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The 90s Album Exchange - Post one of your favorite albums from the 90s

Nymphae

Nymphae

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Stilton Disco said:
Sadly the lead singer, Shirley Manson, has found religion in the Cult of Woke, tends to go on long anti trump and generaly anti science, bigoted rants and even once at a live show started drunkenly crying and screaming at a black member of the audience, about how beautiful they were because of their skin colour, and how sorry she was for being white.
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Wow didn't know that, good thing the band knows how to jam. I like their new stuff less and less, Beautiful Garbage was pretty great in ways, but for me it's been forgettable after that for the most part, I really did not like Strange Little Birds at all.
 
Valonquar

Valonquar

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I'd say either Garbage


or Curve


*Edit. Looks like I have a few kindred spirits on musical GAF. Been to several Garbage concerts. All were great live shows. At one point Shirley stopped to tell some parents they were great for making sure thier kid wore earplugs to the show to protect his ears. This somehow led to the kid getting invited up to the stage to play the drums for one of thier songs...


So I'm can forgive a lil wokeness from Shirley when she's this cool. Besides she also morphed from a urinal to murder someone that one time:


That CG is so much worse than I remember.
 
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BlackOlivesMatter

BlackOlivesMatter

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Butthole Surfers

Electriclarryland (1996)


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Old Retro

Old Retro

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ILLtown said:
Catherine Wheel - Ferment

Genre: Shoegaze/Alternative Rock
Released: 1992

This is one of those albums that probably flew under a lot of people's radars at the time, cos it didn't achieve a huge amount of commercial success. They never had a single in the UK charts, but "Black Metallic" achieved some success in the US. Featuring the production work of Tim Friese-Greene, who did a ton of work with Talk Talk, another band I love.
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WOW that's good!!! :pie_smiling_hearts: Thanks for sharing! I too, am a fan of shoegaze. My favorite band... from one of my favorite, care free/wreckless eras in my life:

Starflyer 59 from the year 1997

 
LegendOfKage

LegendOfKage

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Artist: Ben Folds Five
Album: Ben Folds Five
Year: 1995
Genre: Alternative.
Maybe try this if you enjoy: Pianos, harmonies, story driven music.
After this album, maybe try: Whatever and Ever Amen, then their third album, followed by early solo Ben Folds.

 
LegendOfKage

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ILLtown said:
Portishead - Dummy

Genre: Trip-Hop
Released: 1994

The debut album from Bristol-based trip-hop outfit, Portishead. This won the Mercury Music Prize in 1995.




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Portishead is amazing. It's kind of cheating when it comes to some of the music not coming from the 90s, but if you never heard it before, here's a pretty nice mix from 1998 compiled by DJ Andy Smith. He was a "warm up DJ and club DJ" for Portishead, which is how his mix albums first came to my attention.


 
Urprobablyright

Urprobablyright

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Andrew Korenchkin said:
Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road

Genre: Alt-Country/Americana
Released: 1998.

One of the best albums ever released in the Americana genre, taking you through Texas, Louisiana, Southern California...wherever Lucinda Williams is willing to take you.

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Chillll love it, I'll chuck it on my phone, big dose of the other great female singers from the us
 
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Cutty Flam

Cutty Flam

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PengTiki said:
Blind Melon - Blind Melon & Soup





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Whenever I hear Blind Melon’s “No Rain” ....and watch the music video, I can’t even tell you how I feel. That’s a piece of art to the fullest extent

I feel the same way about a lot of these bands’ songs

Cranberries with “Linger” and “Dreams” essentially puts you into a different realm when you listen. Timeless

Smashing Pumpkins’ “1979” is another one. Wow, that song is absolutely profound. I cannot even describe it. It feels like it perfectly conveyed the feel of the 90s free spirited fun seeking times. Sort of ignorant, blissful times where you could just be a kid and have fun in the world without a care to anything else except how you were going to have fun and then have more fun and do it all over again the next day. But at the same time reality will present itself most subtly into every child’s life and it’s an unavoidable phenomenon and fact of life. But to me, the song represents a fun filled life at the young child stage, in a time when people were a lot warmer, more caring, more social, more creative and spontaneous, and just filled with more of the love of life than these time....Fucking miss the 90s man, feels like a longing. Like a beautiful relationship that cannot be retrieved, but an intangible memory that best represents the times that felt like heaven on earth for a lot of us kids back then. I doubt we can ever get back to such amazing days as those, unless we do as the bible says and become like children. That part always intrigued me. The way to heaven is to be like children. It’s all very brilliant....
 
