I was 26 in 1990 and got married and then divorced in 2000...my ex hated that I sat and listened to records...she thought it was a waste of time...good riddance to her
Wonderful list Mazzie! I appreciate that you can only come up with a list like that when you grew into the this music at the time. Your personal choices and experience. Like many of your videos: much appreciated! Keep it coming 😊
I was 28 in 1990 . Yours is a nice varied list . The first thing my son ever heard when he was born by emergency C Section in the 90’s was Cigarettes and Alcohol by Oasis as the surgeon was playing it. He’s now the lead guitarist in a band (my son, not the surgeon ). 😊 That’s the beauty of music, it can be connected to such personal stories .
Thx again Mazzy! You have reconfirmed my appreciation of the 1990s in music. My preference always leans to late 60s, entire 70s and all of 90s with some 80s masterpieces sprinkled in. Alt country aka yal'ternative reeled me in big time throughout the 90s decade. I still love it. You do good work...keep it going.
So glad to see such an eclectic array of music. Also not surprised..."Mr. Music Encyclopedia". Additional admiration for the Neil, Tom and Bob! Crank Healing Game - Van Morrison when you have time on your next coffee session. great Fall record😉. Respect and love what you do!
Great list! Some of my faves in there…U2, DM, OASIS, Nirvana. You’re the one who turned me onto Nick Cave and ‘Boatman’s Call’ is now a treasured piece in my Vinyl set!
Recently started replacing my cds from the 90s on vinyl, which is so much more satisfying. It’s like rediscovering the music and getting more of an appreciation for it
Ha, I was just about to call you out for not including Time Out of Mind and BAM, there it was! Great list! I was in my 20's all through the 90's so you can bet some of my favorite music is from that time. Here are a some I would have added plus maybe a Blues Traveller album of your choice. Dust - Screaming Trees Badmotorfinger - Soundgarden In the Meantime - Spacehog Cheers!
Just came across this 90s set list of 40 faves of yours. Truly appreciate your nod to Neil Young's "Sleeps With Angels" which was the last album he & Crazy Horse did with David Briggs, who passed away not long after it was completed. I love a lot of Neil Young's catalog all the way through from the start, but his best work for my ears was always with David Briggs. This album is a perfect requiem tribute. Thanks for the excellent selections and stories.
Great list Mazzy! Surprised to see Nevermind in there for you, but good to see a little grunge pulled you in. Honestly I dont even know if its grunge in the strick sense. Its just a damn great pop post punk hard rock album with irresistable hooks and a unique downtuned vibe. Definitely a three or four albums there I need to check out that arent in my 90s collection. One thing is for sure, those who think the decade was not a great time for music should listen again. Maybe the last great decade for rock type music. Id add these: Portishead Dummy, Flaming Lips Soft Bulletin, Tori Amos Little Earthquakes, PJ Harvey Rid Of Me, Buena Vista Social Club, Gillian Welch Revival (and btw where are those Welch/Rawlings reissues!?) Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West, Elastica Elastica, Wilco Summerteeth, Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream, Weezer Weezer (I dont think you are a Weezer fan though), Sonny Sharock As The Ages, Outkast Aliens, Tricky Maxinquaye (Im a big trip hop fan so the inclusion of this and Dummy) Massive Attack Blue Lines (yet another awesome trip hop album), Sleeter Kinney Dig Me Out, NIN The Downward Spiral, Björk Im going with Homogenic as my favorite. Boards Of Canada, My Bloody Valentine, Aphex Twins, Stereolab..gosh just gobs of good stuff in the 90s. Great list though! The 90s were not too shabby. In fact, pretty damn great at times. Of course I was in my mid 20s so that was “my” music.
Dear Mazzy, great List!!! Nick Cave/R.E.M./Tom Petty/U2/Neil Young/Beck/Jayhawks/Johnny Cash/Radiohead...and a lot of more Great Albums with all the Varieties of Rock/Pop Music!!! best regards with Love, Marko 🙂
12 other albums that made my nineties : Portishead's "Dummy" + PJ Harvey's "Dry" + Jeff Buckley's "Grace" + Bjork's "Debut" + Alice in chains' "Dirt" + Fugazi's "In on the kill taker" + Nick Cave's "Henry's dream" + My Bloody Valentine's "Loveless" + Massive Attack's "Protection" + Bowie's "Outside" + KLF's "The white room" + The La's (btw... glad to see you mentioned Morphine, Liz Phair and DJ Shadow)
cannot argue with that list, Mazzy. This was such a great era of musical discoveries for me, especially the indie scene. The Go Betweens (Mark II), Guided By Voices, The Wedding Present, Supergrass, High Llamas, Mogwai, Boards of Canada, Screaming Trees, Pavement, Magnetic Fields, The Loud Family, Lemonheads, Jellyfish, Flying Saucer Attack, the list goes on and on.
Mazzy with another classic video love it Prince the Gold Experience I've seen Prince 4 times he was a musical genius. U2 Achtung Baby still sounds outstanding. Emmy Lou Harris Wrecking Ball and Bob Dylan Time out of Mind would make my top 40 albums of the 90's.
43 Sheryl Crow,"Tuesday Night Music Club" 42 The Verve,"A Storm in Heaven" 41 Madonna,"Ray of Light" 40 Sonic Youth,"Goo" 39 Red House Painters,"Rollercoaster (Nickname)" 38 Eels,"Beautiful Freak" 37 Depeche Mode,"Violator" 36 Oasis,"What's the Story Morning Glory?" 35 DJ Shadow,"Endtroducing....." 34 Morphine,"Cure for Pain" 33 Elliott Smith,"Either/Or" 32 Uncle Tupelo,"Anodyne" 31 Prince (The Artist Formerly Known as Prince),"The Gold Experience" 30 U2,"Achtung Baby" 29 The Jayhawks,"Tomorrow the Green Grass" 28 Calexico,"The Black Light" 27 Tom Petty - "Wildflowers" 26 Lucinda Williams - "Car Wheels on a Gravel Road" 25 World Party - "Goodbye Jumbo" 24 Jim White - "The Mysterious Tale of How I Shouted Wrong-Eyed Jesus" 23 They Might Be Giants - "Flood" 22 Björk - "Post" 21 Radiohead - "OK Computer" 20 Nirvana - "Nevermind" 19 Belle and Sebastian - "The Boy with the Arab Strap" 18 Julian Cope - "Peggy Suicide" 17 Lou Reed & John Cale - "Songs for 'Drella" 16 Björk - "Post" 15 Radiohead - "OK Computer" 14 The Breeders - "Last Splash" 13 Sam Phillips - "Martinis and Bikinis" 12 Paul Simon - "The Rhythm of the Saints" 11 Mazzy Star,So Tonight That I Might See 10 Fiona Apple,Tidal 9 Liz Phair,Exile in Guyville 8 Emmylou Harris,Wrecking Ball 7 Sinead O'Connor,I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got 6 Beck,Odelay 5 Johnny Cash,American Recordings 4 Neil Young,Sleeps with Angels 3 R.E.M.,Automatic for the People 2 Radiohead, Album: "OK Computer" 1 Bob Dylan,Time Out of Mind (1997)
I am absolutely outraged!!! I've just finished watching this and loved every minute Mr Maz. I like you have been listening and gigging since my first ever single that I bought, C'mon by the Stones and I have a very catholic taste, I adore Neil Young, Eells etc...but you have blown it. Right up to the very end I was convinced you were going to select THE album of the 90s. But you didnt....What??? no Blue Lines Massive Attack. Disgruntled of Liverpool
An interesting list Mazzy! One album that is missing though is Jeff Buckley’s Grace. Would have been on my top 3. Thank’s for making interesting videos!👏🏻😀
I'm happy to see a Belle and Sebastian album on this list! That band doesn't get enough attention. They may have lost a step in recent years, as all bands do, but Stuart Murdoch can still knock out a great ballad. Their first 8 albums and their Jeepster EPs are great. I don't count Storytelling amongst those 8 studio albums. They're a top 3 band for me.
