Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works poll

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Poll Results

OptionVotes
Selected Ambient Works 85–92 97
Selected Ambient Works Volume II 95


Whiney G. Torture Garden (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 04:25 (seventeen years ago)

never could get into saw 85-92, but i did try. i love sawII, but rarely listen to it now because a lot of it creeps me out.

Lingbert, Wednesday, 29 October 2008 04:32 (seventeen years ago)

85-92

TOMBOT, Wednesday, 29 October 2008 04:32 (seventeen years ago)

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Whiney G. Torture Garden (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 04:42 (seventeen years ago)

2

Owel Pellett (Future_Perfect), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 04:44 (seventeen years ago)

85–92.

Volume II was too icey for me.

sam500, Wednesday, 29 October 2008 04:47 (seventeen years ago)

SAW2 is a classic piece of canonical garbage. everybody owns a copy but nobody listens to it.

TOMBOT, Wednesday, 29 October 2008 04:51 (seventeen years ago)

1

dan selzer, Wednesday, 29 October 2008 04:58 (seventeen years ago)

everybody owns a copy but nobody listens to it.

I do. Granted, only when I'm up at 4 a.m. and strung out and on the knife edge of functionality, but still.

Totally different moods, but 85-92 wins. It's still better.

Mozarella sticks. Think about it. (kenan), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 05:08 (seventeen years ago)

SAW2 is a classic piece of canonical garbage. everybody owns a copy but nobody listens to it.

― TOMBOT,

Nicely put. I did have a few months of intense listening and it was very special, but 85-92 was a little more outgoing, and somehow connected meaningfully with the rave experience, if I may be so silly as to say it.

moley, Wednesday, 29 October 2008 05:24 (seventeen years ago)

85-92 will still shake the pictures off your walls. SAW2, not so much.

Mozarella sticks. Think about it. (kenan), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 05:25 (seventeen years ago)

Why was the first collection even branded as 'ambient'? That title put me off buying it for far too long.

sam500, Wednesday, 29 October 2008 05:32 (seventeen years ago)

ARRGH. What an unfair poll! Apples and oranges, yo.

The Ungrateful Dead (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 06:15 (seventeen years ago)

SAWII

ℵℜℜℜℜℜℜℜℜℜ℘! (Curt1s Stephens), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 06:22 (seventeen years ago)

Why was the first collection even branded as 'ambient'?

This is a fine question, as I have never thought to ask it. There are only two tracks that could be called ambient by any stretch: "Tha" (my favorite track, but not especially because it's ambient), and "I" (which hardly counts because it's a minute long). And even those are hardly music for airports, or even Harold Budd. So this is ambient compared to... what? C+C Music Factory?

Mozarella sticks. Think about it. (kenan), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 06:48 (seventeen years ago)

And that's also why it's an unfair poll, because one is ambient music and one is not.

Mozarella sticks. Think about it. (kenan), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 06:49 (seventeen years ago)

oh good thinking.

TOMBOT, Wednesday, 29 October 2008 06:50 (seventeen years ago)

reductive, I know, but... amirite?

Mozarella sticks. Think about it. (kenan), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 06:51 (seventeen years ago)

No

TOMBOT, Wednesday, 29 October 2008 06:51 (seventeen years ago)

I'm going to listen to SAW2 again.

Mozarella sticks. Think about it. (kenan), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 06:53 (seventeen years ago)

No nevermind, that will just make me feel sleepy and also insane. Can't take it right now.

Mozarella sticks. Think about it. (kenan), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 06:56 (seventeen years ago)

SAWII is the best album of the nineties

ℵℜℜℜℜℜℜℜℜℜ℘! (Curt1s Stephens), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 06:56 (seventeen years ago)

No

Mozarella sticks. Think about it. (kenan), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 06:57 (seventeen years ago)

But wow... disc 1, track 3.

Mozarella sticks. Think about it. (kenan), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 07:02 (seventeen years ago)

yeah pulsewidth is pretty good

TOMBOT, Wednesday, 29 October 2008 07:08 (seventeen years ago)

No, I really mean SAWII is the best album of the nineties

ℵℜℜℜℜℜℜℜℜℜ℘! (Curt1s Stephens), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 07:16 (seventeen years ago)

you must have had a shitty ass nineties

TOMBOT, Wednesday, 29 October 2008 07:17 (seventeen years ago)

yeah pulsewidth is pretty good

no disc 1 track 3 of saw 2. 85-92 doesn't have two discs, and also the tracks have names. Apart from that, agreed.

