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Top 500 90's Countdown

Monday, March 22nd - Friday, March 26th, we’ll be counting down the 500 Greatest Albums of the 90s as chosen by you. Listen from 6 am till 7 pm and spend the week reminiscing. It'll be all that and a bag of chips!

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#500 Hanson- Middle of Nowhere
#499 Ben Folds Five- The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner
#498 Chris Cornell- Euphoria Mourning
#497 Jonathan Richman- I, Jonathan
#496 Live- Secret Samadhi
#495 Gomez- Bring It On
#494 Enya- Shepherd Moons
#493 Aimee Mann- I'm With Stupid
#492 Aerosmith- Nine Lives
#491 Collective Soul- Collective Soul
#490 Goo Goo Dolls- A Boy Named Goo
#489 Arrested Development- 3 Years, 5 Months, and 2 Days in the Life of...
#488 Ani DiFranco- Not a Pretty Girl
#487 Lemonheads- Come On Feel the Lemonheads
#486 Harvey Danger- Where Have All the Merrymakers Gone?
#485 Foo Fighters- There Is Nothing Left To Lose
#484 Jewel- Spirit
#483 Lenny Kravitz- Are You Gonna Go My Way
#482 Crash Test Dummies- God Shuffled His Feet
#481 Brian Setzer Orchestra- The Dirty Boogie
#480 Judgement Night soundtrack- Various Artists
#479 Steve Earle- Train a Comin'- Steve Earle
#478 Tragically Hip- Phantom Power
#477 Bottle Rockets- The Brooklyn Side
#476 NSYNC- NSYNC
#475 Pearl Jam- No Code
#474 Chris Whitley- Living With the Law
#473 Stereolab - Dots and Loops
#472 Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II
#471 Trashcan Sinatras - Cake
#470 Rush - Roll the Bones
#469 Tricky - Maxinquaye
#468 Cake - Motorcade of Generosity
#467 Stone Roses - Second Coming
#466 Massive Attack - Blue Lines
#465 Archers of Loaf - Vee Vee
#464 Fountains of Wayne - Utopia Parkway
#463 Buffalo Tom - Big Red Letter Day
#462 Ani DiFranco - Dilate
#461 Weird Al Yankovic - Bad Hair Day
#460 Whiskeytown - Faithless Street
#459 Blur - 13
#458 Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole
#457 Widespread Panic - Til the Medicine Takes
#456 Tool - Undertow
#455 Better Than Ezra - Deluxe
#454 Mariah Carey - Music Box
#453 Butthole Surfers - Independent Worm Saloon
#452 Massive Attack - Protection
#451 Warren Zevon - Mr. Bad Example
#450 Pink Floyd - Pulse
#449 Pharcyde - Labcabincalifornia
#448 Digable Planets - Blowout Comb
#447 Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I
#446 Big Head Todd & the Monsters - Sister Sweetly
#445 Black Crowes - Amorica
#444 Steve Earle - The Mountain
#443 Jellyfish - Bellybutton
#442 James McMurtry - Where'd You Hide The Body
#441 Tragically Hip - Fully Completely
#440 Sting - The Soul Cages
#439 Soundtrack - The Crow
#438 Barenaked Ladies - Gordon
#437 Tim Krekel - Underground
#436 The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Orange
#435 Blink 182 - Dude Ranch
#434 Rodan - Rusty
#433 Townes Van Zandt - Rear View Mirror
#432 Ace of Base - The Sign
#431 Soundtrack - Can't Hardly Wait
#430 Nirvana - Incesticide
#429 Willie Nelson - Teatro
#428 10,000 Maniacs - MTV Unplugged
#427 Mary Chapin Carpenter - Stones in the Road
#426 Goo Goo Dolls - Dizzy Up The Girl
#425 Sloan - Between the Bridges
#424 Cake - Prolonging the Magic
#423 Cardigans - First Band on the Moon
#422 Robert Earl Keen - No.2 Live Dinner
#421 Alice in Chains - Facelift
#420 Everclear - Sparkle and Fade
#419 Afghan Whigs - 1965
#418 Ben Folds Five - Ben Folds Five
#417 Guy Clark - Dublin Blues
#416 Lenny Kravitz - 5
#415 Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary
#414 Shelby Lynne - I Am Shelby Lynne
#413 Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right to Children
#412 Backstreet Boys - Millennium
#411 Sting - Brand New Day
#410 Guns N' Roses - Use Your Illusion II
#409 Silverchair - Frogstomp
#408 Mos Def - Black On Both Sides
#407 Various Artists - Space Jam Soundtrack
#406 Cowboy Junkies - Black Eyed Man
