I've been recently trying to hit a lot of those super interestingly-produced alt/indie records from the '90s/'00s that I was sleeping on for such a long time. Stuff that's a bit closer to the mainstream than NMH, or at least, was until ten or so years ago when the underground classics started overshadowing their more commonplace contemporaries. If I've been getting into early Eels and Modest Mouse and Beck recently, what else of that era do you think would be worth checking out? What are some of the most interesting pop-alt records from the '90s/'00s?
I've been recently trying to hit a lot of those super interestingly-produced alt/indie records from the '90s/'00s that...
Andrew Morgan
Jason Gutierrez
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot by Wilco. Cakes Fashion Nugget is also a neglected masterpiece but it’s way more upbeat than Sea Change
Mason Lee
Jane's Addiction
Porno for Pyros Good God's
Beastie Boys jazz album
David Bowie Outside
Bjork
Spiritualized
Ministry
Evan Garcia
Kind of depends on your specific interests, but...
>Jellyfish - Bellybutton
>The Grays - Ro Sham Bo
>James Angell - Private Player
>Elliott - False Cathedrals
>Shudder to Think - 50,000 B.C.
>Exploding Hearts - Guitar Romantic
>Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible
>Primitive Radio Gods - Still Electric:
Anthony Campbell
cursive - domestica
Asher Adams
Beulah
Of Montreal
Grandaddy
Easton Gomez
Flaming Lips - Yoshimi
Aiden Clark
beckette myself looks wired
Tyler Collins
Beta Band 3 EPs
Dandy Warhols Come Down
Early Belle & Sebastian like the EPs collected in Push the Barman to Open Old Wounds and Tigermilk LP
Sparklehorse It's a Wonderful Life
Cibo Matto
Camden Lopez
Keep It Like A Secret
Cameron Thomas
All of the artists who appeared in the Juno soundtrack
Jaxson Martinez
Owen Harris
Levi Kelly
Ian Allen
Charles Murphy
Blake Sanders
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Ayden Martin
Good but Soft Bulletin is patrician
Owen Hernandez
pitchforks best 100 albums of the 90s
Ayden Hughes
The Flaming Lips’ Soft Bulletin and Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots if you haven’t already
Aaron Ramirez
pazz and jop critic year end polls for the 90s starting now.
this will be the rankings of 30+ "professional" music critics of their era. the majority is alternative.
1991
Nathan Brown
1992
Jaxon Robinson
Blake King
1993
Kevin Campbell
1994
Andrew Williams
Jordan Diaz
1995
Michael Bell
1996
Easton Long
Thomas Jenkins
1997
Michael Ramirez
Andrew Thomas
Can one year be anymore based?
>t. proud boomer
Jeremiah Johnson
1999
Sebastian Nguyen
Damn,this really takes me back. I use to spend half my paycheck on cds.
Austin Baker
Hunter Williams
who knew the village voice was so based
Isaac Hill
The first three or four Cat Power records are really great
David Jackson
Can't believe no one's mentioned Elliot Smith yet
John Fisher
on the charts, brah
Chase Lopez
Nathaniel Thomas
It's All True and Big Black Coat are also great