List one (or two) great album(ns) per year for the 90s

[ChuckSteak]

Here we go again. You can list one or two albums per year plus honorable mentions. You can use the same artists as many times you want. Any genre. Go.



1990: Devil Doll - Eliogabalus // After Crying - Overground Music (Honorable mentions: Naked City - Naked City // Вежливый отказ - Этнические Опыты // Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Good Son // Alice In Chains - Facelift // King's X - Faith Hope Love // Cardiacs - The Seaside // Eric Johnson - Ah Via Musicom // U Totem - U Totem)

1991: Voivod - Angel Rat // Mr. Bungle - Mr. Bungle (Honorable mentions: Frank Zappa - The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life // Frank Zappa - Make A Jazz Noise Here // Alice Cooper - Hey Stoopid // Camel - Dust And Dreams // Atheist - Unquestionable Presence // Kyuss - Wretch // Gorguts - Considered Dead)

1992: Kyuss - Blues For The Red Sun // Devil Doll - Sacrilegium (Honorable mentions: Änglagård - Hybris // Current 93 - Thunder Perfect Mind // Amorphis - The Karelian Isthmus // Вежливый отказ - И-И Раз!.. // Joe Satriani - The Extremist // Anathema - The Crestfallen EP // Allan Holdsworth - Wardenclyffe Tower // King Crimson - The Great Deceiver // Pan.Thy.Monium - Dawn Of Dreams // Alice In Chains - Dirt // Dream Theater - Images And Words // Neurosis - Souls At Zero // After Crying - Megalázottak És Megszomorítottak // Béla Fleck & The Flecktones - UFO TOFU)

1993: Voivod - The Outer Limits // Anathema - Serenades (Honorable mentions: Anekdoten - Vemod // Devil Doll - The Sacrilege Of Fatal Arms // Porcupine Tree - Up The Downstair // Tipographica - Tipographica // Pan.Thy.Monium - Khaooohs // The Spacious Mind - Cosmic Minds At Play // Gorguts - The Erosion Of Sanity // Atheist - Elements)

1994: Dream Theater - Awake // Jeff Buckley - Grace (Honorable mentions: Kyuss - Welcome To Sky Valley // Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes // PainKiller - Execution Ground // Versailles - Le Trésor De Valliesres // Alice Cooper - The Last Temptation // King's X - Dogman // David Torn - Polytown // Alice In Chains - Jar Of Flies // Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Let Love In // Pink Floyd - The Division Bell // Änglagård - Epilog)

1995: Pink Floyd - PULSE // Don Caballero - Don Caballero 2 (Honorable mentions: Dream Theater - A Change Of Seasons // Voivod - Negatron // Pekka Pohjola - Live In Japan // Anathema - The Silent Enigma // King Crimson - THRAK // Mr. Bungle - Disco Volante // Alice In Chains - Alice In Chains // Porcupine Tree - The Sky Moves Sideways // Rammstein - Herzeleid // Strapping Young Lad - Heavy As A Really Heavy Thing // Anekdoten - Nucleus // Pär Lindh Project - Gothic Impressions // Opeth - Orchid // Cardiacs - Sing To God // Iced Earth - Burnt Offerings)

1996: Devil Doll - Dies Irae // Current 93 - All The Pretty Little Horses (Honorable mentions: Miriodor - Jongleries Élastiques // Amorphis - Elegy // Anathema - Eternity // Edge Of Sanity - Crimson // Camel - Harbour Of Tears // Pan.Thy.Monium - Khaooohs & Kon-Fus-Ion // Bondage Fruit - Bondage Fruit II // Nekropsi - Mi Kubbesi // Swans - Soundtracks For The Blind // Alice In Chains - MTV Unplugged - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads // Allan Holdsworth - None Too Soon // Porcupine Tree - Signify // Opeth - Morningrise // Neurosis - Through Silves In Blood // Iced Earth - The Dark Saga // U Totem - Strange Attractors)

1997: Höyry-Kone - Huono Parturi // Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine (Honorable mentions: Voivod - Phobos // Arcturus - La Masquerade Infernale // King Crimson - Epitaph // King Crimson - The Night Watch // Porcupine Tree - Coma Divine // Strapping Young Lad - City // Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Boatman's Call // Rammstein - Sehnsucht // Idiot Flesh - Fancy // Dream Theater - Falling Into Infinity // Symphony X - The Divine Wings Of Tragedy // Pain Of Salvation - Entropia // Bozzio, Levin, Stevens - Black Light Syndrome // Alice Cooper - A Fistful Of Alive // Pär Lindh Project - Mundus Incompertus)