#405 Notorious B.I.G. - Life After Death
#404 John Hiatt - Perfectly Good Guitar
#403 Sade - Love Deluxe
#402 Luscious Jackson - Fever In Fever Out
#401 Alice In Chains - Unplugged
#400 Various Artists - Godzilla Soundtrack
#399 Billy Bragg - Don't Try This at Home
#398 Madonna - Erotica
#397 Mariah Carey - Daydream
#396 Morcheeba - Big Calm
#395 Kirsty MacColl - Titanic Days
#394 The Cranberries - To The Faithful Departed
#393 Fishbone - The Reality of My Surroundings
#392 Seven Mary Three - American Standard
#391 Prodigy - The Fat of the Land
#390 De La Soul - Stakes Is High
#389 Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
#388 Ween - Chocolate and Cheese
#387 Guster - Lost and Gone Forever
#386 Offspring - Smash
#385 Traveling Wilburys - Volume 3
#384 James - Laid
#383 Beth Orton- Trailer Park
#382 Go West- Pretty Woman soundtrack
#381 The Presidents of the United States of America- self-titled
#380 Soundgarden- Down on the Upside
#379 Bonnie "Prince" Billy- I See a Darkness
#378 Duran Duran- Duran Duran (Wedding Album)
#377 Black Star- Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star
#376 Rolling Stones- Bridges To Babylon
#375 Mudhoney- Piece of Cake
#374 Smash Mouth- Astro Lounge
#373 Indigo Girls- 1200 Curfews (Live)
#372 Phish- A Picture of Nectar
#371 The Mavericks- What a Crying Shame
#370 Temple of the Dog- Temple of the Dog
#369 Mary J. Blige- What's the 411?
#368 Alison Krauss- Now That I've Found You: A Collection
#367 Social Distortion- Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell
#366 Cypress Hill- Cypress Hill
#365 Primus- Frizzle Fry
#364 Bush- Razorblade Suitcase
#363 Bettie Serveert- Palomine
#362 Green Day- Nimrod
#361 Collective Soul- Hints, Allegations, and Things Left Unsaid
#360 Tracy Bonham- The Burdens of Being Upright
#359 Cher- Believe
#358 Johnny Cash- American II: Unchained
#357 D'Angelo- Brown Sugar
#356 SQUIRREL NUT ZIPPERS - HOT
#355 Sleater - Kinney - Call the Doctor
#354 Elastica - Elastica
#353 John Hiatt - Stolen Moments
#352 Candlebox - Candlebox
#351 SWV - It's About Time
#350 Bruce Springsteen - Human Touch
#349 U2 - Pop
#348 Pretenders - Last of the Independents
#347 Prince - The Gold Experience
#346 Dream Theatre - Metropolis 2: Scenes From a Memory
#345 Rolling Stones - Voodoo Lounge
#344 MF Doom - Operation Doomsday
#343 Built to Spill - There’s Nothing Wrong With Love
#342 Alison Moyet - Essex
#341 R.E.M. - New Adventures in HiFi
#340 Suzanne Vega - 99.9
#339 Bela Fleck and the Flecktones - Left Of Cool
#338 Soul Asylum - Grave Dancers Union
#337 Concrete Blonde - Bloodletting
#336 Backstreet Boys - Backstreet Boys
#335 Lyle Lovett - The Road To Ensanada
#334 Soundtrack - The Bodyguard
#333 Queensryche - Empire
#332 Lyle Lovett - Joshua Judges Ruth
#331 PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love
#330 Jonatha Brooke - 10 cent wings
#329 Peter Gabriel - Us
#328 Bruce Springsteen - The Ghost of Tom Joad
#327 Ned's Atomic Dustbin - God Fodder
#326 Toadies - Rubberneck
#325 Sheryl Crow - Globe Sessions
#324 Aerosmith - Get a Grip
#323 Sarah McLachlan - Surfacing
#322 Pearl Jam - Yield
#321 Everclear - So Much for the Afterglow
#320 Southern Culture on the Skids - Dirt Track Date
#319 INXS - X
#318 Living Colour - Time’s Up
#317 Eric Clapton - Unplugged
#316 Destiny's Child - The Writing's On The Wall
#315 Throwing Muses - The Real Ramona
#314 Chris Knight - Chris Knight
#313 Silver Jews - American Water
#312 Sleater - Kinney - Dig Me Out
#311 Jay Z - Vol. 2... Hard Knock Life
#310 Mariah Carey - Mariah Carey
#309 Soundtrack - Reality Bites
#308 Rancid - ...And Out Come the Wolves
#307 Soundtrack - Titanic
#306 Dwight Yoakam - This Time
#305 NOFX - Punk in Drublic
#304 Melissa Etheridge - Yes I Am
#303 Social Distortion - Social Distortion
#302 Dream Theater - Images & Words
#301 Guided By Voices - Alien Lanes
#300 Indigo Girls - Nomads.Indians.Saints.
