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

or Cee-Lo (own his solo albums)

do you hate goodie mob too?

i don't care about the greatest thing, it just seems incomprehensible to me that a rap fan wouldn't 'get' biggie or premo/rza/easy mo bee beats. I mean even the most hard headed 2pac fan must by definition like easy mo bee beats for Me Against The World so...

Like, at heart I'm a geek and a left-wing moralist, so wordy, geeky stuff like Nas or inspired communist analysis like The Coup move me in ways gangsta nihilism and hypercapitalism can never do.

(several x-posts)

that's fine, but then you should maybe appreciate that geeky, wordy jangly indie rock might move some people in ways that hip hop can never do and not judge them for it - *hongrosmileyface*

Goodie MOB is awesome btw

17 The Boo Radleys - Giant Steps (1993)
89 points
4 votes
1 first-place vote
Greatest contributor: Dog Latin

http://blog.roodo.com/dionysoslin/4a7d88f1.jpg

I just got "Giant Steps" back from my sister after she borrowed it for months on end, and after listening to it again I have solidyfied my theory that it is the greatest album ever.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 10:20 (6 years ago)

I would agree that Giant Steps is their masterpiece and one of the best records Creation ever put out; although a big hit, I still think it's underrated in the wider scheme of things.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 23 February 2007 15:19 (3 years ago)

GIANT STEPS IS THE GREATEST INDIE GUITAR RECORD EVER EVER EVER RIGHT

― Scik Mouthy, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 20:51 (2 years ago)

Part of what makes Giant Steps so incredible is that there’s such a variety of tracks on it, but it all hangs together so well.

― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Monday, 18 June 2007 22:18 (2 years ago)

i don't really listen to any of the albums/bands that would be considered contemporaries of this, but i heard "Leaves and Sand" on a Peel comp in high school and got totally hooked on it, really love this album and am definitely voting for it in the 90s poll.

― waka yoga flame (some dude), Monday, 1 March 2010 16:36 (2 months ago)

Now, Giant Steps, on the other hand, is a fucking masterpiece. This is the first I've seen of this poll, but I would have voted for "I Hang Suspended," "Leaves & Sand," or "Thinking of Ways." I will review & report back. Even though it is the obvious centerpiece & mindblowingly awesome, I've always associated "Lazarus" more w/ the EP, which came out considerably ahead of GS iirc.

― Man or Austro-Hungarian? (Pillbox), Saturday, 6 March 2010 05:12 (2 months ago)

that's right, a British indie guitar record that some dude voted for

I too will vouch for its brilliance

that record's pretty good. "Wish I Was Skinny" is purty

Another one I voted for and likely to be my last choice to appear.

This is easily my favourite album Creation put out and it still sounds just as amazing now. I was kind of hoping this might sneak into the top 10.

I basically feel the same way about the Boo Radleys as I do about Biggie

For some reason I'm always mixing up Boo Radleys with Right Said Fred - which one of them did the Sonic the Hedgehog song?

lol Tuomas

I think you just broke my brain

posts that push it so far that they break character

Right Said Fred
http://bit.ly/c6byY2

Boo Radleys
http://bit.ly/aNctTM

TBH I think I just made the connection because they're both bald guys with colourful clothes. If that Sonic the Hedgehog tune is not by Boo Radleys, then I can't recall any songs of theirs.

that's right, a British indie guitar record that some dude voted for

― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Thursday, May 6, 2010 12:27 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

it's true! without my 4 points they'd have been alllll the way down at #21

For some reason I'm always mixing up Boo Radleys with Right Said Fred - which one of them did the Sonic the Hedgehog song?

― Tuomas, Thursday, 6 May 2010 16:43 (8 minutes ago)

Both great groups.

i don't really listen to any of the albums/bands that would be considered contemporaries of this, but i heard "Leaves and Sand" on a Peel comp in high school and got totally hooked on it, really love this album and am definitely voting for it in the 90s poll.

