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

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.

To be fair, I've only heard one divine comedy song, but then again it was total crap.

"My Lovely Horse" from Father Ted is the veto factor.

I think I've heard a track, unlike BtS. No idea what it sounded like though.

Oh, I've heard the Father Ted stuff!

You've probably heard "Commuter Love". The one that goes "Baa-ba-baba Bababa-ba-ba/Ba-ba-ba Badap-ba-ba-baba".

I have heard that song

And the one that goes "She said there's something in the woodshed".

I think it's called "She Said There's Something In The Woodshed".

never even heard of this band.

am starting to think my selections are um, going to place fairly highly

Are hip hop albums gonna dominate the higher echelons of this poll?

The two people who voted for this album both put it very high in their ballots, so it must have something going for it

(The Divine Comedy, I mean)

Wouldn't you like to know, pfunkboy?

I didn't think much of the Divine Comedy until I saw Neil Hannon do an instore at Road Records last year's Record Store Day, it was good times. Wouldn't buy their records though.