Monthly Poll: Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty

So I want to focus a little more on these Alternative Album Grammy Winners that I'm playing for bonus songs on the Countdown. So I think, on the first Monday of every month, I'm going to do a little retrospective poll related to the album from the proceeding month.

May's album was Beastie Boys' Hello Nasty.

Please answer the following questions in the comments section. (If you don't have an answer, feel free to skip the question)

1. What is your favorite track on Hello Nasty?

Super Disco Breakin'

The Move

Remote Control

Song For the Man

Just a Test

Body Movin'

Intergalactic

Sneakin' Out the Hospital

Putting Shame In Your Game

Flowin' Prose

And Me

Three MC's and One DJ

The Grasshopper Unit (Keep Movin')

Song For Junior

I Don't Know

The Negotiation Limerick File

Electrify

Picture This

Unite

Dedication

Dr. Lee, Ph.D.

Instant Death

2. What is your favorite Beastie Boys album?

3. Which do you feel should have won the Grammy, if not Hello Nasty:

• Tori Amos From the Choirgirl Hotel
• PJ Harvey Is This Desire?
• Radiohead Airbag/How Am I Driving?
• Smashing Pumpkins Adore

Monthly Poll: Nirvana - MTV Unplugged in New York

So I want to focus a little more on these Alternative Album Grammy Winners that I'm playing for bonus songs on the Countdown. So I think, on the first Monday of every month, I'm going to do a little retrospective poll related to the album from the proceeding month.

February's album was Nirvana's MTV Unplugged in New York

Please answer the following questions in the comments section. (If you don't have an answer, feel free to skip the question)

1. What is your favorite track on MTV Unplugged in New York? (Spotify)

• About a Girl
• Come As You Are
• Jesus Doesn't Want Me For a Sunbeam
• The Man Who Sold the World
• Pennyroyal Tea
• Dumb
• Polly
• On a Plain
• Something in the Way
• Plateau
• Oh, Me
• Lake of Fire
• All Apologies
• Where Did You Sleep Last Night?

2. What is your favorite Nirvana album?

3. Which do you feel should have won the Grammy, if not MTV Unplugged in New York:

• Bjork Post
• Foo Fighters Foo Fighters
• PJ Harvey To Bring You My Love
• The Presidents of the United States of America The Presidents of the United States of America

Flashback Countdown #4!!! 1995!!!!

This is the 4th Flashback Countdown I've done and it might be my favorite so far! 1995 often slips by me when I'm thinking of great years for Alternative Music, but this countdown should serve as a reminder that it was a fantastic year. Every song is enjoyable and uncringeworthy.

Oh it's also the Countdown's 3rd Birthday! Happy Birthday Appetite For Distraction Alternative Top 10 Countdown!

I'm going to start having an image of one of the bands featured on the countdown each week, chosen at random. I've switched to a new RSS reader and it'll look pretty on that. And that's the reason I am doing this. It's selfish, but maybe it'll add something to the blog posts....

Flashback Countdown #4

***Featuring***
Better Than Ezra
Bush
Elastica
Green Day
Live
Nirvana
Oasis
P.J. Harvey
R.E.M.
Sponge

Festive Fifty 2007 Top Ten

Each day this week, in anticipation of the deadline for voting on the Festive Fifty 2012 Shortlist, I'll be listening to the Contrast Podcast Festive Fifties of yore (2012's will be the 6th!) and trying to track down the videos of the Top 5!

My snapshot impression of this inaugural edition of the Festive Fifty was that I hadn't paid ANY attention to what had come out in 2007 and I was also very unfamiliar with a lot of the nominees on the shortlist, so I just voted for names I knew! Oh, how times have changed....sort of. ;-)

You can listen to the 2007 Festive Fifty Here: (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3)

10. Bjork - Earth Intruders
9. Wilco - Impossible Germany
8. Okkervil River - Our Life Is Not a Movie or Maybe
7. Arcade Fire - Intervention
6. Iron & Wine - Boy With a Coin

5. PJ Harvey - When Under Ether

4. LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends

3. The National - Fake Empire

2. Spoon - The Underdog

1. Los Campesinos! - You, Me, Dancing!