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

Ha TWO Unrest albums while I was away! oh gosh Mark Robinson's guitar sound. I think I meant to vote for Imperial ffrr. Though I am some kind of nutbag cz I put the Air Miami album on more often these days. And then take it off again halfway through, but the good bits are good.

I've probably listened to Air Miami more than Unrest recently as well, mainly because my wife really likes the Air Miami album and puts it on a lot.

i always get unrest and unwound confused.

lol I also do this, frequently (for example, while reading these poll results)

i included imperial in my ballot, but with 0 points, just to indicate that i was in a hurry and too much great stuff was slipping through the cracks. some days i'd call it my favorite album of the 90s, some days not, but i figured it'd have enough support w/out me anyway. and it did. glad to see it here and above the likes of janes, who irritate me to no end. and as a fan of both burzum and unrest, i'd be happy to explain either to the part of myself that digs the other.

Looks like my number two isn't going to make it now. [censored] fans I know you're out there?

hate the dude obv, but that burzum album is just unquestionably amazing

If I have my way, I will never hear that album for as long as I live.

Would like to see Unwound place but I'll be surprised if they make it. I already helped the American indie rockist cause with votes for the Grifters, Slint and Unrest (ffrr, not Perfect Teeth).

in defense of SUPERCONDUCTOR and their HIT SONGS FOR GIRLS

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this seems to be an album that no one else gives a shit about. i've played it for friends a number of times over the years, and no one's ever been as crazy about it as i am. and i don't like the follow-up (bastardsong), and i don't like the goddam new pornographers. i just like HIT SONGS FOR GIRLS. the basic gist is ridiculously catchy pop/metal/prog tunes with nerd-shouted nonsense strewn overtop, played blown-out style by a standard rock combo augmented w five extra guitars. in that sense, it's the anti-unrest, relative to nabisco's brilliant defense of that band: splattery, aggro and and artlessly maximalist to the core. thing is, in spite of all those sightline-obscuring piles of hairball guitar, it's a pop at heart, albeit of a hypercaffeinated, buzz-bombing variety (hallo super furry animals!). though it's far more noisy and chaotic, it often anticipates weezer's blue album, taking the bulk of its cues from 70s & 80s power pop & cheeze metal hitmakers and running them through the indie ironizer. i guess i'm avoiding the g-word here. i don't want to call it a grunge record cuz it's so unlike any other grunge record i can think of, but i've gotta admit that the basic sonic template (popped-out NOISE RAWK) does seem to place somewhere it in that camp. superconductor reedem themselves, though, by never trying to convince you that the angst and aggression are "authentic". the album's got a giant smirk on its face the whole way through, and that makes the paint-peeling histrionics infinitely more palatable.

in the end, i love this record mostly because it's an unbroken wall of absolutely fantastic pop songs, each one its own little wall of hooks. as cartoonish heavy pop, i think it's every bit as consistent as the best of cheap trick, redd kross or weezer. and it's a goddam crime that almost no one's ever heard it [shakes withered fist at the uncaring heavens]. most of the problem, i think, is that it's loud as unholy hell and came out on boner records. it was therefore never gonna sell outside a tiny, bong-damaged punk & metal niche that it didn't really belong in. i mean, it may have seemed to belong there, and i can see why it might appeal to pop-friendly melvins and steel pole bath tub fans. the crucial difference is that, in superconductor's case, the heavy gnarly shit isn't the primary point. instead, it's a kind of theatrical disguise, but to my mind, it's a disguise that enhances rather than diminishing the pop underneath. like, i dunno, like kiss. like the knights in satan's service. and i maybe i said this before, but i love this record to death. i've worn out two copies over the years, and haven't yet got tired of it.

INDIE ROCKIST CAUSE UNITE

...well, it is "a pop at heart," but it's also a pop record. in case u wonder.

Filosofem got 2 votes, 76 points, and I gave it 75. I can listen to this album forever. I can't really explain why it's so amazing, but the insistent repetition of the fuzzy drudging guitar riffs, the production, and even Varg's singing, make me take pause in my life, reconsider, "Am I black metal enough?" and I quit crying about girls and school, become resolute, and raise the sign:

\m/

xp I at least am intrigued by the superconductor based on your advocacy. haven't heard any, but from what you've said it has some of the hallmarks of what was so great about, say, toenut.

Lets all buy one record we haven't heard based on this thread - would that be cool? I think that would be cool.

