Best album of the past 20 years.

[sligofan4ever]

well lads I know this has probably been done before but just tought i'd do it. so what do you think is the best album of the last 20 years in my opinion theres 3.

Definatly Maybe - Oasis
(What's the story ?) Mornin glory - Oasis
Nevermind - Nirvana

A few might disagree with the 3rd one but its all down too what YOU like.

[noby]

A few might disagree with all three, because the answer is Stone Roses - Stone Roses.

[jebus]

A few might disagree with all three, because the answer is Stone Roses - Stone Roses.

:D As soon as I read the first post I knew this was gonna be the second post.

Anyway Blur's Parklife, and Blur, Pulp's His N' Hers and Different Class, Radiohead's the Bends, Kid A , In Rainbows and OK Computer, Elastica's Elastica, Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream, Adore and Mellon Collie.., Stone Roses Second Coming and a dozen other albums by 90s guitar bands are better than Nevermind and Whats the Story

[centre mid]

Id probably put the bends in there somewhere

[paul_oshea]

if yer going on sales which would generally dictate the answer to something like this, its most likely going to be an 80s band, and one that is most likely going to be hard rock/proper music, but this would be mine probably based on sales/popularity alone:

Appetite for Destruction
AC/DC
Black( perhaps )
Some Iron Maiden album

It can't be just a band that was big in England which discounts all previous posts on this thread.

[noby]

By Common People I assume you mean Different Class.

Nevermind is a good album, if perhaps a little dated now. I'm sure some Pixies would squeeze into twenty years ago too.

[sligofan4ever]

Whoever said Appetite for Destruction. That just goes past the 20 year mark. And to be honest never heard such a negative look towards Whats the story Mornin Glory. It was voted 2nd best British album of all time and I couldnt agree more.

[noby]

Appetite for Destruction is over twenty years old. Does that make you feel old, Paul?

Anyway, I was going by personal opinion, not sales, which could probably be googled in two minutes.

[jebus]

By Common People I assume you mean [I]Different Class.



I do indeed, work and tiredness does strange things to one's memory....:)

[jebus]

It can't be just a band that was big in England which discounts all previous posts on this thread.

Yeah but you like metal so that discounts your opinion on everything :D:)

[noby]

By Paul's sales criteria, and discounting greatest hits and movie soundtracks (The BodyGuard) Wiki comes up with this top three:

1. Shania Twain - Come on over
2. Celine Dion - Falling into you
3. Mariah Carey - Music box

...with Dion in fourth place too.

With this, I move that Paul's 'Sales' criteria be stricken from the record, and we go back to personal opinion, discussing who is the second best after the Stone Roses. All agreed?

[jebus]

. It was voted 2nd best British album of all time and I couldnt agree more.

It's not even in the top 2 Oasis albums of all time in my opinion (Don't Believe the Truth and Definitely Maybe). it's a good album, but it's very patchy, very much their Modern Life is Rubbish, an album that has some great tracks that tend to make people forget about the mediocrity of the rest

[Wolfie]

The ubiquitous Stone Roses for me - partly due to its brilliance and partly due to its release around my impressionable 14 years of age at the time. If hearing an album can be anything as melo-dramatic as life changing - that's as near as it got for me.

Honourable mentions also for the following in no particular order and off the top of the head:

The Strokes - Is this it?
Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
The La's - The La's
Beck - Odelay
Doves - The Last Broadcast and Some Cities
Ride - Nowhere
James - Laid
Radiohead - The Bends and In Rainbows
Oasis - Definitely Maybe and Don't Believe the Truth
The Charlatans - Some Friendly and Tellin Stories
Happy Mondays - Pills 'N' Thrills and Bellyaches
Manics - The Holy Bible, Everything Must Go and Know Your Enemy
Supergrass - In it for the Money and Life on Other Planets
Inspiral Carpets - Life and Revenge of the Goldfish
Primal Scream - Screamadelica and Vanishing Point
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I am..............
The Pixies - Doolittle and Bossonova
Gorillaz - Demon Days
Interpol - Antics

[Macy]

The Roses for me too, obviously.

There or thereabouts...
Happy Mondays - Pills N Thrills N Bellyache
Oasis - Definitely Maybe*
The Charlatans - The Charlatans
James - Goldmother
Primal Scream - Screamadelica
The Beta Band - 3EP's
The Beastie Boys - Ill Communication

*Morning Glory was an ok album, but certainly no where near a contender for the best album of the last 20 years. It always does well in those votes because it was when the world and his wife got into them.

