Our Generation's Essencial Albums

[Captain Bottles]

Essential albums of the 90's:

My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted
Nirvana - Nevermind
Radiohead - OK Computer
The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
Dr. Dre - The Chronic
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing

I agree with you Xerxes, the 'physical album' is becoming obsolete. It's almost guaranteed. However, the technophobes (mainly women) will still need their CD's as they won't have the willpower to download. Therefore I see a split coming - male music being downloaded, female music still being sold in physical format. This is already happening, if you visit your local CD store you'll find women's music in abundance, men's music less so (reflected in the charts).

Absurd. First of all, the album as a whole is still alive and kicking. Second, men and women aren't so different that music will be sold differently for the two. Third, what does downloading have to do with willpower, and fourth, since when is music separated into "male" and "female?"

I'm too lazy to do the quoting, but some of the bands/artists mentioned here so far (Tool, RATM, and, for some reason, the Spice Girls) will never be remembered as essential 90's artists.