94 Elliott Smith - Either/Or (1997)33 points3 votes0 first-place votesGreatest contributor: billstevejim
http://betterpropaganda.com/images/artwork/EitherXOr-Elliot_Smith_480.jpg
agh i cant stop listening to elliott smith agh
― 69 (plsmith), Friday, 5 January 2007 18:49 (3 years ago)
On the way to school today I sang along to Either/Or and enjoyed the hopefulness and feelings of change the songs invoke in me.
Also, everytime my thoughts return to where they were yesterday, the image of him in his last moments and how he must have felt, I'm forcing them back to happy memories like sharing a joint with him or watching him play. Today will be a better day.
I won't subject my kids to him again but I'm not ready for hip-hop. Today we're listening to Miles Davis.
― A Girl Named Sam (thatgirl), Thursday, 23 October 2003 12:01 (6 years ago) Bookmark
This is really sad... I was a fan, not so much of the last couple of records but Either/Or was the soundtrack to a really difficult time - I haven't been able to listen to it for years but maybe I should dig it out now.
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 07:11 (6 years ago) Bookmark
Before he got allChest stabby; his music wasSo very pretty.
-a hoy hoy
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Monday, 26 April 2010 21:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Tough call between this and his s/t album as my favorite ES album of the '90s (and that doesn't even include Heatmiser).
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 26 April 2010 21:03 (fourteen years ago) link
first album from my ballot! i gave it 2 whole points!
― surmudgeon (some dude), Monday, 26 April 2010 21:07 (fourteen years ago) link
2 essential points
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Monday, 26 April 2010 21:07 (fourteen years ago) link
92= The Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde (1992)33 points4 votes0 first-place votesGreatest contributors: lamp, parenthetical grillz
http://lyrics.smashits.com/artwork/38/3882af189d72624b10adb186cb852670.jpg
Unbelievably, there hasn't been a thread devoted to Pharcyde, who are, in my opinion, one of the best rap groups ever. I think one listen to the first album could convince most people that this is the direction that rap music should have gone in instead of gangsta. Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde is really an amazing album. The beats, courtesy of J-Swift, are great-- fun, jazzy, and upbeat; the lyrics are funny, self-deprecating, and jocular. What's really refreshing is that Pharcyde is just good fun without all the posturing, braggadocio, and hardness that comes out of a lot of rap. Listening to the first album is like hanging out with friends, a feeling that I rarely get from music, much less rap albums. Moreover, it's actually catchy.
You can't walk away from this album without feeling good. Pharcyde is like a better version of ATCQ-- one with funnier lyrics and better production. For this album alone, I say CLASSIC, but there are a number of good tracks on the second album too.
Has anyone who has heard Pharcyde not like them?
― punis (punis), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 20:00 (3 years ago) Bookmark
C/D : Pharcyde
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Monday, 26 April 2010 21:17 (fourteen years ago) link
I just noticed that rollercoaster comes out of an iron vagina.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 26 April 2010 21:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Or goes into one, rather.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 26 April 2010 21:21 (fourteen years ago) link
vagina dentata, no less (gotta say I noticed as soon as I GIS'd it)
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Monday, 26 April 2010 21:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Well I'll be ... I cut it late from my ballot, probably would've been worth a point for that
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 26 April 2010 21:24 (fourteen years ago) link
surprised to see debut so low! first from my ballot. i basically gave 20 points to 10 albums.
― jerk orbison (another al3x), Monday, 26 April 2010 21:28 (fourteen years ago) link
^^this is Al3x B, whose username I got wrong. He is a Greatest Contributor!
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Monday, 26 April 2010 21:29 (fourteen years ago) link
so proud
― jerk orbison (another al3x), Monday, 26 April 2010 21:34 (fourteen years ago) link
92= The Afghan Whigs - Black Love (1996)33 points4 votes0 first-place votesGreatest contributor: M4tt H3lg3s0n
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IUKLs8mpGpk/SW-SzYzYhuI/AAAAAAAABr0/lDORqo0NNAc/s320/aw.jpg
Black Love can be fun if you want a 70's spy/cop show atmosphere thrown on top of things.
― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Wednesday, 28 August 2002 18:11 (7 years ago)
Man, there is some great Shaft-style hi-hat + wacka-wacka guitar on Black Love.
― ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 5 January 2009 04:21 (1 year ago)
Destroy: Black Love. A meandering, hookless soup of despair.
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 8 November 2003 06:06 (6 years ago)
as a fairly clueless young music fan I bought this without having heard anything by the band... I've never regretted it and keep coming back to it - compare that to all the albums I bought only to find that the single I already had was the only good thing on it or that the band I thought I loved had lost it... "Hookless" = you are on crack.
― Flyboy (Flyboy), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 13:22 (6 years ago)
Black Love. I could write a Lefsetzian rant on that mofo.
― Terrible Cold, Wednesday, 2 April 2008 16:31 (2 years ago)
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Monday, 26 April 2010 21:38 (fourteen years ago) link
GREAT ALBUM
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 26 April 2010 21:39 (fourteen years ago) link
gerrin there!
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 26 April 2010 21:39 (fourteen years ago) link
I fuck w/ this album.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Monday, 26 April 2010 21:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Would've been on my ballot had I narrowed it down to top ten.
lol
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 26 April 2010 21:45 (fourteen years ago) link
91 Tori Amos - From The Choirgirl Hotel 34 points1 vote1 first-place voteContributor: The Lex
http://everythingtori.com/pm/uploads/music/tori_choirgirl.jpg
so this is probably my default favourite tori amos album, and therefore my default favourite album of the 90s. it's certainly amos at the height of her powers - somehow both her most accessible and her most experimental.
huge, huge turnaround from her previous work in that, having previously used a full band only occasionally, and mostly almost as an afterthought, the use of not just the band but weird electronic excursions on from the choirgirl hotel is so full-blooded and committed - "spark" for example is structurally and melodically a classic amos ballad but the surging arrangement lends it a real extra power. the whole album is really percussive - even on the ballads, the sense of rhythm is extraordinary.
anyway, lots to choose from! probably her most accomplished example of songcraft, "playboy mommy"; the aqueous percussion-and-bass of "liquid diamonds"; the deeply fucking weird electronic/structural mentalism of "iieee" and "hotel"; the, uh, cock-rock pastiche of "she's your cocaine"; the way she reacted to the van helden remix by making a pounding house joint herself - and pulling it off, "raspberry swirl" is a banger:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXjMgolX3IM
i can't choose, like, at all.
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 15:25 (3 weeks ago)
omg i listened to from the choirgirl hotel for the first time in about a year last night, on the late train back to london - it fit the mood perfectly - and noted just that song! MINDMELD. i remember how, when it came out, that album blew my mind sonically, especially 'liquid diamonds': it's as if someone explained to tori that genres like free jazz and trip-hop existed, but that she didn't bother to listen to them before doing her take on them.
'liquid diamonds' is very...aquatic, but also decadent. a real sea of music.
the other song which still blows my mind is 'hotel' - about six completely different styles of music in one somehow-coherent song! kate bush trapped in a computer game shoot-em-up!
― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 10 November 2005 11:18 (4 years ago)
I love anyone who belives in fairys and fucks her paino on stage . She is passionite and has a voice that chills me, one of the better vocalists in the last 25-30 years.
― anthony, Saturday, 28 July 2001 00:00 (8 years ago)
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Monday, 26 April 2010 21:50 (fourteen years ago) link
ahh the 1st of the 1 high vote entries
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 26 April 2010 21:50 (fourteen years ago) link
it's gonna be pretty embarassing if my #1 vote is top 20
― imma sb (samosa gibreel), Monday, 26 April 2010 21:52 (fourteen years ago) link
The Lex's enthusiasm for this record is kinda infectious, I gotta say. Although it only got in because he messed up his ballot and I ended up redistributing what turned out to be enough points to top-100 it.
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Monday, 26 April 2010 21:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Will you be posting later the list of albums with most votes?
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 26 April 2010 21:53 (fourteen years ago) link
I will, Pfunkboy
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Monday, 26 April 2010 21:54 (fourteen years ago) link
cool poll results thus far!
― Shakey Ja Mocha (M@tt He1ges0n), Monday, 26 April 2010 21:55 (fourteen years ago) link
didn't realize how few points you needed to chart here, did ppl vote for 50 albums each?
