Twenty Favorite Albums of the 1990s
(In one of my usual fits of obsessive pointlessness, I filled out Pitchfork’s readers’ poll to determine the best albums of the 1990s. Crowd-sourced lists such as this are normative by design, and the results are almost always pedestrian, but I couldn’t help myself. I’ve marked the albums that I think might actually have a shot at making their aggregated top 150 with an asterisk. I’ll bold the ones that actually do.)
Iris DeMent: My Life
Talk Talk: Laughing Stock * [#33]
The Divine Comedy: Promenade
Sinéad O’Connor: I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got * [#127]
Luxuria: Beast Box
Time Machines: Time Machines
Robyn Hitchcock: Eye
Ryoji Ikeda: +/-
James: Laid *
Richard Shindell: Sparrows Point
Tindersticks: The First Tindersticks Album *
Greg Brown: Dream Cafe
Björk: Homogenic * [#6]
Depeche Mode: Violator * [#136]
Sidsel Endresen and Bugge Wesseltoft: Duplex Ride
Lewis Taylor: Lewis Taylor
The Sundays: Reading, Writing and Arithmetic *
David Massengill: Coming Up for Air
Maxwell: Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite * [#130]
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— September 14, 2022