Finally! The votes have been counted! The results will soon be revealed!
― Tuomas, Monday, 23 November 2009 17:53 (9 months ago) Permalink
100. Robyn Hitchcock: I Often Dream of Trains (75 points, 5 votes)
I'm very fond of I Often Dream of Trains.
― Ian Riese-Moraine has been xeroxed into a conduit! (Eastern Mantra), 7. heinäkuuta 2005 3:09
Robyn was a streak of genuine weirdness on the alt pop charts in the eighties, his records definitely helped get through high school back then. The live shows were incredible, the improvised stories he'd spin between songs always made sense.
He's one of two people I ever asked for an autograph. Philip Glass was not in a good mood when I walked up, 15 years old & nervous, having spotted him in the lobby during the intermission to the Knee Plays... can't blame him for scowling at me. Robyn on the other hand was impossibly cool about the awkward situation, saying while signing my copy of Trains "well y'know it's no good having heroes, especially once you get to know them and realize they have all the same problems..." I assured him that was the point.
― milton parker (Jon L), 7. heinäkuuta 2005 9:23
Revive since I've now been relistening to the various solo albums and want to say that the echoed overdubbed wordless vocals at the end of "Autumn Is Your Last Chance" off I Often Dream of Trains is one of his most moving performances. Good stuff.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), 27. tammikuuta 2005
― Tuomas, Monday, 23 November 2009 18:05 (9 months ago) Permalink
cool. do you have a rough schedule of how long you'll be rolling out results or how often you'll be posting entries or are you just gonna play it by ear?
― turkey turkey turkey let's all get basted (some dude), Monday, 23 November 2009 18:06 (9 months ago) Permalink
I'll probably try to do 10 a day, but there's no schedule. Depends on when I have the time to sit down and post stuff. Will try to leave some time for discussion between every result.
― Tuomas, Monday, 23 November 2009 18:10 (9 months ago) Permalink
Any chance of the occasional youtube? Robyn Hitchcock is an unknown unknown to me at least.
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 23 November 2009 18:15 (9 months ago) Permalink
It's cool that 5 people who really like something can get it into the top 100.
― o. nate, Monday, 23 November 2009 18:18 (9 months ago) Permalink
98. (tie) Scraping Foetus off the Wheel - Hole (76 points, 5 votes)
'hole' is a total masterpiece. totally changed my life. 'ache' has actually aged really well, much better than i'd have thought it would.
― stirmonster, 4. marraskuuta 2004 16:02
Hole never gets old. What a record.
― onimo, 13. syyskuuta 2007 14:41
― Tuomas, Monday, 23 November 2009 18:21 (9 months ago) Permalink
I probably won't have the time to go looking for Youtube links, put I have no problem with other people posting them here.
― Tuomas, Monday, 23 November 2009 18:23 (9 months ago) Permalink
a song from that robyn hitchcock album performed at home?
those finnish day names are really cool btw.
― alex in mainhattan, Monday, 23 November 2009 18:28 (9 months ago) Permalink
You're already doing more than enough, Tuomas. It'd be cool if a fan of the album could put up the odd representative track though. xp thanks Alex!
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 23 November 2009 18:34 (9 months ago) Permalink
The Hitchcock was my number two album, good for 30 of those 75 points. Glad I put it that high just to see it make the list. There are youtube videos from the recent I Often Dream Of Trains In New York live concert, but it appears all the actual 80s clips have been pulled.
Here's the title track from that performance last year:
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 23 November 2009 18:35 (9 months ago) Permalink
pretty far-out stuff. it seems to be about the beginning of wwii.
― alex in mainhattan, Monday, 23 November 2009 18:39 (9 months ago) Permalink
Oh cool, I like Robyn Hitchcock but didn't know that album well, so no vote from me but glad to see it in.
Foetus are one of those bands that I always feel I should probably attempt to get into but never have done.
― emil.y, Monday, 23 November 2009 18:44 (9 months ago) Permalink
98. (tie) Spacemen 3 - The Perfect Prescription (76 points, 5 votes
I must say I've grown quite fond of 'Perfect Prescription'--it didn't necessarily blow me away at first, but I'll be damned if it's not one CHARMING-ass record, something you'd be hard-pressed to say about a Spz (ha!) album. Also, 'Playing With Fire' is awesome--better production, more psychedelic, maybe?--but a little less charming. (Note: "Ode to Street Hassle" is one of my current favorite songs.) The lyrics are a bit empty sometimes, but I guess that's not really the point. Well, discuss!
― Clarke B., 17. syyskuuta 2001 3:00
I don't have much to add other than 'The Perfect Prescription' rules the Universe (Performance, Playing With Fire and all their other stuff does too to a slightly lesser degrees). I wonder why nobody ever really talks about "fuzz" anymore (has it been subsumed by 'drones'). I just remember that the Spacemen had the textures right and then I fell in love with the bluesy and gospel-y melodies. I especially love their 17 minute cover of Rollercoaster which is barely 2 chords.
The only thing I didn't like about them was their bitchiness in interviews. They would dis Loop and then say things like the Jesus and Mary Chain weren't that special (since they had done the feedback thing too on their first album).
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), 17. tammikuuta 2003 23:49
― Tuomas, Monday, 23 November 2009 18:52 (9 months ago) Permalink
Satan Place from that Foetus album recently came up on my ipod shuffle and blew my MIND
although Finely Honed Machine (a bonus track) is the real head-scrambler
― my fave thing to do on the computer is what im doing right now (acoleuthic), Monday, 23 November 2009 18:53 (9 months ago) Permalink
the 1st track of perfect prescription
― alex in mainhattan, Monday, 23 November 2009 18:57 (9 months ago) Permalink
I nominated & voted for that Robyn, my favorite thing he's done. He makes his eccentricities feel universal on that record. How the hell does he do that? Sick Man is my favorite Foetus moment; same goes for that whole Spacemen record. Very college-rock here at the bottom of the charts so far!
