The Top 160 Best Albums of the 90s

1. Slowdive – Souvlaki (1993)
2. Magnetic Fields – The Wayward Bus (1991)
3. Magnetic Fields – Holiday (1994)
4. Magnetic Fields – 69 Love Songs, Part I (1999)
5. Magnetic Fields – 69 Love Songs, Part II (1999)
6. Magnetic Fields – 69 Love Songs, Part III (1999)
7. Tortoise – Tortoise (1994)
8. Tortoise – Millions Now Living Will Never Die (1996)
9. Pavement – Slanted & Enchanted (1992)
10. Pavement – Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (1994)

11. Pavement – Wowee Zowee (1995)

12. Phish – A Picture of Nectar (1991)

13. Current 93 – Thunder Perfect Mind (1992)

14. Current 93 – All The Pretty Little Horses (1997)

15. Depeche Mode – Violator (1990)

16. Aphex Twin – Richard D. James Album (1996)

17. Portastatic – The Nature of Sap (1997)

18. Palace Brothers – Days in the Wake (1994)

19. Palace Music – Viva Last Blues (1995)

20. Will Oldham – Western Music (1998)

21. Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – I See a Darkness (1999)

22. R.E.M. – Automatic for the People (1992)

23. U2 – Achtung Baby (1991)

24. Helmet – Meantime (1992)

25. Pixies – Bossanova (1990)

26. Pixies – Trompe Le Monde (1991)

27. Rachel’s – Music for Egon Schiele (1996)

28. Slint – Spiderland (1991)

29. Gastr Del Sol – Upgrade & Afterlife (1996)

30. Stereolab – Emperor Tomato Ketchup (1996)

31. Yo La Tengo – I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One (1997)

32. Radiohead – The Bends (1995)

33. Radiohead – OK Computer (1997)

34. Think Tree – Eight / Thirteen (1990)

35. Guns N’ Roses – Use Your Illusion I (1991)

36. Guns N’ Roses – Use Your Illusion II (1991)

37. Nirvana – Nevermind (1991)

38. Sonic Youth – Goo (1990)

39. Sonic Youth – Washing Machine (1995)

40. Big Head Todd & the Monsters – Midnight Radio (1991)

41. Underworld – Beaucoup Fish (1999)

42. Tom Waits – Mule Variations (1999)

43. Sigur Ros – Agaetis Byrjun (1999)

44. Ol’ Dirty Bastard – Nigga Please (1999)

45. Belle & Sebastian – If You’re Feeling Sinister (1996)

46. Beastie Boys – Check Your Head (1992)

47. Blur – Parklife (1994)

48. Blur – Blur (1997)

49. Pulp – Different Class (1995)

50. Verve – A Northern Soul (1995)

51. Verve – Urban Hymns (1997)

52. Built To Spill – Perfect From Now On (1997)

53. Air – Moon Safari (1998)

54. Windy & Carl – Drawing of Sound (1996)

55. UNKLE – Psyence Fiction (1998)

56. Richard Buckner – Since (1998)

57. Portishead – Dummy (1994)

58. Portishead – Portishead (1997)

59. Nick Cave – The Boatman’s Call (1997)

60. Dirty Three – Horse Stories (1996)

61. Promise Ring – 30 Degrees Everywhere (1996)

62. The American Analog Set – The Fun of Watching Fireworks (1996)

63. The American Analog Set – The Golden Band (1999)

64. Tindersticks – Tindersticks (1993)

65. Tindersticks – Tindersticks II (1995)

66. Massive Attack – Mezzanine (1998)

67. Trembling Blue Stars – Her Handwriting (1996)

68. The Sea and Cake – The Fawn (1997)

69. Throwing Muses – The Real Ramona (1991)

70. Belly – Star (1993)

71. GusGus – Polydistortion (1997)

72. Bjork – Post (1995)

73. Bjork – Homogenic (1997)

74. Archers of Loaf – All the Nation’s Airports (1996)

75. Smashing Pumpkins – Gish (1991)

76. Oasis – (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? (1995)

77. Spiritualized – Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space (1997)

78. Scala – Beauty Nowhere (1997)

79. Smog – Wild Love (1995)

80. Smog – Red Apple Falls (1997)

81. Guided By Voices – Bee Thousand (1994)

