From "Braxton"
(braxton@paninisgrill.com) - I'd just like to say you have
put together the best essential album list I have ever seen!
Keep up the good work man!
* What is the Guide?
An individual's music taste, in the form
of an album guide. One person's opinion on what albums are worth
owning in the genre of Rock & Metal with a few Dance &
Rap releases thrown in for diversity. The Guide is organised
as such: 1960s, 1970s and 1980s decades are each on one page
whilst the Nineties onward has a page for each individual year.
* Where can I find the Complete Listing?
If you want to view the best albums of
each decade on one page, then go straight to the Hall Of Fame
page.
* The Guide's Objective
The previous objective of the Guide was
to list the most essential rock & dance albums ever made,
but it is impossible to state as fact when every single person
has different tastes and opinions. Going back to the drawing
board, this new incarnation will list MY own personal favourites,
detailing the albums that changed my life, have most listened
to and value highly. Before, only one album per artist was featured
in the decade list, but this has been abolished, as has the rigid
Top 10 of each year. The number can range from 10 albums onward
depending on that year's quality. For example 1994 will have
more albums that 1997 because I would be struggling to fill up
the same quota since 1997 was a pretty bad year for album releases.
* Why isn't ______ included! I demand
to know why?
If your favourite album is excluded then
it's because it's my own personal list and not some overall public
opinion that you often see floating around the Internet. To counter
such conflict in opinion I have included a "Reader's
List" below for people to submit their own top 10 lists.
* How the Guide has changed over the
years
It's been many years since I first created
my personal album list, so the guyide has gone through many amendments
based upon albums I had heard since and others re-evaluated.
In the past few years my musical tastes have changed, and my
record collection has expanded quite significantly, especially
as blank CD-R's are ridiculously cheap to buy and easy to burn. However, I admit the Guide
is still flawed, providing a limited and biased scope that excludes
several worthy entries I haven't got round to hearing yet.
* Changing Tastes
Since the first inception, I have grown
more cynical to the next big things, hyped critical darlings
and major publication opinion. Also, I've become a regular reader
of many Internet Reviewing Community sites, opening my mind to
more honest opinions regardless of hype or what Rolling Stone
magazine tells you to listen to. Another factor playing a role
are the glut of Lists published end of each year from the coolest
people in music (NME), greatest songs ever (Q) and the obligatory
greatest albums of all time (Rolling Stone). This has inspired
me into looking at my own lists and realized it needed an overhaul.
Another event that spurred me into action was a mailer commented
that whilst the Guide was informative, the more recent years
included some pretty ropey albums. Which was indeed true, as
I included figgin' Limp Bizkit & Linkin Park albums for god's
sake! Since the original incarnation, I've discovered Sigur Ros,
appreciated The Rolling Stones, The Who, Fugazi and Run DMC far
more, at same time lowering my opinion on some modern bands.
* Disclaimer
And now for the disclaimer - I have an
obvious personal bias towards the early 90s rock scene that will
prevail because it had the biggest impact on my musical tastes
as a teenager - you just can't change your strong opinions overnight.
This explains why Nirvana's 'Nevermind' is rated so highly. I
admit it's not THE best album ever, it's just my personal favourite,
and will likely remain so for a very long time. To a certain
extent, Nine Inch Nails - 'The Downward Spiral' is my second
favourite album even though it's difficult to place it as #2
album of all time without coming across as ignorant of music
history. So I will hold back from making an overall Best Albums
EVER! List as it would be too hard to truthfully compile.
* Rantings, revisions & new additions
This guide is updated from time to time,
with new additions and re-writes of old reviews found in the
Opinions &
Updates section
* Can I give my opinion?
Yes, you can. Although this guide aims
to provide others an insight into why my individual tastes rate
certain albums highly, this is a democracy, so anyone can agree
or disagree with what was written. Email address is on the front page
So far I have received quite a few lists
from readers offering a varied selection of great (and sometimes,
not so great) albums. Click on the "More Readers Lists"
link below to view the whole archive.