― dad a, Monday, 23 November 2009 19:00 (9 months ago) Permalink
Sooner or later, this thread is going to get pretty slow and unweildly with all these youtube links. Maybe a separate youtube results thread would be better.
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 23 November 2009 19:02 (9 months ago) Permalink
not that it matters but college-rock? i would have thought the feelies or the talking heads were college-rock but not british artists like hitchcock or spacemen 3. college-rock is an american concept, isn't it? in any case a very promising start i'd say.
― alex in mainhattan, Monday, 23 November 2009 19:10 (9 months ago) Permalink
97. Big Black - Atomizer (77 points, 8 votes)
Passing Complexion and Bad Houses for their weirdo non punkdom
Or even "non-indiedom"! (in the old sense of the word indie) I mean in a way, Big Black weren't doing anything all that radically different from what a hell of a lot of other US indie bands were doing then, which is why I couldn't understand their appeal at first, being first and foremost an anglophile. But Passing Complexion was like their Smiths-How-Soon-Is-Now moment because they (or Albini) got a guitar sound there that is utterly unique as far as I know. I would be curious actually, if any ilxors could point to a piece of guitar music that sounds like that. Metal Machine Music?? But MMM didn't have an easy to swallow RIFF!
I find Big Black a really fun band to talk about because I don't think they've been talked about much on this board since I've been here. Or if they have, I've been away and out of the loop. I also think that in the end, at least for me, I tend to remember Albini more for his production jobs than BB. What he did for The Wedding Present and PJ Harvey was truly stunning.
Very much looking forward to hearing this Atomizer album again, though. I found myself able to visualize the details of the record sleeve with great clarity today.
― Soda Paint Cans (Bimble), 28. maaliskuuta 2009 5:00
This bloke on our local market persuaded me to buy Atomiser when it came out and I was completely blown away by it. Guitars that sound like machines imitating guitars is such a great sound. I can't think of another band whose sound is as conceptually perfect as Big Black's. And I love that Albini stopped it as soon as they'd said what they wanted to say.
― TV's Mr Noodle Vague (noodle vague), 6. toukokuuta 2005 20:40
"Passing Complexion" from Atomizer = my favorite guitar riff ever.
― latebloomer: But when the monkey die, people gonna cry. (latebloomer), 6. toukokuuta 2005 23:20
― Tuomas, Monday, 23 November 2009 19:12 (9 months ago) Permalink
What the hell is up with the guitar necks on that Spacemen 3 cover? It's like a pre-Photoshop Photoshop disaster. Horrible.
― The bugger in the short sleeves (NickB), Monday, 23 November 2009 19:14 (9 months ago) Permalink
(fucking great record though)
this thread is going to get pretty slow and unweildly with all these youtube links.
― alex in mainhattan, Monday, 23 November 2009 19:14 (9 months ago) Permalink
haha 2 of my top five in the first 4 results
― NAKES HAVE THE STAPLES IN THEM (jjjusten), Monday, 23 November 2009 19:21 (9 months ago) Permalink
thank you tuomas
― rent, Monday, 23 November 2009 19:23 (9 months ago) Permalink
well i for one am 100% certain that my #1 choice is not going to appear at all!
really need to hear big black. will arrange this some day.
― my fave thing to do on the computer is what im doing right now (acoleuthic), Monday, 23 November 2009 19:24 (9 months ago) Permalink
live. what a great time those 80s were, occasionally.
user comment from the kerosene clip:"It's like their guitars are speaking another language than everyone else's."
― alex in mainhattan, Monday, 23 November 2009 19:25 (9 months ago) Permalink
i am not sure but i think the covers take at least as much bandwidth as the youtube stills.
― alex in mainhattan
not the point - inline images load quickly, but browsers have to load the relevant plugin every time they get to an embedded youtube
― thomp, Monday, 23 November 2009 19:25 (9 months ago) Permalink
i mean, much as i hate sounding like a luddite, it does kind of shit the thread up for anyone on an out-of-date computer
― thomp, Monday, 23 November 2009 19:26 (9 months ago) Permalink
What was it? I'm 98% certain mine won't either (that being the Slapp Happy album, already discussed on the other thread).
― emil.y, Monday, 23 November 2009 19:30 (9 months ago) Permalink
not that it matters but college-rock? i would have thought the feelies or the talking heads were college-rock but not british artists like hitchcock or spacemen 3. college-rock is an american concept, isn't it? in any case a very promising start i'd say.― alex in mainhattan, Monday, November 23, 2009 2:10 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark
― alex in mainhattan, Monday, November 23, 2009 2:10 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark
So far all of these were pretty landmark on college radio in my US college town, and Robyn & S3 were must-haves in the indie record store import bin. Not to defend the term college-rock, which is pretty execrable, though I've come to like it as a sort of precursor to the "knowledge worker in training" peg with which Carl Wilson nailed indie.
― dad a, Monday, 23 November 2009 19:31 (9 months ago) Permalink
wahey! this is going great- albums i've never heard and would like to one day listen to. hoping it stays this way and doesn't go into canon-mode (except the canon albums i voted for of course.)
