Spin's 90 greatest albums of the 90s

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I listen to my MP3 jukebox about 8-12 hours a day, and every once
in a while I get tired of my MP3 collection (currently 3955 MP3s,
261 albums, 163 artists, 17 GB) and want to find something new.

The ways I usually hear about new music are:

 - referrals from friends
 - hearing it on the radio or muchmusic/mtv
 - amazon.com's "related artists" feature
 - Napster's "browse user's MP3s" feature
 - current popular charts

Tonight I found Spin's "90 greatest albums of the 90s" (written almost
two years ago), and noticed that I don't have a lot of these yet,

I put [*] or [-] next to the ones I don't have; [-] means I have other
albums by that artist and [*] means I have nothing by them at all.

Are there any marked [*] that I really should not live without?

(I wish it were easier to beef up my collection. I would love to be
able to buy an 80G hard disk with the best music from the last few
decades already on it. I wonder what kind of stuff there is like
that available on the black market today? I would even be happy
to pay for FTP or HTTP access to a well-organized collection.)

Anyway, on to Spin's list:

http://www.spin.com/magazine/features/1999/08/13/1/index.html

> The 90 Greatest Albums of the '90s
>
> 1. Nirvana, Nevermind
> 2. Public Enemy, Fear of a Black Planet [-]
> 3. PJ Harvey, To Bring You My Love [-]
> 4. Beck, Odelay
> 5. Pavement, Slanted and Enchanted [*]
> 6. Hole, Live Through This [-]
> 7. Bjork, Post [-]
> 8. Dr. Dre, The Chronic [*]
> 9. Radiohead, OK Computer
> 10. The Chemical Brothers, Dig Your Own Hole
> 11. Nine Inch Nails, The Downward Spiral
> 12. Beastie Boys, Check Your Head
> 13. Liz Phair, Exile in Guyville [*]
> 14. Tricky, Maxinquaye [*]
> 15. DJ Shadow, Endtroducing... [*]
> 16. My Bloody Valentine, Loveless [*]
> 17. Fugees, The Score [*]
> 18. Nirvana, In Utero
> 19. U2, Achtung Baby
> 20. Moby, Play
> 21. Sleater-Kinney, Dig Me Out [*]
> 22. Wu-Tang Clan, Enter the Wu-Tang: 36 Chambers
> 23. Smashing Pumpkins, Siamese Dream
> 24. Massive Attack, Blue Lines [-]
> 25. Various Artists, Return of the DJ Vol. 1 & 2 [*]
> 26. Rage Against the Machine, Rage Against the Machine
> 27. The Notorious B.I.G., Ready to Die [*]
> 28. Lauryn Hill, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
> 29. Bob Dylan, Time Out of Mind [-]
> 30. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, The Supreme Collection Volume 1 [*]
> 31. Tori Amos, Little Earthquakes [*]
> 32. A Tribe Called Quest, The Low End Theory [*]
> 33. Pearl Jam, Ten
> 34. Cornershop, When I Was Born for the 7th Time [*]
> 35. Outkast, Aquemini [-]
> 36. Fugazi, Repeater [*]
> 37. PJ Harvey, Rid of Me
> 38. Roni Size/Reprazent, New Forms [*]
> 39. The Breeders, Last Splash [*]
> 40. R.E.M., Automatic For The People [-]
> 41. Sebadoh, Sebadoh III [*]
> 42. Portishead, Dummy [*]
> 43. Pulp, Different Class [*]
> 44. Sinead O'Connor, I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got [-]
> 45. Basement Jaxx, Remedy [*]
> 46. Stereolab, Emperor Tomato Ketchup
> 47. L.L. Cool J, Mama Said Knock You Out [*]
> 48. Sublime, Sublime [*]
> 49. Maldita Vecindad y Los Hijos del Quinto Patio, El Circo [*]
> 50. Air, Moon Safari [*]
> 51. TLC, CrazySexyCool [*]
> 52. Metallica, Metallica [-]
> 53. Green Day, Dookie
> 54. Bikini Kill, Bikini Kill EP [*]
> 55. Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Ragged Glory [*]
> 56. Aphex Twin, Selected Ambient Works 85-92 [-]
> 57. Cypress Hill, Cypress Hill [-]
> 58. Red Hot Chili Peppers, Blood Sugar Sex Magik [-]
> 59. Sonny Sharrock, Ask the Ages [*]
> 60. The Prodigy, Music For The Jilted Generation [*]
> 61. Lucinda Williams, Car Wheels on a Gravel Road [*]
> 62. Pavement, Crooked Rain Crooked Rain [*]
> 63. Uncle Tupelo, No Depression [*]
> 64. Built To Spill, There's Nothing Wrong With Love [*]
> 65. Basehead, Play WIth Toys [*]
> 66. Missy Elliott, Supa Dupa Fly [*]
> 67. Tortoise, Millions Now Living Will Never Die [*]
> 68. Fatboy Slim, You've Come a Long Way, Baby
> 69. Slint, Spiderland [*]
> 70. Soundgarden, Superunknown
> 71. Buena Vista Social Club, Buena Vista Social Club [*]
> 72. Mary J. Blige, My Life [*]
> 73. Elliott Smith, Either/Or [*]
> 74. De La Soul, De La Soul Is Dead [*]
> 75. Steve Earle, I Feel Alright [*]
> 76. Daft Punk, Homework [*]
> 77. Boredoms, Super Are [*]
> 78. Yo La Tengo, I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One [*]
> 79. Oasis, (What's the Story) Morning Glory?
> 80. Ice Cube, Amerikkka's Most Wanted [*]
> 81. Kristin Hersh, Hips and Makers [*]
> 82. The Orb, the orb's adventures beyond the ultraworld [-]
> 83. Raekwon, Only Built 4 Cuban Linx [*]
> 84. Lisa Germano, Geek The Girl [*]
> 85. Various Artists, Macro Dub Infection Volume 1 [*]
> 86. Dr. Octagon, Dr. Octagon [*]
> 87. Everything But The Girl, Walking Wounded [*]
> 88. Neutral Milk Hotel, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea [*]
> 89. Prince Paul, A Prince Among Thieves [*]
> 90. Cibo Matto, Viva! La Woman [*]