Great list, love the shout out of Jim White, really underappreciated artist. About half a dozen albums you recommend i want to check out. Have you ever heard of Sparklehorse? His 90s albums are alt country/rock masterpieces imo. My 90s top 10, off top of my head would be: OK Computer Automatic For The People In Utero Vitalogy Achtung Baby Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot Being There Deserters Songs Violator Time Out Of Mind Stuart
I would like to respond to this but don't know if I can wrap my head around it. I'll just call Pavement's Slanted & Enchanted my favorite record and go from there. Kudos for those Belle and Sebastian picks. And love the continued Morphine support on this channel
Great top 40 Mazzy, loved it! So happy to see Tupelo (STL'ish band, we would see them "on the Landing in the summer" 😉)...however was a bit difficult to see Summerteeth off the list (the Pet Sounds of the 90's?). Also SO nice to see World Party and BAFFLING with the Breeders...I have seen the Pixies multiple times over multiple decades and Deal is by far the weakest member of that outfit. There were MUCH more talented female artists like Lush, Sarah McLachlan, Throwing Muses / Belly, Cocteau Twins, 10,000 Maniacs / Natalie Merchant or even the all powerful Aimee Mann (so happy to Liz Phair on this list and so high).
One of the best videos your ever made!!! Can’t wait for the 80’s one hopefully featuring the Frankie Goes To Hollywood box set we see on the shelves behind you!
Excellent selection Mazzy, I have just about all of these titles, mostly in cd. I would have just added, A Tribe Called Quest- The Low End Theory and Jeff Buckley’s debut, also Sinead O’Connor - I do not want. ✌️
Very impressed that you know A Storm In Heaven by the Verve. Never hear you speak about them Mazzy but this period of the band was brilliant. Even better was the first Verve EP and the early singles like Gravity Grave, She’s A Superstar and All In The Mind. I am hoping these are reissues on vinyl as the Verve cd boxsets for the first three albums were issued a few years ago but the vinyl companions didn’t go beyond the studio albums. I also would have had U2 Achtung Baby at least in the Top 10 but that’s subjective. Good list Mazzy!
Great call on "Rhythm of the Saints." I have a special memory of that tour, when a friend and I dropped acid and saw all those musicians at the Hollywood Bowl. The sky became part of the show and it was spectacular in every way. The '90s (particularly the first half) was a rare time when some of the most popular music was also some of the best. A few other key '90s records for me: Bob Mould's "Black Sheets of Rain" (follow-up to the also-great "Workbook"); Sugar's "Copper Blue" (is it cheating to have two Bob Moulds? I think not); The Replacements' "Don't Tell A Soul" (not their best, but it's the 'Mats and you can't argue with "I'll Be You," "Talent Show," "Achin' To Be" -- and they're even better on the Rhino box remaster, "Dead Man's Pop"); XTC's "Nonsuch"; Public Enemy's "Fear of a Black Planet" (recorded in '89, released in '90); Mad Season's "Above" (one-off Seattle supergroup -- post-bop grunge jazz?); Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach's "Painted From Memory" (these songs will be standards like Gershwin's and Porter's); Jane's Addiction's "Ritual de lo Habitual" (the soundtrack to the latter half of 1990); Nirvana's "In Utero" (my favorite of their three studio albums); Dinosaur Jr.'s "Green Mind" (their major label debut in a time when there was no meaningful musical distinction between major and indie-label releases); The Lemonheads' "It's A Shame About Ray" (the "Blood on the Tracks" of '90s "alternative" rock); Pixies' "Bossa Nova" (or "Trompe le Monde"); Pavement's "Slanted and Enchanted"; Beck's "Odelay"; Sonic Youth's "Goo" (and "Dirty")...
Great list of the 90's, there was many great releases in that century and so nice to Bob Dylan in the end, I listed it as the most essential during 1997 on my "One Album for Each Year" thread. Cheers
Great list. I have most of them, but mainly on CD. I never stopped buying vinyl but CD was my main format for 15 years or so. Do you re-buy all your favourites on vinyl? Glad to see Songs for Drella on the list, that record meant a lot for me. A few ones I would add to my list are PJ Harvey, Teenage Fanclub, Velvet Crush, Oblivians, Jon Spencer, 68 Comeback, Primal Scream, MBV, Ride, Pale Saints, Boo Radleys. It was a great decade for music.
Great list Mazzy. No Stones Voodoo Lounge? That was for me the last great Stones album. Better then some of their 80's stuff. Also no brainer for me is Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie, The Cure Wish, Moby Play, Afghan Whigs Gentleman, Therapy Die Laughing, Pearl Jam Vs, Tindersticks Tindersticks first album, Eric Clapton Pilgrim, The Black Crowes The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion, Suede Suede, Pj Harvey To bring you me love.
Nice picks Mazzie. Have you heard of Gorkys Zycotic Mynci’s album ‘Barafundle’? It was part of the welsh scene that gave us the Super Furries .Part indie, part folk, part ‘See Emily Play’ slightly Robert Wyatt/Kevin Ayers. Very melodic. Try ‘Patio Song’ I reckon it’s right up your street. Impossible to find on vinyl, but great CD/Streaming. No Bonnie Prince Billy ‘Now I See A Darkness’? Just snuck into the nineties.
Was late to Marc Cohn party, but have now snatched up all of his stuff! Knew about Walking In Memphis, didn't know every other song of his was top rate! Nice surprise - Marc is undeniably talented, great voice, great lyricist, great tunesmith!
A "Best of the 90s" list with barely a smidge of grunge ... now there's a switch-a-rooney! On my way upstairs to pull Martinis & Bikinis - it's 2023 and I (still) Need Love! Love the list!
It’s a great list. I agree with most of your selections. I particularly agree with your Verve selection, though Storm in Heaven is probably much higher up in my ranking. But what’s on my list that’s missing from yours? Well, I’ve gotta give a shout out to that little 40 million selling album that Alanis Morrisette put out, Jagged Little Pill. I’d have ‘Live Through This’ by Hole on my list. Garbage, by Garbage. Maybe “Walking Wounded” by Everything But The Girl. The Cranberries, for sure… probably “Everybody Else is Doing It, so Why Can’t We,” but I adore Zombie (my pick for best song and video of the whole decade) so maybe “No Need to Argue.” But #1 on my list for best album of the decade, is one that doesn’t appear at all on your list… “Wish” by the Cure. Those are my additions.
I was 30 in 1990!! I agree with most of your choices yet again! To me though the 90's was a decline compared to the previous 30 years!! Brilliant video!
Same age as me. I largely gave rock music a pass in the ‘90’s but came back to it at the turn of the century. Nevermind was the only “record “ I connected with in the grunge era since it all seemed to go so commercial later.
