List one great album per year for the nineties
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Topic: List one great album per year for the nineties
Posted By: Mortte
Subject: List one great album per year for the nineties
Date Posted: April 14 2018 at 23:12
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There has been this same kind of lists from the 2000`s albums. Now Nineties. Here´s mine: 1990 - Pekka Pohjola: Sinfonia No.1 1991 - Talk Talk: Laughing Stock 1992 - 22 Pistepirkko: Big Lupu 1993 - Tom Waits: the Black Rider 1994 - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Let Love In 1995 - Sonic Youth: Washing Machine 1996 - John Parish & P J Harvey: Dance Hall at the Louse Point 1997 - Radiopuhelimet: Avaruus 1998 - Sonic Youth: a Thousand Leaves 1999 - Absoluuttinen Nollapiste: Suljettu
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: April 15 2018 at 00:17
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1990 - Death Angel - Act III 1991 - Solitude Aeturnus - Into The Depths Of Sorrow 1992 - Testament - The Ritual 1993 - Paradise Lost - Icon 1994 - Marillion - Brave 1995 - Tad Morose - Sender of Thoughts 1996 - Evereve - Seasons 1997 - Fates Warning - A Pleasant Shade of Gray 1998 - Katatonia - Discouraged Ones 1999 - Paradise Lost - Host just one album per year was hard, there are many others I thought of, maybe another list in the near future :)
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Posted By: Mortte
Date Posted: April 15 2018 at 01:57
| ^yes, it´s hard, I also had to change my list, because Waits Black Rider is one of my all time favourites. That Fishbone album before changing is of course also really great! |
Posted By: Kingsnake
Date Posted: April 15 2018 at 02:51
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1990 - Annihilator - Never, Neverland 1991 - Queen - Innuendo1992 - Neneh Cherry - Homebrew 1993 - Jamiroquai - Emergency on Planet Earth 1994 - Brooklyn Funk Essentials - Cool and Steady and Easy 1995 - Saga - Generation 13 1996 - Groove Collective - We the People 1997 - Fish - Sunsets on Empire 1998 - 4Hero - Two Pages 1999 - Gov't Mule - Life Before Insanity Apparently the nineties didn't have much to offer to me, except some great hiphop, tiphop, drum&bass, crossover/rapmetal and the occasional thrashmetal. This was also the decade of boy- and girlbands and stupid summer-hits. Some people say the nineties were better than the eighties. Well, every decade has his lowpoints. The nineties were also dominated by MTV unplugged. Every single artist that ever live recorded an acoustic album. I didn't really care for eurohouse, alt.rock, grunge and (highschool-)punkrock. Luckily there was a renaissance of southern rock and some metalbands in the late nineties. 1997 and 1995 and 1991 turned out to be really good years, I have dozens of albums to chose from. I had a really hard time picking out an album for 1992 and 1996. In these years I didn't listen to the music that was released that day, I listened to old music ( I was still discovering music, as I was 14-24, in that decade). I only started to listen to the music of the nineties a few years later. Except for Jamiroquai, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Faith No More, because I knew people who played that music. I started with discovering metal and than jazzfunk/triphop/drum&bass. The whole grung/alt.rock I never really gave any attention to. Thanks to this list I'm all into jazzfunk/triphop, wich is the best this decade had to offer (in my opinion), mixing funk, jazz, r&b, hiphop, fusion, ethnic music and so on. This was still a decade heavily directed by the recordlabels. So there's a lot of bands that never got a chance in those days. As the internet provides us with small-label-bands and demo's from that decade, there's a lot to re-discover. Luckily more and more artists founded their own labels (diy) and a lot of non-popular music still hit the markets. Especially dancemusic and hiphopmusic found ways to release their albums.
This was also a very expensive decade. CD's cost somewhere between 20-40 guilders (10-20 euros) a piece. We were really ripped off by the big labels and recordshops. Luckily those days are far behind. |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: April 15 2018 at 03:17
nice list (I don't know 4 albums but the other 6 are great) metal did quite well in the 90s, especially in Europe, it became quite diverse, extreme metal fans can give even more explanations (I listen to little of these genres, but I do know they were pretty popular back then). But doom metal, whether traditional or combined with death metal, gothic metal, power metal (although I listen to little of it these days), even some groove metal bands were ok (the unique Morgana Lefay which were a combination of groove and power metal), progressive metal and many others.