#299 Hole - Celebrity Skin
#298 Old 97's - Too Far to Care
#297 Paul Simon - The Rhythm of The Saints
#296 Phish - Billy Breathes
#295 Jonatha Brooke & The Story - Plumb
#294 Alanis Morissette - Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie
#293 Sublime - 40 oz. to Freedom
#292 LL Cool J - Mama Said Knock You Out
#291 Danny Flanigan & The Rain Chorus - Greathouse
#290 Spin Doctors - Pocket Full of Kryptonite
#289 Offspring - Americana
#288 Jamiroquai - Travelling Without Moving
#287 Ween - The Mollusk
#286 Ani DiFranco - Living In Clip
#285 311 - 311
#284 The Refreshments - Fizzy Fuzzy Big & Buzzy
#283 Veruca Salt - American Thighs
#282 Dave Matthews Band - Before These Crowded Streets
#281 The Replacements - All Shook Down
#280 Pink Floyd - Division Bell
#279 Neil Young - Ragged Glory
#278 The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Let's Face It
#277 Macy Gray - On How Life Is
#278 De La Soul - Buhloone Mindstate
#275 Dinosaur Jr - Green Mind
#274 Hum - You’d Prefer an Astronaut
#273 Jawbreaker - 24 hour revenge therapy
#272 Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
#271 Digable Planets - Reachin’ (A New Refutation of Time and Space)
#270 Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies
#269 Blur - Parklife
#268 Counting Crows - Recovering the Satellites
#267 Annie Lennox - Medusa
#266 Los Lobos- Kiko
#265 Rage Against the Machine- Evil Empire
#264 John Fogerty- Blue Moon Swamp
#263 John Prine- Lost Dogs + Mixed Blessings
#262 The Smithereens- Blow Up
#261 Drive-By Truckers- Pizza Deliverance
#260 Ani DiFranco- Little Plastic Castle
#259 Semisonic- Feeling Strangely Fine
#258 XTC- Nonsuch
#257 Rusted Root- When I Woke
#256 The Lion King soundtrack
#255 Toad the Wet Sprocket- Fear
#254 That Thing You Do soundtrack
#253 Crowded House- Woodface
#252 Tom Waits- Bone Machine
#251 Phish- Hoist
#250 Blink 182- Enema of the State
#249 k.d. lang- Ingenue
#248 Patty Griffin- Flaming Red
#247 Paul Westerberg- 14 Songs
#246 Material Issue- International Pop Overthrow
#245 New Radicals- Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too
#244 A Tribe Called Quest- Midnight Marauders
#243 Tori Amos- Under the Pink
#242 Britney Spears- ...Baby One More Time
#241 Prince- Diamonds and Pearls
#240 Nine Inch Nails- The Fragile
#239 Nickel creek - nickel creek
#238 Steve Earle - I Feel Alright
#237 Babylon Dance Band - Four on One
#236 John Prine - The Missing Years
#235 Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters
#234 Built To Spill - Perfect From Now On
#233 Barenaked Ladies - Stunt
#232 Roots - Things Fall Apart
#231 David Gray - White Ladder
#230 Sundays - Reading Writing and Arithmetic
#229 Soundtrack - Good Will Hunting
#228 Dinosaur Jr - Where You Been?
