Acclaimed Music Top 30 Albums from 1998 poll

Since Rhythm-al-ism isn't on the list I'll go w Aquemini.

PJ Harvery > Boards of Canada > Massive Attack > Air

Erm....Harvery?

harvey made you think harvester which made you think carvery imo

For albums that made me reconsider what music could be, this poll is between Refused, Beck and GY!BE.

(Remember I was 16 at the time.)

this list needs more Green Pajamas

and Push Kings

oh shit, super ae was this year? would have voted for that in a heartbeat

have boredoms been represented in any of these polls? some days when i feel like they basically won the 90s

they will show up next year.

I'll be interested in the '99 poll cos in my head that's an extremely weak year.

I was exaggerating when I said I'd have thirty '99 faves to prefer to the AM list. But there are about ten unbelievable highs which aren't even on the longlist

I'm going to probably vote in this one, validating everything that's wrong with ILM. But for what? Plenty suggests itself.

Good shout on 6x7, imago.

1999 is a funny one; looking at the AM list there are a handful I liked a lot at the time but don't revisit now (Flips, Sigur Ros, Death In Vegas, Kelis), some I passed over and have since rediscovered (Mos Def, Underworld, Low), a couple of weird outliers (Make-Up, Jim O'Rourke), and a few I still really, really like (SFA, Boredoms, D Plan, Orbital). I feel like there's quite a few things out of my peripheral vision though, that I can't quite recall, or which I don't associate with being from 1999.

Bwyd Time and Barafundle are brilliant compared to Gorky5 - that album is patchy as heck.

OTM! And the singles around that time... there's a couple of collections ("20" and "Introducing") and they have p. similar tracklistings but are great

(my copy of "Introducing" mysteriously appears to end halfway through a track but perhaps it is supposed to?)

Anyway I guess I'm voting for BoC above TNT, 3 EPs, Aquemini. Might have voted for Zauberberg or the Notwist's "Shrink" (sort of my at-the-time pick, though I didn't hear it until '99) if present. Glad imago reminded me of Quickspace and Ganger. I suppose for me this was a year not of mindblowing revelations but a lot of understated signposts down interesting paths

TBF Gorky 5 redeems itself with 'Hush the Warmth' which is my favourite song by them and the song that got me into them.

I know Smashing Pumpkins' Adore is divisive but if you whittled it down to like ten songs it's great. For Martha, Once Upon a Time, Blank Page are gems.

it is good. like you say, could do with a trim around the ears but still got some great moments.

Pulp over NMH/Elvis Costello/Outkast/Lauryn/Elliott Smith/R.E.M./etc.

NMH for me. I go through phases with this album, but it's sounding really great right now.

it's an album's album, whatever that means

Voted for Lauryn Hill. I seem to love that record more and more as the years go by.

Finalists:

Outkast
Hole
PJ Harvey
Pulp
Bragg-Wilco

The Lucinda Williams and Lauryn Hill albums have to my ears the same number of dud songs. I like'em though.

Mark Hollis

Ray of Light in 2nd place

Would vote for Super Roots 7 in a hot second over everything though.

Loved Gastr's Mirror Repair, Crookt Crackt or Fly, Upgrade & Afterlife and The Harp Factory on Lake Street but man I HATED Camofleur bitterly

Fuck an NMH

Why does Cameron Diaz's hair stick up like that? 90s thing?

That's the something about Mary. Her hair sticks up.

Ummmmm, you should probably just watch the movie, andrew.

Loved Gastr's Mirror Repair, Crookt Crackt or Fly, Upgrade & Afterlife and The Harp Factory on Lake Street but man I HATED Camofleur bitterly

I guess I get this, inasmuch as Camoufleur is occasionally pretty and tuneful? Which is not a dig on the earlier, noiser, more experimental and atonal stuff, which I also love.

This is absolutely In the Aeroplane Over the Sea. This Is Hardcore and Mutations would be my next two.

BoC just over NMH

Have repped for a lot of these at one point or another, but none of them that I'd still say are just all-time super-classics except maybe Aeroplane. Voting Mutations, of which I'm the fondest. Just sounds good. Fun to sing along to, probably his most consistent record.

Why does Cameron Diaz's hair stick up like that? 90s thing?

Ummmmm, you should probably just watch the movie, andrew.

lol, something about male body fluids...

Voted NMH but my two favourite albums of '98 aren't on the list - Fugazi's End Hits and Sunny Day Real Estate's How It Feels to Be Something On.

Ooooh, good call on the SDRE record, one of my all time favs.

Acclaimed Music is updater their site today, glad there is only one year left but the change seems to be minor. he has added Genres and the list is moving around a bit on the Albums side.

Songs of the 1990's will start around Halloween, would be great if there is no update to Songs by then.

xp The Argument is actually my favorite Fugazi record, but I know a handful of people who love EndHits the best.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Voted Aquemini without looking at the other options

(But shoutouts to Elliott Smith & QOTSA) (also A Thousand Leaves, Accelerator, Super Roots 7, Adore, Rhythm-a-lisms, How It Feels to Be Something On, they all deserved to be on here)

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In an Aeroplane... is the most wretchedly awful record I try to listen to every time I see all the love for it. I think I've never made it past the first two tracks so it might get better afterwards but I somehow doubt it.

It might help if you know going in that 'King of Carrot Flowers Pt. 2 & 3' is sung from the perspective of a frustrated boyfriend on the phone with his girlfriend: "I love you! Jesus christ!...Jesus christ...I. Love. You... Yes. I do. (heavy sigh)'

yeah it's a good album but the combo of really agressively strummed guitar + dude trying to sing as LOUDLY AS HE CAN (without yelling) is a real turn off

It took a full listen for me to warm up to it again this time. Now I'm on like my eighth listen in the last couple days. *cough*

I'm not sure if it gets better in later tracks, but the middle stretch is where the lyrics get particularly obsessive and sad.

i wasn't drawn to ITAOTS the first time i heard it. i think i was expecting some OTC-style psychedelic whimsy and all i got was a guy strumming acoustic way too hard and singing in this really off-putting voice. but after a bit of perseverance i found there was a lot more to it than that. i'm a big fan of some of the instrumentation on the album - those whistles and woodwinds are very evocative and it's got an enjoyable steam-goth storyline with some very unusual imagery going through it.

It might help if you know going in that 'King of Carrot Flowers Pt. 2 & 3' is sung from the perspective of a frustrated boyfriend on the phone with his girlfriend: "I love you! Jesus christ!...Jesus christ...I. Love. You... Yes. I do. (heavy sigh)'

― One Wittle Wee-Wee (Old Lunch), Monday, 24 August 2015 14:54 (34 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ugh.

I think I just have to accept it's really not for me and I'll always find the acclaim baffling.

That was a joke, btw.

Sorry, couldn't tell.

phew, i was a bit worried that was what it was supposed to be.