necessarily. Depends where you live.

Here in Britain it most certainly wasn't.

There was Britpop, which was largely a manufactured fictional "movement", but there were some terrific indies from that time.

The likes of Blur, and Oaiss, obviously, but Supergrass, Garbage, Suede, James, and so on. Not to mention electronic stuff like the Prodigy, Orbital, et al.

I was gonna mention the Stone Roses in that but I think the debut came out 88 or 89

Absobloodylutely. It was 88, though the white labels of it were knocking around in 87. I have one :)

I absolutely adore the Stone Roses.

Not just because of being in Manchester studying audio engineering in the whole early 90 "Madchester" era, but because they're music is just sublime.

I missed them at Spike Island back in the day, due to a then girlfriend. So when they reformed I jumped at getting tickets to Heaton Park. They were brilliant and everything I'd hoped.

[Plaid]

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The big labels are doing vinyl too? I'm a bit surprised
Is that a recent remaster?

No, it's a few years old now. This was Vertigo label so part of BMG Universal iirc.

Although saying that, many groups like Pink Floyd have their own masters now and just turn out remasters on their own label.

I have Dark Side of the Moon and Wish you Were Here remasters from 2009 which are stunningly good (better than previous efforts) and on the Pink Floyd label instead of EMI/Harvest.

These tend to be pretty good, and I recommend you have a nose on Discogs for some info as to what's good (or Record Collector) as there's anumber of good ones these days. I've been avidly going for the Beatles remasters in recent years as they sound fantastic on my stereo.

The Pink Floyd ones though, for example are reprinted exactly as they were released - DSOTM comes with the poster and postcards too, and Wish you were here comes in the plastic bag with the postcards and ♥♥♥♥.

As far as I'm aware (as I haven't bought them yet) the rest of the early Black Sabbath stuff is equally remastered well.

Discogs really is useful. I discovered that site a couple years ago and keep going back to it.
Anyway, that's all really interesting, thanks.

[crunchyfrog]

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No, it's a few years old now. This was Vertigo label so part of BMG Universal iirc.

Although saying that, many groups like Pink Floyd have their own masters now and just turn out remasters on their own label.

I have Dark Side of the Moon and Wish you Were Here remasters from 2009 which are stunningly good (better than previous efforts) and on the Pink Floyd label instead of EMI/Harvest.

These tend to be pretty good, and I recommend you have a nose on Discogs for some info as to what's good (or Record Collector) as there's anumber of good ones these days. I've been avidly going for the Beatles remasters in recent years as they sound fantastic on my stereo.

The Pink Floyd ones though, for example are reprinted exactly as they were released - DSOTM comes with the poster and postcards too, and Wish you were here comes in the plastic bag with the postcards and ♥♥♥♥.

As far as I'm aware (as I haven't bought them yet) the rest of the early Black Sabbath stuff is equally remastered well.

Discogs really is useful. I discovered that site a couple years ago and keep going back to it.
Anyway, that's all really interesting, thanks.

No problem - really glad to help. It's one of the few avenues I have some actual knowledge about :)

Yeah I find Discogs REALLY good. Of course the first thing is info - as it's great source of documenting in great detail different releases, mixes, and so on. I've learned of curiosities I never knew existed many times.

But also as a store or marketplace it's been fantastic. I've yet to have anything less than steelar experience on there, but I guess your mileage may vary depending where in the world you are or how lucky you get.

Anyway, Record Collector is a fantastic magazine if you can ever track it down. It looks like absolute ♥♥♥♥ and is presented like a fansize made in the 1980s. But it has TONS of adverts in them from actual record shops around the world, which I find invaluable.

As well as their articles of course.

Best of luck.

[Entity]

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Biggest would imply sales. Either way you immediately attacked me and called me ignorant after I said there are only 2 good british bands, that's my opinion and I'm entitled to it.

Out of your list I think 2 are ok, namely queen and the prodigy, and even then only a few select songs. The rest I'd argue are mostly overrated or I haven't really given them a listen.

Ignorance is not inherently a slur, it depends on how it is used. Not knowing something is not your fault. It only becomes a slur when it is wilful ignorance.

There are a ton of bands not listed that have excellent music.

[PawgaliciouS QueeN]

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Biggest would imply sales. Either way you immediately attacked me and called me ignorant after I said there are only 2 good british bands, that's my opinion and I'm entitled to it.

Out of your list I think 2 are ok, namely queen and the prodigy, and even then only a few select songs. The rest I'd argue are mostly overrated or I haven't really given them a listen.

Ignorance is not inherently a slur, it depends on how it is used. Not knowing something is not your fault. It only becomes a slur when it is wilful ignorance.

There are a ton of bands not listed that have excellent music.

Well I'm sure I've listened to most british bands he listed, and you'd potentially list for that matter, and I stand by what I said. Ignorance is having an uneducated opinion, he was trying to say I'm ignorant for not agreeing that those bands are good. In my eyes they simply aren't.

[crunchyfrog]

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Ignorance is not inherently a slur, it depends on how it is used. Not knowing something is not your fault. It only becomes a slur when it is wilful ignorance.

There are a ton of bands not listed that have excellent music.

Well I'm sure I've listened to most british bands he listed, and you'd potentially list for that matter, and I stand by what I said. Ignorance is having an uneducated opinion, he was trying to say I'm ignorant for not agreeing that those bands are good. In my eyes they simply aren't.

Except I clearly explain I didn't.

