FREEFORM 1990's ALTERNATIVE ALBUM POLL - THE RECKONING (TOP TEN COUNTING DOWN NOW)

I still remember the feeling of hearing Young Team with friends and the total certainty that this, this was the magic potion.

likewise. still think MYT is a really beautiful album. they never really topped this record for me, except perhaps for 'my father,my king' and the EP version of 'xmas steps'.

You guys OTM.

Mogwai themselves are critical of MYT, and I see their point. They needed an editor at that stage. Revised tracklist:

1. Yes! I Am...
2. Like Herod
3. Tracy
-
4. R U Still In 2 It
5. Like Herod

^^^^much, much better shape to the album now

you've excised summer, with portfolio, a cheery wave and fear satan! madness!

I mean, FEAR SATAN!?!?

or should that second herod be satan?

oops

yes, yes it should

never get why people vote strategically in ILX polls, btw. especially one like this. antithetical to both spirit and purpose.

I don't know... seems to me that the rules to this poll made for nothing but strategic voting.

I'm kind of surprised that "Buhloone Mindstate" placed so low, considering it seems to be pretty well-liked judging from the comments on that thread. Oh well, I'm gratified I could do my part to get it onto this list. I listened to it again last night in honor of its placing.

I think some of the low placers like Buhloone Mindstate would have done better if this had been like the other recent polls (40 for first, 39 for second, etc); I know it would have been on my ballot. I think more people were like me and decided on a shorter list with more weight for their top picks. I still don't get strategic voting in any of these polls - I vote for my favorites. If they place, cool. If not, whatever.

I think more people were like me and decided on a shorter list with more weight for their top picks

^strategy.

That's not so much strategy as trying to weigh your own liking. Not the same as fretting over some kind of tactical masterplan to ensure that the right albums get their just reward.

The strategy I was talking about is voting for stuff high on the ballot even if it isn't how one would rank it normally (that's what people do on the other polls, which aren't free form). I ranked mine the same as I would have if points were fixed.

Fair enough. The extent of my strategy was deciding to vote for what I ranked highly in say 1991 vs. what I rank highly now. I went with the latter, but I feel a pang of guilt now not voting the Black Album.

I know this can be quite an irritating feature on threads like this, but - any predictions for top ten? Am I being too hopeful in hoping for Giant Steps in the top five?

4 from my ballot have placed already, and I think maybe 7 or 8 of the rest have a shot. I haven't a clue what will be in the top 10 though.

LJ specifically asked people NOT TO GUESS.

Also, none of mine have appeared yet.

none of mine have placed. actually there's a remarkable amount i haven't heard yet. Actually now I look at the list, the only one I'm properly familiar with is Either/Or. I mean, I own Debut and Bizarre Ride II and probably got Peng! somewhere, but I never properly listened.

LJ specifically asked people NOT TO GUESS.

I'm gonna guess....

.... you try and stop me...

zip it, frame

Am I being too hopeful in hoping for Giant Steps in the top five?

Isn't Giant Steps from the 60s? Or is there another album by the same name I'm aware of?

EVERYONE SHUT UP

I have to say that this the sort of a rare poll where I have no idea what might be in the top 10.

Yes, it's really exciting!

I'm excited to see where Extreme II: Pornograffitti places.

FUCK

well the rules make it kinda impossible to guess, right? because you have no idea how people will have allocated their points.

I was actually told the top 15 in a dream last night in which a blind dwarf tapped out the titles in morse code on my window with a dead bird and now you will never know if this prophecy is true or not :(

With Mogwai appearing already I'm only certain about 1-14 now.

Honestly, last week I wouldn't have guessed we'd see any results at all, so my prognostications should probably be shrugged off. Or fucked off, your choice.

"Dr Adamski's Musical Pharmacy" FTW!

well the rules make it kinda impossible to guess, right? because you have no idea how people will have allocated their points.

exactly, so you shouldn't guess. especially if all you're guessing is something you've voted for. keep it like a secret.

Isn't Giant Steps from the 60s? Or is there another album by the same name I'm aware of?

Surely in all this time on ILX you must have read one of my posts at some point? ;-)

I SAID

79= Built To Spill - Keep It Like A Secret (1999)
37 points
3 votes
0 first-place votes
Greatest contributor: kingkongvsgodzilla

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-g8MBq7XW14/SaCy2xHyPWI/AAAAAAAAAD4/0q4N_6bFW9o/s400/Built+To+Spill+-+Keep+It+Like+A+Secret+-+1999.jpg

"Keep It Like A Secret" has Carry the Zero, their best song and one of the greatest songs of all time, IMO. Also has You Were Wrong, one of the best answer records to classic rock. Ergo "Keep It" wins.

― nonthings (nonthings), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 21:37 (6 years ago)

Same here. KILAS is one of the few records I can listen to in any mood. I would have to include it in my all-time Top 5. I find it very uplifting, but when you listen to the lyrics they are almost all sad or ambivalent. Except for 'Temporarily Blind.' Maybe that's why it's one of my favourite songs.

― Jaromil (Jaromil), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 21:52 (6 years ago)

Keep It is really the only Built To Spill i fuck with at all, I saw one of the shows where they did Perfect last year and just kept thinking about how much i'd like to hear the other album instead.

― goodship journey to lollipop (some dude), Thursday, 24 September 2009 05:15 (7 months ago)

keep it like a secret always feels perfect.

― Surmounter, Saturday, 11 October 2008 04:16 (1 year ago)

Keep it Like A Secret is pefect in my book. Perfect guitar pop.

I once was at a strip club where the strippers had to play their own music on the jukebox. One girl stripped to Silent Lucidity by Queensryche, so anything's possible.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 22:28 (6 years ago)

He obviously has never said Boo to one of your threads.

yay built to spill

was mostly ok with this list until the FUCKING BLACK ALBUM?!? what is wrong with you people

Can someone make a nose-related prediction so I can say "Nice going, Nostrildamus!"

Shakey never got over Cliff dying. It made him the guy he is today.

I don't believe I've ever heard a note from Built To Spill. Maybe it's time to rectify that situation.

I loved this album once and have felt no urge to listen to it for many years even though I fondly remember a few of its songs. In honour of this thread I hope to go home and play it loudly.

xpost Me neither. They're supposed to be a poor-man's Pavement, or so I've heard...?

I hope everyone plays it loud

dog latin they're nothing like pavement

Phew! So I might like them?

From what I know of your taste, dog latin, I could see you liking it. I'm looking forward to revisiting it, actually - see how it's aged.

They dont sound like Baroness or Mastodon either, so maybe ;)
xp

Thanks for pre-empting my question, spacecadet.

Nice I will check it out.

ACtually, what is the deal with Baroness? They were so rated in that end of year poll with awesome album cover but the music sounded like the Darkness after a particularly gruelling rugby match.