The Cubist’s Favorite Albums of the 90’s
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Ok, so music may not be Nerd Bacon’s specialty, but that doesn’t mean that we, as individuals, don’t have a few other interests that we engage in from time to time. As both an exercise in diversity and creativity, I’m opening up section as a vehicle for something I enjoy almost as much as video games – music. And in order to provide some focus, I’m going to do by best to stick to the 1990’s. In fact, I’m even using “of the 90’s” in the title so that I’m less tempted to veer off course. However, there may just be a record or two on either side of the decade that I absolutely can’t resist listing among my favorites.
Why the 1990’s?
If you discuss music long enough with most people, you’ll find that there’s a direct correlation between age and the years in which a person is typically most familiar with and fond of popular music. I was born in 1985, so even though I was a little young for a good portion of the 90’s, it was during my teenage years that many popular and acclaimed albums from earlier in the decade were becoming fully ingrained into cultural consciousness. The early 90’s saw a significant shift if the sound of mainstream music, and as such, records like Nirvana’s Nevermind and Nine Inch Nails’ The Downward Spiral were still making ripples (waves even!) years and years later. Such is the nature of music that listening to one album often leads to discovering several others from the same time period and related genres.
I was only 15 when the year 2000 rolled around, and I have my share of favorite records from then as well (Eminem’s The Marshall Mathers LP is almost sure to make the list, despite its 2000 release date), but I continued to explore the 90’s landscape of alternative rock, grunge, and my favorite sub-genre of the decade, industrial metal. I’ve always been fairly open when it comes to music though, and I in no way intend to limit myself to these genres. However, neither do I feel compelled to include one record or another just because it falls into some extant genre.
These albums are covered in no particular order, though I will admit that the staples of my CD player tend to fall towards the top. To keep things interesting from one “issue” to the next, I’ve promised myself to only touch on one album per artist until I hit at least 30 issues. That’s not to say that there weren’t particular artists that I was immensely fond of, I’d just like to keep up the variety for a while.
So if you will, put down the controller for a minute, grab your headphones, and see if you agree with my take on these awesome records.[/expand]
Click below to start going through the albums, or browse the lists below!
The Cubist’s Favorite Albums of the 90’s
Volume 1: Off the Cuff
- Issue #1: Nine Inch Nails – The Downward Spiral (1994)
- Issue #2: Korn – Korn (1994)
- Issue #3: Marilyn Manson – Antichrist Superstar (1996)
- Issue #4: Nirvana – Nevermind (1991)
- Issue #5: The Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (1995)
- Issue #6: Sublime – Sublime (1996)
- Issue #7: Offspring – Smash (1994)
- Issue #8: Fear Factory – Obsolete (1998)
- Issue #9: Body Count – Body Count (1992)
- Issue #10: Placebo – Without You I’m Nothing (1998)
- Issue #11: Prodigy – The Fat of the Land (1997)
- Issue #12: VNV Nation – Empires (1999)
- Issue #13: Blink-182 – Dude Ranch (1997)
- Issue #14: Ministry – Psalm 69 (1992)
- Issue #15: Weezer – Weezer (The Blue Album) (1994)
- Issue #16: Tool – Undertow (1993)
- Issue #17: Beastie Boys – Hello Nasty (1998)
