Your Favorite Albums of 1993

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Afghan Whigs, Gentlemen
Archers Of Loaf, Icky Mettle
Bratmobile, Pottymouth
Girls Against Boys, Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby
Pooh Sticks, Million Seller
Stereolab, Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements
Urge Overkill, Saturation
Wu-Tang Clan, Enter The 36 Chambers
Yo La Tengo, Painful
Various Artists, No Alternative

miccio (miccio), Saturday, 28 May 2005 22:14 (eighteen years ago) link

off top of head:

Moby, Move
Pet Shop Boys, Very
Speed Limit 140 BPM Plus Three
Best of Techno Vol. 3
Nirvana, In Utero
Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Spinning Around the Sun
Archers of Loaf, Icky Mettle
Digable Planets, Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space)
Bikini Kill, Pussy Whipped
U2, Zooropa

Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Saturday, 28 May 2005 22:19 (eighteen years ago) link

boo radleys 'giant steps'
alastair galbraith 'morse'
verve 'a storm in heaven'
northern picture library 'alaska'
even as we speak 'feral pop frenzy'

keith m (keithmcl), Saturday, 28 May 2005 22:41 (eighteen years ago) link

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1993 was a fricking awesome year.
If only I could find a 'poll of polls' on google, I'm certain this was the majority critics choice as well. For once, I'm happy to agree entirely.

and there's more!!

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fandango (fandango), Saturday, 28 May 2005 22:44 (eighteen years ago) link

dammit ALex in NYC are you using < tables > ??

fandango (fandango), Saturday, 28 May 2005 22:46 (eighteen years ago) link

spoonfed hybrid 's/t'
moose 'honey bee'
bats 'silverbeet'

keith m (keithmcl), Saturday, 28 May 2005 22:53 (eighteen years ago) link

1993 was a bad year.

Unfortunate Prankster (Unfortunate Prankster), Saturday, 28 May 2005 22:57 (eighteen years ago) link

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Si Carter (Si Carter), Saturday, 28 May 2005 22:57 (eighteen years ago) link

This also should count;

http://members.tripod.com/~jesuslizard/lash.jpg

Si Carter (Si Carter), Saturday, 28 May 2005 23:01 (eighteen years ago) link

Ah, don't you just love it. Try again;

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/julesw/ebayimages/jesus_lizard_lash.jpg

Si Carter (Si Carter), Saturday, 28 May 2005 23:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Incidentally, Alex NYC OTM on New Model Army.

Si Carter (Si Carter), Saturday, 28 May 2005 23:05 (eighteen years ago) link

seefeel 'quique'
3ds 'the venus trail'
pram 'the stars are so big the earth is so small'

keith m (keithmcl), Saturday, 28 May 2005 23:05 (eighteen years ago) link

Lots of great ones here I forgot about. It was an amazing year for music, it's true.

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 28 May 2005 23:08 (eighteen years ago) link

oops

willem (willem), Saturday, 28 May 2005 23:27 (eighteen years ago) link

the others were:
the Gun Club - Lucky Jim
Thin White Rope - The One That Got Away
Morphine - Cure for Pain
Is It Man... or Astro-Man

willem (willem), Saturday, 28 May 2005 23:30 (eighteen years ago) link

Urge Overkill, "Saturation"
The Frampton Brothers, "Don't Fall Asleep...Horrible Things Will Happen"
The Posies, "Frosting On The Beater"
U2, "Zooropa"
Belly, "Star"
Nirvana, "In Utero"
Liz Phair, "Exile In Guyville"
Matthew Sweet, "Altered Beast"
The Breeders, "Last Splash"
Paul McCartney, "Off The Ground" (beyond "Biker Like An Icon," I don't remember much about the album now, but the review that I wrote for my high school newspaper won an award...)

John Fredland (jfredland), Saturday, 28 May 2005 23:31 (eighteen years ago) link

My very favorite is the Boo’s double album, will think of more when I have more time. Good call on Moose Keith!

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BeeOK (boo radley), Saturday, 28 May 2005 23:37 (eighteen years ago) link

After I managed to forget Giant Steps, Cranes, Siamese Dream and the TWR live one, I give up. Blame Hoegaarden.

Si Carter (Si Carter), Saturday, 28 May 2005 23:49 (eighteen years ago) link

Alex, you are such a shoegazer!

excluding singles (Shellac, G.B.V. and Bikini Kill), EPs (Thinking Fellers), collections (Soft Boys, Mecca Normal, Bloodstains Across California), and reissues:

1. AMM - Newfoundland
2. Kasper Brotzmann Massaker - Koksofen
3. Dog Faced Hermans - Hum Of Life
4. Einsturzende Neubauten - Tabula Rasa
5. The Ex/Tom Cora a- And The Weathermen Shrug Their Shoulders
6. The Fall - The Infotainment Scan
7. Flying Saucer Attack - 1st
8. Legendary Pink Dots - Malachai
9. Mecca Normal - Flood Plain
10. Mekons - I Mekons
11. New Bomb Turks - Destroy-Oh-Boy!!!
12. Stereolab - Transient Random-Noise Bursts...
13. Sun City Girls - Bright Surroundings, Dark Beginnings
14. Unrest - Perfect Teeth

Thanks for the nostalgia trip.

sleeve (sleeve), Saturday, 28 May 2005 23:50 (eighteen years ago) link

Rid of Me!!!!!!!
Gentlemen
Last Splash
Very
In Utero
Guyville
36 Chambers
Venus Lux
Tabula Rasa