From: Douglas
Evasick <devasic1@ithaca.edu> - 20 Nov'07
Hey there Nick,
I just wanted to e-mail you to say how happy I was to see your
web site is back online. I am a huge fan of music in general,
but the 90's alternative rock scene will always be closest to
my music obsessed heart. I became a huge fan of 90s alternative
rock after it was pretty much over in 2002 when I was in high
school and my teen pop sugar high wore off. I realized at the
time that lot of the new music being made was awful and that
there was something about the early 90s music scene which I had
just missed, but saw and heard on MTV and on my local alt rock
station that really started to attract me. I discovered your
site that year as I started to collect my classic rock and alternative
rock collections and I loved it. While there were a TON of review
sites that praised classic rock, there were not that many that
praised Alternative rock. I read your site all the time because
your love of alternative rock was so entertaining and insightful,
plus you gave props to my favorite alternative rock band, Stone
Temple Pilots, who normally recieve a lashing from critics, even
those online. I read your reviews to either get ideas for which
bands or albums I should look into next or read a review of an
album I just bought to get another persepective. At this point
I own hundreds of alternative rock albums, with at least 30 stemming
from 1994 alone now.
I am now a senior at Ithaca College and I run an internet radio
show dedicated to classic alternative rock that focuses on the
late '80s and '90s on the college's internet radio station VIC.
I now have gotten my brother into alternative rock in a big way
and I will be sure to show him your site. He loves Tool, so I
am sure he will agree with your opinions. So to conclude I just
wanted to write to you to show both my thanks for all the times
I visited your site over the years when I was a an alternative
rock newbie and to express how happy I am to see you back on
the web. Keep on rocking in the free world!
Here was my
own personal list :
1. Stone Temple
Pilots - Purple (1994)- The reason I love 90s' alt rock. Despite
what critics say, each song is unique and fresh. No other band
could have made this album. Interstate Love Song is the catchiest
grunge song ever!
2. Alice in
Chains - Jar of Flies (1994)- The album that moves me emotionally
more than any other album. Layne Staley's vocal tour de force.]
3. Smashing
Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (1995) - The
first alt rock album I ever owned (1998) and yet every year I
find new songs to love off this 28 song magnum opus.
4. Pearl Jam
- Ten (1991)- Seen them twice in concert and this album besides
Deep is close to perfect. It doesn't get much better than the
first half of Ten.
5. Soundgarden
- Superunknown (1994) - Of all the grunge bands I got into them
last, but it was worth the wait since this album is astounishingly
great, especially at 70 minutes.
6. Nirvana -
Nevermind (1991) - Over played and over rated, but still era
defining and great. In Bloom is the best song of their career.
7. Garbage -
Garbage (1995) - My fav album with a female vocalist. The perfect
mixture of grunge with pop and electronic production.
8. Oasis - What's
the Story (Morning Glory) (1995) - They might suck now, but back
then they sure knew how to write timeless songs.
9. Blur - Parklife
(1994) - Girls and Boys is the best alt rock song to dance to.
Probably overplayed where you live in the UK, but sorely neglected
here in the U.S.
10. Stone Temple
Pilots - Core (1992)- Derivitive, maybe? But I still like every
song off this album. Plush is a close second to Interstate Love
Song.
11. Foo Fighters
- Foo Fighters (1995) - While forgotten today compared to their
more polished and commerical success later, this album is still
the Foo's most sonical intersting and catchy album. Good Grief
is a hidden gem.
12. Live - Throwing
Copper (1994)- Even more so than Oasis, these guys really SUCK
now, their last few albums have been offensively bad. And
yet, one listen to this album makes me forget all the crap that
came after Secret Sahmadi.
13. Weezer -
The Blue Album (1994) - Nothing groundbreaking or life changing
here, just 10 great pop rock songs dressed up in Grunge production.
Still their best.
