are we supposed to vote for the best or the weirdest
― tylerw, Thursday, 17 January 2013 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
fav, i think.
― some dude, Thursday, 17 January 2013 00:07 (eleven years ago) link
Vote for fav.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Thursday, 17 January 2013 00:17 (eleven years ago) link
Kevin Martin must have A++ powers of persuasion if he managed to convince someone at Virgin that God were a "jazz" group. Voted for it due to it being the only album on this list to feature members of Henry Cow, Naked City or Bill Fay's band.
― it's all fuck what sit says, we'll do our own thing (Matt #2), Thursday, 17 January 2013 00:48 (eleven years ago) link
Voted for God.
― 誤訳侮辱, Thursday, 17 January 2013 03:08 (eleven years ago) link
i voted trux of course. i would have voted jesus lizard (so weird they were on a major, i guess death grips was on a major just last year so plus ça change etc.) but it's not their best album by any means.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 17 January 2013 03:46 (eleven years ago) link
lots of good choices here--Melvins come really close--but goddamn I love that Pell Mell record and always forget about it
― berner herzog (fadanuf4erybody), Thursday, 17 January 2013 08:09 (eleven years ago) link
Hmm. I always thought God were on the jazz offshoot, but I dug the cd out and it was on Venture instead which was Virgin's "ambient/modern classical" offshoot. Which is possibly even less likely.
Here's the catalogue list: http://www.discogs.com/label/VENTURE
Wow. That's some set of records.
― Troughton-masked Replicant (aldo), Thursday, 17 January 2013 10:33 (eleven years ago) link
That is a great list indeed!
Reminds me that Techno Animal were on Virgin too weren't they? And obviously so too were the Ambient Series CDs that Kevin Martin did:
- Ambient 4: Isolationism (KK Null, Disco Inferno, Jim O'Rourke, Labradford, Aphex Twin etc)- Macro Dub Infection vols 1 & 2 (Coil, Tortoise, Spring Heel Jack, Laika etc)- Monsters, Robots & Bug Men (Bardo Pond, Flying Saucer Attack, Long Fin Killie, SOTL etc)
These are all pretty weird comps and there's no way I could see them coming out on a major now, but they're probably only post-Nevermind in a chronological sense (they're more of an extension of the other tiles in that series that were kind of post-rave electronica or spacey new-age ambient type things)
― qbert yuiop (NickB), Thursday, 17 January 2013 10:55 (eleven years ago) link
^ at the time, those three titles seemed to be specifically aimed at Wire readers. One thing that's slightly strange from a Virgin marketing POV is that they all seem to be specifically directing *away* from major label music
― qbert yuiop (NickB), Thursday, 17 January 2013 11:03 (eleven years ago) link
directing the listener
― qbert yuiop (NickB), Thursday, 17 January 2013 11:04 (eleven years ago) link
Those Macro Dub Infection comps were marketed as ambient dub type things weren't they? Though obvious cross-over with drum 'n bass, post rock etc.
voted Royal Trux, I obviously need to check a whole load of these records out though.
― Neil S, Thursday, 17 January 2013 11:16 (eleven years ago) link
Those Macro Dub Infection comps were marketed as ambient dub type things weren't they?
Oh sure, I only bring them up because of the Kev Martin connection, who somehow got himself the job as Virgin's go-to man for weird music in the early 90s.
― qbert yuiop (NickB), Thursday, 17 January 2013 11:26 (eleven years ago) link
gotcha. David Toop's Ocean of Sound comp (and the other comps he put together around the same time) were also on Virgin. Certainly some interesting A&R choices going on there!
― Neil S, Thursday, 17 January 2013 11:35 (eleven years ago) link
Oh yeah, those things - more flirtation with the Wire readership!
― qbert yuiop (NickB), Thursday, 17 January 2013 11:40 (eleven years ago) link
i would have voted trux except sweet sixteen is one of my least fave albums by them. so i did the boring vote for yank crime.
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 17 January 2013 15:16 (eleven years ago) link
Only one I've heard is Pell Mell, iirc.
― jaymc, Thursday, 17 January 2013 15:17 (eleven years ago) link
Pure Guava is one of those albums where track 3 will gets stuck in my head, and I forget it's there and go about my business, and then 10 minutes later I'll hear track 7 or 8 playing in my head and then realize the entire album had been progressing without being aware of it. It was the first weirdo album of its type that I had ever heard when I was 13. Bums me out hugely that repping for it was immediately followed by people saying "fuck ween." Y'all haters are markass bustas. I don't actually wish for you to eat shit and die.
― billstevejim, Thursday, 17 January 2013 15:32 (eleven years ago) link
pure guava would have been one of my other top choices, along with disco volante, pop tatari, and boces.
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 17 January 2013 15:33 (eleven years ago) link
tbf, 95% of ween hatred is just people hating ween fans
― fuck wit' lysandre day (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 17 January 2013 15:36 (eleven years ago) link
they're mostly lame, but i'm not.
― billstevejim, Thursday, 17 January 2013 15:42 (eleven years ago) link
i believe u
― fuck wit' lysandre day (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 17 January 2013 15:48 (eleven years ago) link
so i did the boring vote for yank crime.
I wonder why this is considered a boring choice? Certainly not a boring answer to me (I am extremely biased though), but also, I spent years trying to get people to talk/listen to this album and it seemed to have slipped by most of them, even those into Fugazi/Slint/June of 44(and Rodan) etc. (not exactly like Drive Like Jehu, but "big" guitar bands of the era that everyone I knew listened to in some capacity) Somehow this just did not get into their rotation, perhaps BECAUSE it was on a major label. Wasn't until the early 2000's or so that I found other folks who had spent time with this record at all, which says something about whom I was hanging out with for sure, but also just seemed to be a lost record for a lot of people that should have heard it.
