Best Album on OUR Favourite Albums of......1994!

God Machine for me

I like how you're faithfully including all Flying Saucer Attack albums in these polls, but even as a fan, that seems a bit much no?

Also no SAWII?!

Current 93 - Of Ruine Or Some Blazing Starre is my album of 1994 and a bloody hex on those who fail to recognise it!

outkast just beating out bark psychosis

No Nas, no Portishead, no Emperor, no Mayhem, no Darkthrone, no Aphex Twin, etc.? Wtf.

my fav album from '94 might actually be prolapse's pointless walks to dismal places

Current 93, Fushitsusha's 悲愴 (Pathetique) and Darkthrone are personal faves, but there is a lot missing here that I'd vote for.

This is the first of these polls where most of my favourites are missing but still some good stuff - it's probably between Autechre and Disco Inferno.

Crooked rain for me

Wait nvm, ready to die

Crap, I mean Illmatic

Maybe I just won’t vote

Michael B and Neechy currently holed up in crisis room wondering how to play this one

I know it was very important to make room for the fifth best public enemy album

I do admire this poll's don't-give-a-fuckness.

I mean, it even has Vauxhall and I.

Michael B and Neechy currently holed up in crisis room wondering how to play this one

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Threw a five sided coin in the air, it came down "Bakesale"!

Still lots of good choices, my real decision is between OutKast, Digable, DI, Low, Stereolab, and Orbital.

Leaning towards Orbital, honestly

Went with Fatima Mansions, betting I'll be the only one. This was my jam that year, adore how it goes from easy listening to metal and back again:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-3eHx0sCc8

oblig sunny day real estate & gang starr (right year this time!) mention

digable planets or orbital prob

Orbital - Snivilisation
Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman

oh geeeeez

As well as the ones mentioned, also no Global Communication, FSOL or Vangelis

eh idk if Vangelis should really count as a '94 album. the movie came out in '82, right?

Of this list, it’s Autechre by a mile but as said there are loads of canonical classics missing here.

Soul Coughing - Ruby Vroom is the only major omission I can see

Voted for Autechre. I think that's the second time I've voted for a non-guitar album in one of these, Music for 18 Musicians being the first. xps

Some of my all-time favorites missing from this list, perhaps predictably few of my all-time favorites not on this list.

I hesitated between Autechre and Underworld but finally went with the latter.

Giving dEUS a vote because they deserve it. Sabres of Paradise' 'Haunted Dancehall' still v much a classic too.

Going down the list, thinking it was underwhelming compared to the other years/polls, and then I saw Therapy? - Troublegum which is literally one of my favorite albums of all time ever, by anyone, and it was an easy choice.

I should probably revisit Deus again, there was a huge hype for about five minutes around this album and then I never heard from them again.

Same as Therapy? really, come to think of it.

Omission of Crooked Rain (considering some of the other selections) feels like trolling, lol

Employing a "which do I want to actually listen to this instant?" criterion... probably Tiger Bay or Tical.

Kill the bass player. Kill both bass players!

Probably Hex, for me.

Since this year seems to be about idiosyncratic personal favorites, allow me to add Dog Faced Herman’s Those Deep Buds and Omoide Hatoba’s Mantako, two albums that meant a lot to me in 1994.

This is Massive Attack vs Orbital vs The Prodigy

Soundgarden

Great year, arguably best of the 90s.

List of those worthy of consideration is massive, so can understand why so much was missed. My honour roll:

Aphex Twin - SAW II
Auteurs- Now I’m a Cowboy
Blur - Parklife
Ry Cooder/Ali Farke Toure - Talking Timbuktu
Divine Comedy - Promenade
Jan Garbarek/Hilliard Ensemble - Officium
Nas - Illmatic
Nirvana - MTV Unplugged
Oasis - Definitely Maybe
Portishead - Dummy
Pulp - His n’ Hers
Snoop Doggy Dogg - Doggystyle
Sparks - Gratuitous Sax and Senseless Violins
Suede - Dog Man Star
OST - Natural Born Killers

Ordinarily would have went fo Morrissey, but his behaviour has soured the record for me, so either Protection or Tical.

Agree with a lot of those omissions Dan. Suede and The Divine Comedy are easily my two favourite albums from this year. I'd add The Cardigans, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Saint Etienne, Magnetic Fields, Jeru The Damaja, Madonna, Lush and Gang Starr too.