― nakhchivan, Monday, 26 April 2010 21:55 (fourteen years ago) link
To recap:
(tie) 100. Stereolab - Peng! (1992)(tie) 100. XTC - Apple Venus, Vol. 1 (1999)(tie) 100. De La Soul - Buhloone Mind State (1993)(tie) 98. Fugazi - End Hits (1998)(tie) 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)(tie) 92. The Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde (1992)(tie) 92. The Afghan Whigs - Black Love (1996)91. Tori Amos - From the Choirgirl Hotel (1998)
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 26 April 2010 21:56 (fourteen years ago) link
This could be the only albums poll in internet/music journo history with Cardiacs in the top ten.
Rejoice!
― David (davek_00), Monday, 26 April 2010 21:57 (fourteen years ago) link
(Some of these don't seem old enough in my own mind to have been from the '90s. I'm ancient.)
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 26 April 2010 21:57 (fourteen years ago) link
the diamond sea is just about the greatest thing ever and it sort of dwarfs the rest of that album
also has a rly terrible cover
― nakhchivan, Monday, 26 April 2010 21:58 (fourteen years ago) link
2 of mine made it, (heh the fugazi album i didnt vote for made it so hurrah)
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 26 April 2010 21:59 (fourteen years ago) link
nakhchivan there was a very good mix of voting-styles. (obviously I went with your first ballot, as you'd probably have worked out by now)
and yeah, I won't reveal anything but I am extremely happy with the 100, not for personal reasons but because it's such a delirious spread, and there's so much to hear - I can guarantee nobody on ILM will have heard more than, say, 2/3 of them
The Diamond Sea is so, so, so very good, yeah. I'm also highly partial to Little Trouble Girl
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Monday, 26 April 2010 21:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh and I do like the Mark Eitzel so it's nice to see that in
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 26 April 2010 22:00 (fourteen years ago) link
10 more tonight I think
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Monday, 26 April 2010 22:01 (fourteen years ago) link
I can guarantee nobody on ILM will have heard more than, say, 2/3 of them
Hell, I'm ALREADY batting at about .666
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 26 April 2010 22:01 (fourteen years ago) link
haha you shd have included the 2nd
however seeing the scores thus far you can be forgiven
― nakhchivan, Monday, 26 April 2010 22:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Glad to see Peng! in here. Even although I didn't vote for it.
― I am using your worlds, Monday, 26 April 2010 22:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Shit, how'd I miss this :(
― Heavy Potato Encounter (MaresNest), Monday, 26 April 2010 22:11 (fourteen years ago) link
I guess there wasn't enough badgering. See, LJ?!!!
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 26 April 2010 22:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Hmmm, yeah, this is the first I've heard of this poll.
― jaymc, Monday, 26 April 2010 22:13 (fourteen years ago) link
(Not sure I would've voted, anyway, just saying.)
― jaymc, Monday, 26 April 2010 22:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Interesting beginning. The only one I haven't heard is the Mark Eitzel, but I've never warmed to his voice. I still own most of the rest, and the Pharcyde and De La albums were late cuts from my ballot. Nothing I've voted for so far - I don't have high hopes for more than 2 or 3 out of 10 placing at all.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 26 April 2010 22:18 (fourteen years ago) link
There wasn't an actual nomination process, which may be why lots of people missed it. You just voted for whatever you wanted to, splitting up 200 points, and not including any titles that appeared on the original 1990s album poll.
ALL-NEW FREEFORM (SORTA) 1990s ALBUMS POLL: THE BANNS -- ALL OVER BAR THE SUPPLICATING :)
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 26 April 2010 22:18 (fourteen years ago) link
This has been a really good list so far. Some good unexpected choices and some I want to check out.
