1992 Best NME Album Poll (Ends 11th May)

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Poll Results

Option	Votes
Slanted and enchanted - Pavement	25
Automatic for the people - REM	12
Copper Blue - Sugar	10
Back in denim - Denim	8
Dirty - Sonic youth	7
Dry - P.J. Harvey	7
Generation terrorists - Manic street preachers	6
Check your head - Beastie boys	5
Lazer guided Melodies - Spiritualized	4
Cypress hill - Cypress hill	3
Up - Right said Fred	2
Everything’s alright forever - The Boo Radleys	2
Ingenue - K.D. Lang	2
The predator- Ice cube	2
Bone machine - Tom Waits	2
It's a shame about ray - Lemonheads	2
Play with toys - dcBasehead	2
Doppelganger - Curve	2
Bricks are heavy - L7	1
Valhalla Avenue - Fatima Mansions	1
1992 The love album - Carter USM	1
XYZ - Moose	1
0898 - The beautiful south	1
Wish - The Cure	1
Eva Luna - Moonshake	1
Accelerator - The future sound of London	1
Sex 'Symbol' - Prince & NPG	1
Psalm 69:How to succeed & suck eggs - Ministry	1
Hypocrisy is the greatest luxury - Disposable heroes of hiphoprisy	1
Henry's dream - Nick Cave and the bad seeds	1
Harvest moon - Neil Young	1
Nerve net - Brian Eno	0
Furthest from the sun - The family cat	0
Southern harmony etc... - The black crows	0
Asquarius - Cud	0
UF Orb - The Orb	0
Hey Babe - Juliana Hatfield	0
Stigma - EMF	0
Play more music - Consolidated	0
The rockingbirds - The rockingbirds	0
Connected - Stereo MC's	0
3 years, 5 months & 2 days.... - Arrested development	0
Let me come ove - Buffalo Tom	0
Magic and loss - Lou Reed	0
Code: Selfish - The fall	0
Fontanelle - Babes in toyland	0
Hollywood town hall - The Jayhawks	0
Your arsenal - Morrissey	0
I wish my brother George was here - Del Tha Funkee Homsapien	0
Red Heaven - Throwing muses	0

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Saturday, 5 May 2007 23:53 (eighteen years ago)

Pavement for the win?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 6 May 2007 00:03 (eighteen years ago)

I like almost nothing on this list.

But I went with Cypress Hill's only good album.

Bands I never even heard of before:

The rockingbirds - The rockingbirds
XYZ - Moose
Furthest from the sun - The family cat
Asquarius - Cud

And there are others (Boo Radleys, Beautiful South, Fatima Mansions) who I've heard of but I really have no idea what they do, not that I'm intrigued.

Either way, compared to those NME lists in the early '80s, this is just fucking pathetic. When exactly did NME give up funk and reggae etc that American critics were too stodgy to pay attention to for whitebread Brit-pop (even whitebread Brit-pop by Americans, which is basically what Bob Mould was doing by this time.) What was the turning point?

― xhuxk, Sunday, 6 May 2007 00:04 (eighteen years ago)

I take it you don't like the 1991 Poll either then?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 6 May 2007 00:07 (eighteen years ago)

Boy, the Brits loved Throwing Muses, eh?

It IS a lame list. Tonight I'd vote for PJ Harvey, Pavement, or Sugar.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, 6 May 2007 00:18 (eighteen years ago)

Slanted & Enchanted, that was simple.

― Saxby D. Elder, Sunday, 6 May 2007 00:21 (eighteen years ago)

Select http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/select.html#1992
and Melody Maker http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/mmlists_p2.htm#1992 lists from 1992

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 6 May 2007 00:28 (eighteen years ago)

PJ Harvey's is the only one that I've actually grown to like more over the years, so that gets it. Easy.

― JN$OT, Sunday, 6 May 2007 03:48 (eighteen years ago)

I'M BACK! BACK IN DENIM! AND DENIM PUT THE SOUL IN YR ROCK 'N ROLL!

― acrobat, Sunday, 6 May 2007 03:51 (eighteen years ago)

wow this list is really horrible. is between pj harvey and kd lang for me - prefer pj but if i don't tick ingenue it'll end up with 0.

if pavement win i'll be nauseated. god, ilm-ers have awful taste these days.

― lex pretend, Sunday, 6 May 2007 06:57 (eighteen years ago)

Y'all be crazy. I can't decide which one yet. I've got it down to 5 or 6.

― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 6 May 2007 07:13 (eighteen years ago)

Cypress Hill.

― Dan S, Sunday, 6 May 2007 08:10 (eighteen years ago)

Didn't Copper Blue win this originally? It's a good album, can't argue with that.

― MacDara, Sunday, 6 May 2007 08:25 (eighteen years ago)

It does look a poor list, but it is from a time I had loads of disposable income (and was disposing it mainly in record stores) - so I know nearly all the albums quite well (though I can't recall The Rockingbirds, I could look them up and I'm sure I checked them out at the time).

So a lot of these albums gave me a lot of pleasure at the time. Valhalla Avenue, Copper Blue, Dry, Dirty, Code: Selfish... well as I said most of them were fine at the time. I'm not sure why this period had dated so badly.

I went for Vahalla Avenue, as I loved it at the time, and though I havven't listend to it in years, I think Cathals seething misanthropy will never go out of style despite the rock band arrangements of the songs.

― Sandy Blair, Sunday, 6 May 2007 08:52 (eighteen years ago)

:( = Everything's Alright Forever right at the bottom, right where Slanted and Enchanted should be.

― DavidM, Sunday, 6 May 2007 08:54 (eighteen years ago)

I'm astonished at the number of these albums I used to own but don't any more, it's at least 10 of them (including the Consolidated record, shamefully). Voted for dc Basehead as that and the Tom Waits are the only ones I still have. Terrible list though, I mean The Rockingbirds?! Ha ha!

― Matt #2, Sunday, 6 May 2007 09:12 (eighteen years ago)

Voted for R.E.M as there was no XTC, no Peter Gabriel and no k.d.lang. All of which (plus a couple Norwegian acts that I would not expect to find here) made better albums in 1992 than "Automatic For The People".

― Geir Hongro, Sunday, 6 May 2007 09:15 (eighteen years ago)

there is kd lang geir! and yeah ingenue is brill.

― lex pretend, Sunday, 6 May 2007 09:21 (eighteen years ago)

I ended up voting for one that I figure will need the love and support.

― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 6 May 2007 09:23 (eighteen years ago)

that list is awful but i dont think the 90s was well defined by albums

― 600, Sunday, 6 May 2007 09:46 (eighteen years ago)

great debuts from pavement, pj harvey, and cypress hill.

