8-Album Mind: Tragic Kingdom

Sometimes a letter in a music collection can actually define it. Sometimes it's a genre, other times a period of time. In this case, the letter "N" has basically defined what music was back in the 90's. In fact, the 90's literally was the "N" decade; Ninety's.

After yesterday and Nine Inch Nails, today it was Nirvana, No Doubt, and NoFX.

The list:

Nirvana - "Nevermind" ♠♠♠♠♠
Nirvana - "Insecticide" ♠♠♠♠♠
Nirvana - "With the Lights Out" Discs 2 and 3 ♠♠♠
No Doubt - "Tragic Kingdom" ♠♠♠
NOFX - "Liberal Animation" ♠♠♠
NOFX - "S&M Airlines" ♠♠♠♠
NOFX - "White Trash, Two Heebs and a Bean" ♠♠♠♠
NOFX - "Punk in Drublic" ♠♠♠♠♠
NOFX - "I Heard They SUCK Live!" ♠♠♠♠

Fuck, too many good albums today! I'm going to keep "With the Lights Out" because it wound up being a decent listen. Not great, but OK. "Liberal Animation" is the most "conservative" NOFX album if only because of Fat Mike saying "Fuck you!" to all the vegetarians (which he later became). "Punk in Drublic" is a masterpiece of NOFX brilliance, and "I Heard They Suck Live!" is a great foray into the world that is a NOFX live show.

"Tragic Kingdom" is, to me, over-rated. When it came out, the average review was C+, 5/10, etc... It's regarded as a "classic" in the sense that it sold 14 million copies worldwide. It's an OK album, but half of it is filler. It mainly rocketed to fame thanks to tracks like "Just a Girl". To me, the title track is the strongest on the album and I might do a cover of it soon...