― 9-1 never forget (a hoy hoy), Monday, 23 November 2009 19:34 (9 months ago) Permalink
96. Associates - Sulk (79 points, 6 votes)
I'd go against the grain of the good Doctor - I find the first two CDs much harder going than "Sulk" - rewarding to be sure but still tough ("White Car In Germany" though is tremendous with no equivocation). "Sulk" though sparkles - I love the 'glacial' production and the hysteria of it all. And "Party Fears Two" is one of those handful of singles I occasionally get worked up about and pronounce "THIS IS THE GREATEST SINGLE OF ALL TIME" which means in that instant it least, it is.
― Tom, 3. tammikuuta 2001 3:00
I was 18 in the summer of 1982. "Party Fears Two" was part of the soundtrack of that summer. And I was living it in DUNDEE. I've had some unhappy times since then, but I'll remember that wonderful year and the part that the music of the Associates played in it forever. Whenever I listen to Sulk I'm 18 again and the world is full of opportunities that I never eventually took up
The Associates WILL be remembered long after some of today's POPSTARS are long forgotten.
― Big Al, 1. huhtikuuta 2001 3:00
i pulled out sulk yesterday after reading the scotland chapter in sr's p-punk book, and good god i can't believe this EVER charted, however briefly. the whole album is on overload.
It's absolutely astounding. Björk being a massive fan of Mackenzie's makes sense but in the Sugarcubes or solo I've never sensed her work to be quite as...*searches for the word*...careening, shall we say.
It's also a case where all the stories about the recording and the run up to it, what went into it, what they tried, etc. all make sense. You read PR guff all the time about how some band's third album (which Sulk sorta was if you count Fourth Drawer Down's singles comp as the second) is going to be the Experimental Shift in Style What Is Different or soundbites about 'there were no rules in the studio, we decided to come in fresh' or whatever and they create something with a boring drum loop and keyboard part. Then there's this.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), 25. huhtikuuta 2005 2:08
― Tuomas, Monday, 23 November 2009 19:36 (9 months ago) Permalink
it does kind of shit the thread up for anyone on an out-of-date computer
― alex in mainhattan, Monday, 23 November 2009 19:43 (9 months ago) Permalink
Associates are one of those bands that I didn't find out about until 15 years or so after the fact, so I didn't feel right about including them on my list. Great album, though.
― Dan S, Monday, 23 November 2009 19:45 (9 months ago) Permalink
This thread is mapping out an alternate history of 80s music that I was mostly unaware of.
And I mean that in a good way. Thanks for this list.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 23 November 2009 19:50 (9 months ago) Permalink
yes, one of the greatest singles of all time. sometimes i can agree to what tom says. are there others who have problems with the loading of the clips? i'll stop immediatley posting them if you wish.
― alex in mainhattan, Monday, 23 November 2009 19:50 (9 months ago) Permalink
95. Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking (79 points, 7 votes)
Nothing's Shocking, however, upon re-appraisal is -- to my ears -- a virutally flawless record! There is literally not a duff track herein. I remember buying the LP based solely on the bizarre-o cover art and buzz that surrounded the band, and in a rare fluke, ended up loving every nanosecond of it....forcing it into constant rotation on the collectively-commandeered stereo of my off-campus hovel in my senior year of college. Paring a massive, Zeppelinesque sound while deftly retaining to credibly Punk edge, Jane's Addiction seemed like the perfect band. My mookish metal pals enjoyed Navarro's thick guitar crunch, while the waifish Bauhausfraus dug Perry's junkie-Raggedy-Andy aesthetic and singularly cryptic lyrical fixations. They were at once heavy, funky, weird, austere, funny, scary, melodic, loud, sensual, spooky....I mean, what's not to love?
For "Ocean Size" and "Ted, Just Admit It" alone, this band should be cannonized into the pantheon of untouchable coolness, and if you disagree with me on that point, you're just wallowing in a viscous mudslick of WRONG! I'd completely forgotten about the rude, horn-driven punch of "Idiots Rule" and the trippy gentility of "Summertime Rolls" (not, as it turned out, an ode to seasonal baked goods). The lilting, use-frienly, acoustic & steel drum "Jane Says" being the track that made the girls actually appreciate the record (my friend Sara bought it based on this song alone, only to be scared by the rest of the album's electric tsunami). "Pigs In Zen" being a big, fat, chunky fuck-you of a track, despite Perry's oddballish off-the-cuff commentary in the bridge (no David Lee Roth, he). Once again, not a single bad track. Everyone wins.
Eric A's bass playing is masterfully restrained (in sharp contrast to Dave's flashy, effect-laden guitar antics, Stephen Perkins busy battery and Perry's pipey screech). The cover art (flanked mysteriously by cowhide?) is strange enough to be completely compelling. It's a mastepiece from end to end.
What sayeth ye?
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), 4. elokuuta 2003 19:08
halfway through the album, haven't listened to it in years. It IS flawless, thank god I had this album when I was fifteen or sixteen or whatever, what else could I have listened to that would have matched all the awfulness and rage that was in me at that time?
I can't decide what is best, the great basswork, the beer-keg drumming, perry's yowl? Fuckin' Navarro just makes me laugh now, what a character, the guitar on this album is five inches away from cheese but it works so well; listening back to this it strikes me as such a completely radio-friendly album, Navarro borrows so many little motifs and progressions from metal.
god it's serious as serious can be.
― teeny (teeny), 19. kesäkuuta 2004 17:00
― Tuomas, Monday, 23 November 2009 19:53 (9 months ago) Permalink
Just post them judiciously. Even though I generally don't have trouble with threads that are youtube embed heavy, a constant stream of them will tax anyone's cpu. xp
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 23 November 2009 19:54 (9 months ago) Permalink
How many ballots did you get, Tuomas?
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 23 November 2009 19:56 (9 months ago) Permalink
Sorry, this was my request screwing things up. I sometimes have problems with the youtubes but the Clash thread has been working fine so I assumed whatever the problem is had been cleared up. I know most about these things though - I just remember it spicing the end-of-2008 lists.
