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

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

I'm regretting my #1 vote now when I think of 7 of the 8 other albums on my ballot that probably won't show up.

also Your Majesty, fine as it is, is but the prototype. Tonight... is simply sensational.

Also, y'all shouldn't make assumptions ;-)

I've scored 1, feel likely to go 1 for 12 (I think it was 12, anyway).

xposts - it sounds pretty much up my alley, but I can sometimes be fickle about ambient stuff for no real reason.

I regret nothing

wow ive only heard 3 of the last 10 albums~~~ lol @ this list tbh i was really surprised to have 2 of my 10 place already and im guaranteed at least 3 more showing up - p hilarious imo

BTW my own ballot was done entirely non-tactically and my highest vote wouldn't have gotten anything in unaided. Not saying how many of mine got in, but EB is the only one thus far.

my own ballot was done entirely non-tactically

I bow to your tiny ego, sir.

This poll rewards going all in

I bow to your tiny ego, sir.

:P

also

y'all shouldn't make assumptions

Burger/Ink is the highlight of the poll so far for me. Never heard it before, listened on Spotify, now I love it.

Can I already start complaining how yet again one more poll seems to be totally dominated by Boring Old Rock Music (23 out of the 33 albums so far are rock, as far as I know), or is it too early for that?

The original poll actually had more rap and dance and electronic music by this point.

y'all shouldn't make assumptions

This is an ILM decade poll. You know how we do.

What if all the rap is in the top 50?

Tuomas, Elliott Smith and Sleep are hardly the same kind of rock. Even in rock, there is diversity.

That would be hard considering the 5 or so rap albums we've had already xp

Tuomas, Elliott Smith and Sleep are hardly the same kind of rock. Even in rock, there is diversity.

There's diversity in other genres too, that doesn't change the fact that rock dominates this poll even more than the OG 90s poll.

tuo- are you not expecting hella non-geir in the top 50? wu debuts alone will make up for like 20% of this poll on their own...

Tuomas, all I would advise is that you hold your complaints awhile.

Burger/Ink is the highlight of the poll so far for me. Never heard it before, listened on Spotify, now I love it.

It really is the shit, isn't it?

Can I already start complaining how yet again one more poll seems to be totally dominated by Boring Old Rock Music

idk the "rock" music listed so far has been so idiosyncratic that it avoids feeling monotonous in the way a lot of other 90s list are - i mean theres a p big aesthetic difference btw sterolab and metallica

Gotta say that lumping everything that has guitars and songs on it together as Boring Old Rock Music is a bit troll-y regarding a list that contains Crowded House, Grifters, Sleep and Fugazi.

nope its all the same and it all sucks

also what native tongues stuff made the first poll? dls is dead and low end theory? so i assume if bulhoone moon state makes it, which is what, the least loved pre-00s de la album, pretty much anything can make it in?

Maybe somebody could start a Non-Rock decade poll tho, and somebody else could try to read the 6000-post clusterfuck about what constitutes Rock and Non-Rock

always with the fucking segregation. tuomas we have already had more rap in this poll than the whole 80s list iirc, its cool man.

pretty much anything can make it in?

To the "Ding Ding Ding" thread!

Then the "To the [X] Thread!" thread!

etc

Tuomas do you like any rock music at all?

Me'Shell Ndegeocello is kinda rock

and Tuomas totally praises a Metallica song! I found him doing that while looking for quotes. It's the slow number but he still praises it!

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tuomas we have already had more rap in this poll than the whole 80s list iirc

tbf there was like 10x as much rap released in the 90s as the 80s

tuo- are you not expecting hella non-geir in the top 50? wu debuts alone will make up for like 20% of this poll on their own...

The only Wu debut that's sure to make it is Only Built 4 Cuban Links. Maybe Ghostface too. The other universally loved 90s Wu albums already placed in the original poll.

As for the other "non-Geir" stuff, like I said upthread, the fact that ILM has become more dominated by US posters will mean that there'll be less techno/house and more rock here than in the 2004 poll. I don't mean to offend anyone with this, it's merely a statistical prognosis.

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MY BEAUTIFUL POLL

the fact that ILM has become more dominated by US posters

wait waht?! this list is stuffed with entries most Americans, including me, have never even heard of! And it's because of UK indie kids afaict

I think Tical and Wu-Forever have a chance. Don't want to get into more records because i'll just start naming my ballot.

I can't really think of what canonical 'techno/house' ALBUMS there really are that didn't make the first ton? It's mostly a 12" genre, non? Well except for wanky dated warp shit.

ALL I WILL SAY is that Tuomas is a little PREMATURE with his criticisms. Now can we all reflect on what HAS passed?