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
A separate results thread from the results thread?
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 26 April 2010 22:34 (fourteen years ago) link
89 Grifters - Crappin' You Negative35 points1 vote1 first-place voteContributor: drench
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7c/Grifters_Crappin%27_You_Negative_CD_cover.jpg
I always thought that Crappin You Negative and Eureka were better than anything Sebadoh or Pavement ever did (except maybe Slanted/Enchanted is as good). At least for me, they were my favorite band of that time.
My first experience of The Grifters was seeing them open for Fugazi on freaking hot race day in Indianapolis a couple of months before Crappin You Negative came out. One of the best shows I ever saw, it was in this old run down theatre and it was so damn hot you could see clouds of steam rise from the crowd, when you were at the back.
I saw them a couple of years later in Lexington after Ain't My Lookout came out in a small club. Another good show. The drummer was so loose and could drive the band where he wanted.
I think getting all of the side projects and the fact that they were together for so long before anything really started to happen for them hastened their departure. There are some good songs on the frist Those Bastards... record that would probably have been even better as The Grifters with some live dynamics and not just tracked together.
On another note, I was always impressed with the sound of Crappin You Negative and Eureka for being pretty good for being done quite a bit with 4 tracks.
― earlnash, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (7 years ago)
Crappin You Negative and Eureka E.P. are two of my all-time favorites.
Piddlebach is the coolest fucking song ever recorded.
I am done here.
― J. Grizzle (trainsmoke)
with the D tuning try making this chord.
it'a just a thre--fingered chord, all in the same fret.
if it's like this
123456
then on the same fret hold down 1, 2, and 4and slide that baby around the neck some.
------*---------*-------------------*-----------------------
if you hit a sour chord just slide whichever finger you have on the 4th string and slide it down one fret.
------*------------*----------------------------*-----------------------------
this is like, a zillion grifters songs.
― Tripp (trippl)
Trippster
get Dragoon to the Hull Adelphi or even the Lincoln Imp in Scunthorpe and I'll play Grifteroke.
Are you insured?
Long live Grifters.
Fuck you doubters.
― Fer Ark, Friday, 27 June 2008 19:32 (1 year ago)
Crappin You Negative is A++ scuzz, sounds like a rock band should.
― The Amy Misto Family Knife (Plasmon), Monday, 19 April 2010 04:01 (1 week ago)
Grifters: C er D?
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Monday, 26 April 2010 22:37 (fourteen years ago) link
did my votes get counted? I don't remember
― the sound of a norwegian guy being wrong (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 26 April 2010 22:39 (fourteen years ago) link
oh man grifters...sheet that's a good un
― Shakey Ja Mocha (M@tt He1ges0n), Monday, 26 April 2010 22:39 (fourteen years ago) link
this is kinda weird cause i was just talking to a co-worker of mine about that Hull show this afternoon I swear to god.Told him how I made the classic american blunder...
our FIRST show overseas was in Hull, England. We flew into london, went and rented our equipment, stopped at a truck stop and had mushy peas and gravy then hit the road for the 5 or so hour drive to Hull.So we were pretty zapped. When we finally pulled into the verdant paradise that is Hull (wink) I went right to the bar and got a beer. the big lug that ran the place and apparently lived upstairs (?) gave me a nice big pint and I took a sip and said 'Whoa man, I think your refrigeration unit is out or somethin;...'
So he loved me, I'm sure.
that was also the night whassisname came to the show and wrote about it. ... ...... god what was his name......Everett True!
I remember my bass fell off me during our set and the head of he bass landed on my beer glass. But I caught it by the strap so it didn't fully hit the floor, the head just hit the pint glass with a 'tong' sound and a big triangular piece of glass broke off and landed in the glass. Since it was my last beer (fuckin' drink tickets!) I picked it up, pulled out the shard of glass and finished it off from the unbroken side.
hey. I've done grosser shit, believe me.
Btut Everett romanticized that moment in his article like it was some great punk rock moment. Really, I'm just a clumsy drunk.
― Tripp lamkins (trippl), Friday, 2 February 2007 00:38 (3 years ago)
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Monday, 26 April 2010 22:39 (fourteen years ago) link