ILM 1995 POLL NOMINATIONS THREAD (ALBUMS ONLY)

Well, I’ve spent most of my life doing stupid things, and I figure, why change now? Besides, this should make for a nice distraction from contemplating what the best singles or albums from 2005 were or the nature of consensus this year or whatever. And it’s not like you have to vote yet! Just nominate some favorites from a decade ago and post them on this thread, and you have until FEBRUARY 28, 2006 to do so. Voting deadline will be sometime in the spring.

You don’t necessarily have to love a record to nominate it.

Remix records, movie soundtracks, and compilations released in 1995 are eligible; EPs and albums re-issued in 1995 aren’t.

Feel free to pimp stuff you love and think other people should vote for, and to smack down stuff you think sucks.

I’ll weigh in with a couple noms of my own:

Pavement Wowee Zowee (Matador)
Fugazi Red Medicine (Dischord)
Thurston Moore Psychic Hearts (DGC)
Nine Inch Nails Further Down The Spiral (Nothing/Interscope)
The Amps Pacer (4AD)
Sonic Youth Washing Machine (DGC)
Red Hot Chili Peppers One Hot Minute
Guided By Voices Alien Lanes (Matador)
The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness (Virgin)
Prick Prick
Gate Golden
Elastica Elastica
P.J. Harvey To Bring You My Love
Garbage Garbage
Helium The Dirt of Luck (Matador)
Green Day Insomniac
Rancid And Out Came The Wolves (Epitaph)

some of my 1995 nominations:

A Guy Called Gerald - Black Street Technology (Juice Box) 1995 UK [ALREADY NOMINATED]
Aphex Twin - Classics (R & S) 1995 UK
BT - Ima (Perfecto) 1995 US
Fear Factory - Demanufacture (Roadrunner) 1995 US
Garbage - Garbage (Mushroom) 1995 UK&US [ALREADY NOMINATED]
Leftfield - Leftism (Hard Hands/Sony) 1995 UK
Loop Guru - Amrita (North South) 1995 UK
Misery Loves Co - Misery Loves Co (Earache) 1995 SWE
Omni Trio - The Deepest Cut Volume 1 (Moving Shadow) 1995 UK
Slam - Headstates (Soma) 1995 UK
Stars of the Lid - Music for Nitrious Oxide (Sedimental) 1995 US
Switchblade Symphony - Serpentine Gallery (Cleopatra) 1995 US
Techno Animal - Re Entry (Virgin) 1995 UK
Tricky - Maxinquaye (Island) 1995 UK [ALREADY NOMINATED]
Whipping Boy - Heartworm (Columbia) 1995 IRE
The Young Gods - Only Heaven (Play it Again Sam) 1995 Swiss [MY TOP ALBUM OF THE 90s]

Note: Artist best-of/hits comps aren't eligible.

Archers of Loaf: Vee Vee

So much for keeping my new handle a secret.

2. ZA-liquid swords.

3. Labradford-a stable reference.

4. Mobb Deep-the infamous.

6. Fugazi-red medicine.

7. ODB-return to the 36 chambers.

8. Scarface-the diary

9. Hoover-lurid traversal of route 7.

10. Smif 'N' Wessun-dah shinin'.

Uh. Bunk each one up and add Goodie Mobb-soul food at # 10.

Bjork - Post
Death - Symbolic
Fear Factory - Demanufacture
Meshuggah - Destroy Erase Improve
Motorpsycho - Timothy's Monster
Oasis - (What's the story) morning glory
Supergrass - I should coco
Sonic Yoth - Washing machine
Refused - Songs to fan the flames of discontent

Actually a pretty nice year I guess...

Various Artists - Angus soundtrack
Moby - Everything Is Wrong
Ash - 1977
Supergrass - I Should Coco
Nine Inch Nails - Further Down The Spiral
Toadies - Rubberneck
Ben Folds Five - Ben Folds Five
The Rentals - Return of The Rentals
that Faith No More album with "Evidence"
Green Day - Insomniac
Bjork - Post
Ol' Dirty Bastard - Return To The 36 Chambers (Dirty Version)
Built To Spill - There's Nothing Wrong With Love
The Cardigans - Life

http://maridepinhomelo.ubbihp.com.br/silverchair%20%20la%20tomorrow%20dan%20mto%20fofo!.jpg

the rest of my picks have been nominated

i dont even know if i'm participating in this.

