he just happened to have the looks of a male model
Kurt was cute. But male model cute? Really? For one thing, he was too short (for the runway).
― Kevin John Bozelka, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 21:24 (fourteen years ago) link
blah blah blah
― soulDischarge_mxli, Saturday, 11 July 2009 02:51 (fourteen years ago) link
lol. Still hoping Bandwagonesque makes a respectable showing (I've given up the ghost on it winning).
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 11 July 2009 02:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Sunday, 12 July 2009 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
I like all three of these, but I gotta go with Loveless
― da croupier, Monday, 13 July 2009 02:09 (fourteen years ago) link
I actually just bought my CD copy of Bandwagonesque a few months ago, replacing an old tape copy.
― da croupier, Monday, 13 July 2009 02:11 (fourteen years ago) link
if it was a catholic education v bleach v isn't anything it would be more straightforward
― phillippa minge (electricsound), Monday, 13 July 2009 02:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Actually that would be much harder for me!!
― Sean Carruthers, Monday, 13 July 2009 02:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Never got the love for A Catholic Education, but it sounds like the kind of album I should like. Must try again, I guess.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 13 July 2009 03:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Not sure how one can list 28 albums supposedly better than Nevermind if you hadn't even heard it all. I loved Nirvana but when I heard it, I hated the production and some of the songs felt unfinished. I was all about Slint and MBV, Massive Attack, Talk Talk, Public Enemy and The Jesus Lizard. Nirvana grew on me later to sneak into top 10. I remember buying Bandwagonesque around Thanksgiving after seeing it in that Spin issue and like the Big Star-isms. But it barely made my top 25.
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 13 July 2009 05:11 (fourteen years ago) link
if it was a catholic education v bleach v isn't anything it would be more straightforward - how about In Utero vs. Thirteen vs. that Wire cover?
― gayest flash mob pillow fight yet (Pillbox), Monday, 13 July 2009 05:40 (fourteen years ago) link
or everything flows vs love buzz vs you made me realise
― phillippa minge (electricsound), Monday, 13 July 2009 05:47 (fourteen years ago) link
hmmm.. now there's a poll!
― gayest flash mob pillow fight yet (Pillbox), Monday, 13 July 2009 05:59 (fourteen years ago) link
― da croupier, Monday, 13 July 2009 02:09 (4 hours ago) Permalink
― Bradolf Pittler (latebloomer), Monday, 13 July 2009 06:56 (fourteen years ago) link
how about omg! they're still making records? so boring! who cares? vs. kurt you fucker i can still barely listen to my nirvana records vs. who needs a sequel to Loveless? we have Belong now
― Kevin John Bozelka, Monday, 13 July 2009 07:56 (fourteen years ago) link
loveless. no contest.
― m the g, Monday, 13 July 2009 08:01 (fourteen years ago) link
I missed this thread because I've been hiking the Appalachian trail for the last few weeks. I went with Nevermind b/c I like pop music and it's the best pop album of the three (on that front, "Lounge Act" over "Alcoholiday" over "Sometimes" but all three are hot). Its mass success felt like vindication of...something...at the time but that was just a dream. Nowadays we can just talk about the tunes, though each album scratches different itches, ergo the kinda distracted discussion here. I'd like to read more pro-Bandwagonesque here, just b/c we've talked about the other two many times before. "Alcoholiday"'s "there are things I want to do but I don't know if they will be with you" just kills, such insouciant ambivalence.
― Euler, Monday, 13 July 2009 15:45 (fourteen years ago) link
I missed this thread because I've been hiking the Appalachian trail for the last few weeks
You might have missed something else.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 13 July 2009 15:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Insert appropriate ironic emoticon here.
― Euler, Monday, 13 July 2009 16:00 (fourteen years ago) link
:^I
― tylerw, Monday, 13 July 2009 16:04 (fourteen years ago) link
he was really in south america with his mistress.
― scott seward, Monday, 13 July 2009 16:09 (fourteen years ago) link
"Not sure how one can list 28 albums supposedly better than Nevermind if you hadn't even heard it all."
eh, i've heard enough. has there ever been a live through this -vs- nevermind poll? cuz i like that album a lot. that's probably the best grunge-related album there is.
― scott seward, Monday, 13 July 2009 16:13 (fourteen years ago) link
the poll should be bandwagonesque vs. loveless vs. seamonsters. nevermind is not only from a different continent but it also ha a totally different vibe. and speed of course. as an american poll there could be nevermind vs. gish vs. goat. and i would go probably for the wonderful tripping hard rock of <a href="http://musik.antville.org/stories/993832">gish</a>.
