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

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

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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.

oh shit

i've fucked up the whole poll from dr octagon downwards

TS: Mansun vs. Charles Manson vs. Marilyn Manson vs. Shirley Manson (of Garbage "fame")

it's now a top 101 and everything is 1 space down from what it's posted as

stereolab, xtc and de la soul never happened

argh

lol

lol x2

no wait, dr octagon and suede ARE 35=, but Mansun is 37, not 36. Mansun was where I fucked up.

whatevs

sorry everyone

Mansun was where I fucked up.

Lots of people said this in the '90s iirc.

Piss you, LJ, you are not putting Mansun and Suede and all the other crap in this poll and then abolishing Stereolab.

xpost wait, does that mean it's sort of okay again?

Just scrap whatever is at number one? I won't tell anyone.

make it #0!

lol I'm not REALLY having Stereolab erased from the listing. but it IS officially a top 101 now

dan otm

Yeah, I like the idea of a #0.

lolis jagger

Just get a kindly mod to erase Suede?

hahahaha quite tempted to poll Six vs Dog Man Star for eviction

but I won't. I'll just get Dan to edit every single album post on this thread. >:D

Make me an ILM mod and I'll do it myself...

*Six vs DMS vs Dr Octagon, in fact, coz there's no strawman like indie hiphop!

indie hiphop v. proto-wayne poop metaphors comic book masterbation.

Hahaha! Outstanding work, ringmaster!

Six is hardly britpop is it, other than that they were British and used guitars. It's not got much in common with Cast or Shed Seven at least. I went for it for its ambition above all, the polar opposite on this score at least of Oasis and the rest of the dadrock types.

Similarly with Dog Man Star, which is the high water mark of britpop, even though really it came out before britpop was a thing. It's a bit like Six in that they both start with a kind of powerpop(?) template but open out beyond it very quickly. With Suede at least the arrangements are always much lusher, so the opening out seems a bit more natural and less quirky than Six. It doesn't all work, but the half-dozen songs that do are magnificent things. Only Blur really occasionally get close.

There's still one other britpop era album I was hoping to see, but I suspect that might be yer lot, unless Geir does ride to the rescue after all.

Kool Keith is indie?

dr. octagon is so dope

motherfuckers kool keith was in ultramagnetic MCs he's not indie rock

N.B. I have the Dr Octagon album and will listen to it soon - my brother assures me it's great

I don't think I've ever heard any of the rock albums in this poll, except for Metallixa (maybe REM too?), so I can't really raise my ire for any specific artist, just for the general prevalence of indie/alternative rock. For some reason I've actually seen Suede live twice though. I guess they were an okay live act, never cared for their music. But I don't quite get what makes them so hated compared to some other bands in this poll - what makes them so different from, say, REM?

why don't any of you want to help me make Geir listen to hip-hop

spend more time talking about Dr. Octagon's advanced chord progressions

Definitely on-par with the Beatles and Oasis iirc.

it does have more F Sharp 7 diminished than any other album in hip hop history

i doubt suede is geirbait, too sexual prolly