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post #16 of 30
9/26/09 at 2:12am
I can't see how a real music lover can pick ten--or fifteen--for all time. Musical preferences have times and contexts. Exile on Main Street is incredibly important to me, but I haven't listened to it in a year. --Not even a single. For me, it is a complete work, which ought to be taken as a whole. Yet I haven't listened to it recently. Too many other things have imposed upon my attention.
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post #17 of 30
9/26/09 at 2:19am
Well, first of all, it's not all time, it's the last 20 years (unless that is "all time" to you).

I completely agree that different great works have their own time and place for enjoyment. I don't think this thread is a matter of scientific accuracy, just a simple attempt to probe whether people around here think more great albums were made in the '90s or the '00s.
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post #18 of 30
9/26/09 at 2:50am
I'm really terrible at picking favorites and sticking to them, especially if I'm being told to make a list of n favorites, n E {all finite integers}. This is because I don't rank my music, there's just music I love, music I like, and music that I may like someday.
Interestingly enough, this list is all 00's, but Slint's Tweez from '89 would probably top the list.

Explosions in the Sky - How Strange, Innocence (2000)
Daft Punk - Discovery (2001)
Agalloch - The Mantle (2002)
Silver Jews - Tanglewood Numbers (2005)
Mogwai - Mr. Beast (2006)
RuRuRu - s/t (2006)
Detholz! - Cast Out Devils (2006)
Midnight Juggernauts - Dystopia (2007)
Iron and Wine - The Shepherd's Dog (2007)
Envy/Jesu split (2008)

edit: I guess if we're including '89 I'd throw out RuRuRu and throw in Slint - Tweez (1989)
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post #19 of 30
9/26/09 at 4:58am
Interesting exercise.

I looked at my all-time favourite albums list (which actually dates back to the 90s and gets updated from time to time) and came up with the following:

Tori Amos, Boys for Pele (1996)
Tori Amos, Under The Pink (1994)
Radiohead, OK Computer (1997)
Tori Amos, Little Earthquakes (1991)
Richard Thompson, Celtschmerz (1998)
Jeff Buckley, Grace (1994)
Elvis Costello, The Juliet Letters (1993)
Jimmy Webb, 10 Easy Pieces (1996)
Paula Cole, This Fire (1996)
Andrew Bird, The Mysterious Production of Eggs (2004)

That's coincidentally exactly ten out of a list of about fifty and the ratio is 9:1 in favour of the nineties. Then I tweaked the list for the current task and got the following:

Tori Amos, Boys for Pele (1996)
Radiohead, OK Computer (1997)
Ben Folds Five, Whatever and Ever Amen (1997)
Jeff Buckley, Grace (1994)
Andrew Bird, The Mysterious Production of Eggs (2004)
Sufjan Stevens, Seven Swans (2004)
Ryan Adams, Gold (2001)
Ani Difranco, Evolve (2003)
Radiohead, In Rainbows (2007)
Nine Horses, Snow Borne Sorrow (2005)

6:4 to the oughts, which is what I went with.
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post #20 of 30
9/29/09 at 4:48am
In random order:

Jeff Buckley- Grace
Tool- Aenima
Tool- Lateralus
Massive Attack- Mezzanine
Dead Can Dance- Toward the Within
The Tea Party- The Edges of Twilight
The Mars Volta- De-Loused in the Comatorium
Radiohead- OK Computer
Rage Against the Machine- The Battle of Los Angeles
NIN- The Fragile
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post #21 of 30
9/29/09 at 1:47pm
I like a lot of genres, so I'll just stick with the very general pop/rock and not try to confuse myself.

The Refreshments - The Bottle and Fresh Horses (1997)
The Refreshments - Fizzy Fuzzy Big and Buzzy (1996)
Gin Blossoms - New Miserable Experience (1992)
Pearl Jam - Ten (1991)
Radiohead - The Bends (1995)
Jack Johnson - On and On (2003)
Incubus - Make Yourself (1999)
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik (1991)
Muse - Absolution (2003/2004)
Coldplay - Parachutes (2000)
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10/7/09 at 10:09pm

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post #23 of 30
10/8/09 at 12:05pm
This is really hard, and in no order:

Ween - The Mollusk (Although Dr. Rock from The Pod is one of my top 5 Ween songs and the best song they play live IMO)
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magic
Pearl Jam - Ten
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream (Mostly for the song Today, which just makes me smile and flashes me back to some great high school memories)
Nirvana - Unplugged
Tool - Ænima
NoFX - Punk in Drublic
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Beastie Boys - Check Your Head ( I would have picked Pauls Boutique, but that is 1989, not 1990)
Jane's Addiction - Ritual De Lo Habitual
Nine Inch Nails - Downward Spiral
Rage Against the Machine - Self TItled
Green Day - Kerplunk
Walt Mink - Bareback Ride

This has proven to be an exercise in futility. There are a lot more I would add, and have been adding and removing bands from this list over and over. There are more than ten, but I got sick of trying to trim it down. I would also add that I could easily put Radiohead, White Zombie, Korn, Weezer, Foo Fighters, Stone Temple Pilots, Dre, Snoop Dogg, Lagwagon, Breeders, Pixies, etc... on there as well.