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 23 November 2009 19:56 (9 months ago) Permalink
Sulk was my number three. Party Fears two is still my favourite song of all time but there's so many great moments on there.
― Kitchen Person, Monday, 23 November 2009 19:58 (9 months ago) Permalink
I considered casting for Nothing's Shocking, but I got into Ritual first and it massively overshadows it for me.
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 23 November 2009 20:01 (9 months ago) Permalink
I probably didn't vote for it, but I'm glad it's here. Nothing's Shocking blaring out of a boombox and me standing around while my friends skated a half-pipe = my 1988.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 23 November 2009 20:03 (9 months ago) Permalink
I have this on cassette somewhere.
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 23 November 2009 20:11 (9 months ago) Permalink
Def Leppard - Pyromania (80 points, 6 votes, 1 first place vote)
The only Def Leppard album I still listen to consistently, this album sizzles with poetic darkness in a rock and roll pop sensibility. Call it a metal record if you must, but its carries a lot less heaviness and a lot more depth than meets the eye. Disregard "Photograph" because its the odd one out on this record. But look at some of the excellent tracks like "Too Late for Love", the ever-famous "Foolin", "Comin'Under Fire", "Billy's Got a Gun", and my personal favorite "Die Hard the Hunted" which has very interesting lyrics. The whole record also carries the quintessential element of a large chorus. So am I right, or am I just full of shit in my early 80s metal nostalgia?
― Luptune Pitman, 13. lokakuuta 2001 3:00
Luptune can I call you Chuck? My French friend was into Def Leppard, she did a gymnastics routine to "Pour Some Sugar On Me." She had a badge of Def Leppard on her army bag. She had Das Kapital in her house. And in late breaking news, today I saw some 18 year olds in a late model Ford Escort unfitted with a big bass speaker listening to Def Leppard quite loudly.
― maryann, 15. lokakuuta 2001 3:00
Hysteria was the betrayal album. Pyromania was hybrid. Pyromania was where the Leps managed to take the screaming Gibsons and football terrance chants and deftly fuse them with honest-to-goodness pop songs, forging a guilded ladder from the barbed-wire dungeon of the N.W.O.B.H.M. to :::gasp::: radio/video airplay. Hysteria was the Leps after they'd been uprooted, de-fanged, neutered and hollowed out, leaving only their sickly candy shell....their metal meat extracted and discarded. Pyromania had them scoring hits without sacrificing their bite. Hysteria had them jettisoning bite in search of further hits (which, unfortunatley, worked). Pyromania is Def Lppard's Night Time. Hysteria is their Brighter Than a Thousand Suns.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), 11. kesäkuuta 2005 10:38
― Tuomas, Monday, 23 November 2009 20:13 (9 months ago) Permalink
Whoops, sorry, that should read:
94. Def Leppard - Pyromania (80 points, 6 votes, 1 first place vote)
Assuming this is #94?
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 23 November 2009 20:14 (9 months ago) Permalink
okay.
I feel the lack of autogoon involvement is going to severely hurt this poll. Also who are the people in the first picture Tuomas? I don't get 80s sitcom references.
― 9-1 never forget (a hoy hoy), Monday, 23 November 2009 20:16 (9 months ago) Permalink
my ballot without ranking (12/30 in top 100)
70 Laurie Anderson - Big Science72 The Chills - Kaleidoscope WorldLloyd Cole and the Commotions - RattlesnakesThe Cure - Seventeen SecondsThe Durutti Column - LCBrian Eno - Ambient 4: On Land52 Brian Eno / David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of GhostsThe Feelies - The Good EarthPeter Gabriel - Passion49 The Go-Betweens - 16 Lovers LaneGun Club - Fire of LoveThe House of Love - s/t18 Joy Division - Closer90 Meat Puppets - Meat Puppets IINew Order - MovementMary Margaret O'Hara - Miss AmericaPenguin Cafe Orchestra - Broadcasting from Home10 Pixies - DoolittleLou Reed - New York71 Roxy Music - AvalonMichelle Shocked - The Texas Campfire Tapes34 The Smiths - Hatful of HollowThe Smiths - The World Won't ListenTalk Talk - The Colour of Spring14 Talk Talk - Spirit of EdenTalking Heads - The Name of This Band Is Talking HeadsTears for Fears - Songs from the Big Chair79 The The - Soul MiningWipers - Youth of America29 Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth
― alex in mainhattan, Thursday, 3 December 2009 17:02 (9 months ago) Permalink
This is the geeky chart I've been wanting to make:
Shows that the distribution of points per album follows basically a power-law distribution with a long tail, as would be expected.
― o. nate, Thursday, 3 December 2009 17:08 (9 months ago) Permalink
Thanks, Tuomas! For the stats too! My ballot:
1. The Clash - Sandinista!2. Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime3. Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back4. Hüsker Dü - Zen Arcade5. Prince and the Revolution - Purple Rain6. Hüsker Dü - New Day Rising7. The Replacements - Let It Be8. Madonna - s/t9. Black Flag - Damaged (biggest surprise no-show; and I'd stack the best of Slip It In against anything else here)10. U2 - War11. Dr. Alimantado - Born For a Purpose / Sons of Thunder12. The Shop Assistants - Will Anything Happen?/s/t13. Run-D.M.C. - Raising Hell14. Prince and the Revolution - Parade15. De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising16. Fugazi - 13 Songs17. Big Audio Dynamite - Megatop Phoenix18. Run-D.M.C. - Tougher Than Leather19. Boogie Down Productions - Ghetto Music: The Blueprint of Hip Hop (also loved half of By All Means Necessary)20. Sam Cooke - Live at the Harlem Square Club 196321. Brian Eno / David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts22. The Pogues - Rum, Sodomy & the Lash23. Prince - 1999 (I need to reconnect with my Prince love)24. The Smiths - The Queen is Dead25. Talking Heads - Remain in Light (two songs great enough to make me vote the whole album)26. Van Halen - 198427. Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA28. Various - Indestructible Beat of Soweto, Vol. 129. Michael Jackson - Thriller30. Minutemen - The Punch Line (demoted strategically)
― Pete Scholtes, Thursday, 3 December 2009 17:11 (9 months ago) Permalink
Tuomas that is awesome!