― alex in mainhattan, Monday, 13 July 2009 19:21 (fourteen years ago) link
will i ever those ilx tags?
― alex in mainhattan, Monday, 13 July 2009 19:25 (fourteen years ago) link
will i ever learn i meant, sorry.
― alex in mainhattan, Monday, 13 July 2009 19:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Ooh, one hour to go! Exciting!
― Mark G, Monday, 13 July 2009 21:40 (fourteen years ago) link
voted Nevermind, MJ's death has made me re-examine my roots
― sonderangerbot, Monday, 13 July 2009 21:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Monday, 13 July 2009 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
i have learned from all this that all three album titles are compound words, and the one with the least letters won
― kamerad, Monday, 13 July 2009 23:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Hm. After having my expectations shaped by reading the thread, I was surprised by two things in the results: (a) it was closer than expected between Loveless and Nevermind (74 votes to 72 votes) and (b) Bandwagonesque did okay (36 votes).
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 14 July 2009 00:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, I was going to say - the order is exactly what I was expecting, but I was expecting Loveless to run way out in front, and was expecting Bandwagonesque to maybe languish in the teens. I'm glad all three were repped reasonably strongly.
― Sean Carruthers, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 00:17 (fourteen years ago) link
as they should since all 3 are amazing
― billstevejim, Friday, 17 July 2009 06:07 (fourteen years ago) link
1991 albums better than nevermind:* * * *coil - love's secret domain* * * *― scott seward, Saturday, July 4, 2009__________________________________love's secret domain was so goddamn great― worm? lol (J0hn D.), Saturday, July 4, 2009
* * * *
coil - love's secret domain
― scott seward, Saturday, July 4, 2009
__________________________________
love's secret domain was so goddamn great
― worm? lol (J0hn D.), Saturday, July 4, 2009
the album stream on youtube is making a convincing argument for this album.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DewJHJlYOIU
can't find it for sale on itunes, bandcamp, or boomkat. obscure!
― Daniel, Esq 2, Saturday, 15 February 2014 23:57 (ten years ago) link
Yeah it's out of print, sadly. Saw it for $500+ on Amazon!
Classic album though!
― iFrankenstein (latebloomer), Sunday, 16 February 2014 06:44 (ten years ago) link
Bandwagonesque is the only album that doesn't sound dated to me 23-years-hence. Nirvana were never as good as their buzz and Loveless (Tremolo and Isn't Anything were far superior) was never as good as the ideals of the critics.
Fanclub's album is the only one of these that i might listen to when i turn 80, if only for it making me feel young.
Also, add Peggy Suicide (Julian Cope) and anything that Levitation put out in '91 for trix more involving than anything Nevermind had to offer (save, "Where Did You Sleep Last Nite", which is one of the smartest covers ever).
― bodacious ignoramus, Sunday, 16 February 2014 09:13 (ten years ago) link
100% OTM. this album makes me feel young.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Monday, 17 February 2014 00:14 (ten years ago) link
mon frere
― bodacious ignoramus, Monday, 17 February 2014 08:29 (ten years ago) link
gonna pop a bag of chicarrones and dig into this mighty thread. I do not get bandwagonsque at all, apart from the last track. Why did they waste the best hook on an instrumental!?!
― brimstead, Wednesday, 4 May 2022 23:59 (two years ago) link
talk talk - laughing stock
This is a work of genius. However, comparing it to Nevermind is like comparing apples and giraffes.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 5 May 2022 00:02 (two years ago) link
comparing these albums is unfair, but if you could only keep one band's catalog (and the other two disappear from existence), ya gotta go w/ TFC
― alpine static, Thursday, 5 May 2022 00:10 (two years ago) link
talk talk - laughing stockehbathory - twilight of the godsIs this their Viking stuff? No thanksslowdive - just for a daythis is finejesus lizard - goatdude’s voice = noslint - spiderlanddude’s voice = noparadise lost - gothiclol nomercury rev - yerself is steamdude’s voice = nothe field mice - for keepssome of this is amazing but some of it is terriblecows - cunning stuntshaven’t heardneil young - arcfuck yescoil - love's secret domainI am too lame to enjoy Coil but I love the idea of them or whateverween - the podsounded great when I was 21 and trippinmassive attack - blue linesnot a massive attack fan
― brimstead, Thursday, 5 May 2022 00:22 (two years ago) link
the rest of those albums are pretty good to great. sorry for all that.. eeesh
― brimstead, Thursday, 5 May 2022 00:25 (two years ago) link
I really hope you lot are all confusing Arc with Weld.
― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 9 May 2022 08:19 (two years ago) link