For those of you who might have missed the nomination thread: this is a poll where we vote for the best albums of the 1980s. An 1980s singles poll was already done a few years ago, but the album poll was never finished back then, so we are doing it now. Before I post the list of nominations, here are the instructions for the poll...
INSTRUCTIONS
1) This is an email ballot. Send your vote in an email to this address: lixnixn[at]yahoo[dot]co[dot]uk. Put the text "ILX 1980s POLL" in your email title, so I know it's not spam.
2) Please include your ILX username to your email. This is to avoid vote rigging. If I start to get a lot of emails with no ILX username in them, I'll have to disqualify them.
3) You can vote for the maximum of 30 albums. You can choose either an ordered ballot or an unordered one. If you choose an ordered ballot, the points will be allotted like so:
1st place: 40 points2nd place: 30 points3rd place: 25 points4th place: 20 points5th place: 15 points6-10th places: 11 points each11-15th places: 8 points each16-20th places: 6 points each21-25th places: 5 points each26-30th places: 4 points each
If you send an unordered ballot, the albums on the list will all get 10 points each. Thus, if you vote for 30 albums, you have the total amount of 300 points to allot. If you want to send an ordered ballot, please number the album list. An unnumbered list will be automatically interpreted as an unordered ballot.
4) You may vote for less than 30 albums, but the points will still be alloted according to the system above. For example, if you send an unordered ballot with 15 albums, they will all get 10 points, not 20.
5) You may only vote for the albums on the nomination list. Any votes for albums that are not on the list will be ignored.
6) The voting time ends on Sunday, November 22nd, at midnight GMT. Any ballots sent after that will not be counted.
7) If there's a tie between albums, the total number of votes an album has received will be the tiebreaker. If it's still a tie, the number of #1 votes will be the second tiebreaker.
― Tuomas, Monday, 2 November 2009 11:00 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
Here is the list of nominations:
A
ABBA - The Visitors ABC - The Lexicon of Love Accept - Balls to the Wall AC/DC - Back in Black AC/DC - For Those About to Rock We Salute You Adam and the Ants - Kings of the Wild Frontier Age of Chance - One Thousand Years of Trouble A-ha - Hunting High and Low American Music Club - California Laurie Anderson - Big Science Laurie Anderson - Strange Angels A.R. Kane - 69 A.R. Kane - “i” The Art of Noise - (Who's Afraid of?) the Art of Noise Associates - Sulk Virginia Astley - From Gardens Where We Feel Secure The Au Pairs - Playing with a Different Sex Aztec Camera - High Land, Hard Rain
B
The B-52's - Cosmic Thing The B-52’s - Wild Planet Bad Brains - s/t Bad Brains - I Against I Bad Brains - Rock for Light Anita Baker - Rapture The Bangles - Different Light Bauhaus - Burning from the Inside Bauhaus - In the Flat Field Bauhaus - Mask Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique Heidi Berry - Below the Waves Bhundu Boys - Shabini Big Audio Dynamite - Megatop Phoenix Big Black - Atomizer Big Black - Songs About Fucking The Birthday Party - s/t The Birthday Party - Prayers on Fire Black Flag - Damaged The Blue Nile - Hats The Blue Nile - A Walk Across the Rooftops Boogie Down Productions - Ghetto Music: The Blueprint of Hip Hop Boredoms - Soul Discharge David Bowie - Scary Monsters Billy Bragg - Talking with the Taxman About Poetry Glenn Branca - The Ascension Bronski Beat - Truthdare Doubledare Harold Budd / Elizabeth Fraser / Robin Guthrie / Simon Raymonde - The Moon and the Melodies Buggles - Adventures in Modern Recording Kate Bush - The Dreaming Kate Bush - Hounds of Love Kate Bush - The Sensual World Butthole Surfers - Locust Abortion Technician Butthole Surfers - Psychic...Powerless...Another Man's Sac
C
Cabaret Voltaire - Micro-Phonies Cabaret Voltaire - Red Mecca Cactus World News - Urban Beaches John Cale - Music for a New Society Cameo - Word Up! Camper Van Beethoven - Key Lime Pie Camper Van Beethoven - Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart Can - Delay 1968 Nuno Canavarro - Plux Quba Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - Doc at the Radar Station Cardiacs - A Little Man and a House and the Whole World Window Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion George Carlin - A Place for My Stuff! Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - From Her to Eternity Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Your Funeral...My Trial A Certain Ratio - Sextet Change - The Glow of Love Chic - Real People Chris & Cosey - Heartbeat The Chameleons - Script of the Bridge The Chameleons - Strange Times The Chameleons - What Does Anything Mean? Basically The Chills - Brave Words The Chills - Kaleidoscope World The Church - Starfish The Clash - Sandinista! Close Lobsters - Foxheads Stalk This Land Cocteau Twins - Blue Bell Knoll Cocteau Twins - Head Over Heels Cocteau Twins - Treasure Cocteau Twins - Victorialand Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man Leonard Cohen - Various Positions Coil - Horse Rotorvator Lloyd Cole and the Commotions - Rattlesnakes Phil Collins - No Jacket Required Colourbox - s/t Comsat Angels - Sleep No More Sam Cooke - Live at the Harlem Square Club 1963 Julian Cope - Saint Julian Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Blood & Chocolate Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Get Happy!! Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Imperial Bedroom Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Trust John Cougar - American Fool John Cougar Mellencamp - Scarecrow Cowboy Junkies - The Trinity Session The Cramps - Psychedelic Jungle The Cramps - Songs the Lord Taught Us Crass - Penis Envy Marshall Crenshaw - s/t Julee Cruise - Floating Into the Night The Cult - Love The Cure - Disintegration The Cure - Faith The Cure - The Head on the Door The Cure - Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me The Cure - Pornography The Cure - Seventeen Seconds The Cure - Standing on a Beach / Staring at the Sea: The Singles
