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
haha my #1 album is gonna be 2 points, right?
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 8 May 2010 00:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Stars Of The Lid - The Ballasted Orchestra (20 points, 2 votes, a passing spacecadet's first-place vote)http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:8xQ25Pl9pP-ZcM:http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/64s/41228715.png
Leftfield - Leftism (11 points, 3 votes, pfunkboy's first-place vote)http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ojvVhQp511KrlM:http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51%252B4LNG2j1L._SL75_SS50_.jpg
Swans - White Light From The Mouth Of Infinity (10 points, 2 votes, ilxor's first-place vote)http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:3RgyPUsgvEwZSM:http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/64s/41867787.png
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Saturday, 8 May 2010 00:11 (fourteen years ago) link
I cant believe only 3 people voted for Leftism
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 8 May 2010 00:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Matt H3lg3s0n award for persistent regret goes to
US MAPLE - TALKER
http://www.indierockfan.net/images/29703f.jpg
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Saturday, 8 May 2010 00:14 (fourteen years ago) link
I originally had a four-way tie at the top of mine until I saw I wasn't allowed. NOT SO FREEFORM POLL, HUH?
― emil.y, Saturday, 8 May 2010 00:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Tough Shit Award For Missing Out On The Top 100 By Number Of Votes Cast goes to
Current 93 - All The Pretty Little Horses (31 points, 2 votes)
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_F44U5JXOP0Q/R8O4WZ9dxRI/AAAAAAAAAFA/9_Ygi0zvov4/s320/All_The_Pretty_Little_Horses_(Theinmostlight)_1996.jpg
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Saturday, 8 May 2010 00:17 (fourteen years ago) link