Sac's Top 125 Albums of the Last 25 Years

[Saccopoo]

In mirroring Spin's recent list, here's mine:

The Cult – “Love” (1985)
Tom Waits – “Rain Dogs” (1985)
Dire Straights – “Brothers in Arms” (1985)
Tears for Fears – “Songs from the Big Chair” (1985)
Kate Bush – “Hounds of Love” (1985)
The Smiths – “Meat is Murder” (1985)
The Jesus and Mary Chain – “Psychocandy” (1985)
Pre-Fab Sprout – “Two Wheels Good” (1985)
John Mellencamp – “Scarecrow” (1985)
Slayer – “Reign in Blood” (1986)
Robert Cray - "Strong Persuader" (1986)
Run-DMC – “Raising Hell” (1986)
Paul Simon – “Graceland” (1986)
Metallica – “Master of Puppets” (1986)
XTC – “Skylarking” (1986)
The Smiths – “The Queen is Dead” (1986)
Bon Jovi – “Slippery When Wet” (1986)
Peter Gabriel – “So” (1986)
Megadeth – “Peace Sells…But Who’s Buying?” (1986)
Depeche Mode – “Music For the Masses” (1987)
Guns and Roses – “Appetite for Destruction” (1987)
John Hiatt – “Bring the Family” (1987)
The Cure – “Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me” (1987)
U2 – “The Joshua Tree” (1987)
Sonic Youth – “Sister” (1987)
New Order – “Substance” (1987)
Prince – “Sign of the Times” (1987)
REM – “Document” (1987)
The Smiths – “Strangeways, Here We Come” (1987)
Jane’s Addiction – “Nothing Shocking” (1988)
Public Enemy – “It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back” (1988)
NWA – “Straight Outta Compton” (1988)
The Pixies – “Surfer Rosa” (1988)
Enya – “Watermark” (1988)
Sonic Youth – “Daydream Nation” (1988)
Tracy Chapman – “Tracy Chapman” (1988)
Cowboy Junkies – “The Trinity Sessions” (1988)
Nine Inch Nails – “Pretty Hate Machine” (1989)
Faith No More – “The Real Thing” (1989)
De La Soul – “Three Feet High and Rising” (1989)
Beastie Boys – “Paul’s Boutique” (1989)
The Cure – “Disintegration” (1989)
The Stone Roses – “The Stone Roses” (1989)
The Pixies – “Doolittle” (1989)
Tom Petty – “Full Moon Fever” (1989)
Soundgarden – “Louder Than Love” (1989)
Social Distortion – “Social Distortion” (1990)
The Black Crowes – “Shake Your Money Maker” (1990)
Garth Brooks – “No Fences” (1990)
My Bloody Valentine – “Loveless” (1991)
Massive Attack – “Blue Lines” (1991)
Primal Scream – “Screamadelica” (1991)
Nirvana – “Nevermind” (1991)
Pearl Jam – “Ten” (1991)
Metallica – “The Black Album” (1991)
Matthew Sweet – “Girlfriend” (1991)
U2 – “Achtung Baby” (1991)
Red Hot Chili Peppers – “Blood Sex Sugar Magic” (1991)
De La Soul – “De La Soul is Dead” (1991)
Smashing Pumpkins – “Gish” (1991)
Fishbone – “Reality of My Surroundings” (1991)
Pavement – “Slanted & Enchanted” (1992)
REM – “Automatic for the People” (1992)
Los Lobos – “Kiko” (1992)
Pantera - "Vulgar Display of Power" (1992)
Rage Against the Machine – “Rage Against the Machine” (1992)
k.d. Lang – “Ingenue” (1992)
The Orb – “U.F.Orb” (1992)
Lyle Lovett – “Joshua Judges Ruth” (1992)
The Melvins - "Houdini" (1993)
Bjork – “Debut” (1993)
Nirvana – “In Utero” (1993)
Tiamat – “Wildhoney” (1994)
Portishead – “Dummy” (1994)
Jeff Buckley – “Grace” (1994)
Green Day – “Dookie” (1994)
Live – “Throwing Copper” (1994)
Ben Harper – “Welcome to the Cruel World” (1994)
Oasis – “Definitely Maybe” (1994)
Tricky – “Maxinquaye” (1995)
Oasis – “What’s the Story Morning Glory” (1995)
Alanis Morissette – “Jagged Little Pill” (1995)
Radiohead – “The Bends” (1995)
Beck – “Odelay” (1996)
Tool – “Aenima” (1996)
DJ Shadow – “Endtroducing” (1996)
Steve Earle – “I Feel Alright” (1996)
16 Horsepower – “Sackcloth & Ashes” (1996)
Sublime – “Sublime” (1996)
Radiohead – “OK Computer” (1997)
Shania Twain – “Come on Over” (1997)
Air – “Moon Safari” (1998)
Lucinda Williams – “Car Wheels on a Gravel Road” (1998)
Massive Attack – “Mezzanine” (1998)
Neutral Milk Hotel – “In The Aeroplane Over the Sea” (1998)
The Beta Band – “Three EP’s” (1998)
Refused – “The Shape of Punk to Come” (1998)
The Flaming Lips – “The Soft Bulletin” (1999)
Moby – “Play” (1999)
Radiohead – “Kid A” (2000)
PJ Harvey – “Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea” (2000)
Coldplay – “Parachutes” (2000)
Goldfrapp – “Felt Mountain” (2000)
Opeth – “Blackwater Park” (2001)
Daftpunk – “Discovery” (2001)
The Strokes – “Is This It?” (2001)
The Shins – “Oh, Inverted World” (2001)
Wilco – “Yankee Hotel Foxtrot” (2002)
Jurassic 5 – “Power in Numbers” (2002)
Johnny Cash – “American Recordings IV: The Man Comes Around” (2002)
The Flaming Lips – “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots” (2002)
The White Stripes – “Elephant” (2003)
OutKast – “Speakerboxxx” (2003)
Michael Franti – “Songs From the Front Porch” (2003)
Radiohead – “Hail to the Thief” (2003)
Arcade Fire – “Funeral” (2004)
Green Day – “American Idiot” (2004)
The Killers – “Hot Fuss” (2004)
LCD Soundsystem – “The Sound of Silver” (2007)
The National – “Boxer” (2007)
Blonde Redhead – “23” (2007)
Okkervil River – “The Stage Names” (2007)
Iron & Wine – “The Shepards Dog” (2007)
Animal Collective – “Merriweather Post Pavilion” (2009)
Florence & the Machine – “Lungs” (2009)