Mozarella sticks. Think about it. (kenan), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 07:30 (seventeen years ago)

85-92 was ambient, as the term was understood by raver kids back then (as opposed to say Eno fans). Ambient techno was music which slotted in nicely with the post rave comedown... music like The Orb, Woob, Pete Namlook, etc etc. It was still ravey riffed, but relaxed, with plenty of reverb. Sounds crass now, I know.

moley, Wednesday, 29 October 2008 07:43 (seventeen years ago)

are you sitting comfortably?

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Mozarella sticks. Think about it. (kenan), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 08:12 (seventeen years ago)

Is it just me or can anybody else hear an Only Fools And Horses sample in Tha?

ecuador_with_a_c, Wednesday, 29 October 2008 08:20 (seventeen years ago)

Might be, but totally unplanned, just whatever was on the television in the room when he turned on some tape recorder somewhere. Could be anything. Give me a joint all to myself, and I'll hear all kinds of shit in that track.

Mozarella sticks. Think about it. (kenan), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 08:53 (seventeen years ago)

moley otm...back then Ambient Techno meand anything that was even vaguely pretty! 808 State's Pacific was "Ambient". Ultramarine was "Ambient". Excusions in "Ambience" compilations featuring songs like Papa New Guinea were "Ambient". Tranquility Bass was "Ambient".

dan selzer, Wednesday, 29 October 2008 13:12 (seventeen years ago)

SAW2

Rock Hardy, Wednesday, 29 October 2008 13:15 (seventeen years ago)

1.

Matt DC, Wednesday, 29 October 2008 13:19 (seventeen years ago)

85-92

Cittaslow Mazza (blueski), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 13:19 (seventeen years ago)

very tough, but i love how scratchy, old and weird 85-92 sounds

the sir weeze, Wednesday, 29 October 2008 13:28 (seventeen years ago)

Selected Ambient Works Volume II

titchyschneiderMk2, Wednesday, 29 October 2008 13:29 (seventeen years ago)

85-92. Only a few tracks on II that I feel the need to ever hear again.

Pottie Skippen (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 13:44 (seventeen years ago)

I knew this would be polarizing! I'm glad I'm not alone.

I was reading the XTAL thread on noise bored and was thinking to myself "I can't be the only one who thinks 1 is just OK compared to 2"

Maybe it comes down to what type of drugs you did/didn't do when you were in college.

Whiney G. Torture Garden (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 13:50 (seventeen years ago)

i love one, but two is fucking brilliant

tricky, Wednesday, 29 October 2008 13:53 (seventeen years ago)

tom, i listen to 2 every night. so, yeah.

cutty, Wednesday, 29 October 2008 14:05 (seventeen years ago)

but i also listen to 95-92 every night. my sleep playlist is massive.

cutty, Wednesday, 29 October 2008 14:07 (seventeen years ago)

SAWII. Went to college 1999-2003 and did not take e, if you're looking for that second variable, Whiney.

SAWII is still one of my go-to albums when I am doing astronomy at 3am.

caek, Wednesday, 29 October 2008 14:14 (seventeen years ago)

SAW2 is a classic piece of canonical garbage. everybody owns a copy but nobody listens to it.

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, October 29, 2008 4:51 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

dude..no

imperial management trainee (latebloomer), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 14:33 (seventeen years ago)

Never understood all the enthusiasm for II, like it (it took awhile to, at that), but 85-92 always blows me away.

Their time's limited, hard rocks, too (mehlt), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 14:34 (seventeen years ago)

I'm always puzzled by the prevalence of the idea that "no one REALLY listens to _____, they just pretend to" or some BS. It's so childish. You find it that impossible that someone can enjoy something you don't?

imperial management trainee (latebloomer), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 14:46 (seventeen years ago)

2, but its a pretty close call and "tha" is probably my favorite track on either

ciderpress, Wednesday, 29 October 2008 14:49 (seventeen years ago)

He didn't say anything about pretending to listen to it. I read it as lots of people bought it back then due to its reputation, but not all that many of those buyers enjoy it enough to want to listen to it nowadays.

