y'know Tuomas if the guy revealing the results says OVER AND OVER that you should wait and see the whole list before jumping to conclusions about what the rest will look like, maybe you should.
― Nagl Vogue (some dude), Wednesday, 28 April 2010 12:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Looks like my ballot is 33% Germany, 30% USA, 25% UK, 3% Morocco, 3% Norway, 3% Japan, and 3% France. (I counted Björk's Debut as an UK album.) And 3% guitars.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 12:52 (fourteen years ago) link
It is sweet to think that DL is lighting up & reminiscing as we speak.
OG is 'original gangster' right? I really like it, is it just an ILX thing?
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 12:55 (fourteen years ago) link
No, it's an at least as far back as 80s Ice T thing.
― Sub/Doms Whipping Here (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 28 April 2010 12:58 (fourteen years ago) link
I think "OG" is originally LA street slang for an older, more established gangster who doesn't have to do stuff like stickups himself anymore, but instead he can get younger gangsters to do it for him.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 13:00 (fourteen years ago) link
But generally it just means someone who's older and been around longer.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 13:01 (fourteen years ago) link
20% British, 70% American, 10% Portuguese (including some dual residents of outre space). Whole lotta guitars - some loud, some not - even on the non-indie stuff.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 13:15 (fourteen years ago) link
I went for some sort of weird US/Germany/Japan/UK/Norway/Switzerland/New Zealand sandwich.
Good on you, Nick. This poll needs a Dead C album to turn up!
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Wednesday, 28 April 2010 13:39 (fourteen years ago) link
for my part, and i told louis this...
a couple of my rap votes got vetoed for placing on the actual poll (i didn't know that was a rule at first)
so...anyway the way i voted was basically i voted for the 90s as i listened to them THEN, not as i would now, if that makes sense.
i basically voted for the albums that i listened to the shit out of then.
tuomas:
it's so funny because i always associate your tastes in hip hop especially as being really stuck in the 90s, even more than mine so i think this whole line is pretty lol
― Shakey Ja Mocha (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 28 April 2010 14:30 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm not sure if I get you... My taste in rap is indeed pretty 90s-centric, but I wasn't saying anything about rap in this poll, just about the rock/electronic music ratio. I'm happy if there'll be more rap in here than in the previous poll.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 15:13 (fourteen years ago) link
i dunno....i guess i felt like this poll was supposed to be super quirky and personal and weird resultswise, like it's not supposed to be some "defining" thing at all, so who cares if there's not enough X genre in it
― Shakey Ja Mocha (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 28 April 2010 15:15 (fourteen years ago) link
there won't be so many today...i'm going out later + i have super-pressing work concerns :(
this will probably spill into next week, if that isn't too much of an issue
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 28 April 2010 15:16 (fourteen years ago) link
you savage
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 28 April 2010 15:17 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't think people should vote based on a quota for certain genres, but anyway, my ballot was 57% rock, 23% hip-hop, with the remaining 20% fairly evenly divided between jazz, electronic, classical, and other. Geographically, it was about 60% American, with the rest fairly evenly divided between UK, Scotland, New Zealand, Japan, Germany, and Sweden.
― o. nate, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 15:24 (fourteen years ago) link
UK, Scotland
― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 15:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Are they the same? I dunno. They seem distinct in my mind.
― o. nate, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 15:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Scotland is a part of the UK. If you want to differentiate between areas in the UK, you should've said England, Scotland.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 15:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, I guess I should have done that, but I'm not sure really which bands are English or Welsh, so I fudged it a bit by saying UK.
― o. nate, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 15:37 (fourteen years ago) link
I think Tuomas has a valid point. My votes are 66% American, 33% Canadian, and 90% guitar based. But that is an accurate reflection of what I was exposed to in the 90s.
