cactusoly

1990: Judas Priest Painkiller
1991: Skid Row Slave to The Grind
1992: White Zombie Lasexoristo Devil Music vol 1
1993: Anthrax Sounds of White Noise
1994: Corrosion of Conformity Deliverence
1995: White Zombie Astro Creep 2000
1996: Corrosion of Conformity Wiseblood
1997: Judas Priest Jugulator
1998: Rob Zombie Hellbilly Deluxe
1999: Powerman 5000 Tonight The Stars Revolt

DaveWadding

1990 : Garth Brooks — No Fences
1991 : RHCP — Blood Sugar Sex Magik
1992 : Dr. Dre — The Chronic
1993 : Garth Brooks — In Pieces
1994 : Eagles — Hell Freezes Over
1995 : Garth Brooks — Fresh Horses/ 2Pac — Me Against the World (TIE)
1996 : Jay-Z — Reasonable Doubt/ 2Pac — All Eyez on Me/ TSO — Christmas Eve and Other Stories (seriously) (TIE)
1997 : Jay-Z — In My Lifetime Vol. 1
1998 : Offspring — Americana/ Kid Rock — Devil Without a Cause
1999 : Dr. Dre — 2001 (This was the year I was in between 8th grade and high school and my musical tastes really started to go in every different direction... I could literally list a dozen albums from this year that I love or were important to my development as a music fiend (embarassing as something of them may be...)

Supermallet

1990 : Depeche Mode — Violator
1991 : U2 — Achtung, Baby
1992 : Prince — O(+>
1993 : Boredoms — Pop Tatari/Morrissey — Your Arsenal (TIE)
1994 : Elvis Costello — Brutal Youth
1995 : Pulp — Different Class
1996 : Beck — Odelay
1997 : Bjork — Homogenic
1998 : Boredoms — Super ae
1999 : The Residents — Wormwood

TheGodfather

I can't find a good reference for release years to help me out with this. Any suggestions? I'm blurry on what came out in what year.

Thanks.

Supermallet

Allmusic.com

The Bus

I did something like search "top albums of 19XX" in Google and the result was invariable something at rateyourmusic.com. Usually you get a list of 25 albums or so but those lists are pretty good.

The Bus

1999 was an incredible year for music and film. Maybe not the best year in quality, but I think the (to crib Tricky's phrase) pre-millenium tension had artists come out the woodwork and try and do something.

cactusoly

I just used my itunes which has over 1000 albums and sorted them by year

DaveWadding

search 19xx in music on Wiki they all have a list of albums released.

dick_grayson

I used rateyourmusic.com and you can search each year's highest rated albums.


great website

foofighters7

1990-Janes Addiction-Ritual de lo Habitual-
1991-Nirvana-Nevermind-
1992-Tom Waits -Bone Machine-
1993-Nirvana - In Utero-
1994-STP -Purple-
1995-Radiohead -The Bends-
1996- Beck -Odelay!-
1997- Foo Fighters -The Colour and the Shape-
1998- Pearl Jam -Yield-
1999- Tom Waits -Mule Variations-

bunkaroo

Tough to pick favorites.

Some of these I didn't listen to when they were first out, but they are favorites now:

1990: Queensryche: Empire
1991: Seal: S/T
1992: Dream Theater: Images & Words
1993: Type O Negative: Bloody Kisses
1994: Dream Theater: Awake/Seal S/T (Tie)
1995: Fear Factory: Demanufacture/KMFDM-Nihil (Tie)
1996: Type O Negative: October Rust
1997: Rammstein: Sehnsucht
1998: Fear Factory: Obsolete
1999: Nine Inch Nails: The Fragile

stardog05

1990 : Alice In Chains — Facelift / The Black Crowes - Shake Your Money Maker (tie)

Wow, this is where it gets really really tough. Of the appox. 650 albums I own, roughly a third were released between 1991 and 1995. But I'm gonna try to limit myself to no more than 3 albums per year.

1991 : Soundgarden — Badmotorfinger / Pearl Jam - Ten / Temple of the Dog - Temple of the Dog (tie)
1992 : Alice In Chains — Dirt / Various Artists - Singles Soundtrack / Stone Temple Pilots - Core (tie)
1993 : Smashing Pumpkins — Siamese Dream / Counting Crows - August and Everything After / Nirvana - In Utero (tie)
1994 : Live — Throwing Copper / Pearl Jam - Vitology / Nirvana - Unplugged / Soundgarden - Superunknown (tie) ok, it's 4 for this year.
1995 : Mad Season — Above / Pink Floyd - Pulse / The Presidents of the United States of America - Self Titled (tie)
1996 : Alice In Chains — Unplugged / Sublime - Sublime (tie)
1997 : Everclear — So Much for the Afterglow / Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape (tie)
1998 : Pearl Jam — Yield
1999 : Chris Cornell — Euphoria Morning / Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication

DamingR

1990 : The Black Crowes - Shake Your Money Maker
1991: Metallica - Metallica
1992: Dr. Dre - The Chronic
1993: Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream; Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle; Pearl Jam - Vs.
1994: Nirvana - Unplugged; NIN - The Downward Spiral
1995: Smashing Pumpkins - MCIS
1996: 2Pac - All Eyez on Me
1997: Radiohead - OK Computer
1998: Smashing Pumpkins - Adore
1999: NIN - The Fragile

prp2

Wow, we must have really similar tastes, at least for that decade. That's how I'd rate those years as well and I still listen to all those albums to this day.

