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

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"

Euler i voted for the Uncle Tupelo album too, but im not from texas, nor am I from the USA, but that album is great (also voted No Depression)

I don't want to suddenly see all the 'big' missed albums and know what's missing in advance :(

9 and 8 are both double-albums of vaguely 'indie' rock from the mid-late 90's with 4 votes and 2 first-place votes. difference is that 8 is the greatest album of all time ever

XD

8 Cardiacs - Sing To God (1996)
137 points
4 votes
2 first-place votes (other: acoleuthic)
Greatest contributor: davek

http://geordierussell.instone.net/Jukebox/Img/C/Cardiacs%20-%20Sing%20To%20God.jpg

Long, sprawling alt-prog masterpiece that takes years to chew through.

― everything (everything), Friday, 3 November 2006 18:29 (3 years ago)

One of the best bands I've ever heard, of course.

― Davek (davek_00), Saturday, 13 March 2010 13:50 (1 month ago)

cardiacs = complete classic.

― m the g (mister the guanoman), Friday, 2 February 2007 16:58 (3 years ago)

Repulsively dud. Idiotic prog-wacky for the lower sixth.

― Dr. C, Wednesday, 9 May 2001 01:00 (8 years ago)

Your music collection sucks without _Sings to God_ .

― dagasque, Saturday, 4 May 2002 01:00 (8 years ago)

"Dirty Boy" is such an amazing song. That youtube, with all the lights, those people must have been seeing stars afterwards

― Dominique (dleone), Friday, 2 February 2007 18:46 (3 years ago)

I met Tim Smith at the first Authority gig! I could only blab about how STG and Guns were two of my favouritest albums. Didn't have the courage to ask about new recordings. This news, however, is excellent! I may have to catch them before it's too late.

I'm honestly astounded by the lack of Cardiacs awareness on ILX. People, this. Is. As. Good. As. It. Gets.

― Just got offed, Thursday, 2 August 2007 21:57 (2 years ago)

hahahahaha

I realised while looking for quotes that I haven't really talked ABOUT this album much on ILX. I might start now.

Repulsively dud. Idiotic prog-wacky for the lower sixth.

― Dr. C, Wednesday, 9 May 2001 01:00 (8 years ago)

OTM (sorry).

I gotta say louis, everything about that album sounds/looks terrible to me

What a result!

If I had this for longer than a week when I sent my votes in this could have been a lot closer to number 1.

This is where shit gets real and about 95% of otherwise enlightened music-lovers shove their fingers in their ears and run screaming. I can only surmise that the album is just too fucking much. It's not so much an exuberant puppy as an army of sugar-fixated baby kangaroos all trying to jump into your arms at the same time during the most colossal rainstorm imaginable, although for some reason the sun is shining brightly and your brain is being rewired by the greatest genius to compose in the rock format that ever lived. Cardiacs' melodies, production, chord-sequences...they're not better. They're level-up.

#7?

thanks for making me never, ever want to hear Cardiacs

I mean, if you're someone who likes to chill out with their music, avoid. If you're someone who just wants more, and more, and more, and to have every imaginable square micrometer of their cochlea scoured by some new sound, ferocious idea or dazzling conceit; if you're someone who wants music to hurtle faster and faster into a blur of sound, sense and wonder; if you crave intensity, then get fucking hold.

Dan, I think you'd like some of their stuff! Mike Patton is an ENORMOUS fan, and can often be found in a Cardiacs T-shirt

I just listened to "Dirty Bird" to see if it was the song I remembered - it was. I remembered it sounding like a hybrid of Midnight Oil and Queen, and I still think that. Two things I may like but never, ever, want together.

Let the people decide.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdeJD0L3GvM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP6nEQyP6uA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFliGc1D_EU

This is my favourite song ever. Take it or violently throw it out of the window:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-dd4fMUhAY

(second of those isn't STG, whoops...but listen to it anyway. after the others.)

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

um is it all like this? this is garbage

so firing up "Dirty Boy" at the moment and it isn't so much cochlea-scouring intensity as it is boring, anonymous guitar rock with a horribly annoying singer

maybe it gets better after the first minute

actually I guess I would describe this as "Placebo covering Oasis"

Whole album's on Youtube.

NO SHAKEY IT IS NOT LIKE THAT - that is when they were VERY young and hadn't really developed anything except their wackiness. They grew up fast.

Even *I* don't like the really early stuff much

Even *I* don't like the really early stuff much

― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Friday, May 7, 2010 8:41 PM (4 seconds ago)

Which album do you think they became great on?