1 - Radiohead - OK Computer
2 - Public Enemy - Its takes a nation of millions to hold us back
3 - nirvana - nevermind
4 - pavement - slanted and enchanted
5 - the smiths - the queen is dead
6 - pixies - surfer rosa
7 - de la soul - 3 feet high and rising
8 - prince - sign 'o' the times
9 - pj harvey - rid of me
10 - n.w.a. - straight outta compton
11 - U2 - achtung baby
12 - beastie boys - Paul's Boutique
13 - husker du - new day rising
14 - sonic youth - daydream nation
15 - liz phair - exile in guyville
16 - beck - odelay
17 - nas - illmatic
18 - guns n' roses - appetite for destruction
19 - hole - live through this
20 - wu-tang clan - enter the wu-Tang (36 chambers)
21 - public enemy - fear of a black planet
22 - my bloody valentine - loveless
23 - outkast - stankonia
24 - sleater-kinney - dig me out
25 - nine inch nails - the downward spiral
26 - bjork - post
27 - the cure - the head on the door
28 - oasis - definitally maybe
29 - fugazi - 13 songs
30 - the notorious big - ready to die
31 - dinosaur jr. - you're lying over me
32 - the replacements - tim
33 - ice cube - AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted
34 - Elliott Smith - Either/or
35 - dr. dre - the chronic
36 - pixies - doolittle
37 - guided by voices - bee thousand
38 - a tribe called quest - the low end theory
39 - lucinda williams - lucinda williams
40 - run-dmc - raising hell
41 - smashing pumpkins - Siamese dream
42 - jane's addiction - nothings shocking
43 - boogie down productions - criminal minded
44 - green day - dookie
45 - kanye west - college dropout
46 - the fall - this nations saving grace
47 - eric b. and rakim - paid in full
48 - radiohead - kid a
49 - lauryn hill - the miseduction of lauryn hill
50 - new order - low-life
51 - nirvana - in utero
52 - beastie boys - licensed to kill
53 - rage against the machine - the battle of los angeles
54 - the breeders - last splash
55 - the chemical brothers - dig your own hole
56 - pj harvey - to bring you my love
57 - the white stripes - white blood cells
58 - metallica - master of puppets
59 - modest mouse - the lonesome crowded west
60 - de las soul - de la soul is dead
61 - weezer - pinkerton
62 - missy elliott - supa dupa fly
63 - pavement - crooked rain, crooked rain
64 - Eminem - the marshall mathers LP
65 - basement jaxx - remedy
66 - outkast - aquemini
67 - slayer - reign in blood
68 - tricky - maxiquaye
69 - dj shadow - entroducing dj shadow
70 - jay-z - the blueprint
71 - the jesus and mary chain - psychocandy
72 - raekwon - only built 4 cuban linx
73 - pulp - different class
74 - portishead - dummy
75 - le tigre - le tigre
76 - belle and sebastian - if you're feeling sinister
77 - wilco - yankee hotel foxtrot
78 - the stone roses - the stone roses
79 - moby - everything is wrong
80 - d'angelo - woodoo
81 - beck - mellow gold
82 - jeff buckley - grace
83 - at the drive-in - releationship of command
84 - soundgarden - superunknown
85 - r.e.m. - automatic for the people
86 - meat puppets - lip on the sun
87 - blur - parklife
88 - stereolab - emperor tomato ketchup
89 - yeah yeah yeahs - fever to tell
90 - sonic youth - sister
91 - xtc - skylarking
92 - big black - atomizer
93 - pearl jam - ten
94 - slint - spiderland
95 - elastica - elastica
96 - the pogues - Rum, sodomy, and the lash
97 - neutal milk hotel - in the aeroplane over the sea
98 - cornershop - when i was born for the 7th time
99 - afghan whigs - gentlemen
100 - the strokes - is this it

- i would have definitely put exile in guyville before rid of me. but yey for my bloody valentine, hole, bjork, pixies and fugazi.

