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

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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)

Wait is that the original version of basketball jones on there? Because that song rules.

bahahahahahahahahaahaa. what's gona be number 1, the TMNT 2 soundtrack?

tuomas is kind of a thing isn't he?

there's a corner of finland that is forever 1996

tiarnan og^10

(Shakey Mo, I'll give those a listen...)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIbp5C-5WXM

Got a couple of things on my list that I seriously expected to place, wondering if number 1 might just be one of them.

But more likely it's gonna be 200 points for some GBV shit or something

Pretty sure Basehead's not gonna make it now :(

hmm didn't realize that was a live version, this one's better

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

oh man I totally wish someone had thrown 200 pts to Basehead

plax u fucking hero XD

#1= http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/75/Rednex_Sex_And_Violins.jpg

Divine Hammer was nice and poppy, not mindblowing but very nice, CAN be transcendent to chill to I'd imagine, especially in the summer, in good company, outdoors

ditto The Invisible Man, euphoric innocent guitar-pop isn't something I'll hate on at all. They remind me a BIT of mid-period Catherine Wheel, which is a big compliment.

Yeah, nice!

Fake #1s, go wild. Although you won't top the real number 2.

Now I kinda wish I would've registered a fake account to give 200 points to this album:

http://img3.nnm.ru/a/b/9/e/8/ab9e8e9f45e0444e24fa052d3a924155_full.jpg

And it wouldn't have been a joke either. Didn't realize one vote can get you so far!

Why would you have needed a fake account? You could have used your regular account.

Yeah, but I didn't want to spenf all my points for one album. I did give Raveland some points though.

http://photo2.bababian.com/upload1/20091009/C5FF036B723EE4BF8102481A30C74B68.jpg

Only one person threw a 200-bomb in the end. It was highly irresponsible and entirely in keeping with the poll's spirit.

1 Shiina Ringo - Muzai Moratorium (1999)
200 points
1 vote
1 first-place vote
Contributor: Rudipherous (aka Rockist_Scientist)

http://spdhiro.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/shiina-ringo-muzai-moratorium.jpg

Meanwhile, I can't stop listening to Muzai Moratorium, which is making me smile more than anything I've heard for a while.

― Rockist Scientist, Monday, 5 March 2007 14:29 (3 years ago)

Her first album, Muzai Moritorium, had some good stuff but was a tad too Alanis Morissette-influenced.

― jdconsidine, Thursday, 17 March 2005 23:24 (5 years ago)

ET FIN

*cackles madly at incensed ILM posters*

lol, a thread I have never read

http://iamyouasheisme.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/whitenights.jpg

stupid royal trux

We can post our ballots now then?

Wait until I do my Awards

they're coming right up!

xpln plz

Bossanova missed the cut, then? That means I only went 1/9 on my ballot. ;_;

no problem

Any other info about the winning album other than it potentially sounds like Alanis Morissette?

It's J-pop with a bit of noise-rock. Quite eclectic, very obscure. I know nothing and Allmusic knows less. Here's your best bet: http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/%E6%A4%8E%E5%90%8D_%E6%9E%97%E6%AA%8E/%E7%84%A1%E7%BD%AA%E3%83%A2%E3%83%A9%E3%83%88%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%E3%83%A0__muzai_moratorium_/

NV I think the attractive thing abt that Breeders album which I also voted for is that you not only have quirky indie-disco dancefloor filler Cannonball but they touch on pretty much every other corner of the mid-90s female-vocals-indie - you've got yr shoegazey dash on New Year, wistful country rockin' violins on Drivin' On 9, grungey shades-at-night attitude on I Just Wanna Get Along, obligatory half-time kitschy surfish instrumental, etc - and all with a breezy hooks-everywhere style that was really not in evidence from, say, Veruca Salt or whoever else.

lolling xposts etc

Second review down is like Kogan to the power of 50 xp to self

guess ur poll was a massive failure/success

dunno if it's that obscure iirc i had an album of theirs but cannae remember anthing of it