Edit: See I even forgot to mention Beck.
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post #24 of 30
10/8/09 at 1:32pm
No particular order:

Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Tool - Aenima
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
Postal Service - Give Up
Modest Mouse - Moon and Antarctica
Brad Paisley - Part II
Alison Krauss and Union Station - Live
Radiohead - Ok Computer
Mountain Goats - Tallahassee
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post #25 of 30
10/8/09 at 1:43pm
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F# A# ∞
Refused - The Shape Of Punk To Come
Streetlight Manifesto - Everything Goes Numb
Yndi Halda - Enjoy Eternal Bliss
X Japan - Art Of Life
Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
Between The Buried And Me - Colors
Converge - Jane Doe
Cynic - Traced In Air
Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery
Death - Symbolic
Lights Out Asia - Tanks And Recognizers
Margot and the Nuclear So and So's - The Dust of Retreat
Mono - You Are There
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Riverside - Second Life Syndrome
The Flashbulb - Soundtrack to a Vacant Life
Thrice - Vheissu
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post #26 of 30
10/8/09 at 1:53pm
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Originally Posted by NateO View Post
Walt Mink - Bareback Ride
Wow, there's a band you don't see much talk about! Always loved the debut Miss Happiness and later El Producto, but don't think I ever heard their second one. Like so many others in the early 90s, great band, but riding a trail of bad luck, broken deals and indifferent management. Too bad they couldn't quite break through, or get a good label deal. I'd definitely recommend El Producto to fans of the 90s indie/alternative rock. Think it was a darling of Pitchfork at one time too, maybe even scored one of their retro 10/10 ratings, though that shouldn't be held against it
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post #27 of 30
10/8/09 at 2:53pm
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Originally Posted by Davey View Post
Wow, there's a band you don't see much talk about! Always loved the debut Miss Happiness and later El Producto, but don't think I ever heard their second one. Like so many others in the early 90s, great band, but riding a trail of bad luck, broken deals and indifferent management. Too bad they couldn't quite break through, or get a good label deal. I'd definitely recommend El Producto to fans of the 90s indie/alternative rock. Think it was a darling of Pitchfork at one time too, maybe even scored one of their retro 10/10 ratings, though that shouldn't be held against it
They were a local band from Minneapolis so I had the fortune of seeing them quite a few times live. I still have a couple old demo tapes of theirs stored away in a box. Now I just need to find a tape deck to play them.

If anyone is interested you can listen to a couple songs at John's website, just look for the songs that begin with Walt Mink -. He has listed Fragile and Miss Happiness.

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post #28 of 30
10/8/09 at 10:43pm
1. Still Life - Opeth (1999)
2. Back To Times of Splendor - Disillusion (2004)
3. La Masquerade Infernale - Arcturus (1997)
4. Metropolis Part 2: Scenes from a Memory - Dream Theater (1999)
5. My Arms Your Hearse - Opeth (1998)
6. Lateralus - Tool (2001)
7. Octavarium - Dream Theater (2005)
8. Into The Electric Castle - Ayreon (1998)
9. The Mantle - Agalloch (2002)
10. Universal Migrator Parts I and II - Ayreon (2000)

I love all of these albums so the ranking isn't a strong opinion just a "if I had to" kind of thing.
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post #29 of 30
10/8/09 at 11:01pm
Megadeth - Rust in Peace (1990)
Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas (1990)
The Cure - Entreat (1990)
Fugazi - Repeater (1990)
MBV - Loveless (1991)
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream (1993)
Portishead - Dummy (1994)
Pizzato Five - Overdose (1994)
Blonde Redhead - Fake can be Just as Good (1997)
Belle & Sebastian - Tigermilk (1999)
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post #30 of 30
10/9/09 at 12:01pm
ok this album was released in 87 but it was remastered in the 90's so one album springs to mind as the greatest of the century... U2 the joshua tree

i couldnt possibly give my top 10 because nothing can be rated in the same catagory.
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