- Issue #18: Green Day – Dookie (1994)
- Issue #19: Bush – Sixteen Stone (1994)
- Issue #20: Cradle of Filth – Dusk… And Her Embrace (1996)
- Issue #21: Alice in Chains – Dirt (1992)
- Issue #22: Rob Zombie – Hellbilly Deluxe (1998)
- Issue #23: Sugar Ray – Floored (1997)
- Issue #24: GZA – Liquid Swords (1995)
- Issue #25: My Dying Bride – Turn Loose the Swans (1993)
- Issue #26: Radiohead – The Bends (1995)
- Issue #27: “Weird Al” Yankovic – Bad Hair Day (1996)
- Issue #28: Stone Temple Pilots – Core (1992)
- Issue #29: Rx (Ritalin) – Bedside Toxicology (1998)
- Issue #30: The Magnetic Fields – 69 Love Songs (1999)
- Issue #31: Primus – Sailing the Seas of Cheese (1991)
- Issue #32: Pearl Jam – Ten (1991)
- Issue #33: Insane Clown Posse – The Great Milenko (1997)
- Issue #34: Metallica – Metallica (The Black Album) (1991)
- Issue #35: Live – Throwing Copper (1994)
- Issue #36: System of a Down – System of a Down (1998)
- Issue #37: Soundgarden – Superunknown (1994)
- Issue #38: Deftones – Around the Fur (1997)
- Issue #39: Notorious B.I.G. – Life After Death (1997)
- Issue #40: 2Pac – All Eyez on Me (1996)
Volume 2: Soundtracks
- Issue #41: Natural Born Killers OST (1994)
- Issue #42: Mortal Kombat OST (1995)
- Issue #43: Strangeland OST (1998)
- Issue #44: Spawn: The Album (OST) (1997)
- Issue #45: End of Days OST (1999)
- Issue #46: Gummo OST (1998)
Volume 3: Rumination
- Issue #47: Kid Rock – Devil Without a Cause (1998)
- Issue #48: Cypress Hill – Black Sunday (1993)
- Issue #49: Foo Fighters – Foo Fighters (1995)
- Issue #50: Tom Waits – Mule Variations (1999)
- Issue #51: Skinny Puppy – Too Dark Park (1990)
- Issue #52: Burzum – Burzum (1992)
- Issue #53: Eminem – The Slim Shady LP (1999)
- Issue #54: Alanis Morissette – Jagged Little Pill (1995)
- Issue #55: KMFDM – Nihil (1995)
- Issue #56: Pantera – Vulgar Display of Power (1992)
- Issue #57: Sepultura – Roots (1996)
Volume 4: The “Almost” 90’s
- Issue #58-A: Eminem – The Marshall Mathers LP (2000)
- Issue #58-B: Placebo – Black Market Blood (2000)
- Issue #58-C: Beastie Boys – Licensed to Ill (1986)
- Issue #58-D: The Postal Service – Give Up (2003)
- Issue #58-E: Obie Trice – Cheers (2003)
- Issue #58-F: Misfits – Misfits (Collection I) (1986)
- Issue #58-G: VNV Nation – Futureperfect (2002)
- Issue #58-H: Ludacris – Chicken -N- Beer (2003)
- Issue #58-I: Nine Inch Nails – Pretty Hate Machine (1989)
- Issue #58-J: Ohgr – Welt (2001)
Volume 5: Reprise
- Issue #59: Nine Inch Nails – Broken (1992)
- Issue# 60: Nine Inch Nails – The Fragile (1999)
- Issue #61: Marilyn Manson – Smells Like Children (1995)
- Issue #62: Marilyn Manson – Portrait of an American Family (1994)
- Issue #63: Korn – Issues (1999)
- Issue #64: Korn – Follow the Leader (1998)
- Issue #65: Weezer – Pinkerton (1996)
- Issue #66: Cradle of Filth – The Principle of Evil Made Flesh (1994)
- Issue #67: Cradle of Filth – From the Cradle to Enslave (1999)
- Issue #68: The Smashing Pumpkins – Adore (1998)
- Issue #69: The Offspring – Americana (1998)
- Issue #70: Green Day – Insomniac (1995)
- Issue #71: Pearl Jam – Vs. (1993)
- Issue #72: Stone Temple Pilots (1994)
- Issue #73: Tool – Ænima (1996)
- Issue #74: Nirvana – In Utero (1993)
- Issue #75: Nirvana – MTV Unplugged in New York (1994)
- Issue #76: Alice in Chains – Jar of Flies (1994)
- Issue #77: Placebo – Placebo (1996)
- Issue #78: Marilyn Manson – Mechanical Animals (1998)
- Issue #79: The Offspring – Ixnay on the Hombre (1997)
- Issue #80: Primus – Brown Album (1997)
- Issue #81: Prodigy – Music for the Jilted Generation (1995)
- Issue #82: The Smashing Pumpkins – Siamese Dream (1993)