― Kitchen Person, Monday, 26 April 2010 22:18 (fourteen years ago) link
I can only imagine it will get much more niche/personalized from this point on.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 26 April 2010 22:19 (fourteen years ago) link
90 UGK - Ridin' Dirty (1996)34 points4 votes0 first-place votesGreatest contributor: The Reverend
http://www.dodaj.rs/f/1l/5W/4AE4xI2D/ugk-ridin-dirty.jpg
I like Super Tight more overall, but this record starts with one of the best four-song stretches ever
― otto günne (The Reverend), Wednesday, 17 February 2010 07:11 (2 months ago)
agreed
― average dump from average gangsters (deej), Wednesday, 17 February 2010 10:47 (2 months ago)
They see me rollinThey hatinPatrolling they tryin to catch me ridin dirtyTryin to catch me ridin dirtyTryin to catch me ridin dirtyTryin to catch me ridin dirtyTryin to catch me ridin dirtyMy music so loudI'm swanginThey hopin that they gon catch me ridin dirtyTryin to catch me ridin dirtyTryin to catch me ridin dirtyTryin to catch me ridin dirtyTryin to catch me ridin dirty
Police think they can see me leanI'm tint so it ain't easy to be seenWhen you see me ride by they can see the gleanAnd my shine on the deck and the TV screenRide with a new chick, she like hold upNext to the playstation controller is a full clip and my pistolaTurn a jacker into a comaGirl you ain't know, I'm crazy like Krayzie BoneJust tryin to bone ain't tryin to have no babiesRock clean itself so I pull in ladiesLaws of patrolling you know they hate meMusic turned all the way up until the maximumI can speak for some niggas tryin to jack for someBut we packin somethin that we have and um will have a nigga locked up in the maximumSecurity cell, I'm grippin oakMusic loud and tippin slowTwist and twistin like hit this doughPull up from behind and is in his throatWindows down gotta stop pollutionCDs change niggas like who is that producing?This the Play-N-Skillz when we out and cruisinGot warrants in every city except Houston but I'm still ain't losin
I been drinkin and smokin holdin shit cause a brother can't focusI gotta get to home 'fore the po po's scope this big ol Excursion swerving all up in the curve manNigga been sippin on that Hennessey and the gin again is in again we in the windDoin a hundred while I puff on the bluntAnd rollin another one up, we livin like we ain't givin a fuckI got a revolver in my right hand, 40 oz on my lap freezing my ballsRoll a nigga tree, green leaves and allComin pretty deep, me and my do-joI gotta get back to backstreetsWanted by the six pound and I got heat glock glock shots to the block we creep creepPop Pop hope cops don't see me, on a low keyWith no regards for the law we dodge em like fuck em allBut I won't get caught up and brought up on charges for none of y'allKeep a gun in car, and a blunt to spark, but well if you want, nigga you poppin darkReady or not we bust shots off in the air Krayzie Bone and Chamillionaire
Do what you thinkin so, I tried to let you goTurn up a blink of light and I swang it slowerA nigga upset for sure cause they think they know that they catchin me with plenty of the drink and droSo they get behind me tryin to check my tags, look at my rearview and they smilinThinkin they'll catch me on the wrong well keep tryinCause they denyin is racial profilingHouston, TX you can check my tagsPull me over try to check my slabGlove compartment gotta get my cashCause the crooked cops try to come up fastAnd been a baller that I am I talk to them, giving a damn bout not feeling my attitudeWhen they realize I ain't even ridin dirty bet you'll be leavin with an even madder moodI'mma laugh at you then I'mma have to cruise I'm in number two on some more DJ ScrewYou can't arrest me plus you can't sueThis a message to the laws tellin them WE HATE YOUI can't be touched or tell 'em that they shoulda knownTippin' down, sittin' crooked on my chromeBookin' my phone, tryin' to find a chick I wanna boneLike they couldn't stop me I'mma 'bout to pull up at your home and it's on
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 10:11 (2 years ago)
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Monday, 26 April 2010 22:20 (fourteen years ago) link
^I'd be interested in checking that out because I adored International Players Anthem and they completely out-rap Jay-Z on Big Pimpin'. It's not on spotify though..
― David (davek_00), Monday, 26 April 2010 22:24 (fourteen years ago) link
was pleased to see Bjork's "Debut" there; can't believe so many great albums didn't make the original list!
― RedRaymaker, Monday, 26 April 2010 22:30 (fourteen years ago) link
dude make a separate results thread plz
― the sound of a norwegian guy being wrong (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 26 April 2010 22:33 (fourteen years ago) link
hahaha oh nevermind duh me
― the sound of a norwegian guy being wrong (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 26 April 2010 22:34 (fourteen years ago) link