The best album of the 90's - Automatic for the People vs Blue Lines

[milo]

Semi-final Pt. II. I'll save you the guff, you know the albums and how this works.

Vs

 

[Baleforce]

save yourself a round and the word second to the thread title?

 

[johnola]

I bought blue lines for my brother and Aftp for myself...

 

[milo]

save yourself a round and the word second to the thread title?

I'm getting ahead of myself here but Blue Lines is a better album than Nevermind.

 

[scaramanga]

REM vs Nirvana then I assume.

 

[milo]

24 hours to go and we will have both of our finalists

 

[milo]

Just over six hours to go and there's still everything to play for

 

[monkeybarry]

I'm getting ahead of myself here but Blue Lines is a better album than Nevermind.

Brexit, Trump..... assume nothing

 

[milo]

Brexit, Trump..... assume nothing

It's still a better album, they just won't face off against each other.

 

[milo]

Automatic for the People goes though to face Nevermind in the final.

 

[monkeybarry]

Automatic for the People goes though to face Nevermind in the final.

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[scaramanga]

Automatic for the People goes though to face Nevermind in the final.

People clearly like very soft production.

 

[milo]

People clearly like very soft production.

Both albums are packed with killer songs. Maybe people voted for songwriting over production

 

[scaramanga]

Both albums are packed with killer songs. Maybe people voted for songwriting over production

They are, and I've voted for both so far.

They're just a little too polished for me

 

[milo]

They are, and I've voted for both so far.

They're just a little too polished for me

After talking about the Nevermind demos, I saw that they are on the expanded edition of the album. It's on Spotify and well worth a listen.

 

[scaramanga]

After talking about the Nevermind demos, I saw that they are on the expanded edition of the album. It's on Spotify and well worth a listen.

Is that the Smart Studios stuff?

 

[Jordinho]

People clearly like very soft production.

People clearly have brick taste in music.

I might have mentioned that before...

 

[milo]

Is that the Smart Studios stuff?

Yeah

 

[scaramanga]

Yeah

Just listening to it now, found it on Google Play on some deluxe edition.

I much prefer this sound. When I listen to albums I like to be able to hear an element of how I think the band sounded playing in their mum's garage - i think that's why I like John Leckie stuff so much.

He even managed to get some listenable bits out of Carnival of brick.

 

[johnola]

both these albums were instant classics and one has proven classier for me.

Saying that I doubt either are the personal favourite of any of us.

Milo - what is your personal choice of the best from the nineties?