My Tentative Top 9:

1. D'Angelo, Brown Sugar (Virgin Records)
2. The Legendary Jim Ruiz Group, Oh Brother Where Art Thou? (Minty Fresh)
3. Fugazi, Red Medicine (Dischord)
4. Raekwon, Only Built 4 Cuban Linx (RCA)
5. Jonathan Richman, You Must Ask the Heart (Rounder)
6. The Cardigans, Life (Minty Fresh)
7. Elliot Smith, Elliot Smith (Kill Rock Stars)
8. Genius/GZA, Liquid Swords (Geffen Records)
9. Laika, Silver Apples of the Moon (Too Pure/Beggars Banquet)

"Connection" from Elastica, Elastica (DGC)
"Tom Courtenay" from Yo La Tengo, Electr-O-Pura (Matador)
"Wonderwall" from Oasis, (What's the Story) Morning Glory? (Sony)
"Waterfalls" from TLC, CrazySexyCool (LaFace) [released late '94]
"Birthday Cake" the early single version by Cibo Matto
"Flava In Ya Ear" from Craig Mack, Project: Funk da World (Bad Boy) [released in '94]
"I Wish" from Skee-Lo, I Wish (Scotti Bros./Sunshine)
"Over the Ocean" from Low, Long Division (Vernon Yard)
"Black Steel" from Tricky, Maxinquaye (Island)
"Motor Away" from Guided By Voices, Alien Lanes (Matador)
"Crooklyn Dodgers '95" by Return of the Crooklyn Dodgers from OST, Clockers (MCA)
"People In Search Of A Life" by Marc Dorsey from OST, Clockers (MCA)
"Natural One," by Folk Implosion from the Kids OST (Polygram)
"Runnin'" from the Pharcyde, Labcabincalifornia (Delicious Vinyl)
"Friends of P." from The Rentals, Return of The Rentals (Maverick)
"Box Full of Letters" from Wilco, A.M. (Reprise)
"The Most Beautiful Girl In The World" from Prince/[symbol], The Gold Experience (Warner Bros)
"Time Bomb" from Rancid, ...And Out Come the Wolves (Epitaph)
"I Turned Out a Punk" from Big Audio Dynamite, F-Punk (MCA)
"Doin It" from L.L. Cool J, Mr. Smith (Def Jam)
"Sweet 69" from Babes in Toyland, Nemesisters (Wea)
"What Kind of Monster Are You" from Slant 6, Inzombia (Dischord)
"Atari Teenage Riot" from Atari Teenage Riot, Delete Yourself (DHR)
"The Diamond Sea" from Sonic Youth, Washing Machine (Geffen)
"Misery" from Soul Asylum, Let Your Dim Light Shine (Sony) [I used to hate this]

Will not make the cut, but The Merrymakers' "Momument Of Me" deserves a mention nevertheless.

And yes, I am not ashamed to say it:

PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (s/t)

This is from 1994, I think.

Massive Attack - No Protection: Massive Attack Vs. Mad Professor
DJ Food - A Recipe For Disaster
Atari Teenage Riot - Delete Yourself!
Brian Wilson - I Just Wasn't Made for These Times
McAlmont and Butler - The Sound Of...McAlmont and Butler
The Fall - Cerebral Caustic
Bomb the Bass - Clear
David Holmes - This Film's Crap, Let's Slash the Seats
Masta Ace - Sittin' On Chrome
Dave Clarke - Archive One
DJ SS - DJs Delite Volume 2 (a mix)
v.a. - Routes From The Jungle

I could see the Wu rivalling Pulp, but GZA and Raekwon might split their vote some, so Pulp to win. And quite right too. I'd like to see Gerald and the Chems up there, but I guess they might not get so many US votes. And I guess there will be some American alternative rock stuff that does well, but I don't have much clue what it will be.

v.a.: Shopping ost
Nightmares on Wax: Smokers Delight
Juno Reactor: Beyond the Infinite
Baked Beans: Bean Me Up, Scotty!
C.J. Bolland: Electronic Highway
Broun Fellinis: Aphrokubist Improvisations Vol. 9
Banco de Gaia: Last Train to Lhasa

My copy of Parallel Universe with the cover below also has the year as 1995, but I'm pretty sure I've seen a version of it with a different cover that has 1994 as the release year. Can anyone back me up?

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd400/d424/d424420cy36.jpg

La Gran Banda De Venezuela - Sabrosito (This is actually really great, but kind of obscure even within the context of Latin music.)

Pulp, Different Class
Tindersticks, Second Album
PJ Harvey, To Bring You My Love
The Cardigans, Life
Boo Radleys, Wake Up!
Radiohead, The Bends
Spain, Blue Moods of Spain
Pram, Sargasso Sea
The Young Gods, Only Heaven
Garbage, Garbage
Blur, The Great Escape
Gene, Olympian
Baby Bird, Fatherhood
Cubanate, Cyberia
Eric Matthews, It's Heavy in Here
Whipping Boy, Heartworm
Elastica, Elastica
Moloko, Do You Like My Tight Sweater?