I agree the 90's started well enough Nirvana and here in the UK Britpop!! Yes a false dawn for guitar bands! Then just a handful of bands doing decent stuff but not classics by the end of the decade!!
Great list. And I would have Post and Tidal in my list as well. Everyone is different so a few from me: Cocteau Twins, Heaven. The Sundays, Blind. Ben Folds Five, Reinhold. Pumpkins, Siamese. Wanker Morrissey, any of his 90s.
In no particular order -- The Verve - A Storm In Heaven (Had that album and first 4 E.P.s recorded to Cassette, and I remember road tripping (and puffing) the Westcoast of Ireland, along the Atlantic Coastline and the wild weathers. I still have them all on vinyl.) DJ Shadow - Endtroducing..... (I remember at a Shadow gig he even showed and talked about the Oldtimer Drummers he worked with [Roy Porter, Earl Palmer, Paul Humphrey & James Gadson] in the Short Documentary "Keepintime: Talking Drums & Whispering Vinyl".) Lou Reed & John Cale - Songs For Drella (One of the few Cassettes I still have.) Sonic Youth - Goo (Of course. Though Bad Moon Rising is still my favourite.) Bjork - Debut (there are other Bjork L.P.s I prefer, but her solo debut has some special memories.) Sinéad O'Connor - I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got (There are at least half-dozen+ songs better than "Nothing Compares..." on the Do Not Want.. album. No one compared to Sinéad) Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Good Son Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible (One of my Top 5 Albums.) The Jesus And Mary Chain - Honey's Dead Radiohead - The Bends (I overdosed on Paranoid Android so much way-back-when, that I still can't really listen to P.A. as a full album ? A couple or three songs at a time.) Spiritualized - Lazer Guided Melodies or [Electric Mainline] Pure Phase or Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space (how do I pick one ?) Slowdive - Souvlaki Ride - Nowhere The Sundays - Reading, Writing & Arithmetic Primal Scream - Screamadelica Happy Mondays - Pills 'n' Thrills & Bellyaches Inspiral Carpets - Life The Charlatans - Some Friendly Massive Attack - Protection (It just edges ahead of Blue Lines.) Sublime - Sublime (Such a sunny Summer album.) Beastie Boys - The In Sound From Way Out ! (Check Your Head and Root Down and Ill Communication could probably all or any-of be included in that '90s list too.) The Prodigy - The Fat Of The Land Lo Fidelity Allstars - How To Operate With A Blown Mind 🤯 Polygon Window - Surfing On Sine Waves (Which is a pseudonym for Richard D. James, prob' better know as Aphex Twin. I think Aphex's most beautiful album.) Moby - Play Billy Bragg & Wilco - Mermaid Avenue (Personally I prefer Mermaid Avenue II, but 1 was the one in the '90s so...) Beth Orton - Trailer Park or Central Reservation (I can't decide between them.) Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin Nirvana - Nevermind Mudhoney - Piece Of Cake🍰 (Out of the whole Grunge, within weeks of discovering Nirvana, I was hooked onto Mudhoney. And, to this day still a fan.) Dinosaur Jr. - Fossils or Green Mind or Where You Been (At a push I'd say Fossils, though it's not really a Studio Album.) Anti-Flag - A New Kind Of Army (My favourite Anti-Flag albums Underground Network Alliance, Mobilize, etc, etc. are all in the 2000s. They were pretty prolific in the 2000's.) NOFX - So Long And Thanks For All The Shoes (Not as good as The War On Errorism, but for the '90s, So Long... will do.) AC⚡DC - The Razors Edge (Great album,. "Thunderstruck"... what a tune ! I kinda have a guilty pleasure watching people [especially Rap Fans] Reacting to AC⚡DC "Thunderstruck", for the first time, on the CZcams.) The Irish 🇮🇪 90's Albums / Bands I listened to alot -- My Bloody Valentine - Loveless (Of course...!) Whipping Boy - Submarine or Wormheart (I couldn't pick between these two, two albums to love for different reasons.) Therapy? - Babyteeth (Still my favourite, and most listened to Therapy? album.) A House - I Am The Greatest (Great album, but "Endless Art", what a song, brilliant !) The Frank & Walters - Trains, Boats & Plains (Such clever catchy tunes like "Fashion Crisis Hits New York", "This Is Not A Song", "After All", etc.) The Waterboys - Room To Roam (Fisherman's Blues was the '80s, so it's gonna have to be the last great Waterboys album, Room To Roam. They're not quite Irish, but they pretty-much sound like they are here... again.) .
For me that list was a mixture of albums I completely agree with and albums I’ve never heard of. As a Brit in my 20’s the 90’s was about Massive Attack, Portishead, Prodigy, Chemical Brothers with Rage Against The Machine and Hip Hop from the U.S.
From my MP3 player. I spent 10+ years at the Hoffman forum and found many of these: Annie Lennox: Diva, Ben Folds Five: S/T, Blur: S/T, Bobby Sichran: From A Sympathetic Hurricane, Boo Radleys: Wake Up!, Cathy Dennis: Move To This, Charlatans: Some Friendly, Cotton Mather: Kontiki, Delta Spirit: Ode To Sunshine, Dodgy: Free Peace Sweet, Elastica: S/T, Fatboy Slim: Better Living Thru Chemistry, Flaming Lips: Yoshimi, Frames: Fitzcarraldo, High Llamas: Hawaii, Jack: Pioneer Soundtracks, KLF: Chill Out, Lightning Seeds: Jollification, Los Dandys: Symphonic Screams, Ocean Color Scene: Moseley Shoals, Paul Weller: Wild Wood, Pulp: Different Class, Robbie Williams: The Ego Has Landed, Saint Etienne: Good Humour, Seefeel: Quique, Shack: HMS Fable, Shazam: Godspeed The Shazam, Stone Roses: Second Coming, The Strands: The Magical World Of The Strands, Supernaturals: It Doesn't Matter Anymore, Weezer: Blue Album. Enjoy!
I graduated in '96, I listened to everything and was really into Trip-Hop... DJ Shadow - Entroducing might actually be my favorite, but lets try to do stuff unmentioned 20 albums I still play the most in no particular order: Esthero - Breath From Another (Urban Outfitters about to drop a re-issue) Massive Attack - Mezzanine (all of their albums really) Poritshead - Self Titled 2nd album (again, all of their stuff) Spiritualized - Ladies And Gentleman We Are Floating In Space Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream Cypress Hill - Black Sunday Beastie Boys - Check Your Head Air - moon Safari Tricky - Maxinequaye Slowdive - Slouvlaki Stone Temple Pilots - Core Alice In Chains - Jar Of Flies Sublime - Self Titled The Verve - Urban Hymns (I like their old stuff too) Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle NIN - Pretty Hate Machine (Oct. 1989, close enough) Swervedriver - Mezcal Head The Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride... Boards Of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman Nirvana Unplugged and The Crow Soundtrack. And of course OK Computer, Pearl Jam's Black, Nas Illmatic- obviously p.s. Really jealous of the Fiona vinyl, nice one!
Saw Lucinda open for Neil Young 20 years or so ago. (H.O.R.D.E.?) Anyway we were in second row and, to Lucinda's real surprise, sang along with all her songs. Love her!