1998: Ayreon - Into The Electric Castle // Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse (Honorable mentions: Anathema - Alternative 4 // Gorguts - Obscura // Bruce Dickinson - Chemical Wedding // Roine Stolt - Hydrophonia // Black Sabbath - Reunion // The Gathering - How To Measure A Planet // Morte Macabre - Symphonic Holocaust // Rush - Different Stages // Devin Townsend - Infinity // Death - The Sound Of Perseverance // LTE - LTE // Camel - Coming Of Age // Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes // Symphony X - Twilight In Olympus)

1999: Dream Theater - Scenes From A Memory // Opeth - Still Life (Honorable mentions: Amorphis - Tuonela // Agalloch - Pale Folklore // Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Lost Trident Sessions // Anathema - Judgement // Kapela La Chateliere - Incognito // Universal Totem Orchestra - Rituale Alieno // Present - Number 6 // Mr. Bungle - California // Allan Holdsworth - The Sixteen Men Of Tain // NeBeLNeST - NeBeLNeST // Camel - Rajaz // Porcupine Tree - Stupid Dream // LTE - LTE 2 // Iced Earth - Alive In Athens // French TV - The Violence Of Amateurs // Akinetón Retard - Akinetón Retard)

[Dave_Manchester]

1990 - Eric Johnson, Ah Via Musicom
1991 - Guns n Roses, Use Your Illusion 1 & 2
1992 - Tori Amos, Little Earthquakes
1993 - Meat Loaf,  Bat Out Of Hell II
1994 - R.E.M - Monster
1995 - Oasis - What's The Story Morning Glory
1996 - Eric Johnson, Venus Isle
1997 - Elliott Smith, Either/Or
1998 - Cradle of Filth, Cruelty and the Beast
1999 - Godspeed You Black Emperor, Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada

[WildRanger]

1990: Megadeth - Rust in Peace/Judas Priest - Painkiller
1991: Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger/ Sepultura - Arise
1992: Dream Theater - Images and Words/Sleep - Sleep's Holy Mountain
1993: Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream/Melvins - Houdini
1994: Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley/ Oasis - Definitely Maybe
1995: Radiohead - The Bends/ Blind Guardian - Imaginations From the Other Side
1996: Tool - Aenima/ Neurosis - Through Silver in Blood
1997: Devin Townsend: Ocean Machine - Biomech/ Electric Wizard - Come My Fanatics
1998: Opeth - My Arms Your Hearse/ Bruce Dickinson - The Chemical Wedding
1999: Opeth - Still Life/ Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From a Memory

[IDontNotDoThings]

1990: Queensryche - Empire
1991: Metallica - The Black Album
1992: Dream Theater - Images & Words
1993: Anthrax - Sound Of White Noise
1994: Yes - Talk
1995: Radiohead - The Bends
1996: Opeth - Morningrise
1997: Symphony X - The Divine Wings Of Tragedy
1998: Liquid Tension Experiment - S/T
1999: Sleep - Jaruselum

This was actually pretty tough. I need to listen to more stuff

[Nekov]

1990: Pantera - Cowboys from Hell
1991: Genesis - We Can't Dance
1992: Blind Guardian - Somewhere Far Beyod
1993: Rush - Counterparts
1994: Yes - Talk
1995: The Flower Kings - Back in the World of Adventures
1996: Pendragon - The Masquerade Overture
1997: Spock's Beard - The Kindness of Strangers
1998: Liquid Tension Experiment - Liquid Tension Experiment
1999: Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From a Memory

[MirrorMask]

1990: BLIND GUARDIAN - Tales from the Twilight World | RAGE - Reflections of a Shadow
1991: ALICE COOPER - Hey Stoopid | METALLICA - Black Album
1992: DREAM THEATER - Images and Words | BLIND GUARDIAN - Somewhere Far Beyond | MANOWAR - The Triumph of Steel | RAGE - Trapped
1993: SAVATAGE - Edge of Thorns | MEAT LOAF - Bat out of Hell II | ANGRA - Angels Cry | RAGE - The Missing Link
1994: DREAM THEATER - Awake |  VIRGIN STEELE - The Marriage of Heaven and Hell pt II | SAVATAGE - Handful of Rain | HELLOWEEN - Master of the Rings
1995: BLIND GUARDIAN - Imaginations from the Other Side | RAGE - Black in Mind | VIRGIN STEELE - The Marriage of Heaven and Hell pt II | ICED EARTH - Burnt Offerings | GAMMA RAY - Land of the Free
1996: RAGE - End of All Days | SAVATAGE - Dead Winter Dead | HELLOWEEN - The Time of the Oath  | ICED EARTH - The Dark Saga | ANGRA - Holy Land
1997: BRUCE DICKINSON - Accident of Birth | SYMPHONY X - The Divine Wings of Tragedy
1998: BRUCE DICKINSON - The Chemical Wedding | BLIND GUARDIAN - Nightfall in Middle Earth | ICED EARTH - Something Wicked This Way Comes | VIRGIN STEELE - Invictus | SAVATAGE - The Wake of Magellan | HELLOWEEN - Better than Raw ! RAGE - XIII
1999: DREAM THEATER - Scenes from a Memory | VIRGIN STEELE - The House of Atreus - act I