Surprised to see The Second Coming here. I just heard it again for the first time in years and it's way worse than I remembered.

I love it bar the 2 acoustic songs in the middle. They were into led zep, hendrix and funkadelic at thebtime. The Roses and The Verve got me into punk.

um where is dookie

that should say pfunk btw

Low.

Stereolab, been listening to the new remaster and it's still superb

blowout comb and tical the two best records here imo

that said, the silver jews debut is way underrated. “rebel jew” one of the best songs ever written, voting silver jews

2) Kyuss - Sky Valley

Oh shit, this was 94 too?

So an easy vote for St Et from the list, although I *ducks* prefer the 1996 re-release...

You are not alone! That's the standard version in my head now. I had a tape dub of the original for years but procured the 1996 version after the big ILM StEt poll many years ago. It was popular around here at that time and I... succumbed to peer pressure.

Superunknown

ok mike and i have had our lols

Best Album on OUR Favourite Albums of......1994! Part II : ILM Loves Its Canon!!!

still reckon this polls a better list because boring if you only concentrate on the canon

I tried to listen to Snivilisation recently and couldn't get along with it except for Are We Here? which funny enough at the time I thought was one of those missing the point token d&b tracks by artists usually known for techno. There are some good mixes on the CD single.

Also gone right off the Hex mopeathon.

Amber is of its time but in a very good way. Can't think of anything I'd vote for ahead of that, except maybe Hootie.

Crooked rain for me

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Wait nvm, ready to die

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Crap, I mean Illmatic

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Maybe I just won’t vote

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came to post exactly this, what the hell

Built to Spill

incase anyone missed the link to part 2

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I tried to listen to Snivilisation recently and couldn't get along with it except for Are We Here? which funny enough at the time I thought was one of those missing the point token d&b tracks by artists usually known for techno.

Snivilization was my first Orbital album and I pretty much loved every bit of it from the jump. It was the first dance album I bought that felt like it was telling me a story as opposed to just flinging banger after banger at me.

I still prefer the albums either side of it though

I think I'm the same although I haven't listened to Snivilisation in a long time. In Sides was the first Orbital record I heard and I absolutely loved it so I worked backwards from there. Snivilisation definitely took some time getting into.

I mean, In Sides is one of the best albums ever recorded and Brown is brilliant back to front. It's not really knocking Snivilization to like those other two more.

Aloha, suit up.

For me it's In Sides > Sniv > Middle of Nowhere > Orbital 2 but I think they're all pretty close. Wonky is up there somewhere too.

Sniv was the first one I really loved though. For whatever reason "I Wish I Had Duck Feet" hit me in a way nothing else really has since. And the finale "Attached" still sounds like nothing else.

Snivilization is definitely a listen at home on headphones album. When you see them live you prefer the bangers on the other albums. Which is exactly what you got on the insides tour. think they only played one tracks from Snivilization .
Snivilization is definitely best listened to all the way through. So i imagine that tour may have been really good (but I bet everyone wanted the bangers from theearlir stuff, lol)

Snivilisation isn't as good as Brown or In Sides, and got a little overpraised in the music press at the time. It's still very good though, obviously.

Voted for Bark Psychosis, just ahead of The Prodigy. 1994 was a strong year.

obscur-ish stuff from this year i like

aby ngana diop - littal
allan petterson - symphony no. 9 (detusches so berlin/francis)
v/a - racket to stardom
bob hund - bob hund 2
bondage fruit - s/t
brainiac - bonsai superstar
cheikha rimitti - sidi mansour
cosmic psychos - self totalled
dmitri pokrovsky ensemble - les noces
evan parker - 50th birthday concert
giant ant farm - fortune
gorky's zygotic mynci - tatay
high rise - live
il giardino armonico - les quatre saisons
page & plant - no quarter
john frusciante - niandra lades and usually just a t-shirt
kalevi aho - black birds
karol szymanowski - stabat mater, litany to the virgin mary, symphony no. 3 (CBSO)
latin playboys - s/t
loren maazel - ravel: l'enfant et les sortileges
man or astroman? - destroy all astromen!
mannasseh - mannasseh meets the equalizer
peres/ensemble organum - chant corse: manuscrits franciscains
yuzo koshiro and motohiro kawashima - streets of rage iii
naseer shamma - le luth de bagdad
nobuo uematsu - final fantasy vi
optical*8 - bug
organized konfusion - stress: the extinction agenda
playa 1 and bloody bones - crime rate sky high
the prayer chain - humb
prince - come
s.e. rogie - dead men don't smoke marijuana
woob - 1194
x-legged sally - eggs and ashes
dubovij gaaj - stop the killing dolphins
5uu's - hunger's teeth

apparently i just gave up on metal at this point, which i guess makes sense. i'm not super into first wave black metal. that kyuss album is good, i guess. groundwork's "today we will not be invisible nor silent" is pretty good post-rorschach hardcore, though not as good as "protestant".

brainiac - bonsai superstar

really good album

bob hund - bob hund 2
brainiac - bonsai superstar
gorky's zygotic mynci - tatay
man or astroman? - destroy all astromen!
woob - 1194
5uu's - hunger's teeth

<3

with apologies for making a heart sign at all the indiest stuff from your v interesting sounding list (I was originally just going to make it at the Gorky's album but I do <3 the others too); there's a few other things on there I've been meaning to check out like the Kalevi Aho and I should probably extend that courtesy to the others too

there's a lot of stuff I love on the actual poll list too, I think I have to vote Mars Audiac Quintet but there's ~5 other things I feel slightly pained abt not voting for

and that's even with Crooked Rain on the other list! (where I will probably vote for it and feel pained about not voting for Holiday)

organized konfusion - stress: the extinction agenda
prince - come

my man

Snivilization is definitely a listen at home on headphones album. When you see them live you prefer the bangers on the other albums. Which is exactly what you got on the insides tour. think they only played one tracks from Snivilization .

IIRC they just played "Forever", which was great but also upsetting because I REALLY wanted them to do the segue into "I Wish I Had Duck Feet"

At the end of the day I'm just happy I'm in the crowd noise on one of the "Satan (Live)" singles

Voted for the God Machine (again), but the biggest omission for me is Motorpsycho's Timothy's Monster.

not familiar with that album but I am pleased you're joining me in voting for the god machine!

94 was a significant drop from 93

organized konfusion - stress: the extinction agenda

holy crap, this was this year too. gonna just have to accept that these polls are probably gonna exclude 8-10 classic rap albums to year.

gonna just have to accept that these polls are probably gonna exclude 8-10 classic rap albums to year.

I just dont know much about rap, I'm afraid. That is why Mike is choosing half of the albums but he likes a lot of different music too and it is really hard to cut a list down to 25 choices each.

And these are supposed to be personal lists rather than the 'canon' and i've polled the canon many times before.

Its hard to balance so we dont end up with a poll of albums only 10 people have heard of and one that will allow 100+ ilxors to vote without having to only include the 'canon' or biggest selling albums.

But I think almost everyone can find one album to vote for and we only have one vote anyway.

and a reminder that the canon albums for 94 are over here Best Album on OUR Favourite Albums of......1994! Part II : ILM Loves Its Canon!!!

I don't think we will be doing two polls for the rest of the decade though. Which might mean a lot of popular albums will just have to miss out.

Looking through my faves of '95 earlier, I can confirm there will be a lot of rap

xp wasn't really criticizing your choices, but more commenting on the crazy amount of great rap albums that came out each year of the 90s.

yeah I know it wasn't a criticism. Rap is just a big gap in my knowledge

Maybe we should do a rap album listening thread to educate you, ON :D

mike picked plenty

swell's 41 towers millions of miles above all those albums. my other two faves from 1994 portishead's dummy and nirvana's unplugged are missing as well. sorry but i refuse to vote here.

Your other two faves are both on the Pt. 2 poll, FYI

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xxp - Swell came out in 93

really? the cd from american recordings i own came out in march 1994:
https://www.allmusic.com/album/41-mw0000115058/releases

Hm, I guess you're right.

Further is my favorite FSA record, I think it is the one where it all comes together. I got it on LP from back in the 90s and used to love to listen to it wasted before sleep.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Further is most peoples fave I think?

which poll gets the most votes?

voted for outkast to make sure it would get a vote and cause my real favs are in the other poll

tortoise vs the groop

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

ok did not expect that

soundgarden voters otm

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