Pottie Skippen (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 14:59 (seventeen years ago)

well the implication is that nobody genuinely listens to and enjoys SAW II, which is patent nonsense

imperial management trainee (latebloomer), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 15:10 (seventeen years ago)

I've listened to SAW2 so many times over the last 12 years while falling asleep that it's insane. I have bought it at least 3 separate times. I've played it while driving in the snow, my wife loves it (it was the dinner music at my wedding!), in my opinion it's one of the greatest albums ever made. There's really no compeition, I haven't listened to the first one in years.

pipecock, Monday, 2 March 2009 04:18 (sixteen years ago)

i bought myself SAWII after bush won re-election to cheer myself up. don't think it worked, really. (which isn't to say i disliked it but it's not something i'd put on as feelgood music). i could make a case for either - i'm with the disc 1 track 3 prettiest thing ever heads all the way - but lately i've been feeling 85-92 more. i like bimble's thing upthread about the empty gymnasium ambiance of "tha" and "ptolemy" really is kind of a jam

th' UGH life (donna rouge), Monday, 2 March 2009 04:25 (sixteen years ago)

Oh my Lord why does this poll not close until November 2009?

ilxor, Monday, 2 March 2009 15:55 (sixteen years ago)

the original brown vinyl pressing of SAWII was so terrible, it made the album barely listenable. I ended up getting it on CD second hand.

85-92 is my fave

Duke, Monday, 2 March 2009 16:43 (sixteen years ago)

three months pass...

I finally decided. SAW 2 it is.

makeitpop, Tuesday, 30 June 2009 02:12 (sixteen years ago)

What are some other albums that sound like SAW 2? Ambient dream stuff with catchy tunes. Like "Becalmed" by Brian Eno. I tried 76:54 or whatever it's called by Global Communications and it bored the living piss out of me.

Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 30 June 2009 02:25 (sixteen years ago)

When I think of music like this, I think of Stars Of The Lid. Also, the second disc of David Sylvian's "Gone To Earth" which is just instrumentals.

I wonder who his history bitches are and if they approve (Bimble), Tuesday, 30 June 2009 02:28 (sixteen years ago)

i'll probably vote for 85-92 even though i probably listened to SAWII more times (used to be a go-to getting-high album for my and a few friends).

mr. me too (rockapads), Tuesday, 30 June 2009 02:35 (sixteen years ago)

never could get into saw 85-92, but i did try. i love sawII, but rarely listen to it now because a lot of it creeps me out.

― Lingbert

^also this

mr. me too (rockapads), Tuesday, 30 June 2009 02:36 (sixteen years ago)

Was gonna go 8592 but I've got w___ and no job and shit to do, so I guess we'll do some field testing

i want to marry a pizza (gbx), Tuesday, 30 June 2009 03:00 (sixteen years ago)

four months pass...

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Wednesday, 4 November 2009 00:01 (sixteen years ago)

II

But no hope for norwegian posters, sorry. (Curt1s Stephens), Wednesday, 4 November 2009 00:05 (sixteen years ago)

What an unfair poll! Apples and oranges, yo.

― The Ungrateful Dead (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You)

^^^^^

voted II, just cause i listen to it more often. i have great memories attached to both; 85-92 is more of a nighttime/hanging out album, II is a daytime/alone album.

karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Wednesday, 4 November 2009 02:02 (sixteen years ago)

wow i can't believe ive been lurking for over a year

GEDDY LEE JAZZ MINT (Future_Perfect), Wednesday, 4 November 2009 02:29 (sixteen years ago)

II is not a daytime album

cutty, Wednesday, 4 November 2009 02:30 (sixteen years ago)

I'm more interested to see how many votes this poll gets for a full year span than in the actual results.

Moka, Wednesday, 4 November 2009 02:48 (sixteen years ago)

xpost it most definitely is for me. most ambient music is daytime music for me.

karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Wednesday, 4 November 2009 03:51 (sixteen years ago)

85-92

moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 4 November 2009 04:00 (sixteen years ago)

As above I voted 85-92 as its what I heard and loved first of afx, plus XTAL is <3

I like doing tarot cards while I listen to it. Meditative, for me.