Great stuff! Sam Phillips, The Breeders, Sonic Youth, Eels, The Jayhawks, Radiohead, Beck, R.E.M., Tom Petty...love your taste in music. My list might have also included Green Day's Dookie, Jeff Buckley's Grace, Tori Amos' Little Earthquakes, Richard Thompson's Mock Tudor, Pearl Jam's Ten, Patty Griffin's Living With Ghosts, Lauren Hill's The Miseducation Of Lauren Hill, Matthew Sweet's Girlfriend, The Cranberries' No Need To Argue, and Counting Crows' August And Everything After.
Lists are a tough beat. Was definitely curious your thoughts here, and agree with many of your selections. IMO, missing some of the harder stuff (Metallica - ST), or a few more commercial hitters (no Hootie, lol) but I know that’s not your jam. ✌🏻
An album I would have added is Living With The Law by Chris Whitley. Great country blues flavored album. Recommended to me by Johnny Rubato from the late great Rubato Records formerly in Bellevue, Wallingford and West Seattle.
Somtimes it feels like the 90s was the last decade that it was ok to have fun without being guilted into submission. Fuck social media. Anyway, great list (Red House Painters, Belle and Sebastian and Julian Cope are personal favs). Some other favourites of the 90s: Prefab Sprout: Jordan The Comeback; The Sundays: Reading, Writing and Arithmetic; Laika: Good Looking Blues; David Sylvian: Dead Bees on a Cake; Ice Cube: Amerkkka's Most Wantd; Lush: Split; Spiritualized: Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space; Tricky; Maxinequaye; Massive Attack: Mezzanine; Mark Eitzel: 60 Watt Silver Lining; Cocteau Twins: Milk & Kisses... Just scratching the surface...
Something went 'wrong' for me in the 1990s. I guess I discovered I was a vinyl guy. Looking back some of my purchases-like: The Rolling Stones "Singles Collection: The London Years" (1989); EJ "To Be Continued...(1990)"; Phil Spector Back to Mono 1958-1969 (1991); Crosby, Stills & Nash, "CSN" (1991); Woodstock: Three Days of Peace and Music (1994)-were CDs released in LP boxes. In most cases the boxes had enough room to hold many more vinyl LPs than the music carried in the CDs. So somewhere in the mid-1990s I just started listening to Jazz and stopped buying R&R CDs. I would add "Flaming Pie" to the list. I think it sounds better than a lot of the titles there.
Achtung Baby is my favorite U2 album They are arguably the band who has been successful and mattered longer than any other band. Agree with Odelay. Beck came from the Bakersfield country scene as far as his influences. What an innovative record. And Automatic for the People! even though Lifes Rich Pageant is my favorite REM record. I would argue for Neutral Milk Hotel and The Fugees - The Score..
I was 19 in 1990. Sorry, don't know why I said that. It's a great list and video but I have a couple of comments: 1. You didn't include Wilco's Being There? I think it's one of the classic albums of the last 30 years, and probably my favourite of theirs (A Ghost Is Born would make a 2000s list) 2. Did you pronounce U2 'CZcams"? 3. Wildflowers *was* actually a double album - and 63 minute CD - when it was released. The recent reissue has made it a triple LP, 4 or 5 disc version. 4. I agree with the #1 choice, although the new mix is my preferred version.
I can only assume you've never heard a Teenage Fanclub record? I was getting ready to really lay into you, but you pulled out Time Out of Mind. Nice! Ed from Chicago
the only albums we both bought in the 90s was nirvanas nevermind and ok computer. i got the mazzy star, ray of light, breeders,r.e.m,achtung baby albums later in life. however i did enjoy all those bands singles on the radio. just never bought an album. the one im really jealous of is bjork. in my most loved female vocalist and artist. i wish i would have been into her music in the 90s :( .. unfortuantely the radio only played its oh so quiet and human behavior and i didnt like those songs so i never checked her out.
Had to dig out my Madonna "Ray Of Light" CD (no vinyl) as I hadn't listened to it in ages. She was still pretty awesome back then, but these days she's a hot mess. Some people just can't take aging gracefully.
I’m not sure why you had to include Dylan, Simon, Cash, and Young. Great records, but kind of misaligned with your preface, which was “records of younger artists I discovered in the 90s.” Anyway, I think I bought nearly all of your picks on CD. How did you even get ahold of vinyl versions of these? I guess in recent years, because they hardly existed in the 90s.
Liked most of your list Major deduction for no Wilco, Alanis, Sarah MacLachlan, Jeff Buckley, Peter Gabriel, Aimee Mann Harvest Moon, Whitechocolatespacegg,
I was 26 in 1990 and got married and then divorced in 2000...my ex hated that I sat and listened to records...she thought it was a waste of time...good riddance to her
Very similar 6 my experience..high Fidelity
Wonderful list Mazzie! I appreciate that you can only come up with a list like that when you grew into the this music at the time. Your personal choices and experience.
Like many of your videos: much appreciated! Keep it coming 😊
I was 28 in 1990 . Yours is a nice varied list . The first thing my son ever heard when he was born by emergency C Section in the 90’s was Cigarettes and Alcohol by Oasis as the surgeon was playing it. He’s now the lead guitarist in a band (my son, not the surgeon ). 😊 That’s the beauty of music, it can be connected to such personal stories .
Thx again Mazzy! You have reconfirmed my appreciation of the 1990s in music. My preference always leans to late 60s, entire 70s and all of 90s with some 80s masterpieces sprinkled in. Alt country aka yal'ternative reeled me in big time throughout the 90s decade. I still love it. You do good work...keep it going.
What a way of having your curiosity aroused and what fun it is to check out things that you overlooked. Cheers Mazzy
So glad to see such an eclectic array of music. Also not surprised..."Mr. Music Encyclopedia". Additional admiration for the Neil, Tom and Bob! Crank Healing Game - Van Morrison when you have time on your next coffee session. great Fall record😉. Respect and love what you do!
Great list! Some of my faves in there…U2, DM, OASIS, Nirvana. You’re the one who turned me onto Nick Cave and ‘Boatman’s Call’ is now a treasured piece in my Vinyl set!
Recently started replacing my cds from the 90s on vinyl, which is so much more satisfying. It’s like rediscovering the music and getting more of an appreciation for it
Awesome video! Thank you Mr. Mazlov. You really put your heart into your videos and your honesty is very much appreciated Thank You again.!!!
You are very welcome. I try to. ✌🏼
Some great records I love that I would not have expected you to pick… and some unforgivable misses (MBV). But it’s YOUR list! Nice one.
Fantastic list, Massey!!! Thank you for doing this video!
Ha, I was just about to call you out for not including Time Out of Mind and BAM, there it was! Great list! I was in my 20's all through the 90's so you can bet some of my favorite music is from that time.
Here are a some I would have added plus maybe a Blues Traveller album of your choice.
Dust - Screaming Trees
Badmotorfinger - Soundgarden
In the Meantime - Spacehog
Cheers!
Just came across this 90s set list of 40 faves of yours. Truly appreciate your nod to Neil Young's "Sleeps With Angels" which was the last album he & Crazy Horse did with David Briggs, who passed away not long after it was completed. I love a lot of Neil Young's catalog all the way through from the start, but his best work for my ears was always with David Briggs. This album is a perfect requiem tribute. Thanks for the excellent selections and stories.
Great list Mazzy! Surprised to see Nevermind in there for you, but good to see a little grunge pulled you in. Honestly I dont even know if its grunge in the strick sense. Its just a damn great pop post punk hard rock album with irresistable hooks and a unique downtuned vibe.
