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

Good luck with the degree stuffs, LJ! Cheers for an entertaining poll so far. Looking forward to more results whenever there is less ass-saving to be done.

(Especially looking forward to finding out that everyone else on ILX loves the most obscure album I voted for and has showered a hundred points each on it. Don't let me down, now!)

I think most people are okay with no poll results on weekends. They've run like that before, certainly.

Sadly I have given up on Prolapse making it, and the people of ILX now sicken me.

Awh I'd have voted Prolapse if I'd actually voted. Dunno which album though, the 1st one probably.

I am a bad person, you declared your intent to vote for a Prolapse album on the other thread and I still voted for a different one

(Italian Flag, because it is ace)

I WANT RESULTS McGARNIGLE!

sausage, i agree with you, the 90s was an amazing decade for music. there hasn't been a decade better than it since.

Except the last one.

haha

fine I'll post a couple tonight

hurrah

you're a king, lj

only for a day

then I'm a fool

for a LIFETIME

49 Faith No More - Angel Dust
51 points
4 votes
0 first-place votes
Greatest contributor: m the g

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Angel Dust isn't only their best album but one of the best ever made.

― nickalicious, Friday, 4 January 2008 00:31 (2 years ago)

Angel Dust is a phenomenal piece of art that I don't listen to that much for the same reason I don't listen to a lot of other great albums that much, which is that I don't want to wear it out for me. I pull out The Real Thing more often, since that's their great pop record (although I'm more partial to the first half). I am going to have to say Angel Dust, though.

― Jeff Treppel, Friday, 4 January 2008 01:56 (2 years ago)

Angel Dust is a classic without qualifications.

― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Thursday, 22 July 2004 01:41 (5 years ago)

i love this album but i have no idea what to vote for

― congratulations (n/a), Friday, March 20, 2009 4:52 PM (4 minutes ago)

this is the exact same problem i am having

― Hey that thing you like? I hate it. (jjjusten), Friday, 20 March 2009 16:58 (1 year ago)

part of the problem is the songs are so different from each other that it's almost like apples and oranges within the album ... like how do you compare "RV" to "crack hitler"?

― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 20 March 2009 17:00 (1 year ago)

Its one of the only albums I'd like to hear a band go back and play back to back.

― Hamildan, Saturday, 21 March 2009 16:10 (1 year ago)

No year which saw the release of Angel Dust can be all bad.

― chap, Monday, 30 April 2007 00:03 (3 years ago)

^^I didn't vote for this and don't really give two shits abotu Mike Patton or any of their other work but... damn this is a great, very underrated record.

I haven't listened to Angel Dust since around when it came out. I really liked it at the time. I may have to fish it out and see how I feel now.

shoulda been higher

When I first bought Angel Dust, I thought the tape was warped and took it back to Musicland to exchange it. It definitely had the most unconventional elements of any record I had bought up to that point.

again if i had voted it would have been. i am a bad man xpost

This woulda made my top twenty, but I only voted for ten. Great album then, still great to hear now.

it's 1.30 am on friday night....let's 'bury' some bad news

;-)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ef/Badnews87.jpg

48 REM - Out Of Time (1991)
52 points
4 votes
0 first-place votes
Greatest contributor: Euler

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Feeling Gravity's POLL: REM's "Fables of the Reconstruction" (started by Doctor Casino on board I Love Music on 28-Oct-2008)

POLL The Way To Reno: REM's "Reveal" (started by Doctor Casino on board I Love Music on 07-Jan-2009)

\\\///\\\/// It's the ongoing R.E.M. SUPER SUMMER POLL of POLLS \\\///\\\/// (started by Doctor Casino on board I Love Music on 03-Jun-2009)

Don't POLL On Meeee (It's Gonna POLL): REM's "Lifes Rich Pageant" (started by Doctor Casino on board I Love Music on 15-Dec-2008)

Now that it's remasterd and everything lets do an R.E.M.'s Murmur poll (started by Zeno on board I Love Music on 11-Dec-2008)

The Sidewinder Sleeps, Sleeps, Sleeps In A POLL: REM's "Automatic For The People" (started by Doctor Casino on board I Love Music on 13-Jan-2009)

\\\///\\\/// It's the ILX SUPER SUMMER R.E.M. POLL OF POLLS RESULTS THREAD \\\///\\\/// (started by Doctor Casino on board I Love Music on 02-Nov-2009)

"The ocean machine is set to nine": IT'S THE INEVITABLE REM HIT SINGLES OF THE 1990s POLL (started by Dom Passantino on board I Love Music on 23-Jan-2008)

SuPOLLnatural, SuPOLLserious: REM's "Accelerate" (started by Doctor Casino on board I Love Music on 24-Feb-2009)

I Ate The POLLtus: REM's "Up" (started by Doctor Casino on board I Love Music on 14-Nov-2008)

Boxcars are POLLing out of...REM's "Chronic Town" (started by Doctor Casino on board I Love Music on 31-Dec-2008)

Dreams, they comPOLLcate my life: REM's "Green" (started by Doctor Casino on board I Love Music on 20-Jan-2009)

The World Is POLLapsing Around Our Ears: REM's "Out of Time" (started by Doctor Casino on board I Love Music on 11-Oct-2008)

You Wore Your ExPOLLtations Like An Armored Suit: REM's "Monster" (started by Doctor Casino on board I Love Music on 01-Dec-2008)

