Acclaimed Music Top 30 Albums from 1998 poll

I hated it at first but somehow grew to really love it. I think it was that the melody of "Two-Headed Boy" kept sticking in my head even though I hated Mangum's voice originally and I'd go back to listen to it despite his voice. I think I started to appreciate his voice better when someone pointed out that he generally managed to keep his pitch pretty accurate no matter how loud and strained he got in his upper register or how long he held some of those notes.

In an Aeroplane... is the most wretchedly awful record I try to listen to every time I see all the love for it. I think I've never made it past the first two tracks so it might get better afterwards but I somehow doubt it.

― Hamsters of Misfortune (ultros ultros-ghali), Monday, August 24, 2015 1:46 PM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I've heard it in full a couple of times and, truth be told, I don't see what all the fuss is about. It strikes me as being one of those hipster totems that people put on a pedestal to such a ridiculous degree and froth at the mouth over, yet whenever I hear it it's like "really, folks? this is what you're getting in a lather about?"

I still haven't voted, but that's because I'm torn between The Three EPs and Mutations. Go with the latter as the former isn't really an album…nah, go with the former as it's really & truly incredible

I DON'T KNOW

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

LOL hipsters.

was not expecting a landslide, wow.

haha negative campaigning always backfires in ilm polls

I was pretty much expecting a landslide. Whattayagonnado.

Glad to see there are four other people on the TNT train!

Only 2 for Pulp is a bit surprising. I figured that was a contender.

Jeez people really like this garbage don't they

voted Mutations in the end (his best imo) but if I'd voted T3EPs they'd have both gotten the saaaaame. aw

my feelings on NMH are that hey it's ok, the second half is actually kinda great (well, Ghost->Untitled is, the whole album shd have been like that) but i will never rly choose to hear it

Wow, I have never heard that NMH album. Maybe I should.

Wah way lower showing for MA than I would've guessed.

I can't get through the first song of NMH, it's quite antithetical to my taste in music.

I was thinking the same thing about Massive Attack. I definitely expected it to be in the top five.

I am listening to In the Aeroplane for the first time right now. Holy shit this guy's voice is annoying.

That's kinda the essential "first listen" experience with that album. I remember really raising my friends' hackles by just dismissing it out of hand, on that basis, from like sophomore year of college through graduation or something. Then suddenly it clicked. It never became a deep album at the core of my heart, and I never sat down and listened to it as a Concept Album (like, paying attention to and processing all the Holocaust material) but I think it's really solid and it's amazing how often "King of Carrot Flowers, Pt. 1" gets stuck in my head now. It's really sad and honest in remembering and honoring the beautiful moments of youthful intimacy right in the thick of wretched circumstances.

I don't honestly know how much time I would've given Aeroplane if NMH hadn't previously accrued massive goodwill from me for their amazing live show. But NMH were my gateway into Elephant 6, which yielded a lot of my favorite music from the late '90s, so they'll always be swell on that tip.

xp I get those opening 'Chang Chang Chang chakachaka Chang Chang' chords stuck in my head all the time

I just realized that Zeek Sheck's Good Luck, Suckers was a 1998 release. Maybe not my top pick but way up there.

for me it is The Boo Radleys Kingsize that is my favorite release from the year.

btw, 1999 won't be coming tonight as i'm taking the week off. it will come out in a weeks time.

sad to see only one other vote for Hello Nasty. That was such an important album for me and my friends. We'd only discovered how amazing the Beastie Boys were the year before and we were so psyched for it. Bought it the day it came out and just rinsed it to death. It's a really fun album - some days my favourite by them.

The Beasties were really fun...I miss 'em. One of a kind.

I don't honestly know how much time I would've given Aeroplane if NMH hadn't previously accrued massive goodwill from me for their amazing live show. But NMH were my gateway into Elephant 6, which yielded a lot of my favorite music from the late '90s, so they'll always be swell on that tip.

― Herbie Mann's Push Push Pops (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 16:06 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I like Olivia Tremor Control a hell of a lot. By comparison, NMH always sounded painfully ordinary to me and nothing particularly special... just painfully ordinary music with a woeful singer.

Had my 1998 playlist on random - Royal Trux, Swervedriver, The Black Heart Procession, Unwound, Yungchen Lhamo, The Loud Family, Rachid Taha, Eels, Fugazi, Northwinds, Sunny Day Real Estate, Zeke, Ui, Hector Zazou, Leila, Sixteen Horsepower, Plush, Sloan, Baaba Maal, King Sunny Ade, Talvin Singh, Pere Ubu, Amon Tobin, Monster Magnet, Rocket from the Crypt, Mark Lanegan, Spoon, Colour Haze, The Daktaris, Shellac, Calexico, The Handsome Family, Orange Goblin. More fun hearing a lot of this for the first time in years than listening to the top ten poll winners!

Arto Lindsay covering Prince (it's from the previous year's album Mundo Civilizado, but Noon Chill is just as great): https://youtu.be/tVRze5vJxD8

Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea 19
This was a shit album. Polls = hell. People are better off not knowing what the hive mind thinks (and if you have the hive mind I envy and pity you). I blame pitchfork for encouraging this behavior

FFS, that message was supposed to be merely a precursor to a post I had about Arto Lindsay but I can't find the youtube I was looking for.
All hail Arto!

I'm now imagining an actual hive filled with the buzzing of hipsters.

is one of the bees crying in the corner

I don't think NMH winning is anything to do with people following each other but due to their awful taste.

Darn would have voted either Mark Hollis or Calexico. Poor Calexico...

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Possibly both?

it really only makes sense that In the Aeroplane Over the Sea walked in this poll. not for everyone, agreed but always laugh when people go to great lengths to criticize it and put people down who love it. for me, it's one of the best albums if not the best album from the 90's. albums like this has people putting album art on their bodies, not many albums can say that.

drunk so = fuck off haters!

http://c0.thejournal.ie/media/2013/01/tatt3-319x500.jpg

(I love No Jacket Required though)

lol

you have a point.

Looks like Darth Maul has fallen on hard times.

catching up on this thread and kinda bummed that a handful of dismissive anonymous internet dudes with much better taste in music than me have successfully overthrown my 17+ years of loving Aeroplane :(

I cannot get into Aeroplane as an album much at all but I cant be too mad it walked because "Holland 1945" is still one of my all-time favorite songs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAygQls6UNo