1993 was probably when I first started really paying attention to music outside the top 40, and when I got that PJ Harvey record! so great.

daria g (daria g), Saturday, 28 May 2005 23:57 (eighteen years ago) link


saint etienne 'so tough'

keith m (keithmcl), Sunday, 29 May 2005 00:06 (eighteen years ago) link

1993

Fuse - Dimension Intrusion (Warp) 1993
Global Communications - 76:14 (Dedicated) 1993 UK
Insides - Euphoria (Guernica)1993 UK
One Dove - Morning White Dove (London) 1993 UK
Orbital - Brown (Internal) 1993 UK
Polygon Window - Surfing on Sine Waves (Warp) 1993 UK
Red House Painters - Red House Painters (3008) (4AD) 1993 US
Reload - A Collection of Short Stories (Infonet) 1993 UK
Jane Sibbery - When I was a Boy (Reprise) 1993 CAN
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream (Hut) 1993 US
Spooky - Gargantuan (Guerilla) 1993 UK
Towering Inferno - Kaddish (Island) 1993 UK

DJ Martian (djmartian), Sunday, 29 May 2005 00:08 (eighteen years ago) link

rid of me!!!!!!!!

FUCKING HELL I knew I was forgetting something

Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Sunday, 29 May 2005 00:14 (eighteen years ago) link

for reference:

Top 100 rated albums of 1993 - rateyourmusic.com
http://rateyourmusic.com/top_albums/year_is_1993

