Top Ten Albums of 1990s
1999 Albums
1. Built to Spill - Keep It Like a Secret
2. The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
3. Of Montreal - The Gay Parade
4. Pavement - Terror Twilight
5. Fiona Apple - When the Pawn …
6. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - I See a Darkness
7. The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
8. The Microphones - Don't Wake Me Up
9. Sigur Rós - Ágætis Byrjun
10. Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Spanish Dance Troupe
1998 Albums
1. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
2. Elliott Smith - XO
3. Belle and Sebastian - The Boy With the Arab Strap
4. The Silver Jews - American Water
5. Pulp - This Is Hardcore
6. Destroyer - City of Daughters
7. Air - Moon Safari
8. Reatards - Teenage Hate
9. Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach - Painted From Memory
10. Spoon - A Series of Sneaks
1997 Albums
1. Radiohead - OK Computer
2. Elliott Smith - Either/Or
3. Built to Spill - Perfect From Now On
4. Pavement - Brighten the Corners
5. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - The Boatman's Call
6. Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West
7. Catherine Wheel - Adam & Eve
8. Bjork - Homogenic
9. Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space
10. Super Furry Animals - Radiator
1996 Albums
1. Belle and Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
2. Weezer - Pinkerton
3. Modest Mouse - This Is a Long Drive for Someone With Nothing to Think About
4. Neutral Milk Hotel - On Avery Island
5. Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 - I Hope It Lands
6. Super Furry Animals - Fuzzy Logic
7. Beck - Odelay
8. Divine Comedy - Casanova
9. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads
10. Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup
1995 Albums
1. Pulp - Different Class
2. Pavement - Wowee Zowee
3. Radiohead - The Bends
4. Guided By Voices - Alien Lanes
5. Elliott Smith - Elliott Smith
6. Zumpano - Look What the Rookie Did
7. GZA/Genius - Liquid Swords
8. The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Saddness
9. PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love
10. Bjork - Post
Notable Shorts: Guided By Voices - Motor Away / Color of My Blade
1994 Albums
1. Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
2. Nirvana - Unplugged In New York
3. Elliott Smith - Roman Candle
4. Thinking Fellers Local Union 282 - Strangers From the Universe
5. Guided By Voices - Bee Thousand
6. Frank Black - Teenager of the Year
7. Built To Spill - There's Nothing Wrong With Love
8. Jeff Buckley - Grace
9. Red Red Meat - Jimmywine Majestic
10. Pulp - His 'N Hers
Notable Shorts: Guided By Voices - Fast Japanese Spin Cycle; The Oblivians - S/T (Never Enough); S.F. Seals - Still?; The White Shark - Muggy Bog
1993 Albums
1. Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
2. Nirvana - In Utero
3. A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
4. The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
5. The Flaming Lips - Transmissions From the Satellite Heart
6. Lisa Germano - Happiness
7. Eric's Trip - Love Tara
8. Teenage Fanclub - Thirteen
9. Archers of Loaf - Icky Mettle
10. Stereolab - Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements
Notable Shorts: Heavenly - Atta Girl; Sonic Youth - Whore's Moaning; Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 - Admonishing the Bishops
1992 Albums
1. Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted
2. Tom Waits - Bone Machine
3. Jonathan Richman - I, Jonathan
4. Chris Bell - I Am The Cosmos
5. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Henry's Dream
6. Heavenly - Le Jardin de Heavenly
7. Red House Painters - Down Colorful Hill
8. Redman - Whut? Thee Album
9. Lucinda Williams - Sweet Old World
10. Spiritualized - Lazer Guided Melodies
Notable Shorts: Come - Fast Piss Blues / I Got the Blues
1991 Albums
1. Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
2. A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
3. Nirvana - Nevermind
4. Heavenly - Heavenly Vs. Satan
5. The Wedding Present - Seamonsters
6. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
7. Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque
8. Del Tha Funkee Homosapiens - I Wish My Brother George Was Here
9. Slint - Spiderland
10. Mercury Rev - Yerself is Steam
Notable Shorts: Come - Car / Last Chance 7"; Pavement - Perfect Sound Forever
1990 Albums
1. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Good Son
2. Pixies - Bossanova
3. Galaxie 500 - This Is Our Music
4. The Breeders - Pod
5. Sonic Youth - Goo
6. A Tribe Called Quest - People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
7. Guided By Voices - Same Place the Fly Got Smashed
8. Ride - Nowhere
9. The Flaming Lips - In a Priest-Driven Ambulance
10. Field Trip - Headgear
Notable Shorts: Galaxie 500 - Blue Thunder; My Bloody Valentine - Glider; Swervedriver - Son of Mustang Ford; Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 - The Natural Finger; Velocity Girl - I Don't Care If You Go 7"