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

this is one i would have voted for, never did get around to voting in this even though i normally do vote.

I only got that Slowdive album at the end of the last year but I really love it.

Think I'll do about 2 or 3 more tonight, so stick around folks!

I am a big fan of this album too, especially the second half.

this is one i would have voted for, never did get around to voting in this even though i normally do vote.

― Bee OK, Tuesday, April 27, 2010 9:53 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

Oh that's a shame as I'm pretty sure you're a big fan of an album I was really hoping would do quite well..but I'm not allowed to mention it or make any predictions.

Oh, Gerardo, what could have been...

72= Godspeed You Black Emperor! - F#A#∞ (1998)
38 points
4 votes
1 first-place vote
Greatest contributor: sofatruck

http://hellsbelle84.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/godspeed-you-black-emperor-faoo.jpg

they said it all with the first album, shoulda quit there

― This House is a Prison on Planet Bullshit (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 31 March 2009 22:32 (1 year ago)

f♯a♯∞ is the one that had the most impact for me. i remember cbc's brave new waves playing it in it's entirety in the wee hours of the morning,and wondering what the/who the hell it was.

― drone/a/sore, Tuesday, 31 March 2009 23:52 (1 year ago)

Debut is indeed half-baked and pasted together and that's why I like it best. It's more like a collage and not as predictable.

― Mark, Thursday, 2 April 2009 13:24 (1 year ago)

That first album is really good and, in retrospect, very original. Better than most bands can manage.

― Mark (MarkR), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 16:39 (5 years ago)

this is music to get tedious indie blowjobs to!! YOU ALL LOVE GETTING ORAL SEX DON'T YOU?@!?!@

― 0r4l R0b3rt5 (ex machina), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 16:47 (5 years ago)

great quotes on that one

This album is always way better than I remember it as being. At least, the first track is. The last 5 minutes of The Dead Flag Blues are simply beautiful.

tedious indie blowjobs

Like, awesome Morricone lament into fragile slide-guitar thing of wonder, all the while sounding like it's being recorded in an abandoned aircraft hangar = <3 for all-time

Two more tonight

71 REM - New Adventures In Hi-Fi (1996)
38 points
5 votes
0 first-place votes
Greatest contributor: sofatruck

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_T-39bTSIXN8/SPSIh9LuR4I/AAAAAAAABNA/aYzS2BNCDlg/s400/new_adventures_in_hi-fi-front.jpg

mmmyeah, i'll give it up for that album. definitely gets an unfair shake. i guess cos they pissed everyone off w/ Monster.

― al, Sunday, 17 March 2002 01:00 (8 years ago)

this is the only r.e.m. album that i own. (although i am tempted by that new singles comp). haven't heard it for awhile, but i remember being impressed by how consistent this album was in both hookiness and mood, it's very bittersweet.

― disco stu (disco stu), Sunday, 9 November 2003 16:39 (6 years ago)

this is a great album! r.e.m.'s last several releases killed my fandom but listening to this has reminded me of how good they were, when they were good.

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 06:11 (4 years ago)

This is a very good album. It makes me like the idea of R.E.M., when I think of it, which the other albums I like by them don't do.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 10:56 (4 years ago)

I love this record....so so underrated.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 16:45 (4 years ago)

this is still the REM album i enjoy the most. even more than green or murmur or automatic. i hardly listen to them anymore, except for tracks off new adventures. e-bow, electrolite, how the west was won, bittersweet me. all some of their best.

― Emily Bjurnhjam, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 02:36 (2 years ago)

This is my favorite REM album, bar none.

― stephen, Saturday, 19 July 2008 02:57 (1 year ago)

Still my favorite REM album... bar none.

Not, however, one of your 193 favourite records of the 90's

haha wait you voted for a different REM album

YOUR CLAIMS ARE BEGINNING TO LOOK RICKETY

mmmyeah, i'll give it up for that album. definitely gets an unfair shake. i guess cos they pissed everyone off w/ Monster.