― sofatruck, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 16:02 (fourteen years ago) link
69= Sun City Girls - Torch Of The Mystics (1990)39 points2 votes0 first-place votesGreatest contributor: NickB
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67= Sun City Girls - 330,003 Crossdressers From The Rig Veda40 points1 vote1 first-place voteContributor: Jon Lewis
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Sun City Girls' best albums (which for my money are the inevitable _Torch of the Mystics_, plus _330,003 Crossdressers from Beyond the Rig-Veda_ and the long-out-of-print _Live from Planet Boomerang_) are completely mindblowing, completely unpredictable, like nothing else around. Their worst (_Midnight Cowboys from Ipanema_, _Jacks Creek_) are completely unlistenable--like, so bad it's hard to imagine how they finished making them. Most of their stuff is somewhere in between. I love how unpredictable they are, but then again I buy a lot more records than most sensible people do.
― Douglas Wolk, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (8 years ago)
torch of the mystics is great but 330,003 crossdressers is far better although much harder to locate. it turns up on ebay now and then and usually brings $30. its worth it. the band's output is highly uneven, they are damnably prolific, and their oop stuff impossible to locate or way expensive if you can locate it. all this makes being an impoverished fan a risky proposition. but torch and crossdressers are incredible you cant go wrong scoring those.
― , Saturday, 16 February 2002 01:00 (8 years ago)
Best band of the last 25 years, imho.
― sleeve, Friday, 13 April 2007 22:12 (3 years ago)
330,003 crossdressers blows 'torch of the mystics' right out of the water, in my opinion. it's not as much a 'rock records' as 'torch,' of course.
― your null fame (yournullfame), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 03:16 (7 years ago)
Sun City Girls: Torch of the Mystics (1990)
Weird poll, but this is a bazillion star album AFAIC.
― Gunther von Hagen Daas (NickB), Tuesday, 6 October 2009 11:07 (6 months ago)
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 28 April 2010 16:02 (fourteen years ago) link
But I really look forward to discovering what I was missing out on.
― sofatruck, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 16:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah! I wish I had remembered about SCG. Torch of the Mystics would have definitely made my list.
― Captain Ahab, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 16:08 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^likewise.
― m the g, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 16:09 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah - there's so much stuff i never checked out although i was actively listening to music for almost the whole of the nineties (probably not as fiendish as in the 00s though). i wonder if were i to check out somethign like Sun City Girls, whom I've never knowingly heard, would i like it or would it sound too much of its day? This is interesting to me, because I wouldn't shirk from hearing some great lost 80s postpunk or hiphop record, but I'm more cautious of 90s stuff. Guess the 90s revival's yet to kick back in.
― village idiot (dog latin), Wednesday, 28 April 2010 16:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Also, seeing Rick Bishop play Esoterica in Abyssinia on acoustic was mindblowing.
― Captain Ahab, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 16:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Crossdressers is 1996, btw
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 28 April 2010 16:11 (fourteen years ago) link
I saw Sir Richard Bishop support Earth in Glasgow, it was the only electric set he played on the tour apparently, and it was mindblowing.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 28 April 2010 16:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Do it dog latin. It being from 1990 is almost irrelevant. It's simply an awesome record that from the first song onwards sounds familiarly foreign. It was one of those revelatory records for me anyway.
― Captain Ahab, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 16:15 (fourteen years ago) link
There's an even better Built To Spill album― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, April 27, 2010 3:30 PM (Yesterday)
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, April 27, 2010 3:30 PM (Yesterday)
wondering if you are thinking of the same one as me, which is perfect from now on. if so internet high 5s to u.
didnt vote in this, wish i had.
also tuomas shut the hell up
― Q: What's brown and Sticky? A: The insect that lives in your stomach (jjjusten), Wednesday, 28 April 2010 16:36 (fourteen years ago) link
aye, it is jj.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 28 April 2010 16:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Damn, only 3 votes for SCG. Torch of the Mystics is the most easily digestible and definitely the album for the unfamiliar imo.
― Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Farting in Space (NickB), Wednesday, 28 April 2010 16:38 (fourteen years ago) link
anyone who has even fleeting interest in BTS should listen to "I Would Hurt a Fly" which is like one of the best songs ever
― Q: What's brown and Sticky? A: The insect that lives in your stomach (jjjusten), Wednesday, 28 April 2010 16:39 (fourteen years ago) link
67= Pete Namlook - Air (1994)40 points1 vote0 first-place votesContributor: abanana
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Pete Namlook's early nineties albums had a lot of cool drones, but can't think of any off the top of my head.
