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[C4Lukins]

This should include moderately successful albums starting after 1990. So at the very bottom of success I would put something along the lines of PH Harvey, Also I will simply define mainstream as being moderately popular.

Lets try an create a GAF list if enough are willing to participate.

1=5 points
2=4
3=4
4=3
5=3
6=3
7=3
8=3
9=3
10=3
11=2
12=2
13=2
14=1
15=1
My Choices

1. Pearl Jam No Code
2. Radiohead - The Bends
3. Nirvana - In Utero
4. Pearl Jam- Yield
5. Beck Sea Change
6. Sleater Kinney- One Beat
7. The Decemberists - Castaways and Cutouts.
8. Nirvana Unpllugged
9. Yeah Yeah Yeah's- Show Your Bones
10. Joanna Newsom- The Milk Eyed Mender
11. Radiohead- Ok Computer
12. Regina Spektor - Soviet Kitsch
13. REM New Adventures in Hi Fi
14. Tilly and the Wall- O
15. The Strokes- Last Impressions of Earth

If you choose something obscure, then I will have to make a decision whether or not it should be included, You will get a replacement vote in that case.

I will eliminate all but the top 64 albums and we will continue if people are still interested. Deadline for this first round is May 15th.

You must vote for at least ten in albums in order of best to least in order for your votes to be counted.

 

[equippedwithtowel]

1. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
2. Radiohead - O.K. Computer
3. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
4. Interpol - Turn on The Bright Lights
5. The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
6. Radiohead - In Rainbows
7. Arcade Fire - Funeral
8. The Strokes - Is This It?
9. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
10.The Black Keys - El Camino
11. Daft Punk - Discovery
12. Broken Social Scene - You Forget it in People
13. DJ Shadow - Entroducing
14. Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros - Streetcore
15. Plants and Animals - The End of That

Hon. Mentions
Bedouin Soundclash - Street Gospels
The National - High Violet
Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City

 

[C4Lukins]

Also people can edit their up until the final day of voting.

 

[Jarate]

nvm

 

[Andrew.]

1. Tool - ænima
2. Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
3. Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies
4. Toad the Wet Sprocket - Dulcinea
5. U2 - Pop
6. Helmet - Betty
7. Faraquet - View From This Tower
8. Rage Against The Machine - Evil Empire
9. Soundgarden - Superunknown
10. Beastie Boys - Check Your Head
11. Matthew Good - Avalanche
12. Incubus - Make Yourself
13. Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie
14. Quicksand - Slip
15. Pink Floyd - The Division Bell

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

1. Radiohead - Kid A
2. Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica
3. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
4. Pavement - Terror Twilight
5. Sigur Rós - Ágætis byrjun
6. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
7. R.E.M. - Automatic For The People
8. Iron & Wine - The Shepherd's Dog
9. The Appleseed Cast - Low Level Owl Vol. 1
10. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois

 

[C4Lukins]

Fuck the mainstream.

Will edit with list.

When I say mainstream, I am just talking about having a broad audience. So that someone outside of your circle of friends could at least potentially have heard of the band.

Edit: man looking at some of these early lists, it is tough. I already changed two of mine, and want to change two more now.

 

[Prez]

Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/LoveSounds is the only one I can think of at the moment.

 

[Andrew.]

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[Davidion]

Not that I dislike the idea, but using the 23 years as a cutoff for what's modern? Bro. Bro.

 

[chris121580]

1. The National - Alligator
2. Radiohead - The Bends
3. Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
4. The Strokes - Is This It?
5. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
6. Coldplay - Parachutes
7. My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves
8. Daft Punk - Discovery
9. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
10. Jay-Z - The Blueprint
11. Dr Dre - Chronic 2001
12. Ryan Adams - Love is Hell
13. Bon Iver - Bon Iver
14. Beck - Sea Change
15. Radiohead - OK Computer

 

[Cerebral Assassin]

Off the top of my head:

1. The Verve- Northern Soul
2. Stone Roses - Stone Roses
3. Oasis - What's The Story(Morning Glory)
4. Dr Dre - 2K
5. Air - 10000Hz Legend
6. Massive Attack - Blue Lines
7. Daft Punk- Homework
8. Wu Tang Clan - 36 Chambers
9. The Verve - Urban Hymns
10. Burial - Untrue
11. Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
12. Ministry of Sound(VA)- A.W.O.L
13.Beautiful South - Carry on up The Charts
14.DJ Shadow - Entroducing ...
15. The Game - Documentary

 

[C4Lukins]

Not that I dislike the idea, but using the 23 years as a cutoff for what's modern? Bro. Bro.

