ok, sent.

i shall wait until monday to work on this, give some more voters time to get their minds made up

I'm going to make my list today, I swear. I'm just listening to a few to decide.

portisheads second album not dummy...... please tell why????

Many thanks. PM'd.

A rushed and probably not accurate list.

1. The Fall - Levitate
2. Urusei Yatsura - We are...
3. Atari Teenage Riot - The Future of War!
4. No-neck blues band - Letters from the Earth
5. Ground Zero - Plays Standards
6. Kaija Saariaho - ...a la fumee
7. Huun Huur Tu - 60 Horses in my field
8. Fushitsusha - Pathetiqué
9. Stony Sleep - A Slack Romance
10. Prolapse - The Italian Flag
11. Krystof Penderecki - The Seven Gates of Jerusalem (written '96 - the recording I have was released early 2000 - not sure if this counts).
12. The Fugees - The Score
13. Nation of Ulysses - Plays Pretty for Baby
14. Merzbow - Door is open 7AM
15. S Club 7 - S Club
16. The Fall - Extricate
17. Melt Banana - MXBX 1998
18. Purple Trap - Decided... already the motionless heat of tranquility, tangling the prayer called 'I'
19. Sonic FUCKING Youth - A thousand Leaves.
20. No neck blues band - letters from the Serth (note - this is different from my number 4 - same year, different record).
21. Ground Zero - Last Concert
22. Pulp - His n' Hers
23. Sizzla - Royal Sun of Ethiopia
24. Wu Tang Clan - 36 Chambers
25. Johnny Cash - American Recordings

I always get pissed off at either tokenistic entries or the lack of non-white guitar music in these lists. However, racking my brains I couldn't actually think of that many things. All the good dancehall/ happy hardcore/ soukous I have from the 90s is compilations, and they don't count.

Well, this IS a Sonic Youth board... a band worshipped usually by white skinny dudes?

My list (I initially sent it as a PM):

1. Jeff Buckley - Grace
2. Radiohead - OK computer
3. The Notwist - Shrink
4. U2 - Achtung baby
5. Björk - Homogenic
6. Smashing Pumpkins - Adore
7. Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
8. Dominique A - La mémoire neuve
9. Jean-Louis Murat - Mustango
10. Sonic Youth - Dirty
11. Sigur Rós - Ágætis Byrjun
12. Neil Young - Sleeps with angels
13. Bonnie "Prince" Billy - I see a darkness
14. Alain Bashung - Fantaisie militaire
15. DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
16. R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
17. Jim O'Rourke - Eureka
18. Portishead - S/T
19. Morrissey - Vauxhall and I
20. Depeche Mode - Ultra
21. Elliott SMith - Either/or
22. Tinderticks - Curtains
23. Radiohead - The bends
24. The Notwist - 13
25. Sonic Youth - A thousand leaves

I never sent in a list because it was too straining on my brain. There was just so much to choose from.

Did we ever get an actual result for this? I'm curious.

BRB as I try to rank my 90s albums