totally never cared about autechre sorry guys
― the sound of a norwegian guy being wrong (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 7 May 2010 19:46 (fourteen years ago) link
I posted one of those tricks to the thread
― it means "EMOTIONAL"! (HI DERE), Friday, 7 May 2010 19:46 (fourteen years ago) link
oh right i already forgot about 10
― some dude, Friday, 7 May 2010 19:47 (fourteen years ago) link
i can doublehaha if i want, esp if i'm not thinking straight due to fucked-up sleep patterns
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Friday, 7 May 2010 19:48 (fourteen years ago) link
anyway folks it's time to give indie-rock some sweet lovin'!!
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Friday, 7 May 2010 19:49 (fourteen years ago) link
9 Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West134 points4 votes2 first-place votes (other: Parenthetical Grillz)Greatest contributor: monster_xero
http://www.viceland.com/music/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/mouse2.jpg
i still really like in the lonesome crowded west.
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 21:38 (3 years ago)
LCW shouldn't have been cut down; its the best indie record of any sort in tbe 90s, like pavement with more feeling & amphetamines.
― 7seasjim, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 06:39 (3 years ago)
I say this every time Modest Mouse comes up, but "Lonesome Crowded West" is a perfect album.
― dieblucasdie (dieblucasdie), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 12:59 (5 years ago)
Lonesome Crowded West and Songs In The Key Of Life are the only ones I know that are good all the way through, in that Nilsson Schmilsson way where every new track that comes on makes you go, "Fuck! This is good!" There are tons, tons, tons of double albums that more or less acquit themselves, the White Album being the quintessential example, with enough gems to balance out the general lack of focus. But on a single album those kinds of ratios would equal a major bomb, making these types of things a "fans only" thing whose idiosyncracies you come to love... very few artists manage even one SINGLE album that really feels like it needs all its songs, so perhaps I'm holding doubles to a high standard, but really we'll be here all day if we list every double album that's "good" in the White Album sense....
― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Friday, 8 September 2006 12:13 (3 years ago)
As for fave album, another vote for "Lonesome Crowded West." Great for long drives, where it never seems long at all. I was so grabbed by that disc when I first got it (I think in '97, when they played L.A. shows with Strictly Ballroom, the band that splintered into Dntel and Beachwood Sparks!), mainly because of the fact that the band had these themes running through the disc, yet it wasn't any kind of "rock opera" or anything. It all flows together so well.
― Bent Over at the Arclight (Bent Over at the Arclight), Friday, 25 February 2005 20:58 (5 years ago)
I can't see how anyone could say Eve sucks, when her debut has tracks like this, but to each according to this taste...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDWE0YEkH_o
(many x-posts)
― Tuomas, Friday, 7 May 2010 19:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Modest Mouse = gtfo
― the sound of a norwegian guy being wrong (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 7 May 2010 19:51 (fourteen years ago) link
memories of when this band didnt fucking suck so goddamn much.
― Samhain 69 (jjjusten), Friday, 7 May 2010 19:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Another of my votes!
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 7 May 2010 19:52 (fourteen years ago) link
and i love that record, and a couple others, but current modest mouse just fills me with rage. they were better when they were pulling off angular half-assed shambling pixies rips
― Samhain 69 (jjjusten), Friday, 7 May 2010 19:52 (fourteen years ago) link
still though, 2 first-place votes!
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Friday, 7 May 2010 19:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Nice to see some BTNH love in here, but you guys should've voted for E. 1999 Eternal then! (Or did you?) To me it's been one of the rap albums of the 90s ever since it came out, when I heard "Da Crossroads" I just fell in love with their style. I think it's kinda awesome how they combine that sweet doo-wop rap style with dark, almost corny Gothic imagery.
― Tuomas, Friday, 7 May 2010 19:54 (fourteen years ago) link
okay so some cursory googling is making me think a particular piece of folklore from my family is not actually true; to wit, I don't think that is my cousin singing the "WE ARE SOLDIERS NOW" caterwaul on "Mo Thug Family Tree" after all
I am kind of bummed but mostly relieved because that part of the song is FUCKING WRETCHED
― it means "EMOTIONAL"! (HI DERE), Friday, 7 May 2010 19:56 (fourteen years ago) link
"i'm trying to drink away the part of the day that i cannot sleep away"
^lived those words
btw..
apparently i like to pop in a lot of thread and say:
"I really like [insert album here]"
terribly enlightening posts! i need to censor myself more.
― the Rob Based god (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 7 May 2010 19:59 (fourteen years ago) link
h3lg you are a lifesaver and a quote machine - gonna go back and count how many of the top 100 have h3lg blurbs at the end
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Ctrl-s "I really like" and yer all set!
jk dude
― Samhain 69 (jjjusten), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:01 (fourteen years ago) link
jj can you plz add 'TOP TEN COUNTING DOWN NOW' to the thread-title? :)
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:02 (fourteen years ago) link
instead of 'THE RECKONING'
no.
