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

^^^ truth

even better than any nwa album.

definitely more consistent. Sraight Outta Compton peters out

even better than any nwa album.

My dog could take a shit next to a microphone and it would be better than any NWA album.

somehow I doubt this

you must really enjoy watching your dog shit then

not judging, but theres prob a support group for that out there

not going to make a humandog centipede joek, not going to do it

Hi, my names is ilxor and I am a listening to my dog take a shit addict.

xp

NOT FUNNY, dudes. My dad's life was and is ruined by his addiction to watching dog's shit. He lost his job because of it, and now he just creeps around the park watching the dogs do their business.

hey lj would a fuck load of points awarded to a release that is technically an ep but is over 30 mins be discounted? hadn't occured to me when i voted

i'm pretty sure in the earlier thread EPs were discussed and approved of

i voted for still feel gone cuz that was the first tupelo i had back then, but glad to see them make the poll anyway

just catching up. yay lp5... sort of strategic vote for me as i'm a total autechre stan and couldn't really pick one album, but figured this would be closest to consensus. makes me kinda proud that it was the last entry that didn't rely on one big score (i gave it 21). *sniffle*

i really don't know how to talk about the music without devolving into the usual cliched abstract language. definitely a turning point for them, though the direction was hinted at in cichlisuite (also recommended). i think chiastic slide was their noisiest material at that point, but a lot of the sounds on lp5 have that slippery polished stone and metal texture that they've brought back recently for oversteps. this is also where their rhythms become very distinct from anyone else - that sort of sputtering, ricocheting feel. closest thing was maybe bucephalus bouncing ball, but that always seems totally controlled and scripted in comparison, while lp5 is chaotic with some loose rules. they took this further on ep7, which feels more like a set of experiments to me, and then to its conclusion on confield. lp5 is more musical than either of those albums though.

in other words, it sounds like another world that isn't so different, rather than the imagined idea of another world, which is how i think of amber and chiastic slide. i like that i don't actually know for sure how "acroyear2" is supposed to make me feel. the relationship between the main synth line and percussion sounds alternates between conflict and synergy. the beats and melodies on a lot of the tracks feel inseparable - rae, corc, boac, arch carrier. they make sense of each other. maybe their most fully realized album in that sense.

yeah lp5 is great, gave it 20 iirc

think i'm 4/10 so far - lp5, i care because you do, debut, life after death. have one more lock and maybe another wild card or two...

listening to life after death

the DMC hook on "My Downfall" is really odd...so offbeat with the rest of the song, even weirder cuz it's clear DMC redid the lines, it's not a line they couldn't get to synch right with the track....

can't tell if it bugs me or i think it's kinda genius

i care because you do is so good. put it on again the other day and was all "yep, still so good"

ha ha I was the vote for Death Certificate. Forgot to send my username with the ballot.

xp - that dmc hook bugs me a little tbh. trying too hard or something cf biggie.

would like to hear more e40 re: fat rappers. biggie rides the beat better than probably anyone else though imo.

IMO Death Certificate is the best 1 vote album so far, and I'm not even a huge fan of west coast.

Listened to Auteurs - New Wave for the first time in 16 years. The vocals are very Dean Wareham. Despite that, I like it *downloading other three albums*.

turns out it was Right Said Fred who did the Sonic the Hedgehog tune,

never knew this existed, thanks Tuomas

(though I liked it better when I thought you were making it up and megatrolling with the "I can never remember" post)

btw upthread, nwa minus cube is dope, efil4zaggin and 100 miles and runnin' are, imo, locks for any goons record collection. I think it took 'em all a while to grow up and find their voice, whether together or not though. Eazy, Dre and Cube all eclipsed nwa when they went for dolo.

^^^except for the last sentence, otm. "100 Miles & Runnin'" is like the dopest shit ever

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 17:43 (Yesterday) Bookmark

This... just nearly made my eyes fall out. Until I realised that "Free Huey" does kind of sound like that Sonic The Hedgehog song.

so pleased to see LP5 and Giant Steps in a row! Def two of my all time favourite records.

THE NEXT ALBUM ON THIS POLL IS THE FIRST ONE WITH TWO FIRST-PLACE VOTES

CONSEQUENTLY IT IS GETTING A HUGE IMAGE

we gon' get to #1 today big homie?

ummmm depends how long my body feels like holding out. and whether i take plaxico up on his offer of top-10 mspaint art. might get him to do the mspaint art for the 'special awards' tbh

13 Guided By Voices - Alien Lanes (1995)
106 points
4 votes
2 first-place votes (other: Gavin In Leeds)
Greatest contributor: ciderpress

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guided by voices' alien lanes sounds just as good now as it did in 95.

