POO ILM's Best Albums of the 1990s Poll

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Poll Results

Option	Votes
5: RADIOHEAD - OK Computer (947 points, 47 votes, 5 first place votes)	6
1: MY BLOODY VALENTINE - Loveless (1563 points, 71 votes, 6 first place votes)	5
18: NIRVANA - Nevermind (621 points, 33 votes)	4
2: WU-TANG CLAN - Enter the 36 Chambers (1132 points, 55 votes, 2 first place votes)	4
17: BJORK - Homogenic (628 points, 31 votes)	3
31: BOREDOMS - Super AE (429 points, 20 votes)	2
79: OUTKAST - Aquemini (277 points, 20 votes)	2
56: ORBITAL - Orbital 2 (The Brown Album) (344 points, 20 votes)	2
23: GZA/GENIUS - Liquid Swords (541 points, 33 votes)	2
19: PAVEMENT - Slanted and Enchanted (591 points, 33 votes, 1 first place vote)	2
61: WEEZER - Pinkerton (332 points, 17 votes)	2
13: BASEMENT JAXX - Remedy (695 points, 37 votes)	2
16: PAVEMENT - Crooked Rain Crooked Rain (636 points, 34 votes, 1 first place vote)	2
11: PUBLIC ENEMY - Fear Of A Black Planet (774 points, 36 votes, 4 first place votes)	2
92: THE WEDDING PRESENT - Seamonsters (236 points, 12 votes)	2
6: DJ SHADOW - Entroducing (943 points, 47 votes, 3 first place votes)	2
7: TRICKY - Maxinquaye (896 points, 48 votes, 3 first place votes)	2
39: THE PRODIGY - (388 points, 19 votes, 3 first place votes)	1
41: SMASHING PUMPKINS - Siamese Dream (383 points, 22 votes, 1 first place vote)	1
48: NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (355 points, 17 votes, 2 first place votes)	1
49: SNOOP DOGGY DOGG - Doggystyle (354 points, 19 votes, 1 first place vote)	1
50: PRIMAL SCREAM - Screamadelica (351 points, 23 votes, 1 first place vote)	1
50: DEPECHE MODE - Violator (351 points, 18 votes)	1
4: PULP - Different Class (1047 points, 54 votes, 5 first place votes)	1
3: MAGNETIC FIELDS - 69 Love Songs (1095 points, 49 votes, 3 first place votes)	1
36: SCOTT WALKER - Tilt (393 points, 19 votes, 4 first place votes)	1
35: PIXIES - Trompe Le Monde (397 points, 21 votes, 1 first place vote)	1
10: BOARDS OF CANADA - Music Has the Right To Children (780 points, 42 votes, 1 first place vote)	1
21: NIRVANA - In Utero (552 points, 29 votes, 1 first place vote)	1
22: TALK TALK - Laughing Stock (550 points, 24 votes, 2 first place votes)	1
9: BELLE AND SEBASTIAN - If You're Feeling Sinister (810 points, 33 votes, 2 first place votes)	1
8: NAS - Illmatic (877 points, 38 votes, 3 first place votes)	1
27: PET SHOP BOYS - Very (452 points, 21 votes)	1
28: BLUR - Parklife (447 points, 29 votes)	1
34: SAINT ETIENNE - So Tough (403 points, 22 votes, 3 first place votes)	1
38: SAINT ETIENNE - Tiger Bay (389 points, 17 votes, 2 first place votes)	1
67: GRAVEDIGGAZ - 6 Feet Deep (311 points, 18 votes)	1
69: DESTINY'S CHILD - The Writing's On the Wall (305 points, 19 votes, 1 first place vote)	1
90: SPIRITUALIZED - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space (241 points, 19 votes, 1 first place vote)	1
68: KELIS - Kaleidoscope (310 points, 18 votes)	1
73: ORBITAL - In Sides (284 points, 16 votes)	1
83: GUIDED BY VOICES - Bee Thousand (260 points, 13 votes, 1 first place vote)	1
89: THE PRODIGY - Music For the Jilted Generation (244 points, 16 votes)	1
66: BELLE AND SEBASTIAN - Tigermilk (313 points, 16 votes, 1 first place vote)	1
81: SLEATER-KINNEY - Dig Me Out (271 points, 12 votes, 3 first place votes)	0
87: EMINEM - The Slim Shady LP (253 points, 18 votes)	0
86: THE FLAMING LIPS - The Soft Bulletin (255 points, 18 votes)	0
85: SLEATER-KINNEY - Call the Doctor (256 points, 13 votes)	0
78: HAPPY MONDAYS - Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches (278 points, 21 votes)	0
