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Highest Rated Albums of the 1990s

Decade
Source
Genre
1990s
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999

1.

Mobb Deep - The Infamous
April 25, 1995
Hip Hop
Score
100
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2.

12 Rods - Gay?
January 14, 1996
Indie Rock
Score
100
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3.

Hole - Live Through This
April 12, 1994
Alternative Rock
Score
100
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4.

A Tribe Called Quest - People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
April 17, 1990
Hip Hop
Score
100
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5.

Dr. Dre - The Chronic
December 15, 1992
Hip Hop
Score
100
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6.

Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
September 17, 1990
Dream Pop
Score
100
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7.

Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
September 16, 1991
Post-Rock
Score
100
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8.

Slint - Spiderland
March 27, 1991
Post-Rock
Score
100
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9.

Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
April 10, 1990
Hip Hop
Score
100
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10.

Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Volume II
March 7, 1994
Ambient
Score
100
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11.

Björk - Post
June 13, 1995
Art Pop
Score
100
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12.

The Notorious B.I.G. - Ready to Die
September 13, 1994
Hip Hop
Score
100
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13.

Nas - Illmatic
April 19, 1994
Hip Hop
Score
100
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iTunes
Music
Spotify

14.

Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West
November 18, 1997
Score
100
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iTunes
Music
Spotify

15.

Björk - Homogenic
September 23, 1997
Art Pop
Score
100
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iTunes
Music
Spotify

16.

Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
April 20, 1998
IDM
Score
100
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iTunes
Music
Spotify

17.

My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
November 4, 1991
Shoegaze
Score
100
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18.

Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
February 10, 1998
Indie Rock
Score
100
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19.

DJ Shadow - Endtroducing...
November 19, 1996
Instrumental Hip Hop
Score
100
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20.

Amon Tobin - Bricolage
May 19, 1997
Electronic
Score
100
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Spotify

21.

Walt Mink - El Producto
January 16, 1996
Indie Rock
Score
100
Source →
Amazon

22.

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - I See a Darkness
January 19, 1999
Folk
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music

23.

PJ Harvey - Rid of Me
May 4, 1993
Alternative Rock
Score
100
Source →
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iTunes
Music
Spotify

24.

Weezer - Weezer (Blue Album)
May 10, 1994
Alternative Rock
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

25.

The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
May 17, 1999
Neo-Psychedelia
Score
100
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iTunes
Music
Spotify
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NOTE: This is not a year end list. This list is ordered by the ratings Pitchfork awarded albums throughout 1990.
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