Some trivia:-- There were 88 #1 votes (unordered ballots obv don't count here).-- There were 2756 single votes in total, corresponding to about 91.87 voters with 30 albums each. (Of course some voters submitted a lower number of votes.)-- There were 27914 points given in total, corresponding to about 93.05 voters with 300 points each.-- 56 of the 567 nominated albums (9.88%) received no votes.-- 92 albums got singleton votes. Of these, only one was a #1 vote; One Thousand Years of Trouble by Age of Chance. I have my suspicions abt who... :)
The graph of points by increasing rank looks like this (basically o. nate's histogram grained up and flipped), its overall shape not unexpected:
This is the scatterplot of points (y axis) vs number of votes (x axis):
Note the convex tendency (ie it seems to grow faster than linearly in general), indicating that albums loved by many also tend to be strongly loved.
If we remove the albums that only got one vote, the top ten by average score are:1. The Fall - The Wonderful and Frightening World of the Fall (75p/3v/25avg)2. Units - Digital Stimulation (50p/2v/25avg)3. Slapp Happy - Acnalbasac Noom (74p/3v/24.67avg)4=. Fishbone - Truth and Soul (48p/2v/24avg)4=. Laurie Spiegel - The Expanding Universe (48p/2v/24avg)6. Pat Metheny & Ornette Coleman - Song X (44p/2v/22avg)7. Kate Bush - The Dreaming (269p/13v/20.69avg)8. Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime (300p/15v/20avg)9. The Clash - Sandinista! (211p/11v/19.18avg)10. Daryl Hall & John Oates - Private Eyes (38p/2v/19avg)
― anatol_merklich, Thursday, 3 December 2009 17:15 (9 months ago) Permalink
For those who just want 101-200, without tiebreaking:
101. The Fall - The Wonderful and Frightening World of the Fall (75 points)102. N.W.A - Straight Outta Compton (74 points)102. Slapp Happy - Acnalbasac Noom (74 points)102. The Smiths - Meat Is Murder (74 points)105. The Cure - Standing on a Beach / Staring at the Sea: The Singles (73 points)105. The Mekons - The Mekons Rock 'n' Roll (73 points)107. Sinéad O'Connor - The Lion and the Cobra (72 points)107. The Pretenders - s/t (72 points)107. Throwing Muses - s/t (72 points)110. Simple Minds - New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) (69 points)111. Nirvana - Bleach (68 points)112. Def Leppard - Hysteria (67 points)113. ESG - Come Away with ESG (66 points)113. Malcolm McLaren - Duck Rock (66 points)113. Spacemen 3 - Playing with Fire (66 points)113. Talk Talk - The Colour of Spring (66 points)113. This Heat - Deceit (66 points)118. Aztec Camera - High Land, Hard Rain (65 points)118. John Cale - Music for a New Society (65 points)118. Cocteau Twins - Head Over Heels (65 points)121. The Durutti Column - The Return of the Durutti Column (64 points)121. Metallica - Master of Puppets (64 points)123. Pet Shop Boys - Introspective (63 points)123. Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones (63 points)123. Yazoo - Upstairs at Eric's (63 points)123. Neil Young - Freedom (63 points)127. Fleetwood Mac - Tango in the Night (62 points)128. Butthole Surfers - Psychic...Powerless...Another Man's Sac (61 points)128. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Darklands (61 points)130. Big Black - Songs About Fucking (60 points)130. Mission of Burma - Mission of Burma (Rykodisc compilation) (60 points)132. The Fall - Perverted by Language (58 points)132. Scott Walker - Climate of Hunter (58 points)134. Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill (57 points)134. Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Imperial Bedroom (57 points)134. Japan - Gentlemen Take Polaroids (57 points)134. This Mortal Coil - It'll End in Tears (57 points)138. Cardiacs - A Little Man and a House and the Whole World Window (56 points)138. Duran Duran - Rio (56 points)140. Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Mambo Nassau (55 points)140. Fugazi - 13 Songs (55 points)140. Peter Gabriel - 3 (55 points)143. Glenn Branca - The Ascension (54 points)143. Dexy's Midnight Runners - Don't Stand Me Down (54 points)143. Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense (54 points)143. Talking Heads - The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads (54 points)143. Richard & Linda Thompson - Shoot Out the Lights (54 points)148. Camper Van Beethoven - Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart (53 points)148. Devo - Freedom of Choice (53 points)148. Peter Gabriel - So (53 points)148. Jon Hassell / Brian Eno - Fourth World, Vol.1: Possible Musics (53 points)148. INXS - Kick (53 points)153. The Birthday Party - Prayers on Fire (52 points)153. The Blue Nile - Hats (52 points)153. Coil - Horse Rotorvator (52 points)153. Slick Rick - The Great Adventures of Slick Rick (52 points)153. John Zorn - Naked City (52 points)158. Sam Cooke - Live at the Harlem Square Club 1963 (51 points)158. The Replacements - Tim (51 points)158. XTC - Black Sea (51 points)161. The Fall - Grotesque (After the Gramme) (50 points)161. The Housemartins - London 0 Hull 4 (50 points)161. Slayer - Reign in Blood (50 points)161. Swans - Children of God (50 points)161. Units - Digital Stimulation (50 points)166. American Music Club - California (48 points)166. Bauhaus - In the Flat Field (48 points)166. Butthole Surfers - Locust Abortion Technician (48 points)166. Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Blood & Chocolate (48 points)166. Fishbone - Truth and Soul (48 points)166. Janet Jackson - Control (48 points)166. Mary Margaret O'Hara - Miss America (48 points)166. Laurie Spiegel - The Expanding Universe (48 points)174. Big Audio Dynamite - Megatop Phoenix (47 points)174. The Cure - The Head on the Door (47 points)174. Gang of Four - Solid Gold (47 points)174. Magazine - The Correct Use of Soap (47 points)178. The Cure - Seventeen Seconds (46 points)178. Madonna - s/t (46 points)178. New Order - Movement (46 points)178. They Might Be Giants - Lincoln (46 points)178. XTC - English Settlement (46 points)183. A.R. Kane - 69 (45 points)183. The Pogues - If I Should Fall from Grace with God (45 points)183. R.E.M. - Document (45 points)183. The Teardrop Explodes - Kilimanjaro (45 points)187. The Blue Nile - A Walk Across the Rooftops (44 points)187. Eric B. & Rakim - Follow the Leader (44 points)187. Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) (44 points)187. Joy Division - Substance (44 points)187. Pat Metheny & Ornette Coleman - Song X (44 points)187. Swell Maps - In “Jane from Occupied Europe” (44 points)193. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Architecture & Morality (43 points)193. Tom Tom Club - s/t (43 points)193. The Traveling Wilburys - Vol. 1 (43 points)196. Propaganda - A Secret Wish (42 points)196. Sonny Sharrock - Guitar (42 points)196. Bruce Springsteen - The River (42 points)199. Bad Brains - s/t (41 points)199. Janet Jackson - Rhythm Nation 1814 (41 points)199. King Crimson - Discipline (41 points)199. The Smiths - Strangeways, Here We Come (41 points)199. Van Halen - 1984 (41 points)
― Biodegradable (Derelict), Thursday, 3 December 2009 17:21 (9 months ago) Permalink
nobody else voted for the texas campfire tapes, that is quite unbelievable. same thing with the penguin cafe orchestra. i am sure there are ilmers around who love those two. another proof that there were not enough voters. i am also speechless about the bad performance of the good earth (15 points, ten from me) as it is so much better than the lackluster crazy rhythms and passion with only 16 points (ten from me), the phantastic peter gabriel world music soundtrack to the scorsese film the last temptation of christ. actually i think it is as good as my life in the bush of ghosts which i voted for too.
― alex in mainhattan, Thursday, 3 December 2009 17:22 (9 months ago) Permalink
This thread is getting too geeky for even me
― ILX Blob 59 (Tom D.), Thursday, 3 December 2009 17:22 (9 months ago) Permalink
So of the top 40, only those by Public Enemy, Prince, Kate Bush, The Smiths, Minutemen, Guns 'n' Roses and Husker Du have not had remasters and/or deluxe editions in recent years, not counting that Smiths singles comp. I thought PE were supposed to come out over a year ago, not sure what happened. Is Computer World not available separately from the box set?
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 3 December 2009 17:37 (9 months ago) Permalink
What was the album that got one #1 vote and nothing else?
(Re my suggestion about points to take account of numbers of votes, which some of you manfully picked up and ran with - I just wanted to say that I think Tuomas got his points exactly right on this poll. I'm not happy when the #1 scores ten times what the #10 gets, but it's fair that it should score ten times the #30. In a broad field making #10 is a decent achievement and deserves a bit of kudos in my view)
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 3 December 2009 18:02 (9 months ago) Permalink
1. Thanks, Tuomas!!
2. Thank you to everyone who voted for my nominees. I think it was only Drama in the end that only I voted for.
3. Apologies for being lazy and re-submitting my '05 ballot for this poll. If I'd voted for Mutant Disco, as I should, it might have scraped the top 100. 4. My ballot (ordered) (13/30) :
Kate Bush - The DreamingYes - Drama Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Mambo NassauSteve Reich - TehillimCocteau Twins - TreasureOMD - Dazzle ShipsJustified Ancients of MuMu - 1987 (What the Fuck's Going On?) Talking Heads - Remain In LightPretenders - PretendersA Certain Ratio - SextetJoy Division - CloserScritti Politti - Cupid and Psyche ‘85David Byrne and Brian Eno - My Life In The Bush Of GhostsThe Beat - I Just Can't Stop ItSqueeze - East Side StoryThrowing Muses - s/t Was (Not Was) - s/t Dexys Midnight Runners - Don't Stand Me DownJulee Cruise - Floating into the NightMalcolm McLaren - Duck RockStevie Wonder - Hotter Than July Durutti Column - Return of the Durutti ColumnRush - Moving PicturesKraftwerk - Computer WorldPeter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel 4 The Clash - Sandinista!Young Marble Giants - Colossal YouthThe Teardrop Explodes - KilimanjaroMy Bloody Valentine - Isn't AnythingThe Smiths - Hatful of Hollow
― Jeff W, Thursday, 3 December 2009 18:09 (9 months ago) Permalink
That would be: Age of Chance - One Thousand Years of Trouble
(well, that's the first one on Tuomas's spreadsheet that meets the criteria at least)
― Jeff W, Thursday, 3 December 2009 18:13 (9 months ago) Permalink
Yup, that's the only one (as noted in my geekypost up there). Besides there were two 2nd place singletons (Willie Rosario - The Salsa Machine and indeed Drama) and three 3rds (Gun Club - The Las Vegas Story, Héctor Lavoie - Strikes Back, Midnight Oil - Red Sails in the Sunset).