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Kingsnake wrote:Posted By: Mortte
Date Posted: April 15 2018 at 03:38
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I am not also huge nineties music fan, but I like nineties mainstream sound much more than eighties (that plastic synth & drum sounds, horribilities like Wham, Modern Talking, Bad Boys Blue). Anyway even nineties wasn´t as a whole even near the greatness of 60-70 music, in nineties some of my favourite artists (Sonic Youth, P J Harvey, Tom Waits, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Nomeansno, the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, 22 Pistepirkko, Radiopuhelimet) made really great albums. Also have to mention Haikara made really great comeback album. In the end of eighties and begin of nineties there was a great alternative wave in Finland, lots of great albums were made, but it ended in the middle-end of nineties.
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Posted By: Imperial Zeppelin
Date Posted: April 15 2018 at 03:59
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1990: Rabih Abou-Khalil - Roots & Sprouts 1991: Klaus Wiese, Ted de Jong & Mathias Grassow - el-Hadra: The Mystik Dance 1992: And Also The Trees - Green Is the Sea 1993: Death - Individual Thought Patterns 1994: Laurie Anderson - Bright Red 1995: Ulver - Bergtatt: Et eeventyr i 5 capitler 1996: Einstürzende Neubauten - Ende Neu 1997: Godspeed You Black Emperor! - F♯A♯∞ 1998: Autechre - LP5 1999: Coil - Musick to Play in the Dark, Volume 1 ------------- "Hey there, Dog Man, now I drink from your bowl." |
Posted By: Kingsnake
Date Posted: April 15 2018 at 04:18
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^^ The mainstream music of the nineties fooled a lot of people, I think. A lot of 'alternative' and grunge bands were just label-made bands. They drove metal and melodic to the background, wich is shame. A lot of bands never got the chance they deserved. At the end of the nineties something even more terrible happened: numetal. Numetal took (genuine) crossover/hiphop/metal/hardrock and made it into something rediculous (Limp Bizkit etc.) The great days of deathmetal and thrash-metal were over when Nirvana was pushed to the fore. The only hardrockband that survived the nineties was Bon Jovi, I guess. As for progressive rock; only Marillion was big league (EMI), but at the end of the nineties, that was all but gone. Thank god for the internet. A lot of great music finds its way to us, without having to rely on labels and music televison. I myself (by the way) am a great fan of drummachines. I love the history of drummachines and sequencers as much as I like flutes, acoustic guitars and mellotrons. The 80's and 90's were great eras for the development of drummachines. And the eighties and nineties brought in a new way of making music: sampling. A lot of great 70's records found their way in the music of dance, hiphop, triphop, drum&bass etc. And for those who say drummachines and sampling is not making music: it's much easier to play a guitar or blow a flute than to program a sequencer/drummachine and sampling is really hard and is an art of it's own (like timestretching etc.) But that's a whole other discussion.
I love how hiphop and jazz moved forward and didn't stray behind. I love it when bands/acts continu to explore and mix styles. |
Posted By: Kingsnake
Date Posted: April 15 2018 at 04:24
I liked metal in the nineties, but especially powermetal is kind of childish (to me). It has his limits. And suddenly I fell out of love with the music (Helloween, Gamma Ray, Blind Guardian etc.). Some bands (more progressive) I still like: Vanden Plas, Threshold etc.
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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: April 15 2018 at 04:50
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1990: Dead Can Dance - Aion 1991: Coil - Love's Secret Domain 1992: Naked City - Leng Tch'e 1993: Beherit - Drawing Down the Moon 1994: CMX - Aura 1995: Swans - The Great Annihilator 1996: Tool - Ænima 1997: Emperor - Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk 1998: Mark Hollis - Mark Hollis 1999: Rowland S. Howard - Teenage Snuff Film
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: April 15 2018 at 06:27
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hmmm.. what a great decade... 1990- Deee-Lite - World Clique 1991 - RHCP - Blood Sugar Sex Magik 1992 - Ministry - Psalm 69 1993 - Mazzy Star - So Tonight... 1994 - Soundgarden - Superunknown 1995 - THE album of the 90's.. and IMO the best rock album released since the classic 70's. Blind Melon - Soup 1996 - Beck Odelay 1997 - duh... Radiohead - OK Computer 1998 - Madonna - Ray of Light 1999 - Fantomas - s/t ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Kingsnake
Date Posted: April 15 2018 at 06:35
Great list also. I thought about nr.1 and nr.2 aswell. Even got a RHCP-tattoo because of that album. Except, I really don't like Radiohead, but that's just my taste.
