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

Can we something else than "art rock" next, please?

well I dig the Boredoms at least. altho two in the top 10 seems kinda overkill

We can, actually xp

Shakey, it might be a TAD overkill but not many people voted for both!

lol Tuomas the Boredoms are totally dance-y/trance-y especially the period nominated here. bears little to no resemblance to rock (well, krautrock maybe)

^^^otm

Biggest jump of the entire poll between 4 and 3 btw

dunno where that cover image comes from though.

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:t0bXE4Si5s4DOM:http://www.albumoftheyear.org/album/covers/vision-creation-newsun.jpg

I think Tuomas doesn't like any kind of the many subgenres of rock. Except maybe for a tiny bit of 70s funk rock.

Shakey, it might be a TAD overkill but not many people voted for both!

― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Friday, May 7, 2010 10:37 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

woah what if Tad had joined Overkill....think about it.

plaxico made it special just for this here poll. xxp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk4daEiXlE8&feature=related

I dunno, seems like the kinda thing Tuomas would have an affinity for to me

lol Tuomas the Boredoms are totally dance-y/trance-y especially the period nominated here. bears little to no resemblance to rock (well, krautrock maybe)

Okay, since I've never heard any Boredoms, I searched them on Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sPxde77NRE

This certainly sounds like "art rock" to me. And if you actually want to dance to this sort of squeaky noise, good luck to you! Just because it has a semi-steady beat doesn't make it dancey.

(x-post)

r u this boring to go clubbing w/ u dull pedant

People dance to all sorts of music, Tuomas. I'm sick of "dance" music having a monopoly on the name.

I dunno man it seems much more of a piece with the world of techno and dance music than rock to me. it has no guitars. it has no rock rhythms. it has no blues influence, no lyrics/vocals, no formal song structures. I mean what about this is "rock" in any way.

Sure, you can dance to metal or whatever, but I wouldn't call it "dancey".

altho the track you posted is one of the more abrasive ones. Aphex Twin is pretty fucking abrasive tho

xp

http://www.jezebelmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/image/MastersAtWork_TheEssential%20KenLou%20House%20Mixes.jpg

this is all getting a bit geir-like

3 The Breeders - Last Splash (1993)
196 points
7 votes
1 first-place vote
Greatest contributor: Fetchboy

http://onealbumaday.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/the-breeders-last-splash-album-cover.jpg

Too great an album for too many reasons.

I just thought I'd share some love for one of my favourites with all you.

― JesusMaryChain, Sunday, 15 February 2004 21:34 (6 years ago)

I wholly concur with the NME's assessment (from back in the day): "After a few beers, the Breeders are the best band in the world".

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 15 February 2004 23:59 (6 years ago)

i love this album so much... so left-handed, so half-finished, so off the cuff.

― stevie (stevie), Monday, 16 February 2004 16:46 (6 years ago)

every fucking song on this is monstrous.

EVERY FUCKING SONG

― Surmounter, Thursday, 20 September 2007 15:46 (2 years ago)

I think this album as a whole is my favorite female vocal performance, bar none.

― Granny Dainger, Friday, 21 September 2007 06:17 (2 years ago)

damn this is a good album

― stet, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 14:34 (1 year ago)

really it's a pretty much perfect album.

― verhexen, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 16:20 (1 year ago)

Check check check oooooh oooooooh
A oooooh ooooh, a oooooh oooooh, a
oooooh ooooooooh, a ooooooh ooooooh

- a hoy hoy

voted VCN, but...

I think VCN 'climaxes' at points too, but it's a more subtle climax. A female orgasm to Phish's male one, perhaps?

― Keith C (kcraw916), Thursday, 2 June 2005 15:05 (4 years ago)

YUCK can someone please tell me how to unread this comment...

v surprised two boredoms and autechre. i didn't vote for SR7 or amber.