― al, Sunday, 17 March 2002 01:00 (8 years ago)

i am almost positive this was not me posting but i do love this album and gave it one (1) point

This is the last great R.E.M. album, I think. Up and Accelerate are good(ish), but I doubt they're ever going to hit this peak again.

Loving this countdown so far, I'm inspired to dig out a lot of these albums to listen to them again.

It also reminds me of things I should have voted for but didn't.

Was about to cheer my first vote, but no, looking back, I didn't vote for this! Strange. The last R.E.M. record that I bought because I was honestly excited about it (having heard them play "The Wake-Up Bomb" on television.) Though I have bought several more out of a sense of obligation. Perversely I tend to like the rockers on this record ("Wake-Up Bomb", "Departure") though they seem a bit out of place.

it's so weird to me that Electronic and Godspeed You Black Emperor are from the same decade

Last one for the evening coming up

I generally look back at the '90s with distaste, but this list is reframing my view somewhat.

Yay for Burger/Ink placing, and Yay for this poll so far, so much more interesting than the usual trudge thru the Canong. THE SYSTEM WORKS

Yeah, this is the best 90s poll ever.

NEVER SB LJ AGAIN

69= Earl Brutus - Tonight, You Are The Special One
39 points
2 votes
0 first-place votes
Greatest contributor: Kitchen Person

http://www.covershut.com/covers/Earl-Brutus---Tonight-You-Are-The-Special-One-Front-Cover-2060.jpg

There's not many bands I love as much as Earl Brutus.

― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 14 January 2010 21:19 (3 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

the video for come taste my mind might be my favourite video in the entire history of the music video

― Do the english boil pizza? (acoleuthic), Thursday, 14 January 2010 21:20 (3 months ago)

IMO Tonight...is a little better than Your Majesty...

I mean, they're both great (and, fuck, Tonight has Navyhead, Life's Too Long and Black Speedway on it as well as OMNIM) but Tonight is just greatness from start to finish, in my 90's top 10 and maybe all-time top 30. Staggering piece of work. At least they gave us the Larky single before sputtering out.

― Do the english boil pizza? (acoleuthic), Thursday, January 14, 2010 11:11 PM (2 minutes ago)

I agree with just about everything you said there. Tonight took me longer to get into but it sounds better as a whole album. I just started playing songs from it and found myself amazed all over again at the moment in Second Class War when that organ intro turns into that huge dirty riff. Universal Plan might be my favorite track of there's.

They are one of those bands that when I listen to them I just think there's no-one better.

― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 14 January 2010 23:22 (3 months ago)

One of the greatest live bands ever.

Utter fucking chaos from blokes desperate to defy middle age whilst spewing contempt for the contemporary scene and everything in it.

Lucky enough to catch them a handful of times back then. A real Festival Fuck you too. Gushed about them upthread I think under another stupid moniker

A real shame about Nick Sanderson. Way too young.

― Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos, Monday, 18 January 2010 00:04 (3 months ago)

I can't think of a single band more deserving of publicity and re-evaluation.

― The Broken Brothers, Tuesday, 19 January 2010 15:22 (3 months ago)

one show at the Austrian Cultural Institute in 2001 ended with the arrival of the police, who had mistaken the band's pyrotechnic-laden performance for a terrorist attack

fwiw nick sanderson is pretty much my ideal of the human being

― Do the english boil pizza? (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 19 January 2010 18:20 (3 months ago)

Two perfect albums, really. Ultimately, I'd take Tonight ... because I think it just has that slight edge. And, y'know, Second Class War.

― Error: No Error (grimly fiendish), Thursday, 21 January 2010 23:18 (3 months ago)

Going to the pub. LISTENING TO EARL BRUTUS. Match made in heaven, that.

― Error: No Error (grimly fiendish), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 11:11 (3 months ago)

I don't even need to hear them nowadays, just the fact that their music EXISTS, makes my life better.

