More Of The Best Music Ever Made: Non-Fatally Flawed Favourites Of The Frightful Nineties
More Of The Best Music Ever Made: Non-Fatally Flawed Favourites Of The Frightful Nineties
Pretty much my top 5 of each year, 1990-1999. It may have been black metal's finest hour, but for the most part I don't care for the genre - check some other lists for recoms there.
As if I needed to say that... ...on with the show... (looking for more [extraneous] words? scroll down to #44)
[Aw, ain't the artwork pretty? Better than in the seventies, fo' sho'!]
As if I needed to say that... ...on with the show... (looking for more [extraneous] words? scroll down to #44)
[Aw, ain't the artwork pretty? Better than in the seventies, fo' sho'!]
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Anacrusis
- Manic Impressions Demo
1990 - make track 3 a teeny bit shorter and this would be PERFECT
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Anthrax
- Persistence Of Time
1990 - I love it all without Discharge... and perhaps without Gridlock
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Forbidden
- Twisted Into Form
1990 - Infinite, Step by Step, Twisted into Form, R.i.P, One Foot in Hell
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Pantera
- Cowboys From Hell
1990 - Heresy, Cemetery Gates, Domination, Shattered, The Art of Shredding
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Steve Vai
- Passion And Warfare
1990 - Erotic Nightmares, For the Love of God, The Audience Is Listening, Blue Powder, Sisters
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Carcass
- Necroticism: Descanting The Insalubrious
1991 - Cpl. Jigsore Quandary, Incarnate Solvent Abuse, Forensic Clinicism/The Sanguine Article
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Intruder
- Psycho Savant
1991 - Face of Hate, Geri's Lament (When), The Enemy Within, Invisible, Final Word, N.G.R.I.
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Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Blood Sugar Sex Magik
1991 - Breaking the Girl, I Could Have Lied, Under the Bridge, Naked in the Rain, My Lovely Man
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Obituary
- The End Complete
1992 - I'm in Pain, In the End of Life, Killing Time, The End Complete, Rotting Ways ...really, the complete work
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Rage Against The Machine
- Rage Against The Machine
1992 - Take the Power Back, Bullet in the Head, Know Your Enemy, Township Rebellion, Freedom (same again)
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ZZ Top
- Greatest Hits
1992 - My Head's in Mississippi, I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide, Cheap Sunglasses, Planet of Women, La Grange (really, as above)
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Diamond Head
- The Friday Rock Show Sessions
1992 - Sucking My Love, In the Heat of the Night, Don't You Ever Leave Me
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Cathedral
- The Ethereal Mirror
1993 - all brilliant again, but... Midnight Mountain, Fountain of Innocence, Phantasmagoria
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Resurrection
- Embalmed Existence
1993 - Embalmed Existence, Eyes of Blind, Torture Chamber, Pure Be Damned
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Brutality
- Screams Of Anguish
1993 - Septicemic Plague, Cries of the Forsaken, Cryptorium, Spawned Illusion
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Deep Purple
- Smoke On The Water - The Best Of
1994 - only Smoke on the Water and Space Truckin' sound not fully worth the time they're given, here
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Altar
- Youth Against Christ
1994 - another bit of perfection, if only Hypochristianity and Forced Imprudence had not gone on for so long
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Neil Young & Crazy Horse
- Sleeps with Angels
1994 - Driveby, SwA, Change Your Mind, Blue Eden, Safeway Cart, Piece of Crap
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Pantera
- Far Beyond Driven
1994 - Lines, Slaughtered, Skin, Rejection, 'n' bonus track The Badge (from The Crow soundtrack)
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Eric Clapton
- The Cream of Clapton (compilation)
1994 - Lay Down Sally, Let It Grow, I Can't Stand It (of course, not much can beat Layla & the Cream tracks)
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Dissection
- Storm Of The Light's Bane
1995 - At the Fathomless Depths, Night's Blood, Unhallowed, Retribution/Storm of the Light's Bane, Thorns of Crimson Death