14. Smashing
Pumpkins - Siameses Dream (1993) - A few songs towards the end
lose me, but the first half is amazing. Quiet rocks so hard it
can rip my face off.
15. Nirvana
- In Utero (1993)- Outside the singles I hated this album because
it was so anti-commerical, but now my fav tracks (besides Heart
Shaped Box) are Scentless Apprentice and Milk It. Not for the
faint of heart.
16. Foo Fighters
- The Color and the Shape (1997) - The beginning of the Foo's
transition into a solid and catchy, if predictable, pop rock
band.
But any album with songs as great as Monkey Wrench, Hero and
Everlong, especially in a year as dreary as 1997, deserves praise.
17. Jane's Addiction
- Ritual De Lo Habitual (1990) - From Stop to Three Days I am
there! After that I turn to another album, but before the end
it is Jane's peak, featuring Dave's best work as a guitarist.
18. Garbage
- Version 2.0 (1998) - I only liked the singles at first, but
now songs like the Trick is to Keep Breating and You Look So
Fine (not a single in the US) have helped me to appreciate this
more as an album. They went downhill unfortunately after this.
19. Bush - Sixteen
Stone (1994)- The singles are where this albums shines, the rest
is servicable and fine but forgetable. But songs like Machinehead
and Comedown represent the very best of the post grunge scene,
when the acts still cared and knew what real grunge was, unlike
Creed, Nickleback and Puddle of Mud.
20. Sponge -
Rotting Pinata (1994)- The hidden gem of the 90s if you ask me.
Plowed and Molly are both second to only Bush in Post Grunge
sweep stakes, but the rest of the album has a dark but comforting
vibe that keeps me coming back.
21. U2 - Achtung
Baby (1991) - U2 have made some of the finest songs in rock history
(Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me is my fav song EVER),
but none of their albums are perfect in my opinion. Still this
album comes the closest.
22. R.E.M. -
Automatic for the People (1992)- The older I get the more I start
to really appreciate REM. This album's stock keeps going up for
me
every time I hear it. Closer Find the River is starting to move
me the way Jar of Flies does.
23. Oasis -
Definitely Maybe (1994)
24. Blur - Modern Life is Rubbish (1993)
25. Alice in Chains – Dirt (1992)
Sponge was a
band I found out by coincidence. I was reading an old article
from Entertainment Weekly in 1995 about Bush and the post grunge
scene, and how Bush was benefitting from Soundgarden, STP and
Alice being in between albums and Nirvana being gone and they
mentioned Sponge as a band they were also playing to fill in
the gap. Nick Karn on music junkies anonymous had a page for
the band and sang their praises, saying rotting pinata was better
than anything by Live, Bush, STP and Nirvana, which is not really
true, but still got me interested. I found their album used for
99 cents and I like to say it was the best 99 cents I ever spent.
They sound different for a post-grunge stp sounding band. They
have a certain element to their music which makes them stand
out even more so than Bush and Silverchair. Their second album
wax ecstatic is not as consistent but the high points, the title
track, got to be a bore, are even better than the high points
on rotting pinata.
As for some
of those bands you mentioned, my friend Liz, who helps with my
radio show from time to time and contributed her own list, is
always pushing me towards the even more alternative bands, her
favorite band ever is Radiohead. She got me into Sonic Youth
and the Flamming Lips and she has been lately pushing for Fugazi
and Pavement so they are right around the corner. I do have Cut
Your Hair by Pavement, since I own the 7 disk 90s box set rhino
put out in 2005 and it is one there. Helmet is also on that box
set though their song didn't grab me, weirdly though the Pantera
song Walk on that same disk did. This year I have looked more
into 80s alt rock like Smiths, Jesus and Marychain, Dinosaur
Jr. and shoegazer acts. I got Loveless this year and it is good
though not perfect. I feel the opener and closer are the easy
highlights, with a couple songs in the middle being generally
strong. I also got Lush's greatest hits and Sweetness and Light
has been my most played song on itunes. I also love Catherine
Wheel, who are the only shoegazer act to be bigger in the U.S
than in the U.K., though big being a relative term.
