1994, 1993, 1992: Eight releases listed per year
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Topic: 1994, 1993, 1992: Eight releases listed per year
Posted By: Logan
Subject: 1994, 1993, 1992: Eight releases listed per year
Date Posted: March 04 2025 at 10:35
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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. |
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Posted By: TheGazzardian
Date Posted: March 04 2025 at 10:50
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Nick Cave is the winner here, that was my introduction to his band and still one of the albums from them I enjoy the most. Cardiacs is my second, Current 93 is probably my third. Not sure after that.
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Posted By: Octopus II
Date Posted: March 04 2025 at 10:58
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1994 Portishead - Dummy 1993 Björk - Debut 1992 Cardiacs - Heaven Born and Ever Bright |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: March 04 2025 at 11:06
| Dead Can Dance - Into the Labyrinth |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: March 04 2025 at 11:53
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1994 FSOL – Lifeforms 1993 Morphine – Cure for Pain 1992 Aphex Twin – Selected Ambient Works 85-92 ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: March 04 2025 at 11:54
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^^^ Nice choices, especially Dummy for me. ^^ I expected a vote for that Paul. The only other one I thought you might know and like and thus mention is Depeche Mode. ^ Super pleased to see all of those three getting votes, verslibre.
That is my favourite Nick Cave album, although I have not heard most of his. I do think that it is a really great album. I only really only got into his music over the past few years. Your Funeral ... My Trial was the first of his I got into, then Murder Ballads, Let Love In, Tender Mercies... I meant to buy tickets for his concert in Vancouver this May, but left it too long and it sold out. Missed so many concerts by not acting fast. I have two brothers, one lives in Perth, Australia and the other in Nanaimo on Vancouver Island. The one in Australia visits here every year and when I saw him last and asked him what music he was most into now, he said Portishead and then immediately put on Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Two of my favourite acts over the past few years. My niece who lives in Victoria and whose estranged father lives in Nanaimo, I sadly have spent very little time with her but she became good friends with my eldest, was here the other day and spent some nights at my house. I asked her what music she was most into now and she said Nick Cave. It's all coincidental, or maybe the genes. I share very little in common with her father, but amazingly similar interests to what she is into (writing, music, film, novels...) |
TheGazzardian wrote:Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: March 04 2025 at 11:55
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Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: March 04 2025 at 12:07
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Dead Can Dance gets the nod. ------------- Welcome to the middle of the film. |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: March 04 2025 at 14:18
^^^ 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. 
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: March 04 2025 at 14:34
| ^ 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). |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: March 04 2025 at 14:43
Okay, I just added a vote for Depeche Mode.
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: March 04 2025 at 14:54
| ^ 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. |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: March 04 2025 at 14:58
Dead Can Dance and Depeche Mode's albums are the only two albums I know in the poll, but you probably guessed that already.
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: March 04 2025 at 20:26
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''Other'' 1992 Anglagard - Hybris 1993 IQ - Ever 1994 Par Lindh Project - Gothic Impressions
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Posted By: Big Sky
Date Posted: March 04 2025 at 21:19
| 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). |
Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: March 04 2025 at 21:48
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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? ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: March 04 2025 at 22:27
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: |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: March 05 2025 at 06:30
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Bondage Fruit Dead Can Dance Cardiacs ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: March 05 2025 at 10:02
| Aphex Twin (94) - Dead Can Dance - Cardiacs |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: March 05 2025 at 11:17
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1994 1. Portishead - Dummy (not in PA) 2. Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Volume II (not in PA) 3. Stereolab - Mars Audiac Quintet 1993 1. Dead Can Dance - Into the Labyrinth 2. Stereolab - Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements 3. Pram - The Stars Are So Big, The Earth Is So Small... Stay As You Are 1992 1. Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92 (not in PA) 2. Swans - Love of Life 3. Swans - Omniscience (live) -so, Portishead, Dead Can Dance and Aphex Twin got a vote each. Not unlike how I would have voted in the 1990's. |
Posted By: mathman0806
Date Posted: March 05 2025 at 18:45
| My tastes for this time period veered toward the alternative rock/grunge, but still have some favorites among Greg's list. Selected Nick Cave and Morphine from 94 and 93. |