80: THE KLF - Chill Out (273 points, 15 votes)	0
82: MORRISSEY - Vauxhall and I (265 points, 18 votes)	0
20: MASSIVE ATTACK - Blue Lines (555 points, 34 votes, 1 first place vote)	0
84: JEFF BUCKLEY - Grace (258 points, 15 votes)	0
26: PULP - His 'n' Hers (522 points, 26 votes)	0
23: AIR - Moon Safari (541 points, 33 votes)	0
15: APHEX TWIN - Selected Ambient Works Vol. 2 (650 points, 32 votes, 1 first place vote)	0
25: DAFT PUNK - Homework (526 points, 37 votes)	0
100: TLC - CrazySexyCool (213 points, 16 votes)	0
99: OASIS - Definitely Maybe (218 points, 16 votes)	0
98: U2 - Achtung Baby (221 points, 16 votes)	0
97: OMNI TRIO The Deepest Cut Vol. 1 (223 points, 14 votes)	0
96: BARK PSYCHOSIS - Hex (224 points, 11 votes)	0
94: UNDERWORLD - Beaucoup Fish (231 points, 13 votes, 1 first place vote)	0
94: WEEZER - Weezer (231 points, 17 votes)	0
93: LAURYN HILL - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (234 points, 18 votes)	0
91: NINE INCH NAILS - The Downward Spiral (237 points, 15 votes)	0
12: PORTISHEAD - Dummy (699 points, 41 votes, 2 first place votes)	0
88: SMASHING PUMPKINS - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (249 points, 12 votes, 1 first place vote)	0
14: NOTORIOUS B.I.G. - Ready To Die (693 points, 30 votes, 3 first place votes)	0
29: YO LA TENGO - I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One (438 points, 26 votes, 1 first place vote)	0
30: MASSIVE ATTACK - Mezzanine (434 points, 29 votes)	0
77: GREEN DAY - Dookie (279 points, 18 votes)	0
71: MISSY ELLIOTT - Supa Dupa Fly (288 points, 20 votes)	0
70: BONNIE "PRINCE" BILLY - I See A Darkness (301 points, 14 votes, 2 first place votes)	0
50: BECK - Odelay (351 votes, 22 votes, 1 first place vote)	0
53: PET SHOP BOYS - Behavior (348 points, 20 votes)	0
54: UNDERWORLD - Dubnobasswithmyheadman (347 points, 22 votes)	0
55: A TRIBE CALLED QUEST - The Low End Theory (345 points, 27 votes)	0
64: UNDERWORLD - Second Toughest In the Infants (321 points, 14 votes, 2 first place votes)	0
57: DE LA SOUL - De La Soul Is Dead (342 points, 18 votes)	0
58: STEREOLAB - Emperor Tomato Ketchup (341 points, 24 votes)	0
59: ELASTICA - Elastica (339 points, 26 votes, 1 first place vote)	0
60: SAINT ETIENNE - Foxbase Alpha (336 points, 18 votes)	0
65: PJ HARVEY - To Bring You My Love (320 points, 17 votes)	0
47: DR. DRE - The Chronic (360 points, 24 votes, 1 first place vote)	0
46: R.E.M. - Automatic For the People (367 points, 26 votes)	0
45: THE ORB - The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld (371 points, 20 votes, 1 first place vote)	0
32: COCTEAU TWINS - Heaven or Las Vegas (428 points, 23 votes)	0
33: DISCO INFERNO - D.I. Go Pop (417 points, 19 votes, 2 first place votes)	0
76: AUTECHRE - Tri Repetae (280 points, 16 votes, 1 first place vote)	0
75: PJ HARVEY - Dry (281 points, 17 votes, 1 first place vote)	0
74: THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS - Dig Your Own Hole (283 points, 18 votes)	0
37: RADIOHEAD - The Bends (391 points, 26 votes)	0
62: TEENAGE FANCLUB - Bandwagonesque (330 points, 21 votes)	0
40: LIZ PHAIR - Exile In Guyville (384 points, 21 votes)	0
72: BLUR - Modern Life Is Rubbish (285 points, 14 votes, 3 first place votes)	0
42: THE SUNDAYS - Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic (381 points, 18 votes)	0
43: APHEX TWIN - Selected Ambient Works 85-92 (374 points, 25 votes)	0
44: BJORK - Post (373 points, 28 votes)	0
63: BELLE AND SEBASTIAN - The Boy With the Arab Strap (328 points, 17 votes, 1 first place vote)	0

