Since I didn’t vote and kept my whining to a minimum (Really people? Sixteen Stone over Automatic for the People? WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?!?!?)…
Ahem. Anyway, here are some unasked-for opinions:
Albums that should have been in the tournament, but weren’t:
• Purple – Stone Temple Pilots (1994)
• Out of Time – REM (1991)
• The Fragile – Nine Inch Nails (1999)
• I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got – Sinead O’Connor (1990)
• To Bring You My Love – PJ Harvey (1995)
• 69 Love Songs – The Magnetic Fields (1999)
• Bringing Down the Horse – The Wallflowers
• Wildflowers – Tom Petty (1994)
• The Divine Comedy – Milla (1993) (Although I’m probably alone in that opinion
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Albums that did not deserve to go down in the first round:
• Live Through This – Hole
• Dirt – Alice in Chains
• Everybody Else is Doing It, So Why Can't We? -The Cranberries
• Fumbling Towards Ecstasy – Sarah McLachlan
• 10,000 Maniacs Unplugged -10,000 Maniacs
• August and Everything After -Counting Crows
• The Downward Spiral – Nine Inch Nails
• Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - The Smashing Pumpkins
• Ok Computer – Radiohead
• Little Earthquakes – Tori Amos
And my personal Top Ten:
1. Automatic for the People – REM
2. Grace – Jeff Buckley
3. Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - The Smashing Pumpkins
4. New Miserable Experience – Gin Blossoms
5. August and Everything After – Counting Crows
6. Little Earthquakes – Tori Amos
7. The Downward Spiral – Nine Inch Nails
8. Unplugged in New York – Nirvana
9. The Bends – Radiohead
10. Fumbling Towards Ecstasy – Sarah McLachlan