― waka yoga flame (some dude), Monday, 1 March 2010 16:36 (2 months ago)

"Peel Out in the States" yep, I have one of these (actually, ten volumes of this)

also: http://www.booradleys.co.uk/giant_steps/fans.htm

Coming May 25th - Giant Steps. "Digitally remastered and expanded three CD edition of the Britpop band's 1993 album including all of their b-sides and singles released around the time of the album. Giant Steps was the third album by the Boo Radleys. NME and Select named it as Album Of The Year. It reached the UK Top 20, but did not spawn a Top 40 single."

Disc Two
1. Adrenalin EP Lazy Day
2. Vegas
3. Feels Like Tomorrow
4. Whiplashed

Boo! Forever
5. Does This Hurt
6. Boo! Forever
7. Buffalo Bill
8. Sunfly Ii: Walking With The Kings

B-Sides
9. Rodney King - St. Etienne Remix (I Hang Suspended B-side)
10. As Bound As Tomorrow (I Hang Suspended B-side)
11. I Will Always Ask You Where You've Been Even Though I Know The Answer (I Hang Suspended B-side)
12. Peachy Keen Acoustic Version (Wish I Was Skinny B-side)
13. Furthur (Wish I Was Skinny B-side)
14. Crow Eye (Wish I Was Skinny B-side)

Disc Three: B-Sides & Alternate Versions
1. Barney (...and me) B-Sides Tortoiseshell
2. Zoom
3. Cracked Lips, Homesick

Lazarus B-Side
4. At The Sound Of Speed
5. Let Me Be Your Faith
6. Petroleum

Lazarus (Remixes)
7. Lazarus - 7" Version
8. Lazarus - Acoustic
9. (I Wanna Be) Touchdown Jesus
10. Lazarus - St. Etienne Remix
11. Lazarus - Secret Knowledge Remix
12. Lazarus - Ultramarine Remix
13. Lazarus - Augustus Pablo Remix
14. Lazarus - 12" Version

Lazy Day & Does This Hurt EPs surely should be on a deluxe Everything's Alright Forever but I guess that's not going to happen.

Lazarus - Augustus Pablo Remix

lol.

(xpost you are right)

Next up is the last record without a first-place vote ;_;

RIP RECORDS WITHOUT A FIRST-PLACE VOTE

16 Stereolab - Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements (1993)
95 points
6 votes
0 first-place votes
Greatest contributor: purrington

http://www.kosmikradiation.com/albums_files/stereolab_transient.jpg

Listening to this right now for the first time in a very long time & am once again blown away by how consistently brilliant it is. Emperor Tomato Ketchup sure, but this is the sound of The Groop at the height of their strengths.

― Yngwie Hoosteen (Pillbox), Sunday, 26 July 2009 07:03 (9 months ago)

this is totally the best Stereolab album.

― Your Mother Smells Of Elderflower (Masonic Boom), Sunday, 26 July 2009 08:37 (9 months ago)

transient...has always been my fave. saw them at that time at the danbury airport bar in danbury connecticut AND TIME AND SPACE STOOD STILL BEFORE THEIR VERY AWESOMENESS. seriously, one of the best shows i've ever seen. tomato ketchup is good to though. very kool soundz. then i lost track.

― scott seward, Sunday, 25 March 2007 16:41 (3 years ago)

Transient RNBWA is not only my favourite Stereolab, but it's up there in my top 5 records ever.

― Mister Craig, Thursday, 17 May 2007 08:00 (2 years ago)

"Transient Random..." is an all-time classic

― Tim, Wednesday, 31 January 2001 01:00 (9 years ago)

one of my favourite bands of the nineties, so i would have to say classic, but "transient random noise..." was their last truly great album - nothing since then has had that richness of sound.

― kevan cooke, Tuesday, 13 March 2001 01:00 (9 years ago)

Not mentioning the greatness that is Transient Random Noise-Bursts With Announcements is...criminal.

