Album of 2022 - Haighy & Rook to NOMINATE.

[SaraM]

Really weak Cure album winning imo, curate's egg probably describes it best..

Cure by numbers.

I know Tom Waits is an acquired taste, but Bone Machine is a 'belter', and should be much higher up.

[faaip]

Cure by numbers.

I know Tom Waits is an acquired taste, but Bone Machine is a 'belter', and should be much higher up.

As you know not a Waits fan but recognize the talent. Should maybe be winning this I agree.

[Mountain]

I think I stopped listening to the Cure around about this album. I liked the Disintegration/Mixed Up phase, but Friday I'm in Love is one of their "can't be unheard" efforts that just has me scrambling to change the radio station, like The Lovecats and Close to Me.

[1964white]

Cure by numbers.

I know Tom Waits is an acquired taste, but Bone Machine is a 'belter', and should be much higher up.

Bone Machine is a belter along with his other more popular albums Rain Dogs, Swordfishtrombones & Closing Time. My personal favourite is the mellow Heartattack & Vine.

Very much an acquired taste type of artist, music lovers into metal, heavy rock music generally wouldn't appreciate Tom Waits albums similarly to the likes of Nick Drake, Robert Wyatt, etc. in that sphere.

[SG90]

Really weak Cure album winning imo, curate's egg probably describes it best..

I did say it would win. These polls are becoming too predictable.

[SG90]

Beastie Boys
Sonic Youth
Tom Waits
Arrested Development
The Jayhawks

[onemoreslogan]

I agree with faaip that this Cure record is substandard from them. I remember bine disappointed at the time. Bone Machine was also a miss for me from Waits.

Rheos
Lemonheads- I had an inexplicable (in hindsight) obsession with Juliana Hatfield in those days.
The Orb- this record was a big deal!
Ministry
Maiden

[1964white]

I did say it would win. These polls are becoming too predictable.

Too many Cure fans on here

[Mrs64]

Jayhawks
Morrissey
Tori Amos
Tom Waits
Sonic Youth

[Durly]

Beastie Boys 'Check Your Head'
Sonic Youth 'Dirty'
Lemonheads 'It's a Shame about Ray'
The Cure 'Wish'
Arrested Development '3 Years'

[Rook]

No love for Tori Amos.

Sigh.

[1964white]

Album of 1992 (II)

RESULT

29 Sonic Youth 'Dirty' Azkal
23 Beastie Boys 'Check Your Head' Durly
22 The Cure 'Wish' White Riot
18 Faith No More 'Angel Dust' Faaip
16 Tom Waits 'Bone Machine' 64
15 Morrissey 'Your Arsenal' Johnboy
15 Arrested Development '3 Years' SG
15 Ministry 'Psalm 69' Sara
13 Iron Maiden 'Fear of the Dark' Haighy
12 The Orb 'U.F.Orb' Mountain
10 Lemonheads 'It's a Shame about Ray' 1304
10 Rheostatics Whale Music Onemore
09 Jayhawks 'Hollywood Town Hall' Mrs 64
09 The Comsat Angels 'My Minds Eye' Cat
07 Tori Amos 'Little Earthquakes' Rook

Voted - Azkal, Cat, Durly, Faaip, Haighy, Johnboy, Mountain, Mrs 64, Onemore, Rook, Sara, SG, White Riot, 64, 1304

[1964white]

