The Best 1996 according to Q, Select and Mojo(Ends 13. May)

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Based on entries from the only three important mags (one of which is sadly no more), there should be something to choose from.

Poll Results

OptionVotes
Screaming trees - Dust 7
Genius/Gza - Liquid swords 6
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing.. 3
Tortoise - Millions now living will never die 2
Pearl Jam - No code 2
Boo Radleys - C’mon kids 2
The Auteurs - After murder park 2
Orbital - In sides 1
Denim - Denim on ice 1
Super Furry Animals - Fuzzy logic 1
Maria McKee - Life is sweet 1
Rocket From The Crypt - Scream dracula scream1
Metalheads - Metalheads presents platinum breakz 1
Earl Brutus - Your majesty..we are here 1
Beck - Odelay 1
Stereolab - Emperor tomato ketchup 1
Sneaker Pimps - Becoming X 1
Fugees - The score 1
Manic Street Preachers - Everything must go 1
Suede - Coming up 1
Weezer - Pinkerton 1
Dodgy - Free peace sweet 1
Barry Adamson - Oedipus Schmoedipus 0
60ft Dolls - The big 3 0
Space - Spiders 0
Shed Seven - A maximum high 0
The Aloof - Sinking 0
Various - Trainspotting OST 0
Ernist Ranglin - Below the bassline 0
Mazzy Star - Among my swan 0
Nas - It is written 0
Sheryl Crow - Sheryl Crow 0
R. L. Burnside - A ass pocket of whiskey 0
Gretchen Peters - The secret of life 0
Sleeper - The it girl 0
Cassandra Wilson - New moon daughter 0
Jimmie Dale Gilmore - Braver newer world 0
The Lemonheads - Car button cloth 0
Nasrat Fateh Ali Khan & Michael Brook - Night song 0
Steve Earle - I feel alright 0
George Clinton - T.A.P.O.A.F.O.M. 0
Oumou Sangare - Worotan 0
Elvis Costello - All this useless beauty 0
Willie Nelson - Sprit 0
ZZ Top - Rhythmeen 0
Gillian Welch - Revival 0
Lewis Taylor - Lewis Taylor 0
Tasmin Archer - Bloom 0
The High Llamas - Hawaii 0
DJ Jon Carter - Live at the social Vol 2 0
Julian Cope - Interpreter 0
Norma Waterson - Norma Waterson 0
Joe Henry - Trampoline 0
Everything But The Girl - Walking wounded 0
Ash - 1977 0
The Divine Comedy - Casanova 0
The Cardigans - First band on the moon 0
Billy Bragg - William Bloke 0
The Blue Nile - Peace at last 0
The Beautiful South - Blue is the colour 0
Babylon Zoo - The boy with the X-ray eyes 0
Babybird - Ugly Beautiful 0
Underworld - Second toughest in the infants 0
Sting - Mercury falling 0
REM - New Adventures In Hi Fi 0
Ocean Colour Scene - Moseley shoals 0
Def Leppard - Slang 0
Iona - Journey to the moon 0
Kris Kristofferson - A moment forever 0
Kula Shaker - K 0
Terrorvision - Regular urban survivors 0
Sparklehorse - Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot 0
Patti Smith - Gone again 0
Patti Rothberg - Between the 1 and the 9 0
The Tony Rich project - Words 0
Lou Reed - Set the twilight reeling 0
Courtney Pine - Modern day jazz stories 0
Tom Petty nd The Heartbreakers - Songs & music from She’s the one 0
Pet Shop Boys - Bilingual 0
Nirvana - From the muddy banks of the Wishkah 0
New Edition - Home again 0
George Michael - Older 0
Longpigs - The sun is often out 0
Lightning Seeds - Dizzy heights 0
Chikhlo - Ne la thass 0
Ben Folds Five - Ben Folds Five 0


Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 21:35 (eighteen years ago)

Happy to see Dodgy in two out of three lists. I voted for that one obviously. :)

Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 21:36 (eighteen years ago)

man stttttttop with the POLLS

Mr. Que, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 21:36 (eighteen years ago)

ONE PER USER PER WEEK

blueski, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 21:39 (eighteen years ago)

"Only one going per user at a time", maybe.

Geir if you post them all now you'll have none left in a month!

Groke, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 21:41 (eighteen years ago)

Geir if you post them all now you'll have none left in a month!

That would be "the best guitar solos coming in after 2 minutes of the song" then. :)

Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 21:41 (eighteen years ago)

the EOY list ones really are not that interesting when it's OPO. predictable outcomes on every one so far.

blueski, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 21:42 (eighteen years ago)

Tasmin Archer - Bloom

haha when unpacking this weekend i unearthed an actual copy of this!

lex pretend, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 21:47 (eighteen years ago)

i might tick it because it's not as if anything else is particularly inspired

lex pretend, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 21:48 (eighteen years ago)

Sleeping Satellites is one of the worst songs ever. Horrid!