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Re: Spin's 90 greatest albums of the 90s

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At 03:27 3/12/2001 -0500, Gerald Oskoboiny wrote:
>Are there any marked [*] that I really should not live without?

My thoughts follow.

>(I wish it were easier to beef up my collection. I would love to be
>able to buy an 80G hard disk with the best music from the last few
>decades already on it. I wonder what kind of stuff there is like
>that available on the black market today? I would even be happy
>to pay for FTP or HTTP access to a well-organized collection.)

A friend sof my runs an ftp server that is only accessible to a closed email
list, but I frankly have yet to use it as Napster seems to do the trick
(even now!). What I do wish is for an easy way to do Napster queries. I
asked a friend for her mp3 playlist (we have similar tastes) and I have to
go through manually copying and pasting. It'd be cool if I understood the
napster interface (if it was like a search engine) then I could just write a
script to query the whole list and download the best match, if it times out,
the next best, etc.

I recommend:

> > 2. Public Enemy, Fear of a Black Planet [-]
> > 8. Dr. Dre, The Chronic [*]
> > 32. A Tribe Called Quest, The Low End Theory [*]
(Don't know this one actually, but "People's Instinctive Travels" was
seminal.)
> > 36. Fugazi, Repeater [*]
> > 38. Roni Size/Reprazent, New Forms [*]
> > 42. Portishead, Dummy [*]
> > 44. Sinead O'Connor, I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got [-]
> > 57. Cypress Hill, Cypress Hill [-]
> > 90. Cibo Matto, Viva! La Woman [*]

And will have to check out a bunch of the other ones myself.
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Re: Spin's 90 greatest albums of the 90s

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* Gerald Oskoboiny <[email protected]> [2001-03-12 03:27-0500]
> Tonight I found Spin's "90 greatest albums of the 90s" (written almost
> two years ago), and noticed that I don't have a lot of these yet,
[..]

Hmmm... a list of 90 albums, mixing all genres, ranked from 1 to 90...
I usually don't pay attention to those.

> Anyway, on to Spin's list:
[..]

They sure have listed good albums (well, if you like the kind of music
the artist plays), but they do lack a lot of things. I spent quite a
while looking at my CDs, and was forced to send this email to mention
at least two bands (and I am not including the French ones) that are
really missing from this:

 dEUS[1]:
   They released 4 albums in the 90s, and Worst Case Scenario[3],
   their first album, is *excellent* (the others too). More info
   about the band at [4].

 Morphine[2]:
   They have a really cool sound, and I would probably mention Cure
   For Pain. More info about the band at [5].

Now I will be able to sleep better tonight. :-)

 1. http://www.deus.be/
 2. http://www.morphine3.com/
 3. http://www.deus.be/discography/worstcase00.htm
 4. http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=Bpe5h8qptbtz4
 5. http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=Bih9ss31ba3bg
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