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My Favorite Album from Every Year I’ve Been Alive (Part Three: 1990–1999)
It was a weird decade for me
If you lived through the 1990s, I don’t have to tell you that it was a weird decade. For me it opened with joining the Army at the outbreak of the First Gulf War, had a wedding in the middle, the birth of a Springsteen-loving daughter toward the end, and wrapped up with wondering if the world was going to end because of Y2K.
Musically, it was just as chaotic, which is why Part Three of this ongoing series covering my favorite albums from each year I’ve been alive is vastly different from Parts One and Two. I wrote a much-debated piece a while back asking if rock died in 1995, which is why I was not surprised that my picks here became harder from 1996 on. For the ’70s, ’80s, and early ’90s there was almost too much to choose from; for 1997 I struggled to find one I even like.
Despite this, the show must go on. I want to say again that this list contains my personal favorite albums for each year of the ’90s. For a couple of the years I had a lengthy debate with myself, so it’s inevitable that your favorite will differ from mine at several (perhaps all) points.
Now on to the albums.
1990: Social Distortion by Social Distortion. When you’ve reached the point in your life that…
