GNMD Poll: Top Ten Albums of 1992

[The Ozzman]

4. Trevor Jones/ Randy Edelman - The Last of the Mohicans

Amazing album

 

[dwellerINTHEdark]

Amazing album

Some of the best music to study to.

 

[Serjeant Grumbles]

Top Ten

1. Love Like Blood - An Irony of Fate
2. Love Is Colder Than Death - Mental Traveller
3. Wojciech Kilar - Bram Stoker's Dracula
4. PJ Harvey - Dry
5. Love Spirals Downwards - Idylls
6. Death in June - But, What Ends When the Symbols Shatter?
7. Änglagård - Hybris
8. Swans - Love of Life
9. Sonic Youth - Dirty
10. Hedningarna - Kaksi!

Honorable Mention

• Current 93 - Thunder Perfect Mind
• Skinny Puppy - Last Rights
• Bad Religion - Generator
• Stone Temple Pilots - Core
• Danny Elfman - Batman Returns

 

[CiG]

 

[Satanstoenail]

lol

 

[challenge_everything]

'Dirt' would be my #1 if we're including it.

If AIC counts then that should be in first place. If the KC doesn't count then I'd probably replace it with Ride's Going Blank Again.

You missed these Sergeant. Sorry should have updated my list.

 

[Serjeant Grumbles]

True. A bit of an oversight on my part, but then again, if you're truly certain that an album you'd like to list is not metal, you shouldn't have to ask permission to include it. However, I am willing to update your numbers in the spreadsheet and redo the top ten. I am of the opinion that Dirt is a metal album, so I admit a bias on my part. All the same, I don't feel as if hosting this poll should make me the sole arbiter of what is or isn't metal. However, if I find that someone included an album as a non-joke entry in the corresponding metal poll, then I will consider it disingenuous on their part to include it on a non-metal poll. Therefore, I wouldn't count it from that particular individual. But I don't think anyone would try to pull that shit.

 

[challenge_everything]

For the record I also think Dirt is arguably metal, but it seems odd if we are only counting votes from those who subjectively regard it as non-metal. One in, all in.

 

[Serjeant Grumbles]

For the record I also think Dirt is arguably metal, but it seems odd if we are only counting votes from those who subjectively regard it as non-metal. One in, all in.

If someone regards it as a metal album, it would be dishonest to include it here. The rule of thumb should always be whether you would vote for it in the metal poll. All I'm saying is, don't try to have it both ways and vote for it in both polls.

 

[challenge_everything]

well it's moot because I didn't vote in the metal poll

 

[CiG]

That doesn't mean it's moot.

 

[Bloopy]

100s of bands straddle the line and it's a bit beyond the scope of these polls to round them all up. The metal polls started first and people have been using hard rock bands in them a bit. Some of us are saving our lists or posting them elsewhere so when we're in the nursing home pining for the music of 1992 and shitting our pants we can look back on our lists, and we wouldn't want to find an album we thought was metal on our non-metal list or vice versa because that just might be the last straw after all these fucking insipid mashed potatoes.

 

[challenge_everything]

That doesn't mean it's moot.

It's moot to me because I can't be fucked getting into an argument about whether it's metal or non-metal. Genre debates are arid. So I don't really care whether my vote is included or not.

Having said that, it seems silly that all of a sudden this is being determined subjectively. If I think KISS is metal, it doesn't make it so. RYM obviously determines genre based on a kind of objective consensus and GMD has tended to informally operate in the same way.

 

[Bloopy]

Determining it subjectively is the easy way to avoid the excessive genre debates. If someone puts KISS or something on their metal list we can just laugh and move on (example ), no harm done except to themselves. The genre voting herd on RYM sometimes gets it way more wrong than anyone posting here.

 

[Oblivious Maximus]

Formulate a change of discern.

 

[challenge_everything]

Determining it subjectively is the easy way to avoid the excessive genre debates. If someone puts KISS or something on their metal list we can just laugh and move on (example ), no harm done except to themselves. The genre voting herd on RYM sometimes gets it way more wrong than anyone posting here.

I suppose this makes sense.

 

[challenge_everything]

It's not the least bit metal. Clearly this is a poll for TOP Ten Metal Albums of 1981, or else I'd put Siouxsie and the Banshees' Juju on my list.

Although I did spot the irony of this post in your example.

 

[Serjeant Grumbles]

Although I did spot the irony of this post in your example.

That's why I said "non-joke entries". I remember the 1981 poll.

 

[Serjeant Grumbles]

#10 The Jesus Lizard - Liar

Genre(s):
Noise Rock, Post-Hardcore


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Yep. I've got Goat and Liar, both of which are fucking awesome. David Yow is a perfect nutbar frontman and Duane Denison is one of my favorite guitarists.

get some Jesus Lizard. they are heavily influenced by The Birthday Party

Those who voted:
@Satanstoenail #1
@HamburgerBoy #7

 

[Serjeant Grumbles]

#7 Dr. Dre - The Chronic

Genre(s):
G-Funk, West Coast Hip Hop, Gangsta Rap


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Don't forget about Dre.

newer rap is the shit!
old rap is so boring, other than biggie, dre, snoop, and pac of course.

Dre may not be the best rapper but he knowns how to put some great funky beats to the music. I still think Ice Cube is the best NWA member.

the only "rap" I have cared for has been Eminem, Brotha Lynch Hung, Xraided, Dr. Dre...etc

Those who voted:
@Sirjack #6
@TechnicalBarbarity #1