[Marked Man]

Orbital: Brown Album
Nick Cave: Let Love In
Spiritualized: Lazer Guided Melodies
Fugazi: The Argument

[Pauro 76]

Radiohead - The Bends, OK Computer, Kid A, In Rainbows
Manics - Everything Must Go, The Holy Bible
Muse - Black Holes, Origin of Symmetry
Strokes - Is This It?
Portishead - Dummy
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream, Mellon Collie
Gorillaz - Demon Days
Primal Scream - Screamadelica
Stone Roses - Stone Roses
Doves - Last Broadcast
Chemical Brothers - Dig your own Hole, Surrender
Leftfield - Leftism
Weezer - Pinkerton (bit of a wild card, easily their best effort)
Oasis - Definitely Maybe
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf

[jebus]

Too many albums to choose from, we would have to narrow it down to a series of votes on best album of 1988, then 1989, and so on until 2008 (provisional), and then have a championship between them......not a bad idea if a Mod would care to take charge of the polls.....:)

[stann]

The correct answers, in no particular order, are:

The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
De La Soul - Three Feet High And Rising
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Mylo - Destroy Rock And Roll
Primal Scream - Screamadelica
Massive Attack - Blue Lines

Not a bad idea that though jebus.



if yer going on sales which would generally dictate the answer to something like this

Oh my lord, where to start! What part of 'best' are you having the trouble with? :D
That's the kind of thinking that gives us the World Music Awards, whose winners in recent years include Mariah Carey, James Blunt and Avril Lavigne, some of the most talented musicians on the planet I think you'll agree. To go on to say that albums can't be considered as the best because they were only big in England, ah look... ;)
I don't just think that criterion should be discounted, I think he should be banned from this forum for suggesting it! :D

[superfrank]

OutKast - Aquemini; Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik; Idlewild
Republic Of Loose - Aaagh!
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Basement Jaxx - Crazy Itch Radio
Nas - Illmatic; Stillmatic
NERD - In Search Of
Dr. Dre - The Chronic; 2001
Wu Tang Clan - 36 Chambers
Prince - 3121

EDIT: Forgot a few more

Notorious BIG - Ready To Die
Ice Cube - Death Certificate
Sun Ra - Live In London 1990
Scarface - The Fix

[Pauro 76]

So easy to forget certain ones too...

Arcade Fire - Neon Bible, Kings of Leon - Because of the Times worthy additions too I reckon.

[Neish]

Top 5 in no priticular order just off the top of my head

The Stone Roses-The Stone Roses
Jeff Buckley-Grace
Rage against the machine-Rage against the machine
Primal Scream - Screamadelica
Arcade Fire-Funeral

[Lionel Ritchie]

Appetite for Destruction


Recorded in '86
Released in '87
Regurgatated in '88
Redundant in '89

...and while It's not my personal favourite record of the last 20 years I'd find it hard to argue with The Stone Roses 'The Stone Roses'. Probably the last/most recent truly great guitar based LP* by a British band. Though again it's not even my favourite LP of it's era and zeitgeist -much of whom's contemporarys are laughably bad in hindsight ...Jesus Jones, Charlatans, James, plethora of floppy gits in need of a slap.... take your pick.

For non-guitar based I'd find it hard to look beyond Fat Boy Slims 'You've Come A Long Way Baby' ...and that despite really, really disliking 'Praise You'.

[gustavo]

For non-guitar based I'd find it hard to look beyond Fat Boy Slims 'You've Come A Long Way Baby' ...and that despite really, really disliking 'Praise You'.

I was just thinking about that album the other day when Right Here Right Now came on the radio and sounded bloody fantastic , Ill have to give it another listen

My favourite 5 from the last 20 years 88 to 08
Pixies Doolittle
Oasis Whats the Story Morning Glory
Nirvana Nevermind
The Strokes Is This it
Arctic Monkeys whatever people say im not thats what i am

[SligoBrewer]

Arctic Monkeys - Whatever..
The Strokes - Is this it?
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
MGMT - Oracular Spectaucular
aaaaaaaand...
Bruce Springsteen - The Rising

[kingdom hoop]

Just on the technical point of progressing the topic: as well as breaking things down by years, you could maybe do it by the style of music as well. Like, Best German-Language Albums Of [1990-1995, 1995-2000, etc.], Best Albums To Pick Your Nose To [..], Least Worst Metal Albums From [..], or of course just by simple, proper, agreed-upon genres or other worthwhile titles. Might be a fairer, more inclusive and more interesting qualifying criteria than just pure taste and time? Just food for thought anyway. Also would it be best just to keep it to the 90s and 00s than the more arbitrary and confusing 20 years?


I'll keep things simple for now by suggesting DJ Shadow's Endtroducing..... as a contender for best overall. Though any one of a dozen French offerings would probably end up getting my vote owing to personal taste, with The Upper Cuts by Alan Braxe (with a little help from a few amis) maybe just squeezing it.

[Billsthoughts]

The Las - The Las
The Stone Roses - first album
Oasis - Definitely Maybe
Spiritualised - Ladies and Gentlemen we are floating in space.
La Rocca - The Truth
Slide - Overneath
Bob Dylan - Modern Times
Crowded house - Together Alone
Paul Weller - Wild Wood
Jeff Buckley - Grace
The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
Nick Cave - the boatmans call

[skitz3]

David Gray - A Century Ends.