Pretty sure there's a lot more I forgot. Damn what a year 1998 was.

[RoeDent]

1990 - Toy Matinee - Toy Matinee
1991 - Woodface - Crowded House
1992 - Images and Words - Dream Theater
1993 - Up the Downstair - Porcupine Tree
1994 - The Division Bell - Pink Floyd
1995 - The Light - Spock's Beard
1996 - The Masquerade Overture - Pendragon
1997 - Subterranea - IQ
1998 - Radiation - Marillion
1999 - Stupid Dream - Porcupine Tree

[SoundscapeMN]

1990: https://allmediareviews.blogspot.com/2018/01/the-year-1990-albums-calendar-and.html
Toy Matinee - Toy Matinee
King'x X - Faith Hope Love

1991: https://allmediareviews.blogspot.com/2016/03/react-to-sound-opinions-velocities-in.html
Fates Warning - Parallels
Shadow Gallery - Shadow Gallery

1993: https://allmediareviews.blogspot.com/2017/03/the-year-1993-albums-calendar-and.html
Jellyfish - Spilt Milk
Galactic Cowboys - Space in Your Face

1994: https://allmediareviews.blogspot.com/2017/01/the-year-1994-albums-chronology-and-top.html
Marillion - Brave
Dream Theater - Awake

1995: https://allmediareviews.blogspot.com/2017/05/the-year-1995-albums-calendar-and.html
Kevin Gilbert - Thud
Marillion - Afraid of Sunlight

1996: https://allmediareviews.blogspot.com/2018/01/the-year-1996-albums-calendar-and.html
Angra - Holy Land
Superior - Behind

1997: https://allmediareviews.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-year-1997-albums-calendar-and.html
Fates Warning - A Pleasant Shade of Gray
Soundscape - Discovery

1998: https://allmediareviews.blogspot.com/2018/01/the-year-1998-albums-calendar-and.html
dredg - Leitmotif
Liquid Tension Experiment - Liquid Tension Experiment

1999: https://allmediareviews.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-year-1999-albums-calendar-and.html
Dream Theater - Scenes from a Memory
Marillion - marillion.com

[pg1067]

1990 - Judas Priest - Painkiller (honorable mention to Queensryche - Empire and Toy Matinee - Toy Matinee)
1991 - Fates Warning - Parallels (honorable mention to Metallica - Metallica)
1992 - Dream Theater - Images and Words (honorable mention to Black Sabbath - Dehumanizer and Iron Maiden - Fear of the Dark)
1993 - Rush - Counterparts
1994 - Dream Theater - Awake and Fates Warning - Inside Out
1995 - Dream Theater - A Change of Seasons
1996 - Rush - Test for Echo
1997 - Fates Warning - A Pleasant Shade of Gray (honorable mention to Dream Theater - Falling into Infinity)
1998 - Rush - Different Stages (honorable mention to Pig Destroyer - Explosions in Ward 6)
1999 - Dream Theater - SFAM (honorable mention to Metallica - S&M)

[echobret]

90 - Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 - George Michael
91 - As Ugly as They Wanna Be - Ugly Kid Joe
92 - Angel Dust - Faith No More
93 - Bloody Kisses - Type O Negative
94 - Dulcinea - Toad the Wet Sprocket
95 - Disco Volante - Mr, Bungle
96 - Down on the Upside - Soundgarden
97 - Falling Into Infinity - Dream Theater
98 - Human Being - Seal
99 - There Is Nothing Left to Lose - Foo Fighters

[jammindude]

I’m in a rush this morning, but I’ve been revisiting The Edges of Twilight by The Tea Party from 1995, and I was just thinking how that would be one of those “defining the 90s” albums. Just a freaking monster of an album.

[TAC]

I'll have to think about this and post when we get home from vacation.