Best Album of 1993

[GuisaSaigon]

Its not even the best hip-hop album of 1993.
Cypress Hill - Black Sunday & Wu-tang Clan- Enter the wu-tang easily beat it

I'd put Doggystyle ahead of Black Sunday. I would have listened to both of them ad nauseum back in the day, but I reckon Doggystyle has aged better. Never really got into the Wu Tang Clan, too angry for me.

[monzo]

Don't really care that much for the listed albums that I have heard (Siamese Dream was amazing on first listen but I don't like it as much anymore, Pablo Honey is just alright, while In Utero has some brilliant punk tracks as well as All Apologies but I don't listen to it much) so I'm goin to plump for Frank Black's vastly underrated eponymous CD. A load of fantastic poppy songs along with a few other great Pixies-like tracks (Parry The Wind High, Low and Los Angeles, for example) make it one of my favourite albums of all time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDVgfnyHP0c

[Neish]

I'd put Doggystyle ahead of Black Sunday. I would have listened to both of them ad nauseum back in the day, but I reckon Doggystyle has aged better. Never really got into the Wu Tang Clan, too angry for me.

IMO Snoop Dog isn't a good rapper, alot of his music sounds very similar, these days he is more a pop artist, than hip-hop, and he is a complete and utter scumbag to boot

[Sheridan]

My significant other is Suede (by Suede.) Melancholy and naive vulnerability which got mistaken for Britpop.

[Pauro 76]

My significant other is Suede (by Suede.) Melancholy and naive vulnerability which got mistaken for Britpop.

Yeah that one slipped the net, great album, prefer Dog Man Star though, which was releaed the next year.

[GuisaSaigon]

IMO Snoop Dog isn't a good rapper, alot of his music sounds very similar, these days he is more a pop artist, than hip-hop, and he is a complete and utter scumbag to boot

I agree, a lot of his latest stuff isn't great but Doggystyle was an absolute cracker of an album. A lot of it was down the Dr Dre's production and the G-funk sound. Snoop's style was something new at the time and with tracks like Gin and juice, Whats My Name and Murder Was the Case, guest performers like Dre and Warren G it was and still is one of the best hip hop albums of all time.

What you think of him personally or what his more recent work is like doesn't come into it.

[Wolfie]

Blur - Modern Life is Rubbish

Influenced by sentiment here as I was pleasantly surprised at how good this album was on its release and I was quite evangelical on spreading the word of its goodness to anyone who'd listen.

Very few people were interested in the band at the time - they were viewed as "baggy" casualties with no direction.

Little did we know "Parklife" was a year away........................

[Pauro 76]

Amazing how much this album is overlooked. Their best of collection only had one song featured from this. And Parklife was pretty sh!t but hailed as their best by most.

Blur - Modern Life is Rubbish

Influenced by sentiment here as I was pleasantly surprised at how good this album was on its release and I was quite evangelical on spreading the word of its goodness to anyone who'd listen.

Very few people were interested in the band at the time - they were viewed as "baggy" casualties with no direction.

Little did we know "Parklife" was a year away........................

[KevB76]

Had to vote other, and go with the home town vote
The Cranberries - Everyone else is doing it, so why can't we?

also, some albums that aren't on the list, but should be
No Cure For Cancer - Denis Leary (ok, not technically an "album" but worthy of inclusion IMO)
Happy Nation - Ace of Base (crap now, but many fond memories of listening to them)
Emergency On Planet Earth - Jamiroquai (not as good as their later stuff, but still well worth a listen)
Zooropa - U2 (In general, not their best, but has my favorite U2 track ever - Stay (Faraway, so close!))
God Shuffled His Feet - Crash Test Dummies
VS - Pearl Jam
Bat Out Of Hell II: Back Into Hell - Meatloaf

Cranberries seconded.

I much prefer this selection too - Jebus out