Top 100 Best Selling Albums of The 90s

[Baby Clyde]

Except for the inexplicable inclusion of Thank You For The Music at the expense of Angeleyes or Summer Night City!!!

But it doesn't matter, there could have been numerous different tracklistings each one would have been 100% perfect*

This is ABBA!!!



*As long as none of them included 'Nina Pretty Ballerina'.

[Baby Clyde]

The two Gallaghers are annoying people

Noel Gallagher once called me a 'faggot'.

That's all.

[Eric Generic]

I somehow overlooked Robson and sodding Jerome at #7 when I commented on it being a great top 10!

Verve's album is and was horribly overrated too. Nice singles, but not much else. It was simply the beneficiary of the public's mass post-Oasis brainstorm.

So, 8 good albums in the top 10.

[Booers]

Spice Girls - piquant ladies! This album made me come out of my 'teenage trying to be cool' phase and just embrace pop again. For about 18 months before that it had been all about Massive Attack, Tricky, Bjork and the like, so when I got a copy of Spice for Christmas in 1996 it changed EVERYTHING!

Stars - night-time twinklings! I knew this was a big seller as I remember reading about it at the time, how it was the biggest/fastest selling British album ever or something, but those numbers are just ridic! The singles are good from it (my fave is Your Mirror) but a lot of the album tracks were not very memorable.

(What's the story) Morning Glory? - Mancunian Daybreak Splendour! Funnily enough, I bought this at the same time as a Simply Red album, but that was Life not Stars. I'd won £40 on a scratchcard, so after school I went to my local record shop and got this album and Life. It's not something I particularly listen to much these days, but it's stilla good album. The only one I was never too fussed on was Cast No Shadow which seems to be a bit of a favourite for everyone else. The lyrics seemed a bit like A-level student poetry to me, trying too hard to be deep and meaningful.

I've got 55 of that list, would be 56 if I still had my copy of Mosely Shoals (dunno where that went!) and then I have all the songs from ABBA Gold on their albums, but not that actual album, plus updated Greatest Hits collections from Bon Jovi, Elton John and Bee Gees but not those actual ones.

[hudweiser]

I only own 15 of them!

Words can't express how annoying it was to be a college student during the peak of Oasis' career. They were literally inescapable. Prolonged debates during breaks about them. Bleechh.

Proud to say I never bought a Spice Girls album either.

[bichard]

But it doesn't matter, there could have been numerous different tracklistings each one would have been 100% perfect*

This is ABBA!!!



*As long as none of them included 'Nina Pretty Ballerina'.

See I love Nina, Pretty Ballerina! It's much more fun than Thank You For The Music and I Have A Dream. I'd even go as far as to say I prefer it to some ABBA classics, such as Waterloo, Take A Chance On Me and the hideous, ear splitting and over-rated Dancing Queen!

[bichard]

(What's the story) Morning Glory? - Mancunian Daybreak Splendour! Funnily enough, I bought this at the same time as a Simply Red album, but that was Life not Stars. I'd won £40 on a scratchcard, so after school I went to my local record shop and got this album and Life. It's not something I particularly listen to much these days, but it's stilla good album. The only one I was never too fussed on was Cast No Shadow which seems to be a bit of a favourite for everyone else. The lyrics seemed a bit like A-level student poetry to me, trying too hard to be deep and meaningful.

I think the basic song and lyric writing was the key to Oasis's success really. Their music was so unchallenging that anyone could appreciate it, and they cultivated the whole "thick is cool" image remarkably well. As such they managed to net all the moronic straight boys as fans (which were frighteningly prevalent in Doncaster where I grew up), who otherwise weren't really into music, as well as (inexplicably) attracting girls to them through Liam's "good" looks. They were the definition of "music for the masses".

Crikey. That makes me sound like a right snob. Well, if the cap fits...

[hudweiser]

See I love Nina, Pretty Ballerina! It's much more fun than Thank You For The Music and I Have A Dream. I'd even go as far as to say I prefer it to some ABBA classics, such as Waterloo, Take A Chance On Me and the hideous, ear splitting and over-rated Dancing Queen!

Thank You for the Music is ultimately saved by Aggie's delivery of the final line, which is perfection.

