#1= http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/75/Rednex_Sex_And_Violins.jpg
― Sherman Helmsley Teabag (Cattle Grind), Friday, 7 May 2010 23:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Divine Hammer was nice and poppy, not mindblowing but very nice, CAN be transcendent to chill to I'd imagine, especially in the summer, in good company, outdoors
ditto The Invisible Man, euphoric innocent guitar-pop isn't something I'll hate on at all. They remind me a BIT of mid-period Catherine Wheel, which is a big compliment.
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Friday, 7 May 2010 23:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, nice!
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Friday, 7 May 2010 23:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Fake #1s, go wild. Although you won't top the real number 2.
Now I kinda wish I would've registered a fake account to give 200 points to this album:
http://img3.nnm.ru/a/b/9/e/8/ab9e8e9f45e0444e24fa052d3a924155_full.jpg
And it wouldn't have been a joke either. Didn't realize one vote can get you so far!
― Tuomas, Friday, 7 May 2010 23:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Why would you have needed a fake account? You could have used your regular account.
― I am using your worlds, Friday, 7 May 2010 23:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, but I didn't want to spenf all my points for one album. I did give Raveland some points though.
― Tuomas, Friday, 7 May 2010 23:32 (fourteen years ago) link
http://photo2.bababian.com/upload1/20091009/C5FF036B723EE4BF8102481A30C74B68.jpg
― Sherman Helmsley Teabag (Cattle Grind), Friday, 7 May 2010 23:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Only one person threw a 200-bomb in the end. It was highly irresponsible and entirely in keeping with the poll's spirit.
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Friday, 7 May 2010 23:33 (fourteen years ago) link
1 Shiina Ringo - Muzai Moratorium (1999)200 points1 vote1 first-place voteContributor: Rudipherous (aka Rockist_Scientist)
http://spdhiro.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/shiina-ringo-muzai-moratorium.jpg
Meanwhile, I can't stop listening to Muzai Moratorium, which is making me smile more than anything I've heard for a while.
― Rockist Scientist, Monday, 5 March 2007 14:29 (3 years ago)
Her first album, Muzai Moritorium, had some good stuff but was a tad too Alanis Morissette-influenced.
― jdconsidine, Thursday, 17 March 2005 23:24 (5 years ago)
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Friday, 7 May 2010 23:34 (fourteen years ago) link
ET FIN
*cackles madly at incensed ILM posters*
lol, a thread I have never read
― the sound of a norwegian guy being wrong (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 7 May 2010 23:35 (fourteen years ago) link
http://iamyouasheisme.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/whitenights.jpg
― nakhchivan, Friday, 7 May 2010 23:35 (fourteen years ago) link
stupid royal trux
― plax (ico), Friday, 7 May 2010 23:35 (fourteen years ago) link
We can post our ballots now then?
― they're all women so you'll probably like them (Noodle Vague), Friday, 7 May 2010 23:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Wait until I do my Awards
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Friday, 7 May 2010 23:36 (fourteen years ago) link
they're coming right up!
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Friday, 7 May 2010 23:37 (fourteen years ago) link
xpln plz
― plax (ico), Friday, 7 May 2010 23:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Bossanova missed the cut, then? That means I only went 1/9 on my ballot. ;_;
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 7 May 2010 23:37 (fourteen years ago) link
no problem
― they're all women so you'll probably like them (Noodle Vague), Friday, 7 May 2010 23:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Any other info about the winning album other than it potentially sounds like Alanis Morissette?
