I don't mind that Porno for Pyros album, but then I was never really a big Jane's Addiction fan. My favorite Perry Ferrell thing is probably the second PfP album, oddly enough.

I could't stand Gentleman, but maybe I'll give it another shot sometime. I'd intended to sell my copy, but I've never been able to. Might as well give it one more spin.

For some reason I have never heard that second album. Must remedy.

janes addiction/porno for pyros really do not hold up very well at all. blech.

They were great on that tour, too FWIW. I met Perry before the show--a dude oozing weirdo as much as anybody I've laid eyes on. Surprisingly nice though.

This was the year I graduated high school/started college. Lotta memories.

Agreed on the Wu and Bikini Kill.

yeah there's a dozen so already posted that I love love love. '93 being my junior/senior year in HS might have something to do with it.

The Candy Skins - Fun?
Britpop before the term was born (which I've always found the second dumbest genre name of all time). The Candy Skins had the exact same set of influences and sound that Oasis would take to the bank in the very near future, although their songwriting held the distinctly anti-Gallagher aspect of possessing wit.



DM3 - One Time Two Times Three Red Light
Led by the prolific if mercurial Dom Mariani, this Aussie trio is what power pop should sound like: muscular and driving yet maintaining a sweetness and melancholy at its heart. The song "One Time Two Times Devastated" should have been (and should still be) a major pop hit. This album doesn't attain quite the perfection of the follow-up Road To Rome, but very little does.



Danko Fjeld Andersen - Danko Fjeld Andersen
The Band's Rick Danko teamed up with one of the first of the "new Dylans" in Eric Andersen and Norwegian troubador Jonas Fjeld, and holyshit it works. Pristine folk rock with a couple straight 50s rock & roll interjections and a couple tunes sung in Fjeld's native tongue - it's better than anyone might have expected (and far, far better than the awful second album that brought an end to the partnership).



Daniel Lanois - For the Beauty of Wynona
Lanois brought the clarity of his work with U2 to this fairly understated set of songs. It's not exactly Americana or rootsy, but it sort of is. The only of this artist's albums I've kept.



The Walkabouts - Satisfied Mind
This was the Walkabouts' covers album, on which they took songs by songwriters like Charlie Rich, Patti Smith, Mary Margaret O'Hara, Nick Cave, Nick Lowe, John Cale, and Robert Forster and found the common thread that tied them all together. The epic "Feel Like Going Home" with Mark Lanegan on lead vox is a slowcore monger anthem of absolutely monstrous proportions.



Dramarama - Sci Fi Hi Fi
This was pretty much the end of Dramarama (at least until they reunited in the '00s), and as a swansong it's all kindsa awesome. They enlisted Clem Burke from Blondie and Sylvain Sylvain himself from the New York Dolls, and went down swinging. "Work for Food", "Prayer", and "Bad Seed" rock harder then they'd ever rocked, while the slow stuff like "Right On Baby, Baby" sits on exactly the right side of Stonesy.



Maria McKee - You Gotta Sin To Get Saved
McKee is backed on this one by the Jayhawks, although it doesn't sit as squarely in the alt.country wheelhouse as that would suggest. About half of it does, with the other half venturing into soulful pop ("I'm Gonna Soothe You") and tackling two Van Morrison covers.

Bunch more I don't feel like yapping about:

Underrated Surfers album.

I don't disagree with this.

thirded.

Right place at the right time release but for me, this album is every bit the equal of anything Tribe Called Quest put out. "Cool Like Dat" was everywhere when it came out but the rest of it is just as good. Just a laid back jazz vibe throughout.




As good as G-Funk West Coast rap ever got IMO. He's become a total caricature in mainstream culture now but when this shit dropped he was as gangsta as they come. One of the best party records ever and maybe my favorite rap album. At least in the Top 5.

Oh, and here's one for a small few here.



IMO, this is their best studio album from start to finish. Definite southern inflected jammy rock but it's got some jazz and blues flair to it. It could be the nostalgia though. I was all over this band at the time. Full on Spreadhead. No apologies.

