the album on the table is the table

Ooooo good picks, interesting choices. I love Thief so much! I can’t not vote for Hole tho

ooh gonna have to think about this

I can't believe I haven't heard that Lau Nau album!

Thief was the first of his that I heard, a boy I was in love with gave me a burnt CD of it my junior year in high school

I can't believe I haven't heard that Lau Nau album!

About half of these are on here because they make me weep or were exceptionally important to me at pivotal moments in what one could call my "emotional development,"

this is more or less the logic that I used when making my list

Nice to see, and I'll have to investigate a couple of these (Lau Nau?), but it's Low for me.

i like this list a lot!

Nice to see, and I'll have to investigate a couple of these (Lau Nau?), but it's Low for me.

I never see Orchestra of Bubbles, Kuutarha, Moon Pix or Alcachofa on such lists and they’re great albums. So hard to pick between those.

I don't know why but it sort of feels like cheating or ballot box stuffing to vote for something I had on my own list, so I'll vote Goo over Sound-Dust.

love this list, some amazing albums here. Props for adding “rejoicing in the hands”; there was no posturing in the albums added to my list, but there probably was some in albums I omitted…. Devendra’s music being something I associate with a very immature period of my life (intellectually/morally/aesthetically). But damn did I love it in that time.

Mass romantic - thief - moon pix - here comes the Indian - god’s money: massive run of some indie greats

Ravedeath, the curtain hits the cast, aether, STOTL, songs ohia, rust never, bee thousand, goo…. Hard to pick a single one to vote for but I’m feeling moon pix today so moon pix it is

Just tell me your fave between those 4 and I’ll vote that way. I’d probably rank them all in the same level.

I never see Orchestra of Bubbles, Kuutarha, Moon Pix or Alcachofa on such lists and they’re great albums. So hard to pick between those.

I've voted for some of these in other polls, so to spread it around I voted Rust Never Sleeps here. Great list. I love that Bill Evans album.

OoB it is then!

Yeah it was definitely also an album that was on heavy rotation for me back then.

Goo as I don't think it has shown up before

I think I saw Goo in one of the 40 polls today

Lol, yeah probably.

Surprising myself by voting for the Breeders, but it really is a great album.

Hmm, about 14 albums I love here. Good stuff!

voted for the one i have on vinyl (ur!!!)

Tim Hecker- Ravedeath, 1972

would've figured you more the "early hecker" type

this is a great list - i went for the elliott smith s/t but it's cool to see the songs:ohia s/t on here too. such a great album and so different to their later stuff!

Hole! (Voted for that.)

Some strong picks here.

Threw a vote for Shahen-Shah. A king of kings, indeed, as large as music gets.

We Shall All Be Healed or Shahen-Shah.

Glad to see Nusrat getting some love. I could have picked a few of his but Shahen-Shah was stuck in my car tape player for a week once about a decade ago, and while this was unintentional, it became and remains my favorite of the records. Just mindblowing.

this is a great list - i went for the elliott smith s/t but it's cool to see the songs:ohia s/t on here too. such a great album and so different to their later stuff!

Would have been dishonest if I didn't go with GBV here

table are you a fan of any other acts on Fonal?

I only really know Lau Nau and Paavoharju!

the Islaja records are great too, also Es "Sateenkaarisuudelma" and the 2nd one

Don't sleep on Kemialliset Ystävät or Shogun Kunitoki

oh wait i know Islaja too

Surprising myself and going with Goo for the tour alone. Nirvana opened

Weirdly, some eleven years later, I saw Sonic Youth open for Pearl Jam.

i bought Goo at a flea market in Providence in 1997– immediately put it in my Discman and was forever changed.

Saw SY a number of times, and they were always quite good, but the show that I really remember wasn’t memorable due to SY’s set— it was when Stereolab opened for them in 2000 and just absolutely destroyed the crowd, one of the best live sets I have ever seen.

Weirdly, some eleven years later, I saw Sonic Youth open for Pearl Jam.

Weirdly, some eleven years later, I saw Sonic Youth open for Pearl Jam.

Same -- the 2000 tour?

Based on you having We Shall All Be Healed AND Rust Never Sleeps on here, I'm going to make an effort to check out everything on this list that I haven't heard before.

Based on you having We Shall All Be Healed AND Rust Never Sleeps on here, I'm going to make an effort to check out everything on this list that I haven't heard before.

"Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan- Shahen Shah"

Listening to this now - excellent

xp: yeah, I get that not all the records are in the vein of tMG or Neil Young, but those are the two albums of each of those artists that I would have picked. They bode well for your other picks. Thrasher was my first favorite Neil Young song, and it resonates even more strongly for me now.

Against Pollution is my #1 tMG song without a doubt

Rapture plz

"Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan- Shahen Shah"

Listening to this now - excellent

Against Pollution is my #1 tMG song without a doubt

I just think it’s a triumph of production, the restrained rhythm section creating all this empty, tense space, the intimacy of the vocal delivery. I’ve always contended that the “empty verse/chorus” at the end of so many tMG songs, where the chords just loop without any further vocals, it’s a “ghost guitar solo”, a moment where the listener lets their own imagination fill in the final cycle

agreed!

Went for Dead Kennedys because that album meant a lot to me when I was 13-14.

yeah there's no way I can't vote for DK. my first album of theirs, instantly loved it.

same (except age 16-17)

sadly 70% of America took "Kill the Poor" a bit too literally

Great list- has a lot of artists that I wanted to include but I didn’t really have a “definitive” album of theirs that I’d settled on.

Went with Pod

like other albums on this list, the tape cassette of Pod got stuck in an old car’s deck for a while and it became imprinted on my brain. i love the Breeders but i LOVE that record, tho recently have been listening more to the demos

wait there are demos?? officially released?

Ha! Title TK got stuck in my car's CD player for years.

wait there are demos?? officially released?

YSI?

Leonardo Music Journal -- Awesome!!

they are there now.

will leave them up for a few days.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

glad that SotL made this list.

#IVoted

:)

Automatic is the one that would also make my list (not that I would make a list, but supposing i did). Orchestra of Bubbles is the one that made me happiest to see here. Voted Curtain because it's the most table, or at least the one i most associate with table.

this is maybe the best of all of the lists I've seen. almost all of these are among my all-time favorite albums, so it's hard to choose!

went with 'Round About Midnight

This list has the best Liz Phair, REM, Replacements, Hole, Dead Kennedys, Pulp, New Pornographers, Cat Power, Animal Collective, Necks, Angelo Badalamenti, Anita Baker, Arthur Russell, Guided By Voices, Tim Hecker, and Neil Young albums imo

Deflatormouse— i like that you associate me with the best Low album.

and Dan S— glad we share good taste :)

Number of albums heard: 13

Favourite: Victorialand

Least-favourite: Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables (though I like "Ill in the Head")

Nicest surprise: Ayler, Mass Romantic

Unheard, but most want to hear: Low, and Thief, one of only two Destroyer records I haven't heard

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

ended up voting for Ricardo Villalobos - Alcachofa

really interesting results! would not have guessed Victorialand would place so high, nor a few others.

Have more to remark upon but I rode my bicycle over 20 miles today and had two beers so I am toast— many thanks to all who voted

Surprising myself and going with Goo for the tour alone. Nirvana opened

don't remind me, I got there late because I didn't know who they were and missed them. well I felt kind of dumb later.

also sorry I missed voting in this one, this is indeed a wonderful list, I love most of these albums.