The 150 Best Albums of the 1990s

There was a time where there was nothing like the feeling of walking into your local Tower Records or Sam Goody and heading straight for the new releases section. The sight of racks of CDs lined up in endless rows of musical discovery offered the thrill of not knowing exactly what you were going to get. In the ’90s, it was likely that you had only heard one or two songs from an album, on the radio