I voted pavement.

― nicky lo-fi, Sunday, 6 May 2007 10:00 (eighteen years ago)

Copper Blue still stands up well.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 6 May 2007 15:40 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.thesimpsons.com/bios/images/bios_guests_cypress.gif

CYPRESS

― Dom Passantino, Sunday, 6 May 2007 15:43 (eighteen years ago)

I presume I will be the only one voting for Moose.

― braveclub, Sunday, 6 May 2007 15:51 (eighteen years ago)

What a lackluster list. Not much on there excites me now though I must confess I still play Copper Blue every once in a while. Overall, this is the kind of tripe that used to get labeled "alternative" down at the sadly departed local record store. Xerox copies of stuff that might have been ground breaking five years earlier.

Guess I'll vote Pavement by default.

We're the early nineties really this bad?

― leavethecapital, Sunday, 6 May 2007 16:11 (eighteen years ago)

"wow this list is really horrible. is between pj harvey and kd lang for me - prefer pj but if i don't tick ingenue it'll end up with 0.

if pavement win i'll be nauseated. god, ilm-ers have awful taste these days."

I would watch a television show religiously that featured just you and Geir talking about music. You both make me feel like I'm coming out of an ether binge into an alternate dimension.

There were some decent albums on there— Bone Machine, Dirty, Hypocrisy, Psalm 69, Check Your Head, Brother George, Bricks Are Heavy, Lazer Guided Melodies, Automatic... And, while I don't think it's the best, I've been enjoying the Stereo MCs lately (their Connected was a whole channel on an inflight radio console thing, so I got it for a quarter from the used bins).

― I eat cannibals, Sunday, 6 May 2007 16:19 (eighteen years ago)

Of course the lex is going to hate anything the NME has in it's list.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 6 May 2007 17:03 (eighteen years ago)

thats not really fair, one thing lex isnt is predictable

― 600, Sunday, 6 May 2007 17:18 (eighteen years ago)

explain

― pretzel walrus, Sunday, 6 May 2007 17:21 (eighteen years ago)

sometimes hes standing and other times hes fallen over. you can never tell ..

― 600, Sunday, 6 May 2007 17:25 (eighteen years ago)

Bloody hell. I quite like 'Dry' and 'Southern Harmony', but the Manics get my vote for being the only ones making an effort. I dread to think what 1993 has in store.

'The Love Album': The sleeve was an EU flag mock-up I think, and the album's release conincided with the Maastricht Treaty. I remember Jimbob and Fruitbat (shudder) holding their promotional press conference at a model euro-village near Brussels.

First up, some keen young euro-reporter: "Do you believe that European integration can truly bring the young peoples of Europe closer together?"

"We're taking the piss," they sneered in response. How the rest of that Q&A must have just flown by!

― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 6 May 2007 17:37 (eighteen years ago)

I would watch a television show religiously that featured just you and Geir talking about music. You both make me feel like I'm coming out of an ether binge into an alternate dimension.

diff is that secretly and really you know i'm right, it's just...habit which makes you all listen to...this stuff.

― lex pretend, Sunday, 6 May 2007 17:42 (eighteen years ago)

Gen Terrorists with at least 2 votes then. Woohoo.

― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 6 May 2007 17:43 (eighteen years ago)

I voted Pavement after a little thought, but I don't think this list is quite as barren as you're all making it out to be -- Sugar's awesome debut, REM's most cohesive '90s album, Spiritualized's classic debut, another great Nick Cave effort, PJ Harvey absolutely destroys on her debut, Sonic Youth goes pop (and does it better than Rather Ripped in my opinion), one of Tom Waits' most essential albums, not a bad Fall album, Pavement's inimitable debut album that went on to influence an entire decade of stuff, Brian Eno with an Eno album (not his best, but still...not bad), and the last great Cure album -- that's a pretty good handful of stuff, and not nearly so bad as say, 2006.

― stephen, Sunday, 6 May 2007 17:54 (eighteen years ago)

I wish I'd voted for Predator now.

― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 6 May 2007 17:58 (eighteen years ago)

I think it's even worse. How many classic tracks on these fifty albums? Nightswimming, You Love Us, Motown Junk, Hotel Illness, It Was A Good Day, Papua New Guinea, a handful of others. Midlife Crisis and Jump Around from the singles list (http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/1992.html). Thank the lord for Suede.

― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 6 May 2007 18:22 (eighteen years ago)

I forgot Sexy MF though! 1992 is redeemed!

― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 6 May 2007 18:30 (eighteen years ago)

How many of these albums do you own? I have 13 of them.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 6 May 2007 19:06 (eighteen years ago)

Of course the lex is going to hate anything the NME has in it's list.

This from the guy who still hasn't explained how and why NME's list devolved from forward-looking funk and reggae and dance music in the '80s to backward-looking indie-rock tedium in the early '90s

― xhuxk, Sunday, 6 May 2007 19:16 (eighteen years ago)

Oooher! Noodle is right! Gen Terrorists is here to vote on! Tempting!

But there's also admirable PJ Harvey and Stereo MC's albums to acknowledge.

In the end, though, I'm voting for Buffalo Tom's Let Me Come Over. Yeah, that is one of my fave albums ever.

― Bimble, Sunday, 6 May 2007 19:26 (eighteen years ago)

This from the guy who still hasn't explained how and why NME's list devolved from forward-looking funk and reggae and dance music in the '80s to backward-looking indie-rock tedium in the early '90s

How the hell should I know that? I have never written for NME (or anyone)
Ask someone on here who has for that answer.
I didn't even read NME in the 1980s.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 6 May 2007 19:29 (eighteen years ago)

Does anyone here remember when Morrissey was on the cover of a British music weekly with a bottle of some kind of cleaning fluid? When the hell year was that anyway?

― Bimble, Sunday, 6 May 2007 19:33 (eighteen years ago)

Anyone know why was Basehead called dcBasehead in Europe?

He wouldn't be near the top of the list, but I wore out my cassette maxi-single of 2000 B.C. back in high school.

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Sunday, 6 May 2007 19:37 (eighteen years ago)

This from the guy who still hasn't explained how and why NME's list devolved from forward-looking funk and reggae and dance music in the '80s to backward-looking indie-rock tedium in the early '90s

That'd be because it didn't, then.

― Dom Passantino, Sunday, 6 May 2007 19:45 (eighteen years ago)

I mean, let's take a year out at random in 1984. No reggae albums, and only Holger Hiller, Bronski Beat, and Shannon as dance acts.

― Dom Passantino, Sunday, 6 May 2007 19:45 (eighteen years ago)

1987 has Sly & Robbie and Lee Perry as the sole reggae representatives, and no dance music.

