Discount Albums ? What do you mean ?

the band discount. they were a pop punk band from florida. after the band broke up the singer, alison, formed the kills. who are horrible, especially compared to discount.

If it wasn't a top 50 I would have voted. And I have to say this is a very decent list.

I voted for The Caution Appears by Fushitsusha, I can't remember how high though. But yeah, I would of thought Pathetique would just about sneak into the list at least, quite a few people here seem to rate that one.

the fushitsusha numbers

21 - Fushitsusha- A Death Never to be Complete : 21
21 - Fushitsusha – Pathétique : 3,18
21 - Fushitsusha - The Caution Appears : 11,10
19 - Fushitsusha – Allegorical Misunderstanding : 19

again had every one come to a consensus on say Pathétique which would have been my choice, it certainly would have ranked

huh what does it matter?

can you make a top 50 of the 80's next?

Ok, here I go: i'm completely a child of the 90s and I really like this list. I know lists are relative. I know this is an SY board and I'm an SY fan, therefore I like this list (again). But... Check Your Head? If you don't take the Beastie Boys seriously then you weren't there. I'm done.

The top 50 acts, based on their total scores across all albums:


1 - Sonic Youth - 918 points
2 - Pavement - 325
3 - My Bloody Valentine - 322
4 - Nirvana - 291
5 - Boredoms - 257
6 - Polvo - 252
7 - Slint - 232
8 - Shellac - 205
9 - Radiohead - 201
10 - PJ Harvey - 143
11 - Stereolab - 141
12 - Keiji Haino - 129 (includes Fushitsusha and Purple Trap)
13 - Sun City Girls - 108
14 - Wu Tang Clan - 108
15 - Sleater Kinney - 104
16 - Bardo Pond - 101
17 - Fugazi - 98
18 - Tortoise - 96
19 - DJ Shadow - 88
20 - Sebadoh - 87
21 - Portishead - 86
22 - Pixies - 85
23 - Nas - 82
24 - Smashing Pumpkins - 82
25 - Beck - 79
26 - Gastr Del Sol - 77
27 - Drive Like Jehu - 76
28 - Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - 72
29 - Yo La Tengo - 70
30 - Jeff Buckley - 66
31 - Mercury Rev - 65
32 - Merzbow - 64
33 - The Fall - 63
34 - Jesus Lizard - 63
35 - Boris - 62
36 - Dead C - 61
37 - Talk Talk - 61
38 - Blur - 60
39 - Jim O'Rourke - 60
40 - Bonnie "Prince" Billy - 59
41 - Unwound - 58
42 - Autechre - 57
43 - Public Enemy - 57
44 - Gate - 55
45 - Royal Trux - 55
46 - No Neck Blues Band - 54
47 - At The Drive In - 53
48 - Cat Power - 53
49 - Guided By Voices - 51
50 - John Fahey - 51

Where the fuck is New Plastic Ideas god damnit.

john fahey at # 50, hahaha. That's sad.

i didn't have time to vote i would have voted for The Time Is Nigh first, II second, & Pathetique third among 90s Fushitsusha

if you were saying this in reference to the jesus lizard, they are one of the few (3 or 4) bands i listened to in the 90s that i still enjoy now. in fact i like them a lot more now.

I did, if I remember well.

ha ha!! why are we all whinging????

we voted for these albums... this poll was here for ages...

kinda suprising that a few were missing but kinda not suprised about the top 5. loveless deserves to be there, greatest album ever...... totally groundbreaking, influencial and beautiful. nothing sounded like it before or nothing has sounded quite like it since....but then ive said that before......

spiderland, without doubt deserved to be higher than washing machine as it is a near perfect album...

but hey, we all voted for this list so its unfair of us to mock the results.... but it is fun tho!!!

I dunno if Loveless was really that groundbreaking, especially compared to something like Spiderland. Certainly, it popularized the genre, but actually, Isn't Anything was way more groundbreaking (mainly because it came before Loveless)... and a way better record. Loveless was just really simple boring songs with a lot of guitar layers. Basically, it was Isn't Anything with worse songs, worse production, and more noise. There are maybe 3 great songs on it.

If we're talking groundbreaking and revolutionary, the entire shoegaze genre can be traced back to dream pop bands like Cocteau Twins and the noisey pop Jesus and Mary Chain were doing. MBV can be credited with popularizing the genre, but I think even Slowdive's "Just for a Day", released the same year as Loveless, was about a thousand times better.

I think Spiderland, however, was an album that came out that definitely didn't sound like anything released before. And beyond just its influence, it also happens to be an amazing record with 6 jawdropping songs..... just amazing.

to be honest... i like any sy album better than loveless.
still is a fuckin' good album

Nah, it was more in reference to something Pookie says quite a bit - if you were around at the time (I wasn't) Pixies were for gays. Personally, I suspect anyone floating around and 'of a decent age' (I wasn't) in the early 90s would've picked the Stone Roses over MBV. Nirvana would've still been as big, but I doubt a poll of people of 'a decent listening age' in the 90s would produce the same results.

And then there's the fact that 50 horses in my field is an amazing record, but there's no way I would've picked up on that at the time. I wonder what other amazing records I've missed in the 90s? Maybe there's that timeless Mundy album I'm missing...

just for a day was 1990. but ok, mbv loveless is a unique sounding record...... it may not be groundbreaking but its certainly something special..

i dunno how often we have had this conversation adam? we will never agree on this one!

JAMC and Cocteau Twins are both Scottish, REPRESENT!

my aunt used to see those bands live all the time during the 80s

oh my shit. forgot Daft Punk.... nobody else even mentioned Homewerk. for shame

A record that's aged surprisingly well - sounds better now than it did at the time, to me at least.

i agree. its aged very well

Fugazi and GBV are really underappreciated here

Just for a Day was released September, 1991.

I'm prideful that by 16, I owned nearly all the albums listed.

Right on, swa(y)

you should be "prideful" of your command of the english language too

i didn't vote in this, but counted up the top 60, and i own 45 of them.

Keep on working , and soon , you'll be a "perfect" member of the board.

rep coming yr way then. silly me for not seeing it

guided by voice is terrible, why would anyone want to listen to a cranky middle aged alcoholic grade school teacher?

because he writes fantastic songs?

i'd throw _Alien Lanes_ in the top 50 for sure.

Come's _Don't Ask, Don't Tell_ would be a top 15.

Bee Thousand is the only worthwhile GBV album.

ludicrous.

and there's a poll about which Animal Collective record is best?

i feel dumb now. Homewerk would be top 15 at least for me... and for not recognizing Vision Creation Newsun as 1999... i don't know why I was so certain that it was 2000. VCN would have been top 3 for me. and Pop Tatari i should have put 21-22... damnit

Ever heard of Ride?

Ride was probably closer to MBV prior to _Isn't Anything_, in that they used 60's song forms against a cloud of distortion. from thereonin, MBV diverted wildly from Ride.

Sure. They still certainly contributed to the whole shoegaze thing with 'Nowhere' and their image, plus made quite a bit of fast money. More than MBV at the time of Loveless, if memory serves me well.

The only one I've heard is Nowhere.