HAPPY NOW, SHAKEY MO

altho the track you posted is one of the more abrasive ones. Aphex Twin is pretty fucking abrasive tho

Yeah, I pretty much hate all the people who do abrasive electronic music (Aphex included), because to me it sounds like electronic music made for metalheads or rock fans. Whereas the sort of electronic dance music I most love has its roots in disco/funk - it's all about the basslines, the hips. You can't dance to this Boredoms stuff with you hips - it's pogo music, moshing music, no sensuality. There's no sex in it.

I think VCN 'climaxes' at points too, but it's a more subtle climax. A female orgasm to Phish's male one, perhaps?

― Keith C (kcraw916), Thursday, 2 June 2005 15:05 (4 years ago)

ANYWAY LOOK IT'S THE BREEDERS

THEY DID QUITE WELL DIDN'T THEY

Flipped a coin, decided not to do a Mouse on Mars gag.

I guess it depends on why you buy records. I typically don't dance at home (or at clubs either, for that matter... but I get why people do). I listen to musicians doing musical things. Not saying dance music architects aren't musicians, but the clubby stuff Tuomas tends to prefer doesn't lend itself easily to enjoyment for its own sake outside of a club setting... and that's probably why it doesn't show up in many ALBUM polls.

i really hope aphex twin is #1 lol
xposts

Ah, but that's the reason why I think Autoditacker was their finest hour - when they embraced that abrasive IDM/drill'n'bass sound, they went sour.

(x-post to Noodle)

I think there should be a 90s SINGLES poll before a 2000-09/2004-09 poll

but the clubby stuff Tuomas tends to prefer doesn't lend itself easily to enjoyment for its own sake outside of a club setting... and that's probably why it doesn't show up in many ALBUM polls.

Eh? I know loads of people who listen to that sort of stuff at home too (including myself). If you love dance music, you don't want to listen to it only at clubs.

I think most Trance is within a rizla of having fuck all to do with disco or funk btw

HEY LOOK THE BREEDERS CAME THIRD

The problem with these huge theoretical edifices people construct to delimit their own personal taste is that the things end up being more hole than structure.

TBH LJ the Breeders fill me with shrug

I haven't even heard The Breeders, lol

Trance is not my favourite music to dance to, it's true. I think the stereotypical galloping trance bass makes it hard to move your hips to it.

i like the breeders

I haven't even heard The Breeders, lol

Me neither. Are they an indie band or something?

I love The Breeders, Pod more than Last Splash, so good job voters!!

HAPPY NOW, SHAKEY MO

haha actually yes - the Breeders album was def. overplayed/omnipresent for awhile and I probably didn't listen to it once in 00s as a result. but went back to it earlier this year and was just... damn, what a brilliant, summer-y record. fun all the way through, great hooks.

Just bafflingly generic imo, which is not a criticism really so much as a "hey this could be whatever album you were listening to when you were first going to clubs and getting your shag on"

Ah! Plaxico! Just the man I wanted to see.

Tuomas, they're an indie rock band, yeah, but they're all women so you'll probably like them

Shakey, I found you praising the band in my quotesearch so I had a fair idea you'd appreciate this show of consensus!

Well played sir

Eh? I know loads of people who listen to that sort of stuff at home too (including myself). If you love dance music, you don't want to listen to it only at clubs.

Some dance music works fine removed from a club setting, and that's why I'm into a bunch of disco from the late '70s/early '80s. But some doesn't, and I honestly thought that was/is the kind of stuff you were complaining about not being here. If not, let's hi-five and have a cocktail.

it's pogo music, moshing music, no sensuality. There's no sex in it.

this is just wrong

I guess I should be thankful to have never slept with ya lolz

yeah, getting told you're doing it wrong every 30 seconds probly kills the mood

"this is pogo shagging, moshing nobbing, no sensuality."

lol @ brits mystified by amerindie

I'm not mystified as such Rev. I've been thinking for a while about interchangeable genre music, which is actually a thing I'm very fond of, but I'm not totally clear about articulating why yet. I guess it's more a "why this record/band and not this (apparently near-identical) record/band?"