✅ Paste Magazine 90 Best Albums of the 90s

[HRS]

Not sure if it was posted already, but the site dated as a list that came out this week, so:

http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/list ... s.html?p=9

I'd list the albums, but i'm using a phone here, so i'm sorry about that

[HRS]

And there's also a best album of the 80s list - this slightly older from February 1st

http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/list ... 1980s.html

[JR]

I just came across the 90s list, as well. However, it says the following:
"We asked Paste editors, writers, as well as Twitter followers and Facebook fans what albums from the ’90s still matter to them. Here are the 90 Best Albums of the 1990s."

So, the 90s list would not be eligible, as it includes "reader" input.

The 80s list may have been posted at the old forum- not sure.

[Jonathon]

If Paste is passing this off as their definitive list, I think it belongs. Maybe the lack of Madonna scared you off from it's inclusion.

[JR]

just the input from readers/site visitors.

[Jonathon]

Ugh a list with Summerteeth in the top 20 being thrown out maybe enough to send me back into exile.

[Henrik]

It's not JR's decision though...

This is a borderline case, for sure. Most certainly I would exlude this list if it was from a lesser known source. But, as you said Jonathon, this seems to be Paste's definitive list of the '90s. And it could be that they asked their Twitter followers and Facebook fans "for advice" rather than using their votes for some sort of point system.

I'm not sure yet, but I'm more for than against right now.

[Jonathon]

Glad you see it my way, or are leaning my way.

[Nick]

The site does say that "We asked Paste editors, writers, as well as Twitter followers and Facebook fans what albums from the ’90s still matter to them" so I think it should be included. Paste ediotrs and writers are obviously a legitimate musical criticsm source, and the level input from their Twitter followers and Facebook fans remains in question. I think it should be let in.

[JR]

The only way to know is to ask someone at Paste, I suppose. if that's the case, I have no issue with its inclusion- but then it brings up other lists that could have had similar "input/advice" from readers/web-site visitors.

[Henrik]

Could someone please transcribe these two lists ('80s and '90s)? Thanks in advance!

[Otisredding]

80,s:

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1442

[Otisredding]

90's

01. Radiohead – OK Computer (1997)
02. Neutral Milk Hotel – In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (1998)
03. Nirvana – Nevermind (1991)
04. Jeff Buckley – Grace (1994)
05. U2 – Achtung Baby (1991)
06. Beck – Odelay (1996)
07. R.E.M. – Automatic for the People (1992)
08. My Bloody Valentine – Loveless (1991)
09. Weezer – Blue Album (1994)
10. The Flaming Lips – The Soft Bulletin (1999)
11. Radiohead – The Bends (1995)
12. Pavement – Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain(1994)
13. The Magnetic Fields – 69 Love Songs(1998)
14. Belle & Sebastian – If You’re Feeling Sinister (1996)
15. Elliott Smith – Either/Or (1997)
16. Lauryn Hill – The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (1998)
17. Counting Crows – August and Everything After (1993)
18. Pearl Jam – Ten (1991)
19. Wilco – Summerteeth (1999)
20. DJ Shadow – …Endtroducing… (1996)
21. Oasis – (What’s The Story) Morning Glory?(1995)
22. Yo La Tengo – I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One (1997)
23. Smashing Pumpkins – Siamese Dream(1993)
24. Uncle Tupelo – Anodyne (1993)
25. Wilco – Being There (1996)
26. Tom Waits – Bone Machine (1992)
27. Vigilantes of Love – Killing Floor (1992)
28. Guided By Voices – Bee Thousand (1994)
29. Lucinda Williams – Car Wheels… (1998)
30. Mark Heard – Satellite Sky (1992)
31. Emmylou Harris – Wrecking Ball (1995)
32. They Might Be Giants – Flood (1990)
33. Moby – Play (1999)
34. A Tribe Called Quest – The Low End Theory(1991)
35. Modest Mouse – The Lonesome Crowded West (1997)
36. Portishead – Dummy (1994)
37. The Innocence Mission – Glow (1995)
38. Johnny Cash – American Recordings (1994)
39. Pavement – Slanted & Enchanted (1992)
40. Billy Bragg and Wilco – Mermaid Avenue(1998)
41. Liz Phair – Exile in Guyville (1993)
42. Outkast – Aquemini (1998)
43. Built to Spill – There’s Nothing Wrong With Love (1994)
44. Ben Folds Five – Whatever and Ever Amen(1997)
45. The Roots – Things Fall Apart (1999)
46. Weezer – Pinkerton (1996)
47. Uncle Tupelo – March 16-20, 1992
48. Bob Dylan – Time Out of Mind (1997)
49. Grifters – Crappin’ You Negative (1994)
50. The White Stripes – The White Stripes(1999)
51. Jellyfish – Spilt Milk (1993)
52. Elliott Smith – XO (1998)
53. Green Day – Dookie (1994)
54. Son Volt – Trace (1995)
55. Wu-Tang Clan – Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) (1993)
56. The Beta Band – The Three EPs (1998)
57. Blur – Parklife (1994)
58. Sunny Day Real Estate – Diary (1994)
59. Gillian Welch – Revival (1996)
60. Fiona Apple – Tidal (1996)
61. Matthew Sweet – Girlfriend (1991)
62. the notorious b.i.g. – ready to die (1994)
63. The Jayhawks – Hollywood Town Hall (1992)
64. Björk – Post (1995)
65. Massive Attack – Mezzanine (1998)
66. Public Enemy – Fear of a Black Planet(1990)
67. Steve Earle – El Corazon (1997)
68. Nas – Illmatic (1994)
69. Patty Griffin – Flaming Red (1998)
70. Sonic Youth – Goo (1990)
71. Sam Phillips – Martinis and Bikinis (1994)
72. Matthew Ryan – May Day (1997)
73. Sugar – Copper Blue (1992)
74. Pulp – Different Class (1995)
75. Daft Punk – Homework (1997)
76. Aphex Twin – Richard D. James Album(1996)
77. Rage Against the Machine – Rage Against the Machine (1992)
78. Pedro the Lion – It’s Hard to Find a Friend(1998)
79. Guster – Lost and Gone Forever (1999)
80. Fatboy Slim – You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby (1998)
81. Archers of Loaf – Vee Vee (1995)
82. Foo Fighters – The Colour and the Shape(1997)
83. Arrested Development – 3 Years, 5 Months and 2 Days in the Life Of (1992)
84. Fugees – The Score (1996)
85. Victoria Williams – Loose (1994)
86. Built to Spill – Keep It Like A Secret (1999)
87. Morrissey – Bona Drag (1990)
88. Old 97’s – Fight Songs (1999)
89. The Sundays – Reading, Writing and Arithmetic (1990)
90. Tricky – maxinquaye (1995)

[Henrik]

Wow, that was quick! Many thanks, Otis!