84. The Cranberries, To the Faithful Departed And now we come to what is arguably the “lingering goodwill” portion of the chart, with a couple of albums that a reasonable observer may conclude garnered airplay less on their own individual … Continue reading College Countdown: 90FM’s Top 90 of 1996, 84 and 83

86. Ramones, Greatest Hits Live The Ramones played their final live show on August 6, 1996. Beginning with its very title, they’d made it clear that the 1995 album ¡Adiós Amigos! would be their last, at least barring some major … Continue reading College Countdown: 90FM’s Top 90 of 1996, 86 and 85

88. Pearl Jam, No Code Pearl Jam was probably poised to be the biggest rock band in the U.S. in the mid-nineteen-nineties. After their 1991 debut, Ten, built into a sales juggernaut over the course of a couple years of … Continue reading College Countdown: 90FM’s Top 90 of 1996, 88 and 87

90. Marilyn Manson, Antichrist Superstar You know, when I counted down Trouser Press‘s picks for the ten best albums of 1981, I made a point of listening to every one of them before I wrote on them. Not with this … Continue reading College Countdown: 90FM’s Top 90 of 1996, 90 and 89

A recent Onion A.V. Club article posited that 1992 was the year that college rock died. It’s clear that the author, Noel Murray, is talking primarily about a very specific sound, the rootsy, chiming music that was largely inspired by … Continue reading College Countdown: 90FM’s Top 90 of 1996, An Introduction