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.

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

[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?
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!

[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.