SPIN Alternative Record Guide (1995) Top 100 Alternative Albums (51-100)

(Of course there is or was at least one CD bootleg.)

fwiw that's the only album on the 100 that's never been issued on CD

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Also the only album that can't really be found anywhere in the book (besides a stray mention in X-Ray Spex entry when discussing Essential Logic)

yep!

Flatlanders over Tribe & Big Star

I love the majority of these, Vile Femmes excepted. But the one that's given me the most musical pleasure o'er the years is Have Moicy! by The Unholy Modal Rounders with Michael Hurley and featuring Jeffrey Frederick and The Clamtones. The last of whom also made a wonderful very left field country lp called Spiders in the Moonlight, which also comes highly recommended. Xgau wrote a nice bit on HM! at the time. One of the Ol Deans more perceptive pieces in terms of very
Out of the mainstream music. Pretty sure it's on his,admittedly excellent website.

I feel like I should listen to one of these a week for the next 12 months

Closer.

oh yeah, somewhere there's a thread where Dan Selzer talks about WBAB almost coming out on CD (would have been on Acute, I think), but the death of Nikki Sudden left the Swell Maps track uncleared---might have been more to it, but pretty sure he mentioned that part.

Wasn't so much the clearance that was the issue with Swell Maps. The clearance problems were the Pop Group and Robert Wyatt, both owned/controlled by major labels who make things difficult. Then on top of that losing Nikki who was my connection to the Swell Maps and Epic Soundtracks track i was going to put on the appendix bit, at first I wasn't about to try to reach out to his family to discuss this stuff, and eventually due to the other clearance problems I gave up on the project.

Some of the Best is a good compilation that's of course been totally obliterated by basically every single subsequent Perry comp (and was probably so even at the time). Issue with a few of the comps on here.

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I know this is Joy Division but voting Violent Femmes anyways.

Fuck, I missed Smashing Pumpkins.

is that Freedy in the photo w/ Adam Carolla?

yeah

how the fuck have i never listened to pere ubu?

the modern dance is amazing wow

i saw black eyes a bunch of times when i lived in dc and i never knew they basically took their whole thing from this record

yeah, Pere Ubu are amazing! If you like that record make sure you get all the singles from around that time and just before.

I saw Black Eyes once when I came down to DJ between bands when they opened for the Rapture. I like to pretend I introduced Ital to house music that night.

yeah, the Smog Veil site's newsletter is a good source of Ubu and related reissues/prev. unreleases; also, though I don't always hear things like xgau does, he pretty much nails this
early collection of even earlier stuff:
Terminal Tower: An Archival Collection [Twin/Tone, 1986]
Side one is the long unavailable Datapanik in the Year Zero EP, itself comprising two indie singles and a compilation cut and as powerful a sequence as side one of Dub Housing nevertheless. Side two collects the kind of oddments that rarely cohere on LP, yet here the outtakes and B sides and stray singles come together as a record of David Thomas's slide or progress from willed optimism to blessed whimsy. In short, this is a gift from God--a third Ubu album from the former Crocus Behemoth's pre-God period. A- He means third pre-G after The Modern Dance and Dub Housing, but also likes New Picnic Time and several others from DT's Jehovah's Witness prime time, before the art-rock further complicated/maybe took over the layers.

Allen Ravenstine's solo/sidetrip mid-70s-recorded Terminal Drive is out soon, via Smog Veil.

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Hey, I wasn't the only Sebadoh III voter!

The Beat deserved at least one vote...

Hey, I wasn't the only Have Moicy! voter. Just being a smartass.

I was the only Beck voter :(

Probably would have been smarter to join team Devo and I'm probably coming around that way anyway ok my old age

I knew I should've for the Upsetters :(

Also, Modern Dance is fucking killer! I listened to it a couple times before but have mostly just stuck to Dub Housing in recent times, but man does it hit both the 'avant' and 'rock' sweet spots just right