Also I'd go with
1994 : Live - Throwing Copper, Toadies - Rubberneck

Rocketdog2000

Both excellent choices, as well. I'd also add Bush - Sixteen Stone to the list for '94 - as it came out very late that year, but really didn't "hit" until '95.

Just for laughs and similarity sake, here's some of my other back up choices from '95 to '98

1995: Goo Goo Dolls - A Boy Named Goo, Oasis - What's The Story (Morning Glory), Radiohead - The Bends, Better Than Ezra - Deluxe, Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters

1996: Stone Temple Pilots - Tiny Music From The Vatican Gift Shop, The Verve Pipe - Villians, Tonic - Lemon Parade, Better Than Ezra - Friction Baby

1997: Radiohead - OK Computer, Our Lady Peace - Clumsy, Black Lab - Your Body Above Me

1998: Semisonic - Feeling Strangely Fine, Superdrag - Head Trip In Every Key, Fastball - All The Pain Money Can Buy

atlantamoi

1990 : The La's — The La's
1991 : U2 — Achtung Baby
1992 : —
1993 : Trash Can Sinatras — I've Seen Everything
1994 : Innocence Mission — Glow
1995 : Teenage Fanclub — Grand Prix
1996 : Everything But The Girl — Walking Wounded
1997 : Pizzicato Five — Happy End of the World
1998 : Air — Moon Safari
1999 : —

atlantamoi

1990 : The La's — The La's
1991 : U2 — Achtung Baby
1992 : Los Lobos — Kiko
1993 : Trash Can Sinatras — I've Seen Everything
1994 : Innocence Mission — Glow
1995 : Teenage Fanclub — Grand Prix
1996 : Everything But The Girl — Walking Wounded
1997 : Pizzicato Five — Happy End of the World
1998 : Air — Moon Safari
1999 : Moby — Play

TimJS

I've got this for my '89 choice.

edit: I just looked up on Google and looks like it was 1990, what's more, you're right about your 89 choice!

prp2

Alright, I'm coming to you if the hard drive I've got all my CDs ripped to blows up and the CDs themselves are stolen. You just named a sizable chunk of my "go to" music. God damn it.

deadlax

1990 - Nothing important
1991 - My Bloody Valentine: Loveless
1992 - The Black Crowes: The Southern Harmony and Music Companion
1993 - Counting Crows: August and Everything After
1994 - Pavement: Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
1995 - Radiohead: The Bends
1996 - Wilco: Being There
1997 - Nothing that stands the tests of time for me
1998 - Neutral Milk Hotel: In the Aeroplane over the Sea
1999 - The Flaming Lips: The Soft Bulletin, Wilco: Summerteeth

Ayre

1990: (NOTHING)
1991: My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
1992: Stone Temple Pilots - Core
1993: The Cranberries - Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?
1994: Live - Throwing Copper
1995: Radiohead - The Bends
1996: Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup
1997: Radiohead - OK Computer
1998: Totoise - TNT
1999: Matthew Good Band - Beautiful Midnight

I spent more time on 1990 than on the others combined and still couldn't find a thing.

Most of this looks like what other people have posted, but these are my favorites.

1993 & 1997 were brutal because of the number of great releases.

FantasticVSDoom

1990 : Slayer - War Ensemble & Ice Cube - Amerikkkas Most Wanted
1991 : Tribe Called Quest — The Low End Theory & Sepultura — Arise
1992 : Dr. Dre — The Chronic
1993 : Wu-Tang Clan — Enter the 36 Chambers
1994 : Outkast — Southernplayalistic... & Weezer — Blue
1995 : Rancid — Out Comes the Wolves
1996 : Tool — Aenima
1997 : Deftones — Around the Fur
1998 : System of a Down — SOAD
1999 : Poison the Well — The Opposite of December

...Man this was harder than I thought. Early 90's was a bitch trying to pick since so much goodness.

Lt Ripley

1990 : Esham — Boomin' Words from Hell
1991 : DJ Quik — Quik Is the Name / Pearl Jam — Ten
1992 : White Zombie — La Sexorcisto / Pantera — Vulgar Display of Power / Sublime — 40 oz. to Freedom
1993 : Counting Crows — August and Everything After / Smashing Pumpkins — Siamese Dream / Dwight Yoakam — This Time
1994 : Alice in Chains — Jar of Flies / Live — Throwing Copper
1995 : Oasis — (What's The Story) Morning Glory?
1996 : Sublime — Sublime / Wallflowers — Bringing Down the Horse / Outkast — ATLiens
1997 : Opeth — Orchid
1998 : Rob Zombie — Hellbilly Deluxe
1999 : Powerman 5000 — Tonight The Stars Revolt

Y2J850

1990-Bad Religion - Against the Grain
1991-Pearl Jam - Ten / Nirvana - Nevermind
1992-Rage Against the Machine-Rage Against the Machine/ Alice in Chains - Dirt
1993-Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dreams
1994-Soundgarden -Superunknown / Bush- Sixteen Stone
1995- Alanis Morissette - jagged little pill / No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom / Jewel - Pieces of You (good year for female artists)
1996-Sublime - Sublime
1997-Symphony X- Divine Wings of Tragedy
1998-Godsmack-Godsmack
1999-Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication

And the BEST album of the 90's -
Smashing Pumpkins -Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness