1994, 1993, 1992: Eight releases listed per year

y last poll went down to 2005. I do like working backwards chronologically when it comes to the years. In the last series of polls I opted to limit myself to five per year, for 25 total, but that did feel painfully limiting. I'm happier doing this as four sets of eight , and then the remaining space can be for "Other". I do like to cover multiple years to cover more yearly ground faster. I don't like to drag these things out for a very long time. While one is free to mention as many "others" as one likes, voting "other" is intended to be for those who appreciate no album in the poll. This can be because they dislike everything they know in the poll or because they know nothing in the poll.

Please try to vote for one per year in the poll, or five total no matter the year if you can. One is fine too, so is two. And please do not let limited familiarity stop you from voting or commenting on what you do know and like, if any, from the list. Sometimes I get comments like, "I know hardly anything in the list, so no vote." I would rather people state they know little and mention what they do know and vote for it if they also like it. I appreciate those kinds of details.

Please mention your votes and any others you like from these years. It's not a contest, no winners, no losers, it's not about better and worse for me, and I'm not a stickler for such multiple voting regulations (well, sometimes I am), except that you only vote once per option.

1994

1. Portishead - Dummy (not in PA)
2. Pram - Helium
3. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Let Love In (not in PA)
4. Stereolab - Mars Audiac Quintet
5. The Future Sound of London - Lifeforms (not in PA)
6. Nature and Organisation - Beauty Reaps the Blood of Solitude
7. Bondage Fruit - Bondage Fruit I
8. Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Volume II (not in PA)

1993

1. Dead Can Dance - Into the Labyrinth
2. Komeda - Pop på Svenska (not in PA)
3. Björk - Debut
4. Naked City (John Zorn) - Radio
5. Pram - The Stars Are So Big, The Earth Is So Small... Stay As You Are
6. Stereolab - Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements
7. Morphine - Cure for Pain (not in PA)
8. Depeche Mode - Songs of Faith and Devotion (not in PA)

1992

1. Current 93 - Thunder Perfect Mind
2. Swans - Omniscience (live)
3. Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92 (not in PA)
4. Swans - Love of Life
5. Cardiacs - Heaven Born and Ever Bright
6. Dëath in Jüne - But, What Ends When the Symbols Shatter? (not in PA)
7. Angelo Badalamenti - Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (not in PA)
8. Carl Stone - Mom's (not in PA)

"Other", again, means you like nothing in the poll and will mention something in a post that would get your vote and a comment if it were included from the years.

Edited by Logan - March 04 2025 at 12:23

1994

1994

FSOL – Lifeforms

1993

Morphine – Cure for Pain

1992

Aphex Twin – Selected Ambient Works 85-92

^^^ I'm familiar with Songs of Faith and Devotion, having been a fan of Depeche Mode since the 1980's, but I was trying to avoid voting for two albums in the same block of eight. 

Logan wrote: ^ I get that, thought you might mention if you liked more than one as I know in your own topics you like to list several of your top picks rather than just mentioning one that you like even though yours are not multiple votes (a top five commonly). People are free to vote for multiple ones in the same year, by the way. I am too much of a maximalist when I post in people's topics commonly (would like to learn to be more succinct).

Logan wrote: ^ Thanks, I appreciate it. I like to get to know what people know and like, and don't like, from the lists even if they don't vote for it. That gets harder when you know and like lots in long lists. Sometimes it's easier to mention what you don't know... And to know what other things people like if they want to share.

Other: None of this in this poll is my cup of tea. During the period in question was listening to a lot of Bela Fleck and the Flecktones. So UFO Tofu (92) and Three Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest (93). John McLaughlin Trio's Que Alegria (93). Peter Gabriel's Us (92). Phish's Hoist (94). Dixie Dregs Full Circle (94).

Mellotron Storm wrote: You and I have different tastes when it comes to the 90's. I'm more into the retro stuff. Voted Bondage Fruit, Dead Can Dance and Angelo B. For me those early 90's are dominated by Porcupine Tree, Landberk, Anglagard and Anekdoten. Retro man is what I am. 1992 Hybris from Anglagard and Lonely Land by Landberk. But I also have After Crying's album from that year. 1993 Up The Downstair by PT, and Vemod by Anekdoten but Sun Dial's Return Journey is a classic. The Spacious Mind is awesome too. 1994 is again Landberk and Anglagard but add Mosquito by Psychotic Waltz. How about Oingo Boingo's Boingo?

By a coincidence, I shared the anecdote of my brother sharing his appreciation for Portishead and Nick Cave earlier in this thread, two acts I had got very into, and he told me when he put on Nick Cave how much he likes retro music. I like Anglagard, Anekdoten, and that early Porcupine Tree, it just did not rate as highly with my current/ more recent interests. Definitely there is quite a bit of music with retro qualities in the list with the likes of Stereolab, Pram, Komeda and Portishead. Those draw on 60s and early 70s lounge, psychedelia, Krautrock, jazzy music and/or classic space age music.

A lot of the music I like of the time and later is drawing on classic Krautrock, lounge, Space Age, space rock, and psychedelia. Less would be drawing on classic, say, Symphonic Prog.

A few examples of music covered by albums in this poll:







Edited by Logan - March 04 2025 at 22:33

Aphex Twin (94) - Dead Can Dance - Cardiacs