List of grunge music albums
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This is a list of original, influential grunge music albums. They appear on at least one (cited) list, either a best-of for the genre or in the top five of a list for a specific year (and are described as "grunge" or "post grunge" by allmusic.com. Numerical citations are to an amateur list, while the text links are to a professional source.
Although citations can be found for calling each of these a "grunge" album, in quite a few cases, the designation would be controversial. For example:
- The earliest album in the list, the first Violent Femmes album is largely acoustic, but could be connected to grunge by its attitude and the subject matter of its songs
- The Seattle-based Presidents of the United States of America were clearly part of the same local music scene that produced the most prominent grunge bands, but their generally cheerful, poppy sound does not fit the grunge archetype.
The top five most cited albums are in bold.
- Melvins - Gluey Porch Treatments (Citizine's top grunge albums)
- Fastbacks - ...And His Orchestra
- Green River - Rehab Doll/Dry As a Bone
- Mudhoney - Superfuzz Bigmuff Plus Early Singles (Citizine's top grunge albums)
- Pixies - Surfer Rosa (1)
- Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
- Various Artists - Sub Pop 200
- Mudhoney - Mudhoney (2)
- Nirvana - Bleach (Citizine's top grunge albums)
- Soundgarden - Louder than Love
- Stone Roses - Stone Roses (2)
- Alice in Chains - Facelift ( antimusic.com's Essential Albums list)
- Jane's Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual (2, 8, Vision magazine's most important records of the 90s)
- Mother Love Bone - Stardog Champion
- Sonic Youth - Goo
- Pixies - Bossanova (8) (2, Vision magazine's most important records of the 90s)
- Soundgarden - Screaming Life/Fopp
- Gas Huffer - Janitors Of Tomorrow
- Hole - Pretty on the Inside (Vision magazine's most important records of the 90s)
- L7 - Smell the Magic
- Melvins - Bullhead
- Nirvana - Nevermind (1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, [InkBlot's best of decade, antimusic.com's Essential Albums list, Vision magazine's most important records of the 90s)
- Pearl Jam - Ten (1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, antimusic.com's Essential Albums list)
- Smashing Pumpkins - Gish
- Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger (2, 1, 5, Vision magazine's most important records of the 90s)
- Tad - 8-Way Santa
- Temple of the Dog - Temple of the Dog
- Alice in Chains - Dirt (1, 2, 3, 5, Vision magazine's most important records of the 90s)
- L7 - Bricks Are Heavy
- Screaming Trees - Sweet Oblivion
- Soul Asylum - Grave Dancer's Union
- Stone Temple Pilots - Core (2, 3)
- Candlebox - Candlebox
- Melvins - Houdini (Vision magazine's most important records of the 90s)
- Nirvana - In Utero (5, 8)
- Pearl Jam - Vs. (Vision magazine's most important records of the 90s)
- Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream (3, 7, 8)
- Tad - Inhaler
- Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies (antimusic.com's Essential Albums list)
- Bush - Sixteen Stone (1, 3,
- Collective Soul - Hints, Allegations, and Things Left Unsaid (antimusic.com's Essential Albums list)
- Hole - Live Through This (1, 2)
- King's X - Dogman
- Live - Throwing Copper (3, 5)
- Melvins - Stoner Witch (1)
- Nirvana - MTV Unplugged in New York (8)
- Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
- Soundgarden - Superunknown (3, 5, antimusic.com's Essential Albums list)
- Stone Temple Pilots - Purple (1, antimusic.com's Essential Albums list)
- Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary
- Alice in Chains - Alice in Chains
- Collective Soul - Collective Soul (3)
- Filter - Short Bus (5)
- Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters (2,
- Mad Season - Above
- Malfunkshun - Return to Olympus
- No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom (5)
- PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love (2)
- The Presidents of the United States of America - The Presidents of the United States of America (antimusic.com's Essential Albums list)
- Silverchair - Frogstomp
- Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (2, 5, Vision magazine's most important records of the 90s)
- Alice in Chains - MTV Unplugged
- Bush - Razorblade Suitcase
- Cake - Fashion Nugget (antimusic.com's Essential Albums list)
- Nirvana - From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah
- Pearl Jam - No Code (5, 6)
- Placebo - Placebo (6)
- Screaming Trees - Dust (6)
- Soundgarden - Down on the Upside (6)
- Stone Temple Pilots - Tiny Music... Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop (antimusic.com's Essential Albums list)
- Various Artists - Hype! Surviving the Northwest Rock Explosion soundtrack
- Collective Soul - Disciplined Breakdown
- Days of the New - Days of the New (5)
- Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape (Vision magazine's most important records of the 90s)
- Veruca Salt - Eight Arms to Hold You
- The Smashing Pumpkins - Adore
- Jesus & Mary Chain - Munki (2)
- Pearl Jam - Yield
- Hole - Celebrity Skin
- Chris Cornell - Euphoria Morning (antimusic.com's Essential Albums list)
- Creed - Human Clay (2)
- Filter - Title of Record (Vision magazine's most important records of the 90s)
- Love Battery - Confusion A Go Go
- Silverchair - Neon Ballroom (Vision magazine's most important records of the 90s)
- Tonic - Sugar (antimusic.com's Essential Albums list)
- Mudhoney - March to Fuzz (Meefo.com's Top 10 Grunge Albums)
- Pearl Jam - Binaural
- The U-Men - Solid Action
- Unified Theory - Unified Theory (antimusic.com's Essential Albums list)
- V.A.S.T. - Music for People (antimusic.com's Essential Albums list)
- Cake - Comfort Eagle (antimusic.com's Essential Albums list)
