1. Pearl Jam ~ Ten
2. Stone Temple Pilots ~ Purple
3. U2 ~ Achtung Baby
4. Pearl Jam ~ Yield
5. Beck ~ Odelay
6. Smashing Pumpkins ~ Siamese Dream
7. Pearl Jam ~ Vs.
8. U2 ~ Zooropa
9. Pearl Jam ~ Vitalogy
10. Pearl Jam ~ No Code
11. Ween ~ The Mollusk
12. Dave Matthews Band ~ Before These Crowded Streets
13. Live ~ Secret Samadhi
14. Roger Waters ~ Amused To Death
15. Pink Floyd ~ The Division Bell
16. Smashing Pumpkins ~ Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
17. Live ~ Throwing Copper
18. Bush ~ Sixteen Stone
19. Nirvana ~ Nevermind
20. Stone Temple Pilots ~ Tiny Music... Songs From the Vatican Gift Shop
21. Beck ~ Mutations
22. Phish ~ Billy Breathes
23. Radiohead ~ OK Computer
24. Nirvana ~ In Utero
25. Alice In Chains ~ Dirt
26. Tori Amos ~ Little Earthquakes
27. R.E.M. ~ Automatic For The People
28. Soundgarden ~ Down On The Upside
29. U2 ~ Pop
30. The Flaming Lips ~ The Soft Bulletin
31. Stone Temple Pilots ~ Core
32. Nirvana ~ MTV Unplugged
33. Foo Fighters ~ Foo Fighters
34. Crash Test Dummies ~ God Shuffled His Feet
35. Dave Matthews Band ~ Crash
36. Tom Petty ~ Wildflowers
37. Ween ~ Chocolate and Cheese
38. Blind Melon ~ Soup
39. Soul Coughing ~ El Oso
40. Beck ~ Mellow Gold
41. Weezer ~ Weezer (Blue Album)
42. Tori Amos ~ From The Choirgirl Hotel
43. Alice In Chains ~ Jar Of Flies
44. R.E.M. ~ Monster
45. Counting Crows ~ August and Everything After
46. Cake ~ Fashion Nugget
47. Beck ~ Midnight Vultures
48. Foo Fighters ~ The Colour and the Shape
49. Soundgarden ~Superunknown
50. Radiohead ~ The Bends
51. Green Day ~ Dookie
52. Red Hot Chili Peppers ~ Californication
53. Weezer ~ Pinkerton
54. Dave Matthews Band ~ Under The Table and Dreaming
55. Candlebox ~ Candlebox
56. Portishead ~ Dummy
57. Cake ~ Prolonging the Magic
58. Live ~ The Distance to Here
59. Blind Melon ~ Blind Melon
60. The Verve ~ Urban Hymns
61. Temple Of The Dog ~ Temple Of The Dog
62. Bush ~ Razorblade Suitcase
63. Red Hot Chili Peppers ~ Blood Sugar Sex Magic
64. The Offspring ~ Smash
65. Tori Amos ~ To Venus and Back
66. Oasis ~ (What's The Story) Morning Glory?
67. Nine Inch Nails ~ The Downward Spiral
68. Garbage ~ Garbage
69. Guns 'N Roses ~ Use Your Illusion (1 & 2)
70. Jane's Addiction ~ Ritual de lo Habitual
71. Rage Against The Machine ~ Evil Empire
72. Tori Amos ~ Under The Pink
73. Soul Coughing ~ Irresistible Bliss
74. Eels ~ Beautiful Freak
75. Cracker ~ Kerosene Hat
76. Sublime ~ Sublime
77. Bush ~ The Science Of Things
78. Hole ~ Live Through This
79. Collective Soul ~ Collective Soul
80. Chris Cornell ~ Euphoria Morning
81. Aerosmith ~ Get A Grip
82. Blink 182 ~ Enema Of The State
83. Garbage ~ Version 2.0
84. Gin Blossoms ~ New Miserable Experience
85. Presidents of the United States of America ~ Presidents of the United States of America

I was going to do a top 90 but I blacked out at 85 and couldn't go any further. Also, I reserve the right to manipulate the list if I see that changes need to be made.

You really like MTV, huh?

nope.

i made my list, then realised its exactly the same as yours! 85 out of 85. for once a list that gets it right!

No Radiohead in the top 10 = FAIL

Kid A is my favorite Radiohead album, just missed the decade.

I admire your courage but question your credibility.

Ten awesome albums not on your list:

1. Elvis Costello--Brutal Youth
2. Mogwai--Young Team
3. The Dismemberment Plan--Emergency & I
4. REM--New Adventures in Hi-Fi
5. Neil Young--Sleeps With Angels
6. Bob Dylan--Time Out of Mind
7. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy--I See a Darkness
8. Paul Weller--Stanley Road
9. Wilco--Summerteeth
10. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds--The Good Son

It's a personal taste thing more then anything. Nirvana got somewhat killed for me long ago as they are my younger brothers favorite band and he was incredibly obnoxious about them for years. Ok Computer is a great album but I am a bigger fan of the Kid A and Amnesiac sessions. The Flaming Lips are one of my favorite bands. I have seen them live several times and I love The Soft Bulletin. However, I prefer Yoshimi and At War with the Mystics. Automatic For The People could be ranked higher. I grant you that.

You preferring KA to OKC doesn't make OKC a strictly worse record than any Bush or Live album though, does it?

Dude you are not allowed to like popular bands / albums if you wanna be kewl on RM

Live and Bush haven't been popular bands for well over a decade, and even in the 1990's, Nirvana and REM were significantly more popular.

No It doesn't make it worse. I just like those albums better. I don't think in any way they are more musically complex or more artistic or any of that. I just like them better. 16 Stone came out when I was 14 and I LOVED it. I still really enjoy a lot of those songs. Alien, Machinehead, Comedown, Everthing Zen, Bomb, Little Things, Glycerine I love them all. Pretty much the same story with the Live album. I came out at a really impressionable time in my music listening life and made a big impression on me. I still love a lot of songs from that record too. So for me it isn't as much about what is musically pushing the boundaries or on a more impactful on the history of music, clearly that would be OK Computer, but what had an impact on me and emotionally resonates with me still. I hope that all makes sense.

What's the point?

I like what I like.

My point was that I wasn't critiquing your list because I think you've shafted kewl bands in favor of popular ones, but rather because I think you have some run-of-the-mill alternative rock records above some classic masterpieces.

Bush.


lol!

Oh hang on. Sixteen Stone & Throwing Copper before Nevermind.

C'mon now.

have you ever heard before these crowded streets? i have no idea how you can lump that album in w/ those other 3

i might actually like Throwing Copper more than Nevermind, but En Utero blows them all away.