[tylerc904]

I can't believe you don't like Dancing Queen bichard!

[Mvnl]

It took me Steps' cover to finally start caring about Dancing Queen.

[Eric Generic]

Oasis cultivated the whole "thick is cool" image remarkably well. They were the definition of "music for the masses".

Crikey. That makes me sound like a right snob. Well, if the cap fits...

Haha, you are quite correct though!

I was only reading yesterday in the John Lydon book "Rotten" about this whole "rock music needs to be thick to be cool" nonsense. He take the view that journalists in the 70s always celebrated the less intellectual music because it made them feel superior.

[bichard]

I can't believe you don't like Dancing Queen bichard!

Hate it. Dreadful racket!!!

[bichard]

Haha, you are quite correct though!

I was only reading yesterday in the John Lydon book "Rotten" about this whole "rock music needs to be thick to be cool" nonsense. He take the view that journalists in the 70s always celebrated the less intellectual music because it made them feel superior.

I've never read that. Might have to give it a look!

Blur never stood a chance against Oasis really. Their songs were generally too clever and they had too much to say.

I remember when I was younger I knew this lad who was in a band. They were really good and got to the point of being seen by a few record company types. They were told their music was "too intelligent" and that they'd never get signed. And so it was!!!

[Baby Clyde]

See I love Nina, Pretty Ballerina! It's much more fun than Thank You For The Music and I Have A Dream. I'd even go as far as to say I prefer it to some ABBA classics, such as Waterloo, Take A Chance On Me and the hideous, ear splitting and over-rated Dancing Queen!

'Nina, Pretty Ballerina' is atrocious in every conceivable way. Like a Brotherhood of Man album track.

[Baby Clyde]

And I should know, I own 3!!!

[Baby Clyde]

It took me Steps' cover to finally start caring about Dancing Queen.

I can't believe I've just read this sentence???

I can't bear 'Dancing Queen'. It's fantastic obviously but it ubiquity has made in completely unbearable after all these years.

The likes of Steps covering it was the final nail in it's coffin.

[Mvnl]

I don't know, I just never cared much for 'happy' ABBA, so Dancing Queen never did much for me.
But Steps covering it forced me to listen to it quite a few times and then it sorta clicked. Definitely not because their version is in any way better. Well it's better than the A*Teens attempt at least.

[tylerc904]

The only ABBA song that the A*Teens were able to "improve" is Gimme Gimme Gimme simply for the fact that it makes an amazing dance track.

Vocals of delivery of couse could not be improved by anyone.

[Eric Generic]

Dancing Queen is an odd fish for me; obviously a classic, but I wasn't mad on it as a kid (Money Money Money and Knowing Me Knowing You were the ones as far as I was concerned) and, as Baby Clyde says, its utter ubiquity in the last 10 years hasn't helped. But it is an amazingly crafted song. So I'm in dilemma as to how I should rate it!

[letuinmybackdoor]

Is it heresy to say I think 'Hung up' is better than 'Gimme, gimme, Gimme'?

[bichard]

Is it heresy to say I think 'Hung up' is better than 'Gimme, gimme, Gimme'?

Yes. Yes it is.

[The Still Major On Sheets]

I own 16 of the 100 albums.

5 JAGGED LITTLE PILL Alanis Morissette
10 COME ON OVER Shania Twain [I've owned but since sold on. In this case I replaced it with the Greatest Hits.]
12 GREATEST HITS II Queen
15 AUTOMATIC FOR THE PEOPLE REM
31 CROSSROAD- THE BEST OF BON JOVI Bon Jovi
34 OUT OF TIME REM
40 GREATEST HITS Queen
44 BUT SERIOUSLY Phil Collins [I've owned but since sold on.]
49 NEVERMIND Nirvana
58 WE CAN’T DANCE Genesis
69 ACHTUNG BABY U2
80 GREATEST HITS 1965-1992 Cher
92 OK COMPUTER Radiohead
93 LEFT OF THE MIDDLE Natalie Imbruglia
96 SGT PEPPER’S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND Beatles
98 MONSTER REM


Queen CDs are the three disc Platinum version.

Cher and Imbruglia are recent £1 second hand purchases.