I did this same thread with 2016-2020, 1981-1985, 1991-1995,and 1986-1990, and people wanted me to do another one:

Heres links to those threads:
ktt2.com/whats-your-top-5-favorite-albums-of-19861990-125744
ktt2.com/whats-your-top-5-favorite-albums-of-the-last-5-years-20162020-125680
ktt2.com/whats-your-top-5-favorite-albums-of-19811985-125821
ktt2.com/whats-your-top-5-favorite-albums-of-19911995-125954

Mine for 1996-2000:

1. OutKast - ATLiens
2. Godspeed You Black Emperor! - F♯A♯∞
3. Songs: Ohia - The Lioness
4. PJ Harvey - Is This Desire?
5. Alice in Chains - MTV Unplugged

HM:
OutKast - Stankonia
OutKast - Aquemini
Mos Def - Black on Both Sides
Buena Vista Social Club - Buena Vista Social Club
Triple Six Mafia - Underground Vol. 1: 1991-1994
The Avalanches - Since I Left You
D'Angelo - Voodoo
Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come
Tom Waits - Mule Variations
Burzum - Filosofem
Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030
PJ Harvey - Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea
Jeff Buckley - Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk
Elliott Smith - Either / Or
DMX - It's Dark and Hell Is Hot
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing.....
Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt
Redman - Muddy Waters
Screaming Trees - Dust
Sixteen Horsepower - Sackcloth 'n' Ashes
UGK - Ridin' Dirty
Silver Jews - American Water
Dr. Octagon - Dr. Octagon
Goodie Mob - Still Standing
Black Star - Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star
Fishmans - Long Season
Heltah Skeltah - Nocturnal
John Parish & Polly Jean Harvey - Dance Hall at Louse Point
Silver Jews - The Natural Bridge
Rowland S. Howard - Teenage Snuff Film
Tool - Ænima
Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven!
Method Man & Redman - Blackout!
Goldfrapp - Felt Mountain
Erykah Badu - Mama's Gun
Common - Like Water for Chocolate
The Cure - Bloodflowers
Project Pat - Ghetty Green
Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
Fishmans - 98.12.28 男達の別れ (98.12.28 Otokotachi no Wakare)

dope ass era, as always, pick 5 from the years combined not one from each year

choosing between atliens and stankonia is always f***ing hard

Outkast-Stankonia
Janet Jackson-Velvet Rope
Weezer-Pinkerton
Lauryn Hill-Miseducation of Lauryn Hil
Ghostface Killah-Supreme Clientele

HM: The Blueprint, Who Is Jill Scott

1. Eminem - MMLP
2. Aaliyah - One in a Million
3. Jay Z - Reasonable Doubt
4. Biggie - Life After Death
5. 2Pac - 7 Day Theory

HM:
6-10 in any order
PJ Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
Mariah Carey - Butterfly
DMX - It's Dark and Hell is Hot
Lauryn Hill - Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
UGK - Ridin Dirty

11-15 in any order except Nas
Nas - It Was Written
B.G. - It's All On U, Vol 1
Hot Boyz - Guerilla Warfare
Outkast - Aquemini
Erykah Badu - Mama's Gun

16-20 in any order
Destiny's Child - Writing on the Wall
Erykah Badu - Baduizm
Meth/Red - Blackout
Missy Elliot - Supa Dupa Fly
R. Kelly - R.

Damn I forgot Voodoo and Jill Scott....

Havent listened to much rock or country from this era so nada for them outside PJ

My fav album from that year span is without a doubt Stankonia though

wouldve been second on my list, but keeping one per artists

in

incredibly stacked set of years, prob the best era in music by far. the hardest too, had to really think this out

HM:
modest mouse - the lonesome crowded west
modest mouse - the moon and antarctica
smashing pumpkins- adore
sleep - dopesmoker
mos def - black on both sodes
kool keith - black elvis/lost in spcr
electric wizard - dopethrone
dismemberment plan - emergency & i
stereolab - dots & loops
failure - fantastic planet
swans - soundtracks for the blind
ugk - ridin dirty
ween - the mollusk
quasimoto - the unseen
tortoise - millions now will never die
tool - ænima
foo fighters - the colour and the shape
devin townsend - biomech
hum - downward is heaven
silver jews - american water
chumbawamba - wysiwyg
coldplay - parachutes

silver jews deserves more praise. David Berman was a beast .

Life after death
Miseducation of Lauryn hill
In the aeroplane over the sea
The lonesome crowded west
Pinkerton

incredible songwriter and i can feel what he’s saying so that helps a f***ton

modest mouse not making my top 5 saying a lot about how good the decade was

Songs:Ohia is so f***ing good.

only album ive heard from him, some good s***

magnolia electric co is their certified classic. But i prefer the lioness tho, but both are excellent and some of the best songwriting out there

2001
Life After Death
Moon Safari
The Soft Bulletin
Voodoo

So many great albums during this period, it was hard not to include an Outkast album.

Voodoo

hors concours
Jim O'Rourke - Halfway to a Threeway

Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
OutKast - Stankonia
UGK - Ridin Dirty
Built to Spill - Perfect From Now On
Madonna - Ray of Light

hm:
Radiohead - OK Computer
Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt
OutKast - Aquemini
XTC - Apple Venus Volume One
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing

ik some of yall are gonna hate on NMH but

honestly the 2nd half of the 90s is considerably worse than 1st half for me. never really realized it

2001
MMLP
Life After Death
Vol. 1
All Eyez On Me

Reserve

Tie b/w Homogenic and 3 N the morning, one of them is a HM, idk which one though

damn stealing your layout idea