OPO: the Nineties

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You only get to keep one album from the entire decade, the rest of 'em are going to be shredded and used as very ineffective compost. Which one is it?

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 17:20 (twenty-three years ago)

you know it's either Fiestas and Fiascos or The Chronic unless F&F came out in '00 in which case welcome to Dre Day

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 17:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Energy Rush: Dance Hits '93

― matthew james (matthew james), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 17:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Boo Radley's GIANT STEPS

― ddb, Tuesday, 25 March 2003 17:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Afghan Whigs, probably Gentlemen

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 17:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Divine Styler-Spiral Walls Containing Autumns of Light

― Scott Seward, Tuesday, 25 March 2003 17:25 (twenty-three years ago)

One album to sum up ten entire years?

Fuck.

Alright, then, Get Off the Cross, We Need the Wood For the Fire by Firewater or Extremities, Dirt & Various Repressed Emotions by Killing Joke.

Big shock, eh?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 17:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Looking At Books. Making Books. Doing Sums.

― the pinefox, Tuesday, 25 March 2003 17:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Tricky - Maxinquaye or St Etienne - So Tough

― Robin Goad (rgoad), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 17:33 (twenty-three years ago)

blind melon

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 17:37 (twenty-three years ago)

mwng-super furry animals

― robin (robin), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 17:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Laughing Stock, people.. Laughing Stock.

― Adam A. (Keiko), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 17:51 (twenty-three years ago)

none of these records except mine and the chronic actually sum up the decade in any way

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 17:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Only one CD? John, you cruel, cruel man! Hmmm....Pearl Jam's "Ten" for 2 reasons: a) It ROCKED, and b) Tis before Eddie V started acting constipated and self-indulgent.

(edging out Nirvana's "Nevermind" by a whisker)

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 17:54 (twenty-three years ago)

why do we have to sum up?

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 17:55 (twenty-three years ago)

mwng-super furry animals

A person of taste, but SFA makes such great albums. tis hard to choose.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 17:56 (twenty-three years ago)

are we trying to sum up the decade or choose our favourite?

sum up = Enter The Wu-Tang.
favourite = Aquemini. Or Barafundle, heh.

― pete b. (pete b.), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 18:06 (twenty-three years ago)

please don't try and sum up the decade. you can only be wrong.

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 18:11 (twenty-three years ago)

but we can all be wrong together!

― pete b. (pete b.), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 18:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Massive Attack but I can't decide which one. Oh, Mezzanine for personal reasons.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 18:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Yup! I second Mezzanine.

― rex jr., Tuesday, 25 March 2003 18:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Wow, this is impossible. Since I'm listening to Fishbone's Chim Chim's Badass Revenge right now, I'm going with that, but expect me to change my answer to something like Beck's Odelay or Mr. Bungle's Disco Volante before this paragraph is done.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 18:24 (twenty-three years ago)

how about one song to sum up the decade? i'll take 'fillmore jive'

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 18:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Differing tastes aside.....do you really think people will still be listening to The Chronic in twenty years time?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 18:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Based on the unfuckwithability of "Nothin' But a G Thang", yes. The rest of the album could be a 45 minute skit with Dre trying to pack a blunt in the back of a bouncin' low rider, and it'd STILL be unfuckwithable.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 18:43 (twenty-three years ago)

"unfuckwithable" = term which MUST catch on, whatever the cost.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 19:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Damn you all, I'm taking 'His n Hers.'

― Alexis (Alexis), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 19:41 (twenty-three years ago)

I want to cry, and this isn't even real.

― praying mantis (praying mantis), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 19:59 (twenty-three years ago)

"Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain" - Pavement

― Brandon Gentry (Brandon Gentry), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 20:22 (twenty-three years ago)

The Nation of Ulysses, "Plays Pretty For Baby"

― Ian Johnson (orion), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 20:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Differing tastes aside.....do you really think people will still be listening to The Chronic in twenty years time?

Thirty. Forty, even.

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 21:26 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm a member of a generation that's never heard The Chronic. You're losing the battle!!!

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 25 March 2003 21:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Hip Hop as a general rule doesn't seem to age especially well....with a few exceptions.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 21:31 (twenty-three years ago)

I agree that much of hip-hop does not age well.
MCs have been improving their skills slowly but steadily,
so that even the hottest MCs circa 1987 sound dodgy
compared to today's rappers.

_The Chronic_ has not aged well. But neither have Outkast
or Busta Rhymes' first albums.
Meanwhile, _It Takes A Nation Of Millions_
and _Enter The 36 Chambers_ kick
as much as ever. Sample and DJ based albums have a
timeless quality, I think, while synth-based ones
inevitably show their age.

― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 21:49 (twenty-three years ago)

SP speaketh da troof 'bout Nation & 36 Chambahs. I'd also say that TCQ's albums have aged remarkably well and are excruciatingly listenable today.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 21:53 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm listening to Illmatic right now and it sounds pretty damned good

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 21:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Urge Overkill, Saturation

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 22:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Wowee Zowee < / the pavement already >

― Aaron A., Wednesday, 26 March 2003 04:37 (twenty-three years ago)

imperial ffrr

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 04:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Divine Styler-Spiral Walls Containing Autumns of Light

Hey, most cool. :-)

My own choice being obvious, let us move on.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 04:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Morton Feldman - Neither

(Loveless actually did come closer than I might have expected.)

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 04:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Best of Jungle (Low Price Music)

― gaz (gaz), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 07:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, so you're going with Stone Temple Pilots _Core_, are you then, Ned?

Myself, i'd probably have to choose _Scenes from the South Island_ by Roy Montgomery. But that's today. Ask me tomorrow, and i might say something different.

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 15:42 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah i only got into 36 chambers recently,but it doesn't sound at all "dated",for want of a better word

― robin (robin), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 15:45 (twenty-three years ago)

released in the exact middle of the decade, with a very time-specific sound and recording location:
God Machine - One Last Laugh in a Place of Dying

― Fabrice (Fabfunk), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 15:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, so you're going with Stone Temple Pilots _Core_, are you then, Ned?

Yes, clearly.

God Machine choice -- inspired.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 16:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Motorpsycho - Timothy's Monster

― willem (willem), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 16:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Nice to see willem picking a Norwegian effort. Yet:

Crowded House: Woodface

wins for me.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 18:21 (twenty-three years ago)

PJ Harvey - "Rid Of Me"

― dan (dan), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 18:50 (twenty-three years ago)

PJ Harvey - "Rid Of Me"

Yes, please. You rock;>

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 19:31 (twenty-three years ago)

This is hard, but my choice right now would be "National Coma" by Drop Nineteens.

― Bryan (Bryan), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 19:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Jay Z -- Vol 3.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 20:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Today it's Saint Etienne - So tough, and I'll have the 2 disc version please.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 21:37 (twenty-three years ago)

My own choice being obvious, let us move on.

Perhaps this isn't the thread for it, but as long as I've been on ILM (over two years) I can only remember Ned saying "oh well you all know how I feel" when Loveless comes up. Can we track down the first documented instance of Ned professing his devotion to MBV on these boards?

― Adam A. (Keiko), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 22:19 (twenty-three years ago)

"Fear of a Black Planet"

― ArfArf, Wednesday, 26 March 2003 23:17 (twenty-three years ago)

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