Spin Magazine's "10 Best albums you didn't hear in '95" POLL

no protection

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granny mclennan! i loved her on hee haw. thought she was dead by 1995.

hahahah

It's the typo that had to be made.

Papas Fritas were sort of like an American NWONW band:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=4CSrfnURDpU&

Rubbish tho, obvs.

I don't see how Granny McLennan wouldn't win this.

I'd actually put Laika up against that pretty evenly.

the debut PF album is great! i voted for it, but it was close with the cardigans

that cardigans album seemed like it was everywhere in 95/96

LAIKA LAIKA LAIKA

Man, I bought four of these when they came out… I wonder if that should disqualify them and I should replace them with albums that I do like that I didn't hear in '95.

If not, Laika's pretty fantastic. Too bad their follow-ups were weak.

Marimba Song was even on a CMJ! C'mon!

I wrote Spin's Gillette blurb then, and I'm voting for her now.

I remember this list very well (my first exposure to The Cardigans). And I like all of these albums to varying degrees (although I've never heard the Mishra/Garcia and Oblivians discs - worthwhile?). Papa Fritas' "Kids Don't Mind" is THE great indie-kiddie classic. Laika gave post-rock legs. Gillette juiced joy out of sex as a one-way street. And so on. But I must vote for my beloved Grant (fuck you, god!).

yrs truly was on the '94 version of this list and I can't front, it seriously opened bunches of doors for us

and after this, Spin would never review another of our albums until 2008 I'm pretty sure

i knew someone who bought that gillette album. "short short man" was kinda big on b-96, i think. of the rest, i know i owned the massive attack/mad professor (which i never listened to) and laika. i think i owned the grant mcclennan, wagon christ, and laika. hrmmm. definitely heard a lot of pappas fritas, too. hrmmm...prolly gonna exercise my right not to vote.

i can honestly say i didn't hear any of these albums in 1995.

that may well make you the target audience of the article

of course! i can also honestly say i worshipped spin magazine in 1995.

Yup, those were the magazine's glory years. I still haven't heard a couple of those records; and you people are persuading me to relisten to that Laika record I haven't heard since McKinley was president.

"That Old Londontown Post-Sampling Rag"

ugh the writing there

yrs truly was on the '94 version of this list

That was the first time I head of his truly too. I even wrote to Byron Coley asking where to get it.

head = heard

No Protection really was all that (an a bag of chips)

Life is still such a weird record!

Also liked Laika, but mostly wished D'Angelo's Brown Sugar or The Legendary Jim Ruiz Group had made the list instead of Papas Fritas.

I haven't heard that particular record but I DON'T CARE. OBLIVIANS WINS.

Ha BOB GUCCIONE JR wrote the blurb for the Jerry Garcia collab. What a Wenner.

^^^ sorry

Granny McLennan ftw

laika

Didn't that Organized Konfusion album come out in 1994?

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Cardigans, easily.

Loved that Wagon Christ album.

Didn't that Organized Konfusion album come out in 1994?

Even if it did, you had plenty of time to not buy it in '95 also. It gets my vote.

Laika's debut is pretty weak compared to the follow-up

How can anyone in 1995 NOT have heard No Protection - every clothes shop ever, for starters?

Top 10 Albums that the compiler didn't hear in 1995 morelike.

Laika's debut is pretty weak compared to the follow-up

-- baaderonixx, Friday, May 2, 2008 10:33 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

shit now that you mention it i was thinking of Sounds of the Satellites, not Silver Apples of the Moon

The Sanjay Mishra album is beautiful. But I heard it a lot in 1995 so I'm voting for Organized Konfusion.

Grany, of course.

How can anyone in 1995 NOT have heard No Protection - every clothes shop ever, for starters?

Maybe in Angleterre. But I never heard it anywhere in the US except coming out of my speakers.

I'll rep for Laika's albums, although "Silver Apples ..." is definitely the best. The problem with Laika is that I *wanted* to like them more than I actually did. Funky alien boogie indie dub -- too bad the results were never as great as the concept.

