1990s
20 albums
Violator
Personal Jesus and Enjoy the Silence made synth pop stadium sized. Flood and Francois Kevorkian production gave the song...
Jagged Little Pill
Post grunge confessional songwriting with Glen Ballard production turned a former teen pop singer into the voice of mid ...
The Low End Theory
Q-Tip and Phife traded wisdom over Ron Carter upright bass and dusty jazz samples, mellow, musical and adult. The album ...
Enter the Wu-Tang 36 Chambers
Nine voices, kung fu samples and RZA lo-fi blade sharp production out of Staten Island. Protect Ya Neck and C.R.E.A.M. b...
The Chronic
G-funk was born here: Parliament samples rolling under sine whine and Snoop Dogg casual drawl debuting alongside Dre pre...
Illmatic
Nine songs deep with production from Premier, Large Professor, Pete Rock, Q-Tip and L.E.S., the Queensbridge debut is th...
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Singing and rapping over live soul, hip hop and Kingston recorded classroom interludes, the solo debut won five Grammys ...
Loveless
Kevin Shields spent two years and nearly bankrupted Creation Records bending guitars into glow with tremolo arms and stu...
Nevermind
Smells Like Teen Spirit knocked Michael Jackson off number one in January 1992 and alternative became the mainstream. Bu...
OK Computer
Recorded partly at St Catherine Court near Bath, it processed modern anxiety, transport and technology into guitar epics...
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Jeff Mangum sang about Anne Frank over singing saws, brass and buzz with absolute conviction. Released to modest notice,...
Selected Ambient Works 85-92
Richard D James home recorded dreamscapes, begun on homemade synths as a teenager, arrived as the founding album of ambi...
Dummy
Geoff Barrow film samples, Beth Gibbons wounded noir voice and Adrian Utley spy guitar defined trip hop as a chart genre...
Blue Lines
The Bristol collective album that first fused hip hop tempo, soul singing and dub atmosphere, with Shara Nelson vocal li...
Buena Vista Social Club
Ry Cooder gathered forgotten Havana veterans like Compay Segundo and Ibrahim Ferrer for sessions that revived son cubano...
Ready to Die
The debut of Christopher Wallace on Sean Combs and his Bad Boy label traced a life from birth in Brooklyn to a bleak fin...
Ten
The Seattle band debut set Eddie Vedder baritone against the guitars of Stone Gossard and Mike McCready, arriving the sa...
Achtung Baby
Begun at Hansa Studios in a newly reunified Berlin, Achtung Baby reinvented U2 with industrial textures, distorted guita...
Homework
Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo recorded their debut in a Paris bedroom studio, fusing Chicago house, a...
Mezzanine
Darker and heavier than their earlier records, Mezzanine fused trip hop with post punk guitars and slow, menacing bass. ...