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

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

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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

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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