Musical Years In A Metaphorical Hat

Radiohead - The Bends (English alternative rock) Elliott Smith - Elliott Smith (American indie folk)  Oasis - (What’s The Story) Morning Glory (English rock)  Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (American alternative rock, double album)  PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love (English alternative rock / blues rock)  Pulp - Different Class (English brit-pop / art rock)  David Bowie - Outside (English art rock / industrial rock, concept album and part one of a later abandoned trilogy, produced by Brian Eno)  Beastie Boys - Aglio e Olio (American hardcore punk, eight song, eleven minute EP)  Faith No More - King for a Day… Fool For A Life Time (American alternative metal, their only album to feature Mr. Bungle guitarist Trey Spruance)  Deftones - Adrenaline (American alternative metal / nu metal, debut album)  Mr. Bungle - Disco Volante (American experimental rock / avant garde metal)  Skunk Anansie - Paranoid & Sunburn...

Nirvana - Bleach (American grunge / alternative rock, debut album)  808 State - 90 (British electronic music / acid house)  Melvins - Ozma (American sludge metal / grunge)  Faith No More - The Real Thing (American funk metal / alternative metal, their first album with vocalist Mike Patton replacing Chuck Mosely)  Pixies - Doolittle (American alternative rock) Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine (American industrial rock / synth pop, debut album)  A.R. Kane - “i” (British dream pop / avant-pop)  Operation Ivy - Energy (American ska-punk, their only full length album) The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Devil’s Night Out (American ska punk / ska-core, debut album)  Bad Religion - No Control (American punk rock)  White Zombie - Make Them Die Slowly (American heavy metal/ noise rock) White Zombie - God Of Thunder (American groove metal, EP featuring a cover of the title Kiss song plus two original songs, first release to feature guitarist Jay Yuenger, who...

Nick Drake - Pink Moon (english folk, his last studio album) Blue Oyster Cult - Blue Oyster Cult (American hard rock/ psychedelic rock, debut album)  The Rolling Stones - Exile On Main St. (English rock and roll, double album)  Big Star - #1 Record (American power pop, debut album) Neil Young - Harvest (Canadian-American folk rock / country rock)  The Raspberries - The Raspberries (American power pop, debut album) Deep Purple - Machine Head (English heavy metal)  Todd Rundgren - Something/Anything (American pop rock / psychedelia, double album) David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (English glam rock, concept album)  Jerry Garcia - Garcia (American country rock / psychedelia, solo album by Grateful Dead guitarist/vocalist)  Steely Dan - Can’t Buy A Thrill (American soft rock, debut album)  Black Sabbath - Vol. 4 (British heavy metal)  Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick (British progressive rock, concept album cons...

Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty (American alternative hip hop) They Might Be Giants - Severe Tire Damage (American alternative rock, live album also featuring three new studio recordings) Primus - Rhinoplasty (American funk metal / experimental rock, features six cover songs, one remake of an original song, and two “bonus live tracks”)*  Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea (American indie rock/psychedelic folk, their second and final full length studio album)   Beck - Mutations (American folk rock/psychedelic rock)  Various - Deconstructing Beck (various artists create plunderphonics/noise sound collage pieces using unlicensed Beck samples, co-release by Illegal Art and Negativland’s Seeland Records)  Phish - Story of the Ghost (American jazz-funk/progressive rock)  Garbage - Version 2.0 (American alternative rock / synth rock)  Korn - Follow the Leader (American nu metal) System of a Down - System of a Down (Armenian American alternative met...