― acrobat, Friday, 13 April 2007 10:49 (eighteen years ago)

No "Woodface", so I had to vote for "OK Computer" instead.

― Geir Hongro, Friday, 13 April 2007 10:51 (eighteen years ago)

'Loveless' will win this as well. So what's the point?

― blueski, Friday, 13 April 2007 10:55 (eighteen years ago)

WU-TANG

― groovemaaan, Friday, 13 April 2007 11:10 (eighteen years ago)

or kelis, whatever

― groovemaaan, Friday, 13 April 2007 11:11 (eighteen years ago)

well if one of the following doesn't win then u all suck hard, frankly

i can't decide personally!

100: TLC - CrazySexyCool (213 points, 16 votes)
93: LAURYN HILL - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (234 points, 18 votes)
89: THE PRODIGY - Music For the Jilted Generation (244 points, 16 votes)
75: PJ HARVEY - Dry (281 points, 17 votes, 1 first place vote)
71: MISSY ELLIOTT - Supa Dupa Fly (288 points, 20 votes)
69: DESTINY'S CHILD - The Writing's On the Wall (305 points, 19 votes, 1 first place vote)
68: KELIS - Kaleidoscope (310 points, 18 votes)
65: PJ HARVEY - To Bring You My Love (320 points, 17 votes)
58: STEREOLAB - Emperor Tomato Ketchup (341 points, 24 votes)
49: SNOOP DOGGY DOGG - Doggystyle (354 points, 19 votes, 1 first place vote)
47: DR. DRE - The Chronic (360 points, 24 votes, 1 first place vote)
44: BJORK - Post (373 points, 28 votes)
38: SAINT ETIENNE - Tiger Bay (389 points, 17 votes, 2 first place votes)
36: SCOTT WALKER - Tilt (393 points, 19 votes, 4 first place votes)
34: SAINT ETIENNE - So Tough (403 points, 22 votes, 3 first place votes)
23: AIR - Moon Safari (541 points, 33 votes)
20: MASSIVE ATTACK - Blue Lines (555 points, 34 votes, 1 first place vote)
17: BJORK - Homogenic (628 points, 31 votes)
13: BASEMENT JAXX - Remedy (695 points, 37 votes)
12: PORTISHEAD - Dummy (699 points, 41 votes, 2 first place votes)
7: TRICKY - Maxinquaye (896 points, 48 votes, 3 first place votes)

― lex pretend, Friday, 13 April 2007 11:17 (eighteen years ago)

You aaaaare
You aaaaare

Our universe, B-O-R-E
D-O-M-S in the star

Our universe, B-O-R-E
D-O-M-S in the moon

Our universe, B-O-R-E
D-O-M-S in the earth

Our universe, B-O-R-E
D-O-M-S in the sun

In the suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuun

― m the g, Friday, 13 April 2007 11:17 (eighteen years ago)

Enter The Wu Tang, obviously.

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 13 April 2007 11:18 (eighteen years ago)

Poll sucks for not having "Stone Crazy" on, though.

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 13 April 2007 11:18 (eighteen years ago)

No leftism no credibility

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 13 April 2007 11:40 (eighteen years ago)

lex, moon safari sucks

― groovemaaan, Friday, 13 April 2007 11:47 (eighteen years ago)

forget you

― blueski, Friday, 13 April 2007 11:48 (eighteen years ago)

People who care about Air in 2007 = people who care about Tarantino in 2007

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 13 April 2007 11:49 (eighteen years ago)

i thought 'This Is Hardcore' had made this old list but no.