Definitely a three or four albums there I need to check out that arent in my 90s collection. One thing is for sure, those who think the decade was not a great time for music should listen again. Maybe the last great decade for rock type music.
Id add these: Portishead Dummy, Flaming Lips Soft Bulletin, Tori Amos Little Earthquakes, PJ Harvey Rid Of Me, Buena Vista Social Club, Gillian Welch Revival (and btw where are those Welch/Rawlings reissues!?) Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West, Elastica Elastica, Wilco Summerteeth, Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream, Weezer Weezer (I dont think you are a Weezer fan though), Sonny Sharock As The Ages, Outkast Aliens, Tricky Maxinquaye (Im a big trip hop fan so the inclusion of this and Dummy) Massive Attack Blue Lines (yet another awesome trip hop album), Sleeter Kinney Dig Me Out, NIN The Downward Spiral, Björk Im going with Homogenic as my favorite. Boards Of Canada, My Bloody Valentine, Aphex Twins, Stereolab..gosh just gobs of good stuff in the 90s.
Great list though! The 90s were not too shabby. In fact, pretty damn great at times. Of course I was in my mid 20s so that was “my” music.
Dear Mazzy, great List!!! Nick Cave/R.E.M./Tom Petty/U2/Neil Young/Beck/Jayhawks/Johnny Cash/Radiohead...and a lot of more Great Albums with all the Varieties of Rock/Pop Music!!! best regards with Love, Marko 🙂
12 other albums that made my nineties : Portishead's "Dummy" + PJ Harvey's "Dry" + Jeff Buckley's "Grace" + Bjork's "Debut" + Alice in chains' "Dirt" + Fugazi's "In on the kill taker" + Nick Cave's "Henry's dream" + My Bloody Valentine's "Loveless" + Massive Attack's "Protection" + Bowie's "Outside" + KLF's "The white room" + The La's (btw... glad to see you mentioned Morphine, Liz Phair and DJ Shadow)
that depeche mode - Violator album is fucking great!
Nice work as always Mazzy. That’s a lot of work to narrow it down. Appreciate the effort, ha!
One of your most interesting shows. Each record has great curation.
cannot argue with that list, Mazzy. This was such a great era of musical discoveries for me, especially the indie scene. The Go Betweens (Mark II), Guided By Voices, The Wedding Present, Supergrass, High Llamas, Mogwai, Boards of Canada, Screaming Trees, Pavement, Magnetic Fields, The Loud Family, Lemonheads, Jellyfish, Flying Saucer Attack, the list goes on and on.
Great list. Yet more new music to check out!
Great list I was a kid in the 90s so know about half of these, so look forward to checking out the rest
Mazzy with another classic video love it Prince the Gold Experience I've seen Prince 4 times he was a musical genius. U2 Achtung Baby still sounds outstanding. Emmy Lou Harris Wrecking Ball and Bob Dylan Time out of Mind would make my top 40 albums of the 90's.
43 Sheryl Crow,"Tuesday Night Music Club"
42 The Verve,"A Storm in Heaven"
41 Madonna,"Ray of Light"
40 Sonic Youth,"Goo"
39 Red House Painters,"Rollercoaster (Nickname)"
38 Eels,"Beautiful Freak"
37 Depeche Mode,"Violator"
36 Oasis,"What's the Story Morning Glory?"
35 DJ Shadow,"Endtroducing....."
34 Morphine,"Cure for Pain"
33 Elliott Smith,"Either/Or"
32 Uncle Tupelo,"Anodyne"
31 Prince (The Artist Formerly Known as Prince),"The Gold Experience"
30 U2,"Achtung Baby"
29 The Jayhawks,"Tomorrow the Green Grass"
28 Calexico,"The Black Light"
27 Tom Petty - "Wildflowers"
26 Lucinda Williams - "Car Wheels on a Gravel Road"
25 World Party - "Goodbye Jumbo"
24 Jim White - "The Mysterious Tale of How I Shouted Wrong-Eyed Jesus"
23 They Might Be Giants - "Flood"
22 Björk - "Post"
21 Radiohead - "OK Computer"
20 Nirvana - "Nevermind"
19 Belle and Sebastian - "The Boy with the Arab Strap"
18 Julian Cope - "Peggy Suicide"
17 Lou Reed & John Cale - "Songs for 'Drella"
16 Björk - "Post"
15 Radiohead - "OK Computer"
14 The Breeders - "Last Splash"
13 Sam Phillips - "Martinis and Bikinis"
12 Paul Simon - "The Rhythm of the Saints"
11 Mazzy Star,So Tonight That I Might See
10 Fiona Apple,Tidal
9 Liz Phair,Exile in Guyville
8 Emmylou Harris,Wrecking Ball
7 Sinead O'Connor,I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got
6 Beck,Odelay
5 Johnny Cash,American Recordings
4 Neil Young,Sleeps with Angels
3 R.E.M.,Automatic for the People
2 Radiohead, Album: "OK Computer"
1 Bob Dylan,Time Out of Mind (1997)
Sorry but number 2 is Nick Cave.
Why so many OK Computers?
I am absolutely outraged!!! I've just finished watching this and loved every minute Mr Maz. I like you have been listening and gigging since my first ever single that I bought, C'mon by the Stones and I have a very catholic taste, I adore Neil Young, Eells etc...but you have blown it. Right up to the very end I was convinced you were going to select THE album of the 90s. But you didnt....What??? no Blue Lines Massive Attack. Disgruntled of Liverpool
An interesting list Mazzy! One album that is missing though is Jeff Buckley’s Grace. Would have been on my top 3.
Thank’s for making interesting videos!👏🏻😀
I'm happy to see a Belle and Sebastian album on this list! That band doesn't get enough attention. They may have lost a step in recent years, as all bands do, but Stuart Murdoch can still knock out a great ballad. Their first 8 albums and their Jeepster EPs are great. I don't count Storytelling amongst those 8 studio albums. They're a top 3 band for me.
I consider myself a fan, but somehow missed Neil’s ‘Sleeps With Angels’. Thanks. I have enjoyed my afternoon with it.
Great list, love the shout out of Jim White, really underappreciated artist. About half a dozen albums you recommend i want to check out. Have you ever heard of Sparklehorse? His 90s albums are alt country/rock masterpieces imo. My 90s top 10, off top of my head would be:
OK Computer
Automatic For The People
In Utero
Vitalogy
Achtung Baby
Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot
Being There
Deserters Songs
Violator
Time Out Of Mind
Stuart
I would like to respond to this but don't know if I can wrap my head around it. I'll just call Pavement's Slanted & Enchanted my favorite record and go from there. Kudos for those Belle and Sebastian picks. And love the continued Morphine support on this channel
It’s too much work 😵💫
A fun run through time. Thanks!
Great top 40 Mazzy, loved it! So happy to see Tupelo (STL'ish band, we would see them "on the Landing in the summer" 😉)...however was a bit difficult to see Summerteeth off the list (the Pet Sounds of the 90's?).
Also SO nice to see World Party and BAFFLING with the Breeders...I have seen the Pixies multiple times over multiple decades and Deal is by far the weakest member of that outfit. There were MUCH more talented female artists like Lush, Sarah McLachlan, Throwing Muses / Belly, Cocteau Twins, 10,000 Maniacs / Natalie Merchant or even the all powerful Aimee Mann (so happy to Liz Phair on this list and so high).
