you think Eve should be on the list??
― the Rob Based god (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 7 May 2010 19:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Not in my opinion... I'm sure rap fans rate the first three Cypress Hill albums pretty high, and I voted for Temples of Boom, which isn't a singles-driven album at all. As for BT-N-H and Eve, personally I think their debut albums are very good from the beginning to the end, but I'm not sure how many people share this opinion.
(x-post to Dan)
― Tuomas, Friday, 7 May 2010 19:36 (fourteen years ago) link
having said all that, this is my jam:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXJemMbUFYU
― it means "EMOTIONAL"! (HI DERE), Friday, 7 May 2010 19:38 (fourteen years ago) link
i thought about voting for creepin' on ah come up but i wanted to limit my votes to only 10 albums so my points would have more of an impact and i had rock and other shit to get on there, not just rap.
voting for temples of boom over the first two and esp the first cypress is pretty o_O to me
― the Rob Based god (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 7 May 2010 19:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Bone were gigantic around my way and still are really. Everybody had their albums. I even still heard them a lot after they weren't selling records anymore.
― el j debarge (The Reverend), Friday, 7 May 2010 19:39 (fourteen years ago) link
btw a hoy hoy u suck at life
Hell yeah! It has one of the finest set of Swizz Beatz beats ever, Eve is fierce and hungry on that album, basically every song is good except for the boring ballad that's stuck to the end. Even the interludes on that album are great - "My Bitches" rules!
― Tuomas, Friday, 7 May 2010 19:39 (fourteen years ago) link
For a couple years, BTNH were pretty much THE biggest rap group in my area.
― el j debarge (The Reverend), Friday, 7 May 2010 19:40 (fourteen years ago) link
guys guys not every album in this poll can be hip-hop
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Friday, 7 May 2010 19:41 (fourteen years ago) link
i actually think bone thugs are even more amazing now than i did at the time.....
removed from them being popular fixtures in rap i'm struck by how completely unique their style was, how by the incredibly eccentric and cryptic way they flowed.
like i can't even believe they happened.
― the Rob Based god (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 7 May 2010 19:41 (fourteen years ago) link
lj i think we're just coming to terms with the likely absence of hip hop in the top 10 by dwelling on what didn't make it for a moment. if you wanna start posting the top 10 i'm sure we can talk about that instead!
― some dude, Friday, 7 May 2010 19:43 (fourteen years ago) link
I am not saying they are bad! I am saying I didn't think people thought about them in the context of albums; like, I am certain "The Crossroads" and at least one Cypress Hill single would appear on a singles/tracks poll.
― it means "EMOTIONAL"! (HI DERE), Friday, 7 May 2010 19:43 (fourteen years ago) link
first Cypress Hill album is amazing fuiud
― the sound of a norwegian guy being wrong (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 7 May 2010 19:44 (fourteen years ago) link
haha no it's cool al, this is pretty good discussion so i'm content to let it ride. haha i've already started posting the top 10!
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Friday, 7 May 2010 19:44 (fourteen years ago) link
haha!
― it means "EMOTIONAL"! (HI DERE), Friday, 7 May 2010 19:44 (fourteen years ago) link
BTNH were pretty much THE biggest rap group in my area.
really? where was this? I never got the impression they were even that huge in LA
― the sound of a norwegian guy being wrong (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 7 May 2010 19:45 (fourteen years ago) link
rev's seattle
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Friday, 7 May 2010 19:46 (fourteen years ago) link
T-dog still waiting patiently for that Vast Aire/Eve collab to drop
looooooove bone thugs stuff. and yeah m@tt otm at just how o_O they really sound to me at this point
cypress hill (although i dug them at the time) is sort of a two trick pony to me
― Samhain 69 (jjjusten), Friday, 7 May 2010 19:46 (fourteen years ago) link
totally never cared about autechre sorry guys
― the sound of a norwegian guy being wrong (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 7 May 2010 19:46 (fourteen years ago) link
I posted one of those tricks to the thread
― it means "EMOTIONAL"! (HI DERE), Friday, 7 May 2010 19:46 (fourteen years ago) link
oh right i already forgot about 10
― some dude, Friday, 7 May 2010 19:47 (fourteen years ago) link
i can doublehaha if i want, esp if i'm not thinking straight due to fucked-up sleep patterns
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Friday, 7 May 2010 19:48 (fourteen years ago) link
anyway folks it's time to give indie-rock some sweet lovin'!!
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Friday, 7 May 2010 19:49 (fourteen years ago) link
9 Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West134 points4 votes2 first-place votes (other: Parenthetical Grillz)Greatest contributor: monster_xero
http://www.viceland.com/music/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/mouse2.jpg
i still really like in the lonesome crowded west.
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 21:38 (3 years ago)
LCW shouldn't have been cut down; its the best indie record of any sort in tbe 90s, like pavement with more feeling & amphetamines.
― 7seasjim, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 06:39 (3 years ago)
I say this every time Modest Mouse comes up, but "Lonesome Crowded West" is a perfect album.