― blueski, Friday, 13 April 2007 11:52 (eighteen years ago)

I thought ILM started off as a Manic Street Preachers message board anyway?

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 13 April 2007 11:53 (eighteen years ago)

Liquid Swordz, because I am such a fucking corndog.

― The Reverend, Friday, 13 April 2007 18:10 (eighteen years ago)

i own a grand total of four of these...

― Tim Ellison, Friday, 13 April 2007 18:12 (eighteen years ago)

let me get this straight, we voted in a poll to decide which albums out of a carefully selected group we liked best and now we're going to vote on which albums in this group we liked best

― rps, Friday, 13 April 2007 18:38 (eighteen years ago)

A really unimpressive list.

― Rockist Scientist, Friday, 13 April 2007 18:43 (eighteen years ago)

Complaining about a list? That's not like ILMers.

― kornrulez6969, Friday, 13 April 2007 18:49 (eighteen years ago)

anyway gravediggaz should have won

― rps, Friday, 13 April 2007 19:04 (eighteen years ago)

I guess I'll be the lone ILXor to rep for Bee Thousand.

― darin, Friday, 13 April 2007 19:35 (eighteen years ago)

that's a pretty ilm circa 2001 list!

― strongohulkington, Friday, 13 April 2007 19:41 (eighteen years ago)

i'd like to think a lot of those records wouldn't make the cut these days

― Charlie Howard, Saturday, 14 April 2007 07:59 (eighteen years ago)

I'd like to think TLC would come in ahead of Destiny's Child, though I'd settle for ahead of Oasis.

― The Reverend, Saturday, 14 April 2007 08:27 (eighteen years ago)

Something's missing in this list but I don't know what.

― wesley useche, Saturday, 14 April 2007 08:48 (eighteen years ago)

it should always be Nevermind by Nirvana

― CaptainLorax, Saturday, 14 April 2007 08:52 (eighteen years ago)

"Choose the sword, and you will join me. Choose the ball, and you join your mother...in death. You don't understand my words, but you must choose. So... come boy, choose life or death..."

an apt personal summary re: my choice b/w liquid swords & loveless.

― Eisbaer, Saturday, 14 April 2007 10:41 (eighteen years ago)

and where's souvlaki or pygmalion on this bitch, huh?!?

― Eisbaer, Saturday, 14 April 2007 10:51 (eighteen years ago)

Tough choice between Aquemini and Gravediggaz.

― Tuomas, Saturday, 14 April 2007 11:28 (eighteen years ago)

"3: MAGNETIC FIELDS - 69 Love Songs (1095 points, 49 votes, 3 first place votes) "

WAHT

― That one guy that quit, Saturday, 14 April 2007 11:30 (eighteen years ago)

"10: BOARDS OF CANADA - Music Has the Right To Children (780 points, 42 votes, 1 first place vote)
9: BELLE AND SEBASTIAN - If You're Feeling Sinister (810 points, 33 votes, 2 first place votes) "

LOL MEMORIES

― That one guy that quit, Saturday, 14 April 2007 11:32 (eighteen years ago)

ZING CULTURE CHASED BOARDS OF CANADA FANS OFF ILM

― Dom Passantino, Saturday, 14 April 2007 11:47 (eighteen years ago)

83: GUIDED BY VOICES - Bee Thousand (260 points, 13 votes, 1 first place vote)
82: MORRISSEY - Vauxhall and I (265 points, 18 votes)
81: SLEATER-KINNEY - Dig Me Out (271 points, 12 votes, 3 first place votes)

practically zings itself

― That one guy that quit, Saturday, 14 April 2007 11:52 (eighteen years ago)

I can't pick one. It's Nevermind or nothing for me then.

― sonderangerbot, Saturday, 14 April 2007 13:48 (eighteen years ago)

Poll sucks for not having "Stone Crazy" on, though.

-- Dom Passantino, Friday, April 13, 2007 7:18 AM (Yesterday)

8080 or whatever

― and what, Saturday, 14 April 2007 13:53 (eighteen years ago)

Something's missing in this list but I don't know what.

