the tip of the iceberg when it comes to 90s hip-hop. there was so much great music being made in so many different places and spaces that it’s far too easy for great things to get overlooked. at the time, your musical menu most likely depended on what part of the country you...
Chris Payne explains why tributes to Biggie and Princess Diana made 1997 the defining year of the '90s.
to create playlists of tracks or to listen to individual albums. However, in online music also a ‘radio’ option that plays music it deems related to your original artist of choice. In reality, this isn’t the smartest radio out, so if what you want is automatically created radio stations...
1991 was one of the greatest years for classic LPs, not only of the ’90s, but of the entire rock era. Consider this: The websiteacclaimedmusic.netaggregates reviews and lists of the best albums from just about every conceivable critical source, and uses them to compile something close to...
These best album covers of the '90s paid homage to classic rock andjazz, pushedhip-hop musicinto high art, and looked to the future. One nice thing about CDs was that the hard plastic format allowed designers to experiment with molds and textures, like this studded, hazmat-like case from...
Here are 150 albums that were more than worth it at the time, and that shaped the way music would sound in the decades to come. Read Pitchfork’s list of the best songs of the 1990s here, and check out our full ’90s package here. For more about how we put together this list, ...
Welcome to our list of the 200 best songs of the 1980s. A great deal of today's music looks to the '80s for inspiration, but there are so many different ideas of what "'80s" as a descriptor can mean. Here we return to the source material. As we did for the 1960s, the 1990s,...
Below, here are our (highly subjective) picks for the best movies of the 1990s. At least one or two of your favorites surely missed the cut; a lot of great movies came out in the ’90s. (Just to name a few honorable mentions, in no particular order: The Shawshank Redemption, Fight ...
Image via YouTube This feature was originally published on November 16, 2009. We might be getting close, but we're not done sifting through every conceivable facet of Complex culture from the last decade (2000 - 2009) in our Best of the 2000s series. Next up is that hallowed haven of ...
From U2 and R.E.M. to Metallica and the Black Crowes, Dr. Dre, Snoop, and Eminem: Rolling Stone picks the 100 greatest albums of the 1990s.