1 Wu-Tang Clan:
Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

2 A Tribe Called Quest:
Midnight Marauders

3 The Smashing Pumpkins:
Siamese Dream

4 Metallica:
Live Shit: Binge & Purge

5 Tindersticks:
Tindersticks

6 Cynic:
Focus

7 Danny Elfman:
Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas [OST]

8 Slowdive:
Souvlaki

9 Nirvana:
In Utero

10 Snoop Dogg:
Doggystyle

11 Morphine:
Cure For Pain

12 Jellyfish:
Spilt Milk

13 The God Machine:
Scenes from the Second Storey

14 Liz Phair:
Exile In Guyville

15 PJ Harvey:
Rid of Me

16 Orbital:
Orbital (The Brown Album)

17 Counting Crows:
August And Everything After

18 The Afghan Whigs:
Gentlemen

19 Catherine Wheel:
Chrome

20 IQ:
Ever

21 Uncle Tupelo:
Anodyne

22 Death:
Individual Thought Patterns

23 Stereolab:
Transient Random Noise Bursts with Announcements

24 Pearl Jam:
Vs.

25 Red House Painters:
Red House Painters [a.k.a. Rollercoaster]

26 Souls of Mischief:
93 Til Infinity

27 Björk:
Debut

28 Paul Weller:
Wild Wood

29 Tool:
Undertow

30 Sepultura:
Chaos A.D.

31 Morbid Angel:
Covenant

32 Motorpsycho [NOR]:
Demon Box

33 The The:
Dusk

34 Autechre:
Incunabula

35 John Williams:
Jurassic Park

36 Suede:
Suede

37 My Dying Bride:
Turn Loose the Swans

38 Yo La Tengo:
Painful

39 The Posies:
Frosting On The Beater

40 The Flaming Lips:
Transmissions From The Satellite Heart

41 James:
Laid

42 Neil Young:
Unplugged

43 Urge Overkill:
Saturation

44 Type O Negative:
Bloody Kisses

45 Darkthrone:
Under A Funeral Moon

46 Dinosaur Jr.:
Where You Been

47 Grant Lee Buffalo:
Fuzzy

48 The Verve:
A Storm In Heaven

49 Mazzy Star:
So Tonight That I Might See

50 John Williams:
Schindler's List

51 Digable Planets:
Reachin'

52 De La Soul:
Buhloone Mind State

53 Ozric Tentacles:
Jurassic Shift

54 Cypress Hill:
Black Sunday

55 Kingston Wall:
II

56 Depeche Mode:
Songs of Faith and Devotion

57 Melvins:
Houdini

58 Sunny Day Real Estate:
Diary

59 The Boo Radleys:
Giant Steps

60 Propagandhi:
How To Clean Everything

61 Saint Etienne:
So Tough

62 Mercury Rev:
Boces

63 Fugazi:
In on the Kill Taker

64 Immortal:
Pure Holocaust

65 The Cranberries:
Everybody Else is Doing It, So Why Can't We?

66 Monster Magnet:
Superjudge

67 The Breeders:
Last Splash

68 Crowded House:
Together Alone

69 Robert Plant:
Fate Of Nations

70 Sting:
Ten Summoner's Tales

71 KRS One:
Return of the Boom Bap

72 PJ Harvey:
4 Track Demos

73 Anthrax:
The Sound of White Noise

74 Swervedriver:
Mezcal Head

75 Deep Purple:
Live In Japan, 21st Anniversary Edition [3 CD Set]

76 Entombed:
Wolverine Blues

77 Paradise Lost:
Icon

78 Frank Zappa:
The Yellow Shark

79 Black Moon:
Enta da Stage

80 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds:
Live Seeds

81 Dead Can Dance:
Into The Labyrinth

82 Neurosis:
Enemy of the Sun

83 Pet Shop Boys:
Very

84 Primus:
Pork Soda

85 Porcupine Tree:
Up The Downstair

86 Tom Waits:
The Black Rider

87 Seefeel:
Quique

88 Arvo Pärt:
Te Deum

89 Blur:
Modern Life Is Rubbish

90 Burzum:
Det Som Engang Var

91 Cocteau Twins:
Four-Calendar Café

92 Sebadoh:
Bubble And Scrape

93 10,000 Maniacs:
MTV Unplugged

94 The Auteurs:
New Wave

95 The Wildhearts:
Earth vs. The Wildhearts

96 Aimee Mann:
Whatever

97 Frank Black:
Frank Black

98 Cracker:
Kerosene Hat

99 Denis Leary:
No Cure For Cancer

100 Rush:
Counterparts

DJ Martian (djmartian), Sunday, 29 May 2005 00:18 (eighteen years ago) link

Al -- "His N Hers" came out in 1994!

MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 29 May 2005 00:24 (eighteen years ago) link

re:

13 The God Machine:
Scenes from the Second Storey

Was this a 1992 release? or 1993?

DJ Martian (djmartian), Sunday, 29 May 2005 00:26 (eighteen years ago) link

4 Metallica:
Live Shit: Binge & Purge

wtmf?!

Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Sunday, 29 May 2005 00:32 (eighteen years ago) link

Wu Tang - Enter the Wu Tang
Coup - Kill My Landlord
Masta Ace Inc.- Slaughtahouse
Digable Planets - Reaching'
Snoop - Doggystyle
KRS One - Return of the Boom Bap
Stereolab - The Groop played Space Age Bachelor Pad Music
Stereolab - Transient Random Noise Bursts
R. Kelly - 12 Play
Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
Tom Waits - Black Rider

tremendoid (tremendoid), Sunday, 29 May 2005 00:32 (eighteen years ago) link

My own little guide:

POO: 1993

slightly more subdued (kenan), Sunday, 29 May 2005 00:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Flaming Lips - Transmissions from the Satellite Heart

Tsunami - Deep End

Belly - Star

Stereolab - Transient etc.

Slowdive - Slouvaki

Yo La Tengo - Painful

Spinanes

Seam - The Problem With Me

Fugazi - In On The Kill Taker

Freestyle Fellowship - Inner City Griots

Black Moon - Enta Da Stage

The The - Dusk

Rocket From The Crypt - Circa Now

Dead Can Dance - Into the Labyrinth


And many, many more!

slightly more subdued (kenan), Sunday, 29 May 2005 00:44 (eighteen years ago) link

Al -- "His N Hers" came out in 1994!

-- MindInRewind (mbvarkestra197...), May 29th, 2005.

ah I misread the dates on the back of the CD -- it says 1994, 1993, and 1992, but the latter 2 apply to specific songs, I kinda assumed it was out in the UK a year earlier than in the US or something. my bad.

Al (sitcom), Sunday, 29 May 2005 00:45 (eighteen years ago) link

For comparison sake:

http://acclaimedmusic.net
1 Nirvana In Utero
2 Björk Debut
3 Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream
4 Liz Phair Exile in Guyville
5 Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
6 P J Harvey Rid of Me
7 The Breeders Last Splash
8 Pet Shop Boys Very
9 Suede Suede
10 Pearl Jam Vs
11 Afghan Whigs Gentlemen
12 The Boo Radleys Giant Steps
13 Underworld Dubnobasswithmyheadman
14 A Tribe Called Quest Midnight Marauders
15 Snoop Doggy Dogg Doggystyle
16 Tindersticks Tindersticks
17 Orbital Orbital ("The Brown Album")
18 Cypress Hill Black Sunday
19 The Auteurs New Wave
20 Paul Weller Wild Wood
21 Palace Brothers There Is No One That Will Take Care of You
22 Yo La Tengo Painful
23 Red House Painters Red House Painters
24 Uncle Tupelo Anodyne
25 Urge Overkill Saturation
26 U2 Zooropa
27 Fugazi In on the Killtaker
28 Stereolab Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements
29 Blur Modern Life Is Rubbish
30 Sarah McLachlan Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
31 Dinosaur Jr. Where You Been
32 Mazzy Star So Tonight That I Might See
33 De La Soul Buhloone Mindstate
34 The Lemonheads Come On Feel the Lemonheads
35 Frank Black Frank Black
36 Aimee Mann Whatever
37 Digable Planets Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space)
38 Saint Etienne So Tough
39 Counting Crows August and Everything After
40 New Order Republic
41 Depeche Mode Songs of Faith and Devotion
42 Grant Lee Buffalo Fuzzy
43 Tony! Toni! Toné! Sons of Soul
44 Type O Negative Bloody Kisses
45 Guru Jazzmatazz

BeeOK (boo radley), Sunday, 29 May 2005 00:46 (eighteen years ago) link

[re Underworld Dubnobasswithmyheadman - this was 1994]

DJ Martian (djmartian), Sunday, 29 May 2005 00:50 (eighteen years ago) link

8 Slowdive:
Souvlaki

I thought this also came out in 1994. The US version definitely came out in '94, did the UK version come out the year before?

MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 29 May 2005 00:51 (eighteen years ago) link

Slowdive - Souvlaki
June 1st 1993 apparently
http://www.slowdive.co.uk/discography/albums.html

DJ Martian (djmartian), Sunday, 29 May 2005 00:54 (eighteen years ago) link

it was delayed in the us by a year.

keith m (keithmcl), Sunday, 29 May 2005 00:59 (eighteen years ago) link

According to AMG Underworld was out December 1993.

