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

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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

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"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 ;)
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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.

There's an even better Built To Spill album

the darkness my arse

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

I dislike Pavement far more than either Baroness or Mastodon. Exponential difference in loathing.

Whatever man, Baroness are wack.

well EZ, im pretty sure you will like BtS more than Pavement, Baroness and Mastodon.

Cool! I'm looking forward to it.

I look forward to #1 being Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine

I didn't say you will like it though, Ez. If you hate Neil Young influenced stuff then you might wanna skip it.

79= A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders (1993)
37 points
3 votes
1 first-place vote
Greatest contributor: o.nate

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Sometimes I'd swear Midnight Marauders is my favorite album ever.

― ablaeser, Friday, 30 January 2009 22:26 (1 year ago)

midnight marauders is the most comfy album i own.

― ethan, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (8 years ago)

Yes, Midnight Marauders is as summery as a jar of fireflies. Playing that album, even in the dark depths of a Michigan February, will make me fiend for lemonade.

― EC, Monday, 17 March 2003 16:12 (7 years ago)

hey guuuuuyyyys i'm voting for midnight marauders

― gr8080, Saturday, 31 January 2009 00:27 (1 year ago)

attn: gr8080

― better than 10 superbowls! (PappaWheelie V), Saturday, 31 January 2009 00:28 (1 year ago)

hey

― better than 10 superbowls! (PappaWheelie V), Saturday, 31 January 2009 00:28 (1 year ago)

what it do pwv

― gr8080, Saturday, 31 January 2009 00:32 (1 year ago)

"I'm a midnight marauder, stick a q-tip in your pussy, that's my low-end theory"

― "Buri" Al Yankovich (Dom Passantino), Friday, 30 January 2009 15:06 (1 year ago)

shit I should have voted in this, huh

if no u.s. maple records make the list i am gonna be sad i didn't dump all 200 of my points on "Talker"

oh shit, US Maple! I did kinda mean to revisit their catalogue with an ear to maybe allocating some points and then forgot. sadface

I get mixed up between Built To Spill and Guided By Voices. Are they the same?

No

What about Built To Spill and Yo La Tengo?

Same band?

pretty sure that Built To Spill and Dodgy are the same band

I knew it!

I love MM so damn much, I wish that 33 1/3 book had been written about that instead of the debut.

Also LJ, STG top ten or what?

They were so good on the Midnight Maruders tour. Probably my favorite Tribe album - I have that extra layer of attachment to those songs because they kicked such ass.

77= The Divine Comedy - Promenade (1994)
38 points
2 votes
0 first-place votes
Greatest contributor: Kitchen Person

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Pretty sure I hate The Divine Comedy more than any other band ever.

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 14:09 (2 years ago)

I think the Divine Comedy are fab, so there

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Saturday, 8 May 2004 00:40 (5 years ago)

Momus is deplorable, as are The Divine Comedy for the same reasons (not that you asked). Pretentious. Smug. A Bore.

― Dr. C, Friday, 2 March 2001 01:00 (9 years ago)

hehe, this morning I sang a Divine comedy song at the absolute top of my lungs whilst showering, it put me in an incredibly good mood which is still lasting.

― Matt (Matt), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 09:13 (6 years ago)

Kitchen Person wrote this on thread POLL-HANN-ON POLL-HANN-ON on board I Love Music on 19-Nov-2009

I have to be honest I clicked on this thread thinking it might be a Divine Comedy poll.

apoplectic new answers in 3...2...1...

0..

ugh

I like D.C. but never heard a whole album.

Apoplectic enough for you?

divine comedy are responsible for some of the worst music ever made.