I would love to do a 60's through the 80's next. but I think just in those 23 years most people can find a full list quite easily.

 

[HawkeyeIC]

1. Outkast - Aquemeni
2. Radiohead - OK Computer
3. Strokes - Is this it
4. Arcade Fire - Funeral
5. Rage Against the Machine - Evil Empire
6. Emimem - MMLP
7. Weezer - Blue Album
8. Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica
9. NAS - Illmatic
10. Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
11. White Stripes - Elephant
12. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
13. Kanye West - College Dropout
14. Wu Tang - 36 Chambers
15. DJ Shadow - Endtoducing

Is Endtroducing to obscure? It wasn't hard to come up with the albums, but the rankings could change every day.

 

[equippedwithtowel]

Off the top of my head:

1. The Verve- Northern Soul
2. Stone Roses - Stone Roses
3. Oasis - What's The Story(Morning Glory)
4. Dr Dre - 2K
5. Air - 10000Hz Legend
6. Massive Attack - Blue Lines
7. Daft Punk- Homework
8. Wu Tang Clan - 36 Chambers
9. The Verve - Urban Hymns
10. Burial - Untrue

AFAIK Stone Roses is 89', otherwise it would have ranked pretty well on my list.

 

[C4Lukins]

1. Outkast - Aquemeni
2. Radiohead - OK Computer
3. Strokes - Is this it
4. Arcade Fire - Funeral
5. Rage Against the Machine - Evil Empire
6. Emimem - MMLP
7. Weezer - Blue Album
8. Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica
9. Notorious BIG - Ready to Die
10. Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
11. White Stripes - Elephant
12. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
13. Kanye West - College Dropout
14. Wu Tang - 36 Chambers
15. DJ Shadow - Endtoducing

Is Endtroducing to obscure? It wasn't hard to come up with the albums, but the rankings could change every day.

No DJ Shadow is well known. The truth of the matter is that if they are to obscure, nobody is going to vote for them so it will just work itself out.

 

[Cerebral Assassin]

AFAIK Stone Roses is 89', otherwise it would have ranked pretty well on my list.

True, but the version that everyone thinks of includes Fools Gold which wasn't added to the albumin the UK until the 90's.

 

[NinjaBoiX]

1.Massive Attack - Mezzanine
2.Radiohead - OK Computer
3.Massive Attack - Heligoland
4.The Roots - Things Fall Apart
5.Amy Winehouse - Frank
6.Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can
7.The Black Keys - Attack & ReleaseDJ Shadow - Endtroducing (also, it's probably higher, but fuck it)
8.The Prodigy - Music For The Jilted Generation
9.The Avalanches - Since I Left You
10.Portishead - Dummy
11.MF Doom - Mmm Food
12.Lianne La Havas - Is Your Love Big Enough?
13.Radiohead - In Rainbows
14.PJ Harvey - Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea
15.Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones

 

[Steamlord]

Is this mainstream enough? This is hard for me.

1. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
2. Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup
3. Animal Collective - Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished
4. Slowdive - Pygmalion
5. Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
6. Slowdive - Souvlaki
7. Joanna Newsom - Ys
8. Radiohead - Kid A
9. Portishead - Third
10. Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out
11. Battles - Mirrored
12. Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
13. Massive Attack - Mezzanine
14. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
15. The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream

 

[BigJonsson]

1. Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie
2. Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
3. Nirvana - Nevermind
4. Offspring - Smash
5. Metric - Live it Out
6. Green Day - Dookie
7. Pearl Jam - Ten
8. Bad Religion - Stranger than Fiction
9. No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom
10. Oasis - Whats the Story Morning Glory
11. Radiohead - The Bends
12. Eminem - The Slim Shady LP
13. Garbage - Version 2.0
14. Nirvana - In Utero
15. Bush - Sixteen Stone

