most important records of the 90s?

Not necessarily the ones that you feel changed the musical landscape, but the records that had some sort of impact on your life.
Here's my list:
Nirvana - Bleach
Helmet - Meantime
Quicksand - Slip
Undertow - At Both Ends
Unbroken - Life.Love.Regret
Sick Of It All - Scratch the Surface
Strain - Here and Now
Backside Disaster - Coming of Iad Urorobos demo
Trial - Are These Our Lives?

unbroken - life.love.regret
nirvana - in utero
refused - the shape of punk to come
108 - threefold misery
earth crisis - destroy the machines

justinn wrote:
unbroken - life.love.regret
earth crisis - destroy the machines

Yeaah!!

In no particular order:

KISS - Double Platinum (not a '90s album but it is the album responsible for making me a KISS diehard in the '90s)
411 - This Isn't Me
Rollins Band - The End Of Silence
Triggerman - Dead Like Me
Life Of Agony - River Runs Red
Liz Phair - Exile In Guyville
Soundgarden - Superunknown (BY FAR my favorite alternative/grunge album of the '90s)
Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty (I had all but given up on the Boys after Check Your Head and Ill Communication but then they came out with this and I fell in love with 'em all over again)
Speak Seven One Four - Knee Deep In Guilt
Third Eye Blind - s/t (I have lyrics from one of the songs tattooed on my upper right arm)

Pearl Jam - Ten
411 - This Isn't Me
Snapcase - Steps EP / Progression LP
Battery - Until the End
Mouthpiece - What Was Said
Nirvana - Insecticide (not because its my favorite, but because when I heard it, it showed so many different sides of the band and music to me all at once)
Hot Water Music - No Division
Faith No More - The Real Thing (1989, but really 90-91 was when this album had its day)
Bad Religion - Stranger Than Fiction / Recipe For Hate
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Don't Know How to Party
Trial - Foundation EP (everything is great, but that record resonated with me first)

*honorable mention for shits and giggles, this thread made me go back and listen to Green Jelly which made me laugh, cringe, and bust up a ton.

there's more, but that's a broad enough spectrum of my fucked up listening habits

Jon wrote:
*honorable mention for shits and giggles, this thread made me go back and listen to Green Jelly which made me laugh, cringe, and bust up a ton.

I loved that record when it first came out as Green Jello. Sucked they had to change their name.

xjustinx wrote:

Jon wrote:
*honorable mention for shits and giggles, this thread made me go back and listen to Green Jelly which made me laugh, cringe, and bust up a ton.

I loved that record when it first came out as Green Jello. Sucked they had to change their name.

I actually saw 'em in '89 when they were still Green Jello. "Anarchy In Bedrock" is what sold me on 'em.

actually, I'd like to add two more records to mine...

snapcase - lookinglasself (my introduction to 90's hardcore)
strongarm - advent of a miracle (i'm not a christian but this record is very intense. great vocals patterns and fantastic guitar riffs)

just some of my favorites!

Vegan Reich "hardline" 7"
Inside Out "no spiritual surrender"
Burn "s/t"
Turning Point "it's always darkest before the dawn"
Insight "what will it take" (even though it was originally on soulforce in 1989)
Unbroken "life love regret"
abnegation "extinguish the sickness"
Lifeless "s/t"

and every Starkweather record!

Forgot one...

Shelter - Perfection Of Desire (I'm as anti-religious as they come but if someone put a gun to my head and forced me to claim a religion, Krishna would definitely be it)

Unbroken- Life Love Regret
Trial- Are these our lives
Chokehold- Content with dying and Instilled

and I can definitely agree with Third Eye Blind- s/t

Floorpunch - goal line stand demo
Blood For Blood - livin in exile LP
Anti Heros - American Pie lp
Growing Stronger 7"

Integrity "Those Who Fear Tomorrow"
Strife "One Truth"
Ten Yard Fight "Back On Track"
Trial "Are These Our Lives?"

Jake wrote:
Life Of Agony - River Runs Red

You sir...are a friend of mine!.

xpogox wrote:

Jake wrote:
Life Of Agony - River Runs Red

You sir...are a friend of mine!.

The first (?) and the best hardcore concept album of all time.

Earth Crisis - Destroy the Machines
Life of Agony - River Runs Red
Turmoil - From Bleeding Hands
Pantera - Far Beyond Driven
Trial - Foundation

I'm sure there are more.. but that's what stands out.

Just a couple important ones. In a narrow range of genres.

Drive Like Jehu - self-titled
Bloodlet - Eclectic
Hum -You'd Prefer an Astronaut
Converge - Petitioning the Empty Sky
Nirvana - Nevermind

Chokehold - Content With Dying
Earth Crisis - All Out War 7"
Disembodied - If Only God Knew The Rest Were Dead
Indecision - Unorthodox
Canon - The Solution 7"

I see Raver Bob has joined this board. What a guy!

Of course, these records are personal and not intended as some be all-end all list of what's important.
For me though, it's probably:
Fugazi, "Repeater"
Quicksand, "Slip"
Rollins Band, "The End Of Silence"
Public Enemy, "Fear Of a Black Planet"
A Tribe Called Quest, "The Low End Theory"
Earth Crisis, "Firestorm"
Undertow, "At Both Ends"
Soundgarden, "Badmotorfinger" (got me out of hip-hop and back into heavy music)
Deadguy, "Fixation On a Co-Worker"

There's so many more, but I think that makes for a decent list that immediately comes to mind.

in no order


dinosaur jr.- green mind
helmet- mean time
mean season- grace
de la soul- de la soul is dead
108- any
undertow- at both ends
strife- one truth (i can barely listen to it now, but at the time it sure meant a lot)
earth crisis- destroy the machines (i waited at Vinyl Solution for the UPS truck to deliver it. got the first ones out of the box. true story)
green rage- disinfect (still my favorite 7" of all time)

if i just pick 5 :

EARTH CRISIS - Firestorm
MORNING AGAIN - My statement of life in a dying world
ARKANGEL - Prayers upon deaf ears
BIRTHRIGHT - XXX Tape
THE OFFSPRING - Smash

undertow - at both ends
unbroken - life love regret
OUTSPOKEN - THE CURRENT ooooooooooooooooohhhh yeaaaaahhh
mouthpiece - what was said
1134 - everything!
trial - foundation
strain - here and now
strife - one truth
one king down - bloodlust revenge
battery - until the end

Ill say

IN MY EYES first cd there 2nd came out in 00 but alot of other bands i would say but most have already been mentioned. but before i forget how about the


LIFELESS 7" how could anyone forget that

In order:

1) Undertow - "At Both Ends"
2) Trial - "Are These Our Lives?"
3) Unbroken - "Life.Love.Regret."

Earth crisis - Firestorm 7''
Unbroken - Life.Love.Regret
Refused - The shape of punk to come