Acclaimed Music Top 30 Albums from 1998 poll

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