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

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

please don't reveal what you voted for

22 Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt (1996)
83 points
5 votes
0 first-place votes
Greatest contributor: samosa gibreel

http://www.daviddallas.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/medium_jay_z_-_reasonable_doubt-front.jpg

There are about 100 ILX threads with "Jay-Z" in the title so kept my ILXsearching real simple like

Strangely enough though, people still don't seem to understand the concept of reasonable doubt.

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 23:35 (5 years ago)

By the way - I'd say some animal research is done out of pure bloodthirstyness... Harry Harlow showed this beyond any reasonable doubt. He was insane.

― C-Man (C-Man), Monday, 12 January 2004 19:46 (6 years ago)

"The prosecution will show that Kate did, beyond any reasonable doubt, drug and intice this innocaent young man into a bathtub while she pleasured herself in front of him."

― Gold Teeth II (kenan), Monday, 4 October 2004 16:47 (5 years ago)

this all seems reasonable, doubt it will really change 77 at all anyway

― crackers is biters (M@tt He1ges0n), Tuesday, 3 February 2009 01:13 (1 year ago)

wait also 10 pts for iron man for cappa's winter warz verse. oh and the best mc of the past 15 years i guess. but winter warz!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUAwdXRbyWM

my bad lj, i think i am cool w/ knowing kmd won't make it doe.

also :DDDDDDDDDDDDD reasonable doubt!

!!! hellls yowws yes, "Brooklyn's finest" is basically mankind's crowning achievement

so splended. ok gonna put it on right now

Re: Reasonable Doubt.

I didn't get it for ages. Compared to most similar albums of the age it seems vulgar at first. There is no dirt to it. Even the biggest, most epic records of the era have their battles fought in the streets. Jay swoops in as the Godfather, already positioning himself at the top, without any track record or anything to show for it. Cuban Linx is Scarface, from the start. Life After Death is very much post-Ready To Die, and starts with Biggie potentially giving up all he's earned just to avenge his fallen comrade. Reasonable Doubt doesn't really have that. He is untouchable and he is better than you. I think Jay learnt his mistakes very quickly here, even over did it with his 'ok i get it, i'm not better than big' modesty.

That said, once you get used to it as a one off from his career, as the start of this insane untouchable bravado rap, making records with Mary and Big and Premo from the off, you have to admire the boy's confidence. That and its fun as hell, 22 twos and brooklyns finest can't help but make me smile.

yay! 2 more of my votes, I'm up to 5/10! only think 1 more of mine will make it tho. rip soul food/southernplayalistic/rhythmalism/2001 ;_;

2001! I always think of it as a 2k record, damn the name. I think it still has a chance though?

:D nicely put a hoy hoy! xposts

no comment Rev - but that's a pretty good hit-rate as far as these ballots go

Next album (last for the day) is gonna cause some sweet-ass controversy. And hopefully get a certain ILM poster explainin' and defendin' like never before

I say this because what few ILM posts there are on the band are pretty much blanket negative, except for this dude's.

21 Remy Zero - Remy Zero (1996)
85 points
1 vote
1 first-place vote
Greatest contributor: Drugs A. Money

http://bp0.blogger.com/_IWtJPVg2znw/Rg-ArLKThxI/AAAAAAAAACE/TQ7Fv3-h-2c/s400/B000003TBU.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

most underrated album: Remy Zero - s/t.

― Drugs A. Money, Monday, 28 April 2008 23:23 (2 years ago)

I think Remy Zero is the polar opposite of punk.

― Clarke B., Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (8 years ago)

seriously guys...Remy Zero's first album dropped a year before OK Computer, and is so much better (and was kind of a defining influence on the best-album-of-the-90s standby)

forget the Coldplay-before-Coldplay hype, that came later...first album is Southern post-rock and thrilling shoegazer with all sorts of shifting sonic textures...

― ha! (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 15 February 2010 20:33 (2 months ago)