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: April 15 2018 at 06:57
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yeah.. there were a lot of great ones.. had to make some hard choices but everyone of those gets the 5 star Mick seal of approval. It was a wonderfully diverse decade.. and the last gasp (Soup) of rock as a viable creative force as it died IMO the next decade as an important branch of music. It really only lives underground with today's progressive rock artists. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Larkstongue41
Date Posted: April 15 2018 at 10:09
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Favourites. No repeat artists. Best decade for rock apart from the '70s? 1990 - Naked City - Naked City 1991 - Talk Talk - Laughing Stock (honorable mention to MBV's Loveless) 1992 - Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine 1993 - Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92 1994 - Tortoise - Tortoise 1995 - Labradford - A Stable Reference (honorable mention to Rachel's Music for Egon Schiele and Cardiacs' Sing to God) 1996 - Swans - Soundtrack for the Blind (honorable mention to Dirty Three's Horse Stories) 1997 - Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F#A#∞ 1998 - Boredoms - Super Ae (honorable mention to Duster's Stratosphere) 1999 - Sigur Ros - Agaetus Byrjun ------------- "Larks' tongues. Wrens' livers. Chaffinch brains. Jaguars' earlobes. Wolf nipple chips. Get 'em while they're hot. They're lovely. Dromedary pretzels, only half a denar." |
Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: April 15 2018 at 12:41
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1990: Bela Fleck and the Flecktones - st 91: Mr. Bungle - st 92: Praxis - Transmutation (Mutatis Mutandis) 93: Cynic - Focus 94: Bondage Fruit - 1 95: Surman/Krog/Rypdal/Storaas - Nordic Quartet 96: Bondage Fruit- II 97: Idiot Flesh - Fancy 98: Pain of Salvation- One Hour by the Concrete Lake 99: Gordian Knot - st ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow">  https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: doompaul
Date Posted: April 15 2018 at 13:52
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1990 Cocteau twins - Heaven or Las Vegas 1991 Pixies - Tompe le Monde 1992 nirvana - incesticide 1993 Earth - Earth 2 1994 Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley 1995 Cathedral - The Carnival Bizarre 1996 Turbonegro - Ass Cobra 1997 Electric Wizard - Come My Fanatics 1998 Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea 1999 The Magnetic Fields - 69 love songs
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: April 15 2018 at 14:46
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1990: Fish - Vigil in a Wilderness of Mirrors 1991: Marillion - Holidays in Eden 1992: Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes 1993: Magellan - Impending Ascension 1994: Pink Floyd - The Division Bell 1995: Iona - Journey into the Morn 1996: Richard Wright - Broken China 1997: Discipline - Unfolded Like Staircase 1998: Alanis Morissette - Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie 1999: Porcupine Tree - Stupid Dream ------------- 
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Posted By: Junges
Date Posted: April 15 2018 at 15:05
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1990: Devil Doll - Eliogabalus 1991: Mr. Bungle - ST 1992: Devil Doll - Sacrilegium 1993: Voivod - The Outer Limits 1994: Jeff Buckley - Grace 1995: Pink Floyd - PULSE 1996: Devil Doll - Dies Irae 1997: Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine 1998: Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse 1999: Opeth - Still Life ------------- 
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Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: April 15 2018 at 15:53
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A few faves, just off the cuff.... 1990- Babes in Toyland - Spanking Machine 1991 - RHCP - Blood Sugar Sex Magik 1992 - 10,000 Maniacs - Our Time in Eden 1993 - Breeders - Last Splash 1994 - Loreena McKennitt - The Mask and the Mirror 1995 - Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness 1996 - Wilco - Being There 1997 - Bjork - Homogenic 1998 - Tori Amos - From the Choirgirl Hotel 1999 - Rollins Band - Get Some Go Again |