 

[SD-Ness]

1. Radiohead – OK Computer
2. My Bloody Valentine – Loveless
3. The Flaming Lips – The Soft Bulletin
4. Neutral Milk Hotel – In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
5. Weezer – Blue Album
6. Built to Spill – Perfect from Now On
7. Portishead – Dummy
8. Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
9. Elliott Smith – Elliott Smith
10. Arcade Fire – Funeral
11. Sigur Ros – Ágætis Byrjun
12. Panda Bear – Person Pitch
13. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
14. LCD Soundsystem – Sound of Silver
15. Sufjan Stevens – Illinois

 

[Bread]

1. Nas Illmatic
2. Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
3. Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
4. Modest Mouse - Lonesome Crowded West
5. Animal Collective - Feels
6. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
7. Yeasayer - All Hour Cymbals
8. Chromeo - Fancy Footwork
9. Gorillaz - Demon Days
10. Kanye West - College Dropout
11. Luke Fiasco - Food and Liquor
12. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
13. MF Doom - Mm Food
14. Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero
15. Animal Collective - Sung Tongs

 

[NinjaBoiX]

Gah! Seeing so many I would've put in my list thinking a bit longer.

Wilco, Nas, Beck, Daft Punk, Nirvana, LCD Soundsystem...

Fuck it, the list is the list!

 

[Andrew.]

GAF has good taste in music I must say

 

[forgeforsaken]

1990 is a weird cutoff, it leaves out stuff like Disintegration and Doolitttle which were both 1989.

 

[wenis]

GAF has good taste in music I must say

and for some reason, Kid A will end up on top.

Spoiler

bustin' chops, but it's obvious this TOP TEN will be fucking hilarious

 

[NinjaBoiX]

Why will it be hilarious? I don't get it.

Edit: also, Kid A has had two votes totalling 8 points. OK Computer already has it beat.

 

[Macmanus]

1. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
2. Radiohead - O.K. Computer
3. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
4. Interpol - Turn on The Bright Lights
5. The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
6. Radiohead - In Rainbows
7. Arcade Fire - Funeral
8. The Strokes - Is This It?
9. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
10.The Black Keys - El Camino
11. Daft Punk - Discovery
12. Broken Social Scene - You Forget it in People
13. DJ Shadow - Entroducing
14. Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros - Streetcore
15. Plants and Animals - The End of That

I like this list a lot so I'm going to steal it but amend a few things.

1. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
2. LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
3. Arcade Fire - Funeral
4. Interpol - Turn on The Bright Lights
5. The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
6. The Thermals - The Body, the Blood, the Machine
7. The Postal Service - Give Up
8. Nine Inch Nails - Downward Spiral
9. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
10.The Black Keys - Attack and Release
11. Daft Punk - Homework
12. Broken Social Scene - You Forget it in People
13. DJ Shadow - Entroducing
14. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell
15. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Moving Joe Strummer - Streetcore as my honorable mention. Really amazing album, though.

Upon further edit our lists aren't as similar as I first though. Still though, props.

 

[C4Lukins]

1990 is a weird cutoff, it leaves out stuff like Disintegration and Doolitttle which were both 1989.

Yeah I had to put it somewhere. I think Appetite for Destruction and Bleach are 80's records as well. They are going to have to compete with the 60' and 70's which I think is not all that crazy.

I need to check out this DJ Shadow album apparently.

 

[Goldenroad]

Maybe I have no sense of what is modern or popular, but can I submit my list?

1. Ween - The Mollusk
2. Phish - A Live One
3. Prince - Emancipation
4. Ween - Pure Guava
5. Sugar - Copper Blue
6. Phish - The Story of the Ghost
7. Sonic Youth - Washing Machine
8. Stone Roses - Stone Roses
9. Ween - Shinoal Vol 1.
10. moe. - No Doy
11. Frank Zappa - The Yellow Shark (or do posthumous releases count as well?)
12. Prince - Diamonds and Pearls
13. Widespread Panic - Panic in the Streets
14. Oysterhead - The Grand Pecking Order (Band contained Les Claypool, Stuart Copland and Trey Anastasio...so pretty popular I'd say)
15. Bod Dylan - Time Out of Mind

 

[Andrew.]

