Still my favorite REM album... bar none.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 22:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Not, however, one of your 193 favourite records of the 90's
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 22:34 (fourteen years ago) link
haha wait you voted for a different REM album
YOUR CLAIMS ARE BEGINNING TO LOOK RICKETY
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 22:35 (fourteen years ago) link
mmmyeah, i'll give it up for that album. definitely gets an unfair shake. i guess cos they pissed everyone off w/ Monster.
― al, Sunday, 17 March 2002 01:00 (8 years ago)
i am almost positive this was not me posting but i do love this album and gave it one (1) point
― #miap4ksclovetofu (some dude), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 22:36 (fourteen years ago) link
This is the last great R.E.M. album, I think. Up and Accelerate are good(ish), but I doubt they're ever going to hit this peak again.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 22:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Loving this countdown so far, I'm inspired to dig out a lot of these albums to listen to them again.
It also reminds me of things I should have voted for but didn't.
― I am using your worlds, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 22:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Was about to cheer my first vote, but no, looking back, I didn't vote for this! Strange. The last R.E.M. record that I bought because I was honestly excited about it (having heard them play "The Wake-Up Bomb" on television.) Though I have bought several more out of a sense of obligation. Perversely I tend to like the rockers on this record ("Wake-Up Bomb", "Departure") though they seem a bit out of place.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 22:44 (fourteen years ago) link
it's so weird to me that Electronic and Godspeed You Black Emperor are from the same decade
― Shakey Ja Mocha (M@tt He1ges0n), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 22:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Last one for the evening coming up
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 22:49 (fourteen years ago) link
I generally look back at the '90s with distaste, but this list is reframing my view somewhat.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 22:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Yay for Burger/Ink placing, and Yay for this poll so far, so much more interesting than the usual trudge thru the Canong. THE SYSTEM WORKS
― Sub/Doms Whipping Here (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 22:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, this is the best 90s poll ever.
― seandalai, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 22:54 (fourteen years ago) link
NEVER SB LJ AGAIN
― I am using your worlds, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 22:58 (fourteen years ago) link
69= Earl Brutus - Tonight, You Are The Special One39 points2 votes0 first-place votesGreatest contributor: Kitchen Person
http://www.covershut.com/covers/Earl-Brutus---Tonight-You-Are-The-Special-One-Front-Cover-2060.jpg
There's not many bands I love as much as Earl Brutus.
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 14 January 2010 21:19 (3 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
the video for come taste my mind might be my favourite video in the entire history of the music video
― Do the english boil pizza? (acoleuthic), Thursday, 14 January 2010 21:20 (3 months ago)
IMO Tonight...is a little better than Your Majesty...
I mean, they're both great (and, fuck, Tonight has Navyhead, Life's Too Long and Black Speedway on it as well as OMNIM) but Tonight is just greatness from start to finish, in my 90's top 10 and maybe all-time top 30. Staggering piece of work. At least they gave us the Larky single before sputtering out.
― Do the english boil pizza? (acoleuthic), Thursday, January 14, 2010 11:11 PM (2 minutes ago)
I agree with just about everything you said there. Tonight took me longer to get into but it sounds better as a whole album. I just started playing songs from it and found myself amazed all over again at the moment in Second Class War when that organ intro turns into that huge dirty riff. Universal Plan might be my favorite track of there's.
They are one of those bands that when I listen to them I just think there's no-one better.
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 14 January 2010 23:22 (3 months ago)
One of the greatest live bands ever.
Utter fucking chaos from blokes desperate to defy middle age whilst spewing contempt for the contemporary scene and everything in it.
Lucky enough to catch them a handful of times back then. A real Festival Fuck you too. Gushed about them upthread I think under another stupid moniker
A real shame about Nick Sanderson. Way too young.
― Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos, Monday, 18 January 2010 00:04 (3 months ago)
I can't think of a single band more deserving of publicity and re-evaluation.