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 22:03 (eighteen years ago)

Anyway I'll take Orbital over Underworld in this poll.

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 22:04 (eighteen years ago)

Fugees, then DJ Shadow

Matos W.K., Tuesday, 8 May 2007 22:07 (eighteen years ago)

This was the first year I got *stupidly* obsessive and bananas over music so it's nice that there are albums here that I really still like, namely Underworld, Orbital, Stereolab and to a lesser extent RFTC. Also Liquid FUCKING Swords but I only heard it last year

DJ Mencap, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 22:08 (eighteen years ago)

I want to say DJ Shadow cos I loved it at the time but it's so long since I've listened to it

DJ Mencap, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 22:08 (eighteen years ago)

'96 was the year i started obsessing in that teenage way over particular artists, most notabl tori amos; it's the kind of age where teenagers gravitate towards devouring the music press, too. i nearly did, but when i discovered that their attitude towards tori was to scorn and mock, i knew then that it was not to be trusted. history, and these sodding lists, have proved me right :)

anyway i see that boys for pele is absent here despite being a million times better than all of them put together.

lex pretend, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 22:29 (eighteen years ago)

except fugees

lex pretend, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 22:29 (eighteen years ago)

ugh i totally screwed up my subjects in that post!

lex pretend, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 22:30 (eighteen years ago)

you should've read Channel 4's music pages (Beatbox) on Teletext in 92. they used to give every Tori Amos single top marks.

blueski, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 22:32 (eighteen years ago)

mind you they did the same for A House. different writers tho eh.

blueski, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 22:32 (eighteen years ago)

i never really figured out what teletext was

lex pretend, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 22:33 (eighteen years ago)

i shoulda known.

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

all Manics, all the time

Morley Timmons, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 00:27 (eighteen years ago)

Pinkerton, then DJ Shadow, then Trainspotting.

Nicest person I've met on the list: Patti Rothberg

xhuxk, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 00:42 (eighteen years ago)

Shadow by far.

JN$OT, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 06:04 (eighteen years ago)

man, how pissed is geir gonna be when liquid swords wins? (or even endtroducing.)

ian, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 06:09 (eighteen years ago)

I'll not be too surprised if one of those wins, considering the melodic pop votes will be spread between 50-60 albums.

Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 09:52 (eighteen years ago)

What I'd have voted for then: Ben Folds Five
What I'm voting for now: GZA
Person who needs to stop posting polls: Hongro

Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 10:02 (eighteen years ago)

EARL BRUTUS

braveclub, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 10:04 (eighteen years ago)

ooh i just noticed stereolab and sheryl crow in there - those are both v good albums. ha, i loved the sneaker pimps at the time.

lex pretend, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 10:14 (eighteen years ago)

though to be honest everything is so inferior to boys for pele, and i'm so outraged by its absence, that i can't bring myself to vote at all.

lex pretend, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 10:15 (eighteen years ago)

While I was collecting the entries, it was notable that Mojo represented a considerably larger stylistic spread than Q and Select. While the latter two were in the midst of a Britpop craze, filling the list with mostly more or less Britpop albums, Mojo - who have never cared much about present trends - was all over the place in their picks.

Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 10:52 (eighteen years ago)

Shut up.

Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 10:55 (eighteen years ago)

Dom 8080

braveclub, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 11:23 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe not surprising how the non-Britpop picks dominate totally, as they were lots and lots of Britpop picks to choose from.

Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 11:26 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe not surprising how the non-Britpop picks dominate totally, as they were more interesting than, say, the 60ft dolls album.... etc

Mark G, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 11:29 (eighteen years ago)

screaming trees? thats a real surprise!

696, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 11:30 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe not surprising how the non-Britpop picks dominate totally, as they were more interesting than, say, the 60ft dolls album.... etc

Honely I don't see what 60 Ft Dolls and Shed Seven are doing in the list. And obviously I can hardly think of anyone, even Britpop nuts, who'd vote for them today.

Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 11:31 (eighteen years ago)

There are several great albums in the list that got 0 votes too though.

Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 11:32 (eighteen years ago)

GEIR YOU MADE THE LIST!!!

Mark G, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 11:33 (eighteen years ago)

And obviously I can hardly think

OT80

blueski, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 11:40 (eighteen years ago)

GO THE SCREAMING TREES!!! WOOHOO!!

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 11:49 (eighteen years ago)

Nobody voted Underworld????!!!

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 11:50 (eighteen years ago)


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