So funny/cool to me how most Phish heads listen to all of the same artists and albums to a T.

 

[Macmanus]

I need to check out this DJ Shadow album apparently.

DJ Shadow is a great DJ, but if all his full bodied work was as good as Entroducing the man would be legendary. Sell out stadiums with the likes of Daft Punk and The Chemical Brothers.

 

[anarckitty]

1. Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica
2. Postal Service - Give Up
3. Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
4. Gorillaz - Demon Days
5. The Smashing Pumpkins - Adore
6. Pearl Jam - Ten
7. Radiohead - The Bends
8. Weezer - Blue Album
9. Coldplay - Parachutes
10. Garbage - Garbage

 

[see5harp]

Dude you put Tilly and the Wall and Joanna Newsom's debut album up there as a mainstream success? Tilly and the Wall with their tap dancing percussion section and Joanna Newsom with her dive bar northern california tours. Super mainstream.

 

[NinjaBoiX]

I need to check out this DJ Shadow album apparently.

Endtroducing? Absolutely.

Private Press? Yeah.

The Outsider? Not so much.

Psyence Fiction by UNKLE? ABSOLUTELY!

Gotta give James LaVelle some credit for the last one.

 

[Blue Calx]

1. Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies
2. Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
3. Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet
4. The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
5. Radiohead - In Rainbows
6. Mad Season - Above
7. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
8. Tom Waits - Bone Machine
9. DJ Shadow - Endtroducing.....
10. Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
11. Black Star - Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star
12. Mos Def - Black on Both Sides
13. CunninLynguists - A Piece of Strange
14. The Knife - Silent Shout
15. Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf

Honorable Mentions:
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Volume II
Temple of the Dog - Temple of the Dog
J Dilla - Donuts
Nas - Illmatic
Brand New - The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me

 

[SD-Ness]

1990 is a weird cutoff, it leaves out stuff like Disintegration and Doolitttle which were both 1989.

I think it's easier to do "rankings" per decade (80s, 90s, 00s, 10s) or per half-decade (90-95, 06-10). For music fans, especially in this age of easily accessible music, there's simply too much good music coming out all the time to only list 15 albums in a 20+ year span of time. I could name hundreds of albums from this range that I love.

 

[NotLiquid]

Hm. I'm picky about labeling mainstream. But here goes anyway.

1. System of a Down - Toxicity
2. Radiohead - OK Computer
3. Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine
4. Muse - Origin of Symmetry
5. Gorillaz - Demon Days
6. Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
7. The Prodigy - Music for The Jilted Generation
8. Daft Punk - Discovery
9. Tool - Aenima
10. Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet
11. Justice - Cross
12. Ministry - Psalm 69
13. Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
14. The xx - xx
15. Pendulum - In Silico

I'm stupidly selective about what I listen to and my opinion on mainstream is probably worth jack shit.

 

[see5harp]

Slint is definitely a mainstream success story.

 

[RJT]

I don't have an electic enough taste to vote in a thread like this, but I hope Illmatic makes the list.

 

[Yager]

1. Nas Illmatic
2. Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
3. Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
4. Modest Mouse - Lonesome Crowded West
5. Animal Collective - Feels
6. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
7. Yeasayer - All Hour Cymbals
8. Chromeo - Fancy Footwork
9. Gorillaz - Demon Days
10. Kanye West - College Dropout
11. Luke Fiasco - Food and Liquor
12. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
13. MF Doom - Mm Food
14. Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero
15. Animal Collective - Sung Tongs

I love you.

 

[Steamlord]

Slint is definitely a mainstream success story.

Fine. I'll remove Don Cab too.

 

[anarckitty]

Hm. I'm picky about labeling mainstream. But here goes anyway.


14. The xx - xx

Fantastic album

 

[Jedeye Sniv]

Argh this is just too hard, it's making me anxious Need to think.

 

[Jitters]

I can't count to fiftenn.