You don't understnad the grammar.

I'll explain it again - you can have an ignorant opinion but not BE ignorant. That's what I said.

I said that if you didn't know more than two groups it was unusual and ignorant.

And ignorant is NOT a slur by itself. I don't know why you're getting defensive. I'm ignorant about a load of things.

[crunchyfrog]

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Björk

I completely forgot.

After I posted my initial post, I actually went to my shelves of CDs and have been going through them the last few night. It's been great as I've touched CDs I haven't touched in ages.

And one of the artists I completely missed was Bjork - her first two "proper" (yes I know she did some as a girl) albums were fantastic.

I personally love the Homogenic album. It's a real ground-breaker as she went to work with Jes from LFO, and I loved how she blended classical quartets with beats and her own distinct writing style.

The first half of that album especially is sublime.

[PawgaliciouS QueeN]

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Well I'm sure I've listened to most british bands he listed, and you'd potentially list for that matter, and I stand by what I said. Ignorance is having an uneducated opinion, he was trying to say I'm ignorant for not agreeing that those bands are good. In my eyes they simply aren't.

Except I clearly explain I didn't.

You don't understnad the grammar.

I'll explain it again - you can have an ignorant opinion but not BE ignorant. That's what I said.

I said that if you didn't know more than two groups it was unusual and ignorant.

And ignorant is NOT a slur by itself. I don't know why you're getting defensive. I'm ignorant about a load of things.

And you were told multiple times that I know more than 2 bands, but there are only 2 bands that I would consider "good". It's been explained numerous times.

[crunchyfrog]

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Except I clearly explain I didn't.

You don't understnad the grammar.

I'll explain it again - you can have an ignorant opinion but not BE ignorant. That's what I said.

I said that if you didn't know more than two groups it was unusual and ignorant.

And ignorant is NOT a slur by itself. I don't know why you're getting defensive. I'm ignorant about a load of things.

And you were told multiple times that I know more than 2 bands, but there are only 2 bands that I would consider "good". It's been explained numerous times.

Only afterwards.

The point you demonstrated you either didn't understnad through language or something or were simply wrong.

Because your original claim was "Biritain has bands?" I tackled THAT claim.

I lsited loads of well known ones from the pile of CDs next to me. YOu then tried to dishonestly dodge by claiming outrage at me using the word ignorant, tried to say that I claimed you LIKED certain groups when I never brought that up and more.

Please stick to the point and stop trying to invent things that aren't there.

[PawgaliciouS QueeN]

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And you were told multiple times that I know more than 2 bands, but there are only 2 bands that I would consider "good". It's been explained numerous times.

Only afterwards.

The point you demonstrated you either didn't understnad through language or something or were simply wrong.

Because your original claim was "Biritain has bands?" I tackled THAT claim.

I lsited loads of well known ones from the pile of CDs next to me. YOu then tried to dishonestly dodge by claiming outrage at me using the word ignorant, tried to say that I claimed you LIKED certain groups when I never brought that up and more.

Please stick to the point and stop trying to invent things that aren't there.

Your list was in reply to my "there are only 2 good British bands" post. Again the question was not who is it is not well known, most British bands are not good.

[Heitor Villa-Lobos]

Self-Titled by Self Titled.

[Heitor Villa-Lobos]

Also, Track 1-13 of that disk by Uknown Artists also changed my life.

[crunchyfrog]

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Only afterwards.

The point you demonstrated you either didn't understnad through language or something or were simply wrong.

Because your original claim was "Biritain has bands?" I tackled THAT claim.

I lsited loads of well known ones from the pile of CDs next to me. YOu then tried to dishonestly dodge by claiming outrage at me using the word ignorant, tried to say that I claimed you LIKED certain groups when I never brought that up and more.

Please stick to the point and stop trying to invent things that aren't there.

Your list was in reply to my "there are only 2 good British bands" post. Again the question was not who is it is not well known, most British bands are not good.

Again wrong. I tackled your claim "Britain has bands?"


There was nothing in those three words to say that. YOu can keep wriggling and making excuses but I'm done. Just because you don't understand some words and basic grammar and so on is a you problem. I'm sorry.

[crunchyfrog]

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I completely forgot.

After I posted my initial post, I actually went to my shelves of CDs and have been going through them the last few night. It's been great as I've touched CDs I haven't touched in ages.

And one of the artists I completely missed was Bjork - her first two "proper" (yes I know she did some as a girl) albums were fantastic.

I personally love the Homogenic album. It's a real ground-breaker as she went to work with Jes from LFO, and I loved how she blended classical quartets with beats and her own distinct writing style.

The first half of that album especially is sublime.

Nothing like going back & finding even deeper tracks that never made it to the common airwaves. I'm glad you had your own throwback moment!

I would like to --perhaps-- try building a physical copy collection of music once again. I think for me, the issue was housing them all in an aesthetically pleasing way. Even records housed correctly is not always the least eyesore in the room.

I can understand that.

For me I've always amassed stuff and never sell it because I'm careful with what I buy. I always know myself enough to buy stuff I know I'm going to enjoy for years.

Plus I'm disabled and housebound so I kind of catered for that. So I have thousands of CDs and records as well as all my games and books. It does get trciky to store them though, especially as I only live in a small house.

Why I went back was simply that having thousands of CDs, even if you have them neatly stored can still mean you overlook them regularly. So I carefully went through and picked up stuff I hadn't touched in years. It was great.