Many of them can be had for 99 cents or less at your local used cd retailer (if you still have a local used cd retailer).

not if that record is Burzum (xp)

in the case of burzum, I hear stealing is a popular and morally sound alternative these days.

more on SUPERCONDUTOR

the songwriting and arrangements of the flaming lips circatelepathic surgery and priest driven ambulance = another obvious touchstone for HIT SONGS FOR GIRLS, as there's a touch of neil young's damaged yearning to a lot of the songwriting. plus the mad scientist pop/noise layering. i mean, if you dig the early flaming lips, the beatnik filmstars, weezer or even super furry animals, i should think you'd be able to find a place in your life for EXOCITAS POR LOS CHICAS LISTAS.

i say this because i have no idea what "toenut" means. it sounds gross.

make that LAS CHICAS, plus fix other things

so that i sound less retarded (this one directed more at God)

toenut were a spiffy and short-lived band from atlanta that recorded two great albums then disappeared. based on the touchstones you cite, I think you'd like. grab hold of 'two in the pinata' if you can.

(again, the 99c bin is your friend here.)

Ha, that's where I bought my Toenut cds. In the 99c bin. (Agreed on their goodness, though!)

i think i was the other burzum voter?

i also made a hilarious mistake once where i bought an unrest (or unwound) record thinking i was buying an unsane record. figured that one out pretty quickly.

I voted for Unsane and Unwound and you fucks voted unrest by mistake?

pretty sure jjjusten and I didn't vote

Just listening to Unrest for the first time. A great band I might not have heard if it wasn't for this poll.

so young gods or front line assembly aren't going to make the poll then?

sadly no

i voted for them but only 1 point each

I want a full debrief of your nite out, lj

watched Spurs with Spurs-supporting friend, ate burger

so I'm 2/4 for now, pretty sure that at least one of my other choices has no chance in hell of appearing but... my other choice I thought at least Louis would vote for! :(

The SECOND album by the band you're thinking of would have been in an LJ top 50. That album in an LJ top 100.

It's OK, I'm gonna vote for their 4th album when we do the 00's poll. You and me versus the world, Shakey :D

yeh that one is mad underrated

Good discussion since I last posted, btw. I approve. Keep it up, fellas. The more you can defend your daft choices the better! Ha, just kidding.

....

I said it earlier but now I've been drinking I'll say it again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QuiePZbS3I

best fucking single of the decade. if noyd doesn't have you tripping, then you are dead to me (until i sober up and remember people having different sucky tastes not necc. a value of character)

po po comes around and tries to relocate me
lock me up for ever but they can't deflate me 'cause
havin' cash is highly addictive
especially when you're used to havin' money to live with
I thought step back look at my life as a whole
Ain't no love it seems the devil done stole my soul
I'm out for delfia, selfia, P's not helpin' ya
I'm tryna get this Lexus up, and plus a cellular

^^^ otmfm.. didn't participate in this but the infamous is prob my favorite rap album.

COMPOSER OF HARDCORE A LYRICAL DESTRUCTOR DON'T MAKE ME BUCK YA COS I'M A WILD MOTHERFUCKER

Got G's in my pocket hit off my main squeeze
Push back, the sunroof, let the cold air breeze
through the butter soft leather upholestry
But mostly, keep the gat closely, cuz niggaz wanna toast me

tt tt tt tt BOOM tt tt tt tt BOOM WORD UP SON, WORD tt tt tt tt BOOM TO ALL THE KILLAS AND HUNDRED DOLLAR BILLAZ tt tt tt tt BOOM TO ALL THE REAL NIGGAZ WHO AIN'T GOT NO FEELINZ

I know I voted 1 record w/ more points than this that will make the poll later and is most prob better but fucking hell atm there is no record better than The Infamous.

I mean fuck a Mozart or Lennon or whatever, P got them shook.

/drunk

you all alone in these streets cousin/ every man for themself in this land we be gunnin'

srs, not one moment in the last year where infamous or hell on earth weren't in my car. fuck a 9-5 i get the loot with ease

THERE IS A WAR OUTSIDE NO ONE IS SAFE FROM

oh man i should go find my copy of hell on earth. also more beer.

Should have gone 40 infamous/ 40 hell on earth/ 40 life after death/ 80 cuban linx, why did i bother voting the fugees or cat power or kmd.

now that's what i call the 1990s