82. Guided By Voices – Alien Lanes (1996)

83. Guided By Voices – Mag Earwhig! (1997)

84. Chemical Brothers – Exit Planet Dust (1995)

85. Silver Jews – Starlite Walker (1994)

86. The Roots – Illadelph Halflife (1996)

87. A Tribe Called Quest – The Low End Theory (1991)

88. A Tribe Called Quest – Midnight Marauders (1993)

89. Public Enemy – Fear of a Black Planet (1990)

90. Jeru the Damaja – Wrath of the Math (1996)

91. Orbital – In Sides (1996)

92. DJ Shadow – Entroducing… (1996)

93. The Jayhawks – Tomorrow the Green Grass (1995)

94. Wu Tang Clan – Enter the Wu Tang (36 Chambers) (1993)

95. Liz Phair – Whip Smart (1994)

96. Th’ Faith Healers – Imaginary Friend (1994)

97. The Moon Seven Times – The Moon Seven Times (1993)

98. James – Seven (1992)

99. Tom Waits – Bone Machine (1992)

100. Ride – Nowhere (1990)

101. Ride – Going Blank Again (1992)

102. Cul de Sac – China Gate (1996)

103. The Charlatans UK – Some Friendly (1990)

104. Cocteau Twins – Heaven or Las Vegas (1990)

105. Danzig – Danzig II: Lucifuge (1990)

106. My Bloody Valentine – Loveless (1991)

107. Happy Mondays – Pills ‘n’ Thrills and Bellyaches (1990)

108. Morrissey – Your Arsenal (1991)

109. Chapterhouse – Whirlpool (1991)

110. Ned’s Atomic Dustbin – God Fodder (1991)

111. Thurston Moore – Psychic Hearts (1995)

112. Richard Thompson – Rumor and Sigh (1991)

113. Teenage Fanclub – Bandwagonesque (1991)

114. Bleach – Killing Time (1992)

115. The Boo Radleys – Everything’s Alright Forever (1992)

116. Dead Can Dance – Into the Labyrinth (1993)

117. PJ Harvey – To Bring You My Love (1995)

118. From Good Homes – Open Up the Sky (1995)

119. Neutral Milk Hotel – In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (1998)

120. Dinosaur Jr. – Without a Sound (1994)

121. Social Distortion – Social Distortion (1990)

122. Tesla – Five Man Acoustical Jam (1990)

123. Big Audio Dynamite (BAD II) – The Globe (1991)

124. Mad Season – Above (1995)

125. Pearl Jam – Ten (1991)

126. Neil Young – Harvest Moon (1992)

127. The Lune – On the Cutting Room Floor (1998)

128. Psychic TV – Trip Reset (1996)

129. Legendary Pink Dots – The Shadow Weaver, Part 2: Malachai (1993)

130. Coil – Music to Play in the Dark (1999)

131. Johnny Cash – Unchained (1996)

132. Calexico – Spoke (1997)

133. Fuxa – Very Well Organized (1996)

134. Bright – Bright (1996)

135. Bright – Bliss Out, Vol. 12: Blue Christian (1999)

136. Bowery Electric – Beat (1996)

137. Shellac – At Action Park (1994)

138. 5ive Style – 5ive Style (1995)

139. June of 44 – Anatomy of Sharks (1997)

140. The Make Up – Destination: Love – Live at Cold Rice (1996)

141. Brokeback – Field Recordings from the Cook County Water Table (1999)

142. Friends of Dean Martinez – Shadow of Your Smile (1995)

143. Trans Am – Trans Am (1996)

144. Rex – C (1996)

145. Directions in Music – Echoes (12”) (1997)

146. Freakwater – Feels Like the Third Time (1995)

147. Evolution Control Committee – Whipped Cream Mixes (7”) (1998)

148. Delta 72 – The R&B of Membership (1996)

149. Flying Saucer Attack – Flying Saucer Attack (1994)

150. Flying Saucer Attack – Further (1995)

151. Jim O’Rourke – Halfway to a Threeway (1999)

152. UI – Lifelike (1998)

153. The Ecstasy of Saint Theresa – Astrala la Vista (1994)

154. Bark Psychosis – Hex (1994)

155. Labradford – Prazision (1994)

156. Oval – Systemiche (1996)

157. The Notwist – Shrink (1998)

158. Unbunny – Analog (1996)

159. Bob Dylan – Time Out of Mind (1997)

160. Grant Lee Buffalo – Fuzzy (1993)