And yes the
Foo's nowadays are a good consistent rock band with singles better
than most of what gets on modern rock, but they are not what
they used to be. Their new album has a great first single in
pretender and great tracks like erase/replace and status, but
a lot of it is pretty faceless, especially the second single
long road to ruin.
i have a love
hate relationship with music. maybe the word hate is too strong
a word but what i have is an addiction to find the next
greatest album or track. i'm motivated by feeding music to some
bars i run but i know i would do it anyway!
i'm sat at home, its ten to one in the morn and the libertines
'don't look back into the sun' is playing on mtv2. a fine tune.
i'm more indie than rock but there is one band and one album
that grabs me guts and makes me think thank god i'm alive.
i'm talking acdc
- highway to hell
lots of reasons really......see below.
1. Highway To Hell - the first ever acdc song i heard.
classic riff, superb timing. i had just received a bundle of
acdc albums up to back in black i.e mainly bon scott. from my
cousin who as he says 'was moving on'. he susequently curses
the day he did that. i was 12 then and am now 37.
2. Girls
Got Rhythm
3. Walk All Over You - the way this song builds momentum
is quite superb climaxing to a thundering halt.
4. Touch
Too Much - excellent
5. Beating Around The Bush
6. Shot Down In Flames - memories of myming the lyrics
as i went crazy on a bar infront of about 100 spanish folk in
a busy cramped small bar in pamplona during the running of the
bulls. i went down quite well. fortunately i know the song well.
its another belter.
7. Get It Hot
8. If You Want Blood - classic dc
9. Love Hungary Man
10. Night Prowler
recommendation. if its friday night and your getting ready for
a few drinks with yor mates. put this album on. hit track nu
6, turn up very loud and enjoy. take it in and have a good night.
1990: Ritual De Lo Habitual
– Jane’s Addiction
Rust In Peace – Megadeth
Seasons In the Abyss – Slayer
Facelift – Alice In Chains
Cowboys From Hell – Pantera
1991: Ten – Pearl Jam
Temple of the Dog
Never Mind – Nirvana
Bad Motor Finger – Soundgarden
Black Album – Metallica
Use Your Illusion II – Guns n’ Roses
Achtung Baby – U2
Loveless – My Bloody Valantine
Blood Sugar Sex Magic – Red Hot Chili Peppers
Out of Time – REM
1992: Dirt – Alice In
Chains
Angel Dust – Faith No More
Core – Stone Temple Pilots
Rage Against the Machine
Automatic For the People – REM
Vulgar Display of Power – Pantera
Slanted and Enchanted – Pavement
Sweet Oblivian – Screaming Trees
Copper Blue – Sugar
1993: In Utero – Nirvana
Siamese Dream – Smashing Pumpkins
Undertow – Tool
Vs – Pearl Jam
Pablo Honey – Radiohead
1994: Superunknown –
Soundgarden
Downward Spiral – Nine Inch Nails
Purple – Stone Temple Pilots
Grace – Jeff Buckley
Vitalogy – Pearl Jam
Jar of Flies – Alice In Chains
Dookie – Green Day
Holy Bible – Manic Street Preachers
Blue Album – Weezer
Definitely Maybe – Oasis
1995: Melancholy and the
Infinite Sadness – Smashing Pumpkins
The Bends – Radiohead
Alice In Chains – Alice In Chains
What’s the Story, Morning Glory – Oasis
One Hot Minute – Red Hot Chili Peppers
Jagged Little Pill – Alanis Morisette
1996: Aenima – Tool
No Code – Pearl Jam
Down On the Upside – Soundgarden
Evil Empire – Rage Against the Machine
Antichrist Superstar – Marylyn Manson
Roots – Sepultura
1997: OK Computer –
Radiohead
Around the Fur – Deftones
Color and Shape – Foo Fighters
Nimrod – Green Day
Album of the Year – Faith No More
1998: Yield – Pearl Jam
Adore – Smashing Pumpkins
Follow the Leader – Korn
System of a Down – System of a Down
Celebrity Skin – Hole
1999: Californication –
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Battle of Las Angeles – Rage Against the Machine
Title of Record – Filter
Fragile – Nine Inch Nails
Euphoria Morning – Chris Cornell
Overall Best:
1. Ten - Pearl Jam. Head and shoulders above everything else. Powerful
hardrock combined with raw grunge and classic rock style riffs
and solos. Eddie Vedders lyrics are amazing on Black and Alive,
and it's easily the album that best showcases his vocal power,
Jeremy and Release are high-points. Influence wise it was a big
one too, I can't count on my fingers the number of bands this
album influenced. 2. Nevermind - Nirvana. One of the most important albums.
