Best Album of the ‘90s — Winner Takes All

Gotta add
- DMB - Under the Table and Dreaming.
- Sinaid O'Connor - I do not want what I haven't got
 
fidel said:
Gotta add
- DMB - Under the Table and Dreaming.
- Sinaid O'Connor - I do not want what I haven't got
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I suggested DMB in my long-winded comment upthread. Transformational - I waited in line at whatever the record store on 9th Street was called to buy it at midnight, then saw him a few days later at the Ritz in Raleigh (I believe the opener was a great little band from NJ called From Good Homes that never took off) then about a month later at Wake with Rusted Root opening. Some of the best nights of my life. To think a year earlier I was seeing them play a frat party on the quad at Duke with very few people there.

That being said, I tend to agree with those who put Ten at the top of the list.
 
ClemmonsDevil said:
Settle down. Great album but my eyes are on the rap albums. Dre's Chronic is impossibly good. This is an absolutely loaded bracket. It's like a NCAA tournament with about 10 #1 seeds, 13 #2 seeds and no one less than a 4 seed somehow.
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I find it curious that over the next two weeks we will get a ridiculous number of "brackets" for "Best XXXX of all time," and yet this purports to be using an World Cup sort of format.
 
CrazyNotCrazie said:
I suggested DMB in my long-winded comment upthread. Transformational - I waited in line at whatever the record store on 9th Street was called to buy it at midnight, then saw him a few days later at the Ritz in Raleigh (I believe the opener was a great little band from NJ called From Good Homes that never took off) then about a month later at Wake with Rusted Root opening. Some of the best nights of my life. To think a year earlier I was seeing them play a frat party on the quad at Duke with very few people there.

That being said, I tend to agree with those who put Ten at the top of the list.
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I saw DMB at the Ritz as well. ‘94 or ‘95 — I can’t remember which one. It was right before they leveled up and no longer played venues like that. It was a great show — I wonder if it was the same one? ETA: I found the set list (see below). September ‘94. What a show.

I’ve seen DMB more than any other band, I think. The Grateful Dead and Phish got off to large leads, but I never saw the Dead after Jerry died and my last Phish show was at the outdoor amphitheater in the Triangle area in ‘99 or so.

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Dave Matthews Band Setlist at The Ritz, Raleigh

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  1. The Best of What's Around

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  2. Satellite

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  3. Dancing Nancies

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  4. Warehouse

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  5. What Would You Say

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  6. The Song That Jane Likes

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  7. Jimi Thing

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  8. Lie in Our Graves

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  9. Pay for What You Get

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  10. Tripping Billies

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  11. Minarets

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  12. Typical Situation

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  13. Two Step

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  14. Ants Marching

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  15. Encore:
  16. Rhyme & Reason

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  17. Recently
 
wilson said:
This is a correct answer.

Metallica's Black Album should also be on this list...one of the great rock albums of all time, with over 30 million copies sold and nearly 500 weeks (yes, you read that correctly) on the Billboard 200 Albums chart.
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ClemmonsDevil said:
Settle down. Great album but my eyes are on the rap albums. Dre's Chronic is impossibly good. This is an absolutely loaded bracket. It's like a NCAA tournament with about 10 #1 seeds, 13 #2 seeds and no one less than a 4 seed somehow.
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The Chronic is indeed an all-time classic in its genre, but the Black Album has sold literally 10 times as many copies.
 
AGDukesky said:
Ten has been my pick for as long as I’ve named a best. Lots of a great ones being listed.
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Unpopular take: Vs is the better album (and PJ is my favorite band. I'll be seeing them four times this spring).

How do we do a NCAA style bracket for this? First we need to set the field, then seed and then votes.
 
nmduke2001 said:
The only correct answer is the Metallica's Black Album. Many of the others on the list are great, I'd even add Weezer's debut into the overall list, BUT Metallica wins hands down. That album brought us "Enter Sandman", "Nothing Else Matters", Wherever I May Roam", "Sad But True". 31 million records sold. The Black album brought heavy metal into the mainstream and started the end of the 80's glam rock.
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The Black Album was rock. That is what made it mainstream. It was an intentional crossover album.

Appetite for Destruction started the end of 80s glam rock. It was the first hard rock album from the next generation of musicians. It predated The Black Album by four years and helped pave the way for its success.
 
wilson said:
The Chronic is indeed an all-time classic in its genre, but the Black Album has sold literally 10 times as many copies.
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Which is fine. And I can see that as an argument for making it "greater". But if that is our criteria here, then find the best-selling album of the decade and we can wrap this discussion up right now, right?
 