#227 Matthew Sweet - 100% Fun
#226 En Vogue - Funky Divas
#225 Kentucky Headhunters - Electric Barnyard
#224 Deana Carter - Did I Shave My Legs For This
#223 De La Soul - De La Soul Is Dead
#222 Sting - Ten Summoner's Tales
#221 Afghan Whigs - Black Love
#220 Daft Punk - Homework
#219 Pavement - Wowie Zowie
#218 Janet Jackson - The Velvet Rope
#217 Garbage - Version 2.0
#216 Mariah Carey - Butterfly
#215 Smashing Pumpkins - Gish
#214 My Morning Jacket - The Tennessee Fire
#213 Harry Connick Jr. - We are in Love
#212 Tom Waits - Mule Variations
#211 Todd Snider - Songs for the Daily Planet
#210 Bjork - Debut
#209 Guided by Voices - Bee Thousand
#208 Liz Phair - Whip Smart
#207 Fountains of Wayne - Fountains of Wayne
#206 Sugar - Copper Blue
#205 Phish - A Live One
#204 John Prine - In Spite of Ourselves
#203 Air - Moon Safari
#202 Soul Coughing - Ruby Vroom
#201 Pixies - Trompe Le Monde
#200 Joan Osborne - Relish
#199 Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen
#198 Sonic Youth - Goo
#197 BR549 - BR-549
#196 Tori Amos - Boys for Pele
#195 Bush - Sixteen Stone
#194 Moby - Play
#193 Lisa Loeb - Tails
#192 LeAnn Rimes - Blue
#191 Morphine - Cure for Pain
#190 Indigo Girls - Swamp Ophelia
#189 Bruce Robison - Wrapped
#188 Annie Lennox - Diva
#187 Incubus - Make Yourself
#186 Soundtrack - Natural Born Killers
#185 Various Artists - Dumb and Dumber Soundtrack
#184 Built to Spill - Keep It Like a Secret
#183 Michael Jackson - Dangerous
#182 Elliott Smith - XO
#181 Garbage - Garbage
#180 Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
#179 Tracy Chapman - New Beginning
#178 Guns 'N Roses - Use Your Illusion I
#177 U2 - Zooropa
#176 P.J. Harvey - Dry
#175 Blue Rodeo - Five Days in July
#174 Vince Gill - I Still Believe In You
#173 Wilco - A.M.
#172 Various Artists - Cruel Intentions Soundtrack
#171 Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One
#170 Bonepony - Traveler's Companion
#169 Calexico - The Black Light
#168 The Cure - Wish
#167 Salt-N-Pepa - Very Necessary
#166 Faith Hill - Breathe
#165 Bodeco - Bone, Hair & Hide
#164 Gillian Welch - Revival
#163 Belly - Star
#162 The V-Roys - Just Add Ice
#161 They Might Be Giants - Apollo 18
#160 Mazzy Star - So Tonight That I Might See
#159 The Verve - Urban Hymns
#158 Tim Krekel - L&N
#157 Black Crowes - The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion
#156 Santana - supernatural
#155 Sarah McLachlan - Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
#154 Billy Bragg & Wilco - Mermaid Avenue
#153 Rage Against the Machine - The battle of Los Angeles
#152 Emmylou Harris - Wrecking Ball
#151 Pearl Jam - VS.
#150 Soundtrack - 10 Things I Hate About You
#149 Uncle Tupelo- No Depression
#148 Billy Joel- River of Dreams
#147 Sinead O'Connor- I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got
#146 Stone Temple Pilots- Core
#145 Spice Girls- Spice
#144 Sonic Youth- Dirty
#143 Bonnie Raitt- Luck of the Draw
#142 Empire Records soundtrack
#141 Trisha Yearwood- Trisha Yearwood
#140 Blues Traveler- Four
#139 The Jayhawks- Tomorrow the Green Grass
#138 Massive Attack- Mezzanine
#137 Fiona Apple- When the Pawn...
#136 The Wallflowers- Bringing Down the Horse
#135 Scream 2 soundtrack
#134 A Tribe Called Quest- The Low End Theory
#133 The Jayhawks- Hollywood Town Hall
#132 Mary Chapin Carpenter- Come On Come On
#131 Matchbox 20- Yourself or Someone Like You
#130 Gin Blossoms- New Miserable Experience
#129 Sheryl Crow- Sheryl Crow
#128 Buena Vista Social Club - Buena Vista Social Club
#127 Patty Griffin - Living with Ghosts
#126 Cranberries - No Need to Argue
#125 Madonna - Ray of Light
#124 Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted
#123 Old 97's - Fight songs
#122 Tim McGraw - Not a Moment Too Soon
#121 OutKast - ATLiens
#120 Live - throwing copper
#119 Beck - Midnight Vultures
#118 Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
#117 PJ Harvey - Rid of Me
#116 Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West
#115 Dj Shadow - Entroducing
#114 Richard Buckner - Since
#113 Fugazi - Repeater
#112 Lemonheads - It's a Shame About Ray
#111 Beck - Mellow Gold
#110 Missy Elliot - Supa Dupa Fly
#109 Snoop Doggy Dogg - Doggystyle
#108 pixies - bossanova
#107 Janet Jackson - Janet
#106 Hole - Live Through this
#105 Eminem - The Slim Shady LP
#104 My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
#103 Brooks & Dunn - Brand New Man
#102 Cranberries - Everyone Else is Doing It, So Why Can't We?
