Now then, now then, guys 'n' gals, it's time for another poll, this time of a musical nature!

So get your headphones on, sharpen your pencils and start compiling those lists, because it's The Spaced Out Ultimate Albums of the Nineties Poll!

That's right pop-pickers, as it says on the tin, we want to know your top ten twenty albums released betwixt the years 1990 and 1999.


Rules are as follows:

PLEASE READ THE INSTRUCTIONS BELOW CAREFULLY BEFORE SENDING ME YOUR VOTES!

Simply PM me your top ten twenty albums - in order of preference - before midnight on Friday 16th January.

- Comments on your choices are welcome, and may be posted with the final results.

- Only studio albums can be nominated (no 'best-of' compilations please - however, live albums may be considered).

PLEASE DO NOT POST YOUR VOTES BELOW!

And to help you jog those memories, why not check out this link ---> Rock List <-- Features every poll from every music paper/magazine, for every year!
(Link provided courtesy of your friendly neighbourhood Sostie).

The results of the poll will be posted once all the data has been collated and checked.

So, you have a month and a day to get your Top Twenties compiled, folks - we look forward to hearing from you!

If you should have any questions, please feel free to post them below.

Oooh! Decisions, decisions. Do I pick and album from each year? One from 10 great acts? Or shall I just list the Nick Cave albums for that decade and pad out the rest?

I like it Ade. Good job.

Cheers dude.


I'm going to find this nigh on impossible to say the least. I drafted a Top 15 almost immediately after I got to work at some ungodly hour this morning. That will easily bloat to Top 30 once I get home, with all the additional "but what about such-and-such?" shenanigans.

Good grief.

Don't forget Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine people. I am serious. Don't forget them

Damn, 1991 alone has nearly filled my list. I've not even reached the Brit Pop or Trip Hop years

This should be quite challenging since most of my favourite albums are from the last ten years or pre-1990. Looking through my collection could throw up some surprises.

I think you'll surprise yourself.

Mine will probably be quite standard, actually, since I only started buying music in 2002, so my buying has largely about getting the ''big'' albums rather than stumbling across lesser known acts.

If Nirvana win I'm going on a rampage

I suspect that I am going to struggle to get to ten, and that they will all be depressingly mainstream!

That'll be fun to watch.

London would be in ruins as I storm the streets wearing a Mudhoney t-shirt, screaming Senseless Things lyrics.

I've narrowed my selection down to 14. I can't see how it's possible to bring it down to 10. - Can I submit a top 14 albums??

I guess I'll just try & order them & see what ends up at the bottom.

That's pretty good going. This is going to take me the full month I think.

I've narrowed mine down to about 30 and I'm up to 1994!

Number one should be easy for me as my second favourite album ever falls under this decade.

I've managed to narrow my 15 down to 20.

I'm scared of this.

Yeah, my 14 have become 16.
How are we supposed to order them?.... how can you possibly say that one excellent album is preferential to another excellent album?
You ask the impossible.


Seriously, can we make it a top 15?.... Why does everything have to go in tens anyway? ... because we have 10 digits?... that's no reason.

I'll hand you a plank with a nail in it and egg you on.

Oh, it was considered. For all of five minutes. Then wisdom intervened. From a logistical point of view, posting the results afterward would be a nightmare.

You'll just have to be ruthless.



I'm going to focus solely on those albums I consider to have nary a duff track on it. Holy crap I just thought of another five.

Ruthless!

I think asking for 15 for albums would be way too much work to ask of one person. I really think albums would produce more varied lists than say a film poll. I think ten will be pretty difficult to collate as it is.


Why should we change it to a Top 15?....because you can't narrow it down to 10...that's no reason.

I just though 10 was too conventional.
Anyhoo, I've done it now. 10 chosen & sent to the Adester.

...& I'm not changing my mind. ...no. definitely not. no.

Ade. Would you like comments on choices?


I'm going to be giving shout outs for albums I know people will forget


Don't forget Troublegum by Threrapy?

OK, managed to get it down to 10 - but now you want them in order of preference?!?!?!?!?!?

You are a git of the first order Mr Ade!

