The album's sole hit, "Cannonball," remains one of the most ridiculous pop songs to ever crash the pop charts.

Dr. Dre’s low-riding G-funk makes the perfect backdrop to Snoop’s rhymes, as slow and lazy as a dog-day afternoon. Gangsta rap never sounded so friendly.

Johnny Cash pulled it off, though. !This production-driven album took listeners for an unforgettable ride that culminated with notable hits like "Proceed" and "Mellow My Man.". EPMD - Business As UsualBusiness as usual?

This is an excerpt from the introduction to Rolling Stone‘s book The ’90s: The Inside Stories From the Decade that Rocked.

These weren't the first bandmates to focus female fury and desire to the beat of a kick drum, but they could make music as fully arresting as their ideas. Our main database does not give the precise date that a record reached the Number 1 spot. Hailed as The Dark Side of the Moon for the Information Age, Computer is too brittle in its time-signature twists and hairpin guitar turns, too claustrophobic in mood, to qualify as space rock.

Toné! Daddy G, Mushroom and 3-D made their most majestic statement on Protection, with colossal beats and first-rate vocal guests. the minute this baby dropped: Metallica had actually bothered to write songs, not just string ten minutes' worth of hot licks into an anti-capital-punishment suite. Nas crammed into 39 minutes more potent material than most rappers could muster in twice that time.

B-Real and Sen-Dog come on as a hip-hop Cheech and Chong, praising the sweet leaf with a devotion rarely seen beyond the parking lot at a Phish concert. Against all odds, Buena Vista Social Club defied Nineties-pop formulas and became a huge word-of-mouth hit. 3. 8.

A Tribe Called Quest - People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of RhythmThrough their honest and introspective rhymes, Tribe appealed to America's urban youth on their debut album. "I fear that I am ordinary, just like everyone," wails master Billy Corgan on "Muzzle," from this double-disc epic. 100 Best Albums of the ’90s The Nineties as a musical era started late and ended early — kicked in by the scritchy-scratch power chords of “Smells Like Teen Spirit… The Roots - Things Fall ApartThis mid-career success for the Roots was a huge step forward from the righteous fury of their first 3 LPs.

The Nineties as a musical era started late and ended early — kicked in by the scritchy-scratch power chords of “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” ushered out by the doomy piano intro of “. 1. Muggs pumps bongloads of bass into paranoid sound collages like "Hand on the Pump," and when you turn it up loud, the beat goes boo-ya. The Boys loosen up on their instruments, especially in the subzero cool of "Transitions." Tricky makes a great cameo, but Tracey Thorn of Everything but the Girl steals the show in the eight-minute title track, a stand-by-your-woman soul ballad that takes off into outer space and gets home in time to do the dishes.

But it is a rich legacy: the transportive blend of serpentine guitars and Buckley's melismatic singing in "Mojo Pin" and "Grace"; the garage-band swagger and velvet pathos of "Last Goodbye" and "So Real"; the way Buckley turns Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" into delicate, personal prayer.

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But the real Nineties were richer, funnier and weirder than that, with fake grunge bands writing better songs than some of the real ones, Eighties holdovers U2 and R.E.M. Yeah, Björk's music is 'post' — post-rock, post-apocalyptic, flashily futuristic in tone. It is to the '90s what Alicia Keys' album "Songs in A Minor" was to the '00s. Some real-life girls mentioned on Pinkerton are ones Cuomo had crushes on but didn't date: a lesbian, a girl in one of his classes who rebuffed his invitation to a Green Day concert and an eighteen-year-old in Japan who wrote him a fun letter and with whom he became obsessed, wondering if she thought about him when she masturbated. The classic soul production that blessed their first two had evolved into frenetic blasts of funk, the rhymes had grown increasingly confrontational. B-Real is one of the most recognizable voices in west coast hip-hop and DJ Muggs is arguably the greatest producer on the planet.

Like Lyte before her, Lauryn excelled without drawing unnecessary attention to her sexual ambiance. UGK - Too Hard to SwallowThanks to Pimp C's deft production and Bun B's technically sound MCing, UGK helped put Southern-fried rap on the hip-hop map.

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Chief pumpkin Billy Corgan took the idea of quality control to its obsessive conclusion by playing most of this album's guitar and bass parts himself — a rough deal for guitarist James Iha and bassist D'Arcy. reaching creative peaks with Achtung Baby and Automatic for the People, Metallica and the Black Crowes co-existing on MTV, Phish tending to the Deadhead nation after Jerry’s passing — and Vanilla Ice and MC Hammer ceding their pop thrones in a few short years to Dr. Dre, Snoop and Eminem.