http://www.merryswankster.com/images/Dismemberment.jpg
^^^jesus I wouldn't listen to anything that came in such a godawful eyesore of a package. wtf
― the sound of a norwegian guy being wrong (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 26 April 2010 23:03 (fourteen years ago) link
87 The Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen (1993)35 points4 votes0 first-place votesGreatest contributor: Ismael Klata
http://www.terapija.net/fotke/portret/20061120_103938_3.jpg
Of course not liking the album is a subjective choice but it's always been classic in my book.The single best bad relationship album ever.I pretty much love everything about the album from the lyrics to the slide guitar sound to the song order & of course female perspective on "My Curse".I always thought Black Love was an attempt to recreate this one on a grander scale only Dulli seemed like he was just playing the bad ass.Gentlemen seemed to come from his heart.Of course if you don't like Dulli's voice you're out of luck.God knows it's an acquired taste.Always seems like he's straining to stay in tune.Combined with the woozy slide sound it takes some getting used to.And yeah the lyrics are great.
― evan chronister (evan chronister), Monday, 11 April 2005 04:49 (5 years ago)
o fuck like rickey said if yr lumping it in with sebodah yr looking for shit that aint there. its a big arrogant MALE record - rawk! - that falters and reveals itself as self centred arrogant nasty precious crude preening. dulli is a prick - in the lacanian sense.
― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Monday, 11 April 2005 06:46 (5 years ago)
oh god. wounded animal record. best relationship/breakup album ever. frighteningly un self- edited. it's all out there, or in here. dulli's voice is awesome. "i've go a dick for a brain / and my brain is gonna sell my ass to you".
― stevie (stevie), Monday, 11 April 2005 13:40 (5 years ago)
When I got rid of my albums to devote myself to songs, Gentlemen was one of the four I couldn't bear to let go. That said, I've never quite been totally convinced of its greatness - it somehow feels just a little bit too unrelenting in its grittiness. Torn between 'My Curse' and 'Brother Woodrow', but it's hard not to vote for the title track
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 2 June 2009 12:54 (10 months ago)
this album's sound and U2 have some things in common
― Zeno, Wednesday, 3 June 2009 00:20 (10 months ago)
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Monday, 26 April 2010 23:12 (fourteen years ago) link
I can only imagine it will get much more niche/personalized from this point on.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, April 26, 2010 6:19 PM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
i don't understand. don't you think there'll be more albums with more than 3 or 4 voters the further we go up? i mean even if a large number of voters gave one album the majority of their points those records would still make up just a small portion of the top 100.
lmao @ lj quoting Chamillionaire's "Ridin'" as a blurb for UGK's Ridin' Dirty. glad my 8 points helped that one make the cut.
haha yeah that is my first post!
― surmudgeon (some dude), Monday, 26 April 2010 23:13 (fourteen years ago) link
lmao @ lj quoting Chamillionaire's "Ridin'" as a blurb for UGK's Ridin' Dirty
my face is a million sadnesses
some dude's voting patterns have borne fruit, what can I say?
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Monday, 26 April 2010 23:16 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm thinking people's #1 votes will start showing up with one or two backing votes (or, if enough points were allotted, NO backing votes). Seeing people's pet favorites will surely be interesting. My own #1 vote wasn't something I'd normally include in such a list, but I wanted to ensure it placed.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 26 April 2010 23:21 (fourteen years ago) link
another one from my list makes it
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 26 April 2010 23:21 (fourteen years ago) link
85= Neil Young - Harvest Moon36 points2 votes0 first-place votesGreatest contributor: Captain Ahab
http://www.theartwolf.com/imagenestAW/Neil_Young_Harvest_Moon.jpg
also half of Harvest Moon bores me to tears
― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 25 July 2004 22:35 (5 years ago)
Harvest Moon is pretty boring.