D
The dB's - Like This The dB's - Repercussion De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising Dead Can Dance - The Serpent's Egg Dead Kennedys - Plastic Surgery Disasters DeBarge - In a Special Way Def Leppard - Hysteria Def Leppard - Pyromania Depeche Mode - Black Celebration Depeche Mode - Construction Time Again Depeche Mode - Music for the Masses Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward Descendents - Milo Goes to College Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Mambo Nassau Devo - Freedom of Choice Devo - Oh, No! It's Devo Dexy's Midnight Runners - Don't Stand Me Down Dexy’s Midnight Runners - Searching for the Young Soul Rebels Hazel Dickens - It's Hard to Tell the Singer from the Song Dinosaur Jr. - Bug Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me Dire Straits - Making Movies Thomas Dolby - The Flat Earth Thomas Dolby - The Golden Age of Wireless Dr. Alimantado - Born For a Purpose / Sons of Thunder The Dream Syndicate - The Days of Wine and Roses Duran Duran - Rio Duran Duran - Seven and the Ragged Tiger The Durutti Column - Another Setting The Durutti Column - LC The Durutti Column - The Return of the Durutti Column Bob Dylan - Infidels Bob Dylan - Saved
E
Steve Earle - Guitar Town Echo & the Bunnymen - Crocodiles Echo & the Bunnymen - Ocean Rain The Egyptian Lover - On the Nile Einstürzende Neubauten - Halber Mensch The English Beat - I Just Can't Stop It Brian Eno - Ambient 4: On Land Brian Eno - Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks Brian Eno / David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts EPMD - Strictly Business Eric B. & Rakim - Follow the Leader Eric B. & Rakim - Paid In Full ESG - Come Away with ESG Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) Eurythmics - Touch Everything But The Girl - Eden The Ex - Blueprints for a Blackout Eyeless in Gaza - Caught in Flux Eyeless in Gaza - Pale Hands I Loved So Well
F
Donald Fagen - The Nightfly Faith No More - Introduce Yourself Faith No More - The Real Thing The Fall - Grotesque (After the Gramme) The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour The Fall - Perverted by Language The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace The Fall - The Wonderful and Frightening World of the Fall Feederz - Ever Feel Like Killing Your Boss? The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms The Feelies - The Good Earth The Feelies - Only Life Felt - Forever Breathes the Lonely Word Felt - The Strange Idols Pattern and Other Short Stories Fingers Inc. - Another Side Fishbone - Truth and Soul Fleetwood Mac - Tango in the Night Flipper - Album / Generic Flipper John Foxx - Metamatic Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Welcome to the Pleasuredome Fred Frith - Gravity Fred Frith / René Lussier - Nous Autres Fugazi - 13 Songs Funkadelic - The Electric Spanking of War Babies
G
Peter Gabriel - 3 Peter Gabriel - 4 / Security Peter Gabriel - Passion Peter Gabriel - So Diamanda Galás - The Litanies of Satan Diamanda Galás - Masque of the Red Death Galaxie 500 - On Fire Galaxie 500 - Today Game Theory - Lolita Nation Gang of Four - Solid Gold Marvin Gaye - In Our Lifetime Genesis - Abacab Girls at Our Best! - Pleasure Philip Glass - Solo Piano The Go-Betweens - Before Hollywood The Go-Betweens - Send Me a Lullaby The Go-Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane The Go-Betweens - Tallulah Godflesh - Streetcleaner Manuel Göttsching - E2-E4 Gun Club - Fire of Love Gun Club - Miami Gun Club - The Las Vegas Story Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
H
Merle Haggard - Big City Daryl Hall & John Oates - H2O Daryl Hall & John Oates - Ooh Yeah! Daryl Hall & John Oates - Private Eyes Happy Mondays - Bummed Jon Hassell - Power Spot Jon Hassell / Brian Eno - Fourth World, Vol.1: Possible Musics Heaven 17 - Penthouse and Pavement Robyn Hitchcock - I Often Dream of Trains Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians - Fegmania! The House of Love - s/t The Housemartins - London 0 Hull 4 The Housemartins - The People Who Grinned Themselves to Death Keith Hudson - Playing It Cool & Playing It Right The Human League - Dare! Human Switchboard - Who's Landing In My Hangar? Hüsker Dü - Flip Your Wig Hüsker Dü - New Day Rising Hüsker Dü - Warehouse: Songs and Stories Hüsker Dü - Zen Arcade David Hykes & the Harmonic Choir - Hearing Solar Winds
I
Billy Idol - Rebel Yell Indigo Girls - s/t Inner City - Paradise INXS - Kick INXS - Listen Like Thieves IQ - The Wake Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast Iron Maiden - Powerslave
J
Janet Jackson - Control Janet Jackson - Rhythm Nation 1814 Joe Jackson - Night and Day Michael Jackson - Bad Michael Jackson - Thriller Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking Japan - Gentlemen Take Polaroids The Jesus and Mary Chain - Automatic The Jesus and Mary Chain - Darklands The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy Linton Kwesi Johnson - Bass Culture Linton Kwesi Johnson - Making History Daniel Johnston - Hi, How Are You? Jon and Vangelis - The Friends of Mr. Cairo George Jones - I Am What I Am Grace Jones - Nightclubbing Grace Jones - Warm Leatherette Howard Jones - Human's Lib Nic Jones - Penguin Eggs Jonzun Crew - Lost in Space Josef K - The Only Fun in Town Journey - Escape Joy Division - Closer Joy Division - SubstanceJudas Priest - British Steel Jungle Brothers - Done by the Forces of Nature Just-Ice - Back To the Old School The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu - 1987 What the Fuck's Going On?
