Top 50 albums of the 1990s polling results
 

ok after delaying it long enough, the headache i had earlier didn't help

here we go

here are honorable mentions

60) Sigur Rós - Ágætis Byrjun

59) Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 - Mother of all Saints

58) Stereolab - Transient Random Noise Bursts with Announcements

57) Nirvana - Unplugged in New York

56) Jesus Lizard - Goat

55) Slowdive - Pygmalion

54) Tindersticks - II

53) Fugazi - Repeater

52) Bardo Pond - Lapsed

51) Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane over the Sea

and now...

50) Royal Trux - Twin Infinitives





49) GZA/Genius - Liquid Swords




48) Mogwai - Young Team




47) Atari Teenage Riot - The Future of War

46) Nirvana - Incesticide




45) Boards Of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children




44) Modest Mouse - The Lonesome and Crowded West




43) Sleater-Kinney - The Hot Rock

42) Sonic Youth - Experimental, Jet Set, Trash, And No Star





41) Tom Waits - Bone Machine





40) Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup





39) Autechre - LP5

38) At The Drive-In - In/Casino/Out




37) Pavement - Wowee Zowee




36) Cat Power - Moon Pix




35) Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

34) Beck - Odelay




33) Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet




32) PJ Harvey - Rid of Me




31) Bonnie "Prince" Billy - I See A Darkness

Logically , n°1 will be Loveless.

30) The Dead C - Trapdoor Fucking Exit




29) Talk Talk - Laughing Stock




28) Sonic Youth - SYR4: Goodbye Twentieth Century




27) Gastr Del Sol - Upgrade and Afterlife

26) Mercury Rev - Yerself Is Steam





25) Jeff Buckley - Grace





24) Nirvana - Nevermind





23) Portishead - Dummy

22) Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die




21) Drive Like Jehu - Yank Crime




i am gonna take a small break for dinner, and to allow you to speculate and wonder the currently listed and next 20

suspenseful !!!

ten honorable (er, "honourable") mentions

three of which should definitely have placed higher


57) Nirvana - Unplugged in New York (57? Say what? This is a joke!)

56) Jesus Lizard - Goat (56? Surely you didn't come of age in the '90s!)

53) Fugazi - Repeater (This most likely deserves better than 53rd place.)


shame on you all

haha

Yeah, especially Repeater, it should be in the top 30.


I'm also surprised by EJSTANS rank.
Everybody on the board (except me and few wise people) love this album.

I was thinking this t'other day actually. There's a lot of people on this board for whom the idea of '90s records' is a nostalgic one (that is, one they weren't really there for). I only just qualify for remembering the 90s in my late teens, but I was 11 or 12 when Kurt died. I didn't really start listening to stuff that I can still bear until I was 17 or so ('99) so I'm in the worst position of faintly remembering some stuff but not really being there with a developed set of faculties.

How many people here really did come of age in the '90s? Few, I should imagine.

I was 21 in 2000, so probably qualify.

Well, I lost my man-hymen last century, so I do too, but you know what I mean.

Do you mean that someone cut your foreskin ?



Nevermind.

Yes, as is the tradition of coming of age. When a man and a woman love each other very much, the woman decides to take a razor and give them half a jew-cock.

I've never heard about this tradition. Maybe I'm still a virgin.


Back to the topic :

I'm pleased to see that Nevermind is not in the top 20.
even though 24 is too high for this album IMO.

my prediction: 1) spiderland 2) loveless

which i think are truly the greatest albums of the 90's, so you won't see me complaining.

now we continue

20) Nas - Illmatic




19) Pixies - Trompe le Monde




18) Polvo - Exploded Drawing




17) DJ Shadow - Endtroducing...

16) Sun City Girls - Torch of the Mystics




15) Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun




14) Wu Tang Clan - Enter the 36 Chambers




13) Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted

Is it too early to demand a recount?

12) Polvo - Today's Active Lifestyles




11) Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain




10) Sonic Youth - Dirty




9) Nirvana - In Utero

8) Boredoms - Super æ




7) Sonic Youth - Goo




6) Radiohead - OK Computer




5) Sonic Youth - A Thousand Leaves

Today's Active Lifestyles is just 12th ?


I leave this board...

goo not in top 5, phew!

3) washing machine 4) at action park

?!?!?!

4) Shellac - At Action Park









3) Slint - Spiderland







and the final 2





















2) Sonic Youth - Washing Machine





and finally

















1) My Bloody Valentine - Loveless

No Unwound ?

Loveless ? Again ?






I'm so disappointed....

this is idiotic.
what kind of Rolling Stone reporter joke is this?
you don't know shit about music
all is american rock and sounds the same!!! i thought you said BEST ALBUMS FROM THE 90'S
not BEST AMERICAN SCHOOL TEEN ALBUMS.
where is Björk? Where is Sigur Ros?
AND WHY
WHY
is WASHING MACHINE #2???

fuck this.

I suppose it's cause we 're on the Sonic youth board.



I'm surprised that Sebadoh and Unwound are missing.

the absence of certain albums can be blamed on the inability to come to a consensus of a fave album, or they were rated too low on lists, hence why no yo la tengo (3 albums voted for), unwound (4 albums) fushitsusha (4 albums) and so on

Stop whining, there're NAS, DJ Shadow, Whu Tang Clan, Tom Waits...

washing machine is better than a thousand leaves in muthafuckin' rand
mcnally, where hamburgers eat people.

which is to say...WELL IT ISN'T! (fred schneider voice)

Too bad...
Next time I' ll consult you before choosing my list, panto (concerning Unwound).

Wu-Tang Clan ain't nothing to fuck with.

It's a solid list, no surprises, but I couldn't argue much with that, given what I've heard.

here are the top vote getters in my system

322 - My Bloody Valentine - Loveless : 23,9,19,20,25,10,24,23,21,6,21,22,1,24,25,24,25

277 - Sonic Youth - Washing Machine : 19,12,17,25,21,23,24,24,17,16,23,6,25,25

232 - Slint - Spiderland : 25,25,23,17,22,25,25,12,25,24,9

205 - Shellac - At Action Park : 4,24,19,14,18,17,16,1,19,6,15,22,22,8

198 - Sonic Youth - A Thousand Leaves : 21,20,5,1,11,25,23,18,25,6,7,24,12

188 - Radiohead - OK Computer : 21,8,15,24,1,25,24,24,25,21

181 - Sonic Youth - Goo : 20,24,22,14,16,22,23,5,21,14

155 - Boredoms - Super æ : 25,14,16,10,25,19,22,24

134 - Nirvana - In Utero : 11,15,16,6,24,18,4,22,18

132 - Sonic Youth - Dirty : 25,16,9,13,10,18,8,18,15

all those underlined were first place votes, Slint had the most first place votes by far, however only 11 people put them on their list, where as 14 for WM and 17 for Loveless and it was far and away the winner

however if you avg them out you'd get some thing like this

Spiderland - 21.09
Washing Machine - 19.78
Loveless - 18.94

based on that most people put them higher on their lists usually, but means little

How many voters do you have ?