― Dom Passantino, Sunday, 6 May 2007 19:47 (eighteen years ago)

I mean yeah, great, the kids of your generation were all fighting the power and listening to exciting experimental music that sure did keep all those squares up at town hall shook, except no you didn't, you were all listening to The Housemartins.

― Dom Passantino, Sunday, 6 May 2007 19:48 (eighteen years ago)

There's about 8 Hip Hop albums in that list, a little bunch of "dance" related stuff, some American rock groups, k.d. lang, Right Said Fred. I'm not saying it's a work of exquisite taste and phorward-thinking, but some of you people seem to be ignoring all of that altogether.

― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 6 May 2007 19:53 (eighteen years ago)

Someone's going to mention the "hip-hop wars" in a minute, as if they were anything other than an in-office battle over who got to rim Chuck D that weekend.

― Dom Passantino, Sunday, 6 May 2007 19:54 (eighteen years ago)

You can argue that NME's coverage of non-Rock was tokenist from the early 70s onwards. It's called having a target market.

― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 6 May 2007 19:57 (eighteen years ago)

As if there's much "rock" on the list above.

1981. Right, no difference at all:

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=57627

― xhuxk, Sunday, 6 May 2007 20:01 (eighteen years ago)

1986:

http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/1986.html

― xhuxk, Sunday, 6 May 2007 20:05 (eighteen years ago)

I make that seven "dance" or "reggae" albums on that list, and you're now arguing that Aswad were the sound of forward looking epoch changing revolution?

xp

― Dom Passantino, Sunday, 6 May 2007 20:06 (eighteen years ago)

let's take a year out at random in 1984. No reggae albums, and only Holger Hiller, Bronski Beat, and Shannon as dance acts

Poet 2 - Bobby Womack
In The Studio - The Special AKA
Love Wars - Womack And Womack
Purple Rain - Prince
Making History - Linton Kwesi Johnson
Immigres - Youssou Ndour
Change Of Heart - Change
Diamond Life - Sade
No Frills - The Persuasions
Essar - Smoky Robinson
Showdown Vol 2 - Frankie Paul & Sugar Minot
Historic Concerts - Cecil Taylor/Max Roach

― xhuxk, Sunday, 6 May 2007 20:13 (eighteen years ago)

So you didn't mean "dance" or "reggae", you meant "darkie music"?

― Dom Passantino, Sunday, 6 May 2007 20:14 (eighteen years ago)

Change Of Heart - Change

this is awesome btw

― 600, Sunday, 6 May 2007 20:15 (eighteen years ago)

I've got nine of these, and ten more courtesy of home taping (sorry BPI). I'd guess that Southern Harmony is the only one I've listened to this century.

― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 6 May 2007 20:15 (eighteen years ago)

xp: So toss in jazz and African and soul (nonexistent on the list above, unless Prince counts), too. And right, Change was definitely not a dance act. And nobody would mistake Linton Kwesi Johnson or Frankie Paul for reggae.

― xhuxk, Sunday, 6 May 2007 20:17 (eighteen years ago)

"diff is that secretly and really you know i'm right, it's just...habit which makes you all listen to...this stuff."

Then why do you listen to bullshit like Paris Hilton? A kneejerk against habit?

― I eat cannibals, Sunday, 6 May 2007 23:32 (eighteen years ago)

'eva luna' was album of the decade for me, but then it didn't even make the top 100 of the ilm list of the 90s. maybe not even top 200.

― keythkeyth, Monday, 7 May 2007 01:02 (eighteen years ago)

Eva Luna is awesome. Why it is buried in the sands of time remains a mystery to me.

― Bill in Chicago, Monday, 7 May 2007 01:14 (eighteen years ago)

i'm not sure what albums people think should be on this list that aren't.

the prodigy 'experience' one that springs to mind. was 'low end theory' this year? but no-one is naming all the funk and reggae albums released in 1992 that the well-known rock mag nme should have included.

and having parsed some early 80s nme, a funk and reggae paper it was not.

― That one guy that quit, Monday, 7 May 2007 11:48 (eighteen years ago)

You're forgetting well known funk artist Sade, TOGTQ

― Dom Passantino, Monday, 7 May 2007 11:51 (eighteen years ago)

a few of these (not all funk and reggae, per se, but at least as an indication that life exists beyond the world's most generic college radio playlist) might have been nice (for starters)

Midi Maxi & Efti – Midi Maxi & Efti (Columbia)
Caifanes – El Silencio (RCA/BMG International US Latin)
Dede Trake - Dede Trake (Select)
Indochine - The Birthday Album (BMG)
Xuxa - Xuxa 2 (Globo)
Cerati/Melero – Colores Santos (Sony Discos)
Loco Mia – Taiyo (Sony Discos)
Colourhaus – Water To The Soul (Interscope)
A.L.T. & The Lost Civilization – Another Latin Timebomb (Atlantic)
Mariah Carey- MTV Unplugged EP (Columbia EP)
Duice – Dazzey Duks (Bellmark)
Sophie B. Hawkins – Tongues And Tails (Columbia)
Jordy – Pochette Surprise (Surprise Package) (Columbia France)
Café Tacuba – Café Tacuba (WEA Latina)
Charles & Eddie – Duophonic (Capitol)
The Daou – Head Music (Columbia)
Lil Louis – Journey With The Lonely (Epic)

― xhuxk, Monday, 7 May 2007 11:54 (eighteen years ago)

Fuck, if they weren't so stupid, they could have voted in Garth Brooks, as well. The Chase is as good as any album up there. But nah, too much to ask.

― xhuxk, Monday, 7 May 2007 11:57 (eighteen years ago)

If only they weren't a magazine catering to britisher indie kids, eh?

― ailsa, Monday, 7 May 2007 11:58 (eighteen years ago)

we don't have college radio here.

― That one guy that quit, Monday, 7 May 2007 11:59 (eighteen years ago)

but if we did it'd play garth brooks and sophie b hawkins all day long.

― That one guy that quit, Monday, 7 May 2007 12:00 (eighteen years ago)

and charles and eddie, it goes without saying.

― That one guy that quit, Monday, 7 May 2007 12:01 (eighteen years ago)

I think I take back anything I said about Laura Barton being the dumbest music writer living.

― Dom Passantino, Monday, 7 May 2007 12:04 (eighteen years ago)

'eva luna' was album of the decade for me

It's not even the best Moonshake album of the decade for me.

― braveclub, Monday, 7 May 2007 12:06 (eighteen years ago)

this thread is displaying a lot less spz love than i was expecting.