K
Kano - s/t Kid Creole & the Coconuts - Fresh Fruit in Foreign Places Kid Creole & the Coconuts - Wise Guy / Tropical Gangsters Killing Joke - Night Time Killing Joke - What's THIS For…! King Crimson - Discipline King Sunny Ade and His African Beats - Aura King Sunny Ade and His African Beats - Juju Music Kissing the Pink - Naked Kitchens of Distinction - Love Is Hell Kix - s/t Klark Kent - s/t Kraftwerk - Computer World Fela Kuti - Original Sufferhead (1984 Capitol compilation with “Original Sufferhead”, “Sorrow Tears and Blood”, “Colonial Mentality” and “I.T.T.”)
L
Cyndi Lauper - She's So Unusual Héctor Lavoe - Strikes Back The Legendary Pink Dots - Asylum The Lewd - American Wino Loop - Fade Out The Lounge Lizards - s/t Love and Rockets - Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven Lyle Lovett - Pontiac
M
Paul McCartney - Tug of War Malcolm McLaren - Duck Rock Madness - 7 Madonna - Like a Prayer Madonna - Like a Virgin Madonna - s/t Magazine - The Correct Use of Soap Thomas Mapfumo and the Blacks Unlimited - Corruption Bob Marley & the Wailers - Uprising Masters of Reality - s/t Meat Puppets - Meat Puppets II Meat Puppets - Up on the Sun The Mekons - The Edge of the World The Mekons - Fear and Whiskey The Mekons - The Mekons Rock 'n' Roll Melvins - Ozma Mercyful Fate - Melissa Metallica - Master of Puppets Metallica - Ride the Lightning Pat Metheny & Ornette Coleman - Song X Midnight Oil - Red Sails in the Sunset Ministry - The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste Minutemen - The Punch Line Ronnie Milsap - Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 Minor Threat - Complete Discography (1988 compilation) Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime The Misfits - Legacy of Brutality The Misfits - Walk Among Us Mission of Burma - Mission of Burma (Rykodisc compilation) Meredith Monk - Dolmen Music Van Morrison - Inarticulate Speech of the Heart Morrissey - Viva Hate This Mortal Coil - It'll End in Tears Motörhead - Ace of Spades Motörhead - No Sleep 'til Hammersmith Motörhead - Orgasmatron Peter Murphy - Deep My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything Amina Claudine Myers Trio - The Circle of Time
N
Napalm Death - Scum New Order - Brotherhood New Order - Low-Life New Order - Movement New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies New Order - Substance New Order - Technique Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine Nirvana - Bleach No Trend - Too Many Humans Gary Numan - Telekon Nurse with Wound - Merzbild Schwet Nurse with Wound - The Sylvie and Babs Hi-Fi Companion N.W.A - Straight Outta Compton
O
Sinéad O'Connor - The Lion and the Cobra Mary Margaret O'Hara - Miss America Opal - Happy Nightmare Baby Orange Juice - You Can't Hide Your Love Forever Roy Orbison - Mystery Girl Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Architecture & Morality Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Dazzle Ships Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - s/t Ozzy Osbourne - Diary of a Madman
P
Robert Palmer - Clues Eddie Palmieri - s/t Nikos Papazoglou - Xaratsi Bernard Parmegiani - La Création du monde The Passions - Thirty Thousand Feet Over China The Pastels - Up for a Bit with the Pastels Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Broadcasting from Home Pet Shop Boys - Actually Pet Shop Boys - Disco Pet Shop Boys - Introspective Pet Shop Boys - Please Pixies - Doolittle Pixies - Surfer Rosa Plasmatics - New Hope for the Wretched The Pogues - If I Should Fall from Grace with God The Pogues - Rum, Sodomy & the Lash The Police - Ghost in the Machine The Police - Synchronicity The Police - Zenyatta Mondatta Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen The Pretenders - Learning to Crawl The Pretenders - s/t Prince - Dirty Mind Prince - Lovesexy Prince - 1999 Prince - Sign ‘O’ the Times Prince and the Revolution - Parade Prince and the Revolution - Purple Rain The Proclaimers - This Is the Story Propaganda - A Secret Wish The Psychedelic Furs - Talk Talk Talk Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back Public Enemy - Yo! Bum Rush the Show Public Image Ltd. - The Flowers of Romance Pussy Galore - Dial 'M' for Motherfucker Pylon - Gyrate Arvo Pärt - Tabula Rasa (ECM 1984)
Q
R
The Red Crayola with Art & Language - Kangaroo? Redd Kross - Neurotica Lou Reed - The Blue Mask Lou Reed - Legendary Hearts Lou Reed - New York Steve Reich - Tehillim R.E.M. - Document R.E.M. - Fables of the Reconstruction R.E.M. - Green R.E.M. - Lifes Rich Pageant R.E.M. - Murmur R.E.M. - Reckoning The Replacements - Let It Be The Replacements - Pleased to Meet Me The Replacements - Tim Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers - Rockin' and Romance Rites of Spring - s/t Willie Rosario - The Salsa Machine Diana Ross - Diana Roxy Music - Avalon Run-D.M.C. - Raising Hell Run-D.M.C. - Tougher Than Leather Rush - Moving Pictures Arthur Russell - World of Echo
S