Wow- go Liz. Doesn't Spin normally give her bad press?

Wow that's cool. A lot of magazines don't even know who she is.

hey, not bad for a bunch of Beatles Rip-off artists.

a few thoughts:
Appetite for Destruction not in the Top 10? hrmmph.

Public Enemy with two albums in the top 25? uh no, A nation deserves its' spot but fear of a black planet shouldn't even be on this list.

oh yeah... they should have thrown in the first stone roses album somewhere in the top 20.

I really don't understand why Rid of Me is supposedly the best PJ Harvey album. I love To Bring You My Love so much more.

Spin put out a list like this not four years ago if memory serves. It was like a 90s album list.

Appetite for Destruction....
The Cure's Head on the Door...
NIN The Downward Spiral...

Finally a good list of music! I'm still not sure that EIG is better than AFD though

Something tells me that the editor in chief of Spin is on the take with Radiohead. That magazine is always raving over them.

Wow Liz scored well on that.. Number 15! that’s awesome.

radiohead where number one in a countdown of the 100 greatest albums of all time over here. i never have really stoped to listen to their music before.

Critics tend to fawn over Radiohead because they're supposedly so artsy and original. To me, a lot of it is just unpalatable noise. The only album of theirs I own is Pablo Honey, an early one from before they went off the deep end.

Interesting that "Everything is Wrong" made the list but "Play" did not. Huh.

I'm sorry but Oasis, Guns and Roses, Eminem, stone roses and various other suck so much. They really do.

Incidently, That's the first both-gender album list from the ninties where I haven't seen Alanis mentioned somewhere.

Pablo Honey is my fav too

I never got really got what the deal with Radiohead was after that. I bit like modern art, I s'pose there must be something in it 'cos everyone raves about it (see list!) but I can't see it.

thank
god!

I knew there was a reason why I'm a better blair than you.

pssst that blair doesnt have harmonica powers either

can i smell...the omag bah?

I wondered what that sour stench was. Milk, clearly!

*shudders*

I think this is time for...

*sings the theme tune*

MEH!
You're not online.

haha. the clique of alanis.. now, i know it really sucks.

CAN YOU STOP USING THE WORD CLIQUE!? It's a group.

A group.

Not a clique.

Ugh, that word is so annoying.

Clique! Clique! Clique!

What month of Spin Magazine was Liz in? I went to a local bookstore and found the June copy, but on page 30, Liz wasn't there. I guess it may have been a special issue - that I'm not sure of.

I think Liz Phair should do the acoustic thing - like Alanis. All of her songs done differently would be awesome. Imagine Dance of the Seven Veils acoustic but with her voice in tune. Wow. That would be so great.

CLIQUE

*slaps* And you deserved that.

(likes it)

(Likes slapping you). Hm, this could become a working relationship

Wow. I dont know if I agree with that whole list.

Homogenic or vespertine are infinitely stronger than post, but at any rate exile in guyville is an epic albumand it is no suprise it is on here.

I don't like how Tori Amos or Heather Nova didn't make that list.

They were before Liz, and I think Liz gets whey too much credit for opening up the 90's female rock/indie genre. When Heather and Tori did it before her.

I think Little earthquakes should have made this list.

I dont listen to heather so i cant comment. I mean, do people agree she is as amazing as you say?

QP don't give in to LY's evergrowing plague!

heh heh heh ok I wont

No, they don't. Heather's career has gone widely unnoticed. Had one decent song way back in '93 or something like that but has been totally off radar since then.

And here's the thing...neither Heather not Tori rock. Not in the least. That's why you never hear about them being influential in early stages of the female rocker boom of the early 90's.

I assume you mean something more by "rock" than just a crummy adjective.

I think LE rocks, piano can rock cant it?

heh the argument sounded good in my head, but now I am not so sure.

All I know is I saw Tori do Smells Like Teen Spirit, and thought I was going to have to slit my wrists during the video. I couldn't stand it.

