Your Favorite Rock Album of the 90's

[Razorback]

Post what you feel is your favorite (not necessarily the best) rock album of the 90's.

I will start it off:

Temple of the Dog

Every single one of these songs should be a classic. These are the best songs written or played by any of those musicians and Chris Cornell has never sounded more emotional. Probably the most underrated album of the "grunge" era.

RB

[Threadkiller]

Not a bad choice. But I have to go with a toss up between

<font color="blue"> Mental Jewelry or Throwing Copper </font color> by Live.

Unfortunately I feel like they never lived up to their full potential after those two albums.

I need a top 10 though. In no particular order:
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Travelers and Thieves (Blues Traveler)
Pocket Full of Kryptonite (Spin Doctors)
For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge (Van halen)
So Much For the Afterglow (Everclear)
Eve 6 (Eve 6)
Ten (Pearl Jam)
Roll The Bones (Rush)
Achtung Baby (U2)
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[matthew_almeida]

Im going to have to go with "In Utero" By Nirvana

or

"40oz To Freedom"- Sublime

[Omaru]

Threre is Nothing Left to Lose by the Foo Fighters

or Adore by the Smashing Pumpkins

[ratm1966]

Okay, I really don't have a favorite album, but more a Top 10 list and not just Rock. However, I did stay away from Country and Classical.

The Cranberries - Everybody else is doing it. so why can't we?
ICP - The Great Milenko
Korn - Korn
NIN - The Downward Spiral
Ozzy Osbourne - No More Tears
Prodigy - The Fat of the Land
Queensryche - Empire
Rage Against The Machine - rage against the machine
Sade - The Best of Sade
Sarah McLachlan - Mirrorball
Methods of Mayhem - Methods of Mayhem

Yes, that is a very varied list.

[JIM]

That is an AMAZING album RB /forums/images/icons/grin.gif
But dang-namit! That's a tough question for me.
There's just too, too many...
I can't pick one, I love them all! My favorites that is...

[Zens_7s]

Good topic RB, I was just thinking about this the other day after burning those CD's for JJ.

Purely from a rock standpoint, and ignoring all other genres, I guess these are the ones I still listen to top to bottom frequently. My rock opinions in the 90's were more commercial than I would have expected.

1. Singles (Soundtrack): Mother Love Bone, a favorite Pearl Jam song (State of Love and Trust), Paul Westerburg, Pumpkins, Soundgarden...just plain good stuff
2. Alice in Chains - Unplugged
3. Pearl Jam - Vs./Vitalogy (tie)
4. Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power
5. Smashing Pumpkins - Melon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
6. Metallica - Metallica
7. Tool - Aenema
8. Guns and Roses - Appetite for Destruction
9. In Utero - Nirvana

[JK]

Three that I played again and again and again were

Alice In Chains- Jar of Flies
Nirvana- Incesticide
Sound Garden- Superunknown

Another good one was Therapy?- Troublegum
And one that no one I know has heard of... Kerbdog

[Razorback]

I would also have to add:

Soul Of A New Machine by Fear Factory.

This is one of the best hardcore albums ever written, with amazing songs like Martyr, Scapegoat, and Scumgrief mixed in with over a dozen other kickass songs. 1992 was a great year for music.

RB

[Robbo_the_Hood]

Well, some of mine were already posted, but I shall mention:

In Utero--Nirvana
40oz to Freedom--Sublime
Unfun--Jawbreaker

And I really can't do more thinking of it right now.

[karmattack]

Pearl Jam - Yield

hands down.

[Ryall]

Well, technically Appetite for Destruction was 1987, but I'll give it to you since the rest of your choices were so good.

[Ryall]

Great call on Temple of the Dog.

My favorite is probably SUBLIME's 40 Oz. to Freedom, but others right up there are:

SOUNDGARDEN - Superunknown
ANTHRAX - Stomp 442
PANTERA - A Vulgar Display of Power
PEARL JAM - Vitalogy (some crap filler but also some of their best songs ever)
RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE - Rage Against the Machine
ALICE IN CHAINS - Dirt
NIRVANA - Incesticide
RANCID - Life Won't Wait
QUEENSRYCHE - Empire (which I always lumped in with the 80s but RATM's mention of it makes me realize it was 1990, so it counts here. Still not as good as Operation: Mindcrime, but good nonetheless)

Granted, when I think "90s" I think earlier on in the 90s, not stuff that came out in like 1999. But Omaru's Foo Fighters pick is a damned good one, too.

[karmattack]

My answer
+
Chris's answer
-
Anthrax and Queensryche
substitute
Nevermind for Incesticide
+
Aenima from Tool
=
my real answer.

[Zens_7s]

/forums/images/icons/shocked.gif You are right! I was lumping it into my Use Your Illusion memories. I never mess up shit like that. I was ten when Appetite came out. Damn, I even recall my mom buying for me.

[hangs head and walks out of the geek club forever, crying]

[Zens_7s]

Sort of off-topic, but I am reading a cool book right now called "Milk It: Collected Musings on the Alternative Music Explosion of the 90's" by Jim DeRogatis (Same guy that wrote Lester Bangs "Let it Blurt" bio).

It's fun recalling the alt. nation and realizing how many are dead or wasted out. Some of you may enjoy giving it a read.
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0306812711.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

[jjcourtright]

I think me and karma think way to much alike.

Aenima - Tool

Vs.
Yield - Pearl Jam (I am a big Pearl Jam whore, and I think that Yield is the most underrated album of all time. Why is it so powerfully uncool to like Pearl Jam?)

