OK Computer best of the last 20 years

[newtrix1]

1. Short attention spans of the current generation of listeners. They are mentally incapable of listening to an entire album. They have far too much talking on the cellphone to do to listen to a whole CD.

...went back to about 45 minutes +/-, rather than 60+ minutes (to fill a cd??), it would help. I personally find too much filler on albums produced since the cd became the standard format.

[-Jar-]

Doesn't it just FEEL like there is a new thing in music that's gonna break huge in the next year or 3? A sea-change, like The Beatles or Punk; something to shake the whole thing to it's foundations.

I hope so.

I have no idea what it will be. We probably won't until it happens. I think I really am getting old. The last 10 years or so have been one "NEO" trend after another. Neo-punk, Neo-ska, Neo-swing, Neo-garage, Neo-new wave, Neo-post punk.. It's just one big recycle bin. Soon it will be time for Neo-grunge.


That's fine, esp for those who weren't there the first time (or the 2nd time as the case may be)..

I'm just having a hard time trying to figure out what's left that hasn't been covered. Whatever the next big thing is, is here somewhere, bubbling beneath the surface. It's always happened that way.

-jar

[Ex Lion Tamer]

Full list:

1. Radiohead - OK Computer
2. Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back
3. Nirvana - Nevermind
4. Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted
5. The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
6. The Pixies - Surfer Rosa
7. De La Soul - 3 Ft. 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 - Definitely Maybe
29. Fugazi - 13 Songs
30. The Notorious B.I.G. - Ready To Die
31. Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All 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 - s/t
40. Run D.M.C. - Raising Hell
41. Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
42. Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
43. B.D.P. - Criminal Minded
44. Green Day - Dookie
45. Kanye West - College Dropout
46. The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace
47. Eric B. & Rakim - Paid In Full
48. Radiohead - Kid A
49. Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation Of...
50. New Order - Low Life
51. Nirvana - In Utero
52. Beastie Boys - Licensed To Ill
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 La 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 - Maxinquaye
69. DJ Shadow - Entroducing...
70. Jay-Z - The Blueprint
71. The Jesus & Mary Chain - Psychocandy
72. Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
73. Pulp - Different Class
74. Portishead - Dummy
75. Le Tigre - s/t
76. Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
77. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
78. The Stone Roses - s/t
79. Moby - Everything Is Wrong
80. D'Angelo - Voodoo
81. Beck - Mellow Gold
82. Jeff Buckley - Grace
83. At The Drive-In - Relationship Of Command
84. Soundgarden - Superunknown
85. REM - Automatic For The People
86. Meat Puppets - Up 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 - s/t
96. The Pogues - Rum Sodomy & The Lash
97. Neutral 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

[daigoro]

I'll wager that '75-'85 would take the lion's share of a 30 year list.

Now, if you further isolated it to also include just '90-'95 there would be precious little left for the other 15 years of dreck.

[MindGoneHaywire]

Noticed elsewhere: not that I care all that much, and not that I'm a fan of the rec, but it does seem a bit strange to me that U2's Joshua Tree doesn't make the cut here. But I have no idea what SPIN is like these days & probably haven't since I stopped buying it back in, uh, 1987? I bought EVERY issue of that mag for two years but then it disappeared for awhile, came back not quite the same, and by the time it did I didn't care anymore. But 20 years ago, for a brief period, they were a great music magazine.

That was a long time ago.

[3-LockBox]

Public Enemy should have been number one. Or, at least something hip hop. I always seem to be speaking up for hip hop, which is funny since it probably only comprises maybe 20-25% or so of my listenig, if that much. Thing is, in the last 20 years, the development of hip hop has been the number one musical evolution in popular music that has simply changed the musical landscape like nothing since the birth of rock 'n' roll. If you're gonna pick a top album from this era, even though the earliy hip hp albums were a bit earlier, you may wanna lean in that direction if you don't wanna look foolish once the history books are written in the future.

Either way, looks like some good records made the top part of the list. Funny how yearly lists have so many obscure bands on them, but when things shake out and the decade long lists pop up, most of the big winners seem to be stuff that has had some level of public acceptance.

Hip Hop has stuck around dispite a huge amount of backlash in the '80s and '90s...even more important than its musical evolution is its influence on pop culture (much to my chagrin by the way). So you're right, I'm surprised they didn't rank a hip hop or rap album number one, since they're a bunch of hip mongers.

At any rate, I don't think SPIN magazine (or any other rag for that matter) has ever influenced my listening habits. I think they just want to be relevant and hip...like us here at RR!

[Slosh]

I don't get people who don't get OK Computer. For me it's a tie with Emergency & I for best album of the last two decades. Even though I'm sick of both I can't stay that way for long

Wow, I have 28 of those listed albums but only a handful would make my top 100.

[MomurdA]

Who did Emergency & I???

[Slosh]

Who did Emergency & I???

[fact]The Dismemberment Plan (1999)[/fact]