Fine run through of the 90s. So much good stuff. Thanks. Pearl Jam: you had to be here.
One of the best videos your ever made!!! Can’t wait for the 80’s one hopefully featuring the Frankie Goes To Hollywood box set we see on the shelves behind you!
Can't wait for the '00s list
I don’t have a Frankie Box set
Sorry - I thought the cover two across from the Eels yellow and purple one was ‘Inside The Pleasuredome’ 🤣🤣
Excellent selection Mazzy, I have just about all of these titles, mostly in cd. I would have just added, A Tribe Called Quest- The Low End Theory and Jeff Buckley’s debut, also Sinead O’Connor - I do not want. ✌️
I can't wait to hear these! Ray C.
Very impressed that you know A Storm In Heaven by the Verve. Never hear you speak about them Mazzy but this period of the band was brilliant. Even better was the first Verve EP and the early singles like Gravity Grave, She’s A Superstar and All In The Mind. I am hoping these are reissues on vinyl as the Verve cd boxsets for the first three albums were issued a few years ago but the vinyl companions didn’t go beyond the studio albums.
I also would have had U2 Achtung Baby at least in the Top 10 but that’s subjective.
Good list Mazzy!
Mmmmm Gravity Grave! 💙💙💙 (Pretty sure I have all the singles on CD, including import variations, sadly no longer have the cases tho)
Great call on "Rhythm of the Saints." I have a special memory of that tour, when a friend and I dropped acid and saw all those musicians at the Hollywood Bowl. The sky became part of the show and it was spectacular in every way. The '90s (particularly the first half) was a rare time when some of the most popular music was also some of the best. A few other key '90s records for me: Bob Mould's "Black Sheets of Rain" (follow-up to the also-great "Workbook"); Sugar's "Copper Blue" (is it cheating to have two Bob Moulds? I think not); The Replacements' "Don't Tell A Soul" (not their best, but it's the 'Mats and you can't argue with "I'll Be You," "Talent Show," "Achin' To Be" -- and they're even better on the Rhino box remaster, "Dead Man's Pop"); XTC's "Nonsuch"; Public Enemy's "Fear of a Black Planet" (recorded in '89, released in '90); Mad Season's "Above" (one-off Seattle supergroup -- post-bop grunge jazz?); Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach's "Painted From Memory" (these songs will be standards like Gershwin's and Porter's); Jane's Addiction's "Ritual de lo Habitual" (the soundtrack to the latter half of 1990); Nirvana's "In Utero" (my favorite of their three studio albums); Dinosaur Jr.'s "Green Mind" (their major label debut in a time when there was no meaningful musical distinction between major and indie-label releases); The Lemonheads' "It's A Shame About Ray" (the "Blood on the Tracks" of '90s "alternative" rock); Pixies' "Bossa Nova" (or "Trompe le Monde"); Pavement's "Slanted and Enchanted"; Beck's "Odelay"; Sonic Youth's "Goo" (and "Dirty")...
Oh man, expensive business those videos of yours Mazzy... I always end up buying new records after watching one of your videos... :-)
Be careful ✌🏼
Great list of the 90's, there was many great releases in that century and so nice to Bob Dylan in the end, I listed it as the most essential during 1997 on my "One Album for Each Year" thread. Cheers
Great choice pops
Just discovered your channel and am addicted. You seem expert in British music. Do you know Dog man star by Suede? Incredible album.
Great list, can’t argue
Great list. I have most of them, but mainly on CD. I never stopped buying vinyl but CD was my main format for 15 years or so. Do you re-buy all your favourites on vinyl?
Glad to see Songs for Drella on the list, that record meant a lot for me.
A few ones I would add to my list are PJ Harvey, Teenage Fanclub, Velvet Crush, Oblivians, Jon Spencer, 68 Comeback, Primal Scream, MBV, Ride, Pale Saints, Boo Radleys. It was a great decade for music.
Great list Mazzy. No Stones Voodoo Lounge? That was for me the last great Stones album. Better then some of their 80's stuff.
Also no brainer for me is Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie, The Cure Wish, Moby Play, Afghan Whigs Gentleman, Therapy Die Laughing, Pearl Jam Vs, Tindersticks Tindersticks first album, Eric Clapton Pilgrim, The Black Crowes The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion, Suede Suede, Pj Harvey To bring you me love.
Nice picks Mazzie. Have you heard of Gorkys Zycotic Mynci’s album ‘Barafundle’? It was part of the welsh scene that gave us the Super Furries .Part indie, part folk, part ‘See Emily Play’ slightly Robert Wyatt/Kevin Ayers. Very melodic. Try ‘Patio Song’ I reckon it’s right up your street. Impossible to find on vinyl, but great CD/Streaming. No Bonnie Prince Billy ‘Now I See A Darkness’? Just snuck into the nineties.
I didn’t get any Bonnie Prince records till the 2000s
Salute Mazzy. Great video. If you’re a fan of Bjork you might be interested in her first group KUKL. Early 80s madness
Thanks ✌🏼
Great list👍🏾
I enjoyed this countdown. There are many albums on your list I really like also. On my list is Marc Cohn debut album.
Was late to Marc Cohn party, but have now snatched up all of his stuff! Knew about Walking In Memphis, didn't know every other song of his was top rate! Nice surprise - Marc is undeniably talented, great voice, great lyricist, great tunesmith!
@@treff9226 😊 👍
A "Best of the 90s" list with barely a smidge of grunge ... now there's a switch-a-rooney!
On my way upstairs to pull Martinis & Bikinis - it's 2023 and I (still) Need Love!
Love the list!
It’s a great list. I agree with most of your selections. I particularly agree with your Verve selection, though Storm in Heaven is probably much higher up in my ranking.
But what’s on my list that’s missing from yours? Well, I’ve gotta give a shout out to that little 40 million selling album that Alanis Morrisette put out, Jagged Little Pill. I’d have ‘Live Through This’ by Hole on my list. Garbage, by Garbage. Maybe “Walking Wounded” by Everything But The Girl.
The Cranberries, for sure… probably “Everybody Else is Doing It, so Why Can’t We,” but I adore Zombie (my pick for best song and video of the whole decade) so maybe “No Need to Argue.”
But #1 on my list for best album of the decade, is one that doesn’t appear at all on your list… “Wish” by the Cure.
Those are my additions.
Good ones
A couple of my favorites from the decade were Matthew Sweet "Girlfriend" and Jellyfish's second album "Spilt Milk".
Those are great, I'd add Velvet Crush's Teenage Symphonies to God.
Jason Falkner's Can You Still Feel is another gem in that genre.
I was 30 in 1990!! I agree with most of your choices yet again! To me though the 90's was a decline compared to the previous 30 years!!
Brilliant video!
Same age as me. I largely gave rock music a pass in the ‘90’s but came back to it at the turn of the century. Nevermind was the only “record “ I connected with in the grunge era since it all seemed to go so commercial later.
Spot on guy's! I bought cds left the vinyl behind 90s was not that great!😳
I agree the 90's started well enough Nirvana and here in the UK Britpop!! Yes a false dawn for guitar bands! Then just a handful of bands doing decent stuff but not classics by the end of the decade!!