Album Winners

1965 Beatles 'Rubber Soul' (Hector)
1966 Beatles 'Revolver' (Cat)
1966 Beach Boys 'Pet Sounds' (64)
1967 Beatles 'Sgt. Peppers' (Finn)
1968 Rolling Stones 'Beggars Banquet' (Ges)
1969 Led Zeppelin II (BB)
1970 Led Zeppelin III (Finn)
1970 Neil Young 'After The Gold Rush' (Onemore)
1971 Marvin Gaye 'Whats Going On' (64)
1972 David Bowie 'The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars' (64)
1973 Pink Floyd 'Dark Side Of The Moon' (Andrew)
1974 Supertramp 'Crime Of The Century' (Mrs 64)
1975 Pink Floyd 'Wish You Were Here' (64)
1976 David Bowie 'Station To Station' (MJ)
1977 Sex Pistols 'Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols' (Durly)
1977 Stranglers 'Rattus Norvegicus' (Finn)
1978 Kate Bush 'The Kick Inside' (Finn)
1979 Clash 'London Calling' (Cat)
1980 Joy Division 'Closer' (Andrew)
1981 Miles Davis 'The Man With The Horn' (John)
1982 Cure 'Pornography' (Johnboy)
1983 U2 'War' (BB)
1985 Kate Bush 'Hounds Of Love' (Sara)
1984 The Smiths 'The Smiths' (64)
1986 Smiths 'The Queen Is Dead' (64)
1987 U2 'The Joshua Tree’ (Finn)
1988 Pixies 'Surfer Rosa' (Ges)
1989 Kate Bush 'The Sensual World’ (Billie)
1990 Sonic Youth 'Goo' (Sara)
1991 Nirvana 'Nevermind' (Azkal)
1992 R.E.M. 'Automatic For The People' (Mrs 64)
1993 Neil Young 'Unplugged' (Gandi)
1994 Portishead 'Dummy' (64)
1995 Radiohead 'Bends' (64)
1996 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds 'Murder Ballads' (Ges)
1997 Radiohead 'OK Computer' (64)
1998 Placebo 'Without You I'm Nothing' (Ges)
1999 Sigur Ros 'Agaetis Byrjun' (64)
2000 Linkin Park 'Hybrid Theory' (Gandi)
2001 Elbow 'Asleep in the Back' (Johnboy)
2002 Beck 'Sea Change' (Sara)
2002 Sigur Ros '()' (64)
2003 Radiohead 'Hail To The Thief' (64)
2004 Arcade Fire 'Funeral' (64)
2005 Sigur Ros 'Takk' (Durly)
2006 Arctic Monkeys 'Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not' (BB)
2007 Arcade Fire 'Neon Bible' (Finn)
2008 Portishead 'Third' (Faaip)
2009 Blueneck 'The Fallen Host' (Sara)
2010 Midlake 'The Courage Of Others' (64)
2011 Mogwai 'Hardcore Will Never Die But You Will' (Durly)
2012 Heavy Horses 'Murder Ballads & Other Love Songs' (White Riot)
2013 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds 'Push The Sky Away' (1304)
2014 Beck 'Morning Phase' (1304)
2015 Kurt Vile 'B'lieve I'm Goin Down' (Cat)
2016 David Bowie 'Blackstar' (64)
2017 Barr Brothers 'Queens Of The Breakers' (Faaip)
2018 Ryley Walker 'Deafman Glance' (Faaip)
2019 Billie Eilish 'When We All Fall Asleep' (Sara)
2020 Strokes 'The New Abnormal' (64)

Album of all time The Clash 'London Calling'

Album Winners II

1969 Crosby, Stills & Nash 'Crosby Stills & Nash' (64)
1970 Black Sabbath 'Black Sabbath' (Cat)
1971=Yes 'Fragile' (Onemore)
1971=T.Rex 'Electric Warrior' (White Riot)
1972 T. Rex 'The Slider' White Riot
1979 Public Image Ltd 'Metal Box' (1304)
1980 Siouxsie and the Banshees 'Kaleidoscope' (1304)
1981 Cure 'Faith' (Johnboy)
1982 Siouxsie & The Banshees 'A Kiss In The Dreamhouse' (64)
1989 Nirvana 'Bleach' (SG)
1990 Happy Mondays ‎'Pills 'N' Thrills And Bellyaches' (BB)
1991 Julian Cope 'Peggy Suicide' (Faaip)
1992 Sonic Youth 'Dirty' (Azkal)
1999 Mogwai 'Come On Die Young' (Durly)
2000 Placebo 'Black Market Music' (64)
2000 Yo La Tengo 'And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside' (SG)
2000 Grandaddy 'The Sophtware Slump' (faaip)
2001 Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros 'Global A Go-Go' (64)
2009 Soulsavers 'Broken' (Mrs 64)
2010 These New Puritans 'Hidden' (Faaip)
2011=Blueneck 'Repetitions' (Faaip)
2011=Radiohead 'The King Of Limbs' (64)
2019 Dope Lemon 'Smooth Big Cat' (64)
2020 Fleet Foxes 'Shore' (64)
2021 Floating Points/LSO/Pharaoh Sanders 'Promises' (Durly)

[1964white]

Congratulations Az, nominating 'Dirty' an excellent second winning album for Sonic Youth

[1964white]

Album of 2002 II

These albums are not to chosen as they were nominated in 2002 Round 1

Vines ‘Highly Evolved’
Beck 'Sea Change'
Streets 'Original Pirate Material'
Wilco 'Yankee Hotel Foxtrot'
Red Hot Chilli Peppers 'By The Way'
David Bowie 'Heathen'
Sigur Ros '()'
Coldplay 'A Rush Of Blood To The Head'
And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead 'Source Tags & Codes
Underworld 'A Hundred Days Off'
Bruce Springsteen 'The Rising'
Foo Fighters 'One By One'
Rothko 'A Continual Search For Origins'
Cracker 'Forever'
Stone Sour 'Stone Sour'
Johnny Cash 'American IV: The Man Comes Around'
Queens Of The Stone Age 'Songs For The Deaf'

NOMINATE NOW

[SG90]

Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights

[White Riot]

Congrats Azkal

2002

The Libertines - Up The Bracket

[1964white]

Flaming Lips 'Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots'

[Muppet the Cat]

The Delgados 'Hate'

(other consideration was - Clinic 'Walking With Thee')

[andrewjohnsmith]

I think I stopped listening to the Cure around about this album. I liked the Disintegration/Mixed Up phase, but Friday I'm in Love is one of their "can't be unheard" efforts that just has me scrambling to change the radio station, like The Lovecats and Close to Me.

Loved The Cure. But it ended at Disintegration for me. I really dont like the pop-y Friday I'm in Love. I cringe every time I hear it on the radio