- Issue #83: Cradle of Filth – V Empire or Dark Faerytales in Phallustein (1996)
- Issue #84: Green Day – Nimrod (1997)
- Issue #85: Insane Clown Posse – Forgotten Freshness Volumes 1 & 2 (1998)
- Issue #86: Insane Clown Posse – The Amazing Jeckel Brothers (1999)
- Issue #87: Sugar Ray – 14:59 (1999)
Volume 6: Everything Else
- Issue #88: Bad Religion – Stranger Than Fiction (1994)
- Issue #89: The Frankenstein Drag Queens from Planet 13 – The Late, Late, Late Show (1996)
- Issue #90: The Frankenstein Drag Queens from Planet 13 – Night of the Living Drag Queens (1998)
- Issue #91: Hole – Live Through This (1994)
- Issue #92: Rammstein – Sehnsucht (1997)
- Issue #93: Jimmy Eat World – Clarity (1999)
- Issue #94: Foo Fighters – The Colour and the Shape (1997)
- Issue #95: NOFX – Punk in Drublic (1994)
- Issue #96: The Frankenstein Drag Queens from Planet 13 – Songs from the Recently Deceased (1999)
- Issue #97: Static-X – Wisconsin Death Trip (1999)
- Issue #98: Bile – Biledegradable (1997)
- Issue #99: Bile – Teknowhore (1996)
- Issue #100: Rancid – …And Out Come the Wolves (1995)
Sorted By Year
- 1980s (“Almost” 90s)
- 1991
- 1992
- 1993
- 1994
- Alice in Chains – Jar of Flies – Issue #76
- Bad Religion – Stranger Than Fiction – Issue #88
- Bush – Sixteen Stone – Issue #19
- Cradle of Filth – The Principle of Evil Made Flesh – Issue #66
- Green Day – Dookie – Issue #18
- Hole – Live Through This – Issue #91
- Korn – Korn – Issue #2
- Live – Throwing Copper – Issue #35
- Marilyn Manson – Portrait of an American Family – Issue #62
- Natural Born Killers OST – Issue #41
- Nine Inch Nails – The Downward Spiral – Issue #1
- Nirvana – MTV Unplugged in New York – Issue #75
- NOFX – Punk in Drublic – Issue #95
- Offspring – Smash – Issue #7
- Soundgarden – Superunknown – Issue #37
- Stone Temple Pilots – Purple – Issue #72
- Weezer – Weezer (The Blue Album) – Issue #15
- 1995
- Foo Fighters – Foo Fighters – Issue #49
- Green Day – Insomniac – Issue #70
- GZA – Liquid Swords – Issue #24
- KMFDM – Nihil – Issue #55
- Marilyn Manson – Smells Like Children – Issue #61
- Alanis Morissette – Jagged Little Pill – Issue #54
- Mortal Kombat OST – Issue #42
- Prodigy – Music for the Jilted Generation – Issue #81
- Radiohead – The Bends – Issue #26
- Rancid – …And Out Come the Wolves – Issue #100
- The Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness – Issue #5
- 1996
- 2Pac – All Eyez on Me – Issue #40
- Bile – Teknowhore – Issue #99
- Cradle of Filth -V Empire or Dark Faerytales in Phallustein – Issue #83
- Cradle of Filth – Dusk… And Her Embrace – Issue #20
- The Frankenstein Drag Queens from Planet 13 – The Late, Late, Late Show – Issue #89
- Marilyn Manson – Antichrist Superstar – Issue #3
- Placebo – Placebo – Issue #77
- Sepultura – Roots – Issue #57
- Sublime – Sublime – Issue #6
- Tool – Ænima – Issue #73
- Weezer – Pinkerton – Issue #65
- “Weird Al” Yankovic – Bad Hair Day – Issue #27
- 1997
- Bile – Biledradable – Issue #98
- Blink-182 – Dude Ranch – Issue #13
- Deftones – Around the Fur – Issue #38
- Foo Fighters – The Colour and the Shape – Issue #94
- Green Day – Nimrod – Issue #84
- Insane Clown Posse – The Great Milenko – Issue #33
- Notorious B.I.G. – Life After Death – Issue #39
- Offspring – Ixnay on the Hombre – Issue #79
- Primus – Brown Album – Issue #80
- Prodigy – The Fat of the Land – Issue #11
- Rammstein – Sehnsucht – Issue #92
- Spawn: The Album (OST) – Issue #44
- Sugar Ray – Floored – Issue #23
- 1998
- Beastie Boys – Hello Nasty – Issue #17
- Fear Factory – Obsolete – Issue #8
