My Favorite Music of the 1990s
1990
- Chet Baker - The Best of Chet Baker Sings
- Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
- Ice Cube - AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted
- Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Ragged Glory
- Queen - Greatest Hits
- Sonic Youth - Goo
- The Sundays - Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic
1991
- Ice Cube - Death Certificate
- My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
- Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Weld
- Slint - Spiderland
1992
- Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85–92
- Chet Baker - The Best of Chet Baker Plays
- Dr. Dre - The Chronic
- Dr. Dre - Deep Cover
- Drop Nineteens - Delaware
- Ice Cube - The Predator
- Neil Young - Harvest Moon
- Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
- Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle
- Sonic Youth - Dirty
- Wreckx-N-Effect - Hard or Smooth
1993
| Artist | Album |
|---|---|
| Acetone | Cindy |
| Cocteau Twins | Four-Calendar Café |
| The Cranberries | Everybody Else is Doing it, So Why Can’t We? |
| Ice Cube | Lethal Injection |
| Loretta, Dolly & Tammy | Honky Tonk Angels |
| Mobb Deep | Juvenile Hell |
| Naughty by Nature | 19 Naughty III |
| Queen Latifah | Black Reign |
| Radiohead | Pablo Honey |
| Slowdive | Souvlaki |
| Wu-Tang Clan | Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) |
1994
| Artist | Album |
|---|---|
| Autechre | Amber |
| Bedhead | WhatFunLifeWas |
| The Cranberries | No Need to Argue |
| Elliott Smith | Roman Candle |
| Jeff Buckley | Grace |
| Kenny G | Miracles: The Holiday Album |
| Nas | Illmatic |
| Neil Young & Crazy Horse | Sleeps With Angels |
| The Notorious B.I.G. | Ready to Die |
| Pavement | Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain |
| Slint | Slint |
| Weezer | Weezer (Blue Album) |
1995
| Artist | Album |
|---|---|
| Alanis Morissette | Jagged Little Pill |
| Aphex Twin | …I Care Because You Do |
| Big L | Lifestylez ov da Poor & Dangerous |
| Cake | Motorcade of Generosity |
| Elliott Smith | Elliott Smith |
| Eric Clapton | The Cream of Clapton |
| Idaho | The Bayonet |
| Lil Noid | Paranoid Funk |
| Mobb Deep | The Infamous |
| Pavement | Wowee Zowee |
| The Presidents of the United States of America | The Presidents of the United States of America |
| Radiohead | The Bends |
| Red House Painters | Ocean Beach |
| Slowdive | Pygmalion |
| Sonic Youth | Washing Machine |
| St Germain | Boulevard: The Complete Series |
| Various Artists | ESPN Presents: Jock Jams, Volume 1 |
1996
| Artist | Album |
|---|---|
| 12 Rods | Gay? |
| Acetone | If You Only Knew |
| Autechre | Tri Repetae |
| Bedhead | Bedhead |
| Boards of Canada | Hi Scores |
| Cake | Fashion Nugget |
| The Crownhate Ruin | Until the Eagle Grins |
| Idaho | Three Sheets to the Wind |
| M.O.P. | Firing Squad |
| Radio Flyer | In Their Strange White Armor |
| Rage Against the Machine | Evil Empire |
| Red House Painters | Songs for a Blue Guitar |
| Sheryl Crow | Sheryl Crow |
| Spice Girls | Spice |
| Weezer | Pinkerton |
1997
| Artist | Album |
|---|---|
| Acetone | Acetone |
| Aphex Twin | Come to Daddy |
| Idaho | Forbidden |
| Lowercase | Kill the Lights |
| Mason Jennings | Mason Jennings |
| Master P | Ghetto D |
| The Notorious B.I.G. | Life After Death |
| Pavement | Brighten the Corners |
| Photek | Modus Operandi |
| Radiohead | OK Computer |
| Rakim | The 18th Letter |
| Refused | The Shape of Punk to Come |
| Regulator Watts | The Aesthetics of No-Drag |
| Shania Twain | Come On Over |
| Third Eye Blind | Third Eye Blind |
| Will Smith | Big Willie Style |
| µ-Ziq | Lunatic Harness |
1998
| Artist | Album |
|---|---|
| 12 Rods | Split Personalities |
| Aceyalone | A Book of Human Language |
| American Football | American Football EP |
| Autechre | LP5 |
| Bedhead | Transaction de Novo |
| Big Pun | Capital Punishment |
| Cake | Prolonging the Magic |
| Duster | Stratosphere |
| Gang Starr | Moment of Truth |
| Idaho | Alas |
| Neutral Milk Hotel | In the Aeroplane Over the Sea |
| System of a Down | System of a Down |
1999
| Artist | Album |
|---|---|
| American Football | American Football (LP1) |
| Built to Spill | Keep it Like a Secret |
| Deep Puddle Dynamics | The Taste of Rain… Why Kneel |
| Dr. Dre | 2001 |
| Exaspirin | Invisible City 3/99 and 5/99 |
| Lowercase | The Going Away Present |
| Nine Inch Nails | The Fragile |
| Pavement | Terror Twilight |
| Rage Against the Machine | The Battle of Los Angeles |
| Rakim | The Master |
| Staind | Dysfunction |