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

um I probably mean 'distilled'. or 'undiluted'.

for once words have failed lj, and all because of samosa's visage

even MCs get writer's block

Anyone got OPINIONZ on Remy Zero (or rather, the first album, because apparently they went to absolute shit afterwards)? Or are we indulging in a bit of hip-hop before the top 20 descends with wall-to-wall guitar indie?

let's all just pull out our tuxedos and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cs8Zb2dXsFU

actually, now i think about it, has anyone else successfully done the tuxedo gangster thing before or after? i can't think of anything.

reasonable doubt is one of those album that i don't necessarily think about or put on very regularly, but whenever i'm listening to it i just become overwhelmed with joy and pleasure and it's like ok why exactly haven't i gottan a microchip-sized speaker implanted into my brain programmed to play this twenty four hours a day for the rest of my life yet?

I liked the reasonable doubt blurb. Why are we all up?

we are wearing tuxedos and listening to feelin it iirc

because i'm drunk and getting ready for working nights tomorrow. also rap music is awes.

also spurs became a big club again, which is important to the irish.

actually, now i think about it, has anyone else successfully done the tuxedo gangster thing before or after? i can't think of anything.

― tart w/ a heart (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, May 5, 2010 5:55 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Rick Ross has totally coopted this vibe for his last couple albums but obv. doesn't do it as well.

oh yeah, forgot the BAWSE. i think he pulls it off, not in an absolute classic way but in a kinda dope lol at least it isn't nas's escobar years.

ABOUT UNREST! They are Reuniting for a short tour! I am going to see them with The Ropers opening at Maxwells in Hoboken I AM SO EXCITED!

Can someone post an update/rundown of the list so far please?

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____ Stereolab - Peng! (1992)
____ XTC - Apple Venus, Vol. 1 (1999)
100. De La Soul - Buhloone Mind State (1993)
___ Fugazi - End Hits (1998)
98. Crowded House - Woodface (1991)
97. Sonic Youth - Washing Machine (1995)
96. Björk - Debut (1993)
95. Mark Eitzel - Songs of Love (1991)
94. Elliott Smith - Either/Or (1997)
___ The Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde (1992)
92. The Afghan Whigs - Black Love (1996)
91. Tori Amos - From the Choirgirl Hotel (1998)
90. UGK - Ridin' Dirty (1996)
89. Grifters - Crappin' You Negative (1994)
88. The Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I (1999)
87. The Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen (1993)
___ Neil Young - Harvest Moon (1992)
85. Biosphere - Substrata (1997)
___ Missy Elliott - Da Real World (1999)
___ Mogwai - Young Team (1997)
82. 2pac - All Eyez on Me (1996)
81. Metallica - Metallica (1991)
___ Built To Spill - Keep it Like a Secret (1999)
79. A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders (1993)
___ The Divine Comedy - Promenade (1994)
77. The Auteurs - New Wave (1993)
___ Burger/Ink - Las Vegas (1996)
___ Electronic - Electronic (1991)
74. Sleep - Dopesmoker (199?)
___ Slowdive - Souvlaki (1993)
72. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F#A#∞ (1998)
71. R.E.M. - New Adventures in Hi-Fi (1996)
___ Earl Brutus - Tonight You Are The Special One (1998)
69. Sun City Girls - Torch of the Mystics (1990)
___ Sun City Girls - 330,003 Crossdressers From the Rig Veda (1996)
67. Pete Namlook - Air (1994)
66. Palace Music - Lost Blues and Other Songs (1997)
65. Sonny Sharrock - Ask the Ages (1991)
___ Lush - Spooky (1992)
63. Ol' Dirty Bastard - Return to the 36 Chambers (1995)
62. Aphex Twin - I Care Because You Do (1995)
___ They Might Be Giants - Flood (1990)
60. Mr. Bungle - California (1999)
___ Madonna - Erotica (1992)
58. Gas - Königsforst (1999)
57. Mouse on Mars - Autoditacker (1997)
56. Sonic Youth - A Thousand Leaves (1998)
___ Pizzicato Five - Happy End of the World (1997)
___ Magic Hour - No Excess Is Absurd (1994)
___ Nomeansno - Live and Cuddly (1991)
___ Kristin Hersh - Hips and Makers (1994)
___ Ground Zero - Revolutionary Pekinese Opera Ver.1.28 (1996)
50. Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road (1998)
49. Faith No More - Angel Dust (1992)
48. R.E.M. - Out of Time (1991)
47. Pavement - Brighten the Corners (1997)
46. Blur - 13 (1999)
45. Nachtstrom - 17 Songs After Midnight (1999)
44. Arvo Pärt - Te Deum (1993)
43. Outkast - ATLiens (1996)
42. Pavement - Wowee Zowee (1995)
___ Julian Cope - Peggy Suicide (1991)
40. Straitjacket Fits - Melt (1991)
___ Pole - 1 (1998)
38. Various Artists - Guitar Paradise of East Africa (1990)
37. Slint - Spiderland (1991)
36. Mansun - Six (1998)
___ Suede - Dog Man Star (1994)
34. Dr. Octagon - Dr. Octagonecologyst (1996)
___ Hole - Live Through This (1994)
32. Wilco - Summerteeth (1999)
31. Super Furry Animals - Guerrilla (1999)
30. Mobb Deep - The Infamous (1995)
29. Jane's Addiction - Ritual De Lo Habitual (1990)
28. Mr. Bungle - Disco Volante (1995)
___ Superconductor - Hit Songs For Girls (1993)
26. Various Artists - The Music in My Head (1998)
25. Unrest - Perfect Teeth (1993)
24. Burzum - Filosofem (1996)
23. Unrest - Imperial F.F.R.R. (1992)
22. Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt (1996)
21. Remy Zero - Remy Zero (1996)

