Top Albums of 1993





Rank All Time Rank Artist Album Genres
10
621
A Tribe Called Quest Midnight Marauders Boom Bap, Jazz Rap
42
2490
Aimee Mann Whatever Pop Rock, Singer/Songwriter
Altan Island Angel Irish Folk Music
American Music Club Mercury Singer/Songwriter, Slowcore
47
2845
Archers of Loaf Icky Mettle Indie Rock, Noise Pop
38
2205
Autechre Incunabula Ambient Techno, IDM
Belly Star Dream Pop, Indie Rock
Bernhard Günter Un Peu de Neige Salie Lowercase, Microsound
Bikini Kill Pussy Whipped Riot Grrrl
Bill Frisell Have a Little Faith Jazz Fusion
4
159
Björk Debut Alternative Dance, Art Pop
34
1895
Black Dog Productions Bytes IDM
Black Moon Enta Da Stage Boom Bap, Hardcore Hip Hop
49
2886
Blue Rodeo Five Days in July Alt-Country, Country Rock
Blues Explosion Extra Width Garage Rock, Punk Blues
19
1384
Blur Modern Life Is Rubbish Britpop
Brad Shame Grunge
Buffalo Tom Big Red Letter Day Alternative Rock, Power Pop
Caetano Veloso & Gilberto Gil Tropicalia 2 Tropicália
Carcass Heartwork Melodic Death Metal
23
1538
Cassandra Wilson Blue Light 'Til Dawn Vocal Jazz
26
1606
Counting Crows August and Everything After Alternative Rock, Folk Rock
Crowded House Together Alone Pop Rock
20
1402
Cypress Hill Black Sunday Gangsta Rap
De La Soul Buhloone Mind State Conscious Hip Hop, Jazz Rap
Depeche Mode Songs of Faith and Devotion Alternative Rock
Digable Planets Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space) Jazz Rap
40
2271
Dinosaur Jr. Where You Been Alternative Rock
Dwight Yoakam This Time Country
41
2432
Element of Crime Weißes Papier Indie Pop, Liedermacher
Entombed Wolverine Blues Death 'n' Roll
46
2827
Eric's Trip Love Tara Lo-Fi / Slacker Rock
Family [Spain] Un soplo en el corazón Indie Pop, Indietronica
Frank Black Frank Black Alternative Rock
Frank Zappa/Ensemble Modern The Yellow Shark Modern Classical
22
1484
Fugazi In On the Kill Taker Post-Hardcore
31
1733
Grant Lee Buffalo Fuzzy Alt-Country, Americana, Indie Rock
Guru Jazzmatazz Jazz Rap
His Name Is Alive Mouth by Mouth Art Rock, Dream Pop
Jamiroquai Emergency on Planet Earth Acid Jazz, Funk
Jane Siberry When I Was a Boy Art Pop
37
2061
Janet Jackson janet. Contemporary R&B, Dance-Pop
Jellyfish Spilt Milk Art Pop, Power Pop
John Coltrane Newport '63 Post-Bop
John Zorn Kristallnacht Avant-Garde Jazz
Joshua Redman Wish Jazz
KRS-One Return of the Boom Bap Boom Bap, Conscious Hip Hop, Political Hip Hop
Labradford Prazision LP Ambient, Post-Rock
Lenny Kravitz Are You Gonna Go My Way Rock
5
200
Liz Phair Exile in Guyville Alternative Singer/Songwriter, Indie Rock
M People Elegant Slumming Dance-Pop, House
Manic Street Preachers Gold Against the Soul Alternative Rock, Hard Rock
29
1699
Mazzy Star So Tonight That I Might See Dream Pop, Neo-Psychedelia
45
2711
Melvins Houdini Sludge Metal
Mercury Rev Boces Neo-Psychedelia, Noise Pop
Mick Jagger Wandering Spirit Rock
32
1809
Morphine Cure for Pain Alternative Rock, Jazz-Rock
50
2998
Motorpsycho Demon Box Alternative Rock
Nanci Griffith Other Voices, Other Rooms Contemporary Folk, Country, Singer/Songwriter
Neil Young Unplugged Acoustic Rock, Folk Rock, Singer/Songwriter
New Bomb Turks !!Destroy-Oh-Boy!! Garage Punk
New Order Republic Alternative Dance, Dance-Pop, Synthpop
2
100