BeeOK (boo radley), Sunday, 29 May 2005 01:02 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm going with the Pazz and Jop rule and putting that in 1994.

slightly more subdued (kenan), Sunday, 29 May 2005 01:08 (eighteen years ago) link

I mean, same as how Dre goes in 1993. Event hough it came out in Dec 1992.

slightly more subdued (kenan), Sunday, 29 May 2005 01:08 (eighteen years ago) link

What is wrong with you people?

http://stat.discogs.com/R/t/73721-001.jpg

L (Leee), Sunday, 29 May 2005 01:11 (eighteen years ago) link

Being American I go with date release for the U.S. in almost all cases. That doesn’t take away the fact that it’s out a year earlier.

BeeOK (boo radley), Sunday, 29 May 2005 01:11 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah that's... ouch. That might be the best album of the year, really.

slightly more subdued (kenan), Sunday, 29 May 2005 01:14 (eighteen years ago) link

Auteurs - New Wave
Saint Etienne - So Tough
Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians - Respect

Tom May (Tom May), Sunday, 29 May 2005 01:23 (eighteen years ago) link

Saint Etienne wins the "most precious" award for any year they made a record in.

slightly more subdued (kenan), Sunday, 29 May 2005 02:35 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm posting scaruffi's list again cuz scaruffi is my man and if he can't do it nobody can! (and for me, like i said before on that other thread: wolverine blues, happiness, altered beast, perfect teeth...and more probably.)