― CharlieNo4, Monday, 7 May 2007 13:05 (eighteen years ago)

Because that was all on the Spiritualized poll thread and they ran out of love?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 7 May 2007 13:44 (eighteen years ago)

i voted on the poll and your ran out of love and my heart fell into the void

oh no, wait, thats a spectrum song

― 600, Monday, 7 May 2007 15:06 (eighteen years ago)

'i love you but i have chosen heroin'. if only it had made the album :/

― That one guy that quit, Monday, 7 May 2007 15:20 (eighteen years ago)

I agree with Xhuxk that looking back this does seem like kind of a weak year, at least as judged from this NME list - which is kind of a strange thing for me to realize, since 1992 was when I was in college and listening to a lot of this kind of music, and just really getting into music, and at the time I would have claimed that it was as good a year for music as any, and though the list doesn't really represent everything I was listening to, some of it does (e.g., Pavement, UFOrb, Sugar, Sonic Youth). Some other things I liked at the time were Superchunk, Overwhelming Colorfast, Stereolab, the Pixies, Mudhoney, Nirvana, and older stuff like mid-60s Dylan that I was discovering for the first time. I also started to discover jazz via Sun Ra around that time. I think part of the explanation for the overwhelming indie-ness of the list probably has to do with the victory around that time for "college rock" as represented by the commercial triumph of Nirvana. Labels were signing any band that seemed "alternative". It may have briefly seemed like the second-coming of New Wave, the underground taking over the mainstream, only the music wasn't as good this time around - but it was a heady few minutes, at least for some, particularly those without longer perspective, ie., the young.

― o. nate, Monday, 7 May 2007 15:41 (eighteen years ago)

I think part of the explanation for the overwhelming indie-ness of the list probably has to do with the victory around that time for "college rock" as represented by the commercial triumph of Nirvana.

i'm not sure if this is an accurate picture of what it was like in england in late 1992, when this list was compiled. the biggest nme event in this year was its turning its back on morrissey. but it was also britpop year zero. that's sometimes called a backlash against US alt-rock, but i think it had its own internal trajectory independent of that.

but anyway the nme had been indie before the commercial triumph of nirvana.

― That one guy that quit, Monday, 7 May 2007 15:48 (eighteen years ago)

That's true- I'm probably imposing a US perspective on this.

― o. nate, Monday, 7 May 2007 15:52 (eighteen years ago)

Melody Maker Albums 1992

1. Automatic for the people - REM
2. Slanted and enchanted - Pavement
3. Hypocrisy is the greatest luxury - Disposable heroes of hiphoprisy
4. Red heaven - Throwing muses
5. Eleven:eleven - Come
6. Dry - P.J. Harvey
7. Henry's dream - Nick Cave & the bad seeds
8. Down colourful hill - Red house painters
9. Ten - Pearl jam
10. UF Orb - The Orb
11. Lazer guided melodies - Spiritualized
12. Let me come over - Buffalo Tom
13. Fontanelle - Babes in toyland
14. Rockin' the forest - Sebadoh
15. 3 years, 5 months, 2 days... - Arrested development
16. Copper blue - Sugar
17. Praise - Inner city
18. Hollywood town hall - The Jayhawks
19. It's a shame about ray - The lemonheads
20. Valhalla avenue - Fatima mansions
21. Accelerator - Future sound of London
22. Psalm 69:How to succeed & suck eggs - Ministry
23. Dirty - Sonic youth
24. Back in denim - Denim
25. Congregation - Afghan whigs
26. Barely real - Codeine
27. Double dare ya - Bikini kill
28. ...Well? - Swell
29. Hit to death in the future head - The flaming lips
30. Nurse - Therapy?

Select Top 50
1. Primal Scream - Screamadellca
2. R.E.M - Out of time
3. Public Enemy - Apocalypse ‘91 the enemy strikes back
4. Pixies - Trompe la monde
5. Massive attack - Blue lines
6. My bloody Valentine - Loveless
7. The Fall - Shiftwork
8. Teenage fanclub - Bandwagonesque
9. Ice-T - Origanal Gangster.
10. Intastella and the family of people - Same
11. Nirvana - Nevermind
12. Julian Cope - Peggy suicide
13. Definition of sound - Love and life
14. Neil Young - Weld
15. KLF - The white room
16. MC Buzz "b" - Words escape me
17. 808 state - Excel
18. PM Dawn - Of the heart of the soul etc...
19. World of twist - Quality street
20. Throwing muses - Real ramona
21. Blue aeroplanes - Beat songs
22. St Etienne - Foxbase alpha
23. Spacemen 3 - Recurring
24. Mercury rev - Yerself is steam
25. Dinosaur jr - Green mind
26. Wonderstuff - Never loved elvis
27. KMD - Mr hood
28. Prince - Diamonds and pearls
29. Bongwater - The power of pussy
30. Terminator x - In the valley
31. Chapter and the verse - Great western
32. Lenny Kravitz - Mama said
33. Mock turtles - Two sides
34. Blur - Lleisure
35. Guns n' roses - Use your illusion 2
36. Kraftwerk - The mix
37. LFO - Frequencies
38. Thin white rope - The ruby sea
39. Ned's atomic dustbin - God fodder
40. Soul family sensation - New wave
41. Chapterhouse - Whirlpool
42. American music club - Everclear
43. Electronic - Same
44. Slowdive - Just for a day
45. Butthole surfers - Pioughd
46. Young disciples - Road to freedom
47. Jesus Jones - Doubt
48. Morrissey - Kill uncle
49. Springhouse - Land falls
50. Black radical mk2 - Undiluted

Q top List
From this year they listed a top 10 (In alphabetical order)

• Tori Amos - Little earthquakes
• The Cure - Wish
• Inxs - Welcome to wherever you are
• Michael Jackson - Dangerous
• The Orb - U.F.Orb
• REM - Automatic for the people
• Spiritualized - Lazer guided melodies
• Sugar - Copper blue
• Neil Young - Harvest moon
• Warren Zevon - Mr bad example

The rest!

