This was the big year for grunge.
Superunknown
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 6 January 2009 00:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Ill Com no question. still need animated GIF of MCA doing the 'yap yap' gesture in the 'Sure Shot' video.
― Timezilla vs Mechadistance (blueski), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 00:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Monster.
― ilxor, Tuesday, 6 January 2009 02:12 (fifteen years ago) link
lol crow soundtrack
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 6 January 2009 02:15 (fifteen years ago) link
jar of flies by a mile
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 6 January 2009 02:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Monster - R.E.M.
then Snoop and Nirvana. Though oddly in 200fucking9 I've been digging Alice In Chains lately.
― Euler, Tuesday, 6 January 2009 04:07 (fifteen years ago) link
gotta be kenny g. for me.
― (*゚ー゚)θ L(。・_・) °~ヾ(・ε・ *) (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 04:14 (fifteen years ago) link
all other votes are null and void.
That Eagles album makes me want to drink poison.
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 6 January 2009 04:21 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm gonna take educated guess that The Lion King and Boyz II Men had the longest stays at #1 this year.
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 6 January 2009 04:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Correct on Lion King (9 weeks), wrong on BIIM (4 weeks+1 in 1995, several others here matched that)
Looking that up makes me realize that CrazySexyCool never hit #1. What the fucking fuck? That's pretty much the definitive everyone-had-this album of the mid-90s to me.
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 6 January 2009 04:37 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm not sure which one I listened to more at the time, the Lion King OST or The Sign.
― miss precious perfect (musically), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 04:41 (fifteen years ago) link
nirvana (sorry omar, you homosexual vigilante)
Ill C is great, but pales (slightly) next to Check yr Head. Ditto Doggystyle/The Chronic & Driven/VDOP. Monster sucks. Purple, Superunknown & Jar of Flies are all just fine, but can't quite top Nirvana at their best. 1994 = year of the rockist, even for hip hop.
― Pain don't hurt. (Pillbox), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 05:42 (fifteen years ago) link
it's a damn shame that 'from the cradle' is still like the best-selling blues album of all time or something.
― shook pwns (omar little), Monday, 12 January 2009 00:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Voting for "The Division Bell" seems a bit desperate, but the rest are worse.
― Geir Hongro, Monday, 12 January 2009 04:10 (fifteen years ago) link
You don't like Nirvana, Geir? That's a bit of a surprise, considering how well KC knew his way around a hook and all.
― Pain don't hurt. (Pillbox), Monday, 12 January 2009 04:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Voted Doggystyle.
― a hoy hoy, Monday, 12 January 2009 10:55 (fifteen years ago) link
you guys are forgetting that Unplugged is a boring live album that you have to be totally gaga over Nirvana to care about
competition comes down to Snoop and, surprisingly for me, Soundgarden here - I don't think I've listened to either album since '95 tho
― J0hn D., Monday, 12 January 2009 13:20 (fifteen years ago) link
I ran into Kim Thayil in the supermarket once [/suzy].
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Monday, 12 January 2009 13:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Wow. I went with my gut and picked the Sign, which is probably my favorite record from the 90s that's not a Nirvana record, but its definitely not "the best" album on here, but definitely my favorite. I think the best is probably Nirvana Unplugged.
That's the one that he did the Vaselines cover on. And the Meat Puppets came out. And that Leadbelly cover where he yowls like crazy. Yeah that record is beautiful front to back, and later, when I got the Vaselines record, it was immediate and beautiful right off the bat, because I knew some of the songs already thanks to Kurt. (Like I knew him... ha.)
Anyway, this list is from when I was 13, so it was pretty important. I was a freshman in high school and Black Hole Sun was on MTV warping my little mind. Superunknown was pretty good, but crap like Spoonman just doesn't hold up.
Doggystyle is fantastic, but not complete... I feel like some of it's a work in progress, but again, the singles are just wonderful. I can just smell the Cali air when I'm listening to them.
STP is brilliant too... And the Crow soundtrack! With that STP song. "Driving faster in my... Car!" Man, so good. Pantera! Baby's first metal album...and what a first metal album to have!
Vitalogy and Monster were both decent albums, but surely not their bands strongest...
I wasn't into country back then, but can respect those albums now...and it's strange, but somehow I never liked Ill Communication.
― the who cares (okamax), Monday, 12 January 2009 17:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Unplugged In NY isn't boring.. theres 5 or 6 songs on there which are the definitive versions.
― billstevejim, Monday, 12 January 2009 17:18 (fifteen years ago) link
.. not to mention all those fanfuckingtastic covers.
― Pain don't hurt. (Pillbox), Monday, 12 January 2009 17:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Yes, I sometimes think that Unplugged Nirvana was curiously both the best Unplugged thingy and the best Nirvana thingy.
― Ye Mad Puffin, Monday, 12 January 2009 17:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Sometimes... and then I put on In Utero and die.
― the who cares (okamax), Monday, 12 January 2009 17:35 (fifteen years ago) link
What a lousy year.