― I am using your worlds, Friday, 7 May 2010 23:38 (fourteen years ago) link
It's J-pop with a bit of noise-rock. Quite eclectic, very obscure. I know nothing and Allmusic knows less. Here's your best bet: http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/%E6%A4%8E%E5%90%8D_%E6%9E%97%E6%AA%8E/%E7%84%A1%E7%BD%AA%E3%83%A2%E3%83%A9%E3%83%88%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%E3%83%A0__muzai_moratorium_/
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Friday, 7 May 2010 23:40 (fourteen years ago) link
NV I think the attractive thing abt that Breeders album which I also voted for is that you not only have quirky indie-disco dancefloor filler Cannonball but they touch on pretty much every other corner of the mid-90s female-vocals-indie - you've got yr shoegazey dash on New Year, wistful country rockin' violins on Drivin' On 9, grungey shades-at-night attitude on I Just Wanna Get Along, obligatory half-time kitschy surfish instrumental, etc - and all with a breezy hooks-everywhere style that was really not in evidence from, say, Veruca Salt or whoever else.
lolling xposts etc
― xylyl syzygy (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 7 May 2010 23:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Second review down is like Kogan to the power of 50 xp to self
guess ur poll was a massive failure/success
― plax (ico), Friday, 7 May 2010 23:41 (fourteen years ago) link
dunno if it's that obscure iirc i had an album of theirs but cannae remember anthing of it
― nakhchivan, Friday, 7 May 2010 23:41 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoRoFAjT-W8
Lol, this is horrible!
I guess #2 and #1 prove both the positive and negative sides of doing a freeform poll like this.
― Tuomas, Friday, 7 May 2010 23:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Tuomas is really Tuomasing it this week.
― emil.y, Friday, 7 May 2010 23:42 (fourteen years ago) link
I'd say success! The bottom half especially, although there were some great triumphs in the top portion.
If 2 and 1 had been swapped this would have been the greatest poll ever, obv
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Friday, 7 May 2010 23:42 (fourteen years ago) link
poll was a massive success imo
― I am using your worlds, Friday, 7 May 2010 23:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Anyway "There's A Vomitsprinkler In My Liverriver" was robbed, dudes
but seriously, will probably think of 20 things I actually expected to place and be all ;_; in a minute, but this has been fun
― xylyl syzygy (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 7 May 2010 23:42 (fourteen years ago) link
I quite like the Shiina Ringo that I have heard, but I don't think I've heard a full album and wasn't that crazily blown away by it anyway, so... yeah. Better than some boring-ass canonical album at number 1, anyway.
― emil.y, Friday, 7 May 2010 23:44 (fourteen years ago) link
I seriously never expected to be the only voter to give 200 points to one album. I didn't think you'd all be following the categorical imperative. I also didn't think of it as trolling as I really do like this album more than any other I can think of from the 90s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua6kbqRCN1Mhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxUBfFpB3nshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDGOVbnCG-w
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 7 May 2010 23:44 (fourteen years ago) link
It's sold around 1.5 million copies, so not obscure in Japan.
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 7 May 2010 23:45 (fourteen years ago) link
nah it's cool Rudipherous! as I say it's entirely appropriate for the poll to end this way - I didn't intend for it to be conventional
(Save the regrets until after the awards (although for me, people saying they'd have voted Levitate/wrong Hood album/Monsoon Bassoon near-miss were the painful ones))
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Friday, 7 May 2010 23:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Poll delivered what it set out to do imo
― they're all women so you'll probably like them (Noodle Vague), Friday, 7 May 2010 23:46 (fourteen years ago) link
w/r/t The Breeders...Invisible Man & Divine Hammer are a couple of my favourite tracks on the album, a couple of my favourite songs of all time in fact, but as it goes they are great but fairly standard sludgy four-minute flannel-gaze pop songs...using those two songs as examples kind of justifies NV's disparagements; take away the Twin Power harmonies and those two cuts could fit in on a thousand other 90s albums...
Drivin on 9 is a better hint at the wide range of the album, but to really hear the off-kilter hooks you have to search through the weird interludes--Roi, Mad Lucas, No Aloha, Hag, both of the surf instrumentals (one of which wz sampled by The Prodigy, for all you tuechno lovers out there)--the big bfd single Cannonball of course had the best of both worlds!!!
Also the album kicks off with an amazing rush of a song called New Year
― deeply wishing solace from the universe for a troubled soul (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 7 May 2010 23:47 (fourteen years ago) link
wheres the complete rundown of votes?