• Arrested Development - 3 years, 5 months & 2 days in the life of...
• The Black Crows - The Southern Harmony and the musical Companion
• Mary - Chapin Carpenter - Come on come on
• Nick Cave - Henry’s dream
• Neneh Cherry - Homebrew
• dc Basehead - Play with toys
• Def leppard - Adrenalize
• Del Amitri - Change Everything
• Del tha funkee homosapien - I wish my brother George was here
• Disposable heroes of hiphoprisy - Hypocrisy is the greatest luxury
• Bob Dylan - Good as I been to you
• EMF - Stigma
• Faith no more - Angel dust
• The Fall - Code:selfish
• The 4 of us - Man alive
• The Frank and Walters - Trains, boats and planes
• Peter Gabriel - Us
• Juliana Hatfield - Hey babe
• Joe Henderson - Lush Life
• K.D. Lang - Ingenue
• Lemonheads - It’s a shame about Ray Groves
• Annie Lennox - Diva
• Los Lobos - Kiko
• Baaba Maal - Lam Toro
• Manic street preachers - Generation Terrorists
• Loreena McKennit - The Viset
• Morrissey - Your Arsenal
• Pavement - Slanted and enchanted
• PJ Harvey - Dry
• Pearl Jam - Ten
• Prince - OI+>
• Chris Rea - God’s great banana skin
• Lou Reed - Magic and loss
• The Rockingbirds
• Sonic youth - Dirty
• Bruce Springsteen - Human Touch/Lucky Town
• Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend
• Thunder - Laughing on judgement day
• Suzanne Vega - 99.9 F

Vox Albums of 1992

1. R.E.M. - Automatic For The People
2. Sugar - Copper Blue
3. PJ Harvey - Dry
4. Sonic Youth - Dirty
5. Lemonheads - It's A Shame About Ray
6. Morrissey - Your Arsenal
7. Tom Waits - Bone Machine
8. Elvis Presley - The King Of Rock And Roll (The Complete 50's Masters)
9. KD Lang - Ingenue
10. Faith No More - Angel Dust
11. The Fall - Code: Selfish
12. Prefab Sprout - Life Of Surprises - The Best Of Prefab Sprout
13. Bruce Springsteen - Lucky Town
14. Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Henry's Dream
15. Julian Cope - Floored Genius - The Best Of Julian Cope And The Teardrop Explodes
16. Prince - O|->
17. Neneh Cherry - Home Brew
18. The Beautiful South - 0898 - The Beautiful South
19. Neil Young - Harvest Moon
20. The Black Crows - The Southern Harmony And Musical Companion

Reggae Album - Bob Marley - Songs Of Freedom

Dance, Rap And Soul Album - Arrested Development - 3 Years, 5 Months And 3 Days In The Life Of…

Blues Album - Robert Cray - I Was Warned

Jazz Album - Miles Davis - Doo Bop

Folk/Roots Album - Youssou N'Dour - Eyes Open

Country Album - Mary Chapin Carpenter - Come On Come On

The Face Top List

ALBUMS

1. Arrested Development - Three Years, Five Months And Two Days In The LIfe Of...
2. Omar - Music
3. Red Hot Chili Pepper - Love Sex Sugar Magik
4. Jah Wobble - Invaders Of The Heart
5. Inner City - Praise
6. Neneh Cherry - Homebrew
7. kd lang - Ingenue
8. Pete Rock & CL Smooth - Mecca & The Soul Brother
9. Ultramarine - Every Man And Woman Is A Star
10. Balanescu Quartet - Possessed
11. Stereo MC's - Connected
12. Ministry - Psalm 69
13. Barry Adamson - Soul Murder
14. Brand New Heavies -Heavy Rhyme Experience
15. Galliano - A Joyful Noise Unto The Creator
16. Tom Waits - Bone Machine
17. Faith No More - Angel Dust
18. Me Phi Me - One
19. U2 - Achtung Baby
20. Paul Weller - Paul Weller

SPIN
Best of 1992

1. Pavement - Slanted And Enchanted
2. Arrested Development - 3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of...
3. Sonic Youth - Dirty
4. Beastie Boys - Check Your Head
5. Ministry - Psalm 69: The Way To Succeed And The Way To Suck Eggs
6. Sugar - Copper Blue
7. Neneh Cherry - Homebrew
8. Unrest - Imperial
9. Basehead - Play With Toys
10. Ween - The Pod
11. Mudhoney - Piece Of Cake
12. Urge Overkill - Stull EP
13. Tom Waits - Bone Machine
14. Lyle Lovett - Joshua Judges Ruth
15. Morrissey - Your Arsenal
16. En Vogue - Funky Divas
17. Babes In Toyland - Fontanelle
18. PJ Harvey - Dry
19. Prince - Symbol
20. Megadeth - Countdown To Extinction

ROLLING STONE
Best of 1992

Critics' Picks Albums

1. R.E.M. - Automatic For The People
2. Arrested Development - 3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of...
3. Los Lobos - Kiko
4. Sonic Youth - Dirty
5. PJ Harvey - Dry

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 7 May 2007 16:11 (eighteen years ago)

oops the select one is wrong. It should be
1992 albums

1. Stereo Mcs - Connected 4th And Broadway
2. Morrissey - Your Arsenal Hmv
3. The Orb - Uf Orb Big Life
4. Rem - Automatic For The People Wea
5. Sonic Youth - Dirty Geffin
6. The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy - Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury Island
7. Julian Cope - Jehovahkill Island
8. Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Henry's Dream Mute
9. Sugar - Copper Blue Creation
10. Consolidated - Play More Music Nettwerk
11. Spiritualized - Lazer Guided Melodies Dedicated
12. Pj Harvey - Dry Too Pure
13. Arrested Development - 3 Years... Cooltempo
14. Denim - Back In Denim Boy's Own
15. Beastie Boys - Check Your Head Capitol
16. Pavement- Slanted And Enchanted Big Cat
17. The Shaman - Boss Drum One Little Indian
18. Brian Eno - Nerve Net Opal
19. Boo Radleys - Everything's Alright Forever Creation
20. Flaming Lips - Hit To Death In The Future Head Wea
21. Future Sound Of London - Accelerator Jumpin' & Pumpin
22. Carter Usm - 1992: The Love Album Chrysalis
23. Cypress Hill - Cypress Hill Columbia
24. Inner City - Praise Ten
25. Ride - Going Blank Again Creation
26. Meat Beat Manifesto - Satyricon Play It Again Sam
27. Lemonheads - It's A Shame About Ray East/West
28. Therapy? - Nurse A&M
29. Eric B & Rakim - Don't Sweat The Technique Mca
30. The Jesus And Mary Chain - Honey's Dead Wea
31. Levitation - Need For Not Rough Trade
32. Momus - Voyager Creation
33. Epmd - Business Never Personal Columbia
34. Mudhoney - Piece Of Cake Wea
35. Del Tha Funkee Homosapien - I Wish My Brother George Was Here Island
36. Gang Starr - Daily Operation Cooltempo
37. Tom Waits - Bone Machine Island
38. Fatima Mansions - Valhalla Avenue Radioactive
39. Babes In Toyland - Fontanelle South Ern
40. Rollins Band - The End Of Silence Imago
41. The Cure - Wish Flction
42. Body Count - Body Count Wea
43. Silverfish - Organ Fan Creation
44. Spectrum - Soul Kiss (Glide Divine) Silvertone
45. Sugar Bullet - Unrefined Virgin
46. Superchunk - No Pocky For Kitty City Slang
47. Various - Volume 4 Volume
48. The Tyrrel Corporation - North East Of Eden Cooltempo
49. The House Of Love - Babe Rainbow Fontana
50. Various Guerilla - Dub House Disco

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 7 May 2007 16:12 (eighteen years ago)

An over abundance of forward thinking reggae and funk and dance music on that Spin list as you can see...