Nice to see Uncle Tupelo there.. my top 5
Great list own most of those albums but my favourite album of the 90's is August and Everything After - Counting Crows
Great list. And I would have Post and Tidal in my list as well. Everyone is different so a few from me: Cocteau Twins, Heaven. The Sundays, Blind. Ben Folds Five, Reinhold. Pumpkins, Siamese. Wanker Morrissey, any of his 90s.
Excellent list Mazzy.
Thank you 😎
In no particular order --
The Verve - A Storm In Heaven (Had that album and first 4 E.P.s recorded to Cassette, and I remember road tripping (and puffing) the Westcoast of Ireland, along the Atlantic Coastline and the wild weathers. I still have them all on vinyl.)
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing..... (I remember at a Shadow gig he even showed and talked about the Oldtimer Drummers he worked with [Roy Porter, Earl Palmer, Paul Humphrey & James Gadson] in the Short Documentary "Keepintime: Talking Drums & Whispering Vinyl".)
Lou Reed & John Cale - Songs For Drella (One of the few Cassettes I still have.)
Sonic Youth - Goo (Of course. Though Bad Moon Rising is still my favourite.)
Bjork - Debut (there are other Bjork L.P.s I prefer, but her solo debut has some special memories.)
Sinéad O'Connor - I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got (There are at least half-dozen+ songs better than "Nothing Compares..." on the Do Not Want.. album. No one compared to Sinéad)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Good Son
Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible (One of my Top 5 Albums.)
The Jesus And Mary Chain - Honey's Dead
Radiohead - The Bends (I overdosed on Paranoid Android so much way-back-when, that I still can't really listen to P.A. as a full album ? A couple or three songs at a time.)
Spiritualized - Lazer Guided Melodies or [Electric Mainline] Pure Phase or Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space (how do I pick one ?)
Slowdive - Souvlaki
Ride - Nowhere
The Sundays - Reading, Writing & Arithmetic
Primal Scream - Screamadelica
Happy Mondays - Pills 'n' Thrills & Bellyaches
Inspiral Carpets - Life
The Charlatans - Some Friendly
Massive Attack - Protection (It just edges ahead of Blue Lines.)
Sublime - Sublime (Such a sunny Summer album.)
Beastie Boys - The In Sound From Way Out ! (Check Your Head and Root Down and Ill Communication could probably all or any-of be included in that '90s list too.)
The Prodigy - The Fat Of The Land
Lo Fidelity Allstars - How To Operate With A Blown Mind 🤯
Polygon Window - Surfing On Sine Waves (Which is a pseudonym for Richard D. James, prob' better know as Aphex Twin. I think Aphex's most beautiful album.)
Moby - Play
Billy Bragg & Wilco - Mermaid Avenue (Personally I prefer Mermaid Avenue II, but 1 was the one in the '90s so...)
Beth Orton - Trailer Park or Central Reservation (I can't decide between them.)
Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs
The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
Nirvana - Nevermind
Mudhoney - Piece Of Cake🍰 (Out of the whole Grunge, within weeks of discovering Nirvana, I was hooked onto Mudhoney. And, to this day still a fan.)
Dinosaur Jr. - Fossils or Green Mind or Where You Been (At a push I'd say Fossils, though it's not really a Studio Album.)
Anti-Flag - A New Kind Of Army (My favourite Anti-Flag albums Underground Network Alliance, Mobilize, etc, etc. are all in the 2000s. They were pretty prolific in the 2000's.)
NOFX - So Long And Thanks For All The Shoes (Not as good as The War On Errorism, but for the '90s, So Long... will do.)
AC⚡DC - The Razors Edge (Great album,. "Thunderstruck"... what a tune ! I kinda have a guilty pleasure watching people [especially Rap Fans] Reacting to AC⚡DC "Thunderstruck", for the first time, on the CZcams.)
The Irish 🇮🇪 90's Albums / Bands I listened to alot --
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless (Of course...!)
Whipping Boy - Submarine or Wormheart (I couldn't pick between these two, two albums to love for different reasons.)
Therapy? - Babyteeth (Still my favourite, and most listened to Therapy? album.)
A House - I Am The Greatest (Great album, but "Endless Art", what a song, brilliant !)
The Frank & Walters - Trains, Boats & Plains (Such clever catchy tunes like "Fashion Crisis Hits New York", "This Is Not A Song", "After All", etc.)
The Waterboys - Room To Roam (Fisherman's Blues was the '80s, so it's gonna have to be the last great Waterboys album, Room To Roam. They're not quite Irish, but they pretty-much sound like they are here... again.)
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Cool selection
Fuck me Mazzy, you've just sorted out my CD collection in the 90s! I've got about 10 of those vinyl! Love from the UK
Hey Mazzy i love you snd your channel..ma hai dimenticato grandi album e artisti ....Grave jeff Bukley. Kiko Los Lobos , wild wood Poul weller
Thanks for that Julian Cope - "Peggy Suicide" mention. He is a peach! That one I do not know.
Nice to see World Party on your list. RIP Karl.
For me that list was a mixture of albums I completely agree with and albums I’ve never heard of.
As a Brit in my 20’s the 90’s was about Massive Attack, Portishead, Prodigy, Chemical Brothers with Rage Against The Machine and Hip Hop from the U.S.
Lots of great music that decade. Just different genres and generations ✌🏼
From my MP3 player. I spent 10+ years at the Hoffman forum and found many of these: Annie Lennox: Diva, Ben Folds Five: S/T, Blur: S/T, Bobby Sichran: From A Sympathetic Hurricane, Boo Radleys: Wake Up!, Cathy Dennis: Move To This, Charlatans: Some Friendly, Cotton Mather: Kontiki, Delta Spirit: Ode To Sunshine, Dodgy: Free Peace Sweet, Elastica: S/T, Fatboy Slim: Better Living Thru Chemistry, Flaming Lips: Yoshimi, Frames: Fitzcarraldo, High Llamas: Hawaii, Jack: Pioneer Soundtracks, KLF: Chill Out, Lightning Seeds: Jollification, Los Dandys: Symphonic Screams, Ocean Color Scene: Moseley Shoals, Paul Weller: Wild Wood, Pulp: Different Class, Robbie Williams: The Ego Has Landed, Saint Etienne: Good Humour, Seefeel: Quique, Shack: HMS Fable, Shazam: Godspeed The Shazam, Stone Roses: Second Coming, The Strands: The Magical World Of The Strands, Supernaturals: It Doesn't Matter Anymore, Weezer: Blue Album. Enjoy!
Fantastic
Excellent list. I just miss “Different Class” by Pulp
I graduated in '96, I listened to everything and was really into Trip-Hop...
DJ Shadow - Entroducing might actually be my favorite, but lets try to do stuff unmentioned
20 albums I still play the most in no particular order:
Esthero - Breath From Another (Urban Outfitters about to drop a re-issue)
Massive Attack - Mezzanine (all of their albums really)
Poritshead - Self Titled 2nd album (again, all of their stuff)
Spiritualized - Ladies And Gentleman We Are Floating In Space
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Cypress Hill - Black Sunday
Beastie Boys - Check Your Head
Air - moon Safari
Tricky - Maxinequaye
Slowdive - Slouvlaki
Stone Temple Pilots - Core
Alice In Chains - Jar Of Flies
Sublime - Self Titled
The Verve - Urban Hymns (I like their old stuff too)
Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle
NIN - Pretty Hate Machine (Oct. 1989, close enough)
Swervedriver - Mezcal Head
The Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride...