― Hell is other people. In an ILE film forum. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 00:36 (5 months ago)
yeah Harvest Moon is like 50% of a good record
― squarefair (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 00:48 (5 months ago)
sometimes, Neil Young. esp. the Harvest Moon album which I like a lot for reasons I don't fully understand.
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 14 June 2004 22:37 (5 years ago)
I voted Harvest Moon. I love that record & I have a very particular history with it.
― Mark, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 03:38 (5 months ago)
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Monday, 26 April 2010 23:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Harvest Moon is pretty boring.― Hell is other people. In an ILE film forum. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 00:36 (5 months ago)
Soto in complete correctness shocka.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 26 April 2010 23:37 (fourteen years ago) link
88 The Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I (1999)35 points3 votes0 first-place votesGreatest contributor: sofatruck Pitchfork
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Monday, 26 April 2010 23:37 (fourteen years ago) link
I dunno, Pitchfork was hardly the tastemaking monolith in 1999 that it is 11 years later.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 26 April 2010 23:40 (fourteen years ago) link
It was just one of the hundreds of indie rock review sites that rose above the others by shelling out the cash for its own domain name.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 26 April 2010 23:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Ha. Pretty true really. I can't seem to find my ballot, but I basically picked 10 or 12 albums off the top of my head and gave them equal points. I did hear about this one from pfork... no regrets, still love this album.
― sofatruck, Monday, 26 April 2010 23:42 (fourteen years ago) link
I did hear about this one from pfork...
I bet this is the case for most people who jumped on board at E&I.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Monday, 26 April 2010 23:44 (fourteen years ago) link
85= Biosphere - Substrata36 points2 votes0 first-place votesGreatest contributor: ciderpress
http://dezji.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/substrata.jpg
I was really hoping there'd be like 500 votes for this poll
― rockapads, Monday, 16 June 2008 23:31 (1 year ago)
substrata is great!
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Friday, 20 February 2004 12:38 (6 years ago)
i find people describe a lot of albums as beatless when they aren't really, but substrata seemed to quite genuinely fit the description.
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Friday, 20 February 2004 12:50 (6 years ago)
Biosphere's "Substrata" is as arctic as it gets. And his "Polar Sequences" too...
― Siegbran Hetteson, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (7 years ago)
i gave a bunch of points to Biosphere - Substrata
i hope i'm not the only one...
― ciderpress, Friday, 5 March 2010 02:59 (1 month ago)
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Monday, 26 April 2010 23:54 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't even know what this is.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 26 April 2010 23:55 (fourteen years ago) link
first one i don't have the slightest clue what it is. techno?
heh xpost
― surmudgeon (some dude), Monday, 26 April 2010 23:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Wikipedia says ambient.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 26 April 2010 23:56 (fourteen years ago) link
so quiet techno
― surmudgeon (some dude), Monday, 26 April 2010 23:57 (fourteen years ago) link
about 90% of the ILX posts about it are by Ki11ian
and about 8% by Siegbran
although it transpires that cutty is a fan
I'm intrigued - lovely album-cover at least, and if it's in the same quality-bracket as Global Communication I'd be well up for hearing it
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Monday, 26 April 2010 23:57 (fourteen years ago) link
also al I can't believe you even questioned whether this was techno I mean look at the name + the cover hey you never know it might be postpunk! XD
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 00:01 (fourteen years ago) link
or some really goddamn undie hip-hop lol
eh there are so low level mid-90s major label alt-rock records with artwork like that
― surmudgeon (some dude), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 00:02 (fourteen years ago) link
when i 1st started posting here i tht geir was the geir from biosphere i hav no memory of why tho
substrata is def a classic but i like some of the supermnml dronier stuff hes done more recently
― where display names die, unrecognized (Lamp), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 00:03 (fourteen years ago) link
this is a good point, but I was thinking a combination of that + the band-name + the album-name
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 00:04 (fourteen years ago) link
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)
Confession: I didn't vote for Super Tight because I thought Ridin' Dirty would have better chance of making it.
