You're Favorite Music Album of the 90's

[CosmonautLaunchPad]

Saw a similare thread on another message board and figured it would be fun to discuss here. What's your favorite music album of the 90's? Mine would have to be from the band I'm going to see Friday:

[bonabum06]

good pick. I'm a big ya kid k fan.

but seriously.

40oz to freedom-Sublime. I think it's their best album. Came out in 92.

[oleanron]

I have a number of them. Pretty much all of them bring back awesome memories from college:



Nirvana, Nevermind. The one that changed everything. I used to blast "Smells Like Teen Spirit" before I went out.



Various Artists, SinglesOriginal Motion Picture Soundtrack. A kick-ass soundtrack to a kick-ass movie, a love letter to the Seattle music scene. Not only that, but the song "Dyslexic Heart" pretty much summed up my relationship with this one girl.



Gin Blossoms, New Miserable Experience. Now here was a band I don't think ever really got their due. Pretty much remembered for "Hey Jealousy" (a kick-ass song), they pretty much faded away. But this is a pretty cool CD.



Metallica, Metallica (aka The Black Album. Two words: "Enter Sandman."



Pearl Jam, Vs.. Probably the best album Pearl Jam put out. "Daughter", "Rearviewmirror", "Animal", "Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town" (a song which took on new meaning for me recently)...I remember when I got dumped by a girl I just played this one over and over and over...we used to play this in Garret before the shows.

[mikenice]

40 oz and Nevermind would be up there for me. Nirvana was the first group I ever got huge into. Also, Green Day Dookie when I was in 4th/5th grade.

Switching over to the hip-hop scene that blew up during the 90s I'd have to go with:

Doggystyle - Snoop
Ready To Die - Biggie
The Slim Shady LP - Eminem

[marquisevssymmetry]

Pavement -- Slanted and Enchanted

[bonabum06]

less than jake put out two killer albums as well. . .losing streak and hello rockview

[CosmonautLaunchPad]

bonabum06 said:

less than jake put out two killer albums as well. . .losing streak and hello rockview

I recently saw them at 9:30 club. It was a good show. They were great back in the day. Anthems wasn't bad either, but I heard their newest album "In with the Out Crowd" is awful. And that review came from a die hard Less Than Jake fan.

[doogiehowsermd]

Beastie Boys-Paul's Boutique

Without a doubt the album with the most samples on it (before sampling became fashionable)and quite honestly in my opinion has to be in the ALL-TIME top 20 if not much higher (top 10).

[wutang]

I had absolutely nothing to do at work this morning and love writing about 90's rap music so here is my rap music in the 90's post.

The very early 90's were all about the West Coast. Dre produced or inspired some of the best hard core albums of all time in the early 90's. For me I was about 12 years old hiding these from my mom. The west was running the rap game in these years.


The mid 90's saw some of the greatest rappers of all time come out of NY to release classic debuts that brought the focus back east, and also put more emphasis on lyrical skill rather then the gangster image. Nas's Illmatic is probably my favorite of all time and also usually always ranked in the top 25 overall albums of all time on most lists.





This was also about the time what a group of nine out NY called themselves the Wu-Tang Clan and produced a monumental record called 36 chambers in someones basement. Wu-Tang owned the NY underground throughout the mid 90's with RZA producing classisc after classic on each member's debut.



The mid 90's also was a time when the South and Midwest started to become known when Bone thugs came out of Cleveland and Outkast & Goodie Mob came out of Atlanta



The mid 90's were held strong by some of the strongest artists out there, especially 2pac and Big. Still a lot of great albums in this era for both NY and the West Coast.



Unfortunately thie era was ended with the death of Big, Pac, and Pun in the mid 90's and this jackass took over and ushered in the "jiggy" era.



Until one man came out of nowhere and made history by releasing 2 #1 albums in 1998 and single handedly ended the shiny suit era. These albums made everybody forget about Puff's dancing and nonsense and brought in a whole new darker era.