shanksh!

so much there i've never heard, or even heard of! Definitely never even heard mention of Remy Zero. Impressed that Burzum made it so high!

Remy Zero was a big radio rock band (with atmosphere?) for a hot minute in the mid '90s. I once got in an online flame war with one of the people (the singer, I think) over something stupid. I don't even remember what it was about now, but he's not the brightest bulb.

yeah their 2nd and 3rd albums each had a moderate radio hit, and the latter became the theme song to Smallville. i remember being vaguely intrigued by the single from their first album that I heard on a DGC compilation, but i never pursued them beyond that.

Impressed Appalled that Burzum made it so high!

*disclaimer - burzum should read "filosofem", obv. no nazo!

20 Sasha & John Digweed - Northern Exposure Vol. 1 (1997)
87 points
1 vote
0 first-place votes
Contributor: i am using your worlds

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foolishly I only have Northern Exposures 1 and 2. But I love them so - they're so unashamedly new age!

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 21:36 (5 years ago)

also, do dj mixes count here? cos NE and NE2 are probably my most played "electronic" albums ever.

― rentboy (rentboy), Friday, 4 June 2004 11:00 (5 years ago)

i'm currently digging sasha's production and mixes (including northern exposure series with digweed) and i think it'll be hard to find stuff more gorgeous than those in the realm of dance music!

― Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr, Saturday, 6 December 2008 06:04 (1 year ago)

Hmmmm let's see......here are some classic "prog house" mixes...

Sasha & Digweed - Northern Exposure V.1 (2CD import, NOT the domestic version)...very well-mixed, classic melodic tunes.....no longer a representation of what is played in clubs these days, however. More of a listening album than a dancing album.

For a more current document of where house music is, I think Sander Kleinenberg's Nu Breed mix fits the bill.

― Patrick, Monday, 24 September 2001 01:00 (8 years ago)

It's ace as is the usual with Sasha. I've seen him a dozen times and he's provided a great night out every time. You peeps like to suck on M.Mayers cock but he's a shit DJ. He may have a Kompakt white label but he can't mix worth shit. Sasha is the best DJ in the world when it comes to blending tracks together. I'm not talking about his Abelton skills, but rather with vinyl and CD's. The first Northern Exposure 2CD set is probably the best DJ set ever released.

― biz, Wednesday, 15 June 2005 19:37 (4 years ago)

I believe this is the first trance-prog-house DJ set to make the poll

gonna be hilar when the winner is the one record one (1) person gave 200 points for cos they are a troll.

I was kinda hoping this poll would have some dance music and not just home listening/ambient type of electronic music, but that was unexpected! Never heard the record, so I can't comment on the music, but that sort of usually doesn't get much praise on ILX. (So I guess it makes sense that it got so high by one vote only.)

"that sort of stuff"

Yes! Okay, I haven't given a damn about trance in nigh over a decade, but I used to love that record, as well as it's follow-up.

Initially I had Cope's Peggy Suicide with 120 points, but changed it to favor a few things that - at this point - I would say aren't going to make it.

