Best Album Of...(Volume 31)

shaMoxie · **Posted:** Thu Jan 05, 2006 2:21 pm

Other - Viva Last Blues - Palace Music

All close 2nds:

Son Volt - Trace
Zumpano - Look What the Rookie Did
GBV - Alien Lanes
Tindersticks - (II)
Blue Mountain - Dog Days
Smog - Wild Love
FLips - CTM
Pavement - WZ

bitterbuffalo · **Posted:** Thu Jan 05, 2006 2:38 pm

Z Wrote:

different class and the bends in a showdown for the ages. i sided with different class because its not-great songs pretty much blow the bends' not-great songs away.

mine also came down to these two. i have to pick pulp as well for similar reasons.
what an awesome year, runners up:
100% fun
elastica
oasis

Stop Breathin' · **Posted:** Thu Jan 05, 2006 2:49 pm

Baby's got the bends...oh, no.

Radcliffe · **Posted:** Thu Jan 05, 2006 2:57 pm

Ha ha. You guys were such fresh faced little kiddies back then.

Omissions from the omissions:

Bandit Queen - Hormone Hotel
Frank Black w/ Teenage Fanclub - The Peel Session
Black Grape - It's Great When You're Straight, Yeah!
Peter Case - Torn Again
The Chesterfield Kings - Let's Go Get Stoned
Crash Vegas - Aurora
Drugstore - Drugstore
Steve Earle -Train A-Comin'
Joe Ely - Letter To Laredo
The Fleshtones - Laboratory Of Sound
Rosie Flores - Rockabilly Filly
Garbage - Garbage
Golden Smog - Down By The Old Mainstream
Gutterball - Weasel
H. - Sour Pie
Ian Hunter's Dirty Laundry - Dirty Laundry
The Insomniacs - Wake Up
Jason and the Scorchers - A Blazing Grace
Jerry Lee Lewis - Young Blood
Jenny Mae - There's A Bar Around The Corner, Assholes
Aimee Mann - I'm With Stupid
Bruce McCulloch - Shame-Based Man
The Muffs - Blonder And Blonder
New Wet Kojak - New Wet Kojak
Mojo Nixon - Whereabouts Unknown
Noise Addict - Meet The Real You
The Odds - Good Weird Feeling
Joan Osborne - Relish
Pluto - Cool Way To Feel
St. Johnny - Let It Come Down
Southern Culture on the Skids - Dirt Track Date
Sweetwater - Superfriends
The Trash Brats - The Joke's On You
Whiskeytown - Faithless Street
Webb Wilder - Town And Country
The Wildhearts - P.H.U.Q.

Better year than I remember. I love that Maxinquaye album, but I gotta vote for Rancid.

e-stone · **Posted:** Thu Jan 05, 2006 3:02 pm

wow. really really hard.

went with the bends barely over pulp and pavement and gbv and didn't a northern soul by the verve come out in '95?

second coming by the stone roses too?

i didn't look at the full list, so i apologize if they've already been listed.

DumpJack · **Posted:** Thu Jan 05, 2006 3:06 pm

Radcliffe Wrote:

Ha ha. You guys were such fresh faced little kiddies back then.

Omissions from the omissions:

Black Grape - It's Great When You're Straight, Yeah!
Drugstore - Drugstore
Steve Earle -Train A-Comin'
Garbage - Garbage
Golden Smog - Down By The Old Mainstream
Aimee Mann - I'm With Stupid
The Muffs - Blonder And Blonder
The Odds - Good Weird Feeling
Pluto - Cool Way To Feel
St. Johnny - Let It Come Down
Southern Culture on the Skids - Dirt Track Date
Whiskeytown - Faithless Street

That's a good list. I forgot how omnipresent the Odds were on cdn radio back then.

puma · **Posted:** Thu Jan 05, 2006 3:18 pm

THE BENDS.

no and's, if's or but's about it. hands down.

honorable ments:
tricky- maxinquaye
bjork- post
goldie- timeless (damn, one of THE best drum n' bass albums ever.)

mcaputo · **Posted:** Thu Jan 05, 2006 3:43 pm

#1 - Son Volt - Trace
Scuds - Massachusetts
Sparklehorse - Vivadixie....
Richard Buckner - Bloomed
GbV - Alien Lanes
Whiskeytown - Faithless St
Golden Smog - Down by the Old Mainstream

Elvis Fu · **Posted:** Thu Jan 05, 2006 3:48 pm

The Rugburns :: Taking the World by Donkey
One of my favorite albums ever, minus that godawful Jewel track.