Posted By: Prog Sothoth
Date Posted: April 15 2018 at 20:27
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Off the top of my head: 1990: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - The Good Son 1991: Entombed - Clandestine 1992: Bel Canto - Shimmering, Warm and Bright 1993: Belly - Star 1994: Lush - Split 1995: The Cardigans - Life 1996: Immolation - Here in After 1997: Sigh - Hail Horror Hail 1998: Marge Litch - Fantasien 1998 1999: Stereolab - Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night
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Posted By: LearsFool
Date Posted: April 15 2018 at 20:47
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1990: The KLF - Chill Out 1991: Main Source - Breaking Atoms 1992: The Dead C - Clyma est Mort 1993: Eric's Trip - Love Tara 1994: Guided By Voices - Bee Thousand 1995: Keiji Haino - I Said, This Is The Son of Nihilism 1996: Icons - Emotions With Intellect 1997: Brainiac - Electro-Shock For President 1998: Boredoms - Super AE 1999: Dopplereffekt - Gesamtkunstwerk -------------  
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Posted By: tempest_77
Date Posted: April 17 2018 at 00:15
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1990 - Repeater by Fugazi 1991 - Innuendo by Queen 1992 - Angel Dust by Faith No More 1993 - Rift by Phish 1994 - Brave by Marillion 1995 - The Sky Moves Sideways by Porcupine Tree 1996 - Pinkerton by Weezer 1997 - OK Computer by Radiohead 1998 - The Kindness of Strangers by Spock's Beard 1999 - Rajaz by Camel ------------- I use they/them pronouns (feel free to ask me about this!) Check out my music on https://tempestsounds.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - my bandcamp ! |
Posted By: Mortte
Date Posted: April 17 2018 at 02:38
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The second great albums list: 1990 - Kauko Röyhkä & Narttu: Joko-Tai 1991 - Nomeansno: 0 + 2 = 1 1992 - Sweetheart: Well-Dressed Meat 1993 - Fishbone: Give a Monkey a Brain and He´ll Swear He´s the Center Of the Universe 1994 - the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion: Orange 1995 - Jukka Gustavson: Kadonnut Häviämättömiin 1996 - Thinking Fellers Union Local 282: I Hope It Lands 1997 - Trumans Water: Apistogramma 1998 - Circle: Pori 1999 - Tom Waits: Mule Variations
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Posted By: Jeffro
Date Posted: April 17 2018 at 06:08
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1990 Faith, Hope, Love - Kings X 1991 Badmotorfinger - Soundgarden 1992 Dirt - Alice In Chains 1993 Ten Summoner's Tales - Sting 1994 Dogman - Kings X 1995 The Light - Spock's Beard 1996 Victor - Victor 1997 S.C.I.E.N.C.E. - Incubus 1998 Moonflower Lane - Ty Tabor 1999 Make Yourself - Incubus
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: April 17 2018 at 06:19
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^ nice to see Ty Tabor and Kings X get some love. Shame on me I did not think of them when I did my list.
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Posted By: Argo2112
Date Posted: April 17 2018 at 08:55
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1990 Ah Via Musicom - Eric Johnson 1991 Ten - Pearl Jam 1992 Images and Words - Dream Theater 1993 Counterparts - Rush 1994 Under the Table and Dreaming - Dave Matthews Band 1995 Relish - Joan Osborne 1996 Crash - Dave Matthews Band 1997 Radiohead - OK Computer 1998 Liquid Tension Experiment 1999 The Ladder - Yes
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Posted By: ReactioninG
Date Posted: April 17 2018 at 11:40
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1990 - Under the Red Sky (Bob Dylan) [Only 1990 Album I Could Think Of] 1991 - We Can't Dance (Genesis) 1992 - Black Moon (Emerson Lake Palmer) 1994 - Aria (Asia) 1995 - Beatles Anthology 1 1996 - Beatles Anthology 2 [&3] 1997 - Calling All Stations (Genesis) 1998 - [No Music Was Made This Year] 1999 - The Ladder (Yes) .... gutterball .... |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: April 30 2021 at 13:49
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nice thread bump!
