5

These are Vs. (1993), Vitalogy (1994) and No Code (1996), all of which are pretty interesting and have moments of real greatness. If you ask me, Vitalogy is the best of these, not necessarily because it contains more good songs than the others but because in its noisy, cluttered production, in its stylistic ecumenicism, in its emotional ambivalence, it best reflects the band's conflicted relationship with themselves and their own success. Along with Radiohead's Kid A and Amnesiac, it is one of the last truly strange records made by a huge rock band, one of the last that actively interrogates the bizarre act of using commercial art to communicate with millions of people.