― what a tragedy for gingers (The Reverend), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 00:06 (fourteen years ago) link
I only voted for 10 albums, all either canonical, or at least ILM-beloved rap albums. Strategy ahoy.
― what a tragedy for gingers (The Reverend), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 00:07 (fourteen years ago) link
more and more i'm kinda wishing i'd done that too, but eh what's done is done.
― hongrosphere (some dude), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 00:10 (fourteen years ago) link
ha re: bizarre ride II the pharcyde it was #09 on my ballot so lol @ me giving it the most points. loving it so much probably makes me an herb but its kinda like that majesticons album mike ladd made - jittery and jokey and self-obsessed and easy to like - & i basically vibe everything abt fatlip
thought abt voting for ugk but ended up voten stuff i liked a little better :/
― where display names die, unrecognized (Lamp), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 00:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Substrata doesn't have a single beat in it, so it's definitely "quiet techno". Great album to go to sleep to, but I spent my Biosphere vote on Patashnik, which I think is more fully realized work. The two albums Biosphere and Pete Namlook did as The Fires of Ork are dope too.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 00:13 (fourteen years ago) link
substrata deserves its iconic status just for sampling major briggs dream speech from twin peaks
― where display names die, unrecognized (Lamp), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 00:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Biosphere were great, awesome to see it in the poll.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 00:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Though Substrata has one of the finest uses of a vocal sample ever, when it juxtaposes Major Briggs' monologue from Twin Peaks with Jenssen's Himalayan soundscapes.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 00:16 (fourteen years ago) link
(x-post with Lamp, ha!)
ok gonna do the rest of the night's polling to the soundscapes of Substrata - this had better be good you guys!
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 00:17 (fourteen years ago) link
It is!
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 00:18 (fourteen years ago) link
http://open.spotify.com/album/6jeIzUv8Bff4fFElZwwA4B
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 00:19 (fourteen years ago) link
heh Lamp / Tuomas, I was just about to say. It also has the giant saying "sorry to wake you..."
This is a great winter album.
― I am using your worlds, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 00:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Am loving the start! 1997, btw
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 00:21 (fourteen years ago) link
glad to see biosphere. strongly considered voting for the same album and love patashnik also.
if it's in the same quality-bracket as Global Communication I'd be well up for hearing it
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Monday, April 26, 2010 7:57 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark
it's on par, but maybe darker and dronier than GC? been a while since i listened to them. think "poa alpina" off substrata might combine GC-type prettiness with his usual wintery atmosphere. let us know what you think!
― jerk orbison (another al3x), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 00:21 (fourteen years ago) link
It's got something of the Slowdive - Pygmalion about it (Poa Alpina being the song I've just sat through) and yeah I can see myself getting along very well with this music.
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 00:22 (fourteen years ago) link
This album is somewhere between Gas and GC. It's not my favorite Biosphere album but it's pretty good.
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 00:23 (fourteen years ago) link
82= Missy Elliott - Da Real World36 points4 votes0 first-place votesGreatest contributor: The Lex
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qEiTSJ7FhGs/SUREUe1A-9I/AAAAAAAAAYQ/-z3fw6sbzZc/s320/missyeliottmissynr5.jpg
"Da Real World" is possibly my favourite, but I reckon all the albums are quite consistent in terms of quality. "...So Addictive" has some of her most fabulous work ever - the stretch from "One Minute Man" to "Scream AKA Itchin" is absolutely astonishing - but strangely the tracks don't seem to build on eachother as well as on the previous albums.
"Da Real World" is not the place to start - too cool and stylistically consistent. I think that is its strength, but as an introduction it would be its weakness.
― Tim, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (8 years ago)
Missy's most consistent album by a long way. There are at least six tracks I'd happily vote for, I'll have to think about this. Luckily I have almost a year!