Nirvana In Utero Grunge
One Dove Morning Dove White Ambient Dub, Ambient House
13
819
Orbital Orbital ["The Brown Album"] Techno
21
1425
Palace Brothers There Is No-One What Will Take Care of You Alt-Country, Indie Folk
27
1643
Paul Weller Wild Wood Pop Rock, Singer/Songwriter
Paul Westerberg 14 Songs Pop Rock, Singer/Songwriter
12
707
Pearl Jam Vs. Grunge
15
993
Pet Shop Boys Very Synthpop
6
330
PJ Harvey Rid of Me Alternative Rock, Alternative Singer/Songwriter
Plastikman Sheet One Acid Techno, Minimal Techno
P.M. Dawn The Bliss Album...? Conscious Hip Hop, Contemporary R&B, Pop Rap
Primus Pork Soda Alternative Rock, Funk Metal, Funk Rock
R. Kelly 12 Play Contemporary R&B
24
1549
Red House Painters Red House Painters [Rollercoaster] Slowcore
Saint Etienne So Tough Alternative Dance, Indie Pop, Indietronica
17
1331
Sarah McLachlan Fumbling Towards Ecstasy Pop, Singer/Songwriter
Seam The Problem with Me Indie Rock
44
2623
Sepultura Chaos A.D. Groove Metal, Thrash Metal
35
1988
Sheryl Crow Tuesday Night Music Club Pop Rock, Singer/Songwriter
36
2043
Slowdive Souvlaki Dream Pop, Shoegaze
3
141
Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream Alternative Rock
Smog Julius Caesar Lo-Fi / Slacker Rock, Singer/Songwriter
8
525
Snoop Doggy Dogg Doggystyle G-Funk, Gangsta Rap
Souls of Mischief 93 'Til Infinity Boom Bap, Jazz Rap
25
1554
Stereolab Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements Experimental Rock, Noise Pop
Sting Ten Summoner's Tales Adult Contemporary, Pop Rock, Sophisti-Pop
9
532
Suede Suede Britpop
Sugar Beaster Alternative Rock, Power Pop
Swervedriver Mezcal Head Shoegaze
Teenage Fanclub Thirteen Jangle Pop, Power Pop
11
695
The Afghan Whigs Gentlemen Alternative Rock
30
1705
The Auteurs New Wave Britpop, Indie Pop
14
947
The Boo Radleys Giant Steps Indie Rock, Neo-Psychedelia
7
478
The Breeders Last Splash Alternative Rock
39
2263
The Cranberries Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We Alternative Rock, Pop Rock
48
2858
The Divine Comedy Liberation Chamber Pop
The Fall The Infotainment Scan Indie Rock, Post-Punk
The Flaming Lips Transmissions from the Satellite Heart Noise Pop
The God Machine Scenes from the Second Storey Alternative Rock, Post-Hardcore
The Lemonheads Come On Feel the Lemonheads Alternative Rock, Power Pop
The Posies Frosting on the Beater Alternative Rock, Power Pop
The Sabres of Paradise Sabresonic Ambient Techno, IDM
The The Dusk Alternative Rock, Art Pop, Pop Rock
The Verve A Storm in Heaven Neo-Psychedelia, Shoegaze
The Walkabouts Satisfied Mind Alt-Country, Americana
The Wildhearts Earth Vs. The Wildhearts Hard Rock
16
1021
Tindersticks Tindersticks Chamber Pop
Toni Braxton Toni Braxton Contemporary R&B, Smooth Soul
Tony Toni Toné Sons of Soul New Jack Swing
Tool Undertow Alternative Metal
Transglobal Underground Dream of 100 Nations Downtempo
Type O Negative Bloody Kisses Gothic Metal
33
1861
U2 Zooropa Alternative Rock, Pop Rock
18
1345
Uncle Tupelo Anodyne Alt-Country, Americana
43
2586
Urge Overkill Saturation Alternative Rock
Willie Nelson Across the Borderline Country
1
96
Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) Boom Bap, Hardcore Hip Hop
Wynton Marsalis Citi Movement Jazz
28
1658
Yo La Tengo Painful Indie Rock, Noise Pop