Very cool series of posts: So.. how about your best albums of each year in the 90s? Here are mine, with a runner-up from each year.

Jeff

1999- David Gray-- White Ladder (Wilco-- Summerteeth)
1998- Gomez-- Bring It On (Billy Bragg and Wilco-- Mermaid Avenue)
1997- Radiohead-- OK Computer (Modest Mouse-- The Lonesome Crowded West)
1996- Wilco-- Being There (Counting Crows-- Recovering The Satellites)
1995- Radiohead-- The Bends (Ben Folds Five-- Ben Folds Five)
1994- Tom Petty-- Wildflowers (Sugar-- File Under: Easy Listening)
1993- Pearl Jam-- Vs. (Paul Weller-- Wild Wood)
1992- Los Lobos-- Kiko (Beastie Boys-- Check Your Head)
1991- Richard Thompson-- Rumor And Sigh (Matthew Sweet-- Girlfriend)
1990- Fugazi-- Repeater (Jellyfish-- Bellybutton)

I don't remember the years of release, but I like:

Nirvana - Nevermind, Incesticide, In Utero
Oasis - Definitely Maybe, Morning Glory, The Masterplan
Blur - Parklife, The Great Escape, Blur, 13
Radiohead - The Bends
Suede - all their stuff

and a little obscurity:

Ballistic Brothers - London Hooligan Soul

Oh, and some of that trip-hop, as well!

It's much harder for me to post my favorites from the 90s here because even though I grew up in the 90s all of the music I used to listen to were on old cassette tapes that I got rid of more than three years ago now and other than one sentimental favorite I just had to have I never bothered to replace any of them with cd's, so at best it's been around 3 years since I last heard any of them but for the majority it's probably been closer to 6 or 7 years actually. I do own a few cd's from the 90s though that are worth mentioning like R.E.M.'s Automatic for the People and Peter Gabriel's Us from '92, my lone sentimental favorite Steven Curtis Chapman's Heaven in the Real World from '94, my lone Rod Stewart album If We Fall In Love Tonight from '96, Elton's The Big Picture from '97, Brad Paisley's Who Needs Pictures from '99, but that's about it from me. I might someday buy some more sentimental 90s favorites but I doubt it since I tend to now only buy cd's I had never owned before on cassette.

cool thread!

1990 - depeche mode - violator
1991 - my bloody valentine - loveless
1992 -r.e.m - automatic for the people
1993 - counting crows - august & everything after
1994 - oasis - def maybee
1995 - radiohead - the bends
1996 - dj shadow - entrodrucing
1997 - radiohead - ok computer
1998 - elliott smith - either/or
1999 - nothing... easily the worst year for albums of my lifetime.. not a sausage!