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

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Originally Posted by davenotdead

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

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Originally Posted by blunderbuss

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

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.

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Originally Posted by ZEROpumpkins

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

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.

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Originally Posted by ZEROpumpkins

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

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

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Originally Posted by Nefeli

i did.

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

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Originally Posted by atsonicpark

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.

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.