Kdogg said:
Unpopular take: Vs is the better album (and PJ is my favorite band. I'll be seeing them four times this spring).

How do we do a NCAA bracket for this? First we need to set the field, then seed and then votes.
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Biggest selling album of the 90s is The Bodyguard soundtrack from Whitney Houston.

Number two is Backstreet Boys.

I won't rehash the top 50 biggest selling albums here, but the majority have not been mentioned (think Spice Girls, Brittney Spears).

Sounds like this group prefers rock and some hip hop. Perhaps the contest title should be adjusted accordingly?
 
wilson said:
The Chronic is indeed an all-time classic in its genre, but the Black Album has sold literally 10 times as many copies.
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The Chronic was a watershed moment in hip hop. It was a changing of the guard and introduced new sounds, new production techniques, and a whole new style of music.

The Black Album was a big seller, but didn't offer much new to the world of rock... just some great songs.

As far as album sales go... The Black Album was far more radio, and maybe more importantly, more MTV friendly, in 1991.
 
Kdogg said:
Unpopular take: Vs is the better album (and PJ is my favorite band. I'll be seeing them four times this spring).

How do we do a NCAA style bracket for this? First we need to set the field, then seed and then votes.
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It is a riddle wrapped in a conundrum: How can Ten be the best album of the 90s when it may not ever been better than Vs? I don’t know! But just like Ten starts off an astounding three songs (Once —> Even Flow —> Alive), Pearl Jam kicked off their career with an astounding three albums.

ETA: my plan is an international football style tourney with a group stage and then knockout bracket. I make no promise on when I get to the draw for the group stage, but we’ve got time. It’s already been 25 years.
 
cato said:
I saw DMB at the Ritz as well. ‘94 or ‘95 — I can’t remember which one. It was right before they leveled up and no longer played venues like that. It was a great show — I wonder if it was the same one? ETA: I found the set list (see below). September ‘94. What a show.

I’ve seen DMB more than any other band, I think. The Grateful Dead and Phish got off to large leads, but I never saw the Dead after Jerry died and my last Phish show was at the outdoor amphitheater in the Triangle area in ‘99 or so.

www.setlist.fm

Dave Matthews Band Setlist at The Ritz, Raleigh

Get the Dave Matthews Band Setlist of the concert at The Ritz, Raleigh, NC, USA on September 29, 1994 and other Dave Matthews Band Setlists for free on setlist.fm!
www.setlist.fm www.setlist.fm

  1. The Best of What's Around

    Play Video
  2. Satellite

    Play Video
  3. Dancing Nancies

    Play Video
  4. Warehouse

    Play Video
  5. What Would You Say

    Play Video
  6. The Song That Jane Likes

    Play Video
  7. Jimi Thing

    Play Video
  8. Lie in Our Graves

    Play Video
  9. Pay for What You Get

    Play Video
  10. Tripping Billies

    Play Video
  11. Minarets

    Play Video
  12. Typical Situation

    Play Video
  13. Two Step

    Play Video
  14. Ants Marching

    Play Video
  15. Encore:
  16. Rhyme & Reason

    Play Video
  17. Recently
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Same show! I was there. It was incredible. As I mentioned, I saw them at Wake a month later, but by that spring, as you mentioned, they were huge. Summer of 1996 I was in London and they hadn't really hit it big in Europe yet (but by then they were playing stadiums in the US) so I saw them at a really cool little club there - it was all Americans. But I refused to see them at big venues after being spoiled.

A few summers ago I went to his vineyard near Charlottesville and was boring the young woman working there with stories of seeing DMB concerts before she was even born.
 
CrazyNotCrazie said:
Same show! I was there. It was incredible. As I mentioned, I saw them at Wake a month later, but by that spring, as you mentioned, they were huge. Summer of 1996 I was in London and they hadn't really hit it big in Europe yet (but by then they were playing stadiums in the US) so I saw them at a really cool little club there - it was all Americans. But I refused to see them at big venues after being spoiled.

A few summers ago I went to his vineyard near Charlottesville and was boring the young woman working there with stories of seeing DMB concerts before she was even born.
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I was at that show as well.
 
Kdogg said:
Unpopular take: Vs is the better album (and PJ is my favorite band. I'll be seeing them four times this spring).

How do we do a NCAA style bracket for this? First we need to set the field, then seed and then votes.
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Agree to disagree.

I’m the same way with Pink Floyd and the unpopular opinion that the Division Bell is my favorite album.
 
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