― anatol_merklich, Thursday, 3 December 2009 18:22 (9 months ago) Permalink
On another day I would have voted for Gun Club - The Las Vegas Story.
― Dan S, Thursday, 3 December 2009 18:24 (9 months ago) Permalink
Ha, I really thought the first place singleton would be mine, but no. Whoever else voted for the Units, I salute you.
― brett favre vs bernard fevre, fite (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 3 December 2009 18:29 (9 months ago) Permalink
My ballot...1 - Thomas Dolby - The Golden Age of Wireless [93]2 - ABC - The Lexicon of Love [35]3 - Scritti Politti - Cupid & Psyche 85 [69]4 - Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden [14]5 - Peter Gabriel - 4 / Security 6 - XTC - Skylarking [48]7 - Talking Heads - Remain in Light [1]8 - Joe Jackson - Night and Day9 - Kate Bush - The Dreaming [17]10 - Michael Jackson - Thriller [9]11 - Roxy Music - Avalon [71]12 - Marshall Crenshaw - s/t 13 - The Cure - Disintegration [24]14 - New Order - Technique [16]15 - Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen [66]16 - Simple Minds - New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) [110]17 - Cyndi Lauper - She's So Unusual [75]18 - Madonna - s/t [178-ish]19 - Adam and the Ants - Kings of the Wild Frontier (surprised this didn't even make top 200, given several mentions in this thread)20 - Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues [84]21 - Tom Tom Club - s/t [193-ish]22 - Prince - 1999 [32]23 - XTC - English Settlement [178-ish]24 - Depeche Mode - Black Celebration (again, surprised this didn't make top 200)25 - Donald Fagen - The Nightfly [65]26 - The Smiths - The Queen is Dead [11]27 - Cocteau Twins - Treasure [63]28 - New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies [68]29 - Kraftwerk - Computer World [8]30 - Peter Gabriel - 3 [140-ish]
― Paul in Santa Cruz, Thursday, 3 December 2009 18:38 (9 months ago) Permalink
Another piece of trivia -- albums with more than one vote scoring the minimum average possible (4 points):
Linton Kwesi Johnson - Making History (3 votes)Fingers Inc. - Another Side (2 votes)Funkadelic - The Electric Spanking of War Babies (2 votes)Billy Idol - Rebel Yell (2 votes)Napalm Death - Scum (2 votes)
― anatol_merklich, Thursday, 3 December 2009 18:43 (9 months ago) Permalink
Hey whoever it was that voted for Red Sails in the Sunset -- I salute you. That album is lush.
― mojitos (a cocktail) (Cave17Matt), Thursday, 3 December 2009 18:50 (9 months ago) Permalink
The only album I was alone in voting for was Abacab. Sort of surprised nobody else went for this! In general, very few 1-vote albums. Compilations tended to do quite poorly in points/vote; e.g. Standing on the Beach actually had more votes than KMKMKM or Pornography.
Diesel and Dust is another strange absence from the nom list.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 3 December 2009 19:18 (9 months ago) Permalink
If anyone makes the drive from Minneapolis to Madison, there's a pristine vinyl copy of The Dreaming for $5 at an antique store in Osseo next to the Norske Nook. I'll pick it up if it's still there in a month, never heard it.
― Pete Scholtes, Thursday, 3 December 2009 20:09 (9 months ago) Permalink
Mmm, Norske Nook.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 3 December 2009 20:15 (9 months ago) Permalink
I'll get there first from here and score that vinyl, then relax by eating some delicious blackberry pie at the Nook. Thanks for the tip!
― mojitos (a cocktail) (Cave17Matt), Thursday, 3 December 2009 20:16 (9 months ago) Permalink
I've aggregated the votes by artist (as requested upthread):
1 Prince 13122 The Smiths 8033 Talking Heads 7634 Sonic Youth 7305 Kate Bush 7196 R.E.M. 7117 The Cure 6808 New Order 6269 Pixies 59610 Public Enemy 49111 The Fall 48512 Hüsker Dü 38013 Bruce Springsteen 36614 Michael Jackson 35015 Beastie Boys 34816 Talk Talk 34017 Kraftwerk 33818 The Replacements 33819 The Jesus and Mary Chain 31720 Minutemen 31521 Joy Division 29922 Scraping Foetus off the Wheel 26723 XTC 26424 Paul Simon 23725 Pet Shop Boys 23626 My Bloody Valentine 22927 The Human League 21928 The Mekons 21629 The Clash 21130 Cocteau Twins 21031 Dexy’s Midnight Runners 20232 Guns N' Roses 20133 The Stone Roses 20134 Young Marble Giants 20035 Tom Waits 18136 The Go-Betweens 17637 Meat Puppets 17538 ABC 17339 Brian Eno 16740 De La Soul 16441 Peter Gabriel 16442 Spacemen 3 16243 U2 16044 Elvis Costello and the Attractions 15845 Eric B. & Rakim 15546 Manuel Göttsching 15447 X 14848 Def Leppard 14749 The Feelies 14650 Dinosaur Jr. 145
― FIFA Brutish & Short (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Thursday, 3 December 2009 20:53 (9 months ago) Permalink
That top 10 is ridiculously OTM
― Huckabee Jesus lifeline (HI DERE), Thursday, 3 December 2009 21:00 (9 months ago) Permalink
31 Dexy’s Midnight Runners 20232 Guns N' Roses 20133 The Stone Roses 20134 Young Marble Giants 20035 Tom Waits 18136 The Go-Betweens 17637 Meat Puppets 17538 ABC 17339 Brian Eno 16740 De La Soul 16441 Peter Gabriel 16442 Spacemen 3 16243 U2 160
LOL
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Thursday, 3 December 2009 21:03 (9 months ago) Permalink
i'd swap pixies for the fall, but otherwise yeah.
