Did a couple quick updates this weekend stemming from discussion of best albums of the 90s.    In looking at it three interesting things jumped out to me:

1. Seems like Beulah and Uncle Tupelo were my favorite bands of the 90s
2. Top ten is too short when you have 484 albums.  Many unbelievable albums were left off
3. Only record label with two entries in top ten was Sire.    A bit surprising.

Using my album formula, here are my favorite albums from the 90s:

1.  Uncle Tupelo’s Anodyne (Sire) – 1993 – 9.883

2.  Beulah’s When Your Heartstrings Break (Sugar Free) – 1999 – 9.877

3.  Neutral Milk Hotel’s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (Merge) – 1998 – 9.868

4.  Beulah’s Handsome Western States (Cargo) – 1997 – 9.855

5.  Uncle Tupelo’s Still Feel Gone (Gasatanka) – 1991 – 9.814

6.  Dinosaur Jr.’s Green Mind (Sire) – 1991 – 9.805

7.  Palace Brothers’ Viva Lost Blues (Drag City) – 1995 – 9.800

8.  Uncle Tupelo’s March 16-20,1992 (Rockville) -1992 – 9.798

9.  Pele’s Teaching the History of Teaching Geography (Star Star Stereo) – 1998 – 9.794

10.  Pavement’s Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (Matador) – 1994 – 9.784

Using my album formula, here are my favorite EPs from the 1990s:

1. Jim O’Rourke’s Halfway to a Threeway (Drag City) – 1999 – 9.768

2.  Smog’s Kicking a Couple Around (Drag City) – 1996 – 9.740

3.  Illium’s Plexiglass Cube (Hefty) – 1998 – 9.423

4.  Palace Songs’ Hope (Drag City) – 1994 – 9.298

5.  Unwed Sailor’s Firecracker (Burnt Toast Vinyl) – 1998 – 9.074

6. Will Oldham’s Western Music (Acuarela) – 1998 – 8.648

7.  Pedro the Lion’s Whole (Tooth and Nail) – 1997 – 8.582

8.  The Mountain Goats’ Jack & Faye (Self Released) – 1996 – 8.350

9.  Pedro the Lion’s The Only Reason I Feel Secure (Made in Mexico) – 1999 – 7.996

10.  Pavement’s Watery, Domestic (Matador) – 1992 – 7.778