― The Broken Brothers, Tuesday, 19 January 2010 15:22 (3 months ago)
one show at the Austrian Cultural Institute in 2001 ended with the arrival of the police, who had mistaken the band's pyrotechnic-laden performance for a terrorist attack
fwiw nick sanderson is pretty much my ideal of the human being
― Do the english boil pizza? (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 19 January 2010 18:20 (3 months ago)
Two perfect albums, really. Ultimately, I'd take Tonight ... because I think it just has that slight edge. And, y'know, Second Class War.
― Error: No Error (grimly fiendish), Thursday, 21 January 2010 23:18 (3 months ago)
Going to the pub. LISTENING TO EARL BRUTUS. Match made in heaven, that.
― Error: No Error (grimly fiendish), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 11:11 (3 months ago)
I don't even need to hear them nowadays, just the fact that their music EXISTS, makes my life better.
Just might be the best band of all time
There should be a national holiday called Nick Sanderson Day where we can spend the whole day swigging lager and smoking fags in appreciation
― The Broken Brothers, Thursday, 14 January 2010 22:58 (3 months ago)
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
sorry for the quotefest but I am irrational when it comes to this band/album
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 23:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Not, however, one of your 193 favourite records of the 90'shaha wait you voted for a different REM albumYOUR CLAIMS ARE BEGINNING TO LOOK RICKETY
I only voted for albums I could copy/paste from the suggestions thread, or albums that other ilxors specifically reminded me about -- don't care to go through my entire collection and agonize over this any more than I must!
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 23:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Earl Brutus = yet another band I have never heard of
is this a british thing?
― the sound of a norwegian guy being wrong (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 23:03 (fourteen years ago) link
I do, however, actually own and enjoy every single album I voted for.
And I believe it was 195, not 193...
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 23:03 (fourteen years ago) link
like, I recognize all the American stuff listed so far
It's so much more than a British thing.
OK, it's a British thing.
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 23:03 (fourteen years ago) link
You're going to leave us tonight halfway through a 2-album tie?
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 23:03 (fourteen years ago) link
It's a Brutish thing!
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 23:04 (fourteen years ago) link
so, so far the most votes any album's gotten is 5 (R.E.M. and Bjork). lj, care to share any stats-related spoilers at this juncture? like how many votes or points the #1 album got, or where the highest one-vote album will place?
― #miap4ksclovetofu (some dude), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 23:04 (fourteen years ago) link
I thought it'd be more suspenseful this way. Plus I want all the Brutish posters to wake up tomorrow, come here and rejoice
some dude, I'm only going to reveal that there is a fairly humorous statistical quirk not far from now. Oh, and that the highest-placed album without a #1 vote comfortably makes the top 20.
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 23:06 (fourteen years ago) link
and I know for a fact I have at least one more album on my list to come
― Sub/Doms Whipping Here (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 23:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Now let's talk about Earl Brutus, and my official 7th-favourite non-canon (although tbh my 7th-favourite anyway) album of the 90's.
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 23:10 (fourteen years ago) link
(there are a few albums with more than 5 votes, worry not!)