Great lyrics coming from Kurt Cobain, good riffs. It's simplistic
but very enjoyable. 3. Temple of the Dog. Best vocal performance ever. Chris
Cornell reaches a level of emotion, power, range, versatility
and emotion in his voice that is vertually untouchable. Mike
McCready's guitar playing and Matt Cameron's drumming are both
excellent. 4. Superunknown - Soundgarden. Easily the most creative
album of the '90s. Soundgarden takes progressive rock elements
and combines it with hard rock, metal and high energy alternative.
Yes it's all grunge.
Too bad Lateralus didn't come out in the '90s. Tool would
propably have two top ten albums. Soundgarden does, with BadMotorFinger
and Superunknown.
* Songs - I recomend a list of essential '90s
rock songs. I kind of threw it together, not alot of time.
1. Alive - Pearl
Jam
2. Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
3. Say Hello to Heaven - Temple of the Dog
4. Aenema - Tool
5. Jesus Christ Pose - Soundgarden
6. Rooster - Alice In Chains
7. November Rain - Guns n' Roses
8. Tears In Heaven - Eric Clapton
9. Under the Bridge - Red Hot Chili Peppers
10. Under A Glass Moon - Dream Theater
11. Killing in the Name Of - Rage Against the Machine
12. Closer - Nine-Inch Nails
13. 1979 - Smashing Pumpkins
14. Grace - Jeff Buckley
15. Losing My Religion - REM
16. Creep - Radiohead
17. Thunder Struck - AC-DC
18. One - U2
19. Slave to the Grind - Skid Row
20. Tommy the Cat - Primus
21. Midlife Crisis - Faith No More
22. Enter Sandman - Metallica
23. Man In the Box - Alice In Chains
24. Crash Into Me - Dave Matthews
25. Eulogy - Tool 2
26. Black - Pearl Jam 2
27. Santeria - Sublime 1
28. Stash - Phish 1
29. Interstate Love Song - Stone Temple Pilots
30. Loser - Beck
31. Black Hole Sun - Soundgarden
32. Ever Long - Foo Fighters
33. Sleep Now In the Fire - Rage Against the Machine
34. Scar Tissue - Red Hot Chili Peppers
35. Hunger Strike - Temple of the Dog
36. Lightning Crashes - Live
37. Silent Lucidity - Queensryche
38. Blue On Black - Kenny Wayne Shepherd
39. Tomorrow - Silver Chair
40. Heart-shaped Box - Nirvana
41. Paranoid Android - Radiohead
42. Innuendo - Queen
43. Jeremy - Pearl Jam
44. Symphony of Destruction - Megadeth
45. Plush - Stone Temple Pilots
46. Cemetery Gates - Pantera
47. Farmhouse - Phish
48. Crush - Dave Matthews
49. Kool Thing - Sonic Youth
50. Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley
51. Black Diamond - Stratovarious
52. Drive - Incubus
53. Pull Me Under - Dream Theater
54. Wonderwall - Oasis
55. Been Caught Stealing - Jane's Addiction
56. Nearly Lost You - Screaming Trees
57. Sheep Go to Heaven - Cake
58. Nutshell - Alice In Chains
59. Pretty Noose - Soundgarden
60. Longview - Green Day
61. Stink Fist -Tool
62. Karma Police - Radiohead
63. Brick - Ben Folds Five
64. Californication - Red Hot Chili Peppers
65. Diamonds on the Inside - Ben Harper
66. Glycerine - Bush
67. A Change of Seasons - Dream Theater
68. What I Got - Sublime
69. Hurt - Nine Inch Nails
70. Know Your Enemy - RATM feat. Maynard James Keenan
71. Epic - Faith No More
72. Run Around - Blues Traveler
73. Good Riddance - Green Day
74. Stellar - Incubus
75. Summer Babe - Pavement
76. Hard to Handle - Black Crows
