POX album artists of the 1990s

idea here being 10 artists whose album output throughout the whole decade you rate highly (preferably at least 3-4 albums over the course of all of most of the '90s, and related artists and non-album material don't count, but whatever works i guess and i'm breaking those rules myself here and there)

mine:
A Tribe Called Quest
Morphine
Superchunk
Fugazi
The Posies
Jay-Z
Pulp
Pearl Jam
UGK
They Might Be Giants

Can't give you ten, but Yo La Tengo for sure.

And probably Madonna--far from perfect, but she must have had at least three strong ones (and enough for an excellent compilation drawn from the decade).

you're just gonna POO all over my thread, huh

lol morphine

Swirlies
Lilys
Bedhead
Red House Painters
Polvo
Dismemberment Plan
Swell
Spinanes
Unwound
Versus

Seefeel!

lol morphine

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put up your POX or shut up, Dim Bulb

some dr.

Dim Dulb

Jim Bulb Jones

it felt good to channel morbz, tbh

Not trying to derail the thread. I'm a song guy, not albums. I literally couldn't name anyone other than Yo La Tengo or Madonna where I've even heard four LPs, much less liked four. (Well, also the Pet Shop Boys. But I don't know if they had more than a couple of strong ones.)

I was mainly making a poop joke fwiw

get prepared 2 make another:

8ball & MJG
Aphex Twin
Mary J. Blige
Brainiac
Ryoji Ikeda
Magnetic Fields
Plastikman
Saint Etienne
Silver Jews
UGK

kinda a shitty list but i claim youth against knowing about a lot of 90s shit

yeah that's pretty dope!

Soul Coughing
Underworld (dubnobass, Second Toughest, Beaucoup Fish, plus a ton of great EPs/singles)
The Orb
Orbital (everything up to Middle of Nowhere isn't it?)
Denki Groove (durrrrrf)
Chemical Brothers (Exit Planet Dust, Dig Your Own Hole, Surrender)
Ween
Aphex Twin (everything before Drukqs)
Cake (I also really like Comfort Eagle, but they really did drop off after that)
P-Model (I hate to name these artists that nobody's heard of but it's hard to come up with 10, plus between the band and solo work this really is one of the most impressive stretches of music I've ever heard)

nothing at all wrong with naming artists people haven't heard of

Good timing, I just completed a piece on the 90s and updated my lists - http://www.fastnbulbous.com/90s.htm

I made a list of 300 albums for the decade. If I ranked by who had the most albums in that list, it would be Stereolab with 5 albums; the following had 4 - PJ Harvey, Walt Mink, Melvins, Afghan Whigs, Beck, Flaming Lips and Orbital; and Bjork, Fugazi, Ardo Lindsay, Tom Waits, Massive Attack, Pavement, Tortoise, The Jesus Lizard, Dog Faced Hermans, Spiritualized, Seam, Slowdive, Long Fin Killie, Belle & Sebastion, Swervedriver, Pram, Mercury Rev, Cornershop, Sonic Youth and Rancid had 3.

you and "Ardo" Lindsay can take it to Bands/artists whose names are frequently misspelled by writers, casual/pretend fans, etc.

j/k fun top 300!

here's the Fastnbulbous list distilled to a great top ten of mine (too lazy to think of others)

The Afghan Whigs
Bjork
The Flaming Lips
PJ Harvey
The Jesus Lizard
Melvins
Orbital
Slowdive
Spiritualized
Stereolab

Bjork
The Divine Comedy
The Flaming Lips
Stereolab
St Etienne
Suede
Pulp
The Boo Radleys
Tindersticks
Underworld

Fastnbulbous I love reading your columns and stuff but they all remind me of Mark Prindle's review of The Jam's "Dig the New Breed"

http://markprindle.com/jam.htm#dig

Bedhead
Sonic Youth
Low
Blur

it was indie tiem

I guess you're talking about that 680 word first paragraph, heh. That was a brainstorm for a friend who wanted something on the 90s for a documentary that was meant to be pared down.

Don't get me wrong I really do like your writing a lot, it just seems like every single paragraph is just overloaded with name dropping, all I can think is daaamn I got a long way to go

I'd have to spend some more time coming up with nine to add, but Silkworm certainly belongs on this list.

Built to Spill
Guided by Voices
Ween
PJ Harvey
Fugazi
Archers of Loaf
Sunny Day Real Estate
Olivia Tremor Control
Sugar
Blur

xxp - When summarizing a decade, it's a challenge to do it without mentioning numerous bands for sure ;) But I suppose I should scale it down some.

I keep forgetting about Royal Trux. It depends on the time of day, whether I feel like I love or hate Twin Infinitives. I just listened to Silkworm's Firewater for the first time in 14 years yesterday. Good stuff, but I remember why I don't go back to it often, just like Polvo.

No, don't scale it down, I dig that aspect of your site. I remember reading one of your articles and seeing you talk about Hosono for a while which I thought was pretty badass. Who else drops names like that?? I just remembered that as I wondered why I had the urge to mention him in that other thread. That reminded me to ask, did you ever get your hands on Paraiso?? What were your thoughts on that one?

Outkast
UGK
DJ Quik
Gang Starr
Mobb Deep
Afghan Whigs
Too $hort
Redman
Tha Alkaholiks

Off the top. I like rock too just cant think of much that I rate higher than this stuff.

Forgot to count.

Soundgarden

xp I had MP3s of Paraiso and loved it, but I can't seem to find 'em now. Need to dig up a flac version.

My boring list:

Stereolab
Blur
Pavement
The Magnetic Fields
Momus
The Divine Comedy
The Loud Family
Guided by Voices
Silver Jews
Belle & Sebastian

Combining some different projects by the same artist:

A Tribe Called Quest
De La Soul
Pavement
Keiji Haino/Fushitsusha
John Zorn/Naked City/Masada
Heavenly
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
Tatsuya Yoshida/Ruins/Koenjihyakkei
Seiichi Yamamoto/Omoide Hatoba/Rovo
Dog Faced Hermans