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 23:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Earl Brutus! On Spotify! http://open.spotify.com/album/46rDy0ySNa5ilCW3i0Wo5g
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 23:15 (fourteen years ago) link
just found that and listening :)
― tart w/ a heart (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 23:16 (fourteen years ago) link
To recap:
____ Stereolab - Peng! (1992)____ XTC - Apple Venus, Vol. 1 (1999)100. De La Soul - Buhloone Mind State (1993)___ Fugazi - End Hits (1998)98. Crowded House - Woodface (1991)97. Sonic Youth - Washing Machine (1995)96. Björk - Debut (1993)95. Mark Eitzel - Songs of Love (1991)94. Elliott Smith - Either/Or (1997)___ The Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde (1992)92. The Afghan Whigs - Black Love (1996)91. Tori Amos - From the Choirgirl Hotel (1998)90. UGK - Ridin' Dirty (1996)89. Grifters - Crappin' You Negative (1994)88. The Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I (1999)87. The Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen (1993)___ Neil Young - Harvest Moon (1992)85. Biosphere - Substrata (1997)___ Missy Elliott - Da Real World (1999)___ Mogwai - Young Team (1997)82. 2pac - All Eyez on Me (1996)81. Metallica - Metallica (1991)___ Built To Spill - Keep it Like a Secret (1999)79. A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders (1993)___ The Divine Comedy - Promenade (1994)77. The Auteurs - New Wave (1993)___ Burger/Ink - Las Vegas (1996)___ Electronic - Electronic (1991)74. Sleep - Dopesmoker (199?)___ Slowdive - Souvlaki (1993)72. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F#A#∞ (1998)71. R.E.M. - New Adventures in Hi-Fi (1996)___ Earl Brutus - Tonight You Are The Special One (1998)
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 23:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Nothing I've voted for showing up yet. Have an odd feeling I might go 1 for 10.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 23:24 (fourteen years ago) link
an eclectic mix! glad to see 'New Adventures in Hifi' there even though I din't vote for it; a terrific album.
― RedRaymaker, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 23:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Nothing of mine yet either, and only one of them will show up without help from other votes. Not too bothered, though. This list is quality.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 23:25 (fourteen years ago) link
I own just three of the albums so far, and voted for all three of them.
― seandalai, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 23:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Starting to worry that the super canonical hiphop/r&b albums I voted for won't make it... which is crazy, y'all would have voted for [xxxxxxx] and [yyyyyyyy] and [zzzzzzzz] too, right? right?
― tart w/ a heart (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 23:25 (fourteen years ago) link
I've scored 1 so far, optimistically I think I cd score about 8 out of 18
― Sub/Doms Whipping Here (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 23:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Haven't heard that Earl Brutus album - I own and like Your Majesty, though. Am also happy about Slowdive and intrigued by Burger/Ink. Yeah.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 23:28 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^would presumably go mental for Burger/Ink
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 23:28 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm regretting my #1 vote now when I think of 7 of the 8 other albums on my ballot that probably won't show up.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 23:29 (fourteen years ago) link
also Your Majesty, fine as it is, is but the prototype. Tonight... is simply sensational.
Also, y'all shouldn't make assumptions ;-)
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 23:29 (fourteen years ago) link
I've scored 1, feel likely to go 1 for 12 (I think it was 12, anyway).
xposts - it sounds pretty much up my alley, but I can sometimes be fickle about ambient stuff for no real reason.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 23:30 (fourteen years ago) link
I regret nothing
― the sound of a norwegian guy being wrong (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 23:32 (fourteen years ago) link
wow ive only heard 3 of the last 10 albums~~~ lol @ this list tbh i was really surprised to have 2 of my 10 place already and im guaranteed at least 3 more showing up - p hilarious imo
― where display names die, unrecognized (Lamp), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 23:35 (fourteen years ago) link
BTW my own ballot was done entirely non-tactically and my highest vote wouldn't have gotten anything in unaided. Not saying how many of mine got in, but EB is the only one thus far.
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 23:35 (fourteen years ago) link
my own ballot was done entirely non-tactically
I bow to your tiny ego, sir.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 23:36 (fourteen years ago) link
This poll rewards going all in
― Sub/Doms Whipping Here (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 23:37 (fourteen years ago) link
:P
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 23:38 (fourteen years ago) link
also
y'all shouldn't make assumptions
Burger/Ink is the highlight of the poll so far for me. Never heard it before, listened on Spotify, now I love it.
― I am using your worlds, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 23:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Can I already start complaining how yet again one more poll seems to be totally dominated by Boring Old Rock Music (23 out of the 33 albums so far are rock, as far as I know), or is it too early for that?
The original poll actually had more rap and dance and electronic music by this point.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 23:40 (fourteen years ago) link