Shout-outs to Son Volt, Rancid and Oasis.

paper · **Posted:** Thu Jan 05, 2006 4:10 pm

Liquid Swords - GZA

almost · **Posted:** Thu Jan 05, 2006 4:16 pm

Flaming Lips kill the competition, Yo La Tengo and Sparklehorse tied for 2nd.

splates · **Posted:** Thu Jan 05, 2006 4:32 pm

Pulp, but Tricky and GZA sound good too. I didnt read the rest of the list though.

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Thu Jan 05, 2006 4:47 pm

Shit, a lot of good records came out this year.

I'm thinking Oasis just barely over a bunch of other stuff.

shmoo · **Posted:** Thu Jan 05, 2006 4:59 pm

The Bends and Maxinquaye are two of my favorite records ever. I'll vote Tricky just to be contrarian.

billy g · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:41 pm **Posts:** 9020

Radcliffe Wrote:

I love that Maxinquaye album.

Your love for it is the only thing that's kept me from trading it in. I don't get it at all but keep thinking maybe one day I'll hear something in it that doesn't put me to sleep.

paladisiac · **Posted:** Thu Jan 05, 2006 5:21 pm

"mellon collie and the infinite sadness" the smashing pumpkins

barely ahead of radiohead and bjork

[EDIT: forgot about faithless street. that'd be #3 ahead of bjork]

shmoo · **Posted:** Thu Jan 05, 2006 5:36 pm

Interesting how many people are writing in the Smashing Pumpkins album. That was the record that killed my fandom of them.

rogneeb · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:07 pm **Posts:** 12618

son volt

paladisiac · **Posted:** Thu Jan 05, 2006 5:55 pm

shmoo Wrote:

Interesting how many people are writing in the Smashing Pumpkins album. That was the record that killed my fandom of them.

for post #2999 i'll say "this was the record that strengthened my fandom of them". listened to that album a lot from oct 1995 thru july 1997.

e-stone · **Posted:** Thu Jan 05, 2006 6:14 pm

shmoo Wrote:

Interesting how many people are writing in the Smashing Pumpkins album. That was the record that killed my fandom of them.

agreed.

Radcliffe · **Posted:** Thu Jan 05, 2006 6:41 pm

billy g Wrote:

Radcliffe Wrote:

I love that Maxinquaye album.

Your love for it is the only thing that's kept me from trading it in. I don't get it at all but keep thinking maybe one day I'll hear something in it that doesn't put me to sleep.

It's one of those albums that doesn't really have a single memorable song, but works (somehow) despite that. I only seem to spin it when I'm working - there's something about half-listening to it that allows the shards of melody to stand out, and those shards almost completely disappear when I turn my full attention to it.

BTW - I feel the same way as you about every other Tricky release. They all bore the thud outta me - but for some reason Maxinquaye managed to stick.

Red House Vincent · **Posted:** Thu Jan 05, 2006 9:44 pm

Maxinquaye barely beat out Long Division by just a hair. To me, it's a far memorable album than Dummy (and, if I remember correctly, was the only album of the big 3 trip-hop bands [Tricky, Massive Attack, & Portishead] to go #1 in England, but don't quote me on that).

I wished girls like Martina-Topley lived near me so I could stalk them at their high-schools when they get out of class. :roll:

Timis · **Posted:** Thu Jan 05, 2006 10:10 pm

shmoo Wrote:

Interesting how many people are writing in the Smashing Pumpkins album. That was the record that killed my fandom of them.

i thought is was a fantastic album (not as good as siamese).....however this was the LAST good album by them.

alive · **Joined:** Mon Nov 29, 2004 1:00 am **Posts:** 352

1. Flaming Lips - Clouds Taste Metallic
2. Luna - Penthouse
3. Radiohead - The Bends
4. Aphex Twin - I Care Because You Do
5. Bjork - Post
6. Tindersticks - II
7. Sonic Youth - Washing Machine
8. Mouse On Mars - Iaora Tahiti
9. Garbage - Garbage
10. Helium - Dirt of Luck

Bee OK · **Posted:** Fri Jan 06, 2006 2:35 am

Excellent year

1. Pulp
2. Radiohead
3. The Boo Radleys (Wake Up! was their Beatles album)
4. Suede
5. Verve
6. Flaming Lips
7. Oasis
8. Supergrass
9. Super Furry Animals
10. Tricky

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