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

as I get older I really don't listen to stuff that I was into 10 years earlier or whatever - I hardly listen to anything that was current when I was a teenager/in college, for ex. there are things I'm perenially fascinated by, but oddly they are more often than not things that came out either before I was born or when I was a young child and was oblivious to their existence (the Beatles, Zep, the Beach Boys, P-Funk, reggae, etc.)

there are some exceptions, some of which will appear in this poll haha

tbh I still do things like dig out old Wa Wa Nee cassettes and jam to them

Yeah, I'm often really taken with music that was created prior to me being born or was being made when I was far too young to be aware of its existence, but still I don't really pull it as close as the music I was listening to when I was first becoming a fan of the art. The Beatles had already been gone four years by the time I was born, and I love The Beatles, but I never get the same kind of rush listening to them as I do, say, the Pixies. I was there for the Pixies.

Well, Mansun went down like a lead balloon. Thank fuck we're not getting any more overambitious Britpop in this poll

35= Suede - Dog Man Star
62 points
4 votes
1 first-place vote
Greatest contributor: Kitchen Person

http://www.panicmanual.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Suede-Dog-Man-Star-Flex-78741.jpg

dog man star is one of the most powerful albums i've ever heard in my life. a must have for everyone.

― justin m, Saturday, 6 April 2002 01:00 (8 years ago)

I love the sound of "DogManStar" and I actually use it as a reference sometimes when I'm mixing my own music. It's really rich & powerful.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 22 December 2005 09:32 (4 years ago)

I'll still defend Dog Man Star against all you apostates.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Sunday, 14 May 2006 13:37 (3 years ago)

dog man star is glorious, end of story. 'the power'. 'the wild ones'. 'we are the pigs'. 'asphalt world'. 'hollywood life'. classics, the lot of them. 'asphalt world' is one of the best songs i have ever heard played live. this record can't be touched, it was the peak af thair carreer and deep down inside, brett a. knows it...

― Jay K (Jay K), Thursday, 10 July 2003 14:23 (6 years ago)

I seem to remember critics guffawing at 'Dog Man Star' after Suede's debut. 'Dog Man Star' was pretentious, overblown, didn't have very many catchy pop songs, and was excellent (in my opinion). Haven't liked Suede at all since.

― Vaughan, Thursday, 8 March 2001 01:00 (9 years ago)

Dog Man Star is a fucking great record. The best work either Bernard or Brett have ever done, with or without each other.

― electric sound of jim, Thursday, 4 April 2002 01:00 (8 years ago)

Jesus, you guys. Were you all on crack while you were voting?

Thank fuck we're not getting any more overambitious Britpop in this poll

I SEE WHAT U DID THERE

Only 6.5% of you guys were on crack.

I quite like about half the tracks on Dog Man Star. Four years ago I was fucking mental about the whole album.

I have owned this record for as long as I can remember and I never noticed it had an arse on the cover.

loooool

Anyone wanna defend overblown Britpop? Or stick the boot in further?

I'll defend Suede as far as saying I really, really liked their first record. And maybe one of the really late records after Bernard left, but I can never remember which one of them (the late ones) is which.

Shall we discuss it as one magnetic pole in a cultural dialectic?

Necessary, in the historical sense?

Anyone wanna defend overblown Britpop?

Geir to thread.

If bloated Britpop is really the worst thing in this poll then it's a massive success, imho.

Jesus, you guys. Were you all on crack while you were voting?

― emil.y, Tuesday, May 4, 2010 1:01 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark

Here is where I apologize for not adding to the Nurse With Wound/Coil/The Ex/Boredoms/Dog Faced Hermans voting bloc.

yeah, I mainly just went for stuff that holds up well from my teenage obsessions and now my biggest regret is not awarding half of my points to Coil's Autumn Equinox. Oh well.

this was an album i bought as a teenager thinking from something id read that it was gonna b seedy and camp and sexxxy. it was none of those things.

Dog Man Star was my number one, it's one of my 10 favourite albums ever made.