[Reaper16]

This is better than the Spin list.

[Slainte]

REM – “Automatic for the People” (1992)
Los Lobos – “Kiko” (1992)
Pantera - "Vulgar Display of Power" (1992)
Rage Against the Machine – “Rage Against the Machine” (1992)
k.d. Lang – “Ingenue” (1992)
The Orb – “U.F.Orb” (1992)
REM – “Automatic for the People” (1992)

The album so nice you named it twice...

[Saccopoo]

Originally Posted by Slainte

The album so nice you named it twice...

I got a little punchy by the time I posted it. Thanks for the catch. I took that out and put in one of my personal favs.

[patteeu]

Originally Posted by Reaper16

This is better than the Spin list.

I agree.

[Nzoner]

Originally Posted by patteeu

I agree.

x3

[Pablo]

x4

[siberian khatru]

Still no Porcupine Tree.

Make a list of all their studio albums between 1996 and 2009, throw a dart at it and put that one on the list.

[Nzoner]

Originally Posted by siberian khatru

Still no Porcupine Tree.

Make a list of all their studio albums between 1996 and 2009, throw a dart at it and put that one on the list.

No kidding,however,I'm so partial to the song Anesthetize I'd have to go with Fear Of A Blank Planet

[Omaha]

Originally Posted by Slainte

The album so nice you named it twice...

Well, it was a great album!

[Omaha]

You've got some really cool stuff listed. Some of my faves that were overlooked:

Beck - Modern Guilt, Guero, & Midnight Vultures
Counting Crows - August & Everything After, & Hard Candy
Soul Asylum - And the Horse They Rode In On
Ben Folds - Take your pick
311 - Music, Grass Roots
Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape
Incubus - Science
Stereophonics - You Gotta Go There To Come Back
The Kooks - Inside In/Inside Out
Oasis - What's the Story Morning Glory, Be Here Now
Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam
STP - Purple
Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely

[Useful Idiot]

it's better than spin's list for sure but...

still no mention of Deftones' 'White Pony' or Handsome Boy Modeling School's 'White People'....???

those two albums would be in my top 5.

[KCChiefsMan]

Oh I wanna make a list!

[Pitt Gorilla]

Originally Posted by Omaha

You've got some really cool stuff listed. Some of my faves that were overlooked:

Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape
STP - Purple

These, plus:

STP-Core
Dre-Chronic
Snoop Doggy Dogg-Doggy Style

[MoreLemonPledge]

Good list (and a tough task indeed).

I would add TV on the Radio's "Dear Science", MGMT's "Time to Pretend", and at least one Elliott Smith album (XO definitely, and Either/Or).