Sade - Stronger Than Pride Saint Vitus - Born Too Late Savage Republic - Tragic Figures Schoolly D - Saturday Night! - The Album Scraping Foetus off the Wheel - Hole Scraping Foetus off the Wheel - Nail Scratch Acid - Just Keep Eating Scritti Politti - Cupid & Psyche 85 Sonny Sharrock - Guitar Michelle Shocked - Short Sharp Shocked Michelle Shocked - The Texas Campfire Tapes The Shop Assistants - Will Anything Happen? Shriekback - Jam Science Shriekback - Oil and Gold Michael Shrieve - Transfer Station Blue Paul Simon - Graceland Simple Minds - New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) Siouxsie and the Banshees - Juju Siouxsie and the Banshees - A Kiss in the Dreamhouse Siouxsie and the Banshees - Once Upon a Time: The Singles The Sisters of Mercy - First and Last and Always The Sisters of Mercy - Floodland Skinny Puppy - Bites Slapp Happy - Acnalbasac Noom Slayer - Reign in Blood Slayer - South of Heaven Slick Rick - The Great Adventures of Slick Rick The Smiths - Hatful of Hollow The Smiths - Louder Than Bombs The Smiths - Meat Is Murder The Smiths - The Queen is Dead The Smiths - Strangeways, Here We Come The Smiths - The World Won't Listen Soft Cell - The Art of Falling ApartSoft Cell - Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret Sonic Youth - Bad Moon Rising Sonic Youth - Confusion Is Sex Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation Sonic Youth - EVOL Sonic Youth - Sister Sonic Youth - Walls Have Ears Sonora Ponceña - New Heights Spacemen 3 - The Perfect Prescription Spacemen 3 - Playing with Fire Spacemen 3 - Sound of Confusion Sparks - Angst in My Pants The Specials - More Specials Laurie Spiegel - The Expanding Universe Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska Bruce Springsteen - The River Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel of Love Squeeze - East Side Story SSD - How We Rock Steely Dan - Gaucho Stetsasonic - In Full Gear The Stone Roses - s/t Stump - A Fierce Pancake Sun City Girls - s/t Swans - Children of God Swell Maps - In “Jane from Occupied Europe” David Sylvian - Brilliant Trees David Sylvian - Gone to Earth David Sylvian - Secrets of the Beehive
T
Talk Talk - The Colour of Spring Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden Talking Heads - Remain in Light Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense Talking Heads - The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads The Teardrop Explodes - Kilimanjaro Tears for Fears - The Hurting Tears for Fears - Songs from the Big Chair Television Personalities - And Don't the Kids Just Love It Television Personalities - The Painted Word The The - Soul Mining They Might Be Giants - Lincoln Thinking Plague - In This Life 3rd Bass - The Cactus Album This Mortal Coil - Filigree & Shadow This Heat - Deceit Richard & Linda Thompson - Shoot Out the Lights Throwing Muses - House Tornado Throwing Muses - s/t The Todd Terry Project - To the Batmobile Let's Go Tom Tom Club - s/t Tones on Tail - Pop The Traveling Wilburys - Vol. 1 Randy Travis - Storms of Life The Triffids - Born Sandy Devotional Trouble Funk - Drop the Bomb Tuxedomoon - Desire
U
U2 - The Joshua Tree U2 - The Unforgettable Fire U2 - War Ultramagnetic MC's - Critical Beatdown Units - Digital Stimulation
V
Van Halen - Fair Warning Van Halen - 1984 Van Halen - Women and Children First Various - Indestructible Beat of Soweto, Vol. 1 Various - Mutant Disco: A Subtle Dislocation of the Norm Various - Techno! The New Dance Sound of Detroit The Vaselines - Dum-Dum Venom - Welcome to Hell Tom Verlaine - Flash Light The Verlaines - Hallelujah All the Way Home The Verlaines - Juvenilia Vietnam Veterans - Catfish Eyes and Tales Violent Femmes - s/t Voivod - Dimension Hatröss Voivod - Nothingface Vulgar Boatmen - You and Your Sister
W
Bunny Wailer - Sings the Wailers Tom Waits - Rain Dogs Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones Scott Walker - Climate of Hunter Was (Not Was) - s/t The Waterboys - This Is the Sea The Wedding Present - Bizarro The Wedding Present - George Best The Wedding Present - Tommy Keith Whitley - I Wonder Do You Think of Me Lucinda Williams - s/t Win - …Uh! Tears Baby Wipers - Youth of America Womack & Womack - Love Wars Stevie Wonder - Hotter Than July Robert Wyatt - Nothing Can Stop Us Robert Wyatt - Old Rottenhat
X
X - Los Angeles X - Under the Big Black Sun X - Wild Gift Xmal Deutschland - Tocsin XTC - The Big Express XTC - Black Sea XTC - English Settlement XTC - Oranges & Lemons XTC - Skylarking
Y
Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Symphonic Suite Akira / Akira (Original Soundtrack) "Weird Al" Yankovic - In 3-D Yazoo - Upstairs at Eric's Yello - One Second Yellow Magic Orchestra - Naughty Boys Yes - Drama Dwight Yoakam - Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc. Neil Young - Freedom The Young Gods - L'Eau Rouge The Young Gods - s/t Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth
Z
John Zorn - Naked City
― Tuomas, Monday, 2 November 2009 11:01 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
Tom Waits - Frank's Wild Years
Looks I forgot to add this one to the official nomination list. It should be there, so you can vote for it too.