Yes I voted for Mansun and Suede but I didn't just vote for overambitious Britpop I voted for plenty of other kinds of indie too.

I gave both of those about 20 pts iirc. What do you want me to say?

SAY SORRY

You may select lethal injection or lethal gas as your method of execution, iirc.

xp

it's ok fuck the haters, Mansun is stone fire and DMS is at the very least an enjoyable listen

peace

http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs26/i/2008/031/4/0/justify_my_love__by_scarf_me.jpg

I gave both of those about 20 pts iirc. What do you want me to say?

― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, May 4, 2010 8:26 PM (3 minutes ago)

Hello, have we met?

SAY SORRY for not voting for The Charlatans instead! (j/k... though I wouldn't hate it if either Up to Our Hips or the s/t albums were to make surprise appearances.) xxxxp

:) @ that jpg

omg romance is in the air xp

Aww it's love at first post!

Found via GIS on "Justify My Love"

Kitchen Person, Klata, I and Jona are pretty much 100% responsible for all of this (Mansun/Suede/Earl Brutus art-Brit-glam fuckathon), and we're not apologising

Anyway do y'all want the next album or what?

yes, plz

if its britpop then i'm alright cheers but thanks for asking.

35= Dr. Octagon - Dr. Octagonecologyst (1996)
62 points
4 votes
1 first-place vote
Greatest contributor: billstevejim

http://random-noise.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/dr-octagon.jpg

Kool Kieth is beutiful. Black Elvis is brillant. Doctor Octogon is Afrofuturism and i always support that. I hate hiphop but KK is one of the few exceptions i make.

― anthony, Monday, 9 July 2001 01:00 (8 years ago)

The Octagon Album is terrifyingly beautiful. Its on a totally different level to any other hip hop album I've heard. Check out those rhythms he uses in his raps.

― James Annesley, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 01:00 (8 years ago)

The Dr. Octagonecologyst CD is tied with Enter the Wu-Tang as my favorite 90's hip-hop. Maybe that's a typical white-boy thing to say but fuck it. Anyone heard that Undatakerz thing yet?

Now my helmet's on/you can't tell me I'm not in space

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Monday, 26 July 2004 22:19 (5 years ago)

Snappy vaginas and elastic penises are abound! Everyone should own Dr. Octagon, "Dr. Octagonecologyst" ! Kool Keith truly is the 'Black Elvis' !

― chaki, Friday, 17 August 2001 01:00 (8 years ago)

Drooone wrote this on thread Summarize a Concept Album on board I Love Music on 26-Mar-2007

Dr. Octagon -Dr. Octagonecologyst

I fuck alien pussy. Hard.

Dr. Octagonebritpopologist

wtf, more Britpop??????

How much more Geirbait did you guys vote for?

sorry fellas ;_;

Didn't vote for Dr Octagon but I do love it. That's pacified me slightly. Only slightly, mind.

No one ever talks about the beats on Dr. Octagon. It's Kut Masta Kurt right? That guy's awesome.

Never really enjoyed it tbh.

emil.y, aside from Suede, which albums have piqued your ire?

SOLID

How much more Geirbait did you guys vote for?

― it means "EMOTIONAL"! (HI DERE), Tuesday, May 4, 2010 8:36 PM (10 seconds ago)

Does Geir vote in these lists? I guess we will know if Dodgy's The Dodgy album suddenly makes an appearance.

boo on you all for not helping me paint Dr. Octagon as Britpop in an attempt to get Geir to claim he loves it

Isn't this a tie with Suede for #34, though? (sorry, my ordered list ocd just kicked in.)

re:britpop

I honestly thought the old poll used up all the britpop.

emil.y, aside from Suede, which albums have piqued your ire?

I really really hate Mansun. Sorry.

I've only had 1 album place so far (the Sun City Girls one I lavished 40 points on). But there's tons of good stuff so far and like so many ppl itt I'm picking up some promising electronic/ambient pointers.