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joel and i came up with this.

91:

1) de la - de la is dead
2) main source - breaking atoms
3) ice cube - death certificate
4) tribe - low end
5) kmd - mr. hood

― ethan, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

92:

1) brand nubian - in god we trust
2) ice cube - predator
3) pete rock & cl smooth - mecca & the soul brother
4) redman - whut! thee album
5) dre - the chronic

― ethan, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

93:

1) wu - 36 chambers
2) the beatnuts - intoxicated demons
3) tribe - midnight marauders
4) de la - buhloone mindstate
5) snoop dogg - doggystyle
6) black moon - enta da stage
7) krs-one - return of the boom bap
8) souls of mischeif - 93 til infinity
9) lords of the underground - here come the lords
10) alkaholiks - 21 & over

― ethan, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Predator better than The Chronic?

― Mark, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

94 should be interesting.

― Ian, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

94:

1) biggie - ready to die
2) nas - illmatic
3) gravediggaz - 6 feet deep
4) method man - tical
5) jeru - sun rises in the east
6) beatnuts - the beatnuts
7) gangstarr - hard to earn
8) organized konfusion - stress
9) roots - do you want more?!
10) redman - dare iz a darkside

― ethan, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

As should '95.

― Andy K., Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

95:

1) mobb deep - infamous
2) raekwon - cuban linx
3) grand puba - 2000
4) gza - liquid swords
5) smif-n-wessun - dah shinin
6) krs one - krs one
7) odb - return to 36 chambers
8) group home - livin proof
9) big l - lifestylez of da poor & dangerous
10) fat joe - jealous ones envy

― ethan, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

96:

1) jay-z - reasonable doubt
2) mobb deep - hell on earth
3) jeru - wrath of the math
4) de la - stakes is high
5) redman - muddy waters
6) prince paul - psychoanalysis
7) m.o.p. - firing squad
8) sadat x - wild cowboys
9) busta rhymes - the coming
10) doc octagon - octagonecolygist

― ethan, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

shit, we forgot ironman for 96 so it goes at number five and pushes everything else down one notch (goodbye doc octagon).

― ethan, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

97:

1) wu - wu-tang forever
2) biggie - life after death
3) beatnuts - stone crazy
4) cnn - the war report
5) missy - supa dupa fly
6) epmd - back in business
7) mystikal - unpredictable
8) various artists - soundbombing
9) mase - harlem world
10) ll cool j - phenomenon

― ethan, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Wrong. Beatnuts at number one. Not on the list at all: WT forever. I mean, what the fuck?

― Dan I., Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Although I've got to be the only person around to whom 'Wu Chronicles" is their best album/compilation/whatever. So I must not understand them.

― Dan I., Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i wanted to put beatnuts at number one but joel wanted life after death at number one and the only album we could agree on was wu forever. stone crazy is their best album yeah.

― ethan, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

98:

1) jay-z - vol 2
2) outkast - aquemini
3) tribe - the love movement
4) black star - mos and talib are...
5) redman - docs da name 2000
6) rza as bob digi - bobby digital in stereo
7) method man - tical 2000
8) gang starr - moment of truth
9) killah priest - heavy mental
10) pete rock - soul survivor

― ethan, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

shit we forgot steal this album!

― ethan, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Where's My Morrissey??!!

― DavidM, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

how about diamond d - stunts, blunts & hip hop at #6 for '92?

― fritz, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

99:

1) dre - chronic 2001
2) jay-z - vol 3
3) eminem - slim shady lp
4) meth/redman - blackout!
5) missy - da real world
6) odb - nigga please
7) juvenile - the g-code
8) gza - beneath the surface
9) prince paul - prince among thieves
10) beatnuts - musical massacre

― ethan, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

never heard stunts blunts, that's why it's on my wishlist.

― ethan, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

e-mail if you want me to burn you a copy

― fritz, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

00:

1) ghostface - supreme clientele
2) beanie sigel - the truth
3) eminem - marshall mathers lp
4) infesticons - gun hill road
5) wu - the w
6) quasimoto - the unseen
7) dj clue - backstage mixtape 8) mystikal - let's get ready
9) prodigy - hnic
10) ludacris - back for the first time

― ethan, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i have to work now so 2001 will be postponed until later this evening.

― ethan, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'll have to take your word on the stuff after about '96, but the earlier ones are otm.

― fritz, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ethan has just posted my modified wishlist. (Although, I've got some of these...)

― Dan Perry, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah so fuck 01, it was a shit year and you all know what came out anyway. watch out for our singles list coming soon.

― ethan, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The Truth is better than Supreme Clientele.

― Ian, Saturday, 19 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Glaring/semi-glaring omissions: '91: Public Enemy - Apocalypse '91
'92: Kool G Rap & DJ Polo - Live and Let Die
'92: Showbiz & AG - Runaway Slave
'92: Boss - Born Gangstaz
'92: Da Lench Mob - Guerrilaz in tha Mist
'93: Paris - Sleeping With the Enemy
'93: Above the Law - Black Mafia Life

Granted, I wouldn't know who to knock off in '92 to fit the middle four -- what's more, I recall the Diamond D record being great as well, so...