Leaving Was Never My POLLed: REM's "Around The Sun" (started by Doctor Casino on board I Love Music on 08-Feb-2009)

It's The End Of These POLLs As We've Known Them: REM's "Document" (started by Doctor Casino on board I Love Music on 18-May-2009)

Your Eyes Are Burning POLLs Through Me: REM's "New Adventures In Hi-Fi" (started by Doctor Casino on board I Love Music on 26-Jan-2009)

And Your Feet Are POLLing 'Cause The Earth is POLLing: REM's "Dead Letter Office" (started by Doctor Casino on board I Love Music on 02-Feb-2009)

I'm POLLshin' an Elephant Up The Stairs: REM's Non-Album Singles, Rarities, B-Sides, Etc. (started by Doctor Casino on board I Love Music on 15-May-2009)

lmao

Angel Dust is one of the smartest, most influential albums of the 1990s. Out of Time is a dece album by the corpse of an 80s band.

Such a mighty record. When it came out I was disappointed in it, but I was wrong. But what can I say here that I didn't say on all of Doctor Casino's polls? Nothing, so I'll just repeat that everyone, including R.E.M., is wrong about "Shiny Happy People," one of their best tracks. It recalls that the band was once a bunch of stupid artists having fun and in retrospect feels like the last fun the band ever had.

Out Of time is my favorite R.E.M. album, and I think is almost great as long as you skip "Radio Song". Didn't vote for it but I'm happy to see it here.

last one for the night

that was or the next one?

47 Pavement - Brighten The Corners (1997)
52 points
5 votes
0 first-place votes
Greatest contributor: dog latin

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Brighten the Corners is a huge underrated album. Lot of hate from some since it was Spiral Stairs who arranged the tracks and what not, but it's probably their best put-together album altogether.

― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 16:32 (1 year ago)

Brighten The Corners is great.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 20 April 2007 02:15 (3 years ago)

Brighten the Corners reminds me of a happy time, and contains some of my favourite lyrics.

― j-rock, Monday, 23 April 2007 07:42 (3 years ago)

fwiw, cuz, Brighten the Corners is the best Pavement record by a mile ...

― Chris O., Tuesday, 31 January 2006 04:28 (4 years ago)

of course, I'm a Brighten the Corners kinda guy

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 04:30 (5 years ago)

pavement - brighten the corners is widely hailed as a bad album, though i disagree. ooh let's talk about pavement albums and whether they're good or not again.

― Wogan Lenin (dog latin), Sunday, 15 January 2006 05:17 (4 years ago)

hurrah!

or we could just go to bed *yawns*

;-)

they were great on that tour

now my ballot's starting to work. At times Brighten the Corners is my favorite of theirs. What would it have been like if they'd recorded more "straight" songs like "We are Underused"? Would I have gotten bored? I never get bored of this.

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxpost but I wish I'd started posting here when this poll started, I could have ratcheted Angel Dust up higher. Maybe I'm projecting due to having a violent chronic illness when I first heard this, but this album comes across with such a weird 'negative' or 'depressive' vibe to me, despite being a zany and oddball album all the same. "Caffeine" packs a wallop, and so does "Kindergarten".

Hate the fuck out of "out of time". The nadir if rem for me, sorry dudes.

^ Secondary to Around the Sun, but most people pretend that one never existed.

I swore I was not going to be a negative Nancy on this poll, bit urrrggghhh.

Despite liking a handful of tracks on Out of Time, it was a huge disappointment for me when it came out and I've hardly listened to it since.

I came fairly late to Brighten The Corners and was very surprised at how much I liked it.

5/18 placed so far. I'm expecting probably four others to make it for a reasonably impressive average. Angel Dust was a last-minute cut from my ballot, and Out of Time did make it but had twenty points lopped off when I amended to get Woodface in. Will be interesting to see how high it would've placed if I hadn't amended. That graphic on the front is really annoying though, I kind of wish I'd taken it out entirely now.

I'm 0/9 so far. One album is guaranteed because I gave it 60 points, and another probably is because I'm sure I wasn't its only vote, but I have doubts about doing any better than that.

Another reason I'm glad I voted for a ton of albums, this poll is a lot more fun for me to watch (I'm 8/58).

6/16, and I almost voted for Bjork too.

3/18 I think. Burger/Ink, ODB and FNM

there's a couple of others on here I'd've voted for but I pulled my list out of the air in like 5 minutes.

angel dust!

still sounds amazing now, although, I do switch between that and king for a day as my favourite FNM album. AD has better songs, but is a little overcooked at times. KFAD is sonically gorgeous - so dry and raw and unfriendly.

there are many, many great things about angel dust, but the one song that always blows my mind is 'a small victory' - not necessarily my favourite track on here, but it's still an astonishingly unique and inventive pop song. I just love how all its awkward elements come together to form something streamlined and beautiful and direct.

When I first bought Angel Dust, I thought the tape was warped and took it back to Musicland to exchange it.

I did this with loveless.

The first time I heard Loveless was in my friend and then band-mate's room in the house we were both living in. He stuck it in the tape player and said "Alan McGee spent a quarter of a million pounds on this and it sounds like the tape's fucked" then we both rolled about laughing and agreed it was fucking awesome.

Great poll thus far, really intrigued to hear a number of these records. I'm sorry I didn't vote- ODB and Angel Dust would have been picks for me.

I still feel that way about Loveless.

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