1. Vampire Rodents: Lullaby Land (Re-Constriction) (9)
2. Kenneth Newby: Ecology Of Souls (Songlines) (8)
3. Stereolab: Transient Random Noise Bursts With Announcements (Elektra) (8)
4. Pain Teens: Destroy Me Lover (Trance Syndicate) (8)
5. Mark Lanegan: Whiskey For The Holy Ghost (SubPop) (8)
6. Jane Siberry: When I Was A Boy (Reprise) (8)
7. Girls Against Boys: Venus Luxure No 1 Baby (Touch & Go) (8)
8. Sugarsmack: Top Loader (Invisible) (8)
9. Motherhead Bug: Zambodia (Pow Wow) (8)
10. Lycia: A Day In The Stark Corner (Projekt) (8)
11. Autechre: Incunabula (Warp) (8)
12. Lightwave: Tycho Brahe (Crystal Lake) (8)
13. Unwound: Fake Train (Kill Rock Stars) (8)
14. Mark Kramer: The Guilt Trip (Shimmy-Disc) (8)
15. Mercury Rev: Boces (Columbia) (8)
16. Trance Mission (City Of Tribes) (8)
17. Six Finger Satellite: The Pigeon Is The Most Popular Bird (SubPop) (8)
18. Red House Painters (4AD) (8)
19. Orbital: II (Ffrr) (8)
20. Seam: The Problem With Me (Touch & Go) (8)
21. Lida Husik: The Return Of Red Emma (Shimmy Disc) (8)
22. Liz Phair: Exile In Guyville (Matador) (8)
23. Earth: Earth 2 (Sub Pop) (8)
24. Smog: Julius Caesar (Drag City) (8)
25. Gastr Del Sol: The Serpentine Similar (Fidel Bastro) (8)
26. Morphine: Cure For Pain (Rykodisc) (7.5)
27. Today Is The Day: Supernova (Amphetamine Reptile) (7.5)
28. Gravitar: Chinga Su Corazon (Charnel) (7.5)
29. Polvo: Today's Active Lifestyle (Merge) (7.5)
30. New Bomb Turks: Destroy Oh Boy (Crypt) (7.5)
31. Tindersticks : self-titled (Rough Trade) (7.5)
32. Lisa Germano: Happiness (Capitol) (7.5)
33. Cop Shoot Cop: Ask Questions Later (Interscope) (7.5)
34. Caspar Br”tzmann: Koksofen (Homestead) (7.5)
35. Breeders: Last Splash (Elektra) (7.5)
36. Mentallo & The Fixer: Revelations 23 (Zoth Ommog) (7.5)
37. Johnboy: Pistol Swing (Trance) (7.5)
38. Mazzy Star: So Tonight That I Might See (Capitol) (7.5)
39. Grant Lee Buffalo: Fuzzy (Slash) (7.5)
40. Labradford: Prazision (Kranky) (7.5)
41. Spongeheads: Curb Your Dogma (Triple X) (7.5)
42. Moon Seven Times (Third Mind) (7.5)
43. Trumans Water: Spasm Smash (Homestead) (7.5)
44. Concussion Ensemble: Stampede (Conc) (7.5)
45. His Name Is Alive: Mouth By Mouth (4AD) (7.5)
46. Enigma: The Cross Of Changes (Charisma) (7.5)
47. Aurora: The Land Of Harm And Appletrees (Cleopatra) (7.5)
48. Smashing Pumpkins: Siamese Dream (Virgin) (7.5)
49. Neurosis: Enemy Of The Sun (Alternative Tentacles) (7.5)
50. Gary Lucas: Skeleton At The Feast (Enemy) (7.5)
51. Don Caballero: For Respect (Touch & Go) (7.5)
52. Flop: Whenever You're Ready (550 Music) (7.5)
53. Iceburn: Haephestus (Revelation) (7.5)
54. Underground Lovers: Leaves Me Blind (Guernica) (7.5)
55. God Machine: Scenes From The Second Storey (Fiction) (7.5)
56. Hammerbox: Numb (A&M) (7.5)
57. Barkmarket: Gimmick (Def American) (7)
58. Nicky Skopelitis: Ekstasis (Axiom) (7)
59. Ozric Tentacles: Jurassic Shift (Demi Monde) (7)
60. Saint Etienne: So Tough (WB) (7)
61. Seefeel: Quique (Too Pure) (7)
62. Mortiis: Fodt til ý Herske (Dark Dungeon) (7)
63. Sinister Six: Outta Sight (Empty) (7)
64. Miss Murgatroid: Methyl Ethyl Key Tones (Worrybird) (7)
65. Shinjuku Thief: The Witch Hammer (Dorobo) (7)
66. Rapoon: Vernal Crossing (Staalplaat) (7)
67. Transglobal Underground: Dream Of 100 Nations (Nation) (7)
68. Pavement: Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (Big Cat) (7)
69. Mule (Quarterstick) (7)
70. Cows: Sexy Pee Story (Amphetamine Reptile) (7)
71. Bazooka: Perfectly Square (SST) (7)
72. Unrest: Perfect Teeth (4AD) (7)
73. Rain: Sediment (Metonymic) (7)
74. Idaho: Year After Year (Caroline) (7)
75. Velocity Girl: Copacetic (SubPop) (7)
76. Pitchblende: Kill Atom Smasher (Fistpuppet) (7)
77. Golden Palominos: This Is How It Feels (Restless) (7)
78. Belly: Star (Sire) (7)
79. Grifters: One Sock Missing (Shangri-La) (7)
80. Tsunami: Deep End (Simple Machines) (7)
81. Jon Spencer Blues Explosion: Extra Width (Matador) (7)
82. P.J. Harvey: Rid of Me (Island) (7)
83. Jawbox: From Your Own Sweetheart (A&M) (7)
84. Swervedriver: Mezcal Head (A&M) (7)
85. Man Or Astro-man: Is It Man Or Astro-man? (Estrus) (7)
86. Supersnazz: Superstupid (SubPop) (7)
87. Ice: Under The Skin (Pathological) (7)
88. Supreme Dicks: The Unexamined Life (Homestead) (7)
89. Cherubs: Heroin Man (Trance) (7)
90. Juliana Hatfield: Become What You Are (Mammoth) (7)
91. Thessalonians: Soulcraft (Silent) (7)
92. Pram: The Stars Are So Big (Too Pure) (7)
93. Rollins Band: Weight (Imago) (7)
94. Southern Culture On The Skids: For Lovers Only (Safe House) (7)
95. Primus: Pork Soda (Interscope) (7)
96. Yo La Tengo: Painful (Matador) (7)
97. Band Of Susans: Veil (Restless) (7)
98. Sky Cries Mary: A Return To The Inner Experience (World Domination) (7)
99. Bettie Serveert: Palomine (Guernica) (7)
100. Ed Hall: Motherscratcher (Trance) (7)
101. Dinosaur Jr: Where You Been (Sire) (7)
102. Frank Black (4AD) (7)
103. Mercy Rule: God Protects Fools (Caulfield) (7)
104. Madder Rose: Bring It Down (Seed) (7)
105. Arcwelder: Pull (Touch & Go) (7)
106. Eggs: Exploder (TeenBeat) (7)
107. Space Streakings: Hatsu-Koi (Nux) (7)
108. Jellyfish: Split Milk (Charisma) (7)
109. Red Red Meat (Perishable) (7)
110. Built To Spill: Ultimate Alternative Wavers (C/Z) (7)
111. Ultramarine: United Kingdom (Blanco Y Negro) (7)
112. Walkabouts: New West Motel (SubPop) (7)
113. Cracker: Kerosene Hat (Virgin) (7)
114. God And Texas: Criminal Element (Restless) (7)
115. Gallon Drunk: From The Heart Of Town (Sire) (7)
116. Rickie Lee Jones: Traffic from Paradise (Geffen) (7)
117. KMFDM: Naive (Wax Trax) (7)
118. Legendary Pink Dots: Malachi (Play It Again Sam) (7)
119. Sven Vath: Accident In Paradise (Eye Q) (7)
120. Mule: Mule (Quarterstick) (7)
121. Swirlies: Blondertongue Audiobaton (Taang) (7)
122. Bjork: Debut (One Little Indian) (7)
123. Robert Fripp & David Sylvian: The First Day (Virgin) (7)
124. Bikini Kill: Pussy Whipped (Kill Rock Stars) (7)
125. Richard Barone: Clouds Over Eden (Line) (7)
126. St Johnny: High As A Kite (Caroline) (7)
127. Suede: Suede (Columbia) (7)
128. Pigeonhed (SubPop) (7)
129. Fugazi: In On The Kill Taker (Dischord) (7)
130. Sandoz: Digital Lifeforms (Touch) (7)
131. Type O Negative: Bloody Kisses (Roadrunner) (7)
132. Raison D'Etre: Prospectus I (Cold Meat Industry) (7)
133. Richard Kirk: Number Of Magic (Warp) (7)
134. Leaether Strip: Science For The Satanic Citizen (Cargo) (7)
135. Trance: Audiography (Staalplaat) (7)
136. Pursuit of Happiness: The Downward Road (Mercury) (7)
137. Magnapop (Caroline) (7)
138. Eric's Trip: Love Tara (SubPop) (7)
139. Nothing Painted Blue: Power Trips Down Lovers Lane (Shimmy Disc) (7)
140. Archers Of Loaf: Icky Mettle (Alias) (7)
141. Heavenly Music Corporation: In A Garden Of Eden (Silent) (7)
142. William Orbit: Strange Cargo 3 (IRS) (7)
143. Zeni Geva: Desire For Agony (Alternative Tentacles) (7)
144. Michael Rank: Coral (Caroline) (7)
145. Afghan Wigs: Gentlemen (Elektra) (7)
146. Sharkbait: Blowtorch Facelift (Primitech) (7)
147. Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet: Sport Fishin' (Cargo) (7)
148. Atman: Personal Forest (Lollipop Shop) (7)
149. A Produce: Reflect Like A Mirror (Trance Port) (7)
150. Sabres Of Paradise: Sabresonic (Warp) (7)
151. Judy Dunaway: Evan Gallagher Little Band (AMF) (7)
152. Eleven: Eleven (Thrid Rail) (7)
153. KMFDM: Angst (Wax Trax) (7)
154. fIREHOSE: Mr Machinery Operator (Sony) (7)
155. Philarmonie: Les Elephantes Carillonneurs (Cuneiform) (7)
156. Anathema: Serenades (Peaceville) (7)
157. Queers: Love Songs For The Retarded (Lookout) (7)
158. Royal Hunt: Land Of Broken Hearts (Royal) (7)
159. Thomas Koner: Permafrost (Barooni) (7)
160. Tool: Undertow (Zoo Entertainment) (7)
161. Flying Saucer Attack (VHF) (7)


scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 29 May 2005 03:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Sexy Pee Story!!! i had forgotten about that one. that's a good one.

scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 29 May 2005 03:38 (eighteen years ago) link

CHROME!!!! alex, i didn't even see that you had that up there. I wore that album out back then. i love that thing. my copy even had a shiny chrome-like cover. that would have made my top ten.

scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 29 May 2005 03:43 (eighteen years ago) link

my inner jack rabid comes out when i talk about stuff like catherine wheel albums.

scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 29 May 2005 03:44 (eighteen years ago) link

I totally forgot about the Pavement Crooked Rain, Bikini Kill, Smog, and Yo La.. but I didn't hear those until later. I listened to the Juliana Hatfield Three and the Morphine records a lot that year, though.

I've got to pick up that Cows record, I love them, and I can never find any of their stuff now..

daria g (daria g), Sunday, 29 May 2005 04:10 (eighteen years ago) link

For the number one spot, there is a tie:

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Spoonfed Hybrid - s/t

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Orbital - s/t (Brown album)

Honorable mentions:

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Kate Bush - The Red Shoes

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The House Of Love - Audience With The Mind

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Red House Painters - s/t (Rollercoaster)

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PJ Harvey - Rid Of Me

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Seam - The Problem With Me

The third tier:

James - Laid
Cocteaus - Four Calendar Cafe
Slowdive - Souvlaki
Belly - Star


I've left out Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works ON PURPOSE BECAUSE I BOUGHT IT ON IMPORT IN 1992, DAMNIT.

I'm delighted to see DJ Martian (or anyone) mention Polygon Window. I still have it! Might as well pull it out for a laugh, right now.

The Silent Disco of Glastonbury (Bimble...), Sunday, 29 May 2005 05:29 (eighteen years ago) link

I think we should maybe all have a big knock-down drag-out fight about the Pet Shop Boyus Very, which is apparently loved, but is maybe my least favorite.

slightly more subdued (kenan), Sunday, 29 May 2005 05:49 (eighteen years ago) link

Crooked Rain was '94

Mike O. (Mike Ouderkirk), Sunday, 29 May 2005 06:17 (eighteen years ago) link

I heart 1993:

Bjork - Debut
V/A - The Joint
Saint Etienne - So Tough
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
Insides - Euphoria
P J Harvey - Rid Of Me
Stereolab - Transient Random Noise Bursts With Announcements
Verve - A Storm In Heaven
The Black Dog - Bytes
Heather Nova - Glowstars
Jane Siberry - When I Was A Boy
En Vogue - Funky Divas

Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 29 May 2005 11:37 (eighteen years ago) link

1993 and 1994 make me say wow. And I wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that that was my first school year at college ...

Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Sunday, 29 May 2005 12:04 (eighteen years ago) link

http://acclaimedmusic.net/1993a.htm

Thank You!

I don't remember In Utero being that rapturously received at the time strangely, but I knew 'Debut' was very highly ranked at the time (9/10's all over the place, in at #2 here).

