top 100 albums of the 90s

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As we're nearing the end of the year, it's just about time for the slew of self-congratulatory stupidity to start flowing out of our mainstream media. They'll give us their top ten moments, their top twenty celebrities, the fifty most beautiful people, blah blah blah.

Here's an alternative. Jenny turned me on to Pitchfork a while back, and the site stuck enough to make it to my sidebar. Slowly, slowly, slowly, I'm making my way back into a little bit of musical awareness, thanks to the Pitchfolks. Anyhow, they're doing something a little different. Four years ago, of course, they did a top 100 for the decade. Four years later, they're reconsidering and rereleasing the list, with a little hindsight and perspective added for good measure:

looking back at that list a lot has changed: our perceptions of the decade are different now, our personal tastes have expanded, our knowledge of the music has deepened, and excepting myself, Mark Richardson and Brent DiCrescenzo, the staff has turned over twice. It got me to thinking about how the musical landscape, too, continually changes. Revisionism ushers in new classics which had simply been forgotten, or altogether undiscovered, and while most truly essential albums will always be represented on these types of lists, even their relevance can be dictated by current trends.

I'm not going to spoil the surprises for you, but I recommend that you check out their list, and perhaps then check out the original top 100 that they released way back when. Some of the rankings are consistent; more than a few have changed, and sometimes drastically.

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