Best Album on OUR Favourite Albums of......1996 PART TWO

I had to vote In Sides but I feel bad for Underworld, Stereolab, Tortoise, Cardiacs, RDJ - and, ok, I confess, maybe Tigermilk a bit too, though I haven't actually put it on in probably 18 years

liking DAM's list too

Richard D. James Album probably; I think "Girl/Boy Song" is my favourite thing by him.

1996 much better than remembered i think. 1996 was the year of Oasis at Knebworth/Loch Lomond. So that casts a shadow over everything at the time.

I was at the 2nd Loch Lomond gig, enjoyed it but was the 3rd and last time I saw Oasis. Never cared for the albums that came after.
I listened to a lot of non britpop stuff at the time as you can all see so apologies to britpop fans for lack of your faves but by this point i hated britpop

The Grifters' "Ain't My Lookout" is one record from 1996 that I listened to a ton and a favorite that was not on either list.

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Probably their least popular record though? Or maybe the last one was.

when I first heard it the RDJ album felt like one of those totally alien, mind-warping albums that I figured would hold up forever. I'm relistening now and that's not really the case

I still totally dig that Plug album.

just missed out, mike hadn't heard it and it was replaced by one of his picks.

It's hard to know whether to pick our absolute faves, leave out stuff we think wont get any votes or just give everyone the big canon albums they like.

the mike and rich album i still like too

and i like the dave clarke album even more

Went for the REM, but would have voted the GBV if it was listed.

1. Beck: Odelay (DGC) 1134 (110)
2. Fugees: The Score (Ruffhouse/Columbia) 602 (58)
3. Sleater-Kinney: Call the Doctor (Chainsaw) 456 (35)
4. DJ Shadow: Endtroducing . . . DJ Shadow (Mo' Wax/FFRR) 404 (40)
5. Los Lobos: Colossal Head (Warner Bros.) 403 (37)
6. Steve Earle: I Feel Alright (Warner Bros.) 387 (37)
7. Stereolab: Emperor Tomato Ketchup (Elektra) 379 (35)
8. Amy Rigby: Diary of a Mod Housewife (Koch) 371 (34)
9. Tricky: Pre-Millennium Tension (Island) 355 (38)
10. Pulp: Different Class (Island) 351 (31)
11. R.E.M.: New Adventures in Hi-Fi (Warner Bros.) 348 (38)
12. Everything but the Girl: Walking Wounded (Atlantic) 340 (30)
13. Patti Smith: Gone Again (Arista) 330 (31)
14. Wilco: Being There (Reprise) 264 (26)
15. Cassandra Wilson: New Moon Daughter (Blue Note) 225 (19)
16. [File Under Prince]: Emancipation (NRG) 213 (21)
17. Iris DeMent: The Way I Should (Warner Bros.) 211 (18)
18. Me'Shell NdegéOcello: Peace Beyond Passion (Maverick/Reprise) 209 (21)
19. Nearly God: Nearly God (Island) 183 (17)
20. Maxwell: Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite (Columbia) 179 (17)
21. Johnny Cash: Unchained (American) 178 (18)
22. Ani DiFranco: Dilate (Righteous Babe) 167 (16)
23. Gillian Welch: Revival (Almo Sounds) 156 (16)
24. Imperial Teen: Seasick (Slash/London) 153 (13)
25. Soundgarden: Down on the Upside (A&M) 148 (15)
26. Sheryl Crow: Sheryl Crow (A&M) 146 (15)
27. Cibo Matto: Viva! La Woman (Warner Bros.) 143 (16)
28. Nirvana: From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah (DGC) 124 (16)
29. Rage Against the Machine: Evil Empire (Epic) 122 (13)
30. Toni Tony Toné: House of Music (Mercury) 117 (12)
31. Curtis Mayfield: New World Order (Warner Bros.) 113 (10)
32. Joe Henry: Trampoline (Mammoth) 112 (12)
33. The Roots: Illadelph Halflife (DGC) 112 (10)
34. Sublime: Sublime (Gasoline Alley/MCA) 111 (11)
35. Neutral Milk Hotel: On Avery Island (Merge) 111 (10)
36. Sebadoh: Harmacy (Sub Pop) 110 (11)
37. The Olivia Tremor Control: Dusk at Cubist Castle (Flydaddy) 108 (12)
38. Screaming Trees: Dust (Epic) 107 (09)
39. Jon Spencer Blues Explosion: Now I Got Worry (Matador) 105 (11)
40. Richard Thompson: You? Me? Us? (Capitol) 103 (9)

^ Pazz & Jop 1996

I still have never heard any Sublime

that's honestly pretty admirable if you really managed to avoid them for this long

granted I don't really hear them much anymore but man in high school (2001-2004) I feel like I'd hear one of their 3-4 big songs on the s/t everywhere I went

It's very easy to do when you live in the UK.
I've never met a single person here that has heard of them. File with Dave Matthews Band.