― Tuomas, Monday, 2 November 2009 11:07 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
The first votes have already been cast, keep on voting!
― Tuomas, Monday, 2 November 2009 11:40 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
I thought you'd missed another one but happily discovered the other This Mortal Coil album under M.
My 'shortlist' is still treble figures...
― Suggest Gandhi (onimo), Monday, 2 November 2009 11:57 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
Oh yeah, one more thing: if you want to, you may write blurbs for the albums you voted and include them in your email. If the album ends up in the top 100, I'll post your blurb when the final results are revealed.
― Tuomas, Monday, 2 November 2009 11:57 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
The Cramps - Psychedelic Jungle The Cramps - Songs the Lord Taught Us
No 'Off The Bone' :(
― Suggest Gandhi (onimo), Monday, 2 November 2009 11:59 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
Oops, that was a mistake, This Mortal Coil should obviously be under "T". Sorry about that, glad you found it anyway.
(xx-post)
― Tuomas, Monday, 2 November 2009 12:00 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
Bump.
― Tuomas, Monday, 2 November 2009 15:21 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
Thanks Tuomas!
― Paul in Santa Cruz, Monday, 2 November 2009 15:40 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
Interesting to compare my votes from this poll and its ill-fated predecessor. Some notable climbers and fallers along the way - and a couple of significant new entries - but overall there's more consistency than I would have expected.
― mike t-diva, Monday, 2 November 2009 15:57 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
I couldn't find my older vote, but I'm sure it was pretty different from what I voted today, as I've discovered a lot of 80s gems (such as "Nightclubbing", "Critical Beatdown", "The Friends of Mr. Cairo", and "Corruption") during the last four years.
― Tuomas, Monday, 2 November 2009 17:11 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
I really struggled to fill my thirty votes. Years ago I'd have voted for all sorts of dreck, but my taste has boiled down to singles & individual tracks recently. It takes a lot for an album to grip me now.
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 2 November 2009 17:17 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
Bummed that I missed the nominations for this. No Thin White Rope! No Moonhead! Fuck fuckity fuck.
― Obscured by clowns (NickB), Monday, 2 November 2009 17:30 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
A pedant notes that the Shop Assistants' Will Anything Happen is a compilation that came out around 1997. The original album was just called The Shop Assistants.
― Colonel Poo, Monday, 2 November 2009 18:03 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
Oh dear, I thought I'd checked all the albums on the list, but apparently I missed that one. Any votes for Shop Assistants will go to the original self-titled album then, and not the 1997 comp (which apparently is the album plus some EP tracks).
― Tuomas, Monday, 2 November 2009 18:12 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
wow, thanks for doing this, Tuomas. should be exciting.
Thin White Rope's absence is a pity, but there's plenty of great stuff here.
wot no Rattle And Hum?! Only joking.
― Duke, Monday, 2 November 2009 18:37 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
― Tuomas, Monday, 2 November 2009 20:54 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
You can't commit to bumping this every couple of hours for three whole weeks, it's too much for one man. Thread needs some controversy to make it self-reviving. How about disqualifying Gaucho or something?
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 2 November 2009 22:59 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
Or ppl should post brief lolexcerpts from SPIN, FORCED EXPOSURE and MUSICIAN reviews of the time.
― Durian Durian (Jon Lewis), Monday, 2 November 2009 23:19 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
someone start a thread where everyone can post their ballot. individual ballots would be fun to look at.
― nicky lo-fi, Monday, 2 November 2009 23:24 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
Had to say it on the tv voting thread, will say it here: Leave ballot posting till after or it will spoil the countdown when some nerd figures out who wins.
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Monday, 2 November 2009 23:25 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
I was hoping that some folks would nom Golden Palominos albums, but that was a pipe dream. I had to compile this and shoot it off fast, because otherwise, the creeping uncertainty of, well, yeah, I like it but is it the greatest? and the conflict between brilliant but deeply flawed and consistent but not transcendent albums would drive me insane.
― Giorgio Marauder (I eat cannibals), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 00:13 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
Props to whoever nommed "In 3-D". My nine-year-old self thanks you.
― I've got some funny ideas about what sounds good (staggerlee), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 00:27 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
someone start a thread where everyone can post their ballot.
What's wrong with this thread?
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 03:51 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
please don't
― 51 sent (The Reverend), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 04:35 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
This is traditionally done after the poll results have been revealed. Please don't do it before, as it might give away the results.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 08:13 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
As somebody said on the other thread, The Jam are conspicuous by their absence. (They didn't appear on the previous poll, either.) And while I wouldn't have voted for it myself, whither Combat Rock?