Bonus points if you knew that's a 16 year old Angelina Jolie on the cover.

Lots of good stuff mentioned so far. A few major releases that I haven't noticed mentioned yet (apologies if I missed them):


The Breeders - Last Splash


Bjork - Debut


Jeff Buckley - Live at Sin-e EP


Catherine Wheel - Chrome


James - Laid


Morphine - Cure for Pain

that first part of your statement is straight garbage.

oof, yeah...I like that album a lot, I actually love that album, but shiv's right.

monster of a year, for me personally at least. 20-year-old e-stone, sophomore year of college, year of my lowest GPA and highest drug usage. good times. these dominated that year (and yes i know some of these have already been posted):







i'm sure i was playing counting crows and whatever albums were released that year by the connells, judybats, king missile and other early-mid-nineties acts that thankfully itunes has helped me to forget....

anyways, it's a trip going thru some of these again. i can still remember exact details of where i was, who i was with, etc. when i first heard some of these. listening to dino jr right now and "Start Choppin'" may very well be THE song of '93 for me.

The Posies - Frosting on The Beater

If only for Dream All Day & Solar Sister

Looking back through this now. Monster year for me

+1 on Midnight Marauders, Gentlemen, Siamese Dream, Last Splash, Vs, Independent Worm Saloon...

Some others that stick out:

Not their S/T, but I'd argue "Insane in the Brain" is their best and most well-know single. Hard for me to separate "How I Could Just Kill a Man" and "Hand on the Pump" as I heard them back-to-back so often.


Got a lot of spins when I just needed some chill time. "Dreams" and "Linger" aged a lot better than subsequent, crunchier singles.


A really underrated Fishbone album IMHO. There are a few duds on here, but it's probably one of the most stylistically diverse albums in my colleciton.


The last of the qual Primus records. Lots of solid tracks here, and I'm still not sure what happened between this and ...Punchbowl.


I remember putting "Tilted" on my first CMJ mix and getting a great review from FT on it. It took me nearly a decade to warm up to this EP, and it's good for a fix when I don't want to listen to either album in their entirety.


Likely point-of-entry bias at play, but I still like this album as a whole more than AEnima.

Undertow was such a cool record at the time.

Man, those Dino Jr., Nirvana, and Pumpkins records were the soundtrack to that summer for me.

Didn't get this until years later but I can't believe we have gone this far with no mention of:





Archers of Loaf - Icky Mettle

For me, this band, Superchunk, Sebadoh, and later the Elephant 6 stuff, defined college rock for me during my college years.

One of the best underground rock records released that year IMO. I only got to see them years and about 3 albums later when they were close to calling it quits but I have always heard their shows during this period were wonderfully loud, drunken affairs.

Great slice of early 90's american indie rock. "Web In Front", "Wrong", and "Plumbline" were just amazing songs. Great band.

used to love subpop

eric's trip - love tara


spinanes - manos


6fs - the pigeon is the most popular bird

This was a big year for me as well. I was in high school, and it marks the main first year when I bought albums coming out then that I still listen to now, most of which have been mentioned thus far. Used to tape 120 Minutes and come home after school Monday to watch so even if I never bought the album a lot of these singles I know/like.

Also from '93

Not a great album, but solid 90s alternative rock. "Watch the Girl Destroy Me" is a great song though.




the other s/t RHP as well

plus
Matt Keating-Tell it to Yourself
Mazzy Star-So Tonight That I Might See
Northern Picture Library-Alaska
Matthew Sweet-Altered Beast
Urge Overkill-Saturation
School of Fish-Human Cannonball

AMG is saying it was '94 but I'm with you for sure.

here's another good one:



This is their major label debut. Such a good album. Not as straight-ahead and cutting as earlier stuff, but also not as repetitive as earlier stuff. Also, not as watered down as their mainstream "breakthrough" album, 1994's Stranger Than Fiction (which admittedly I also really like). some of the songs here have unique melodies and cool chord changes that you don't see that often in punk rock.



also, let us not forget: