It's actually from the 80's. The best British Rock album of the 90's therefore continues to be either OK Computer or The Holy Bible.
My mistake.
Carrying on. Got some real listening in yesterday:
#497 The White Stripes "White Blood Cells" - Honestly a lot better than I thought it would be. Never really been fan. Always viewed them as a bit more "style over substance" type group, but there area some good songs on there. Can I remember any of the titles? There are a few kind of throwaway songs, which you see on a lot of the bottom 10 or so albums, but I guess that's why it's in the bottom 10. But yeah, I'd give this album another spin one day.
#496 Boz Scaggs "Boz Scaggs" Really fleshed out sound to this album. It's got some really crazy guitar playing about halfway through the album, including on the EPIC 12 minute Loan me a Dime. I just looked it up and apparently the root cause of that epic guitar playing is Duane Allman's appearance on a few songs including the aforementioned. Again, maybe not the most consistent album on the list, but some very high highs.
#495 Bonnie Raitt "Give it Up" I was not expecting to enjoy that album as much as I did. A wonderful horn section, a huge variety of styles of music. I had her pegged for a more straight ahead blue-rock/southern rock belle, but the album really has more in common with a Carole King Tapestry or Sweet Baby James, or something more in that traditional early 70's singer-songwriter ilk. Beautiful voice too.
#494 MGMT "Oracular Spectacular" Fun, bouncy album. One that used to get a fair bit of playtime in our house. Yeah, I kind of like this one.
#493 Wilco "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" Good consistent album, but maybe not as many real highs as some of the others. Either way, it feels like an album that warrants a few more listens. There seems to be some depth to the songs, but I don't know, I think I just wasn't in the mood for it at the time.
#492 Eurhythmics "Touch" Really good album. You can tell that was some pretty influential shit at the time. The production all sounds very ahead of its time for 1983 and Annie's lyrics are just incredible. I hope there is more Eurhythmics on this list.
#491 Albert King "Born Under a Bad Sign" Good blues I think. As I stated earlier, I'm not much of a blues guy. I don't see this being an album I'd come back to with any regularity, but I can still tell that is does have some redeeming qualities to it.
#490 ZZ Top "Tres Hombres" Very stripped down, raw Southern Rock with top to bottom amazing guitar work. This album was obviously very influential on one of my favorite bands ever, Phish, and I can totally tell why. The songs just have lots of room to jam and ZZ Top might be one of the first bands to do it in a way that is very popular in the jam scene now. Tough to describe, but listen to the song Sheik and then listen to any Widespread Panic or moe. show and you'll see what I mean. Lots of similarities.
#489 Kiss "Destroyer" Utter garbage. 3 good songs does not a good album make. Any of the songs that aren't Detroit Rock City, Shout it out Loud or Beth, are just so terrible, and not even in a campy "so bad it's good" type way. They are just bad songs for the most part. I understand how influential KISS is, but this is the first album I've heard so far that I feel like I can definitively say does not deserve to be on this Top 500 list.
That's the one that made me stop listening last night, but I'm really excited for the next one on deck. One of my favourite albums of the 80's.