"No Protection" is unremarkable outside of the "Protection" and "Karmacoma" dubs ... just like the album itself!

I loved "Throbbing Pouch" when it first came out but Luke Vibert's music basically died for me once the 90's were over.

I loved "Throbbing Pouch" when it first came out but Luke Vibert's music basically died for me once the 90's were over.

Yeah, pretty much. A year or so back I relistened to that album and one or two tracks aside it was just sorta there. Pity because he was a really friendly guy when I interviewed him for that!

Life is pretty great. A couple years ago, I put it on while driving on an unseasonably warm day in April, and it sounded perfect.

i knew someone who bought that gillette album. "short short man" was kinda big on b-96, i think.e.

-- john. a resident of chicago., Thursday, May 1, 2008 8:44 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

huge, i was eleven or twelve and even i knew that song

i voted organized konfusion

gillette and no protection are the only ones of these i have. voted gillette. where'd she go, anyway?

I voted OK but totally endorse votes for Laika and Wagon Christ. I think everyone I talked to had bought that Massive Attack album that year so I feel like that one's disqualified.

no protection

-- BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, May 1, 2008 7:24 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

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No Protection = the only Massive Attack album I still listen to

I voted in the poll before I read its thread...thinking I'd be alone with my vote for Laika. So much for that!

I agree with electricsound: that Cardigans album seemed to be everywhere...

I found the pic for this thread in some GIS for something completely different that I can't even remember now. Seemed like poll material.

I'm going with Wagon Christ, although I like No Protection as well.
Those are the only two I've heard all of, anyway.

voted organized konfusion, but only because that's the one oblivions record i haven't heard.

that wagon christ album is the best thing on that list. kudos to vibert.

I still haven't heard most of these but "Stress: the Etc" is one of my alltime faves, so that.

No Oblivians love?

Papas Fritas, though it's probably my least favorite album by them. Love the Frente namedrop in the Cardigans writeup. And someone here needs to give the Oblivians some love.

I agree with electricsound: that Cardigans album seemed to be everywhere...

Even in the US? (You're in Seattle, right?) I didn't think most people had heard of them until "Lovefool."

OBLIVIANS! Still own it, still listen to it. No Protection in second place.

""No Protection" is unremarkable outside of the "Protection" and "Karmacoma" dubs ... just like the album itself!"

OTM.

"Laika's debut is pretty weak compared to the follow-up"

This is crazy talk.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

U.S. college radio loved the first Cardigans album (at least Radio K did in Minneapolis); "Lovefool" was the crossover to regular Top 40.

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

Even.

Fair enough.

I wonder what a "10 Best albums you didn't hear in '07" list would look like.

gilette kinda underrated

finally an ILM poll where the winner makes sense.

i am glad that there's so much laika love here ... a shame that they didn't win this poll, tho' ;_;

"finally an ILM poll where the winner makes sense."

ILM poll-winners often make sense. A kind of perverse sense. And they're often wrong. Just like this poll.

I wonder what a "10 Best albums you didn't hear in '07" list would look like.

-- Mr. Snrub, Thursday, May 8, 2008 8:16 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

Tinariwen
Róisín Murphy
Baroness
The Twilight Sad
Valet
Oh No
Jesca Hoop
Bodies Of Water
Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter
Black Milk

Nice to see the Oblivians pull so many votes.

IM LIVIN ON THE STREET
I AINT GOT FOOD TO EAT

IF WE CAN JUST GET SOME BEER ON STAGE I THINK WE'LL BE OH-KAY

Why I missed the Oblivians , I do not know.I am a right Memphio right through Pelvis,Big Star, The GRIFTERS, Simple Ones--- and all of those other shit kicking rockers.

Oblivians recommendations welcome. Please?

That Papas Fritas (Pop Has Freed us?) was ace. I always dug TV Movies.

Thanks

Spin Magazine's "Best Albums You Didn't Hear in '96" POLL

seriously, cardigans are crap in so many ways. especially in 95. why the love?