Boards Of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman
Nirvana Unplugged and The Crow Soundtrack. And of course OK Computer, Pearl Jam's Black, Nas Illmatic- obviously
p.s. Really jealous of the Fiona vinyl, nice one!
Great list. And generational ✌🏼
What are your thoughts on BJM? They just put out a 2023 concert on youtube and it's pretty darn good. Still doing it.
Brian Jones Massacre ? Love them. I did get their last album
Saw Lucinda open for Neil Young 20 years or so ago. (H.O.R.D.E.?) Anyway we were in second row and, to Lucinda's real surprise, sang along with all her songs. Love her!
Great stuff! Sam Phillips, The Breeders, Sonic Youth, Eels, The Jayhawks, Radiohead, Beck, R.E.M., Tom Petty...love your taste in music. My list might have also included Green Day's Dookie, Jeff Buckley's Grace, Tori Amos' Little Earthquakes, Richard Thompson's Mock Tudor, Pearl Jam's Ten, Patty Griffin's Living With Ghosts, Lauren Hill's The Miseducation Of Lauren Hill, Matthew Sweet's Girlfriend, The Cranberries' No Need To Argue, and Counting Crows' August And Everything After.
Love the Reed/Cale album❤
The Verve! nice pick Mazzy.
Lists are a tough beat. Was definitely curious your thoughts here, and agree with many of your selections. IMO, missing some of the harder stuff (Metallica - ST), or a few more commercial hitters (no Hootie, lol) but I know that’s not your jam. ✌🏻
Not my jam as the kids say 😎😵💫
An album I would have added is Living With The Law by Chris Whitley. Great country blues flavored album. Recommended to me by Johnny Rubato from the late great Rubato Records formerly in Bellevue, Wallingford and West Seattle.
Whitely we need to get someone to talk about on a stream.. he was gem. Also Rainer Ptacek... pls.
Whitley was brilliant.
Chris Whitley is one of my favorite musical discoveries - love him love him love him!
I wish they reeisued all whitley and Rainer albums
Jazzy, anyway you could put the list of these in the comments area that can be downloaded/printed? Thanks
Love you Norman, great video. No My Bloody Valentine? But great list.
As I said , i didn’t buy it until about ten years ago and I limited my choices to records I actually bought and listened to in the 90s
Thanks. I must have slept through the 90's.
Haha. We’ll wake up
From the Tom Petty album Mazzy showed:
"And it's wake up time
Time to open up your eyes
And rise and shine"
Nice list Mazzy
Thank you ✌🏼
Somtimes it feels like the 90s was the last decade that it was ok to have fun without being guilted into submission. Fuck social media. Anyway, great list (Red House Painters, Belle and Sebastian and Julian Cope are personal favs). Some other favourites of the 90s: Prefab Sprout: Jordan The Comeback; The Sundays: Reading, Writing and Arithmetic; Laika: Good Looking Blues; David Sylvian: Dead Bees on a Cake; Ice Cube: Amerkkka's Most Wantd; Lush: Split; Spiritualized: Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space; Tricky; Maxinequaye; Massive Attack: Mezzanine; Mark Eitzel: 60 Watt Silver Lining; Cocteau Twins: Milk & Kisses... Just scratching the surface...
Yes, Cocteau !!
Something went 'wrong' for me in the 1990s. I guess I discovered I was a vinyl guy. Looking back some of my purchases-like: The Rolling Stones "Singles Collection: The London Years" (1989); EJ "To Be Continued...(1990)"; Phil Spector Back to Mono 1958-1969 (1991); Crosby, Stills & Nash, "CSN" (1991); Woodstock: Three Days of Peace and Music (1994)-were CDs released in LP boxes. In most cases the boxes had enough room to hold many more vinyl LPs than the music carried in the CDs. So somewhere in the mid-1990s I just started listening to Jazz and stopped buying R&R CDs. I would add "Flaming Pie" to the list. I think it sounds better than a lot of the titles there.
Achtung Baby is my favorite U2 album They are arguably the band who has been successful and mattered longer than any other band. Agree with Odelay. Beck came from the Bakersfield country scene as far as his influences. What an innovative record. And Automatic for the People! even though Lifes Rich Pageant is my favorite REM record. I would argue for Neutral Milk Hotel and The Fugees - The Score..
Takes you back don't it? Sore fine albums there.
I turned 32 at the end of 1990. My top lp for the decade would be Throwing Copper by Live.
some good albums you picked!!
Thank you ✌🏼
@@mazzysmusic i got rid of a lof of OG 1990's albums, i regret.i had the beck odelay on vinyl once. good one too
Jim White, Beck, World Party. Great! One artist is missing (for me): Mark Hollis.
I was 19 in 1990. Sorry, don't know why I said that. It's a great list and video but I have a couple of comments:
1. You didn't include Wilco's Being There? I think it's one of the classic albums of the last 30 years, and probably my favourite of theirs (A Ghost Is Born would make a 2000s list)
2. Did you pronounce U2 'CZcams"?
3. Wildflowers *was* actually a double album - and 63 minute CD - when it was released. The recent reissue has made it a triple LP, 4 or 5 disc version.
4. I agree with the #1 choice, although the new mix is my preferred version.
Thanks!
Thank you ✌🏼
I can only assume you've never heard a Teenage Fanclub record? I was getting ready to really lay into you, but you pulled out Time Out of Mind. Nice! Ed from Chicago
I have one Bandwagoneaque but got it in the 2000s
@@mazzysmusic They have alot of really tasty albums. They got a bit more refined and smoother than Bandwagon.
the only albums we both bought in the 90s was nirvanas nevermind and ok computer.
i got the mazzy star, ray of light, breeders,r.e.m,achtung baby albums later in life. however i did enjoy all those bands singles on the radio. just never bought an album.
the one im really jealous of is bjork. in my most loved female vocalist and artist. i wish i would have been into her music in the 90s :( .. unfortuantely the radio only played its oh so quiet and human behavior and i didnt like those songs so i never checked her out.
Man, that you have all these on vinyl ...
In the 90's I was heavy into CDs.
If Leatherface's Mush from 1991 is not on this list, give it a listen. One of the 20 best punk albums of all time.
I would add Sparklehorse into any best of the '90s list.
Golden smog weird tales if you haven’t heard you must !
Mazzy I have an original 1994 US original double LP of Wildflowers in a single sleeve. You said it was only released as a single LP?????
That was based on the OG CD, so it was on two LPs of vinyl. But two years ago the full double album as originally intended, was released.
I've most of them. I would have put in several Pavement albums.
Had to dig out my Madonna "Ray Of Light" CD (no vinyl) as I hadn't listened to it in ages. She was still pretty awesome back then, but these days she's a hot mess. Some people just can't take aging gracefully.
I’m not sure why you had to include Dylan, Simon, Cash, and Young. Great records, but kind of misaligned with your preface, which was “records of younger artists I discovered in the 90s.” Anyway, I think I bought nearly all of your picks on CD. How did you even get ahold of vinyl versions of these? I guess in recent years, because they hardly existed in the 90s.
Liked most of your list
Major deduction for no Wilco, Alanis, Sarah MacLachlan, Jeff Buckley, Peter Gabriel, Aimee Mann
Harvest Moon, Whitechocolatespacegg,
I failed 🤔😎
Please let's spread the word of Julian Cope's books on Japanese and Kraut music.
No Wish by The Cure in 1992?