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Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: April 30 2021 at 15:25
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Surprised that I didn't originally take part, I like this kind of list. 1990 Geteilte Koepfe - Don't Ask 1991 Shudder to Think - Funeral at the Movies 1992 http://192.168.1.103:9000/clixmlbrowser/clicmd=browselibrary+items&mode=albums&linktitle=Artist%20%28Fred%20Frith%20-%20Francois-Michel%20Pesenti%29&artist_id=7306&artwork=0&player=00%3A52%3A06%3A4c%3Add%3A9d/" rel="nofollow - Fred Frith & Francois-Michel Pesenti - Helter Skelter 1993 Holger Czukay - Moving Pictures 1994 .O.Rang - Herd of Instinct 1995 Scorn - Gyral 1996 FM Einheit - Sensation Death 1997 Kong - EARMINeD 1998 Mice Parade - The True Meaning of Boodleybaye 1999 Hood - The Cycle of Days and Seasons |
Posted By: The Anders
Date Posted: April 30 2021 at 15:39
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1990 Tv-2 - Vi bli'r alligevel aldrig voksne (We'll never grow up anyway) 1991 Sort Sol (Black Sun) - Flow my Firetear 1992 R.E.M. - Automatic for the People 1993 Nirvana - In Utero 1994 Hedningarna (The pagans) - Trä (Three / Tree / Wood) 1995 Björk - Post 1996 R.E.M. - Newv Adventures in Hi-Fi 1997 Radiohead - OK Computer 1998 Eels - Electro Shock Blues 1999 Under Byen (Under the City) - Kyst (Coast)
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: April 30 2021 at 15:56
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It could be others, but I went with: 1990: Angelo Badalamenti - Soundtrack from Twin Peaks 1991: Michael Nyman - Prospero's Books 1992: Current 93 - Thunder Perfect Mind 1993: Zbigniew Preisner - Trois Couleurs: Bleu 1994: Portishead - Dummy 1995: Art Zoyd - Faust 1996: Cardiacs - Sing to God 1997: Stereolab - Dots and Loops 1998: Air - Moon Safari 1999: Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: May 03 2021 at 09:07
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1990: Roger Waters - The Wall: Live in Berlin 1991: The Moody Blues - Keys of the Kingdom 1992: Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells II 1993: Kate Bush - The Red Shoes 1994: Pink Floyd - The Division Bell 1995: Enya - The Memory of Trees 1996: Sally Oldfield - Secret Songs 1997: The Enid - White Goddess 1998: Jon Lord - Pictured Within 1999: Yes - The Ladder
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: May 03 2021 at 10:06
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Not all my choice (2/year) are listed on PA, but who cares... 90 -Nimal - Voix de Surface & Lenny Kravitz - Let Love Rule 91- Outback - Dance the Devil Away & RHCP - Blood Sugar Sex Magic 92- Anglagard - Hybris & Roger Waters - Amused to Death 93- Anekdoten - Vemod & Bjork - Debut 94- Portishead - Dummy & No Quarter: Jimmy Page & Robert Plant Unledded 95- Höyry-Kone - Hyönteisiä Voi Rakastaa & Don Caballero - 2 96- X-Legged Sally - The Land of the Giant Dwarves & Ravana - Common Daze 97- Pär http://gnosis2000.net/reviews/parlindh.htm" rel="nofollow - Lindh Project - Mundus Incompertus & Phish - Slip, Stitch, and Pass 98- Forgas Band Phenomena - Roue Libre &
Godspeed You Black Emperor! - f#a#oo 99- NeBeLNeST - s/t & DFA - Duty Free Area ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: A Crimson Mellotron
Date Posted: May 03 2021 at 10:15
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Great idea for a thread, here are mine: 1990: 'Frizzle Fry' by Primus 1991: 'The Black Album' by Metallica 1992: 'Hybris' by Anglagard 1993: 'Vemod' by Anekdoten 1994: 'Flowermouth' by No-Man 1995: 'Post' by Bjork 1996: 'THRaKaTTaK' by King Crimson 1997: 'Stardust We Are' by The Flower Kings 1998: 'Mechanical Animals' by Marilyn Manson 1999: 'marillion.com' by Marillion
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Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: May 03 2021 at 13:50
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I'll try and take a stab at this. Half this decade I wasn't really paying much attention to music while I was drowning in Fortran code. 1990: Devil Doll - Eliogabalus 1991: Tale Cue - Voices Beyond My Curtain 1992: Änglagård - Hybris 1993: Malibran - Le porte del silenzio 1994: 5uu's - Hunger's Teeth 1995: Scott Walker - Tilt 1996: Spock's Beard - Beware of Darkness 1997: 5uu's - Crisis in Clay 1998: Spock's Beard - The Kindness of Strangers 1999: The Othello Syndrome - The Shadow of Dreams ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: May 03 2021 at 13:54
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1990: Queensr˙che - Empire 1991: Marillion - Holidays in Eden 1992: Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes 1993: Magellan - Impending Ascension 1994: Marillion - Brave 1995: Iona -Journey into the Morn 1996: Richard Wright - Broken China 1997: Discipline - Unfolded Like Staircase 1998: Alanis Morissette - Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie 1999: Porcupine Tree - Stupid Dream -------------
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