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

For a couple years, BTNH were pretty much THE biggest rap group in my area.

guys guys not every album in this poll can be hip-hop

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.

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!

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.

first Cypress Hill album is amazing fuiud

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!

haha!

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

rev's seattle

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

totally never cared about autechre sorry guys

I posted one of those tricks to the thread

oh right i already forgot about 10

i can doublehaha if i want, esp if i'm not thinking straight due to fucked-up sleep patterns

anyway folks it's time to give indie-rock some sweet lovin'!!

9 Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West
134 points
4 votes
2 first-place votes (other: Parenthetical Grillz)
Greatest contributor: monster_xero

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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)

Modest Mouse = gtfo

memories of when this band didnt fucking suck so goddamn much.

Another of my votes!

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

still though, 2 first-place votes!

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.

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

"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.

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

Ctrl-s "I really like" and yer all set!

jk dude

jj can you plz add 'TOP TEN COUNTING DOWN NOW' to the thread-title? :)

instead of 'THE RECKONING'

no.

also sorry but i think eve is just terrible

shes like trina without the touch of class

okay that is unfair

eve has a touch of would smash IMO

instead of 'THE RECKONING'

It's a 90s poll - you're lucky it isn't THE QUICKENING.

almost changed it to THE BITCHENING, but so far there hasnt been so much of that

top ten should bring it out tho i imagine

THE ROCKENING

make it CONGRATULATIONS, RADIOHEAD

hmmmmm

Can someone post a link to the original list thread?

the cardiacs are still to place

THE 1990s POLL RESULTS - THE ALBUMS

Pablo Honey winning this would make me lol so fucking hard

lol

I ought to say something about Anodyne which I gave 100 points lol (didn't think hard about the album). I feel pretty far away from that album right now as it's pretty grounded in the USA, esp. Texas & the midwest, for me, and I am not right now. But it meant the world to me when I was twenty & pretty much defined my listening until the end of the century. The song that means the most to me today is "Fifteen Keys", a weird punky country blues that I once dreamed about playing at a Good Friday service: that kinda song. "Been there, no luck at all, nothing left to lose / I been there": the last bit is the churchy part. The dobro playing is killer: it moans, it's really the heart of the song. And fuck it: sometimes you just want to leave: "exhaust fumes, Thin Lizzy instead". I don't know, the song is still pretty mysterious to me, and I've probably listened to it several hundred times.

It's going to be the Reality Bites soundtrack, isn't it?

be here now winning would be even better

fuck, that should read "didn't think hard about the poll"