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
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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