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

No comments on Whiney, people? Or is that a no-go area. Just curious is all.

I don't really enjoy Radiohead these days, but Kid A is a perfectly passable album and I get why people are really into it. Just can't bear it being kept off top spots by the 00s real champion: Discovery!The Wraith: Shangri-La!

― Davek (davek_00), Saturday, 8 May 2010 17:58 (39 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

davek- i assume we all cacked out on talking about sb and will welcome whiney back in time for amazon to hopefully have sent me his nations of millions book already.

What is the Wraith - Shangri-La. Is that what you guys were chatting about cryptically on the other thread? Might I like it?

Seriously I wonder what an ILM no 1 for the 00s would be. It will be interesting. I agree we should wait a little before polling. At least give the 05-09 some space.

I need to start working on my Ulver hustings

sorry, lolicp references that don't directly ref fukkin magnets seem to go over ppls heads still.

3. stankonia
2. discovery
1. kid a

calling it now, 2000 will beat every other year.

is Stankonia really that good? i.e. will I like it? haha

1. yes, it really is
2. well do you like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=888o1-yi_yk because if you dont then you are geir

Stankonia is uneven, like all Outkast post Atliens, but some absolutely killer moments. Do you like Parliament/Funkadelic or Prince? That's a good litmus test.

Humble Mumble came up on shuffle as I was walking into uni yesterday and I felt like breakdancing down the street.

B.O.B. is jawdropping. Brothers Gonna Work It Out by Public Enemy pt. 2.

Certain that the guitar solo in the outkast song about midway through is a direct homage.

It seems like the proggiest rap album ever made? I mean this in an ott, colourful, anything goes (even in the same song you could end up w/ like 30 different elements working seemlessly) kinda way w/ solos and shit. So yeah maybe P-Funk more than prog...

(I said Stank not because it is awes tho but because bob won the pitchfork singles poll and that'll make it easier for indie boys to put in w/ their wilco or whatever.)

DefJux = probably Rap's equivalent of Prog.

Seriously two genres of music that haven't been hybridised yet: rap + prog. Although, did you guys catch that Pink Floyd (doubtful prog credentials and all) rap beats album?

i said mainstream! oh wait no i didn't. i meant to. proggiest mainstream rap album.

No. How fucking horrible was it like every other [classic rock act] + [no name beat maker wants to be written up in Q/Mojo] album?

See for yourself. Pretty amusing/entertaining (if not *good*) actually:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66ooR_0oWd4&feature=player_embedded

Chipmunk soul Clare Tory!

I don't listen to PF these days but I always loved this song. The chord sequence is so so lovely.

Have definitely been getting into Def Jux/Edan/cLOUDDEAD much, MUCH more readily than mainstream hip-hop :/

(Currently compiling noms for 05-09 thread, sorry to have missed all this - will rescreen BOB in a jiffy...)

I do like Prince, fwiw

Spotify playlist (MANY omissions, but better than nothing)

weird i coulda swore i voted for rae, oh well, made it high anyway...
in retrospect i would have put more than like 10 mins into my ballot

but...

GREAT POLL

kudos, lj. really fun thread IMO

and

i can't think of another poll in ILX history that's had me excited to check out more albums that i have never heard

On my short-list to check out (all albums I haven't heard yet, for one reason or another):

12 **Oval - 94 Diskont – 122
19 *****the notorious b.i.g. - life after death 87
38 *Pole - 1 60 (TIED)
92 ***pharcyde - bizarre ride II the pharycde 33 (TIED)
98 *Woodface - Crowded House – 32 (TIED)

Repurchased for $2.99, haven't listened since high school era:

29 ***Jane's Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual – 72

i can't think of another poll in ILX history that's had me excited to check out more albums that i have never heard

thanks!!! not to blow my own trumpet but you guys have given me plenty to listen to as well. the poll's entire premise is that the 90's were freaking awesome (like, more so than you might think if you idly mused on 'the 90's' as a musical decade) and it's lived up to that premise with honours

Yeah. Definitely my fav music poll so far on ilx. Great job. The miscalculations only made it better.

the miscalculations cancelled each other out in the end tbh

this is without a doubt my favorite of all the ILX results threads. nobody was complaining, and these albums are sick.

might do some additional analysis in a bit

'most Greatest Contributor:'

'most pulled quotes' (this will be won by H3lgeson)

etc

Yeah, brilliant work lj. I'm more of a consensus effort man myself than one for the crazily all-over-the-place rundown, but this was every bit as much fun - and your #2 gave me the best laugh ever, when I realised it was for real.

