The Best Albums of 2001
The best albums of 2001 — The Strokes, Jay-Z, Tool, Bob Dylan, System of a Down, Alicia Keys, and Weezer.
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The best albums of 2001 — The Strokes, Jay-Z, Tool, Bob Dylan, System of a Down, Alicia Keys, and Weezer.
The best albums of 2000 — Radiohead's Kid A, Outkast's Stankonia, D'Angelo's Voodoo, Erykah Badu, Santana, and Linkin Park. The Y2K apocalypse we deserved.
The best albums of 1999 — Fiona Apple's When the Pawn, Blink-182, Mos Def, The Roots, Muse's debut, and Red Hot Chili Peppers' Californication.
The best albums of 1998 — Lauryn Hill's Miseducation, Massive Attack's Mezzanine, PJ Harvey, Garbage, Outkast's Aquemini, and Pulp.
Seven great 2024 albums from South Carolina bands in Charleston, Columbia and Greenville, including Brave Baby, Slow Funeral and Shovels & Rope.
The best albums of 1997 — Radiohead's OK Computer, Elliott Smith, Biggie's Life After Death, Foo Fighters, Erykah Badu, and Sleater-Kinney.
The best albums of 1996 — Jay-Z's Reasonable Doubt, Beck's Odelay, Fiona Apple's Tidal, Rage Against the Machine, Tool, and R.E.M. A quietly stacked year for debuts.
The best albums of 1995 — Radiohead's The Bends, PJ Harvey, Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill, Oasis, Pulp, Elliott Smith, and 2Pac. Grunge fading, Britpop rising.
More of the best albums of 1994 — Nirvana's MTV Unplugged, Blur's Parklife, Tom Petty, Hole, Nine Inch Nails, and R.E.M.'s Monster, plus a giant crowdsourced list.
The best albums of 1994, revisited three decades later — Soundgarden, Green Day, Jeff Buckley, Nas, Portishead, Oasis, Weezer, and more. No rankings, just great records.
Billie Eilish, Sabrina Carpenter, Taylor Swift, Chappell Roan, Olivia Rodrigo, Ariana Grande — a lifelong pop skeptic actually sits with 2024's biggest albums. Turns out I was wrong.
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.
More of the best albums of 1993 — Wu-Tang Clan's 36 Chambers, The Breeders, De La Soul, Yo La Tengo, Depeche Mode, and Pearl Jam's Vs. Six more reasons 1993 was stacked.
The best albums of 1993, part one of three — Liz Phair's Exile in Guyville, Nirvana's In Utero, Snoop Dogg, Smashing Pumpkins, and A Tribe Called Quest. An overlooked great year.
More of the best albums of 1992 — Alice in Chains, The Cure, PJ Harvey, Stone Temple Pilots, Aphex Twin, and Arrested Development. Four legendary debuts in one issue.
The best albums of 1992, part one — Dr. Dre's The Chronic, R.E.M.'s Automatic For The People, Pavement, Rage Against the Machine, Tori Amos, and Sade. An absurdly stacked year.
More of the best albums of 1991 — the ones readers made me go back for. My Bloody Valentine, R.E.M., Pixies, De La Soul, Dinosaur Jr., and Teenage Fanclub round out part two.
The best albums of 1991, part one of two — Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Metallica, Red Hot Chili Peppers, A Tribe Called Quest, Massive Attack, and more. Grunge's big bang year.
The best albums of 1990, the first stop in my dive through the decade — Madonna, Depeche Mode, Public Enemy, Sonic Youth, Cocteau Twins, Sinead O'Connor, and more.