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

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

LOL! I love the way the award was named.

You got Dirty Boces, boy.

I was honestly not being disparaging about the Breeders btw - I'm properly interested in what people feel is so special about the album. I think why I don't get it is because it's too open or something - I think I need some density or opacity in indie poppy stuff to maintain my interest.

Wait, I love Last Splash and like the Prodigy (though maybe not post-Last Splash) and had no idea about a sampling connection, what where?

Not quite sure what you mean by dense/opaque but I'm pretty sure the tracks Drugs A. Money just mentioned have some of that, but oh well, I really don't know what it would sound like to me without the 16-year patina of nostalgia, so maybe I can't really expect you to like it without that

top poll, LJ. kudos!

ty! next award coming in a sec...

Congratulations Tuomas on finding the one really difficult to stomach song on the album (though I think even that song is okay some of the time once you get past the intro).

Every Winner Loses Award For Fallen First-Place Votes

808 State - Don Solaris (15 points, Paul In Santa Cruz' first-place vote)
http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:4rvmAxNwIRU33M:http://thumbs.ebaystatic.com/pict/270464381130_0.jpg

Air Liquide - Nephology (18 points, Tuomas' first-place vote)
http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:kZgswo5Pl9SlwM:http://www.discogs.com/image/R-150-13930-001.jpg

Shellac – Terraform (21 points, Matt H3lgeson's first-place vote)
http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:Dng3qCsXVq5FaM:http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/64s/27647627.jpg

dEUS - In A Bar, Under The Sea (25 points, seandalai's first-place vote)
http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:HFNnfmSnS55VFM:http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41M8H2H2D7L._SL75_SS50_.jpg

BIG AUDIO DYNAMITE II -- The Globe (20 points, eephus!'s first-place vote)
http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:TmjcXbZ8lcmwgM:http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/64s/32135533.jpg

The Geraldine Fibbers - Lost Somewhere Between The Earth And My Home (11 points, some dude's first-place vote)
http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:n-8s-xhY-qdQ6M:http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41JZ0RQZXPL._SL75_SS50_.jpg

Steven Jesse Bernstein - Prison (21 points, Derelict's first-place vote)
http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:-uwpet4dblFi2M:http://i43.tower.com/images/mm106420075/prison-steven-jesse-bernstein-cd-cover-art.jpg

The Telescopes - The Telescopes (26 points, emil.y's first-place vote)
http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:XMWKeoHfbuE4gM:http://www.discogs.com/image/R-50-380857-1112352703.jpg

Sparks - Gratuitous Sax & Senseless Violins (21 points, Jesse's first-place vote)
http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:nJlsWV8v47tNVM:http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/518DEWENDNL._SL75_SS50_.jpg

(there's more...)

I totally forgot about the Steven Jesse Bernstein! Love that album. Should have thrown it some points.

haha my #1 album is gonna be 2 points, right?

Stars Of The Lid - The Ballasted Orchestra (20 points, 2 votes, a passing spacecadet's first-place vote)
http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:8xQ25Pl9pP-ZcM:http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/64s/41228715.png

Leftfield - Leftism (11 points, 3 votes, pfunkboy's first-place vote)
http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ojvVhQp511KrlM:http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51%252B4LNG2j1L._SL75_SS50_.jpg

Swans - White Light From The Mouth Of Infinity (10 points, 2 votes, ilxor's first-place vote)
http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:3RgyPUsgvEwZSM:http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/64s/41867787.png

I cant believe only 3 people voted for Leftism

Matt H3lg3s0n award for persistent regret goes to

US MAPLE - TALKER

http://www.indierockfan.net/images/29703f.jpg

I originally had a four-way tie at the top of mine until I saw I wasn't allowed. NOT SO FREEFORM POLL, HUH?

Tough Shit Award For Missing Out On The Top 100 By Number Of Votes Cast goes to

Current 93 - All The Pretty Little Horses (31 points, 2 votes)

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_F44U5JXOP0Q/R8O4WZ9dxRI/AAAAAAAAAFA/9_Ygi0zvov4/s320/All_The_Pretty_Little_Horses_(Theinmostlight)_1996.jpg

look at her, she can't believe it

diddums

Tough Shit Award For Missing Out On The Top 100 By Number Of Votes Cast goes to

Current 93 - All The Pretty Little Horses (31 points, 2 votes)

FUCKING GODDAMNIT WHY DID I NOT VOTE

btw lj i just listened to that first cardiacs thing you listed and uh

uhoh

looooooool

it's a bit intense, huh

sounds like the drummer for the soup dragons backing up a half-assed sparks cover band with the horn section from a midwestern ska band, occasionally joined by a really mediocre kate bush impersonator.

sorry