Albums from from the 90's you rate better than BoC releases.

[nev]

Great stuff so far.

How about:

Selected Ambient Works 1 - Aphex Twin
Bytes - Black Dog
Kenny Larkin - Azimuth
Mark's Keyboard repair - Money Mark

Lifeforms and 76:14 absolutely fantastic choices.

[Rolodex Propaganda]

Totally missed Selected Ambient Works 1, Pulsewidth = genius

Great stuff so far.

How about:

Selected Ambient Works 1 - Aphex Twin
Bytes - Black Dog
Kenny Larkin - Azimuth
Mark's Keyboard repair - Money Mark

Lifeforms and 76:14 absolutely fantastic choices.

[Torn n Frayed]

Front 242 - 06:21:03:11 Up Evil
Front 242 - 05:22:09:12 Off
Depeche Mode - Violator
Leila - Like Weather
Cocteau Twins - Heaven Or Las Vegas
Chapterhouse Retranslated By Global Communication - Blood Music: Pentamerous Metamorphosis
Jedi Knights - New School Science
Slowdive - Souvlaki
Cabaret Voltaire - The Conversation
Crowded House - Together Alone
Seefeel - Pure/Impure

Ah wow, never seen anyone else post that they were into this great lp by Crowded House, love it!!

[solar_bleaching]

Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
Scott Walker - Tilt
Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
Howard Shore - Crash
Howard Shore - Naked Lunch
Naked City - Absinthe

[noby]

Bola - Soup
Global Communication - 76:14
Moodymann - Silentintroduction
The Future Sound Of London - Accelerator
Autechre - Incunabula
DJ Spooky - Songs Of A Dead Dreamer
Mr. Oizo - Analog Worms Attack
LFO - Advance
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
Swans - Soundtracks For The Blind
The KLF - Chill Out
Stars Of The Lid - Music For Nitrous Oxide

Probably forgot a bunch and lot of it is in the grey area, but all of those are at least AS good or better imo.

[Keeoaddi]

lots of good albums here, just a few that i don't think have been mentioned so far

Amon Tobin - Bricolage
Tortoise - TNT
Stereolab - Mars Audiac Quintet
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
Magnetic Fields - Charm of the Highway Strip
Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
Souls of Mischief - '93 til Infinity
Mos Def & Talib Kweli are Black Star
The Beta Band - The Three E.P.s

[WeHadNormality]

If push came to shove i'd probably say Beck - Mellow Gold is my favoutie album of all time. Got a lot of amazing memories tied to that album. Nice to see it getting some love on here too. I saw Beck live in 95, gotta be one of my favoutie gigs I've been to.

These are neither better or worse than BoC, but the 90s were pretty special.

Beastie Boys - Check Your Head, Ill Communication and Hello Nasty
Plug - Drum & Bass For Pappa (and anything else Vibert released)
Cardiacs - Sing To God Parts 1&2
DJ Shadow - Endroducing
Brainiac - Hissing Prigs in Static Couture
Aphex Twin - Richard D James Album
Squarepusher - Feed Me Weird Things, Hard Normal Daddy and Music Is Rotted One Note.
Public Enemy - Fear Of A Black Planet
Coldcut - Let Us Play

I could rattle on about 90s hip hop all day tbh, Gravediggaz - Niggamortis, GZA - Liquid Swords, Raekwon - Only Built For Cuban Linx, Company Flow - Funcrusher Plus, Dr Octagon - Dr Octagonecologyst

[Betterthanyourkids]

It's a close call, because BoC is currently my favorite band but Feed Me Weird Things by Squarepusher was fantastic. I'm on both sides of the spectrum of music, from BoC and softer music to drum n bass stuff (read, Squarepusher and Venitan Snares kindof). I only recently got into Squarepusher, but damn he's good. SAW 85-92 is also really good, but that's Aphex Twin

[Tony Montana]

Agree with many of the suggestions above, particularly Endtroducing, Loveless and Nevermind.

Honourable mention for an album that I listened to the most in the mid 90s: The Holy Bible by Manic Street Preachers. I was 15 or 16 when it came out and as an angry, anti-establishment, slightly depressed teenager that album was a perfect fit

[Elexen]

Very cool thread. Love all the posts. I'm 35, the 90's were awesome. There was so many good albums in every genre. I started making music in the early 90's and some of the albums that really influenced and continue to influence me aside from BoC are:

Beck- Mellow Gold, One Foot In The Grave, Stereopathetic Soul Manure, Odelay
Big L - Lifestylez Ov Da Poor & Dangerous
De La Soul - De La Soul Is Dead
Del Tha Funky Homosapien - I Wish My Brother George Was Here, No Need For Alarm
Gang Starr - Step In the Arena, Daily Operation, Hard To Earn
GZA - Liquid Swords
Helmet - Meantime, Betty
Hive - Devious Methods
Justin Warfield - My Feild Trip to Planet 9
Kyuss - Blues For the Red Sun
Main Source - Breaking Atoms
Mobb Deep - Juvenile Hell
Nas - Illmatic
NIN - The Downward Spiral
Nirvana - Nevermind, In Utero
The Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde
Portishead - Dummy, Portishead
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Souls of Mischief - 93 'Til Infinity
Tom Waits - Bone Machine
A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
Unsane - Scattered, Smothered & Covered
Urban Dance Squad - Mental Floss for the Globe
Ween - Pure Guava, Chocolate and Cheese, The Mollusk
16 Horsepower - Sackcloth 'N' Ashes

There's so much more.

[seanandcandy]

Terror Twilight - Pavement
Loveless - My Bloody Valentine
The Noise Made By People - Broadcast
F# A# Infinity - Godspeed You! Black Emperor
For Beginner Piano - Plone
North Pole Radio Station - Pram
Dots and Loops - Stereolab

that's probably about it tho

[Jonse]

IMO:


Better (or on par) with Geogaddi:

Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
FSOL - Dead Cities
Prick - Prick

Better (or on par) with Music Has The Right to Children:

FSOL - Lifeforms
FSOL - ISDN
Amorphous Androgynous - Tales of Ephidrina
Fatboy Slim - You've Come a Long Way, Baby

Better (or on par) with The Campfire Headphase:

Aphex Twin - SAW II
The Prodigy - The Fat of The Land
Nine Inch Nails - Broken
Daft Punk - Homework
Skinny Puppy - Too Dark Park
Radiohead - The Bends


Just to name some of my heavily listened to.