Fire Walk With Me

previously on Best Albums Lists somebody stop me:

1960’s —- 1970’s —— 1980’s

1990: Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet

(runners-up: Sonic Youth - Goo; The Breeders - Pod; Depeche Mode - Violator) 

1991: Nirvana - Nevermind

(Runners-up: My Bloody Valentine - Loveless; Massive Attack - Blue Lines; A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory; U2 - Achtung Baby)

1992: Spiritualized - Laser Guided Melodies

(runners-up: Tom Waits - Bone Machine; Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine; R.E.M. - Automatic For the People; Pearl Jam - Ten)

1993: Slowdive - Souvlaki

(runners-up: Nirvana - In Utero; Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream; PJ Harvey - Rid of Me)

1994: Portishead - Dummy

(runners-up: Weezer - The Blue Album; Jeff Buckley - Grace; Hole - Live Through This)

1995: Pulp- Different Class

(runners-up: Tricky - Maxinquaye; Radiohead- The Bends; Bjork -Post; The Flaming Lips - Clouds Taste Metallic; Oasis - What’s the Story, Morning Glory?; PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love)

1996: DJ Shadow - Endtroducing

(runners-up: Belle & Sebastian - Tigermilk AND If You’re Feeling Sinister; Dr. Octagon - Dr. Octagonecologyst; Beck - Odelay; Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds- Murder Ballads; The Fugees - The Score; Neutral Milk Hotel - On Avery Island; Fiona Apple - Tidal)

1997: Radiohead - OK Computer

(runners-up: way too many to list here - Bjork - Homogenic; Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space; Sleater-Kinney - Dig Me Out; Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West; Built to Spill - Perfect From Now On; Elliott Smith - Either/Or; Mogwai - Young Team; etc etc etc etc)

1998: Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

(runners-up: Massive Attack - Mezzanine; Cat Power - Moon Pix; Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children; Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill; Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road; Pulp - This is Hardcore)

1999: The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin

(runners-up: The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs; Wilco - Summerteeth; Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile; Mos Def - Black on Both Sides; Tom Waits - Mule Variations; The Roots - Things Fall Apart; Le Tigre - Le Tigre)