#101 Elliott Smith - Either/Or
#100 Erykah Badu - Baduizm
#99 Soundtrack - Trainspotting
#98 Indigo Girls - Rites of Passage
#97 Tool - Aenima
#96 Chicks - Fly
#95 Slint - Spiderland
#94 R.E.M. - Monster
#93 Soundtrack - Clueless
#92 Whiskeytown - Strangers Almanac
#91 Stone Temple Pilots - Purple
#90 Steve Earle - El Corazon
#89 Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend
#88 Bob Dylan - Time Out of Mind
#87 Garth Brooks - Ropin the Wind
#86 Iris DeMent - Infamous Angel
#85 Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty
#84 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Into The Great Wide Open
#83 Nas - Illmatic
#82 The Chicks - Wide Open Spaces
#81 The Black Crowes - Shake Your Money Maker
#80 The Notorious B.I.G. - Ready To Die
#79 Dave Matthews Band - Under The Table and Dreaming
#78 Bjork - Post
#77 Jewel - Pieces of You
#76 Jane's Addiction - Ritual De Lo Habitual
#75 Oasis - Definitely Maybe
#74 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
#73 Ben Folds Five - Whatever & Ever Amen
#72 Shania Twain - Come On Over
#71 Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
#70 Public Enemy - Fear of A Black Planet
#69 Cocteau Twins - Heaven Or Las Vegas
#68 2Pac - All Eyez On Me
#67 Blind Melon - Blind Melon
#66 Cake - Fashion Nugget
#65 Soundtrack - Pulp Fiction
#64 No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom
#63 Weezer - Pinkerton
#62 Soundtrack - Lost Highway
#61 Nirvana - In Utero
#60 Tori Amos- Little Earthquakes
#59 Pavement- Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
#58 Dave Matthews Band- Crash
#57 Garth Brooks- No Fences
#56 They Might Be Giants- Flood
#55 Pear Jam- Vitalogy
#54 Johnny Cash- American Recordings
#53 Hootie & the Blowfish- Cracked Rear View
#52 Fugees- The Score
#51 Third Eye Blind- Third Eye Blind
#50 Batman Forever soundtrack
#49 Wilco- Summerteeth
#48 TLC- CrazySexyCool
#47 Neil Young- Harvest Moon
#46 Wu-Tang Clan- Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
#45 Breeders - Last Splash
#44 Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape
#43 Sublime - sublime
#42 Portishead - Dummy
#41 Wilco - Being There
#40 Depeche Mode - Violator
#39 Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane, Over the Sea
#38 Uncle Tupelo - Anodyne
#37 Soundtrack - Singles
#36 Son Volt - Trace
#35 Bjork - Homogenic
#34 Soundtrack - Romeo + Juliet
#33 Metallica - Metallica
#32 Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
#31 Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville
#30 Alice In Chains - Dirt
#29 Outkast - Aquemini
#28 Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
#27 Beastie Boys - Check Your Head
#26 Soundgarden - Superunknown
#25 Sheryl Crow - Tuesday Night Music Club
#24 Fiona Apple - Tidal
#23 Nirvana - MTV Unplugged
#22 Jeff Buckley - Grace
#21 Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
#20 Dr. Dre - The Chronic
#19 Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
#18 Radiohead - The Bends
#17 R.E.M. - Out of Time
#16 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
#15 Weezer - Weezer a/k/a The Blue Album
#14 Green Day - Dookie
#13 Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on A Gravel Road
#12 Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
#11 Oasis - (What's The Story) Morning Glory?
#10 Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
#9 Beck - Odelay
#8 R.E.M. - Automatic For The People
#7 Counting Crows - August & Everything After
#6 Tom Petty - Wildflowers
#5 U2 - Achtung Baby
#4 Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill
#3 Radiohead - OK Computer
#2 Pearl Jam - Ten
#1 Nirvana - Nevermind

Stacy is the WFPK Program Director. Email Stacy at sowen@lpm.org.

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