The Songfactor's Choice Top Albums of the Decade: The '90's

[Lucky]

WELCOME TO THE SONGFACTORS' CHOICE Top Albums of the Decade - The '90's

*ALL MEMBERS OF SONGFACTS ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO PARTICIPATE * Please join us, and share your knowledge and your love of the thing that keeps SONGFACTS the community we all know and love. MUSIC ! The basic guidelines are simple....

* The Songfactors' Music of Choice is decided by your nominations and votes. For each edition we'll ask that you nominate 1 OR 2 selections that meet the guidelines for that edition.

* With each nomination, we ask that you give us a review, or a few thoughts on your selection.

* Each edition will about 3 weeks (or longer, who are we kidding?) . At the end of that time, we'll ask you to vote. You know how that works! These lists will number 5 (or 10, it varies), so we'll ask that you compile your list of 5 choices for the final Songfactor's Music of Choice. At the close of voting, we will have our Songfactors' Music of Choice.

* Be as creative with this as you'd like. We want to encourage an exchange of thoughts, so this will be a place to learn about and enjoy the nominations, as well as the final choices. The guidelines may change with each edition.

..... Welcome To .....

THE SONGFACTORS' CHOICE Top Albums of the Decade: The '90's

GIVE US YOUR NOMINATIONS NOW!

[skybluesky]

Exile in Guyville - Liz Phair - 1993

Never Said

Soap Star Joe

F-k and Run

Divorce Song

Before their was Lilith Fair, there was Liz Phair, and Exile in Guyville, a one woman manifesto on female sexuality and the place of women in rock music and the world. Exile in Guyville gave women everywhere a voice not yet heard, and a stern warning that chicks belong in rock and roll right at the forefront, being loud and making music as good as any boy.

Warning - if you choose to listen to more songs on your own, be prepared for adult language. Liz is pretty frank in her lyrics

[Lucky]

[skybluesky]

Monster - R.E.M. - 1994

What's the Frequency Kenneth

Crush with Eyeliner

Tongue

Bang and Blame

R.E.M. is my favorite band of all time and has been for 18 years. I could have chosen any one of the five albums they released in the 90s, but I chose Monster because, with heavy feedback and searing guitars, it served as a departure from R.E.M.'s usual sound.

[Lucky]

Two albums from opposite sides of my tastes in music. One was a very classic artist, one was a very new artist. Both albums contain songs (very important songs) that are meaningful and eloquent, and speak to different parts of me for very different (but very important) reasons.

Unplugged - Eric Clapton (1992)

1. Signe

2. Before You Accuse Me

3. Hey Hey

4. Tears in Heaven

5. Lonely Stranger

6. Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out

7. Layla

8. Running on Faith

9. Walkin' Blues

10. Alberta

11. San Francisco Bay Blues

12. Malted Milk

13. Old Love

14. Rollin' and Tumblin'

~and~

Jagged Little Pill - Alanis Morissette (1995)

1. All I Really Want

2. You Oughta Know

3. Perfect

4. Hand in my Pocket

5. Right Through You

6. Forgiven

7. You Learn

8. Head Over Feet

9. Mary Jane

10. Ironic

11. Not the Doctor

12. Wake Up

Edited November 9, 2010 by Guest
added info

[pinkstones]

Violator

Depeche Mode

1990

1. World In My Eyes

2. Sweetest Perfection

3. Personal Jesus

4. Halo

5. Waiting For The Night

6. Enjoy The Silence

7. Policy of Truth

8. Blue Dress

9. Clean

Daydream

Mariah Carey

1995

1. Fantasy

2. Underneath The Stars

3. One Sweet Day

4. Open Arms

5. Always Be My Baby

6. I Am Free

7. When I Saw You

8. Long Ago

9. Melt Away

10. Forever

11. Daydream Interlude (Fantasy Sweet Dub Mix)

12. Looking In

[MindCrime]

Achtung Baby ~ U2 (‘91)

• "One"

• "Mysterious Ways"

• "Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses?"

• "The Fly"

Dirt ~ Alice in Chains (‘92)

• “Roosterâ€

• “Would?"

• “Down in a Hole"

• "Angry Chair"

[Tenacious_Peaches]

Odelay - Beck (1996)

The Chronic - Dr. Dre (1992)

[Yellowsnow]

My nominations are

Melon Collie & The Infinite Sadness - Smashing Pumpkins (1995)

Dookie - Green Day (1994)

I'll edit this later.

[Crazy Don]

I want to nominate…

Garth Brooks--No Fences

Hootie & the Blowfish--Cracked Rear View

[Yellowsnow]

Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness - The Smashing Pumpkins (1995)

Tonight, Tonight

Zero

Bullet With Butterfly Wings

Muzzle

Thirty-Three

1979

Dookie - Green Day (1994)

Some of these songs contain explicit lyrics.

Longview

Welcome To Paradise

Basket Case

She

When I Come Around

[Farin]

very nice nominations so far, keep it up

[edna]

"Out Of Time"

R.E.M. - 1991

Info from wikipedia

Some songs...

Losing My Religion

Radio Song

Shiny Happy People

Near Wild Heaven

...and many more.

I love this album.

Second nomination:

"Adios, Amigo. A Tribute To Arthur Alexander"

Various artists - 1995

Some info...

and some songs...

"Anna" - Roger McGuinn

"You Better Move On" - Mark Knoppfler & Chuck Jackson

I hope you can listen to Spotify links... this is a very exclusive album and isn't even on youtube...

"Sally Sue Brown" - Elvis Costello

"Every Day I Have To Cry Some" - Graham Parker

etc...

[Bertrand]

1°) Weezer - Weezer aka The Blue Album (1994)

Buddy Holly

Undone -- The Sweater Song

Say It Ain't So

2°) Oasis - (What's The Story?) Morning Glory (1995)

Wonderwall

Don't Look Back In Anger

[MindCrime]

^ aw Bertrand, you didn't include Champagne Supernova as a highlight?

[RonJonSurfer]

Nirvana - Nevermind

Neil Young - Ragged Glory

(I'll get back with some details)

[Viaene]

Ten ~ Pearl Jam

Tracks:

Once

Even Flow

Alive

Why Go

Black

Jeremy

Oceans

Porch

Garden

Deep

Release

[skybluesky]

* With each nomination, we ask that you give us a review, or a few thoughts on your selection.

I feel like a giant nerd because I'm the only person who did this

[Farin]

nerds are cool

[pinkstones]

You're not a nerd. Me, I would do that but I just don't think anyone really cares what I think about the albums I nominated.

[skybluesky]

But Lucky's OP says we're SUPPOSED to do it. I am a nerd because I was the only person to read and followed instructions.

[bluesboy]

Sure we care about your take on an album.

I like giving one or two tidbits on what an album means to me.

[MindCrime]

But Lucky's OP says we're SUPPOSED to do it. I am a nerd because I was the only person to read and followed instructions.

Oh I read it, just didn't follow directions.

[Viaene]

I'm a rebel

[Lucky]

You are NOT a nerd because you followed the instructions. Thank you Shannon, I really appreciate the fact that you did. I should have done it, and so should everyone else (but we can't force anyone to). The idea is to find out why you're nominating a particular album (hopefully it's not only because you feel that it could be a winner).

That being said .... I'm going to edit my info into my nominations.