One thing I think it really shows is how important it is that people actually get the fingers out and vote in these things. Each one really does make a difference, y'know?

nobody was complaining

*coughOMGCANUBELIEVETHEREWASNOTENOUGHELECTRONICMUSICcough*

there was more tuomas-friendly music than in every other ilx decade poll combined

and yeah another point was to make it that every single ballot made a big difference!

TS: Geir complaining about lack of Geir-friendly music vs. Tuomas complaining about lack of Tuomas-friendly music.

Lots to chew on LJ, good work, still gutted that I missed the boat, loving the Shiina Ringo ending too!

there was more tuomas-friendly music than in every other ilx decade poll combined

Er, you might do well to check the original 90s polls - that was when ILX tastes and my tastes converged the most. My complaint wasn't about the lack of electronic music per se (as this poll had many fine electronic albums), I was just wondering why there was so little dance music in this poll, even though it was represented quite well in the OG poll. IMO the 90s were the best decade ever for dance music, and I felt like ILM has kinda changed in its appreciation of 90s dance between 2004 and 2010. (And like I mentioned, this is probably due to ILX becoming more dominated by Americans, who were less exposed to dance music in the 90s than Europeans.)

But I still expect the alternate 90s tracks poll to have plenty of dance - otherwise I might just loose my faith in ILM.

what are your favourite 10 dance albums of the 90's tuomas, i would like to hear them

or at least hear what they are. then i might listen to some of them.

*coughOMGCANUBELIEVETHEREWASNOTENOUGHELECTRONICMUSICcough*

hahahhaha well, there was way less complaining than usual.. I wasn't bothered by it. And all the best electronic albums were already included in the previous 90's poll (3 underworld albums!)

I don't know if these are the ten BEST, but here are ten good ones:

T-99: Children of Chaos
The Prodigy: Experience
Eon: Void Dweller
Bizarre Inc: Energique
Altern8: Full On... Mask Hysteria
The Shamen: En-Tact
Speed Limit 140+ BPM Vol 3: The Joint
Best of Techno Volume 3
Kaos Theory 2
XL Recordings: The Third Chapter - Breakbeat House

also yeah, Underworld's Beaucoup Fish and the Fluke album with "Atom Bomb" and "Absurd" on it and the Chemical Brothers albums and the Moby albums etc etc etc

n.b. I was bang into The Prodigy as a wee youth, and also The Chemical Brothers, so I'd not be remotely averse to scratching deeper

In that vein, I dig Propellerheads a lot. There's also pre-Discovery Daft Punk (ie, when they were still awesome French house music), Remedy by Basement Jaxx, all those demented Interactive singles (search for "Elevator Up and Down" and "Dildo"), 2 Unlimited (no really! esp. "Twilight Zone" and "Tribal Dance"), early Lords of Acid ("Darling come heeeere....") and the acts related to them (Praga Khan, MNO, Digital Orgasm, Channel X, Jade 4 U, Phantasia, etc)

Most of them were already mentioned in my ballot, but here's a tentative top 10:

Paperclip People – The Secret Tapes of Dr. Eich
Hardfloor – The Best of Hardfloor
Marusha – Raveland
Ultramarine – Every Man and Woman Is a Star
Hell – Munich Machine
Innerzone Orchestra – Programmed
Omni Trio – Haunted Science
4 Hero - Parallel Universe
Khan & Walker - Radiowaves
Syrinx 2600 - Docking -20s

Out of these, you might enjoy Munich Machine, Programmed, Radiowaves, Docking -20s. You probably won't like Raveland nor Parallel Universe. The rest, I have no idea.

(x-post to Louis)