Top 10 'Seminal' Alternative Albums

Peter Bochan writes: "It was a hard task to pick out just 10 alternative music albums that I'd call 'seminal'...these 10 really paved the way for the alt. music scene of the 90s and all that followed. If you're just starting your alternative music collection, these are the first 10 to buy."
1. Nirvana - Never Mind
2. The Pixies - Doolittle
3. Pearl Jam - Ten
4. Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
5. Jane's Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual
6. The Flaming Lips - Transmissions From the Satellite Heart
7. Meat Puppets - Too High to Die
8. Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
9. PJ Harvey - Rid of Me
10. R.E.M - Reckoning
F.Y.I, 'seminal' means 'highly influential in an original way; constituting or providing a basis for further development', according to the The Free Dictionary; just in case you got a different idea. :)