But SAWII is also good.

i obtain much semillon (Trayce), Wednesday, 4 November 2009 04:05 (sixteen years ago)

argh, i mistakenly voted for saw II

dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Wednesday, 4 November 2009 05:00 (sixteen years ago)

Voted 85-92. Both great, but right now the more innocent charm of the earlier disc is more appealing.

Mark, Wednesday, 4 November 2009 05:08 (sixteen years ago)

SAW 85-92:SAW 2 :: Blueprint:Blueprint 2

een, Wednesday, 4 November 2009 06:21 (sixteen years ago)

The rong album is gonna win this.

Drag Me to Hull (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 4 November 2009 08:21 (sixteen years ago)

Am I the only one here who sees "SAW" and still thinks of Stock Aitken and Waterman?

Mark G, Wednesday, 4 November 2009 08:36 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.adrants.com/images/sawII.jpg

George Mucus (ledge), Wednesday, 4 November 2009 11:14 (sixteen years ago)

Which one's Kylie?

Mark G, Wednesday, 4 November 2009 11:21 (sixteen years ago)

SAW2 is a classic piece of canonical garbage. everybody owns a copy but nobody listens to it.

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, October 29, 2008 12:51 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I miss this guy.

kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, 4 November 2009 13:06 (sixteen years ago)

^^^^

85-92 by a country fucking mile

sexual alien v. sexual predator (m bison), Wednesday, 4 November 2009 13:56 (sixteen years ago)

i still haven't given II a fair chance at winning me over. i need to correct that because 85-92 is one of a few records that makes me glad that i was alive on this earth to witness it.

andrew m., Wednesday, 4 November 2009 15:11 (sixteen years ago)

II is not a daytime album

Quite right.

Teh Movable Object (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Wednesday, 4 November 2009 16:06 (sixteen years ago)

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

System, Thursday, 5 November 2009 00:01 (sixteen years ago)

Should have given this another year to marinate imo

nearly one-third of a man (Z S), Thursday, 5 November 2009 00:03 (sixteen years ago)

wow

caek, Thursday, 5 November 2009 00:04 (sixteen years ago)

omgawd

cutty, Thursday, 5 November 2009 00:33 (sixteen years ago)

most divisive poll on ILX yet?

cutty, Thursday, 5 November 2009 00:34 (sixteen years ago)

i'm amazed.

jed_, Thursday, 5 November 2009 00:34 (sixteen years ago)

& pleased

jed_, Thursday, 5 November 2009 00:34 (sixteen years ago)

w00t

Gathering Storm, Thursday, 5 November 2009 00:36 (sixteen years ago)

It let me vote twice. I wonder if anyone else got the same and just voted both ways? ;P

i obtain much semillon (Trayce), Thursday, 5 November 2009 00:39 (sixteen years ago)

what was the other poll with the huge turnout that was this close? i think it was on ile?

caek, Thursday, 5 November 2009 01:08 (sixteen years ago)

I listen to both of these albums on the regular

But no hope for norwegian posters, sorry. (Curt1s Stephens), Thursday, 5 November 2009 01:10 (sixteen years ago)

I voted twice. Anyway, great turnout / great result.

sam500, Thursday, 5 November 2009 01:34 (sixteen years ago)

I do too, C.

i obtain much semillon (Trayce), Thursday, 5 November 2009 02:27 (sixteen years ago)

what was the other poll with the huge turnout that was this close? i think it was on ile?

― caek

Food Wars: Mexican Food v. Italian Food ?

moonship journey to baja, Thursday, 5 November 2009 05:17 (sixteen years ago)

now i know what it was like when the Christian church broke up.

hier stehe ich

II

This part of the sentence is even dumber. (lukas), Thursday, 5 November 2009 05:46 (sixteen years ago)

six months pass...

85-92 just sounded great while i was doing late night, drunken washing up.

djh, Friday, 4 June 2010 22:48 (fifteen years ago)

two years pass...

i still can't believe how good "ptolemy" is

reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 13 May 2013 19:48 (twelve years ago)

ten years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uho04jJzxjs

The Terroir of Tiny Town (WmC), Wednesday, 2 August 2023 03:51 (two years ago)

nice!

Stomp Jomperson (dog latin), Wednesday, 2 August 2023 10:14 (two years ago)

(^ Aphex Twin: Rhubarb (8-String Guitar))

koogs, Wednesday, 2 August 2023 10:23 (two years ago)


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