[TonyD]

Trash Can Sinatras - I've Seen Everything
You Am I - Hourly, Daily.
Teenage Fanclub - Grand Prix.

All practically flawless albums. Maybe not heard by millions, but that's their loss.

[Beavis]

Dont understand the love of the Strokes. Is this it? is a few catchy numbers with little substance and mountains of hype. Ditto any Arctic Monkeys stuff.

Some quality ones not yet mentioned:


Pearl Jam - Ten
Sigur Ros - Ágætis byrjun, Takk
Blur - Think Tank
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation

[stann]

Ahem...


The correct answers, in no particular order, are:
...
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
...

Forgot Endtroducing... though, for shame! :o

[Billsthoughts]

Sufjan Stevens - Illinois


Thats someone whose popularity I never understood.

[shakermaker1982]

I'd have In Utero over Nevermind for starters..........

Northern Soul - the Verve
Def Maybe - Oasis

[jebus]

Trash Can Sinatras - I've Seen Everything
You Am I - Hourly, Daily.
Teenage Fanclub - Grand Prix.

Haven't listened to much of the Trash Cans but those two are excellent albums alright. Daft Punk's Discovery should be noted too I think

[anto1208]

Best rap album 2 pac all eyes on me


Appetite for destruction is still in my car stereo , renewed interest after reading slashes book.

ok computer

[gustavo]

I'd have In Utero over Nevermind for starters..........

I prefer Nevermind tbh , slightly better tunes , I realise as the more successful album I shouldn't say that , still best opening line to an album ever

[shakermaker1982]

I prefer Nevermind tbh , slightly better tunes , I realise as the more successful album I shouldn't say that , still best opening line to an album ever

Don't get me wrong nevermind is a quality album but I just love In Utero's raw edgy no holds barred sound. I think I read somewhere that Kurt thought Nevermind was too polished (especially when you listen to bleach before it).However he might have took it a bit far for in utero because the record company went ape after they heard the first cut and I'm pretty sure they made Albini and Kurt straighten it out a little.

Unplugged is a quality album as well. Pity they never got round to making a proper 4th studio album......

How did I forget to put down OK Computer and Kid A :confused:

[jebus]

I've tried to vary the range from the choices put forward, but this is the list I've come up with to choose from

Can't believe we all forgot to nominate Portishead - Dummy as well, or Bjork Debut

[Lionel Ritchie]

Can't believe we all forgot to nominate Portishead - Dummy as well, or Bjork Debut

I didn't forget. I just didn't like them.:p

[Dodge]

I've tried to vary the range from the choices put forward, but this is the list I've come up with to choose from


First act as mod is poor. Shocking lack of Screamadelica in that poll.

[centre mid]

MGMT - Oracular Spectaucular


Brillant Album

[superfrank]

Thank God for Funeral. I don't know the others.

[sligoman]

Where's the none of the above option? Poor poll;)

[jebus]

Dodge and Sligoman given one week suspensions :)

[stann]

Yes, where's Screamadelica?! :D

Ehhh, probably wouldn't have gone for it in the end anyway.

I'm more concerned at the moment about someone who was touting for mod-dom on the flimsy pretext of volunteering for the huge workload of having a poll for each of the last twenty years, and then reverting to one single miserable poll almost before his feet are even under the table! :mad:
Won't get fooled again me b***ix! :p

[jebus]

Yes, where's Screamadelica?! :D

Ehhh, probably wouldn't have gone for it in the end anyway.

I'm more concerned at the moment about someone who was touting for mod-dom on the flimsy pretext of volunteering for the huge workload of having a poll for each of the last twenty years, and then reverting to one single miserable poll almost before his feet are even under the table! :mad:
Won't get fooled again me b***ix!

:D

I realised I'd have to put the decision to clog up the music forum with about 23 polls to a poll before I could instigate that poll. Then I had some cereal and put up this one instead

[Pauro 76]

I've tried to vary the range from the choices put forward, but this is the list I've come up with to choose from

Can't believe we all forgot to nominate Portishead - Dummy as well, or Bjork Debut

I may have mentioned Portishead - Dummy earlier in the thread... where's The Bends in the poll? Still my favourite Radiohead album..

[jebus]

I may have mentioned Portishead - Dummy earlier in the thread... where's The Bends in the poll? Still my favourite Radiohead album..

OK Computer, Kid A and the Bends were mentioned a couple of times, but I didn't want to have three Radiohead albums in there so I cut my least favourite. The power is in fact going to my head :)

[GavinZac]

I see Oasis are winning. Why weren't McFly included, to give Oasis fans a bit of deciding to do?

[kingdom hoop]

Jebus you should be ashamed of yourself. Run for election on the premise that you'll be all action, democratically involve the people, do loads of exciting things. Then you gain power and all you do is start a huge, unwieldy poll that you won't or can't explain to us. The common people are disenfranchised and wallowing in boredom, as you, blasé as you like, boast about eating cereal, the luxury foodstuff of the elite. Pathetic.


Homework is way better than Discovery too by the way. :p