And the unpretentious array of sampling décor, from creepy Smashing Pumpkins snatch to a Cypress Hill quote (in the relationship song!) to live rock band to the inventory warehouse clang of “Ponderosa” absolves the whole corrupt thing. Tricky plied Topley-Bird with weed from his advance cash while she humanized his bored perversity. The resulting sex-as-death masterwork perfected the texture-torture album decades before Burial and the Weeknd could get their grubby hands on a sampler. Martina Topley-Bird, then a teenager, read lines like “I’ll fuck you in the ass / Just for a laugh” as the lecher-voiced Tricky, a refugee of Massive Attack at the time, fed them into her ear, likely followed by a neck nibble. Here are the 90 Best Albums of the 1990s.Ī puppet master and his puppet’s verboten relationship has never been more salacious. We asked Paste editors, writers, as well as Twitter followers and Facebook fans what albums from the ’90s still matter to them. Throughout the decade, though, great strides were being made outside the spotlight with the alt-country movement, shoegaze, electronic music and college rock. But it also saw an invasion of Britpop, the popularization of grunge, and “alternative rock” becoming mainstream. Musically, the 1990s were full of gangsta rap, mall punk, teen pop and the ascendancy of country radio.
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