Think mine are going to be quite generic, and under the influence of my more mature mind-set, but decent albums nonetheless.

as long as 'loveless' wins, all will be well...

Yes please, good point.

Folks, do please try and include any supplemental comments together with your Top Tens.
If anyone who has already voted would like to send me additional comments, please feel free to do so. It'll make my job easier if you can include all comments with your votes though! Many thanks!




Your knowledgeable input is most valued sir, thankies. I can already tell it would have been a dull poll without it.



I always wanted them in order of preference, as clearly stated from the outset.

But yes, I are git.

Swift.



You're going nowhere with that one. *ahem*


I actually do like that album.

I have a feeling it will be a certain Seattle trio or some scamps from Oxford




Beat you to that one Ade

I prefer 'Infernal Love' I played that album to death when I was 14.

Diane! Diane! Di-i-ane!

This is way too hard.
Although I may get some inspiration for the Nineties night I'm helping my mates to organise on Boxing Day. Although we were thinking more 90'S super-cheese along the lines of Vanilla Ice, MC Hammer, Scatman and Whigfield. Anyone wearing a shellshuit or bumbag/cycling shorts combo gets in free!

It's going to have to be a nineties xmas for me, just so I can narrow it down. I just keep thinking of more and more albums that it could come down to the ten I like best over the coming month.

Ride?


I done my top 50 albums of all time a while ago - hopefully at least ten will be from the nineties.

ha, that was my first thought...

Well I'm willing to put money on a certain forum member ranking them quite high.

Not surprised - I don't own any Therapy? albums, let alone remember any of their song titles.



I wouldn't count on the former, and holy crap, I can't believe I hadn't even taken said Oxford scamps into the equation yet.

I really am tempted to open votes out to 20 now, grr, arg. Don't underestimate my obsessive fascination for music-based stats, and the compiling thereof.



Vote anyway!

Pick the less obvious ones, or at least the ones you think are less obvious. But vote anyway!

Whilst ripping cds to my hard drive I've realised how brutal I'm going to have to be. There have been 2 or 3 definites but as for the rest they'll just have to slug it out.

Someone should give Shack a nudge. I'm sure Menswear need all the votes they can get

Any more thoughts, folks? I've only had three votes cast thus far!

Still sorting through albums.

Fair point. It's not an easy task, I'll grant you. I'll refrain from nudging the thread for the next week or so.

This is hard, Ade. It's like asking me to choose a favorite child.

That's easy, you go with the oldest. It's always the oldest.

Yours, and previous comments duly noted. I'm finding it nigh on impossible too.

I hereby proclaim that voting has now been extended to a Top 20. For the benefit of the four voters who have already supplied their Top 10s to me, if you want to revise/extend your listings accordingly, please feel free to do so.

Since this will involve a little more number-crunching on my part, the results will be posted once all data has been collated, and double-checked!

Ok.

I definitely won't be sending you mine until next year Ade.

No worries, that's cool. Festivities first, album choosings second.

I'm having enough of a 'mare whittling down my chosen 30 to a 25 at the moment, let alone 20. It's a tricky one, that's for darn sure. It'll be interesting to see where everyone is with this come mid-January.

This is made so much easier by the fact that bands like The Cure, Smiths, Cult, Echo & The Bunnymen had past their peak or split by the 90s

On the downside I could fill my 20 with Nick Cave & Depeche Mode albums and still need at least another 20 places.

I've just now managed to round my shortlist of 30 up to 45. Bloody hell.

I keep finding albums that prompt me to say how on earth could I have forgotten this? I could pick an instant Top Ten without even thinking, but refining the remaining ten is proving to be a bitch of a task.

Good lord. This will require a notepad and some pencil sucking.

I have found something to do this weekend, Huzzah!

Actually i'll get started with the thinking and listening now, not going out for another 5 hours yet, with just bath/shower and changing in between.

I already know my number 1, and a few others for my top 5, but the rest require thinking.

Just by way of keeping some interest in this thread alive and indeed to nudge a few memory cells for people, I'm going to be suggesting - Sostie-style - a random selection of 90's artists, and/or albums. These may/may not be legitimately serious suggestions. Feel free to join in.




Mike Oldfield, Tubular Bells II.