77. Come In Alone - My Bloody Valentine
78. Little Miss Can't Be Wrong - Spin Doctors
79. All Apologies - Nirvana
80. Reach Down - Temple of the Dog
81. Three Days - Jane's Addiction
82. Everybody Hurts - REM
83. You Oughta Know - Alanis Morissette
84. Hey Jealousy - Gin Blossoms
85. Demon Cleaner - Kyuss
86. Star Fuckers, Incorporated - Nine Inch Nails
87. Hello Time Bomb - Matthew Good Band
88. Sex and Candy - Marcy Playground
89. Good Idea - Sugar
90. Shimmer - Fuel
91. Big Empty - Stone Temple Pilots
92. Good - Better Than Ezra
93. Snake Driver - Jesus and Mary Chain
94. Beautiful Oblivion - Eve Six
95. Runaway Train - Soul Asylum
96. Shine - Collective Soul
97. Cryin' - Aerosmith
98. There By the Grace of God - Manic Street Preachers
99. Get a Job - Offspring
100. Circles - Soul Coughing
-Nick Sievers
From: Arbe
<chrisandarbe@shaw.ca> - 30 Mar'06
I like your
list alot, and it's essential that you qualify it by saying it's
personal. I agree with alot of placements and don't find too
many glaring omissions, which is cool. Although, personally I
don't lean too much toward electronica and some of the NIN types,
from a pure musical perspective I respect that they are on the
list as great. Also, I am limited in my awareness of some of
the more british stuff, but this list gives me a place to start
to find out more about it, as I can tell that short of some of
the aforementioned stuff you have a similar musical taste to
mine.
2 things of note, even if not for the list, but for your own
musical selections that you may take a liking to:
#1) 2 great albums for the noughties: Green Day presents
American Idiot is freaking incredible, just listening to the
5 songs in one of "Jesus of Suburbia" and the simple
pain pop melody of "Novocaine" is unbelievable. Get
beyond the radio overplay of "Boulevard of Broken Dreams"
and the title track, which are good songs and listen to the "ALBUM"
as a whole, it's completely different, social commentary a la
the Clash of so many years ago and the Beatles before them...
Also Weezer's latest album "Make Believe" is possibly
their best to date. Very '80s inspired "This is Such a Pity"
and other straight ahead rockers with Weezer's typical humour,
such as "Beverly Hills" and "We Are All On Drugs"
#2) You are almost devoid of Canadian Content, excepting
that you, like me, are a big Neil Young fan...do yourself a favour
pick up any of the following:
I Mother Earth - Scenery and Fish
Our Lady Peace - Clumsy (side one esp.)
Matthew Good Band - Last of the Ghetto
Astronauts, Underdogs, Beautiful Midnight or the later ones,
as well
Barenaked Ladies - Gordon
Tragically Hip - Up To Here, Road Apples, Fully Completly, Day
For Night (in that order, albums 2 thru 5 of theirs)
Barstool Prophets - Crank
Give these a try, there are major hits and few misses amongst
all of these. Also you had no incubus in your lists. Even though
they use turntables they are far from limp bizkit etc., try their
debut "Make Yourself" or sophomore "Morning View",
both worthy selections. I will expand my CD collection to the
Brits and undoubtedly like what I hear, I suspect you will do
the same by taking my advice and picking up some of these Canadian
CDs.