Cutty Flam

Cutty Flam

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This performance always stood out to me. I love Shirley’s approach. She was always a very spiritual person. She felt the music and had the talent and she moved so freely...overall just an extraordinary creator and musician. Her talent level is just unbelievable to me I’m a huge fan of their work and contributions

Check out the video and you’ll see what I’m talking about. This live performance is perfect. Way more lively than even the studio recording on their self titled album. She’s feeling out the crowd, the music, her fellow musicians performing and giving it all out to the entire stage and crowd. So amazing!!!!
 
Woffls

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Two albums from bands who are generally perceived as barely existing in the 90s, let alone recording some awesome shit:

Deep Purple - Purpendicular


Black Sabbath - Dehumanizer



And two records from the Scorpions who, to be fair, have always fucking smashed it with the exception of Eye II Eye and Pure Instinct... which have now disappeared from Spotify. Hmm.

Scorpions - Face the Heat


Scorpions - Crazy World
 
#Phonepunk#

#Phonepunk#

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Artist: The Presidents of the United States of America
Album: self titled
Year: 1995



one of those "one hit wonders" who when you buy their album you fall in love with almost all of the songs. i had this album on cassette and used to play it over and over again while playing SNES games (Earthworm Jim 2 specifically). like many 90s alt rock band they were obsessed with Cheap Trick, and like Weezer they mined that realm of nerdy punky arena rock for some solid bubblegum rock. the whole album is a lot of fun to listen to. "Feather Pluckin'" is probably my favorite song but they all rule.

the album starts with a great sing along nonsense track, "Kitty". they took Green Day-style juvenalia and reduced it to little kid playground style lyrics ("kitty at my foot and i want to touch it"). catchy as hell tho.


the hit single was "Lump", a very simple punk song which demonstrated their minimalist approach of using only a couple strings per instrument.


my favorite song of theirs, "Peaches", is very simple soft-loud punk rock. the music video is one of the greatest, with the band playing in a meadow with peaches, while being stalked by that perennial 90s villain, ninjas! the action scene in the end is the best part.
 
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Radical Dreamer

Radical Dreamer

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Artist: Boards of Canada
Album: Music Has the Right To Children
Year: 1998
Genre: Electronic/IDM




Artist: Aphex Twin
Album: Selected Ambient Works 89-92
Year: 1992
Genre: Electronic/IDM




Artist: Autechre
Album: Incunabula
Year: 1993
Genre: Electronic/IDM




Artist: Metallica
Album: Black Album
Year: 1991
Genre: Metal/Thrash

 
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ILLtown

ILLtown

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DJ Qbert - Wave Twisters

Genre: Turntablism
Released: 1998

The album came out in 1998, but 3 years later, an animated movie was released that's based on it. It's kind of a bizarre sci-fi/fantasy story which doesn't make a great deal of sense, but it's pretty crazy that something like this was even released.

 
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ILLtown

ILLtown

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Dr. Octagon - Dr. Octagonecologyst

Genre: Hip-Hop
Released: 1996

I bought this on a whim after seeing it in the hip-hop section of my local record store back in 96 and thinking "WTF is this?", mainly because of the album cover which is plain white with a picture of a severed hand on it and "Dr. Octagon" written next to it. It features Kool Keith, DJ Qbert on the cuts, and production by Dan The Automator and KutMasta Kurt. Lyrically, it's the typical crazy shit you'd expect from Kool Keith and overall I think it's a great album.







 
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ILLtown

ILLtown

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Diamond & The Psychotic Neurotics - Stunts, Blunts & Hip Hop

Genre: Hip-Hop
Released: 1992

The debut album from Diamond D, featuring appearances from Big L, Fat Joe, Brand Nubian and others. If you were into hip-hop in the 90s, you've almost certainly heard this already (or at least some tracks from it), but if not, it's definitely worth checking out.










 
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