Adrenaline - Deftones

Rage - Rage

Dirt
Jar of Flies
Alice in Chains - Alice in Chains

Sublime - Sublime

From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah - Nirvana

In a Top Ten of the '90's, The Chronic - Dr. Dre would probably replace Sublime, but for rock, that would probably do it.

[armyantmatt]

I've gotta give Fugazi - 13 Songs my best album nod.

Other noteables:

Rancid - Let's Go
NOFX - The Decline
Soul Coughing - Ruby Vroom
The Ramones - We're Outta Here
Bad Religon - Recipe For Hate
Social Distortion - self-titled

That's all I've got off the top of my head.

[hurrycane]

Gotta go with
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Green Day - Dookie
Alice and Chains - Jar of Flies
White Zombie - Astrocreep 2000
Sevendust - Sevendust

[psychofiend]

Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream
Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
http://www.lost-vortex.com/scans/albums/sd-front.jpg http://www.lost-vortex.com/scans/albums/sd-back.jpg

[gamer]

anything by the following bands, smashing pumpkins, nirvana, nine inch nails, beastie boys, prodigy, i can go on for hours

[hotlips_hooligan]

WOW you realllllly made me think about this one! I loved this I even had to do homework! Very good topic!

1. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik (1991)
2. Queensryche - EMPIRE (1990)
3. Aerosmith - Get a Grip (1993)
4. Skid Row - Slave To The Grind (1991)
5. Metallica - Metallica (1991)
6. Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral (1994)
7. Nirvana - Nevermind (1991)
8. Pearl Jam - Ten (1992)
9. Moby - Play (1999)
10.Radiohead - OK Computer (1997)
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[DIRTY_SANCHEZ]

1. nirvana - nevermind
2. pearl jam - 10
3. red hot chilli's - californication
4. nirvana - in utero
5. cast - all change
6. happy mondays - pills thrills and bellyaches
7. radiohead - the bends
8. manic street preachers - everything must go
9. RATM- Rage against the machine
10. foo fighters - there is nothing left to lose

[Razorback]

Someone is a headbanger. /forums/images/icons/laugh.gif

RB

[Affleckie]

Siamese Dream

[Razorback]

Wow, someone who doesn't give a top ten list. A star for sticking to the spirit of the thread. /forums/images/icons/wink.gif

RB

[Dr3vil]

Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine

[hotlips_hooligan]

Sorry I read the other posts and didn't read the thread .... I am sorry about that. I guess you can just use the #1 for my favourite. Again sorry for not staying true to the thread!

[Razorback]

I forgive you... even the vets didn't follow its intent. I was hoping we could concentrate on one song at a time (at the least). I feel that when people give their top 10 that the power of a specific song (or whatever) is taken away by the scope of the list.

RB

[Threadkiller]

I will take full responsibility for the top 10 thing /forums/images/icons/laugh.gif I did it, and I'd do it again. It's just so hard to pick a favorite for an entire decade (yes, even when picking from the list of crap that I like). Still, you should be pretty impressed that this topic has stayed closer to the topic than most. It's cool because now I have my earlier MPS mix-tape and I'm going to be making a 90s MPS mix-tape from the albums listed in this thread. And I plan on only using those listed as #1 to keep it real.

[Affleckie]

I couldn't think of 10. My old brain is failing me! /forums/images/icons/tongue.gif

[Razorback]

Kooh...

RB

[dreichl]

Stone Temple Pilots - Core

[hotlips_hooligan]

Show-off!! lol hehehehe see he has 2 posts and still stayed true to the topic! O'well we can't all be perfect!

[alizarincrimson]

Hmm... I dunno. It would be difficult for me to decide between Radiohead's The Bends and Ok Computer. They're a bit different from one another, and Ok Computer may not be so much rock as the other albums listed in this thread. So I guess I'd go with The Bends. The song Just rocks my socks off. And Street Spirit(Fade Out) is one of the most melancholy, yet somewhat uplifting song I've ever heard. I can listen to this album from start to finish and love every second of it.

[Matt1]

Rage Against the Machine's Evil Empire. But ask me again tommorow.

[jjcourtright]

You like Evil Empire better than their self-titled album? I think that it blows Evil Empire away.

[Matt1]

Three words: Bulls on Parade. No wait, one word: Revolver. No, no, another two words: Down Rodeo. No, hold on... /forums/images/icons/grin.gif

To each his own I guess.

[jjcourtright]

I'm not saying that I don't like Evil Empire. I just don't think it lived up to the...I don't know what, of the first album.

Funkyness?
Groove-ladeness?

I don't know. It just doesn't grab me as much as the first one.

Like you said...

[karmattack]

I didn't like Evil Empire quite so much when it first came out. Now, if I reach for a Rage CD, it's always Evil Empire. I can't put my finger on what happened, but that album is what I think of when I define their sound.
Nothing will replace my total amazement in that first time I heard Killing In the Name on a shitty hand-held recorder, walking from the parking lot, to high school after the MEAP tests. I couldn't believe what I was hearing.

[Zens_7s]

I first heard rage when they opened for Pantera/White Zombie at a concert I was at in high school. I was just blown away by this incredible raw energy. Then I bought their disk the next day.

[Razorback]

I love Rage, they created some of the best music ever... but when I found out about their silly passion for trying to free a guy who CLEARLY murdered a police officer (who was given trial after re-trial and found to be guilty each time) I lost my hunger for them. There is something about fighting for stupidity that just rubs me the wrong way.

RB

[ratm1966]

I was always able to look beyond their political leanings and just enjoy the music. Afterall, being in the military, I should not like them due to their communist leanings. Being a cop, I shouldn't like them for supporting a cop killer. I dunno, I just like their music.