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 10:05 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
Well, about 80-90 people nominated albums, that should be quite representative of the whole ILM. So maybe The Jam aren't that loved around here?
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 10:17 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
Fuck, I've just noticed Yello's "You've Gotta Say Yes to Another Excess" and The Associates' "Affectionate Punch" are not on there - that's two of my Top 10 gone already
― The Prince's choice: making a brush. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 10:27 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
I was hoping people would nominate more Yello than the one album I nominated, but I've noticed before there aren't that many Yello fans around here.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 10:29 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
I was the only one to nominate Yello in the previous poll too.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 10:31 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
I didn't nominate at all. Yello fans be lazy fuckers.
― The Prince's choice: making a brush. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 10:33 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
I've been feeling similarly thwarted, as You've Gotta Say Yes To Another Excess would been in my Top 20 for sure. Kinda wish I'd nommed it, but never mind...
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 10:49 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
Ah, if I'd realized that You've Gotta Say Yes to Another Excess is the most popular Yello album, I might've nominated that. To me the
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 14:13 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
I don't know if it is, but it is with me and mike
― I Pity the Poxy Fule (Tom D.), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 14:16 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
To me the trio of YGSYtAE/Stella/One Second are all equally good, but I nominated One Second because I was pretty sure no other Yello album would be nominated, and I think One Second best exemplifies the full scale of what makes Yello great.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 14:16 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
(Sorry, I accidentally posted before finishing the sentence.)
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 14:17 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
To be honest, though, YGSYtAE is maybe still a bit too "new wave" for me, especially when it comes to the vocals. I'm not that fond of Dieter Maier's "rock" singing, I think he's much better when does the "crooner" or the "storyteller" partts. And I think Billy McKenzie, Rush Winters, and Shirley Bassey help to make Boris Blank's sound more versatile and "full" on One Second than what it is on YGSYtAE.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 14:21 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
Not to mean YGSYtAE is bad or anything, it's great, but I think Stella and One Second are the albums where the unique Yello thing came into its full fruitition.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 14:23 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
Whereas I slightly prefer the new-wavey-ness of YGSTtAE. But it's also because I have strong personal memories attached to I Love You, Lost Again, and especially Swing.
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 14:29 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
Can I ask what sort of memories you have attached to Swing? That's a fun song.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 15:02 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
There was this late night bar-with-a-dancefloor that I used to frequent in West Berlin, usually on the way home from somewhere else, and they always played "Swing" next to "Right Now" (The Creatures) and "The Love Cats". Happy days.
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 15:27 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
You lived in West Berlin when it was 'West Berlin', not just the western part of Berlin? What was that like?
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 15:44 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
many xposts I feel the grief at no Moonhead myself. I did my noms real early and i figured one of the other Thin White Rope-heads on here would take care of it. ;_;
― Durian Durian (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 15:50 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
When you can only nominate 7, but vote for 30, some classics are gonna slip through the cracks. Sound Affects would have been my #17.
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 15:54 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
Will vote in this after i'm finished with my own poll. good going tuomas though.
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 15:55 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
Aug-Dec: best time ever.Jan-Mar: worst time ever.Apr-Jul: best time ever.
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 16:04 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
Sound Affects would have been my #17.
Love the specificity. Not #16, not #18, that's too high/low, respectively... but #17, oh yes.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 16:09 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
Just what I was looking for, it's like the cold war in haiku
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 16:20 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
aagghghghghhhh just finally got this done and then gmail crashed between drafts so its time for a do over i guess
― GO THICK AMOS! (jjjusten), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 21:27 (1 week ago) Permalink
Ismael how are the non-song Moroder tracks?
― Durian Durian (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 21:39 (1 week ago) Permalink
There are only two: 'Tony's Theme' is (from memory) the one that opens the movie and is suitably evil, though I thought it was utterly incongruous the one time I saw the film; 'Gina and Elvira's Theme' is slow and pretty boring. They're not hard-hitting at all, I wanted proper mechanised aggression but Moroder is pulling his punches.
About half of the other tracks have nice instrumental intros and you think they're going to be great, but then the song proper starts and it's just rubbish. 'Push It To Limit' has a blistering first twenty seconds and is actually a reasonable tune - except that with those lyrics it should be the soundtrack to the world's most excruciating motivation seminar, not one of the most iconic gangster movies of all time.
There's also a weird moment when 'I'm Hot Tonight' comes on and it sounds exactly like 'Found A Job' by Talking Heads. All in all, I just can't take this album seriously.
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 21:58 (1 week ago) Permalink
Heh. I remember endless bitching in the '80s about how much '80s music sucked compared to the '70s. A lot of it was boomer washout and rockist kneejerk, but there's also the several confounders of when people's music taste formed, what's retro-hip to reference, and general awareness. I tend to think of the late '90s as a pretty dire time for music, but I wasn't listening to a lot of mainstream hip hop (my mistake) and I tend to think that indie rock was at a particular low point then (and I think it's pretty boring now). There are also plenty of musicians that are timeless for me, or associated with different times—I don't think of the Pixies as an '80s band, though they were. I tend to think of Blondie as an '80s band, even though my favorite stuff came out in the '70s. A lot of what I think about as '60s music is only the last half of that decade; I think rock pretty much sucked in the early '60s, with notable exceptions, but soul and jazz was phenomenal, and jazz especially seems to exist outside of the music timeline for me, making it hard to date without reference (like, I can tell you the year that most of the rock I listen to was recorded without even glancing at anything, but with jazz, whether something came out in '59 or '62 isn't something I can hear as easily—I think "rock" being more technologically driven than jazz makes that more apparent, at least to me.)