-- wesley useche,

JULIAN COPE: Peggy Suicide

― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 14 April 2007 15:28 (eighteen years ago)

The NAS album has to be the most over-rated albums in history.
I don't hate it, but it's just so average. I mean the first Naughty By Nature album, which never makes these lists, just towers over Illmatic.

― nicky lo-fi, Saturday, 14 April 2007 15:41 (eighteen years ago)

i own a grand total of four of these...

-- Tim Ellison, Friday, April 13, 2007 11:12 AM (Yesterday)

me too.

― gershy, Saturday, 14 April 2007 15:52 (eighteen years ago)

that's a pretty ilm circa 2001 list!

I was gonna say.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 14 April 2007 16:00 (eighteen years ago)

Something's missing in this list but I don't know what.

Yeah I kinda feel that way, too...hard to put a finger on.

I'm trying to figure out if I should vote for the one I play the most now, or the one I really think is "the best".

― Bimble, Saturday, 14 April 2007 16:01 (eighteen years ago)

The list has no proper techno, house or drum'n'bass records. Of course these aren't exactly the most album-oriented genres, but I don't remember them doing that well in the singles poll either.

― Tuomas, Saturday, 14 April 2007 16:23 (eighteen years ago)

Oh yes, all of the twenty+ dahnce albums are false dahnce. You really should complain.

― The Reverend, Saturday, 14 April 2007 23:04 (eighteen years ago)

Of course they're dance, but they're not house, techno or d'n'b. It's merely an observation.

― Tuomas, Saturday, 14 April 2007 23:13 (eighteen years ago)

97: OMNI TRIO The Deepest Cut Vol. 1 (223 points, 14 votes) ?

― acrobat, Sunday, 15 April 2007 00:01 (eighteen years ago)

Okay I give up. It's Orbital's Brown Album (Orbital 2). It just came to me that was the answer. I was lost before and now I'm found. If I'd tried to arrive at that by thinking about it I would never have been able to decide, but instead it just came to me. And I knew it was truth.

The sad thing is I *so* wanted to vote for Massive Attack. Damn, can we do this next year?

― Bimble, Sunday, 15 April 2007 03:54 (eighteen years ago)

Hole: Live Through This
PJ Harvey: Rid of Me

you all missed the best ones

― daria-g, Sunday, 15 April 2007 04:24 (eighteen years ago)

Holy shit! You're right! I thought Rid of Me was in this bitch!? But it was Dry wasn't it? I was fooled! I want my money back! (not that I paid any)

― Bimble, Sunday, 15 April 2007 05:08 (eighteen years ago)

That's what was missing, that.

― Bimble, Sunday, 15 April 2007 05:09 (eighteen years ago)

SEAMONSTERS

like...duh

― stephen, Sunday, 15 April 2007 05:43 (eighteen years ago)

Well...umm...that one too...um....*guilty*

See I told you I can't decide! Um...

― Bimble, Sunday, 15 April 2007 06:10 (eighteen years ago)

One thing about these polls is that people forget about them once they've voted and only weirdos like me will dredge it up to share the results with everyone. Really, this should be the responsibility of the pollstarter.

Also, does anyone actually still dig up OK Computer and listen to it? I can't imagine it.

― danzig, Monday, 23 April 2007 03:57 (eighteen years ago)

ok computer is earning a well earned rest. i'm sure i'll pull it out in a couple of years and fall in love with it all over again. but it's simply the best record on that list. with cr, cr up there pretty close

― Charlie Howard, Monday, 23 April 2007 06:12 (eighteen years ago)

oh ilm you are so so fucking lame

― lex pretend, Monday, 23 April 2007 06:26 (eighteen years ago)

easy...

― I know, right?, Monday, 23 April 2007 06:31 (eighteen years ago)

aw i really thought enter the wu would do it this time!

― acrobat, Monday, 23 April 2007 08:33 (eighteen years ago)

who is my Remedy bro?

― blueski, Monday, 23 April 2007 09:50 (eighteen years ago)

who the fuck wants to listen to fucking nevermind today?

― groovemaaan, Monday, 23 April 2007 12:53 (eighteen years ago)

thirteen years pass...

Mine imo.

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