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

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?"

cause it has "cannonball" on it which was kind of a bfd

I think the breeders are ok. Rev amerindie is prob the genre i know most about!

We had "Cannonball" over here too, every week in our local indie/Goth club for months and months and months. But really, now? I think I just get v. done with a lot of stuff.

thought u were the metal/funk dude xp

NUMBER 2 COMING UP

ARE YOU READY

aw man i woulda voted for that boredoms if i'd known it was eligible. Add 1 point folks!

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname)

ditto.

AAAAAAARE YOOOOOOOOU REEEEEEEADY

2 Space Jam OST (1996)
199 points
1 vote
1 first-place vote
Contributor: plax(ico)

http://img.maniadb.com/images/album/119/119383_f_2.jpg

DO WE NEED A SPACE JAM SOUNDTRACK POLL?

― Jordan Sargent, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 04:14 (2 years ago)

answer: NO

― Curt1s Stephens, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 04:15 (2 years ago)

most important album ever

― billstevejim, Wednesday, 8 April 2009 18:13 (1 year ago)

When I was 10 this was the greatest album of all time.

― Plaxico (I know, right?), Wednesday, 8 April 2009 18:02 (1 year ago)

Quad City DJ's - Space Jam

I lost count of the number of times I made my parents rewind the tape to hear this again.

― HOOS talking about magic & spells & steen dude! (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver)

album ruled my childhood

― David Katz (davek_00), Saturday, 27 February 2010 18:33 (2 months ago)

this was my shit when i was 11.

― 80085 (a hoy hoy), Saturday, 27 February 2010 18:07 (2 months ago)

I love how this album is a sort of rallying point for Young ILM.

― Cunga, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 02:49 (1 year ago)

I can't believe you idiots actualy like "I Believe I Can Fly."

― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 02:43 (1 year ago)

I have no problem with this one.

HAHAHAHA

loooooooool

okay that was better than i anticipated

And I love "I Believe I Can Fly".

i had one for this too btw

http://i386.photobucket.com/albums/oo305/lejospopo/OST.jpg

the SOUND of the Breeders record is great. acoustic guitars with a layer of fuzz and double-tracked female vox and a thumping drummer. the songs are also constructed in a disarmingly off-kilter way, they stutter and veer in strange directions, but still have these big, classic pop hooks albeit often undercut with layers of noise. in context, it represented the intersection of American underground punk with a more normative mainstream pop world, like a femme version of Nirvana, with the angst replaced with jokes and drunken abandon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_l4ZOVJ-ts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P7dGi4ClCk

xp

LOL TIARNAN XD

and then this Ed's Redeeming Qualities cover (which excises some of the creepier/more nuanced verses but is still great)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgHw4cPZj2M

Okay, so the winner is gonna be something no one's ever heard of that was given 200 points by a lurker, right?

I remember the summer this came out so well. I remember that there was a massive basketball craze sweeping the nation, and even though I couldn't play for shit, I still knew names of loads of NBA players for some reason (I don't know how we acquired this knowledge, its not like NBA was on television here or anything), but it seemed like the longest summer ever and we would go and cycle our bikes around the school and somebody would always have a cassette of this (I think I lost mine, at least my sister stole it enough times) I Believe I can Fly is obviously the best thing on it. I remember before I bought the soundtrack, my friend had the single and we would play it on his playstation (lol) and I made a cassette copy of it, but it skipped all the bombastic clarinet stuff and landed right on the first kick drum. Still, we would dance to the Space Jam and Hit 'em High and this whole album makes me think of being 10 and being way too hopped up on Mister Freeze's./Livejournal

So yeah, I Believe I Can Fly.

― Plaxico (I know, right?), Tuesday, April 14, 2009 9:44 AM (1 year ago)