Just curious if other people had a similar experience with this record or, as n/a's comment seems to suggest, for a lot of people this record was a big deal when it came out with their friends and has been considered great from that time forward?
― grandavis, Thursday, 17 January 2013 15:53 (eleven years ago) link
i just meant there's already a ton of other people voting for yank crime in this thread. but it was certainly seen as a classic album when i was doing college radio in like 98/99.
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 17 January 2013 16:03 (eleven years ago) link
jehu was sort of a blink and you missed them kinda band, so it took at least a couple years for people to catch up. i even saw them play in 94 or thereabouts but didn't really pay attention to the record until a few years later.
― tylerw, Thursday, 17 January 2013 16:06 (eleven years ago) link
drive like jehu - yank crime: classic or dud?
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 17 January 2013 16:09 (eleven years ago) link
Cool, thanks. Won't clog this with any more DLJ talk, just curious.
― grandavis, Thursday, 17 January 2013 16:13 (eleven years ago) link
dunno what to vote for here as i love a lot of these albums but i like the yank crime love. was big into early rftc but jehu blew them away
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Thursday, 17 January 2013 16:15 (eleven years ago) link
ok its fudge tunnel or unsane since noones mentioned either
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Thursday, 17 January 2013 16:16 (eleven years ago) link
sad that AG killfiled me :(
and jjjusten by the looks of it
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 17 January 2013 16:26 (eleven years ago) link
what what?
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 17 January 2013 16:35 (eleven years ago) link
oic
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 17 January 2013 16:36 (eleven years ago) link
didn't butt trumpet win a Spin contest looking for the worst band in America? I'm assuming that was *before* they were signed ... ? help me out here, I don't really feel like googling for the history of butt trumpet
― dmr, Thursday, 17 January 2013 17:04 (eleven years ago) link
pretty sure the a&r guy meant to sign poopshovel instead but just got confused
― a la recherche du tempbans perdu (NickB), Thursday, 17 January 2013 17:10 (eleven years ago) link
34 MERCURY REV - BOCES (COLUMBIA, 1993)27 DRIVE LIKE JEHU – YANK CRIME (CARGO/INTERSCOPE/ATLANTIC, 1994)26 FLAMING LIPS - HIT TO DEATH IN THE FUTURE HEAD (WARNER BROS., 1992)17 ROYAL TRUX - SWEET SIXTEEN (VIRGIN, 1995)4 THOMAS JEFFERSON SLAVE APARTMENTS - BAIT & SWITCH (AMERICAN, 1995)1 BOREDOMS – POP TATARI (REPRISE, 1993)
I own and like all of these and have heard the Ween, Flipper, and Jesus Lizard records ... probably voting for TJSA
This was the exact time frame that I worked in college radio (1993-97), definitely a weird time
― dmr, Thursday, 17 January 2013 17:12 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRtrFVtAgRo
Notes from the LP back cover:
"Album done in a $50.00 a day studio that friends own. It's in the stone basement of a 3 story house built in the early 1900's. We only broke a few things while there. One reel of half-inch tape running at slow speed. Original title of album was "Harvard Zombie Meat" which basically means "educated people without a clue". The lyrics document this theory, though a few songs MAY be considered "positive."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXXJOUeHQcY
― dan selzer, Thursday, 17 January 2013 17:14 (eleven years ago) link
col poo said one of those bands? i need to read better
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Thursday, 17 January 2013 17:44 (eleven years ago) link
guess i'll vote unsane then if he voted fudge tunnel
I voted for Ween, even though Pure Guava isn't exactly their best album...
― Frobisher the (Viceroy), Thursday, 17 January 2013 17:47 (eleven years ago) link
40 CELL - SLO*BLO (DGC, 1993)
oh yeah I also owned this at some point but sold the CD. really don't remember anything about em.
― dmr, Thursday, 17 January 2013 17:57 (eleven years ago) link
that v-3 album is great
― fieri inna babylon (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 17 January 2013 18:54 (eleven years ago) link
Listening to Possession for the first time in a year or so and it's still the best album on this list.
New ears make it feel like Pretty invents .nu-Swans though.
― Troughton-masked Replicant (aldo), Thursday, 17 January 2013 22:01 (eleven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Friday, 18 January 2013 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
nice!
4 THOMAS JEFFERSON SLAVE APARTMENTS - BAIT & SWITCH (AMERICAN, 1995) 8
― fieri inna babylon (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 18 January 2013 00:03 (eleven years ago) link
I am pleased with the results of this poll and the relatively high participation.
Way to go team!
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 18 January 2013 00:11 (eleven years ago) link
The correct answer is actually The Monks and everything else that Henry Rollins hoisted onto American by way of Infinite Zero.
― dan selzer, Friday, 18 January 2013 00:23 (eleven years ago) link
14 MR. BUNGLE - DISCO VOLANTE (WARNER BROS., 1995) 810 GOD - POSSESSION (VIRGIN, 1992) 8
so so happy
― Bel-Air the Fresh Prince, sitting in a chair (DJP), Friday, 18 January 2013 00:40 (eleven years ago) link
poor butt trumpet
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Friday, 18 January 2013 00:46 (eleven years ago) link
*solemnly plays Taps*
― a la recherche du tempbans perdu (NickB), Friday, 18 January 2013 00:50 (eleven years ago) link
*stands up straight and pulls his pants up*