Pitchfork '90s Readers' Poll

Post your top 20 below (and on the website too).

 

Blink-182 - Dude Ranch
Old 97's - Too Far To Care
Selena - Amor Prohibido
Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt
Weezer - Weezer (Blue album)
Shakira - Dónde Están Los Ladrones?
Metallica - Metallica (Black album)
Nas - Illmatic
Beastie Boys - Check Your Head
The Notorious B.I.G. - Ready To Die
A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
Garth Brooks - Ropin' The Wind
UGK - Ridin' Dirty
Wu Tang Clan - Enter The Wu Tang (36 Chambers)
Snoop Doggy Dogg - Doggystyle
A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
Beastie Boys - Ill Communication

Wish there was more variety in my list but whatever, this is reflective of what I like lol

 

Fiona Apple - When The Pawn
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works
Radiohead - OK Computer
Weezer - Blue Album
Natalie Merchant - Tigerlily
American Football - LP1
Alanis Morrisette - Jagged Little Pill
Third Eye Blind - 3eb
Wilco - Summerteeth
Portishead - Dummy
Elliot Smith - Elliot Smith
Slint - Spiderland
Hum - You'd Prefer an Astronaut
Boards of Canada - Music has the right to children
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted
Mazzy Star - So That Tonight I Might See
Jimmy Eat World - Clarity

 

Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
Built to Spill - There’s Nothing Wrong with Love
R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West
Uncle Tupelo - Anodyne
Jimmy Eat World - Clarity
Wilco - Being There
Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Radiohead - OK Computer
The Wrens - Secaucus
Nas - Illmatic
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Yo La Tengo - Painful
My Morning Jacket - The Tennessee Fire
The Promise Ring - Nothing Feels Good
Green Day - Dookie
Nirvana - In Utero
Gillian Welch - Revival
American Football - American Football
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream

 

Which one of y'all spelled American Football with one L haha that's how it appears in their database. Gotta be a chorus poster

 

Here’s mine:

 

That’ll be how they themselves put it into the database. Things only autofill if Pitchfork puts them in to autofill, not if someone else has voted for it.

 

Ah gotcha, that makes it even funnier then haha

 

Dammit, I definitely should have August and Everything After on mine that’s a big oops

 

It's become one of my favorite games seeing what stuff will or won't autofill on a Pitchfork readers poll. None of those Counting Crows albums did, for instance.

I raised an eyebrow when I didn't see it on your list!

 

I think Summerteeth was there but Being There was not, which is weird

 

I remember voting on their 2010s poll and Southeastern not being an autofill.

 

1. blink-182 - Enema Of The State
2. Placebo - Without You I’m Nothing
3. Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
4. Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
5. Thomas Newman - American Beauty (Original Score)
6. Third Eye Blind - Blue
7. Third Eye Blind (Self Titled)
8. Jimmy Eat World - Clarity
9. blink-182 - Dude Ranch
10. 311 - Grassroots
11. Radiohead - OK Computer
12. Nirvana - In Utero
13. Incubus - S.C.I.E.N.C.E.
14. Green Day - Nimrod
15. 311 - Transistor
16. Limp Bizkit - Significant Other
17. Eminem - The Slim Shady LP
18. Sublime (Self Titled)
19. The Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
20. Depeche Mode - Violator

 

1. Nas - Illmatic
2. The Notorious B.I.G. - Ready To Die
3. 2pac - All Eyez On Me
4. Dr. Dre - 2001
5. Oasis - What's the Story (Morning Glory)
6. Jimmy Eat World - Clarity
7. blink-182 - Enema of the State
8. GZA - Liquid Swords
9. Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
10. Third Eye Blind - Third Eye Blind
11. Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
12. Catch 22 - Keasbey Nights
13. Mobb Deep - The Infamous
14. Green Day - Dookie
15. Less Than Jake - Hello Rockview
16. Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill
17. Jeff Buckley - Grace
18. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
19. Eminem - The Slim Shady LP
20. Rancid - ...And Out Come the Wolves

 

Here's their songs list: The 250 Best Songs of the 1990s

 

Another Night by the Real McCoy isn’t on there

 

Did Two Princes make it

 

Ok I am at work at ready to be mad at this list

 

I keep finding more things to be mad about on it, haha

 

Where the fuck is all of the dance music? Absolutely insane that so much was left off. Rhythm is a Dancer, Rhythm of the Night, This is Your Night, Sandstorm, This is How We Do It, Too Close, Jump Around. No Backstreet Boys, no N Sync, no song off Laughing Stock or American Football or In the Aeroplane. Mr. Jones? 1 fuckin Wu Tang track (tbf one of their best but none off of 36 Chambers??). No Nas. The wrong Built to Spill song. The wrong Weezer song. The wrong Korn song. Kiss From a Rose??? Flagpole Sitta??? Breathe by Faith Hill???

 

There are like three country songs total on this list.

 

that’s three more than the last list

everyone coming to this list from the most myopic perspective possible (“where is ‘sandstorm’??!!??”) is fucking hilarious

 

Which blurb did you write

 

Aeroplane Over The Sea and Jagged Little Pill should be top 20 at least

 

The 150 Best Albums of the 1990s

Here's the albums list