I hadn't realised Peej & Orbital's contributions were '93, weirdly because I'm pretty sure I heard them in '93!

fandango (fandango), Sunday, 29 May 2005 12:31 (eighteen years ago) link

Morphine - Cure For Pain
Jellyfish - Spilt Milk
PJ Harvey - Rid of Me
Paul Weller - Wild wood`
But most importantly: dEUS - Zea

nathalie's baby (stevie nixed), Sunday, 29 May 2005 12:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Modern life is rubbish - Blur
Tindersticks - Tindersticks
So tough - Saint Etienne
Last splash - The Breeders
New wave - The Auteurs
Giant steps - The Boo Radleys
Suede - Suede

zeus, Sunday, 29 May 2005 15:24 (eighteen years ago) link

my fave was idaho's sadcore apex year after year. only scaruffi mentioned it, so you are probably right about taking him as your reference, scott. i think together with 1991 1993 was the best year of the 90s. the other 20 releases (of 116 in my collection) i really enjoyed in alphabetical order:

Apartments - Drift
Blur - Modern Life Is Rubbish
Breeders - The Last Splash
Cranberries - Everybody Else Is Doing It...
Stephen Duffy and Nigel Kennedy - Music in Colors
Bob Dylan - World Gone Wrong
Gallon Drunk - From the Heart of Town
Giant Sand - Purge and Slouch
Gun Club - Lucky Jim
Rickie Lee Jones - Traffic from Paradise
Mazzy Star - So Tonight That I Might See
Murat - Vénus
Red House Painters - "Rollercoaster"
Stereolab - Space Age...
Stereolab - Transient Random-Noise Bursts w. A.
Sugargliders - We're All Trying to Get There
The The - Dusk
Tindersticks - s/t
Trash Can Sinatras - I've Seen Everything
Unrest - Perfect Teeth

alex in mainhattan (alex63), Sunday, 29 May 2005 15:49 (eighteen years ago) link

There are few years whose music makes me as nostalgic as this one. The list I have from a few years ago includes several late-'92 albums, that I didn't know about until '93. I hope nobody minds too much.

01 Pure Guava - Ween (1992)
02 In Utero - Nirvana
03 Siamese Dream - Smashing Pumpkins
04 Vs. - Pearl Jam
05 Come On Feel The Lemonheads - The Lemonheads
06 The Chronic - Dr. Dre (1992)
07 Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine (1992)
08 Where You Been - Dinosaur Jr.
09 Undertow - Tool
10 The Low End Theory - A Tribe Called Quest
11 Strictly For My N.I.G.G.A.Z - 2Pac
12 Bloody Kisses - Type O Negative
13 Transmissions From The Satellite Heart - The Flaming Lips

billstevejim (billstevejim), Sunday, 29 May 2005 15:55 (eighteen years ago) link

No love for 808 State's 'Gorgeous' :( (granted it is their weakest album apart from the last one but still...)

Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Sunday, 29 May 2005 17:26 (eighteen years ago) link

today i watched parts of that 5 hours or something thrill jockey 10th birthday dvd on the inspiring musical moments and björk raved about 808 state. i liked her much more after that interview than before.

alex in mainhattan (alex63), Sunday, 29 May 2005 17:50 (eighteen years ago) link

poor righteaous teachers - black business
black moon - enta da stage
breeders - last splash
freestyle fellowship - innercity griots
fugazi - kill taker
flaming lips - transmissions
digable planets - reachin
del - no need for alarm
krispy 3 - can't melt the wax
tribe called quest - midnight marauders
cypress hill - black sunday
onyx - bacdafucup

on n on.. good year, i was young

Robin Samples, Sunday, 29 May 2005 19:37 (eighteen years ago) link

I can't be arsed to read this whole thread and there are probably loads of other great albums from 93 but "Enter The Wu-Tang" is my favourite album ever so it wins automatically.

Nick H (Nick H), Sunday, 29 May 2005 20:36 (eighteen years ago) link

Nirvana - In Utero
Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle
Orbital - Orbital (The Brown Album)
Red House Painters - Red House Painters
Suede - Suede
The Boo Radleys - Giant Steps
Blur - modern life is rubbish
The Lemonheads - Come On Feel the Lemonheads
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
autechre - incunabula
the black dog - bytes
global communication - 76:14

weasel diesel (K1l14n), Sunday, 29 May 2005 20:56 (eighteen years ago) link

Sorry, but my Polygon Window CD says 1992.

The Silent Disco of Glastonbury (Bimble...), Monday, 30 May 2005 03:06 (eighteen years ago) link

damn good year for music, eh? This is the year I graduated, too. So I have some very special memories!

Liz Phair: Exile In Guyville
tribe called quest - midnight marauders
The Smashing Pumpkins -Siamese Dram
PJ Harvey - Rid Of Me
Wu-Tang Clan, Enter The 36 Chambers
Yo La Tengo, Painful
Nirvana - In Utero
Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle
black moon - enta da stage
breeders - last splash
The Auteurs - New wave
Rocket From The Crypt - Circa Now
flaming lips - transmissions
digable planets - reachin
del - no need for alarm

Antonio DePietro, Monday, 30 May 2005 18:18 (eighteen years ago) link

Polygon Window was released January 11th, 1993 on Warp Records.

DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 30 May 2005 18:22 (eighteen years ago) link

one year passes...
1. The Boo Radleys – Giant Steps (Creation/Columbia)
2. Suede – Suede (Nude/Columbia)
3. Adorable – Against Perfection (Creation/SBK)
4. Swervedriver – Mezcal Head (Creation/A&M)
5. The Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen (Elektra)
6. The Verve - A Storm In Heaven (Hut/Vernon Yard/Virgin)
7. Slowdive – Souvlaki (Creation/SBK)
8. Mazzy Star - So Tonight That I Might See (Capitol)
9. Revolver – Cold Water Flat (Hut/Caroline)
10. Smashing Pumpkins – Siamese Dream (Hut/Virgin)
11. Pearl Jam – Vs. (Epic)
12. Blur – Modern Life Is Rubbish (SBK/Food)
13. Catherine Wheel – Chrome (Fontana/Phonogram)
14. Tool – Undertow (Zoo/BMG)
15. The Auteurs - New Wave (Hut/Vernon Yard)
16. Teenage Fanclub - Thirteen (Creation/Geffen)
17. The Flaming Lips - Transmissions From the Satellite Heart (Warner Bros.)
18. Cracker – Kerosene Hat (Virgin)
19. Acetone – Cindy (Hut/Vernon Yard)
20. Snoop Dogg - Doggy Style (Death Row Koch)

