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The Best Experimental Rock Albums of the 1990s by User Score

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

1.

Swans - Soundtracks For The Blind
October 22nd, 1996
Post-Rock, Experimental Rock, Experimental, Drone
USER SCORE
91
3,080 ratings
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

2.

Swans - Swans Are Dead
January 20th, 1998
Experimental Rock, Post-Rock
USER SCORE
90
405 ratings
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

3.

Café Tacvba - Revés/Yosoy
July 20th, 1999
Art Rock, Experimental Rock, Art Pop
USER SCORE
87
85 ratings
Amazon

4.

Mr. Bungle - California
July 13th, 1999
Experimental Rock, Art Rock
USER SCORE
86
755 ratings
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

5.

Experimental Rock, Noise Rock, Post-Rock
USER SCORE
86
32 ratings
Amazon

6.

MilkCan - Make It Sweet!
June 19th, 1999
Experimental Rock, Power Pop, Alternative Rock, Pop Rock, Pop Punk
USER SCORE
86
39 ratings
Amazon

7.

Tom Waits - Bone Machine
September 8th, 1992
Singer-Songwriter, Experimental Rock
USER SCORE
86
549 ratings
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

8.

John Frusciante - Estrus EP
August 1st, 1997
Experimental Rock
USER SCORE
85
13 ratings
Amazon

9.

Swans - The Great Annihilator
January 23rd, 1995
Gothic Rock, Post-Punk, Experimental Rock
USER SCORE
85
1,423 ratings
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

10.

Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun
October 27th, 1999
Neo-Psychedelia, Experimental Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Krautrock
USER SCORE
85
396 ratings
Amazon
iTunes
Music

11.

Ground-Zero - Consume Red
April 15th, 1997
Drone, Noise, Experimental Rock, Free Improvisation, Experimental, Noise Rock
USER SCORE
84
265 ratings
Amazon

12.

Blur - 13
March 15th, 1999
Art Rock, Experimental Rock, Alternative Rock, Neo-Psychedelia
USER SCORE
84
1,275 ratings
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

13.

Tortoise - TNT
March 10th, 1998
Experimental Rock, Post-Rock
USER SCORE
83
393 ratings
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

14.

Nakaido 'Chabo' Reichi - Serial Experiments Lain Sound Track
August 26th, 1998
Alternative Rock, Dark Ambient, Experimental Rock, Trip Hop, Noise Rock, Folk Rock
USER SCORE
83
27 ratings
Amazon

15.

Boredoms - Super Roots 7
November 26th, 1998
Experimental Rock, Neo-Psychedelia, Noise Rock
USER SCORE
83
36 ratings
Amazon

16.

Ween - Paintin' the Town Brown: Ween Live '90-'98
June 22nd, 1999
Experimental Rock, Alternative Rock, Psychedelic Rock
USER SCORE
82
17 ratings
Amazon

17.

The Dead C - Trapdoor Fucking Exit
Noise Rock, Experimental Rock
USER SCORE
82
12 ratings
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

18.

Scott Walker - Tilt
May 8th, 1995
Experimental, Singer-Songwriter, Post-Industrial, Experimental Rock, Post-Rock
USER SCORE
82
217 ratings
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

19.

Егор и Опизденевшие - Сто лет одиночества
Psychedelic Rock, Post-Punk, Experimental Rock, Noise Rock, Folk Rock, Neo-Psychedelia
USER SCORE
82
37 ratings
Amazon

20.

Dog Faced Hermans - Hum of Life
July 13th, 1993
Post-Punk, Art Punk, No Wave, Experimental Rock
USER SCORE
82
60 ratings
Amazon

21.

Koenjihyakkei - 弐 (Ni)
Zeuhl, Brutal Prog
USER SCORE
82
15 ratings
Amazon

22.

Stereolab - Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements
August 10th, 1993
Noise Pop, Post-Rock, Experimental Rock, Space Rock Revival, Krautrock
USER SCORE
82
357 ratings
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

23.

Ground-Zero - Last Concert
May 8th, 1999
Noise Rock, Experimental Rock
USER SCORE
82
34 ratings
Amazon

24.

Frank Zappa - Läther
November 24th, 1996
Experimental Rock
USER SCORE
81
27 ratings
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify

25.

Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die
January 30th, 1996
Post-Rock, Experimental Rock
USER SCORE
81
288 ratings
Amazon
iTunes
Music
Spotify
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