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(What's the Story) Morning Glory?
(What's the Story) Morning Glory? is Oasis's second studio album, released 2 October 1995 on Creation Records. Recorded at Rockfield Studios and produced by Noel Gallagher and Owen Morris, it sold 347,000 UK copies in its first week and over 22 million worldwide, featuring Wonderwall and Don't Look Back in Anger.
13 (Blur album)
13 is the sixth studio album by English rock band Blur, released in March 1999. Written largely from Damon Albarn's heartbreak, it debuted at number 1 in the UK.
69 Love Songs
69 Love Songs is a 1999 triple album by The Magnetic Fields on Merge Records: 69 Stephin Merritt love songs across three CDs, about 2 hours 52 minutes, written in New York bars and critically acclaimed.
Achtung Baby
Achtung Baby is U2's seventh studio album, released November 18, 1991 on Island Records. Recorded from October 1990 at Berlin's Hansa Studios and in Dublin with Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno, it reinvented the band's sound with electronic beats and sold about 18 million copies.
Are You Gonna Go My Way
Are You Gonna Go My Way: Lenny Kravitz's third studio album and its title track, released March 9, 1993 on Virgin Records. Recorded analog at Waterfront Studios, Hoboken; sold over four million copies, hit number 1 on Billboard Album Rock Tracks, and earned 1994 Grammy nominations.
August and Everything After
August and Everything After: Counting Crows' debut studio album, released September 14, 1993 on Geffen, produced by T Bone Burnett. Eleven folk-rock tracks incl. "Mr. Jones"; 7x Platinum in the US.
Automatic for the People
Automatic for the People is R.E.M.'s eighth studio album, released October 5, 1992 on Warner Bros. A quiet, mortality-themed record with John Paul Jones string arrangements, it sold 18 million copies and is regarded as the band's finest album.
Badmotorfinger
Badmotorfinger (1991) is Soundgarden's third album, released on A&M the same day as Nirvana's Nevermind. Produced by Terry Date, first with bassist Ben Shepherd, it sold over two million copies and was Grammy-nominated for Best Metal Performance.
Be Here Now (album)
Be Here Now is Oasis' third studio album, released 21 August 1997 on Creation Records, produced by Owen Morris and Noel Gallagher. Fastest-selling UK album on release (696,000 first week), No. 1 in 15 countries, later critically reversed and partly reassessed.
Before These Crowded Streets
Before These Crowded Streets is the third studio album by the Dave Matthews Band, released in 1998, produced by Steve Lillywhite, and considered the band's most experimental album.
Behind the Mask (album)
Behind the Mask is Fleetwood Mac's fifteenth studio album (April 1990, Warner Bros.), its first without Lindsey Buckingham, replaced by Billy Burnette and Rick Vito. It hit UK number 1 but number 18 in the US, and drew mixed reviews.
Blur (Blur album)
Blur (1997) is the English rock band Blur's fifth studio album, released by Food Records on 10 February 1997. Recorded in London and Reykjavik with producer Stephen Street, it abandoned Britpop for American lo-fi alt-rock, with the UK number-one single Beetlebum and the US hit Song 2.
Bossanova (Pixies album)
Bossanova (Pixies album): third studio album by Pixies, released August 13, 1990 on 4AD; surf rock and space rock sound with alien and UFO themes; mixed reviews, later reissued with unreleased tracks.
Celebrity Skin
Celebrity Skin is Hole's third studio album (DGC, September 8, 1998), produced by Michael Beinhorn with Billy Corgan co-writing five tracks; it debuted at No. 9 on the Billboard 200, went Platinum, and earned four Grammy nominations.
Chocolate and Cheese
Chocolate and Cheese: fourth album by Ween (Aaron Freeman, Mickey Melchiondo), released September 27, 1994 on Elektra; 16 tracks, first professional-studio Ween record, with 2024 30th-anniversary deluxe reissue.
Congratulations I'm Sorry
Congratulations I'm Sorry is the Gin Blossoms' third studio album, released February 13, 1996 on A&M Records. Produced with John Hampton, it peaked at number 10 on the Billboard 200, went platinum, and yielded the Top 10 hit "Follow You Down".
Cracked Rear View
Cracked Rear View is the 1994 debut album by Hootie & the Blowfish, released on Atlantic Records and produced by Don Gehman. It topped the US chart five times in 1995, was RIAA-certified 21x Platinum, and yielded the hits Hold My Hand, Let Her Cry, Only Wanna Be with You, and Time.
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (1994) is the second studio album by American indie rock band Pavement, released on Matador Records. Also known for the 2004 reissue LA's Desert Origins, it features "Cut Your Hair", "Gold Soundz", and "Range Life" and peaked at #121 on the US chart.
Definitely Maybe
Definitely Maybe is Oasis's 1994 debut album on Creation Records, produced by the band with Mark Coyle. It topped the UK chart as Britain's fastest-selling debut at the time, after abandoned Monnow Valley sessions and a Sawmills re-recording.
Different Class
Different Class (Pulp album, released in Japan as Common People), fifth studio album by the Sheffield Britpop band, 30 October 1995 on Island; UK number 1, 1995 Mercury Music Prize winner, lead single "Common People".
Dirt (Alice in Chains album)
Dirt is Alice in Chains' second studio album, released September 29, 1992 on Columbia Records, produced by Dave Jerden, known for Rooster, Would?, its bleak addiction themes, and six-track layered guitar sound.
Dizzy Up the Girl
Dizzy Up the Girl (女の子をめまいさせる) is the Goo Goo Dolls' sixth studio album, released September 22, 1998 on Warner Bros., produced by Rob Cavallo, home of "Iris" and "Slide," quadruple platinum.
Dots and Loops
Dots and Loops is a 1997 studio album by Stereolab, produced by John McEntire. It was the band's first album to chart on the Billboard Hot 100.
Down on the Upside
Down on the Upside, Soundgarden's fifth studio album (A&M, May 21, 1996), self-produced with Adam Kasper in Seattle; number two on the Billboard 200, platinum, the band's last album before the 1997 breakup.
Either/Or (album)
Either/Or is Elliott Smith's third studio album (Kill Rock Stars, 1997), recorded alone in Portland homes on a Tascam 38 with double-tracked vocals, his best-selling album, boosted by Good Will Hunting and reissued in 2017 as an Expanded Edition.
Elastica (album)
Elastica is the 1995 self-titled debut album by Britpop band Elastica (Justine Frischmann, Donna Matthews, Annie Holland, Justin Welch). Released 13 March 1995 on Deceptive/DGC, it topped the UK chart as the fastest-selling British debut, with singles Stutter, Line Up, Connection, Car Song, and Waking Up.
Elliott Smith (album)
Elliott Smith (1995) is the American singer-songwriter's self-titled second solo album, released July 1995 on Kill Rock Stars (KRS246). Recorded DIY on 8-track in friends' Portland homes, ignored by press at release, now a landmark indie-folk record reissued in 2020.
Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?
Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? is The Cranberries' 1993 debut album, produced by Stephen Street, featuring "Dreams" and "Linger"; a slow-burn hit that reached UK No. 1 in 1994 and sold over six million copies.
F♯ A♯ ∞
F♯ A♯ ∞ is the 1997 debut album by Montreal post-rock collective Godspeed You! Black Emperor, released on Constellation vinyl (500 copies) and reworked for the 1998 Kranky CD; its locked groove repeats indefinitely.
Foo Fighters (album)
Foo Fighters (1995) is the self-titled debut album by Foo Fighters, recorded solo by Dave Grohl in a week at Robert Lang Studios, released July 4, 1995 on Roswell/Capitol, platinum in the US.