I kind of wish I'd created a few sockpuppets now

87 points
1 vote
0 first-place votes

Interesting stats

19 The Notorious B.I.G. - Life After Death (1997)
87 points
6 votes
0 first-place votes
Greatest contributor: Lamp

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this is my favorite rap album ever i think

― hitler runoff (J0rdan S.), Monday, 15 March 2010 04:14 (1 month ago)

maybe this is challops, but I never really dug this album as a whole. too much melodrama.

― khaled zeppelin (The Reverend), Monday, 15 March 2010 04:15 (1 month ago)

I hear you - it's extremely self-conscious to my ears, v. I'm-making-this-album but that doesn't bother me - the rapping is just so incredible, really if all the songs were about random subjects the sheer pyrotechnics would be o_0

― the most sacred couple in Christendom (J0hn D.), Monday, 15 March 2010 04:21 (1 month ago)

it sounds like everything on ready to die refined and sometimes perfected and all the new things that you've never heard him do before. there's the twisty storytelling tracks that build down into perfect payoffs ("nigga turned around holdin his daughter..."/"through all the excitement, they range got towed-- they double-parked by a hydrant"), the big puff/big tracks, the gully tracks, the slow jamz, whatever. it's amazing just to hear him rap-- like, he's perfect and most of the time it's just sort of in the back of your mind, like, "oh, he's good," but there're so many moments on it where it's like just .......... "this is perfect" and he can do anything.

― William Wiggins, Friday, 2 April 2004 06:10 (6 years ago)

anyway classic, impressive scope, old mobster aesthetic works wonderfully, and i like the guest appearances and the 112 hooks. i don't find him a lazy rapper either, maybe somewhat sedate in his flow but with grand menace. like an ominous simmer of a don to somebody like kool g rap's explosiveness. also i think my young friends and i were introduced to the concept of scatophilia by this album. classic.

― scissors (Honda), Friday, 2 April 2004 06:23 (6 years ago)

This album has the funniest skit on any hip-hop album ever.

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Saturday, 5 July 2008 07:36 (1 year ago)

SOLD MORE POWDER THAN
JOHNSON AND JOHNSON, also
other great punchlines.

- a hoy hoy

Initially I had Cope's Peggy Suicide with 120 points

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LOOK GUYS IT'S BIGGIE

how the hell was this not on the original poll

I see him. Never got him - his rapping still sounds comically inept to these ears.

Wow, really? He's like the only person on the Bad Boy roster who has any real concept of flow.

When did this poll happen?

Only over the course of like, two months.

Yeah, in a way I am kind embarrassed, because I thought that 87 points would end up guaranteeing it a place in the lower reaches of the countdown, but w/e

I still think this is a really great album, as is the second one. First disc starts off with a 10 minute long Orb remix and then has some FSOL. At the time it came out it seemed to me really unusual to have a "dance" cd that wasn't really club orientated. I worked in Our Price at the time and whenever I stuck this on (often) I was always gratified to see that people who I didn't expect to be into this sort of music would come and ask me about it. And I was probably guilty at the time of not thinking people could be open to music outside their usual genres, as I remember telling people I thought were middle aged (probably just my youth though - I would imagine they were younger than I am now) "the second disc might not be your sort of thing"!

I'm not from a journalism background and I am terrible at describing genres, but on the second disc, Castle Trancelot's "The Gloom" and the segue of the final three tracks Banco de Gaia to Humate & Rabbit in the Moon to Underworld still actually brings me out in a physical sweat, some sort of automatic genetic memory of chemicals that were in my system 15 years ago making themselves known again.

I'm pretty sure this is deleted now. It won't be to everyone's tastes and I when I realised it was going to end up charting quite highly I was expecting it to get hammered for being cheesy. I'm glad to see there were actually some ILX quotes for this album, I wasn't expecting that. Hope some of you give it a go and enjoy.

(Above about Northern Exposure xxxx-posts)

This album has the funniest skit on any hip-hop album ever.

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Saturday, 5 July 2008 07:36 (1 year ago)

Dude is all about the skits, isn't he?

xxp

I am using your worlds, I used to play the follow-up albums on in-store play in Sam Goody and sold a few as a result.

I loved it when young couples and university professor looking bearded dudes would buy this!

I see him. Never got him - his rapping still sounds comically inept to these ears.

― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 6 May 2010 16:06 (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

wait... what?

I mean seriously... what?

You confess to actually liking britpop and yet you don't 'get' biggie?

Are you Geir going fucking awesome on a sock puppet that we just never picked up on?

IT'S ALL KICKING OFF

is sam still drunk from last night?