BeeOK (boo radley), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 03:51 (seventeen years ago) link

uh bjork, wu tang, nirvana, breeders, flaming lips, yo la tengo, red house painters, mark lanegan, built to spill, jawbox

possibly that was in order

Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 07:43 (seventeen years ago) link

The early 90s were pretty atrocious cover art wise, weren't they!

Neil Stewart (Neil Stewart), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 09:34 (seventeen years ago) link

1. Orbital (The Brown Album) - Orbital
2. Debut - Bjork
3. Very - Pet Shop Boys
4. A Meeting By The River - Ry Cooder with V.M. Bhatt
5. Other Voices, Other Rooms - Nanci Griffith
6. Tindersticks - Tindersticks
7. Suede - Suede
8. Blue Light 'Til Dawn - Cassandra Wilson
9. Come On Feel The Lemonheads - The Lemonheads
10. Surfing On Sine Waves - Polygon Window

..and then...

11. Rid Of Me - PJ Harvey
12. In Utero - Nirvana
13. Kamakiriad - Donald Fagen
14. Beaster - Sugar
15. Electro-Soma - B12
16. United Kingdoms - Ultramarine
17. Dream of 100 Nations - Transglobal Underground
18. So Tough - Saint Etienne
19. The Juliet Letters - Elvis Costello & the Brodsky Quartet
20. So Tonight That I Might See - Mazzy Star

mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 12:18 (seventeen years ago) link

1) Auteurs - New Wave
2) Breeders - Last Splash
3) Frank Black - s/t
4) Mekons - I Heart Mekons
5) Nirvana - In Utero
6) Guided By Voices - Dusted
7) PJ Harvey - Dry
8) Stereolab - Transient Random etc.
9) A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
10) Sugar - Beaster

Radio Free Albemuth (DocMartensBoots), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 15:44 (seventeen years ago) link

And by Dusted of course I mean Vampire on Titus...damn brain injury

Radio Free Albemuth (DocMartensBoots), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 15:59 (seventeen years ago) link

1. Pet Shop Boys, Very
2. Nirvana, In Utero
3. U2, Zooropa
4. Belly, Star
5. P.M. Dawn, The Bliss Album...?
6. Sugar, Beaster
7. The Auteurs, New Wave
8. Suede, s/t
9. Bjork, Debut
10. Digable Planets, Reachin'...

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 16:12 (seventeen years ago) link

six months pass...
some (but not all) good albums from 1993 (in order):

1993
The Clash – Super Black Market Clash (Epic/Legacy reissue)
Tommy James & The Shondells – The Very Best Of (Rhino reissue)
Chain Gang – Perfumed (Matador reissue)
Ace of Base – Happy Nation (Metronome Musik Germany)
Guns N’ Roses – “The Spaghetti Incident?” (Geffen)
La Castaneda – Servicios Generrles II (BMG Mexico)
Monster Magnet – Superjudge (A&M)
45 Grave – Debasement Tapes (Cleopatra reissue)
Aterciopelados – Con El Corazon En La Mano (RCA/BMG Latin/Culebra)
Ace of Base – The Sign (Arista)
Suede – Suede (Nude/Columbia)
La Derecha – La Derecha (RCA/ BMG Latin/Culebra)
Captain Hollywood Project – Love Is Not Sex (Imago)
The Cactus Brothers – The Cactus Brothers (Liberty)
New Kingdom – Heavy Load (Gee Street)
A Split Second – Vengeance C.O.D. (Hypnobeat)
The Almighty – Powertrippin’ (Polydor)
Cybotron – Empathy (Fantasy)
The Bunnybrains – Wouldn’t You Rather Be In Florida For The Holidays (Lhg+Phop)
The Mistaken – Santa Fe (Triple X)
Collins Kids – Rockin’ On TV (Krazy Kat reissue)
The Auteurs – New Wave (Caroline/VC)
Brooks & Dunn – Hard Workin’ Man (Arista)
Die Toten Hosen – Opel Gang (Virgin)
Fobia – Leche (RCA Mexico)

xhuxk, Sunday, 29 April 2007 18:09 (sixteen years ago) link

now i need to hear that other ace of base album

artdamages, Sunday, 29 April 2007 18:16 (sixteen years ago) link

eleven years pass...

My top 10, based on plays in the ensuing 25 years, would be:

Ellen Fullman - Body Music
Higher Intelligence Agency - Colourform
Global Communication - Pentamerous Metamorphosis
Talip Ozkan - L'Art Vivant de Talip Ozkan
African Head Charge - In Pursuit of Shashamane Land
Steve Reich - Origins
Micheal Brook - Live at the Aquarium
Insides - Euphoria
Curve - Cuckoo
Daniel Lanois - For the Beauty of Wynona

Dunning-Kruger Overdrive (Sanpaku), Sunday, 17 March 2019 21:03 (five years ago) link


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