― dieblucasdie (dieblucasdie), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 12:59 (5 years ago)
Lonesome Crowded West and Songs In The Key Of Life are the only ones I know that are good all the way through, in that Nilsson Schmilsson way where every new track that comes on makes you go, "Fuck! This is good!" There are tons, tons, tons of double albums that more or less acquit themselves, the White Album being the quintessential example, with enough gems to balance out the general lack of focus. But on a single album those kinds of ratios would equal a major bomb, making these types of things a "fans only" thing whose idiosyncracies you come to love... very few artists manage even one SINGLE album that really feels like it needs all its songs, so perhaps I'm holding doubles to a high standard, but really we'll be here all day if we list every double album that's "good" in the White Album sense....
― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Friday, 8 September 2006 12:13 (3 years ago)
As for fave album, another vote for "Lonesome Crowded West." Great for long drives, where it never seems long at all. I was so grabbed by that disc when I first got it (I think in '97, when they played L.A. shows with Strictly Ballroom, the band that splintered into Dntel and Beachwood Sparks!), mainly because of the fact that the band had these themes running through the disc, yet it wasn't any kind of "rock opera" or anything. It all flows together so well.
― Bent Over at the Arclight (Bent Over at the Arclight), Friday, 25 February 2005 20:58 (5 years ago)
I can't see how anyone could say Eve sucks, when her debut has tracks like this, but to each according to this taste...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDWE0YEkH_o
(many x-posts)
― Tuomas, Friday, 7 May 2010 19:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Modest Mouse = gtfo
― the sound of a norwegian guy being wrong (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 7 May 2010 19:51 (fourteen years ago) link
memories of when this band didnt fucking suck so goddamn much.
― Samhain 69 (jjjusten), Friday, 7 May 2010 19:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Another of my votes!
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 7 May 2010 19:52 (fourteen years ago) link
and i love that record, and a couple others, but current modest mouse just fills me with rage. they were better when they were pulling off angular half-assed shambling pixies rips
― Samhain 69 (jjjusten), Friday, 7 May 2010 19:52 (fourteen years ago) link
still though, 2 first-place votes!
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Friday, 7 May 2010 19:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Nice to see some BTNH love in here, but you guys should've voted for E. 1999 Eternal then! (Or did you?) To me it's been one of the rap albums of the 90s ever since it came out, when I heard "Da Crossroads" I just fell in love with their style. I think it's kinda awesome how they combine that sweet doo-wop rap style with dark, almost corny Gothic imagery.
― Tuomas, Friday, 7 May 2010 19:54 (fourteen years ago) link
okay so some cursory googling is making me think a particular piece of folklore from my family is not actually true; to wit, I don't think that is my cousin singing the "WE ARE SOLDIERS NOW" caterwaul on "Mo Thug Family Tree" after all
I am kind of bummed but mostly relieved because that part of the song is FUCKING WRETCHED
― it means "EMOTIONAL"! (HI DERE), Friday, 7 May 2010 19:56 (fourteen years ago) link
"i'm trying to drink away the part of the day that i cannot sleep away"
^lived those words
btw..
apparently i like to pop in a lot of thread and say:
"I really like [insert album here]"
terribly enlightening posts! i need to censor myself more.
― the Rob Based god (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 7 May 2010 19:59 (fourteen years ago) link
h3lg you are a lifesaver and a quote machine - gonna go back and count how many of the top 100 have h3lg blurbs at the end
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Ctrl-s "I really like" and yer all set!
jk dude
― Samhain 69 (jjjusten), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:01 (fourteen years ago) link
jj can you plz add 'TOP TEN COUNTING DOWN NOW' to the thread-title? :)
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:02 (fourteen years ago) link
instead of 'THE RECKONING'
no.
― Samhain 69 (jjjusten), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:03 (fourteen years ago) link
also sorry but i think eve is just terrible
― Samhain 69 (jjjusten), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:04 (fourteen years ago) link
shes like trina without the touch of class
okay that is unfair
― it means "EMOTIONAL"! (HI DERE), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:05 (fourteen years ago) link
eve has a touch of would smash IMO
― the Rob Based god (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:05 (fourteen years ago) link
It's a 90s poll - you're lucky it isn't THE QUICKENING.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 7 May 2010 20:09 (fourteen years ago) link
almost changed it to THE BITCHENING, but so far there hasnt been so much of that
― Samhain 69 (jjjusten), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:10 (fourteen years ago) link
top ten should bring it out tho i imagine
― Samhain 69 (jjjusten), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:11 (fourteen years ago) link
THE ROCKENING
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:11 (fourteen years ago) link
make it CONGRATULATIONS, RADIOHEAD
― it means "EMOTIONAL"! (HI DERE), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:12 (fourteen years ago) link
hmmmmm
― Samhain 69 (jjjusten), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Can someone post a link to the original list thread?
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Friday, 7 May 2010 20:13 (fourteen years ago) link
the cardiacs are still to place
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:13 (fourteen years ago) link