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Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble
- Greatest Hits (compilation)
1995 - Taxman, Texas Flood, Little Wing (just wish Scuttle Buttin' had also been included)
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Red Hot Chili Peppers
- One Hot Minute
1995 - Warped, Aeroplane, My Friends, Coffee Shop, Pea, One Big Mob, One Hot Minute, Shallow Be Thy Game
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Collective Soul
- Collective Soul
1995 - Simple, Untitled, December, Where the River Flows, Gel, Reunion
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Anathema
- The Silent Enigma
1995 - Restless Oblivion, Shroud of Frost, The Silent Enigma, A Dying Wish
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Megadeth
- Hidden Treasures
1995 - Breakpoint, Go to Hell, 99 Ways to Die, Paranoid (yes, BS cover :D :D)
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Kataklysm
- Temple Of Knowledge (Kataklysm Part III)
1996 - tracks 3-7 + Exode of Evils (Epoch III - Ladder of the Thousand Parsecs)
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Pantera
- The Great Southern Trendkill
1996 - TGST, 10's, Floods, and both Suicide Note parts - especially II
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Beck
- Odelay
1996 - Devil's Haircut, The New Pollution, Derelict, Novocane, Jack-Ass, Where It's At
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Activision
- Dark Reign and Interstate '76 (PC game) soundtracks
1997 - the former, one of my favourite game OSTs of all time (basically copy/paste the text from #1), surely some of the most metal-sounding classical music ever recorded, while the bulk of I76 features ripoffs from 70s funk gems (allegedly arranged by a guy from the band Third Eye Blind). Sound[s] [=] AWESOME
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Collective Soul
- Disciplined Breakdown
1997 - Precious Declaration, Listen, Full Circle, Blame, Disciplined Breakdown, Link, Crowded Head
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Led Zeppelin
- BBC Sessions
1997 - tracks 1, 6 and maybe 2 knock completely out of the park the respective album versions of those songs. Also love live (disc 2) tracks 1-5 plus the heavenly run-through of Thank You
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The Feelers
- Supersystem
1998 - Pressure Man, Venus, Honey God, From Space with Love, Pull the Strings, Supersystem
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Fatboy Slim
- You've Come a Long Way, Baby
1998 - only perhaps the middle cluster, and the outright length prevent this from being a perfect CD as long as you're not too anti-house/electronica/DJs/almost-hip-hop. Like basically all the entries on this list (certainly at least those albums by artists not on MS) there's a number of stand-out, awesome songs (1-3/4/5, Praise You, Love Island, Acid 8000), while it also functions fantastically as a whole album
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Metallica
- Garage Inc.
1998 - Astronomy, The Small Hours, Am I Evil?, Blitzkrieg, Breadfan, The Prince, Killing Time
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Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Californication
1999 - 1-7, Emit Remmus, This Velvet Glove, Savior, Road Trippin'... it's funny, love pretty much all of it but "Porcelain", and my other slightly-lesser-preferred tracks all happen to be those mentioned as the funk rock songs of the release on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Californication_(album)#Writing_and_composition
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Jimi Hendrix
- Live at the Fillmore East (live, expansion of 1970's New Year gigs recorded and released as 'Band of Gypsys')
1999 - Power of Soul, Voodoo Child (Slight Return), We Gotta Live Together, Auld Lang Syne, Burning Desire
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Liquid Tension Experiment
- Liquid Tension Experiment 2
1999 - the first five tracks all rule, 2 + 5 in particular
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Monstrosity
- In Dark Purity
1999 - The Angels' Venom, Suffering to the Conquered, Angel of Death (yup ? the Slayer song)
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Honourable mention
- goes to countless pieces from the soundtracks of Grand Theft Auto 1 & 2, Gran Turismo 1 & 2, NfS III & IV, Destruction Derby 2, Metal Gear Solid, Chrono Trigger, AoE2Exp:Conquerors, FF6, Namco fighters and...
96ish - Die Hard Trilogy
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