Best rock album - 1994?

[dnc]

Hands down.

And still holds up today.

Fight me.

Basketcase is their magnum opus

 

[YellowSnow]

Hands down.

And still holds up today.

Fight me.

It's not that Dookie isn't a good record. It's fun and catchy but at the end of the day, it's too late 70's punk revivalist sounding to me. Put it on next to Nevermind and it sounds trite to my ear. Weezer's debut album was a much better synthesis of late 70's influences (e.g., Kiss, Cheap Trick, etc) into a new sound.

 

[dnc]

Ultimately, I couldn't vote against @Swaye

 

[huskyhooligan]

Blue album is the one I've listened to the most of the listed. All good.

 

[Fenderbender123]

Basketcase is probably the only song on that album that I liked when it came out, but don't really like today.

I like this one...probably can't get away with these lyrics today.

 

[Fenderbender123]

Hands down.

And still holds up today.

Fight me.

It's fun and catchy but at the end of the day, it's too late 70's punk revivalist sounding to me.

That combination is what makes it so great. Such a raw, yet catchy sound...couple that with the edgy lyrics, and it's always a good choice for blowing off steam when I leave the office in a bad mood.

 

[GrundleStiltzkin]

Ultimately, I couldn't vote against @Swaye

No fair, Swaye gets two Soundgarden songs.

 

[huskyhooligan]

Basketcase is probably the only song on that album that I liked when it came out, but don't really like today.

I like this one...probably can't get away with these lyrics today.

When I come around was actually probably my favorite off the album.

 

[RoadDawg55]

I’m a rare Soundgarden fan that actually likes Down on the Upside better than their two first albums.

It was the first Soundgarden album I listened to and I used to ride to baseball games with my dad blasting it. Critics didn’t like it as much as I did tho.

 

[GrundleStiltzkin]

I’m a rare Soundgarden fan that actually likes Down on the Upside better than their two first albums.

It was the first Soundgarden album I listened to and I used to ride to baseball games with my dad blasting it. Critics didn’t like it as much as I did tho.

I have a release-day double vinyl copy of that.

 

[YellowSnow]

I’m a rare Soundgarden fan that actually likes Down on the Upside better than their two first albums.

It was the first Soundgarden album I listened to and I used to ride to baseball games with my dad blasting it. Critics didn’t like it as much as I did tho.

@RoadDawg55 and I always don't pick the same album, but it's kewl when we do.

 

[Joey]

I wouldn't rank "Dookie" the best if I heard it for the first time today, but man...back in middle school, when that album came out, it was the absolute tits.

Everyone had this album and the Offsprings first album

 

[Mad_Son]

I was looking for reasons not to vote MTV Unplugged but it is such a good album. Weezer and Dookie were such good choices I think they pushed me to not vote one over the other.

 

[GrundleStiltzkin]

I wouldn't rank "Dookie" the best if I heard it for the first time today, but man...back in middle school, when that album came out, it was the absolute tits.

Everyone[/b] had this album and the Offsprings first album

 

[huskyhooligan]

I wouldn't rank "Dookie" the best if I heard it for the first time today, but man...back in middle school, when that album came out, it was the absolute tits.

Everyone had this album and the Offsprings first album

Smash. A great album to listen to when angry. I think they played mercer arena and tickets were like $15.

 

[dnc]

I’m a rare Soundgarden fan that actually likes Down on the Upside better than their two first albums.

It was the first Soundgarden album I listened to and I used to ride to baseball games with my dad blasting it. Critics didn’t like it as much as I did tho.

That's some dark shit man.

#CancelRoadie #CancelYella

 

[YellowSnow]

I’m a rare Soundgarden fan that actually likes Down on the Upside better than their two first albums.

It was the first Soundgarden album I listened to and I used to ride to baseball games with my dad blasting it. Critics didn’t like it as much as I did tho.

That's some dark shit man.

#CancelRoadie #CancelYella

You don’t want to see a real bully get riled up. You just don’t.

 

[RoadDawg55]

I wouldn't rank "Dookie" the best if I heard it for the first time today, but man...back in middle school, when that album came out, it was the absolute tits.

Everyone had this album and the Offsprings first album

I’m a rare Soundgarden fan that actually likes Down on the Upside better than their two first albums.

It was the first Soundgarden album I listened to and I used to ride to baseball games with my dad blasting it. Critics didn’t like it as much as I did tho.

That's some dark shit man.

#CancelRoadie #CancelYella

Possibly my favorite Soundgarden song. Hard to choose tho.

 

[dnc]

This year's so deep neither Sixteen Stone nor Cracked Rear View got a nomination nor a mention but I think either could hit the podium in 96.

Crazy how fast rock fell off from the early 90s to the late.

 

[YellowSnow]

This year's so deep neither Sixteen Stone nor Cracked Rear View got a nomination nor a mention but I think either could hit the podium in 96.

Crazy how fast rock fell off from the early 90s to the late.

91 and 94 heads and shoulders above the 90s comp set. Each year winner gets an auto big to the Album dance. But some years like 94 are so deep 3 teams will get in. Other years only might get one in.