We also tend to be a bit rose-tinted towards the past, forgetting a lot of bullshit music that was inexplicably popular (unless, of course, our 10-year-old selves liked that music; then Samantha Fox is an underrated genius). But that means that aside from a few dedicated popists (who have their own blindspots and biases) the music of the now is often judged harsher for being pervasive and immersive.
― Giorgio Marauder (I eat cannibals), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 22:29 (1 week ago) Permalink
just sent in my ballot but my god were those difficult decisions
― psychgawsple, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 22:31 (1 week ago) Permalink
There was an hour-long Rio special on BBC4 just now. It was lovely to see how much pleasure they took from breaking up 'Save A Prayer' and finding out just how they made it all those years ago.
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 13 November 2009 22:56 (1 week ago) Permalink
cannibals, I co-sign that post 100%. (except the remembering bitching about '80s music in the '80s... I was only 14 by the end of that decade)
Samantha Fox singles had a good, meaty sound, but I don't suspect she had much to do with the production/arranging end of things.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 13 November 2009 23:00 (1 week ago) Permalink
Argh, the only thing I have decided about this poll is that if I can manage to get my ballot together in time, Slapp Happy will be at number one. I have been repeatedly contrasting the two versions of the almost-but-not-really-the-same album (the first being from the '70s) and I definitely prefer Acnalbasac to Casablanca, and I have also been making myself stupidly obsessed with it. Also, nobody else will vote for it, so I might as well make it a deranged bid for entry.
― emil.y, Friday, 13 November 2009 23:07 (1 week ago) Permalink
wasn't expecting sound to be where that sentence went (xpost)
― windows XD (some dude), Friday, 13 November 2009 23:09 (1 week ago) Permalink
nooM acnalbasaC, surely?
― http://uktv.co.uk/ can fuck right off imo (Noodle Vague), Friday, 13 November 2009 23:11 (1 week ago) Permalink
She's not buying what I'm selling, so what's the point. xp
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 13 November 2009 23:12 (1 week ago) Permalink
xp do you think they intended for people to misread/mispronounce it as 'anal ball-sac'?
― emil.y, Friday, 13 November 2009 23:13 (1 week ago) Permalink
Don't strike me as having that kind of sensayuma. I admire Slapp Happy without rilly loving 'em.
― http://uktv.co.uk/ can fuck right off imo (Noodle Vague), Friday, 13 November 2009 23:16 (1 week ago) Permalink
To be honest, I highly doubt it myself, it's just something I can't stop myself from doing. I think it's like those word illusions where you can make sense of sentences if the words have the correct beginning and ending letters but everything else is jumbled.
Also, try listening to 'Dawn' on repeat and see if you can not love them.
― emil.y, Friday, 13 November 2009 23:18 (1 week ago) Permalink
As I put together my list, I realized how well many of the Goth & New Wave pioneers' records have aged. I had a hard time shedding some of them off the list to make room for other deserving albums.
― untrue pitch, Sunday, 15 November 2009 20:17 (6 days ago) Permalink
"cannibals, I co-sign that post 100%. (except the remembering bitching about '80s music in the '80s... I was only 14 by the end of that decade)"
I was 11 in '90.
But my parents had moved from Milwaukee (and prior to that, Chicago) to rural Michigan right about '80, and, for them, it was a huge sea change in what music was like. My dad would make a two-hour pilgrimage to a bar called Lili's in Hamtramck because their jukebox was the only place he could hear new 45s of, like, PIL and Laurie Anderson. They'd loved the free jazz craziness and prog rock of the '70s, and disco and Duran Duran just kicked the legs out from underneath them, and being geographically isolated definitely limited what they could hear. I mean, my dad used to go to crazy lengths to hear radio from Windsor, because Detroit's major stations were so barren. And a lot of stuff that people remember fondly and ironically, the Yacht Rock and stadium stuff, it was just pervasive and if you weren't into it, it seemed oppressive.
So yeah, I remember people constantly bitching about the state of music in the '80s. And the '90s, mostly the late '90s—the Rise of the Nickleback and the post-grunge washouts. Then in the first half of the '00s, I covered local music, so I got to be one of those assholes contributing to the great pissing and moaning about how everything mainstream was terrible.
― Giorgio Marauder (I eat cannibals), Monday, 16 November 2009 00:30 (5 days ago) Permalink
I was born in '70 so you can infer what the music of the 80s is to me. Even though SST stuff, the Buttholes and The Fall broke my brain forever in '85 there was no way I was ever gonna turn apostate against burbling analog synths or the incredible savoir-faire of 83-86 Prince.
I'm taking my time on this poll and doing a lot of close listening. As a result, Architecture and Morality and Melissa have barged their way into my 30. Almost ready to ballot now.
― Durian Durian (Jon Lewis), Monday, 16 November 2009 16:30 (5 days ago) Permalink
Also, nobody else will vote for it, so I might as well make it a deranged bid for entry.
I don't want to reveal my ballot prematurely, but suffice to say you won't be the only one voting for it.
― o. nate, Monday, 16 November 2009 17:10 (5 days ago) Permalink
I know ppl are tired of 'oh shit, we forgot (band)' type comments, but I was mighty chagrined to realize this weekend that there was no Naked Raygun! Throb, Throb coulda binna contenda.