Most of these are classics to me because they changed the way everyone was doing things at the time, and changed the whole culture. It used to be so great just to see everyone doing it because they wanted to be the best, not because they wanted to be rich and there are very few doing that anymore.

To me the 90's was the greatest era in music and unfortunately corporate America has killed that this decade and there is very little rap music worth listening to.

Some honerable mentions here should also be Eminem and Scarface too. I just couldn't fit them in anywhere.

There is your rap history lesson for the day. I could have honestly write about this all day.

[oleanron]

Ever see the Saturday Night Live "Biography" sketch of Puff Daddy? It was hilarious. Tim Meadows as Puffy: "I wrote my first song when I was 13. It's called 'Baby Baby Baby': 'This is what is sounds like/When doves cry/Baby Baby Baby!"

He also previews "Come With Me Again", to the tune of Aerosmith's "Don't Wanna Miss A Thing": "Don't wanna close my eyes/COME WITH ME!/Don't wanna fall asleep/COME WITH ME AGAIN!"

Great stuff.

Postscriptum: Dude, how the hell could I have forgotten "Dookie", which is legitimately in my top three favorite albums of the 90s? Mikenice, you were in fifth grade when it came out? I was already a year out of college. Fuck, I'm old. I'm going to feel older when I go to Olean in September. A bunch of us are thinking about heading to the Hickey. Don't really want to deal with the college crowd (no offense), but a the same time, don't want to go to a townie bar...

[kcsbu03]

Dookie is definitely my favorite album of the 90's. I actually had it on tape til i bought the cd in like 1996. Anybody who was anybody had that album in school. Nevermind is a very close second. Im gonna throw out a sleeper and add Weezers Blue Album to the mix. I went to high school with Rivers Cuomo's cousin and got hooked up when they came to rochester for a show back in high school.

[wutang]

oleanron said:

General Tso's Chicken, I'm old. I'm going to feel older when I go to Olean in September. A bunch of us are thinking about heading to the Hickey. Don't really want to deal with the college crowd (no offense), but a the same time, don't want to go to a townie bar...

I think you have mentioned it was different when you were there but we always went to Randy's to get food. They have always been friendly to us whenever we went there and I think they have great food, especially the wings. Randy's is always a stop of mine when I go back. I was just there for lunch the day before graduation. Plus you can drink a pitcher of beer for like $4.

also I wish someone would slap P Diddy everytime he said "make it hot" in the background of an album. Just go away, you have ruined too many songs.

[mikenice]

Thanks for that lesson in rap history Wu. I was waiting for you to chime in... or atleast someone else with a little bit of rap interest.

Illmatic I forgot to list. Tical was one of the first CD's I owned. As well as Reasonable Doubt. My favorite Jay-Z album.

Unfortunately, like you said, Puffy came in on the heels of a great era and ruined it. I still remembering constantly throwing in Wu-Tang Forever and Life After Death, while everyone else was getting into Mase and the like. What a sad period in music that was.


Edit: Though he never had a huge album, gotta throw Big L in there.

Actually, Oleanron, I think Dookie came out while I was still in 4th grade going on to 5th. 1994 so I was about 10 years old. That same Christmas or Birthday I got my first CD player and two of my first CDs were Dookie and Smash (Offspring).

[CosmonautLaunchPad]

The first CD I ever purchased was Presidents of the United States of America and it was their self titled album. I was a late bloomer onto the CD scene. This was a good CD. Lump, Peaches...all classics. Those guys made some pretty good music with just two and three string guitars.

[wutang]

Another person not mentioned in my post that was about to become one of the greats in the 90's before he died was Big L.



Unfortunately he never got the credit or exposure he deserved before he died.


Also something that has really been annoying me lately is all these people loving this "new" artist Gnarles Barkley. I like the cd a lot but i am sick of telling people his music has been around for almost 15 years. It is just Cee-lo who released 3 cds while he was in goodie Mob and 2 solo cd's which were all good releasing a cd under a different name with all dangermouse beats on it. It was just a side project he is not a new artist or just breaking into the game. if you like this album get his solo albums they all are just as good!