I put Tori much closer to the easy listening end of the spectrum than rock...well, except for the psychotic lyrics and all...but musically, no, she aint a rocker.

And while we're talking crummy adjectives, let's discuss "indie."

I used to think I knew what indie was until I had a chat with my uncle who had a compleatly different idea!

Independant music doesn't have one sound.

A kid in my English class did a report on Indie Music. He started naming artists, and to my surprise he said Liz Phair, but I involuntarily yelled, "Before she sold out!" And I felt a little bit of hate when I said it. Everyone told me that I sounded so cold and mean, and that it gave them the goosebumps.

All "indie" is is not being signed to a major label, which is pretty much unavoidable if you're any good. Not to say there aren't good artists out there on small labels or no label at all, but talented artists tend to get signed. Music, like it or not, is a business every bit as much as it is an art form.

and thus begins the inane counterpoint...

"sold out"

Oh that is such crap. Heather rocks.

Heather has had tons of good singles, but her name always gets lost from people's minds. She's found it so hard to break into the uk and the usa, she's a huge hit in a lot of europe though.

Solar is refering to "Walk this world" which was her single off oyster. And it was the sound of Oyster. That album sold around a million. The album got really good reviews and everyone loved it.

She had a small album before it "glow stars" but it wasn't really released. Her single "Spirit in you." is a really rare item and on ebay usually goes for more than £300

Her next single was "London rain" which was her single off oyster. That did better than walk this world, was a hint of the sound of siren, and was the Dawson's creek themetune for ages. This album sold 700,000 copies very quickly. But it has now sold a million.

Her next album "South" was poor. But that really wasn't her idea. It was a meddling record company's plan at trying to make her more successful. Her frail writing was crushed under the bad production. Heather herself says it's her least fav album and it doesn't feel as much like her and that it's too over-produced to give people the point it was suppose to give. However, South got to number 5 and was a big hit in a lot of europe, where her cover of "Gloomy sunday" which was in a film of the same name, got into top 10. The album got really good reviews, as it was relaxed and her voice -as always- was amazing. But the fans hated it.

Heather left V2 and made her next album by herself. It reached top 5 and was amazing. It was named as "her best album yet" and it was really good. Oyster is still my fav though.

Her new album is out soon.

*ends rant* I can't believe I typed that out.

But Heather is excellent.

If Heather rocks, then you've got the softest definition of "rock" I've ever seen. Not surprising she's fared well in the europop market, considering how soft she is.

I didn't mean that type of rock.

Anything goes into the charts over here. Slipknot were 15th in the charts for ages.

I think Heather is indie. But she can rock on something like "Sugar" or "Island" (the live version at the twist.)

That's why a lot of people like her album "Blow" a lot. It's a different side of Heather. Much rockier than her usual self.

i definitely would have put little earthquakes in the list but not, NOT before exile in guyville. it just should not happen.

and heather nova will never get in such a list. she's just not famous stateside and does not hold much clout outside europe. no, it does not mean that she's not a good artist. it's just that she hasn't really released a breakout album or a breakout song. she's actually kind of considered a part of the lilith fair crowd and not an integral part of it either. haha (points to lys).

Oh, for crying out loud. Don't "think" if someone is indie or not. Just read the spine of their latest album to see what label they're on. There is no such thing as an indie sound. The closest thing you get to one is that they typically feature lo-fi recording and production, and that's usually not because of anything intentional, but simply because it's all they can afford.

indie - indian music

Ah, ok...but I thought those guys just handed out flowers at the airport...I didn't know they'd dropped an album.

and music in taxis sucks.

And I hate,
And I hate,
And I hate elevator music...

*pokes you in the eye*

I think it's a shame she doesn't enjoy as much sucsess in the US. Well, atleast europe knows who she is. And sometimes it's nice that she's like a secret.

*smiles*

*walks off thinking about how the new album is out sooooooonnnn*