Would not have heard of either band if it wasn't for ilx.

My older brother came back home from 4 years living in NY in '98 with a couple of Sublime tapes and he was raving about them. I'd never heard of them before. After a couple of listens, I was like, "I guess theyre okaaaaay"

reasonable doubt

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so we know who to blame

Might have to dig out Beats, Rhymes & Life and Stakes is High for a showdown.

IIRC Stakes is High would win

Do B&S fans prefer Sinister to Tigermilk?

they should, it's a better album

ditto

Indeed. One is worth 1.5 stars, the other 0.5 iirc.

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it’s weird to think that this was the year that saw Orbital, Underworld, DJ Shadow, Two Lone Swordsmen and Fila Brazilia release their arguably best albums. what a year.

Still say dubnobasswithmyhedman is the best Underworld album

But UK music wise dance music was my salvation because UK Indie/Britpop was mostly dire at the time.

Do B&S fans prefer Sinister to Tigermilk?

Tigermilk has Electronic Renaissance and thus it wins

those 3 EPs they compiled into a box set were good though, those and the three songs I can remember of Tigermilk are all I need

I think Tigermilk is a very good album, and Sinister is the opposite. But I'm not really a B&S "fan," I guess.

Stakes is High probably the one I listened to most here
I didn’t take it out of my car tape deck for like 4 month in 96

Stakes is High probably the one I listened to most here
I didn’t take it out of my car tape deck for like 4 month in 96

Stakes is High probably the one I listened to most here
I didn’t take it out of my car tape deck for like 4 month in 96

Tigermilk has Electronic Renaissance and thus it wins

^ this

I'm not really a B&S fan either though

You are Colonel Twee though.

B&S is possibly the wrong kind of twee for me but I don't hate them, I like a good few of their songs. admittedly nothing from this century (but I haven't listened to much they've done this century)

in the Belle & Sebastian poll from last December (which was a lot of fun to follow), Tigermilk came in 2nd with 38 votes and 7 #1s, and If You’re Feeling Sinister came in 1st with 38 votes and 20 #1s. The #1 track was “The State I am In” from Tigermilk. Five tracks in the top 10 were from Sinister

I still can’t for the life of me figure out what everyone finds so amazing about “The State I Am In”, but the run from “Expectations” to “I Could Be Dreaming” ranks right up there with any five-song sequence in pop music history.

Tigermilk has Electronic Renaissance and thus it wins

^ this

I'm not really a B&S fan either though

^ this

I think The State I Am In seems like the perfect encapsulation of Belle and Sebastian, and it was their first song on their first album

and it's great. I prefer Tigermilk though I never heard it until the CD reissue came out. Boy with the arab strap was the last one i bought

Tigermilk only had a very limited release in 1996, most people at least in the US didn't hear it until its re-issue in 1999. I heard If You're Feeling Sinister first and had such a crush on it. I still think it is their overall best album

^ditto

Ash for me, with Stereolab a close 2nd

I also did not hear Tigermilk in 1996, someone taped me IYFS in '97 or early '98 with an nth-generation dub of Tigermilk on the other side that was missing some of the tracks and actively painful to listen to (and I liked lo-fi) and then I bought the reissue

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https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/aug/13/belle-and-sebastian-boaty-weekender-indie-festival-cruise

I voted for 2Pac, I think this is a stellar year and I like most of it, but I guess a lot of it is associated with a bad time in my life, so I can't vote for it. I remember liking Tricky quite a bit.

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no votes for molko & co! that album's still so much fun. always loved his guitar tone. there's at least five hits on it. they had a different edge to the rest of alt rock at the time.

In 1999, Ned Raggett ranked the album at number 94 on his list of "The Top 136 or So Albums of the Nineties".[28] ;)

ned doesnt read or vote on poll threads though

Best Album on OUR Favourite Albums of......1999 PART ONE

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voted for both winners, good show ilm

a worthy winner. interesting that pinkerton only got three votes. in the early days of ilm there were loads of weezer fans who preferred pinkerton to the s/t. i never understood why. apparently time has separated the wheat from the chaff.

wtf happened here

cruiseships have wifi these days