― tylerw, Sunday, 13 March 2005 21:20 (5 years ago)

"alien lanes" is the true classic

― billyginandtonic, Tuesday, 7 February 2006 23:56 (4 years ago)

but i, too, think you're missing something by listening to gbv tracks and not listening to "bee thousand" or "alien lanes" straight through. especially "alien lanes" which strings so many short songs so tightly together. "a good flying bird" -> "cigarette tricks" -> "pimple zoo" -> "big chief chinese restaurant" --> "closer you are" is essentially one beautifully chaotic, teetering, jarring, epic five-minute tune spread out over five tracks.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 18:15 (6 years ago)

Much as I hate to admit it, the thread really can be edited down to this:

Q. Why in the name of all that is holy do people like Guided by Voices?
A. No-hassle tune excellence.

Similarly, Bob Pollard's output could be edited down as such:

1. Alien Lanes
2. Bee Thousand

― nabisco%%, Thursday, 30 May 2002 01:00 (7 years ago)

dude dave i have been listening to alien lanes CONSTANTLY the last week or so. finally got the LP. used to listen to that shit ALL THE TIME in high school, and it may be even better now than it was then. time to revisit teh GBV back catalog.

― ian, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 16:55 (3 years ago)

Alien Lanes is good to get drunk and sing along with. It's amazing how much rock music fails this simple test.

― Lukas (lukas), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 00:32 (5 years ago)

a great album which you think has too many tracks until you realise that on any given day just about any of them could be your favourite song ever

interesting.. i was desperately in love with that album at the time but in retrospect it's my least fave of the GbV purple patch

in my quotetrawl i found a post of yours disparaging this record in favour of others! basically i need to discover gbv, is what i'm hearing.

ok there's a bit of a points-jump until the next album. and it ALSO has two first-place votes!!

plz w/ the ms paint art :)

12 Oval - 94 Diskont (1995)
122 points
3 votes
2 first-place votes (other: NickB)
Greatest contributor: nakhchivan

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You know, 94 Diskont still sounds pretty fucking good

― Sonny, Ah!!1 (Sonny A.), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 00:10 (5 years ago)

OTM, it RAWKS d00d. Seriously though it does.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 03:34 (5 years ago)

I'm ready to start fawning over Oval - 94 Diskont whenever you're ready.

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 02:10 (6 years ago)

Has anyone really done anything with glitch that Oval didn't cover with 94 Diskont?

― Ben Williams, Saturday, 5 January 2002 01:00 (8 years ago)

how many points did we have to assign? trying to figure out exactly how far John and I could have driven Riddle Box

200.

NickB, please come here and wittily skewer why this is Best Of The Rest. nakhchivan, I want yr lexicon, gaudily

Pretty interesting: every electronic album that's appeared so far is of the "home listening" variety, except for that Sasha & Digweed comp, and that made it on the strength of one vote. Where were all the dance heads when voting took place? Sure, dance music is singles-oriented, but surely albums like The Secret Tapes of Dr. Eich or Every Man and Woman is a Star, or comps like Platinum Breakz would've deserved a spot here?

Anyway, I can't wait for the alternative 90s singles poll. Didn't someone promise to organize that?

a hoy hoy did. I'm posting one more then getting some sleep.

i did?

you mentioned it! sorry, my brain is *completely* scrambled. anyway stick around for #11.

I think I said I'd be up for it sure but I thought up next in ilx polls was the bumper 00s motherfuckers?

yeah ok fine whatever ok

wuuuuuuuuuh

11 Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
126 points
7 votes
1 first-place vote
Greatest contributor: a hoy hoy

http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/r/raekwon/album-only-built-4-cuban-linx.jpg

Prove to me that Only Built 4 Cuban Linx and Liquid Swords are worthy of their hype.....

― Mark Espisito, Monday, 5 December 2005 03:45 (4 years ago)

Proof:

http://relativity.livingreviews.org/Articles/lrr-2001-4/img212.gif

with U_ij = Only Built For Cuban Linx, A = Liquid Swords, and V_i = hype, it follows that W_i = sum of all hype over the entire universe > worthy hype. QED, motherfucker.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 5 December 2005 04:45 (4 years ago)

Cuban Linx = unsurpassable, greatest rap album ever?

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 17:33 (4 years ago)

Cuban Linx is as lush, sprawling, as opulent as a Godfather movie.

― Beta (abeta), Thursday, 27 January 2005 19:16 (5 years ago)

Chef cooking up some
Marvellous Scarface Pacin...
O shit. Ghostface rules.

-a hoy hoy