― Sean Carruthers, Friday, 25 May 2001 01:00 (8 years ago)

I fell off after Emperor Tomato Ketchup but love pretty much everything up to that. Peng is great, but the trinity of Transient Random/Mars Audiac Quintent/ETK pretty much defined my college existance. I'm going with Transient though.

― dan selzer, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 16:47 (2 years ago)

when are we going to get to the last record with only 1 vote?

I just realised I put the hyphen between the wrong words :///

no wait I didn't! haha!

Their best album I think. 18 min Jenny Ondioline - I'll go and put it on now.

some dude that is CLASSIFIED INFORMATION

x post: Despite having most of their singles that new version that sounds really tempting. Boo! Forever is one of their finest songs and the 12" version of Lazarus is so good, actually the only thing I'd change about Giant Steps is the version of Lazarus on there is too short.

I put the hyphen in the right place but got the year wrong. Should be 1993 ://///////

... or did you?

FANK U KIND MOD

brb voting

For some reason I'm always mixing up Boo Radleys with Right Said Fred - which one of them did the Sonic the Hedgehog song?

― Tuomas,

lolololol

that's really the tuomas quote for the ages

Ooh 2-in-a-row of mine. Kind of surprised Giant Steps only got 4 votes. Not sure if I want a remastered version, but seeing as I kept putting off buying the 12"s when I saw them in Vinyl Exchange I'll be getting it for the extras. Have never heard 12" Lazarus so it best be as good as everyone says.

Ok, turns out it was Right Said Fred who did the Sonic the Hedgehog tune, took me a while to remember what it was called:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI2En2RVf6s&feature=related

thread delivers

(really AM off to vote now)

I had all of Autechre's albums except for LP 5. I recall it was somewhat hard to find even back then. Now it goes for $30 to $100!

Uh... it's on Amazon for $12.95.

Um, one beat up library copy.

i see LP5 in the used cd bins all the time.

Ahhh well in that case I may pick up the 1-2 copies I've seen in the local used bins and throw 'em up on eBay.

;-)

get me one for a dollar

ok now for the yin to Burzum's yang...

15 Ice Cube - Death Certificate (1991)
100 points
1 vote
1 first-place vote
Contributor: Daniel L4B34u

http://oophiphop.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/icecube-deathcertificate_4032.jpg

the racism and antisemitism is kind of a fucking drag though

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Thursday, 9 November 2006 23:55 (3 years ago)

too bad about the misogyny, etc

― gear (gear), Friday, 10 November 2006 00:11 (3 years ago)

It never stops bothering me, but I come to accept it as part of a complex persona i.e. damn Cube's got some funny/sad/lyrical critiques of health care, police brutality & white privilege, but his misogyny and anti-Asian sentiment make me like him significantly less. He's an angry dude, and when he directs that anger at women or Koreans it can get ugly. No caveats.

But I still bump "My Summer Vacation," "Alive on Arrival," and a handful of others on the regular. That's all I'm saying.

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Friday, 10 November 2006 00:37 (3 years ago)

I guess I would rather deal with the troubling misogyny/racism of an otherwise genius album than suffer through the wack "A GAME OF HORSESHOES" alternatives.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Friday, 10 November 2006 00:39 (3 years ago)

another thing that's always bothered me abt critical evaluations of Cube's material - and this was especially true at the time of their release - was that everyone always talked/talks about the lyrics and the problematic politics and the racism/mysogyny etc. while completely ignoring the sonics/beats of the actual music on the records.But the production on the first four Cube records is groundbreaking, insanely dense, deeply engrossing stuff, far and away some of the most inventive sample-based music ever made, and the music adds an appeal and a depth to Cube's material that totally bowled me over and still gives me lots to pick out and pore over even 10+ years on.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 10 November 2006 18:07 (3 years ago)

racism, but with layers.

― uk grime faggot (titchyschneiderMk2), Saturday, 17 January 2009 18:42 (1 year ago)

not really i think its just racism

― find yr HOOS & steendrive anything in the way (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver)

Ice Cube- Death Certificate 200 points

― President Keyes, Sunday, 28 February 2010 02:06 (2 months ago)