― Samhain 69 (jjjusten), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:03 (fourteen years ago) link
also sorry but i think eve is just terrible
― Samhain 69 (jjjusten), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:04 (fourteen years ago) link
shes like trina without the touch of class
okay that is unfair
― it means "EMOTIONAL"! (HI DERE), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:05 (fourteen years ago) link
eve has a touch of would smash IMO
― the Rob Based god (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:05 (fourteen years ago) link
It's a 90s poll - you're lucky it isn't THE QUICKENING.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 7 May 2010 20:09 (fourteen years ago) link
almost changed it to THE BITCHENING, but so far there hasnt been so much of that
― Samhain 69 (jjjusten), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:10 (fourteen years ago) link
top ten should bring it out tho i imagine
― Samhain 69 (jjjusten), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:11 (fourteen years ago) link
THE ROCKENING
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:11 (fourteen years ago) link
make it CONGRATULATIONS, RADIOHEAD
― it means "EMOTIONAL"! (HI DERE), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:12 (fourteen years ago) link
hmmmmm
― Samhain 69 (jjjusten), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Can someone post a link to the original list thread?
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Friday, 7 May 2010 20:13 (fourteen years ago) link
the cardiacs are still to place
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:13 (fourteen years ago) link
THE 1990s POLL RESULTS - THE ALBUMS
― some dude, Friday, 7 May 2010 20:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Pablo Honey winning this would make me lol so fucking hard
― it means "EMOTIONAL"! (HI DERE), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:17 (fourteen years ago) link
lol
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:19 (fourteen years ago) link
I ought to say something about Anodyne which I gave 100 points lol (didn't think hard about the album). I feel pretty far away from that album right now as it's pretty grounded in the USA, esp. Texas & the midwest, for me, and I am not right now. But it meant the world to me when I was twenty & pretty much defined my listening until the end of the century. The song that means the most to me today is "Fifteen Keys", a weird punky country blues that I once dreamed about playing at a Good Friday service: that kinda song. "Been there, no luck at all, nothing left to lose / I been there": the last bit is the churchy part. The dobro playing is killer: it moans, it's really the heart of the song. And fuck it: sometimes you just want to leave: "exhaust fumes, Thin Lizzy instead". I don't know, the song is still pretty mysterious to me, and I've probably listened to it several hundred times.
― Euler, Friday, 7 May 2010 20:19 (fourteen years ago) link
It's going to be the Reality Bites soundtrack, isn't it?
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 7 May 2010 20:19 (fourteen years ago) link
be here now winning would be even better
fuck, that should read "didn't think hard about the poll"
Euler i voted for the Uncle Tupelo album too, but im not from texas, nor am I from the USA, but that album is great (also voted No Depression)
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:21 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't want to suddenly see all the 'big' missed albums and know what's missing in advance :(
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Friday, 7 May 2010 20:22 (fourteen years ago) link
9 and 8 are both double-albums of vaguely 'indie' rock from the mid-late 90's with 4 votes and 2 first-place votes. difference is that 8 is the greatest album of all time ever
XD
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:23 (fourteen years ago) link
8 Cardiacs - Sing To God (1996)137 points4 votes2 first-place votes (other: acoleuthic)Greatest contributor: davek
http://geordierussell.instone.net/Jukebox/Img/C/Cardiacs%20-%20Sing%20To%20God.jpg
Long, sprawling alt-prog masterpiece that takes years to chew through.
― everything (everything), Friday, 3 November 2006 18:29 (3 years ago)
One of the best bands I've ever heard, of course.
― Davek (davek_00), Saturday, 13 March 2010 13:50 (1 month ago)
cardiacs = complete classic.
― m the g (mister the guanoman), Friday, 2 February 2007 16:58 (3 years ago)
Repulsively dud. Idiotic prog-wacky for the lower sixth.
― Dr. C, Wednesday, 9 May 2001 01:00 (8 years ago)
Your music collection sucks without _Sings to God_ .
― dagasque, Saturday, 4 May 2002 01:00 (8 years ago)
"Dirty Boy" is such an amazing song. That youtube, with all the lights, those people must have been seeing stars afterwards
― Dominique (dleone), Friday, 2 February 2007 18:46 (3 years ago)
I met Tim Smith at the first Authority gig! I could only blab about how STG and Guns were two of my favouritest albums. Didn't have the courage to ask about new recordings. This news, however, is excellent! I may have to catch them before it's too late.
I'm honestly astounded by the lack of Cardiacs awareness on ILX. People, this. Is. As. Good. As. It. Gets.
― Just got offed, Thursday, 2 August 2007 21:57 (2 years ago)
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:24 (fourteen years ago) link
hahahahaha
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:25 (fourteen years ago) link
I realised while looking for quotes that I haven't really talked ABOUT this album much on ILX. I might start now.
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Repulsively dud. Idiotic prog-wacky for the lower sixth.― Dr. C, Wednesday, 9 May 2001 01:00 (8 years ago)
OTM (sorry).
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:25 (fourteen years ago) link
I gotta say louis, everything about that album sounds/looks terrible to me
― the sound of a norwegian guy being wrong (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:25 (fourteen years ago) link
What a result!
If I had this for longer than a week when I sent my votes in this could have been a lot closer to number 1.
― Kitchen Person, Friday, 7 May 2010 20:28 (fourteen years ago) link
This is where shit gets real and about 95% of otherwise enlightened music-lovers shove their fingers in their ears and run screaming. I can only surmise that the album is just too fucking much. It's not so much an exuberant puppy as an army of sugar-fixated baby kangaroos all trying to jump into your arms at the same time during the most colossal rainstorm imaginable, although for some reason the sun is shining brightly and your brain is being rewired by the greatest genius to compose in the rock format that ever lived. Cardiacs' melodies, production, chord-sequences...they're not better. They're level-up.
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:30 (fourteen years ago) link
#7?
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:31 (fourteen years ago) link