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 7 May 2007 16:26 (eighteen years ago)

So Spin's lists went the same stick-up-the-ass indie direction as NME's in the post-Leland era. No surprise there. Your point?

― xhuxk, Monday, 7 May 2007 16:35 (eighteen years ago)

You wrote for it.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 7 May 2007 16:36 (eighteen years ago)

1. Arrested Development - Three Years, Five Months And Two Days In The LIfe Of...
2. Omar - Music
3. Red Hot Chili Pepper - Love Sex Sugar Magik
4. Jah Wobble - Invaders Of The Heart
5. Inner City - Praise
6. Neneh Cherry - Homebrew
7. kd lang - Ingenue
8. Pete Rock & CL Smooth - Mecca & The Soul Brother
9. Ultramarine - Every Man And Woman Is A Star
10. Balanescu Quartet - Possessed

This is a list that does actually have reggae, funk, and dance influences on it. It's also fucking appaling.

― Dom Passantino, Monday, 7 May 2007 16:38 (eighteen years ago)

You wrote for it.

So? What does that have to do with anything?

― xhuxk, Monday, 7 May 2007 16:40 (eighteen years ago)

You were the one who wanted me to explain why NME didn't have forward thinking... etc in it like it did in the 80s and I said I wasn't a journalist and didn't write for it so how would I know. Since you did write for Spin I thought you would give us the benefit of your knowledge of writing for it.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 7 May 2007 16:42 (eighteen years ago)

Their editors got dumber? (Just like NME's did, apparently?) You don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to figure that out.

― xhuxk, Monday, 7 May 2007 16:43 (eighteen years ago)

i'm glad you like 'Change Of Heart', 600.

― blueski, Monday, 7 May 2007 16:44 (eighteen years ago)

But it's a writers poll. So maybe the writers got dumber then.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 7 May 2007 16:45 (eighteen years ago)

I don't think it is, actually. If it is, they sure never sent me a ballot.

And sorry, but Sugar and REM and Spiritualized and the fucking Lemonheads were not more interesting than Inner City or Pete Rock.

― xhuxk, Monday, 7 May 2007 16:46 (eighteen years ago)

(If you mean NME's is a writers's poll, though, you might have a point. Spin's lists, I'm pretty sure, have always been done in house.)

― xhuxk, Monday, 7 May 2007 16:48 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah I meant NME was a writers poll. Same with Kerrang (who actually print all the writers top tens).
Who is Pete Rock btw?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 7 May 2007 16:49 (eighteen years ago)

Anyone part from Chuck know who Pete Rock is?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 7 May 2007 22:01 (eighteen years ago)

yeah.

but inner city were shit by 1992.

― That one guy that quit, Monday, 7 May 2007 22:02 (eighteen years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Rock

― ailsa, Monday, 7 May 2007 22:07 (eighteen years ago)

hang on, funky divas came out in this year and only spin acknowledged it??? and only q of all the fucking things repped for little earthquakes???? there is seriously no fucking excuse for that.

i like that suzanne vega album too. and i haven't heard the omar or brand new heavies ones but i am 100% sure they are way way way superior to 80% of the nme list.

actually you know i'm REALLY GLAD the nme never bigged up amazing music like en vogue or tori amos; if they had i might have ended up buying it religiously or something terrible like that, and who knows what would have become me. thanks, nme idiots, your dreadful taste in music saved me!

― lex pretend, Monday, 7 May 2007 22:10 (eighteen years ago)

but inner city were shit by 1992.

they meet the criteria for this list in that respect then. 'hallelujah 92' and 'pennis from heaven' are both alright tho.

― blueski, Monday, 7 May 2007 23:01 (eighteen years ago)

Were you buying NME in 1992 Steve?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 7 May 2007 23:17 (eighteen years ago)

no i was only buying games magazines at that point having not gotten over the loss of Record Mirror ;_;

― blueski, Monday, 7 May 2007 23:38 (eighteen years ago)

I was buying it in 1992, and remember thinking "Oh dear, that's very surprising and stupid" when Copper Blue came top.

― Alba, Monday, 7 May 2007 23:42 (eighteen years ago)

Anyway, yes, this is a dreadful list. Perhaps the worst NME ever came up with?

― Alba, Monday, 7 May 2007 23:43 (eighteen years ago)

the fuss about this list does seem daft as it's clear it was assembled during a 3 hour boozy pub session by the 5 people who could be arsed at the time (inc. 15 yr old work experience chappie).

― blueski, Monday, 7 May 2007 23:45 (eighteen years ago)

Any list with Carter USM as a best album candidate is by definition shit. Horrid, Horrid band.

― leavethecapital, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 03:33 (eighteen years ago)

That was a toughie. I didn't heart Manics then, so it's all about Pavement by default

― Morley Timmons, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 09:24 (eighteen years ago)

Hmm...a three-way tie between dC, PJ and kd, so I vaulted over all three and went for Denim (Slanted isn't my favourite Pavement album...far from it...and Juliana Hatfield bringing up the rear but the first TLC album should certainly have been there).

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 09:34 (eighteen years ago)

also agree re. En Vogue and maybe Little Earthquakes.

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 09:35 (eighteen years ago)

I still have the cassette of Slanted that I bought the week it came out. This means something, and that something is probably bad

― Morley Timmons, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 09:40 (eighteen years ago)

the first TLC album came out in this year too? and NO ONE acknowledged it?

wtf were rock critics playing at in these days?

― lex pretend, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 10:04 (eighteen years ago)

Ludo?

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 10:04 (eighteen years ago)

rock critics were writing about rock music maybe?