― Durian Durian (Jon Lewis), Monday, 16 November 2009 17:26 (5 days ago) Permalink
Remember, voting time ends this Sunday! Hopefully people aren't holding their ballots until the last minute, it'll be easier to count the votes if I don't get 35 ballots at Sunday midnight. So if you haven't voted already, why not do it tonight?
― Tuomas, Monday, 16 November 2009 19:31 (5 days ago) Permalink
I voted today. Pretty much drafted my ballot over a week ago, then looked at it every day for the last 8-10 days and made edits and reassessed various albums and spun pretty much everything to make my final decisions.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Monday, 16 November 2009 23:43 (5 days ago) Permalink
Turned mine in today too. Excel was helpful.
― Durian Durian (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 03:51 (4 days ago) Permalink
it's feeling like a university paper, and I'm confident I will never be happy with my choices, so I'll probably wait until the last minute and submit it because I know I have to. I'll try to get it in earlier though.
― The Devil's Avocado (Gukbe), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 03:54 (4 days ago) Permalink
So if you haven't voted already, why not do it tonight?
i narrowed it down to 30, which was very difficult and that is it for tonight.
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 04:34 (4 days ago) Permalink
Some people have sent their ballots via ILX webmail. I have counted those too, but those of you who haven't voted yet, please use the lixnixn *at* yahoo *dot* co *dot* uk address mentioned in the first post, not ILX webmail. ILX webmail directs to my other email address, and it's easier if all votes go to my Yahoo mail inbox.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 12:40 (4 days ago) Permalink
My ilx webmail, if I've ever had any, will go to an account I no longer use. Is there any way to change it?
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 12:44 (4 days ago) Permalink
Btw, the situation with the vote count has become pretty interesting. With the initial wave of ballots it looked like a couple of albums were gonna dominate the poll, but now the votes have begun to spread more evenly, so anything is still possible. Every vote can make a difference!
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 12:45 (4 days ago) Permalink
Sorry about using ILXmail, tuomas. I should have gone back and read your initial post first!
― Durian Durian (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 16:23 (4 days ago) Permalink
No problem.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 18 November 2009 08:18 (3 days ago) Permalink
Only four days of voting time left.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 18 November 2009 19:56 (3 days ago) Permalink
How many albums have received no votes?
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 18 November 2009 20:12 (3 days ago) Permalink
114.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 18 November 2009 20:14 (3 days ago) Permalink
Out of 567.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 18 November 2009 20:15 (3 days ago) Permalink
Are you going to be posting a top 80?
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 18 November 2009 20:19 (3 days ago) Permalink
Crikey, that's a lot. Should be a lot more votes still to come then.
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 18 November 2009 20:22 (3 days ago) Permalink
I'll post a top 100 if I get enough votes, if there's too few votes then it'll be a top 75 or something. So far about 60 people have voted, but I expect there'll be many votes during the last couple of days.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 18 November 2009 20:37 (3 days ago) Permalink
Just voted, bit the bullet. Leaving out so many albums I love which soundtracked different moments in my life was difficult.
― go in go hard brother (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 18 November 2009 22:03 (3 days ago) Permalink
I have to get mine finished, but I'll vote.
― LeRooLeRoo, Wednesday, 18 November 2009 22:51 (3 days ago) Permalink
voted
― Bee OK, Thursday, 19 November 2009 01:39 (2 days ago) Permalink
finishing voting, so mad that i failed to show up to nominate the top, also anthrax - among the living, ministry - land of rape and honey, mr. bungle - mr. bungle, about a million other things but ehhhh what are you going to do.
― GO THICK AMOS! (jjjusten), Thursday, 19 November 2009 06:38 (2 days ago) Permalink
Mr. Bungle's first album came out in the 90s, surely?
― Tuomas, Thursday, 19 November 2009 07:38 (2 days ago) Permalink
Ah yes, Wikipedia says 1991.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 19 November 2009 07:39 (2 days ago) Permalink
hah so much for my memory, you are right
― GO THICK AMOS! (jjjusten), Thursday, 19 November 2009 16:45 (2 days ago) Permalink
i'm just surprised tuomas would know release dates for mr bungle albums
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 19 November 2009 16:49 (2 days ago) Permalink
it fills me with hope for the future tbh
btw tuomas did my email ballot get through?
― GO THICK AMOS! (jjjusten), Thursday, 19 November 2009 17:54 (2 days ago) Permalink
hoping to have at least dropped the 114 unvoted albums number a bit
― GO THICK AMOS! (jjjusten), Thursday, 19 November 2009 17:55 (2 days ago) Permalink
Yeah, I got your ballot.
I'll be going away for the weekend, so I probably won't be by the computer until Sunday afternoon. But keep on sending those ballots!
― Tuomas, Thursday, 19 November 2009 21:03 (2 days ago) Permalink
will bump in your honour
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 19 November 2009 21:10 (2 days ago) Permalink
Just voted. That was tough.
― Lostandfound, Thursday, 19 November 2009 21:43 (2 days ago) Permalink
Cursing the lack of the two best Go-Betweens albums! Could do with an earlier Simple Minds album too. And I wish that the Birthday Party's Junkyard was there. Damn!
― The bugger in the short sleeves (NickB), Thursday, 19 November 2009 22:32 (2 days ago) Permalink