- The Frankenstein Drag Queens from Planet 13 – Night of the Living Drag Queens – Issue #90
- Gummo OST – Issue #46
- Insane Clown Posse – Forgotten Freshness Volumes 1 & 2 – Issue #85
- Kid Rock – Devil Without a Cause – Issue #47
- Korn – Follow the Leader – Issue #64
- Marilyn Manson – Mechanical Animals – Issue #78
- Offspring – Americana – Issue #68
- Placebo – Without You I’m Nothing – Issue #10
- Rob Zombie – Hellbilly Deluxe – Issue #22
- Rx (Ritalin) – Bedside Toxicology – Issue #29
- The Smashing Pumpkins – Adore – Issue #68
- Strangeland OST – Issue #43
- System of a Down – System of a Down – Issue #36
- 1999
- Cradle of Filth – From the Cradle to Enslave – Issue #67
- Eminem – The Slim Shady LP – Issue #53
- End of Days OST – Issue #45
- The Frankenstein Drag Queens from Planet 13 – Songs from the Recently Deceased – Issue #96
- Insane Clown Posse – The Amazing Jeckel Brothers – Issue #86
- Jimmy Eat World – Clarity – Issue #93
- Korn – Issues – Issue #63
- The Magnetic Fields – 69 Love Songs – Issue #30
- Nine Inch Nails – The Fragile – Issue #60
- Static-X – Wisconsin Death Trip – Issue #97
- Sugar Ray – 14:59 – Issue #87
- VNV Nation – Empires – Issue #12
- Tom Waits – Mule Variations – Issue #50
- 2000s (“Almost” 90s)
- 2000 – Eminem – The Marshall Mathers LP – Issue #58-A
- 2000 – Placebo – Black Market Music – Issue #58-B
- 2001 – Ohgr – Welt – Issue #58-J
- 2002 – VNV Nation – Futureperfect – Issue #58-G
- 2003 – Ludacris – Chicken -N- Beer – Issue #58-H
- 2003 – The Postal Service – Give Up – Issue #58-D
- 2003 – Obie Trice – Cheers – Issue #58-E
Sorted By Artist
- 2Pac – All Eyez on Me (1996) – Issue #40
- Alice in Chains – Dirt (1992) – Issue #21
- Alice in Chains – Jar of Flies (1994) – Issues #76
- Bad Religion – Stranger Than Fiction (1994) – Issue #88
- Beastie Boys – Hello Nasty (1998) – Issue #17
- Beastie Boys – Licensed to Ill (1986) – Issue #58-C
- Bile – Biledegradabe (1997) – Issue #98
- Bile – Teknowhore (1996) – Issue #99
- Blink-182 – Dude Ranch (1997) – Issue #13
- Body Count – Body Count (1992) – Issue #9
- Burzum – Burzum (1992) – Issue #52
- Bush – Sixteen Stone (1994) – Issue #19
- Cradle of Filth – Dusk …And Her Embrace (1996) – Issue #20
- Cradle of Filth – From the Cradle to Enslave (1999) – Issue #67
- Cradle of Filth – The Principle of Evil Made Flesh (1994) – Issue #66
- Cradle of Filth – V Empire or Dark Faerytales in Phallustein (1996) – Issue #83
- Cypress Hill – Black Sunday (1993) – Issue #48
- Deftones – Around the Fur (1997) – Issue #38
- Eminem – The Marshall Mathers LP (2000) – Issue #58-A
- Eminem – The Slim Shady LP (1999) – Issue #53
- Fear Factory – Obsolete (1998) – Issue #8
- Foo Fighters – The Colour and the Shape (1997) – Issue #94
- Foo Fighters – Foo Fighters (1995) – Issue #49
- The Frankenstein Drag Queens from Planet 13 – The Late, Late, Late Show (1996) – Issue #89
- The Frankenstein Drag Queens from Planet 13 – Night of the Living Drag Queens (1998) – Issue #90
- The Frankenstein Drag Queens from Planet 13 – Songs from the Recently Deceased (1999) – Issue #96
- Green Day – Dookie (1994) – Issue #18
- Green Day – Insomniac (1995) – Issue #70
- Green Day – Nimrod (1997) – Issue #84
- GZA – Liquid Swords (1995) – Issue #24
- Hole – Live Through This (1994) – Issue #91
- Insane Clown Posse – The Amazing Jeckel Brothers (1999) – Issue #86
- Insane Clown Posse – Forgotten Freshness Volumes 1 & 2 (1998) – Issue #85
- Insane Clown Posse – The Great Milenko (1997) – Issue #33
- Jimmy Eat World – Clarity (1999) – Issue #93
- Kid Rock – Devil Without a Cause (1998) – Issue #47
- KMFDM – Nihil (1995) – Issue #55