― 600, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 10:05 (eighteen years ago)

ok POP MUSIC critics

― lex pretend, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 10:06 (eighteen years ago)

Listening to rock music

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 10:06 (eighteen years ago)

i mean, dude, vainquers lyot and red planet star dancer came out that year and are immeasurably better than all those albums (and, indeed, all albums), but i wouldnt be crying in my beer and falling to the ground because nme didnt write about them

― 600, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 10:07 (eighteen years ago)

were any dance mags doing EOY lists at this point? "it wasn't an album genre back then you know"

― blueski, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 10:09 (eighteen years ago)

I suppose metal fans would complain about the NME list missing out all that stuff but I don't think anyone would expect NME to have much metal in their list.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 10:10 (eighteen years ago)

^^^ theyre not albums stevie masherano

― 600, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 10:11 (eighteen years ago)

wvs, preferring any given album on the nme list (bar maybe two or three) to en vogue's funky divas is a moral failing in my eyes

― lex pretend, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 10:12 (eighteen years ago)

Muzik http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/muzik.htm#1995 and Mixmag http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/mixmag.html#1995 started 1995 (or at least that's the 1st time they show up on that site.

I guess steve should do that poll.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 10:13 (eighteen years ago)

i mean seriously just try saying out loud "yeah i prefer the boo radleys/the lemonheads/rem/manic street preachers/fucking morrissey urgh/the beautiful south (!!!!)/emf/black crowes/neil boring young to en vogue"!!!!! and you will realise how appallingly SILLY you sound

― lex pretend, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 10:15 (eighteen years ago)

lex, stop it, you're going too far

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 10:17 (eighteen years ago)

i said it out loud and a man said who are you talking to? and you were right, i felt very silly

i wont try that again. thanks for nothing

― 600, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 10:18 (eighteen years ago)

Ok here we go [url=[Removed Illegal Link] Dance Album Of 1995 Poll[/url

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 10:19 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.ilxor.com:8080/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=57711#unread

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 10:20 (eighteen years ago)

This was easy: Harvest Moon. It's the only one on the list which I still regularly listen to.

I bought that Rockingbirds album. Well, it was on Heavenly and it sounded good in the shop. Big oops.

That half-baked, too short, will-this-do Carter USM album in the 1992 list is the OMGWTF equivalent of Spartacus in the 1991 list.

― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 10:51 (eighteen years ago)

i mean seriously just try writing this post and you will realise how appallingly SILLY you sound

fixd

― blueski, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 10:53 (eighteen years ago)

do you prefer the boo radleys to en vogue, steve?

i don't feel silly, i feel superior

― lex pretend, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 10:58 (eighteen years ago)

are you a nazi?

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 11:03 (eighteen years ago)

rock critics were writing about rock music

So how come the only rock band they voted for was Black Crowes?

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 11:07 (eighteen years ago)

Lex, I prefer the Boo Radleys to En Vogue!

― braveclub, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 11:10 (eighteen years ago)

do you prefer the boo radleys to en vogue, steve?

i prefer 'Lazarus' to 'Runaway Love'

― blueski, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 11:14 (eighteen years ago)

I like them both. It is possible, you know (though Everything's Alright Forever isn't that great an album; more of a tentative warm-up for Giant Steps) (xpost).

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 11:14 (eighteen years ago)

chuck you forgot that you know a very miniscule amount about england

― 600, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 11:16 (eighteen years ago)

i agree that TLC and En Vogue should've been in the list tho. why not? demographics are/should be irrelevant if the list is meant to be what the writers thought was good that year.

― blueski, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 11:16 (eighteen years ago)

Because not enough (if any) writers voted for them.

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 11:17 (eighteen years ago)

The TLC and En Vogue albums were both boring though!

― braveclub, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 11:17 (eighteen years ago)

demographics of the writers that choose to write for, and are chosen to write for

― 600, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 11:18 (eighteen years ago)

meeting the criteria etc. (xpost)

― blueski, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 11:18 (eighteen years ago)

I think it's a pretty good list for what it is; with the exceptions of Cud, the Beautiful South, EMF and the Rockingbirds I've still got all of these in my collection.

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 11:19 (eighteen years ago)

you all sadden me :(

― lex pretend, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 11:19 (eighteen years ago)

EMF > TLC, because inserting an orange into your foreskin > killing Puerto Ricans children, as far as wacky antics by dead members goes.

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 11:20 (eighteen years ago)

free your mind lex

― blueski, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 11:21 (eighteen years ago)

let your body go and your mind will follow

― 600, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 11:21 (eighteen years ago)

Robson and Jerome > Joe Meek, because being good to your mum > shooting your landlady

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 11:23 (eighteen years ago)

OTM

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 11:25 (eighteen years ago)

If Joe Meek had shoved an orange into his foreskin, that tragedy could have been averted.

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 11:25 (eighteen years ago)

Plus Joe Meek never sampled the top comedians of the hour, as EMF did with the work of TV funnyman Andrew Dice Clay

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 11:26 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe he could have produced records for Lance Percival?

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 11:26 (eighteen years ago)

they didnt have oranges back then

― 600, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 11:27 (eighteen years ago)

They carved oranges out of swede and painted them orange, and you was happy with what you got.

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 11:31 (eighteen years ago)

actually have heard too many of these but I went for ice cube, even tho 13-yr old me prob would've went for ministry. mostly because I still have a poster of the predator album cover and he's smoking a bowl w/a skull on it, which is pretty sweet.

― original bgm, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 14:44 (eighteen years ago)

I wonder if all the Spiritualized fans are too talked out on the other thread to bother with this one.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 15:12 (eighteen years ago)

ie Kate to thread

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 15:53 (eighteen years ago)

Reading this list makes me think two things:

a) my god, I really wasn't into music Back Then

b) did people really think Stereo MCs were that important?

― Forest Pines, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 18:02 (eighteen years ago)

people thought Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine were important

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 18:03 (eighteen years ago)

People loved Stereo MCs. Knew people who loved Carter but I doubt they would say they did now. ILXors are a different case though. Plenty showed their love for them not so long ago in a previous thread.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 21:14 (eighteen years ago)

Several prominent and once-prominent ILXors are going to see Carter live in the Autumn.

― Groke, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 21:16 (eighteen years ago)

And I bet you are one!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 21:17 (eighteen years ago)

1992: The Love Album was far from their finest half-hour, I admit.

― Groke, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 21:18 (eighteen years ago)

vile band

― 696, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 21:21 (eighteen years ago)

Doesn't mean any of them would claim they were important. I like plenty of bands that don't matter one fuck in the grand scheme of things.

BTW, pfunkboy, ILXors are people too.

― ailsa, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 21:25 (eighteen years ago)

Not people I know in real life though.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 22:05 (eighteen years ago)

Geir do you have a best of 1992 list?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 22:21 (eighteen years ago)

Wait a minute... Carter are playing live in the autumn? ...and they're sold out already! Damn!

― ledge, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 22:42 (eighteen years ago)

Copper Blue - Sugar

I still play this and love it. To me it finally took the melodies and vocals that were buried in Husker Du and allowed them to shine through. Most of my Du-Gooder friends hated Sugar and most of Mould's solo output but I am not most Du-Gooders.

