I haven’t listened to any of these in ages. Looking back over the list the one I’d be most tempted to pull off the shelf for a listen is probably Pure Guava, strangely enough. I’m sure it’s not the best on this list though.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 16 July 2019 16:19 (five years ago) link
I like a lot of these albums a lot. I never expected to see a poll where I'd have to choose between Pure Guava and You'd Prefer An Astronaut, and that is a very difficult choice for me.
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 16 July 2019 20:35 (five years ago) link
Pure Guava is one of these where chunks of its sequencing often plays in my head subconsciously. Don't you just love those?
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 16 July 2019 20:38 (five years ago) link
Oasis looks completely out of place in this list.
― Siegbran, Tuesday, 16 July 2019 20:59 (five years ago) link
Siamese Dream vs In Utero for me
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Tuesday, 16 July 2019 21:51 (five years ago) link
the fact that Pure Guava was Ween's "Major Label" album will always be funny to me. its such a dopey little album - I never really parsed what a lot of the actual songs were until I heard the live versions. still, "Little Birdy" will always be one of the all-time great album openers, that guitar tone is wild
― frogbs, Tuesday, 16 July 2019 21:55 (five years ago) link
Blind Melon - Soup
plenty of records i love on this list but i might vote for this one bc no one else will
I uh actually almost voted for this for the same reason (but ended up going with Guyville)
― think the toledo mud hens but for twitter (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 16 July 2019 22:08 (five years ago) link
If this included Gala instead of Spooky, my vote would be obvious
Leaning Bjork but To Bring You My Love is beckoning
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Tuesday, 16 July 2019 22:12 (five years ago) link
Rid of Me, or In Utero, or Live through This.
― akm, Tuesday, 16 July 2019 22:17 (five years ago) link
spooky
― brimstead, Tuesday, 16 July 2019 23:01 (five years ago) link
the Guthrie production never bothered me, in fact, it rules imo
― brimstead, Tuesday, 16 July 2019 23:02 (five years ago) link
I feel like the production made a lot of the songs feel inconsequential and bland. (Not so much so that I dislike the album but definitely enough that I didn't like it as much as I wanted to.)
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Tuesday, 16 July 2019 23:05 (five years ago) link
Turns out a 10-year break was all I needed to laugh my ass off at the stupid shit on Pure Guava again.
― o. nate, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 01:46 (five years ago) link
I might go for Soup, too. I love the interplay of the guitars and I think Shannon Hoon was an underrated (if sentimental) lyricist.
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 14:36 (five years ago) link
Another opportunity for me to point out the stunning similarity between Shannon Hoon's and Micky Dolenz's singing voices.
― Logy Psycho (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 15:08 (five years ago) link
Hoon and Karen Dalton too!
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 15:11 (five years ago) link
Why Jar of Flies over Dirt? The former too heavy?
― chap, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 15:55 (five years ago) link
Anyway it's Faith No More vs Bjork.
― chap, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 15:56 (five years ago) link
xpost I mentioned it upthread. Dirt is bad vibes city. I can appreciate it for what it is but I can't really listen to it these days. Whereas Jar of Flies is improbably gorgeous and almost perfect and still in fairly regular rotation for me.
― Logy Psycho (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 16:07 (five years ago) link
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― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 16:09 (five years ago) link
Siamese Dream wins by a nose, Hole / FNM / Nirvana tie for 2nd place. 1992-1995 era me would have complained about the lack of RATM, RCHP and Weezer on this list tbh.
― help yourself to another slice of apple ... crumble (Willl), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 16:12 (five years ago) link
It is, perhaps, telling that 2019 era you isn't making too big a stink about their omission. I could never really get into any of those dudes.
― Logy Psycho (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 16:16 (five years ago) link
Nowadays when I hear RATM I can't help but picture de la Rocha marching offstage after a heavy 'FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHATCHA TELL ME' sesh and walking up to an Epic exec and being allhttps://media0.giphy.com/media/dpqQNluWFaSpq/giphy.gif
― Logy Psycho (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 16:21 (five years ago) link
Nice to see a few fond memories of the Luscious Jackson album, that might actually be my pick. Or Bjork, but I'm feeling like neither of those quite fit in with the popularity level of Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Pumpkins et al.
― confusementalism (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 16:58 (five years ago) link
Maybe not Luscious Jackson so much (or not the first album, anyway), but if nothing else I feel like the video for 'I Miss You' got a lot of MTV play even outside of the alterna-ghetto.
― Logy Psycho (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 17:08 (five years ago) link
I remember going to a party in college before RATM had really blown up. I can’t remember if I had heard the album or a few songs before, but I was super high and someone put the debut on super loud and Bombtrack came on and sounded immense and everyone was losing their minds.
Voted Superunknown over Crooked Rain.
― Mazzy Tsar (PBKR), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 18:09 (five years ago) link
Voted Siamese Dream. Not my favorite album on this list, but when I close my eyes and conjure up Alternative Nation on MTV (and esp Buzz Bin commercials), that "Today" ice cream truck driving through the desert pops into my head more vividly than any other image.
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 20:22 (five years ago) link
it's Mellon Collie, the only Gen X magnum opus. 2 hours long, 28 songs, all of them great. would vote for it based on the lyrics alone. many great records here, but nothing is even in the same universe as Mellon Collie.
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 20:38 (five years ago) link
based on the lyrics alone
"Who wants honey / Long as there's some money"?
C'mon, flaps... ;P
― stan by me (morrisp), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 20:43 (five years ago) link
that's on Siamese Dream
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 20:43 (five years ago) link
and yeah it is a shit lyric in an otherwise perfect song
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 20:44 (five years ago) link
I have watched this in full at least 20 times
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U7QGPz4xmA
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 20:45 (five years ago) link
Haha, my bad
― stan by me (morrisp), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 20:45 (five years ago) link
(I had my wires crossed w/the 1993 thread)
― stan by me (morrisp), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 20:46 (five years ago) link
(flaps tho, I have to raise you -- "...I'm still just a rat in a cage"!)
― stan by me (morrisp), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 20:47 (five years ago) link
that one is better than honey/money and I think works in the context of the song, which is as reflexive and self aware and it is big, loud, and silly.
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 20:51 (five years ago) link
as it is*
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 20:52 (five years ago) link
besides, "the world is a vampire" is one of the all time best opening lines to a song or anything ever
at the time, all I could think when watching the video was "despite all my rage / my head still looks like an egg"
― bendy, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 20:54 (five years ago) link
at the time it would have been an extremely tough call between Check Your Head and Siamese Dream, but honestly can't listen to Corgan's bullshit any more even the "classic" stuff.
now it's basically 3-way tie for me between CYH/ CRCR/ Mellow Gold, and those just edging out Transmissions.
i guess since CYH makes it both times i should give it the vote,,,
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 21:05 (five years ago) link
'Bullet With Butterfly Wings' often reminds me of the Grand Royal interview with Weird Al where a pre-fame Spike Jonez (posing as a random fan) interrupts to present a baffled Al with the golden lyric 'despite my old age/I am still making minimum wage'.
― Logy Psycho (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 21:46 (five years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 00:01 (five years ago) link
so what’cha want is all time and I want to live inside that video with the song on infinite loop.
― epistantophus, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 00:43 (five years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Thursday, 15 August 2019 00:01 (five years ago) link
That seems about right.
― doctor johnson (askance johnson), Thursday, 15 August 2019 01:11 (five years ago) link
Yeah, v solid results.
― 60... 90... 120 Minute IPA (morrisp), Thursday, 15 August 2019 03:33 (five years ago) link