Jamwise #44 · Years · 1993 (Part 3)
Best Albums of 1993 (Part 3)
The best albums of 1993, part three (I promise this is the last one) — Cypress Hill, Bjork's Debut, Pet Shop Boys, Counting Crows, Radiohead's Pablo Honey, and Mazzy Star.
I’m just having too much fun in 1993. I promise this is the last week I’ll spend there (for now) because the legendary 1994 is looming on the horizon. Hope you enjoy! And don’t you dare send me more recommendations from 1993! (wink wink)
And here are parts 1 and 2 for fun if you missed them. The list so far includes albums by: Wu-Tang Clan, The Breeders, De La Soul, Yo La Tengo, Depeche Mode, Pearl Jam, Liz Phair, PJ Harvey, Nirvana, Snoop Dogg, Smashing Pumpkins, and A Tribe Called Quest.
Black Sunday — Cypress Hill
I’m coming to the conclusion that despite my East Coast upbringing, I’m a West Coast guy when it comes to the golden age of hip hop.
Debut — Björk
Dancey acidy trippy experimenty. It feels like the soundtrack that should be playing over a montage of an old school chemist tossing a dash of this and a dash of that into a beaker, brightly colored fluids mixing and steaming and bubbling into psychedelic concoctions.
Very — Pet Shop Boys
Pet Shop Boys are one of those acts I might have described as a guilty pleasure back when I thought Pop was a dumb genre. They ornament their pop in every almost-lame way imaginable, with strings and horns and synths and superficially intriguing lyrics.
Pablo Honey — Radiohead
Radiohead. Oh, Radiohead. You released this album in a more innocent time in your career, a time long before you would confound me with another album the entire music industry has convinced themselves they love.
August and Everything After — Counting Crows
I have a somewhat unique relationship to the song “Omaha” from this album. I was a college baseball player.
So Tonight That I Might See — Mazzy Star
This dreamy album was almost totally new to me except the classic opening track “Fade Into You”. Evidence suggests that 1993 was a year of many problems for the alt rock acts of the day.
Tuesday Night Music Club — Sheryl Crow
The album is named for the group of musicians that came together every Tuesday to make this album, and that was a perfect vibe choice - it suggest a casual approach to both the songwriting and the recording, and it’s believable.