Spin's Top 100 from 1985-2005 (July 2005 issue)

I remember that Rolling Stone had it on there Reader's List but never on the writers lists

What's up with that?

Cuz their tastes aren't THAT bad.

Haha

Yes 4 is Pavement.

That's not to say I won't read them every freaking time, but still....

Was this a "we need another mid-'80s underground rock album" inclusion? It's good, but seems like a random choice.

I really LOVE Up in the Sun! Best Grateful Dead album evah! (or not, I haven't heard the "good" Dead records...)

...next up of farce factor: PForks 60s Albums list

Interesting that Biggie made it, but 2Pac didn't. And the only title in the whole list from 2004 is Kanye. Nothing else was good in 2004?

WHY

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nine inch nails? elliot smith? last splash? wilco?

i would have figured 'spiderland' for the top ten. i mean it is one of the worst records of all time but i thought everyone else loved it.

you have to understand they only picked ok computer so it wouldnt be nevermind again.

in short, then, they liked kid a better than in utero, and therefore ok computer must be a better album than nevermind.

as for picking gnr over metallica and slayer, that's one of the things they got right!

I totally thought the sting of Lauren Hill, Hole, Cornershop and the Strokes had worn of by now. Who knew?

Also, Elastica?!

And I love Sleater-Kinney....but ahead of Doolittle? Siamese Dream?

Hole's Live Through This is the one that has be scratching my head. While it's definitely a great record... over LOVELESS? Over SIAMESE DREAM? Over POST? etc.

That reminds me! Where in hecks name are Ned's Atomic Dustbin! To answer the dubious naysayers of repute I state here and foremost that Kingmaker rocked harder and with more political nous than anyone on that list apart from there fellow new wave of new wave peers Radiohead though as per usual this list ignores their best work. The eraly ninties Pablo Honey era. Mega City Four, Sultans of Ping FC, S*M*A*S*H, The Family Cat, The Senseless Things... So many great bands that never get the attention they deserve.

Also, what is up with the serious lack of albums from this decade?

otherwise, pretty damn predictable.

The police siren at the end of "Zealots" nearly gave me a heart attack the first time I heard it (drinking, underage, in the back of someone's car).

Yes, I thought the exact same thing. In truth they both should of made it, but not everyone would agree with that.

BWAHAHAHAA!

What the fuck? Did anyone actually buy that album? I find them tedious, but wouldn't the first one at least have SOME validity compared to this one?

-- whim cycle (bliqu...), June 20th, 2005.

OTM!

This was good for a few laughs

It seems like the placement might have been at least partially based on how influential an album was, but I haven't read any of the write ups.

I mean, I like SOTT better than OK Computer, too, but I am psyched to see it in the top 10, and couldn't have reasonably expected it would end up at number 1.

The Senseless Things I have much more time for - Postcard C.V, First of Too Many (like a UK equivalent of Green Day's 'Dookie') & a few great singles after that. Ned's were fun, but easily (probably rightly) forgotten.

True, I guess. I keep forgetting I'm old.

#3 should be Bandwagonesque.

This is true, although I still disagree that it's the best album of 1991. 2nd best, absolutely.

number of metal albums: 3

There's one example of SPIN being hypocrites - Toxicity was their #1 album of 2001, and nowhere to be found on this list.

Spin sure loves them some Courtney Love and Polly Jean Harvey

SPIN will never stop sucking Courtney's dick. Ever.

WTF, Guns n Roses over Metallica and Slayer? Closeted poodlerock fans, there at Spin!

Are you kidding? SPIN is so open about their enormous crush on the 1988 version of Axl that it's almost nausiating.

What's up with Neutral Milk Hotel's low spot? It should be in top 50, at least.

#88 in the 90's list - a great album, yes, but it narrowly missed out both times. I guess they figure it's a good album for low placements on big lists.

They put "Reign in Blood" and "Master of Puppets" on the list! \m/

They were obligated to include Metallica somehow, and this is the least arguable "best" Metallica album. I'm surprised and pleased at Reign In Blood's placement.

Those beaters at Spin forgot about Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works II and a host of other electronic-music albums. But they remembered Moby's Everything Is Wrong (which almost describes the content of this list)

SAW I & II were in the 90's list. (Once again, hypocrites.) Everything Is Wrong was not, but should have been, since it's way better than Play, which was fucking #20.

Two PJs but no Dry? Booooo

Oh, boohoo... Stories From The City is her best album anyway.

53. Rage Against The Machine - The Battle Of Los Angeles

BWAHAHAHAA!

SPIN is so adament on trying to convince the world that this is their best album, and yet on the 90's list (which was published before Battle Of LA was released), the self-titled album came in somewhere around like #24. SOMEBODY'S LYING.

Re Everything is Wrong: this got a 10 in 1995, was their #2 album of the year, IIRC (behind To Bring You My Love), and I have a feeling that its high placement on its lists since (e.g., best of the 1990s) is half about justifying its original high mark.

Everything Is Wrong was not on their 90's list, and it was #1 in 1995. If they were trying to justify all their #1's, then where's Bandwagonesque, the album that SPIN infamously placed ahead of Nevermind as their #1 record of 1991??

I wish The Bends would get on one of these lists for once. Maybe in another 5 years, after its "cultural importance" is appreciated, like what happened to Pinkerton circa 1999/2000, maybe they'll start including it in more of these things.

I'm also suspicious as to how Check Your Head made it to #12 in the 90's list, but is nowhere to be found here, where instead the highly overrated Paul's Boutique and License To Ill albums have been honored.

86. Meat Puppets - Up On The Sun
Was this a "we need another mid-'80s underground rock album" inclusion? It's good, but seems like a random choice.

(SECOND).BEST. ALBUM. EVER.

69 Love Songs, Perfect From Now On, I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One, Love and Theft, Meadowlands, Decoration Day, Hail To The Thief, or The Glands?

Geez Louise!!!

The Good:
FINALLY showing Gentlemen the respect it's been due for a while. This Nation's Saving Grace in the top 50, ditto Criminal Minded. A few interesting choices in the lower ranks (Atomizer, Skylarking, Different Class).

Overall it's definitely better than their last list like this (top 90 of the 90s), but still wrong on quite a few levels.

It was wrong when they favored this album over Homogenic on their 90 of the '90s list, and it's still wrong now.

What the fuck? Did anyone actually buy that album? I find them tedious, but wouldn't the first one at least have SOME validity compared to this one?

The only songs by RATM I like are on that album.

And where is Document or Out Of Time? These last three records have seriously damaged their reputation, it's too bad.