― chap, Thursday, 6 November 2008 18:33 (1 year ago)
MR DJ PLAY DAT ONE MORE TIMESO ME AND MISSY ELLIOTT CAN MOVE WE WAISTLINE
― lex pretend, Thursday, 6 November 2008 19:32 (1 year ago)
AMAZING ALBUM.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 9 September 2009 23:15 (7 months ago)
Everyone is a bitchBut no-one comes close toMissy, the queen B.
-a hoy hoy
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 00:24 (fourteen years ago) link
thought about voting for that, didn't
― what a tragedy for gingers (The Reverend), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 00:27 (fourteen years ago) link
glad it's here in spite
ditto
― hongrosphere (some dude), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 00:30 (fourteen years ago) link
82= Mogwai - Mogwai Young Team36 points4 votes0 first-place votesGreatest contributor: Gravel Puzzleworth
http://mogwai.sandbag.uk.com/Content/58.jpg
I hadn't listened to Young Team in probably a year and a half before this morning, but this album remains an utter masterpiece of mood and tension, a collection of muted, fucked-up, drifting-to-sleep emotions. There's an unbelievable implied depth (sonic? emotional?) to the songs, something that's really hard to get at from merely describing the sound or the methodology of the record. I like to think that there's a certain place in the world -- maybe some pocket of air a few hundred feet in the air over the ocean -- where the theme from "Tracy" plays endlessly. Is anyone else still listening to Young Team?
― Clarke B. (Clarke B.), Sunday, 9 May 2004 14:44 (5 years ago)
Opening track. I still think 'Young Team' is basically all you need to know about this band, apart from the odd EP track. I've never really liked any of their other albums. Ever-diminishing returns and all that. This one is definitely a classic of 90s post-rock, even if it does totally rip off 'Siamese Dream' in places.
― ears are wounds, Friday, 20 March 2009 11:27 (1 year ago)
everything starts and end with Young Team,and it's hard to believe they will ever make again anything of sagnificent
― Zeno, Sunday, 16 December 2007 19:49 (2 years ago)
I was reviewing records for KALX when "Young Team" came out and wrote a sprawling two paragraph thing that proclaimed it "better than sex" -- I was wrong.
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 9 December 2002 22:41 (7 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
erm... mogwai was great sexmusic. at least, young team was.
― kate, Monday, 9 December 2002 22:51 (7 years ago)
mogwai: rock.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 18 February 2005 10:59 (5 years ago)
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 00:42 (fourteen years ago) link
I like about half of that album! But some of it is slightly dated! It was a great gateway drug to avant-rock for my younger self! I have another album primed to post! Maybe I'll leave it until tomorrow morning!
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 00:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Substrata is still really good!
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 00:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Fine, I'll do the last two!
82= 2pac - All Eyez On Me36 points4 votes0 first-place votesGreatest contributor: The Reverend
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GhJGoTBwAPc/Sb9tEGhBH3I/AAAAAAAABCE/0fWrXxedeOk/s400/All+Eyez+On+Me+(pred).jpg
Tupac is pretty bad. This album is just like all of his cliched dross. Dud.
― paulhw (paulhw), Thursday, 11 August 2005 19:19 (4 years ago)
My favourite hip-hop album. Mainly because of the production and backing track. Might have preferred it without the rapping, but I used to love the G-funk sound, which was probably the closest the 90s ever got to 80s influenced electro.
― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 3 January 2008 12:43 (2 years ago)
yeah man, greatest drum sound ever. PSHHHHHHH.
― Alex in Baltimore, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 17:24 (2 years ago)
i like all the tracks really its just kinda different moods and shit, like when you wanna hear all about u is not the same as when you wanna hear life goes on or the weak california love remix
― and what, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 17:35 (2 years ago)
ambition az a ridah cuz i ain't mad at cha makes me want to kill myself l;
-- luriqua, Wednesday, September 5, 2007 7:52 PM (7 months ago)
wtf @ haters
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 3 January 2008 02:42 (2 years ago)
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 00:55 (fourteen years ago) link