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 17:26 (3 years ago)
I have control! I dominate!
Last 24 hours? A split between AMG reviewing work (early Green Day, Green River), Amnesiac and Hot Shots II in anticipation of the show tonight, and Pete Namlook's Air discs to relax in the evening yesterday. Fun fun.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 20 August 2001 00:00 (8 years ago)
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 28 April 2010 16:42 (fourteen years ago) link
HAPPY NOW TUOMAS
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 28 April 2010 16:43 (fourteen years ago) link
lol
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 28 April 2010 16:44 (fourteen years ago) link
never heard of this... whowhatwhy?
― m the g, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 16:45 (fourteen years ago) link
who the fuck is that
― the sound of a norwegian guy being wrong (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 28 April 2010 16:45 (fourteen years ago) link
it is MORE AMBIENT TECHNO
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 28 April 2010 16:45 (fourteen years ago) link
thing is both of the first two ambient techno albums were really quite good
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 28 April 2010 16:46 (fourteen years ago) link
so maybe this is really quite good too
jeepers I am 14% British, 7% Scottish, 3% Canadian, 3% Swedish, and the rest good old US of A. And mostly guitar.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 28 April 2010 16:48 (fourteen years ago) link
I am 100% don't-give-a-fuck-which-countries-the-albums-I-voted-for-are-from.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Wednesday, 28 April 2010 17:03 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah me too
― the sound of a norwegian guy being wrong (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 28 April 2010 17:05 (fourteen years ago) link
66 Palace Music - Lost Blues And Other Songs (1997)40 points2 votes0 first-place votesGreatest contributors: seandalai, M4tt H3lg3s0n
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/00/Lost_Blues.jpg
weird, gulf shores popped up on my ipod yesterday and i was struck by how gorgeous it was.
― Brolotov Cocktail (n/h) (M@tt He1ges0n), Tuesday, 19 May 2009 15:22 (11 months ago)
I've long been familiar with the early Palace/Oldham albums, but was never really a fan... never heard any of the singles... recently, I bought Lost Blues because I enjoy the Bonnie "Prince" Billy Sings Greatest Palace Music CD, and wanted to hear the original versions of the songs I didn't know... and, my god, what an incredible CD that Lost Blues is. I'm almost embarrassed at how perfectly it hits my early/mid-'90s Drag City sweet spot. "Gulf Shores" is currently my favorite song by anyone.
― morris pavilion (samjeff), Monday, 9 August 2004 20:15 (5 years ago)
Lost Blues and Other Songs - the perfect introduction to Palace era Oldham, contains nearly all of his classic singles. Essential.
- paid in cigarettes (paid in cigarettes), Friday, 14 July 2006 23:41 (3 years ago)
Gulf Shores - Palace Music
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 28 April 2010 17:06 (fourteen years ago) link
many xposts. My intro to Built to Spill was that live album with the 20 minute "Cortez The Killer" cover. None of the studio albums I heard after lived up to it.
― sofatruck, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 17:09 (fourteen years ago) link
that Lost Blues comp is an amazing collection, I think there's like one song on it I don't like. Gulf Shores is all time classic
― the sound of a norwegian guy being wrong (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 28 April 2010 17:14 (fourteen years ago) link
awesome palace music!
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 28 April 2010 17:22 (fourteen years ago) link
I've kinda grown out of Palace Music/Bonnie Prince Billy as the decade's grown on. I definitely think he rises above the whole "lol indie guy w/ beard" phenomenon; just don't have a desire to put on his records anymore.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Wednesday, 28 April 2010 17:29 (fourteen years ago) link
last one for now coming up
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 28 April 2010 17:29 (fourteen years ago) link
I gotta say having this weird rainstorms-alternating-with-sunshine-spring weather totally makes me feel like listenin to some Palace.
― the sound of a norwegian guy being wrong (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 28 April 2010 17:32 (fourteen years ago) link