Best Album on OUR Favourite Albums of......1994! Part II : ILM Loves Its Canon!!!

ps i kept Kyuss back for this poll to vote for

can we ban everyone who votes for Weezer

Jesus christ this is tough. Instinct tells me Aphex, or maybe Suede, but so many worthy options.

After several polls where I've never owned a single thing on them, this one is Portishead, easily.

Hootie & The Blowfish - Cracked Rear View

this is canon now?

anyway, voting for crooked rain

Easily Slowdive for me from this batch. Still find "Souvlaki" a remarkable record.

voted Bee Thousand but holy shit i love a lot of that list. i've always preferred Sleeps With Angels to Ragged Glory which seems to get the critical love. that title track!

shout outs for:

Elliott Smith - roman candle
Codeine - White Birch

Yep, this is definitely SAW II.

Between The Downward Spiral, Nightside Eclipse, and SAW II.

Easily Slowdive for me from this batch. Still find "Souvlaki" a remarkable record.

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my runner-up, or third runner-up behind ready to die

Nirvana Unplugged. I listened to it for the first time in a while the other night and it is still so unbelievably chilling and beautiful.

disappointed you let the haters get to you. no need for two polls imo, the other list is more interesting anyway

haters didnt get to us. this was planned all along.

Live Through This

oh also gtfo with Burzum

I don't know if I can do this.

Crooked Rain Crooked Rain vs Holiday. Don't know how I can choose.

cool another poll for SAWII to win 8)

one of the reasons we decided on 2 polls. Give some lesser known albums a chance.

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Best Album on OUR Favourite Albums of......1994!

Oh I was gonna spurn this poll out of how much I liked the other one but then I forgot🙄🙄

you voted in both? good.

I'll post my not-great list on the thread w less eyes on it

Smashing Pumpkins - Pisces Iscariot
Bee Thousand
Superunknown
Gravitar - Chinga Su Corazon
Shady - World
Sloan - Twice Removed
Bailter Space - Vortura
Darxtar - Daybreak
Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik
Unplugged in New York
Blue Album
Sleeps with Angels
Sonic Youth - Experimental Jet Set Trash and No Star
Imaginary Friends - Lunchtime in Infinity
Space Streakings - 7-Toku
Boredoms - Super Roots 3
Brainiac - Bonsai Superstar
Boredoms - Chocolate Synthesizer
Toadies - Rubberneck
Vitalogy
Monster

(*Imajinary Friends grrr)

Tough choice between Crooked Rain, Downward Spiral, and Dummy.

Hard To Earn also deserves a mention.

choosing for 95 is murder

Kyuss

^correct decision

I saw Kyuss live twice in 1994 - at the Borderline and the Underworld. The Underworld gig is probably still the single best live gig I've seen. It was hot and hallucinatory and one abiding memory is Scott Reeder wandering dazed into the crowd at the end and noticing his feet were like hobbits' feet.

Souvlaki over Dummy and Nirvana Unplugged. Like these 3 better than the choices in 1994 part 1 poll.

fair enough

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Live Through This easy vote!!!!!!

I would have LOVED to have seen Kyuss back in the day

Voted Dog Man Star and it wasn’t a hard decision, but a lot of great contenders for #2 here.

i can't really vote in this one as it's basically a list of all my children

there's no wayI can choose between IllComm, SAWII, Parklife, Crooked Rain, Sky Valley and Dookie

Weird to thin the first Korn album came out at this time. To give them credit, they were far ahead of the curve.

*think

Was that the first ever nu-metal album?

yes, Kerrang gave them the nu metal label pretty much straight away then started trying to hype it up over the next few years until it took off

On new years day 1995 I would definitely have said Bee Thousand. Pavement didn't sound nearly cruddy enough anymore, so they couldn't compete. LOL. Had recently been pleasantly surprised by His N Hers too. But I'm pretty sure I voted for Hard to Earn a few days ago. If only because I heard it again quite recently and...totes dug it.

after all the complaints it would be lols if this poll got the fewest votes

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

GBV (who Kerr is more of a fan of than me) over SAW II is pretty lame tbh

I expected SAW II to win.

thought about SAW II, but ended up voting for Dummy for all of the amazing memories I have that are associated with it

look forward to voting for Maxinquaye or 94 Diskont or Tilt in the next poll

I'm probably just grumpy and challopsy this morning but I'm going to bring the full wrath of my critical acumen to bear and say that the Pavement consensus on here is boring and conservative. They're boring and conservative.

I love Pavement but I prefer the albums either side to this album

Best Album on OUR Favourite Albums of......1995!! Part One

Best Album on OUR Favourite Albums of......1995!! Part Two The Bubbling Under

I guess it makes sense that it's mostly rock fans who are voting in these polls.

I love Pavement and could probably honestly say that album ~changed my life~ or something equally hokey, but given the results feel justified in voting for the Magnetic Fields instead, even though some of the songs I thought were on Holiday were actually on one of the previous albums, ahem.

A lot of the tracks on SAWII are great but I've never quite enjoyed it as a whole and would rather sit down and listen to pretty much any other Aphex album, including SAWI. I did expect it to do better, though, as mine seems to be a pretty unusual opinion.

I think everyone just assumed it would win so voted something else