― Andy K., Saturday, 19 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I was hoping someone would note the absence of 'Funcrusher Plus', since it should be on there but was CRUELLY DISALLOWED. And 'Stankonia'! 96 was such a bumper year that we also forgot Tribe's 'Beats, Rhymes..' and Keith Murray's 'Enigma'! For shame.

― joel, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

No way should 'Wild cowboys' be on any best of list for the 90s - it's probably the worst record Sadat X ever appeared on, including that piece of shit DJ Honda record...

― jacob, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

'bout time ethan put his money where his 'submit' button is.

― Jeff W, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

what the fuck, wild cowboys is incredible! the lump lump, the title track, open bar, stages and lights, etc etc etc. you're arguing with pete rock, beatminerz, diamond d, buckwild, and showbiz beats? hey i'm sorry labcabincalifornia didn't make the 95 list but that's no reason to hate on sadat.

― ethan, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

oops i forgot cowboys was from 96, replace labcabincali with 'the score' in my insult then.

― ethan, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

What's this bullshit thread about? It sucks big time.

― the pinefox, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I just think Sadat sounds weak on that record. I mean fair play, 'One for all' can't be on the list cos it's too early, and there has to be at least one Sadat X record on the list, but I'd take 'Foundation' over 'Wild Cowboys' anyday. Just saying...

― jacob, Thursday, 24 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, you're so cute, pinefox.

― Josh, Thursday, 24 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Actually I think it was an homage.

― Nicole, Thursday, 24 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, Ethan's so cute then.

― Josh, Thursday, 24 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

thanks josh but it wasn't me.

― ethan, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

eight months pass...

02?

― bob zemko (bob), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 18:01 (twenty-three years ago)

three months pass...

singles list? :(

(99 really was a golden age)

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Monday, 10 February 2003 17:23 (twenty-two years ago)

i concure but the labcabincalifornia diss is the best thing on this thread

― schnell schnell, Monday, 10 February 2003 18:39 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, what about 02?

― A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 10 February 2003 19:02 (twenty-two years ago)

there's not enough hip hop on this thread

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 10 February 2003 20:10 (twenty-two years ago)

eleven months pass...

2001-2003?

― Broheems (diamond), Thursday, 5 February 2004 03:36 (twenty-one years ago)

god 1995 was a great year

― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 5 February 2004 03:41 (twenty-one years ago)

i honestly think i could live in 1994 forever

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 5 February 2004 03:44 (twenty-one years ago)

1994! Where's The Most Beautifullest Thing In This World??

― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Thursday, 5 February 2004 06:54 (twenty-one years ago)

nice to see this thread back in new answers

is the illustrated version that ethan did for pitchfork still available online?

― zebedee (zebedee), Thursday, 5 February 2004 13:51 (twenty-one years ago)

four months pass...

Company Flow, Lord Finesse, Akinyele, and for god's sake I can't believe you don't have O.C.'s "Word...Life" on here.

― djdee2005, Tuesday, 15 June 2004 17:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Also wondering about the absence of "Black Bastards". You should have UGK in '96 as well.

― djdee2005, Tuesday, 15 June 2004 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm wondering what you would bump on 92 and 93 to put Lord Finesse and Akinyele on there (cuz neither of those records seem better than what is currently listed and Company Flow was CRUELLY DISALLOWED and naming an album which went unreleased for half a dozen years is k-lame.)

OTM about UGK though.

― Alex Not in SF Exactly, Tuesday, 15 June 2004 18:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, first off I don't understand why 92 only has 5 albums instead of ten, which would give the appropriate space needed.

naming an album which went unreleased for half a dozen years is k-lame

Huh? It's a great album, regardless, better than some that are listed that year. Who the fuck cares that its OOP?

― djdee2005, Wednesday, 16 June 2004 02:17 (twenty-one years ago)

2) raekwon - cuban linx

4) gza - liquid swords

No fucking way. Liquid swords digests cuban linx and develops antacid.

― David Allen (David Allen), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 03:22 (twenty-one years ago)

"It's a great album, regardless, better than some that are listed that year."

It's very difficult to get perspective on an album, its impact, etc, when you are retroactively comparing it to other albums. And it WASN'T out of print! It didn't come out at all! It's like naming the Modern Lovers as the best record of 1972 (rather than the best record of 1976 and that's ONLY four years, NOT nearly seven). And there is no list for 2001.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 12:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Is this the the same Ethan that became Trife? Because if it is, I'm surprised by some of those lists. Infesticons?! Roots??!!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 12:37 (twenty-one years ago)

yeh same guy

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 13:55 (twenty-one years ago)

trife & joel too, don't forget, so there were possibly some compromises made by each along the way

(then again, that roots album is the only one of theirs I can't get into, so it would be par for the course for trife to favour it)

― zebedee (zebedee), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 17:21 (twenty-one years ago)

oh and to answer my own question upthread, here's a link to the illustrated version of the lists archived at Pitchfork. well, some of the lists at least (90-92, with both top 5s above filled out to 10s)

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/watw/02-04/90to00-1.shtml

― zebedee (zebedee), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 17:43 (twenty-one years ago)

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