Hypocrisy is the greatest luxury - Disposable heroes of hiphoprisy

This is one of my favorite hip-hop albums...

The predator- Ice cube

...Alongside this. For very different reasons - I dig Franti's lyrical musings and this is Ice Cube's best *sounding* record by far.

Generation terrorists - Manic street preachers

Underrated.

Psalm 69:How to succeed & suck eggs - Ministry

Heh. Not their best but still sounds great in the local Goth emporium.

Wish - The Cure

I just bought this for three bucks.

Bricks are heavy - L7

Liked it a lot at the time, haven't played it in ages.

Play with toys - dcBasehead

I really liked this band when they came out (and a lot of Imago's roster actually especially the overlooked Orangutang) but haven't listened in ages.

Check your head - Beastie boys

A solid disc I revisit sometimes.

The verdict: Sugar barely beats The Predator.

― NYCNative, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 22:55 (eighteen years ago)

Geir do you have a best of 1992 list?

I do have Top 50 lists for every year at RYM. The lists don't tell how I consider most early 90s years rather weak years for music though.

― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 01:25 (eighteen years ago)

Tom Waits - Bone Machine.

― jed_, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 01:41 (eighteen years ago)

actually you know i'm REALLY GLAD the nme never bigged up amazing music like en vogue or tori amos; if they had i might have ended up buying it religiously or something terrible like that, and who knows what would have become me. thanks, nme idiots, your dreadful taste in music saved me!

-- lex pretend, Monday, 7 May 2007 22:10 (Yesterday)

my guess is you'd be going overboard in praise of lemonheads and babes in toyland and calling anyone who liked nme favourites en vogue a revanchist idiot. just a guess.

― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 07:43 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe there's an alternate reality with an indie-rock loving Lex out there posting on message boards.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 12:10 (eighteen years ago)

I went for the Boo Radleys, but it wasn't easy.

― the next grozart, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 12:53 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe there's an alternate reality with an indie-rock loving Lex out there posting on message boards

There was that one guy, liked Mansun, used to post here a bit.

― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 12:57 (eighteen years ago)

Louis RIP.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 10 May 2007 00:34 (eighteen years ago)

Last day of voting.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 10 May 2007 13:19 (eighteen years ago)

Couple of hours voting left.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 10 May 2007 20:41 (eighteen years ago)

Did everyone vote Pavement just to piss the lex off ? ;)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 10 May 2007 23:23 (eighteen years ago)

if pavement win i'll be nauseated. god, ilm-ers have awful taste these days.

-- lex pretend, Sunday, 6 May 2007 07:57 (4 days ago)

Someone get him a bucket.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 10 May 2007 23:26 (eighteen years ago)

No votes for The Orb!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 11 May 2007 08:35 (eighteen years ago)

Has The Lex seen this?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 11 May 2007 15:44 (eighteen years ago)

I feel slightly sorry for The Orb now

― Forest Pines, Friday, 11 May 2007 18:38 (eighteen years ago)

Just wondering what people think SHOULD have been in this list that was missed out. Any good stuff that should have been in it?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Saturday, 12 May 2007 00:02 (eighteen years ago)

MM Albums 1992

1. Automatic for the people - REM
2. Slanted and enchanted - Pavement
3. Hypocrisy is the greatest luxury - Disposable heroes of hiphoprisy
4. Red heaven - Throwing muses
5. Eleven:eleven - Come
6. Dry - P.J. Harvey
7. Henry's dream - Nick Cave & the bad seeds
8. Down colourful hill - Red house painters
9. Ten - Pearl jam
10. UF Orb - The Orb
11. Lazer guided melodies - Spiritualized
12. Let me come over - Buffalo Tom
13. Fontanelle - Babes in toyland
14. Rockin' the forest - Sebadoh
15. 3 years, 5 months, 2 days... - Arrested development
16. Copper blue - Sugar
17. Praise - Inner city
18. Hollywood town hall - The Jayhawks
19. It's a shame about ray - The lemonheads
20. Valhalla avenue - Fatima mansions
21. Accelerator - Future sound of London
22. Psalm 69:How to succeed & suck eggs - Ministry
23. Dirty - Sonic youth
24. Back in denim - Denim
25. Congregation - Afghan whigs
26. Barely real - Codeine
27. Double dare ya - Bikini kill
28. ...Well? - Swell
29. Hit to death in the future head - The flaming lips
30. Nurse - Therapy?

MM Singles 1992

1. The drowners - Suede
2. Sheela na gig - P.J. Harvey
3. Taillight fade - Buffalo Tom
4. Metal Mickey - Suede
5. Fast piss blues - Come
6. Trigger cut - Pavement
7. Scum - Bark psychosis
8. My world is empty without you - Afghan whigs
9. Weekender - Flowered up
10. Car - Come
11. Avenue - St Etienne
12. Drive - REM
13. Papua new guinea - Future sound of London
14. Pretend we're dead - L7
15. Dusted - Belly
16. leave them all behind - Ride
17. The blue room - The Orb
18. Gravity grave - Verve
19. Connected - Stereo MC's
20. Rubbing the impossible to burst - Huggy bear

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Saturday, 12 May 2007 00:06 (eighteen years ago)

Right Said Fred received votes? WTF?

― SeekAltRoute, Saturday, 12 May 2007 03:51 (eighteen years ago)

i am an avid husker fan, would love it if someone could explain sugar to me

― davedestroybox, Saturday, 12 May 2007 19:29 (eighteen years ago)

You better not look at http://www.ilxor.com:8080/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=57658#unread

It won that poll.

Sugar were great. That's all needs explaining.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 13 May 2007 00:51 (eighteen years ago)

two months pass...

Why do people even care about this joke of a prize?

Mercury,Brits,NME,Kerrang Awards , don't need any of them. Fuck them all.

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 15:01 (eighteen years ago)

Can we ban this guy?

― 597, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 15:02 (eighteen years ago)

I loved Hüsker Dü, but Sugar gave me a hypoglycemic crash. Aside from a few choice melodies, nothing sticks. Mould was listening to shoegazer stuff at the time (odd that NME left out Catherine Wheel and Ride), but I prefer Seam - Headsparks.

What about God - Possession, Jesus Lizard - Liar, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Devotional & Love Songs, Bark Psychosis - Independency? What about Mano Negra, Cul De Sac, Kyuss, Young Gods, Stereolab, Main, Afghan Whigs, Screaming Trees, Dog Faced Hermans, Luna? As usual, not such a bad year, as long as you don't fucking rely on NME or the Voice...

― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 19 July 2007 16:16 (eighteen years ago)

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