Hi
there, I just though I'd drop a line to say I've just enjoyed
reading your site. I came across it a while back but then couldn't
remember what it was called for some reason.
There's
some really great sections. Really like the best album section.
Mainly rock orientated but a really wide range. It was really
enjoyable to see some lists that aren't fashion motivated.
Here
you go I'm going to list some of my favourites off the top of
my head:
Pavement
Brighten the corners
Bjork: Debut
The Clash: Londons Calling
Pixies: Doolittle
Primal Scream: Extreminator
Afgan Whigs: Black Love
Spiritualized: Ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space
Bob Dylan: Bring on back home
My Blood Valentine: Loveless
PJ Harvey: Dry
Thats
just off top of my head I'll probably have a complete different
list if I did it again, or maybe not.
Anyhow good stuff. Wayne.
"Christopher
Buecheler" <cynic@cdebris.com>- 06 Jan
2005
Stumbled
on your site when a random discussion with some friends brought
up "hey, what do you think was your personal BEST year for
rock and roll?"
My
top three, in order, with the specific albums that helped me
decide:
1991
- Nevermind (overplayed but important)
- Ten (imho the single best album of the decade)
- Achtung Baby (huge comeback for U2)
- Use Your Illusion (ditto for GnR)
- Blood Sugar Sex Magik (best RHCP album)
- Out of Time
- Blue Lines (not their best, but noteable)
- Gish (generally underrated)
- Orbital I (again a noteable debut)
1993
- Siamese Dream (best constructed rock album ever?)
- VS (Pearl Jam never made another Ten, but VS is ok)
- Undertow (fantastic album)
- Radiohead (noteable debut)
- Orbital 2 (arguably their best)
- A Storm in Heaven (noteable and GOOD debut)
1995
- Mellon Collie (75% brilliant, 25% crap)
- The Bends (better than Pablo Honey)
- KFADFFAL (nearly equal to Angel Dust)
- Garbage (Good songs, fantastic production)
'92
came close just on the strength of Angel Dust alone, but is otherwise
weak (imho). It also pains me that Aenima came out in '96 instead
of '95. :)
Anyway,
your site was instrumental in helping me do this oh-so-important
research. So thanks!
But
I must disagree with your assessment of "Gas Hed Goes West"
which I feel is not only the best song on that album, but one
of the top
two or three Live songs of all time. The slow build works well
in my opinion, and pays off in the final minute of the song.
Anyway,
like the site. Nice work!
Cheers,
Christopher Buecheler
http://www.cerebraldebris.com
External
Album Lists
Whereas this site offers
only my personal opinions, these sites compiles together media
critics end of year and all-time lists and present an overall
calculation of the greatest albums
RockList.net
Very substantial publication gathering site formed in 1995 that
archives albums of the year, best albums of all time and other
type of critic lists. The time frame is from 1974 up to this
year plus pop poll results from 1952 to today.
AcclaimedMusic.net
The most expansive rock album & single list site on the net
-- covering critical opinion from the 1950s to the modern day.
You could spend hours finding out that The Jackson 5 - 'I Want
You Back' was the most acclaimed single of 1969 or that The Clash
- 'London Calling' is the 10th most acclaimed album of all time
DigitalDreamDoor.com Comprehensive Music
& Movie lists covering everything from Greatest Rock Lyricists
to Greatest 'Live' Jazz Albums. It's interactive so you can post
your own feedback if you don't agree, for example, that "Master
Of Puppets" is the greatest metal album of time.
Jumping Fences
This is an informative and vast album list page that covers the
1,000 most acclaimed music of the 1990's. Broken down by year,
artist, ranking, country and so on, this is a truely excellent
place to visit for finding what the critics consider the greatest
albums. During 2003 the site closed, but still remains on the
net in it's last updated state.
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