This list doesn't contain nearly as many of the "influential" type records as other lists might, so I felt more comfortable just calling it a list of my 20 favorites rather than a "Top 20" list or whatever (basically that's my way of safely leaving anything by Nirvana and Pearl Jam off ):
1. Radiohead "OK Computer"
2. The Smashing Pumpkins "Siamese Dream"
3. The Smashing Pumpkins "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness"
4. R.E.M. "New Adventures in Hi-Fi"
5. Radiohead "The Bends"
6. Pavement "Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain"
7. The Notorious B.I.G. "Ready to Die"
8. R.E.M. "Out of Time"
9. U2 "Achtung Baby"
10. Beck "Odelay"
11. Pavement "Slanted and Enchanted"
12. Neutral Milk Hotel "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea"
13. Nas "Illmatic"
14. Genius/GZA "Liquid Swords"
15. Lauryn Hill "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill"
16. Weezer "Weezer" (Blue Cover)
17. Sonic Youth "Goo"
18. Outkast "Aquemini"
19. Foo Fighters "The Colour and the Shape"
20. Soundgarden "Superunknown"