I've never heard it, but here's the The Crow OST tracklist:1. Burn - The Cure 2. Golgotha Tenement Blues - Machines Of Loving Grace 3. Big Empty - Stone Temple Pilots 4. Dead Souls - Nine Inch Nails 5. Darkness - Rage Against The Machine 6. Color Me Once - The Violent Femmes 7. Ghostrider - Rollins Band 8. Milktoast - Helmet 9. Badge, The - Pantera 10. Slip Slide Melting - For Love Not Lisa 11. After the Flesh - The Thrill Kill Kult/My Life With The Thrill... 12. Snakedriver - Jesus & Mary Chain 13. Time Baby III - Medicine 14. It Can't Rain All the Time - Jane Siberry
― Eazy, Monday, 12 January 2009 17:37 (fifteen years ago) link
went for doggystyle over ill communication tho if im being honest i bang out 2 'get it together' more than any of the snoop joints
― and what, Monday, 12 January 2009 17:38 (fifteen years ago) link
I've never heard it, but here's the The Crow OST tracklist:
!!
let me direct you to a classic thread: the crow ost is the worst record i have ever heard
also
― Tracy Michael Jordan Catalano (Jordan), Monday, 12 January 2009 17:43 (fifteen years ago) link
You don't like Nirvana, Geir?
I dislike live albums. I believe the only live album I own is ELP's "Pictures At An Exhibition". Because it was never anything else but live (well, not until 20 years later anyway)
― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 02:48 (fifteen years ago) link
What an abysmal year. Was anyone having fun that year, other than Snoop Dogg?
― u s steel, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 03:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Nope. But Pantera were having the best bad time of the bunch.
― moley, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 04:21 (fifteen years ago) link
I can't believe Geir doesn't own this - it's great!
http://www.jpgr.co.uk/pcsp720_a.jpg
― ^likes tilt-a-whirls (Pancakes Hackman), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 14:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Bah 94 was a great year with a bunch of awful Bilboard nr 1 albums
― baaderonixx, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 15:02 (fifteen years ago) link
struggled to find an album i liked in that list.went with soundgarden in the end.
― mark e, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 15:06 (fifteen years ago) link
1994 fell on black days amirite
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 15:10 (fifteen years ago) link
actualy, i just realised 94 was all about the golden era of FAX records for me.a good year, but crap list.
― mark e, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 15:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Toni Braxton seems to be kinda forgotten theses days, but her debut album is great, so I'm gonna vote for that.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 16:03 (fifteen years ago) link
There are few other r'n'b hits of the nineties as great as "Another Sad Love Song".
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 16:05 (fifteen years ago) link
I like the singles more than the album.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 16:07 (fifteen years ago) link
Well, there's "Unbreak My Heart", "You're Makin' Me High", "Breathe Again", and "You Mean The World To Me"...
― ^likes black girls (HI DERE), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 16:07 (fifteen years ago) link
I love "Breathe Again" too, but for some reason "Unbreak My Heart" always sounded kinda sour and irritating to me. Can't really explain why.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 16:08 (fifteen years ago) link
I remember when "Breathe Again" and "Another Sad Love Song" came out I really thought they were great, but I couldn't admit that to anyone, because back then 15-year old Finnish boys weren't supposed to like r'n'b.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 16:10 (fifteen years ago) link
...or at least not Toni Braxton. TLC at least had some hip-hop credibility.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 16:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Doggystyle, easily. if it weren't on the list i'd probably go with Ill Comm.
― extremely intoxicated & uncooperative outside a Hסּסּters in Winston-Salem (will), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 16:15 (fifteen years ago) link
What was the big r'n'b hit of 1994, where three guys sang something like "I swear, by the moon and the stars in the sky...", and they were like Michael Jackson's nephews or something? I even liked that one.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 16:17 (fifteen years ago) link
... That song was called "I Swear".
― ^likes black girls (HI DERE), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 16:17 (fifteen years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_4_One
― ^likes black girls (HI DERE), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 16:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh yeah, by All-4-One! Wikipedia says nothing about them being Michael Jackson's cousins though... Am I mixing them up with some other group?
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 16:20 (fifteen years ago) link
didn't some country dude cover it shortly after?
― extremely intoxicated & uncooperative outside a Hסּסּters in Winston-Salem (will), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 16:21 (fifteen years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownstone_(band)
Country dude is John Michael Montgomery (listed above) and his version came first.
― ^likes black girls (HI DERE), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 16:23 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm almost certain there was an r'n'b group in the mid-nineties who were Michael Jackson's nephews or cousins, and their name had a number in it. Does anyone remember what it was?
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 16:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Tuomas - 3T
― nate woolls, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 16:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Ah, thanks!
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 16:26 (fifteen years ago) link
wau. AMC Theaters used to play "Anything" as part of their "pre-show."
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 16:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 00:01 (fifteen years ago) link
I can't believe Geir doesn't own this
I don't even own "Genesis Live" or "Seconds Out". The definitive versions are on the studio albums anyway, so what would I need alternative versions for?
― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 00:20 (fifteen years ago) link
ace of base.
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 03:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Thursday, 15 January 2009 00:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Why John Michael Montgomery ruled.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 00:45 (two years ago) link
didn't like most of these
― Dan S, Tuesday, 20 July 2021 01:24 (two years ago) link