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

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoRoFAjT-W8

Lol, this is horrible!

I guess #2 and #1 prove both the positive and negative sides of doing a freeform poll like this.

Tuomas is really Tuomasing it this week.

I'd say success! The bottom half especially, although there were some great triumphs in the top portion.

If 2 and 1 had been swapped this would have been the greatest poll ever, obv

poll was a massive success imo

Anyway "There's A Vomitsprinkler In My Liverriver" was robbed, dudes

but seriously, will probably think of 20 things I actually expected to place and be all ;_; in a minute, but this has been fun

I quite like the Shiina Ringo that I have heard, but I don't think I've heard a full album and wasn't that crazily blown away by it anyway, so... yeah. Better than some boring-ass canonical album at number 1, anyway.

I seriously never expected to be the only voter to give 200 points to one album. I didn't think you'd all be following the categorical imperative. I also didn't think of it as trolling as I really do like this album more than any other I can think of from the 90s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua6kbqRCN1M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxUBfFpB3ns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDGOVbnCG-w

It's sold around 1.5 million copies, so not obscure in Japan.

nah it's cool Rudipherous! as I say it's entirely appropriate for the poll to end this way - I didn't intend for it to be conventional

(Save the regrets until after the awards (although for me, people saying they'd have voted Levitate/wrong Hood album/Monsoon Bassoon near-miss were the painful ones))

Poll delivered what it set out to do imo

w/r/t The Breeders...Invisible Man & Divine Hammer are a couple of my favourite tracks on the album, a couple of my favourite songs of all time in fact, but as it goes they are great but fairly standard sludgy four-minute flannel-gaze pop songs...using those two songs as examples kind of justifies NV's disparagements; take away the Twin Power harmonies and those two cuts could fit in on a thousand other 90s albums...

Drivin on 9 is a better hint at the wide range of the album, but to really hear the off-kilter hooks you have to search through the weird interludes--Roi, Mad Lucas, No Aloha, Hag, both of the surf instrumentals (one of which wz sampled by The Prodigy, for all you tuechno lovers out there)--the big bfd single Cannonball of course had the best of both worlds!!!

Also the album kicks off with an amazing rush of a song called New Year

wheres the complete rundown of votes?

not yet, pfunkboy

Awards

Dirty Boces Award For Ungenerous Support goes to

Sonic Youth - Dirty (14 points, 5 votes)
http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:SGEw553M4MsEgM:http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/64s/8589807.jpg

Mercury Rev - Boces (14 points, 5 votes)
http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:VkTUpHsqduGOKM:http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/64s/32458105.jpg

was to be expected I guess but half-sincere joke votes still kinda lame imho