Just might be the best band of all time

There should be a national holiday called Nick Sanderson Day where we can spend the whole day swigging lager and smoking fags in appreciation

― The Broken Brothers, Thursday, 14 January 2010 22:58 (3 months ago)

sorry for the quotefest but I am irrational when it comes to this band/album

Not, however, one of your 193 favourite records of the 90's

haha wait you voted for a different REM album

YOUR CLAIMS ARE BEGINNING TO LOOK RICKETY

I only voted for albums I could copy/paste from the suggestions thread, or albums that other ilxors specifically reminded me about -- don't care to go through my entire collection and agonize over this any more than I must!

Earl Brutus = yet another band I have never heard of

is this a british thing?

I do, however, actually own and enjoy every single album I voted for.

And I believe it was 195, not 193...

like, I recognize all the American stuff listed so far

It's so much more than a British thing.

OK, it's a British thing.

You're going to leave us tonight halfway through a 2-album tie?

It's a Brutish thing!

so, so far the most votes any album's gotten is 5 (R.E.M. and Bjork). lj, care to share any stats-related spoilers at this juncture? like how many votes or points the #1 album got, or where the highest one-vote album will place?

I thought it'd be more suspenseful this way. Plus I want all the Brutish posters to wake up tomorrow, come here and rejoice

some dude, I'm only going to reveal that there is a fairly humorous statistical quirk not far from now. Oh, and that the highest-placed album without a #1 vote comfortably makes the top 20.

and I know for a fact I have at least one more album on my list to come

Now let's talk about Earl Brutus, and my official 7th-favourite non-canon (although tbh my 7th-favourite anyway) album of the 90's.

(there are a few albums with more than 5 votes, worry not!)

Earl Brutus! On Spotify! http://open.spotify.com/album/46rDy0ySNa5ilCW3i0Wo5g

just found that and listening :)

To recap:

____ Stereolab - Peng! (1992)
____ XTC - Apple Venus, Vol. 1 (1999)
100. De La Soul - Buhloone Mind State (1993)
___ Fugazi - End Hits (1998)
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)
___ The Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde (1992)
92. The Afghan Whigs - Black Love (1996)
91. Tori Amos - From the Choirgirl Hotel (1998)
90. UGK - Ridin' Dirty (1996)
89. Grifters - Crappin' You Negative (1994)
88. The Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I (1999)
87. The Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen (1993)
___ Neil Young - Harvest Moon (1992)
85. Biosphere - Substrata (1997)
___ Missy Elliott - Da Real World (1999)
___ Mogwai - Young Team (1997)
82. 2pac - All Eyez on Me (1996)
81. Metallica - Metallica (1991)
___ Built To Spill - Keep it Like a Secret (1999)
79. A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders (1993)
___ The Divine Comedy - Promenade (1994)
77. The Auteurs - New Wave (1993)
___ Burger/Ink - Las Vegas (1996)
___ Electronic - Electronic (1991)
74. Sleep - Dopesmoker (199?)
___ Slowdive - Souvlaki (1993)
72. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F#A#∞ (1998)
71. R.E.M. - New Adventures in Hi-Fi (1996)
___ Earl Brutus - Tonight You Are The Special One (1998)

Nothing I've voted for showing up yet. Have an odd feeling I might go 1 for 10.

an eclectic mix! glad to see 'New Adventures in Hifi' there even though I din't vote for it; a terrific album.

Nothing of mine yet either, and only one of them will show up without help from other votes. Not too bothered, though. This list is quality.

I own just three of the albums so far, and voted for all three of them.

Starting to worry that the super canonical hiphop/r&b albums I voted for won't make it... which is crazy, y'all would have voted for [xxxxxxx] and [yyyyyyyy] and [zzzzzzzz] too, right? right?

I've scored 1 so far, optimistically I think I cd score about 8 out of 18

Haven't heard that Earl Brutus album - I own and like Your Majesty, though. Am also happy about Slowdive and intrigued by Burger/Ink. Yeah.

^^^would presumably go mental for Burger/Ink