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 7 May 2010 23:48 (fourteen years ago) link
not yet, pfunkboy
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Friday, 7 May 2010 23:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Awards
Dirty Boces Award For Ungenerous Support goes to
Sonic Youth - Dirty (14 points, 5 votes)http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:SGEw553M4MsEgM:http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/64s/8589807.jpg
Mercury Rev - Boces (14 points, 5 votes)http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:VkTUpHsqduGOKM:http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/64s/32458105.jpg
was to be expected I guess but half-sincere joke votes still kinda lame imho
― the sound of a norwegian guy being wrong (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 7 May 2010 23:48 (fourteen years ago) link
LOL! I love the way the award was named.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 7 May 2010 23:49 (fourteen years ago) link
You got Dirty Boces, boy.
― emil.y, Friday, 7 May 2010 23:49 (fourteen years ago) link
I was honestly not being disparaging about the Breeders btw - I'm properly interested in what people feel is so special about the album. I think why I don't get it is because it's too open or something - I think I need some density or opacity in indie poppy stuff to maintain my interest.
― they're all women so you'll probably like them (Noodle Vague), Friday, 7 May 2010 23:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Wait, I love Last Splash and like the Prodigy (though maybe not post-Last Splash) and had no idea about a sampling connection, what where?
Not quite sure what you mean by dense/opaque but I'm pretty sure the tracks Drugs A. Money just mentioned have some of that, but oh well, I really don't know what it would sound like to me without the 16-year patina of nostalgia, so maybe I can't really expect you to like it without that
― xylyl syzygy (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 7 May 2010 23:53 (fourteen years ago) link
top poll, LJ. kudos!
― m the g, Saturday, 8 May 2010 00:02 (fourteen years ago) link
ty! next award coming in a sec...
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Saturday, 8 May 2010 00:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Congratulations Tuomas on finding the one really difficult to stomach song on the album (though I think even that song is okay some of the time once you get past the intro).
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 8 May 2010 00:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Every Winner Loses Award For Fallen First-Place Votes
808 State - Don Solaris (15 points, Paul In Santa Cruz' first-place vote)http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:4rvmAxNwIRU33M:http://thumbs.ebaystatic.com/pict/270464381130_0.jpg
Air Liquide - Nephology (18 points, Tuomas' first-place vote)http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:kZgswo5Pl9SlwM:http://www.discogs.com/image/R-150-13930-001.jpg
Shellac – Terraform (21 points, Matt H3lgeson's first-place vote)http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:Dng3qCsXVq5FaM:http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/64s/27647627.jpg
dEUS - In A Bar, Under The Sea (25 points, seandalai's first-place vote)http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:HFNnfmSnS55VFM:http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41M8H2H2D7L._SL75_SS50_.jpg
BIG AUDIO DYNAMITE II -- The Globe (20 points, eephus!'s first-place vote)http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:TmjcXbZ8lcmwgM:http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/64s/32135533.jpg
The Geraldine Fibbers - Lost Somewhere Between The Earth And My Home (11 points, some dude's first-place vote)http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:n-8s-xhY-qdQ6M:http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41JZ0RQZXPL._SL75_SS50_.jpg
Steven Jesse Bernstein - Prison (21 points, Derelict's first-place vote)http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:-uwpet4dblFi2M:http://i43.tower.com/images/mm106420075/prison-steven-jesse-bernstein-cd-cover-art.jpg
The Telescopes - The Telescopes (26 points, emil.y's first-place vote)http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:XMWKeoHfbuE4gM:http://www.discogs.com/image/R-50-380857-1112352703.jpg
Sparks - Gratuitous Sax & Senseless Violins (21 points, Jesse's first-place vote)http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:nJlsWV8v47tNVM:http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/518DEWENDNL._SL75_SS50_.jpg
(there's more...)
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Saturday, 8 May 2010 00:07 (fourteen years ago) link
I totally forgot about the Steven Jesse Bernstein! Love that album. Should have thrown it some points.
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 8 May 2010 00:08 (fourteen years ago) link