- Korn – Follow the Leader (1998) – Issue #64
- Korn – Issues (1999) – Issue #63
- Korn – Korn (1994) – Issue #2
- Live – Throwing Copper (1994) – Issue #35
- Ludacris – Chicken -N- Beer (2003) – Issue #58-H
- The Magnetic Fields – 69 Love Songs (1999) – Issue #30
- Marilyn Manson – Antichrist Superstar (1996) – Issue #3
- Marilyn Manson – Mechanical Animals (1998) – Issue #78
- Marilyn Manson – Portrait of an American Family (1994) – Issue #62
- Marilyn Manson – Smells Like Children (1995) – Issue #61
- Metallica – Metallica (The Black Album) (1991) – Issue #34
- Ministry – Psalm 69 (1992) – Issue #14
- Misfits – Misfits (Collection I) (1986) – Issue #58-F
- Alanis Morissette – Jagged Little Pill (1995) – Issue #54
- My Dying Bride – Turn Loose the Swans (1993) – Issue #25
- Nine Inch Nails – Broken (1992) – Issue #59
- Nine Inch Nails – The Downward Spiral (1994) – Issue #1
- Nine Inch Nails – The Fragile (1999) – Issue #60
- Nine Inch Nails – Pretty Hate Machine (198) – Issue #58-I
- Nirvana – In Utero (1993) – Issue #74
- Nirvana – MTV Unplugged in New York (1994) – Issue #75
- Nirvana – Nevermind (1991) – Issue #4
- NOFX – Punk in Drublic (1994) – Issue #95
- Notorious B.I.G. – Life After Death (1997) – Issue #39
- Offspring – Americana (1998) – Issue #69
- Offspring – Ixnay on the Hombre (1997) – Issue #79
- Offspring – Smash (1994) – Issue #7
- Ohgr – Welt (2001) – Issue #58-J
- Pantera – Vulgar Display of Power (1992) – Issue #56
- Pearl Jam – Ten (1991) – Issue #32
- Pearl Jam – Vs. (1993) – Issue #71
- Placebo – Black Market (2000) – Issue #58-B
- Placebo – Placebo (1996) – Issue #77
- Placebo – Without You I’m Nothing (1998) – Issue #10
- The Postal Service – Give Up (2003) – Issue #58-D
- Primus – Brown Album (1997) – Issue #80
- Primus – Sailing the Seas of Cheese (1991) – Issue #31
- Prodigy – The Fat of the Land (1997) – Issue #11
- Prodigy – Music for the Jilted Generation (1995) – Issue #81
- Radiohead – The Bends (1995) – Issue #26
- Rammstein – Sehnsucht (1997) – Issue #92
- Rancid – …And Out Come the Wolves (1995) – Issue #100
- Rob Zombie – Hellbilly Deluxe (1998) – Issue #22
- Rx (Ritalin) – Bedside Toxicology (1998) – Issue #29
- Sepultura – Roots (1996) – Issue #57
- Skinny Puppy – Too Dark Park (1990) – Issue #51
- The Smashing Pumpkins – Adore (1998) – Issue #68
- The Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (1995) – Issue #5
- The Smashing Pumpkins – Siamese Dream (1993) – Issue #82
- Soundgarden – Superunknown (1994) – Issue #37
- Static-X – Wisconsin Death Trip (1999) – Issue #97
- Stone Temple Pilots – Core (1992) – Issue #28
- Stone Temple Pilots – Purple (1994) – Issue #72
- Sublime – Sublime (1996) – Issue #6
- Sugar Ray – 14:59 (1999) – Issue #87
- Sugar Ray – Floored (1997) – Issue #23
- System of a Down – System of a Down (1998) – Issue #36
- Tool – Ænima (1996) – Issue #73
- Tool – Undertow (1993) – Issue #16
- Obie Trice – Cheers (2003) – Issue #58-E
- VNV Nation – Empires (1999) – Issue #12
- VNV Nation – Futureperfect (2002) – Issue #58-G
- Tom Waits – Mule Variations (1999) – Issue #50
- Weezer – Pinkerton (1996) – Issue #65
- Weezer – Weezer (The Blue Album) (1994) – Issue #15
- “Weird Al” Yankovic – Bad Hair Day (1996) – Issue #27
- Various – End of Days OST (1999) – Issue #45
- Various – Gummo OST (1998) – Issue #46
- Various – Mortal Kombat OST (1995) – Issue #42
- Various – Natural Born Killers (1994) – Issue #41
- Various – Spawn: The Album (OST) (1997) – Issue #44
- Various – Strangeland OST (1998) – Issue #43
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