― hellzapoppa (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 3 December 2009 21:05 (9 months ago) Permalink
the lackluster crazy rhythms How you like your suggest ban NOW, jerkface?
J/K.
Here's my ballot:40 Camper Van Beethoven - Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart30 The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms25 Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Blood & Chocolate20 XTC - Oranges & Lemons15 Camper Van Beethoven - Key Lime Pie11 XTC - Black Sea11 The Smiths - Louder Than Bombs11 Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Imperial Bedroom11 Billy Bragg - Talking with the Taxman About Poetry11 The Pogues - If I Should Fall from Grace with God8 The Feelies - Only Life8 Hüsker Dü - Zen Arcade8 The Replacements - Pleased to Meet Me8 Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me8 XTC - Skylarking6 Iron Maiden - Powerslave6 R.E.M. - Green6 Pixies - Doolittle6 The English Beat - I Just Can't Stop It6 Talking Heads - Remain in Light5 Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking5 R.E.M. - Reckoning5 Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique5 Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - Doc at the Radar Station5 Bad Brains - I Against I4 Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation4 Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth4 Talking Heads - The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads4 Tom Waits - Rain Dogs4 The Cure - Disintegration
Order is somewhat arbitrary, altho I'll rep for it in the main. Should have voted Sister instead of Daydream Nation (not sure what I was thinking) and if I'd swapped my votes for Blood and Chocolate and Imperial Bedroom (as could easily have been the case on a different day in a different mood) the latter would have made Top 100.
― I've got some funny ideas about what sounds good (staggerlee), Friday, 4 December 2009 02:26 (8 months ago) Permalink
Tim is the 158th best album of the 80s, eh?
― john. a resident of chicago., Friday, 4 December 2009 02:52 (8 months ago) Permalink
― ILX Blob 59 (Tom D.), Thursday, December 3, 2009 12:22 PM Bookmark
^^^
still great though! Thanks Tuomas.
Can't believe "In 3-D" by Weird Al did so poorly! Thought for sure it was going to place. :(
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 4 December 2009 04:32 (8 months ago) Permalink
I'll get there first from here and score that vinyl
Go straight all the way to the very back room and take a right, you'll be looking for hours otherwise. Hounds of Love is there too but looks scratchy.
― Pete Scholtes, Friday, 4 December 2009 05:23 (8 months ago) Permalink
Tuomas, you did a fantastic job running this poll. Thanks!
My ballot:
1. Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine2. Stone Roses - Stone Roses3. New Order - Technique4. Smiths - Hatful of Hollow5. My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything6. Kraftwerk - Computer World7. Joy Division - Closer8. INXS - Kick9. Galaxie 500 - Today10. Depeche Mode - Music For The Masses11. Def Leppard - Hysteria12. New Order - Substance13. Glenn Branca -- The Ascension14. Inner City -- Paradise15. Art Of Noise - (Who's Afraid Of?) The Art Of Noise!16. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation17. Spacemen 3 - Sound of Confusion18. Chameleons - Strange Times19. Cure, The - Disintegration20. Tears For Fears - Songs From The Big Chair21. Various - Techno! The New Dance Sound of Detroit22. New Order - Power Corruption and Lies23. Spacemen 3 - The Perfect Prescription24. Prince - Purple Rain25. Cure, The - Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me26. Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden27. Traveling Wilburys - Vol. 128. Pet Shop Boys - Introspective29. Smiths - The Queen Is Dead30. Ministry - The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Friday, 4 December 2009 08:38 (8 months ago) Permalink
30. Ministry - The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste
Aww, I overlooked this when voting!
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 4 December 2009 08:53 (8 months ago) Permalink
here is mine:
1. The Cure – Disintegration 2. The Stone Roses - s/t 3. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Darklands 4. New Order – Technique 5. Tears for Fears - The Hurting 6. Roxy Music – Avalon 7. Steely Dan - Gaucho 8. The House of Love - s/t 9. Joy Division – Closer 10. The Cure – Pornography 11. My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything 12. The Cult - Love 13. Killing Joke - Night Time 14. Spacemen 3 - Sound of Confusion 15. The Smiths - Hatful of Hollow 16. The Church – Starfish 17. Tones on Tail – Pop 18. The Cure - The Head on the Door 19. Violent Femmes - s/t 20. Prince and the Revolution - Purple Rain 21. Bauhaus - Burning from the Inside 22. New Order - Low-Life 23. Yazoo - Upstairs at Eric's 24. The Pretenders - s/t 25. Duran Duran – Rio 26. Pixies - Doolittle 27. The Pogues - Rum, Sodomy & the Lash 28. Madonna - Like a Virgin 29. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation 30. The Sisters of Mercy - First and Last and Always
― Bee OK, Saturday, 5 December 2009 02:57 (8 months ago) Permalink
My ballot, with the ones that didn't place bolded:
1. Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden2. New Order - Technique 3. The Gun Club - The Las Vegas Story 4. The Cure - Pornography 5. Cocteau Twins - Treasure 6. Simple Minds - New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) 7. The Gun Club - Fire of Love8. Joy Division - Closer 9. This Mortal Coil - It'll End in Tears 10. Thomas Mapfumo and the Blacks Unlimited - Corruption 11. Kate Bush - Hounds of Love12. Madonna - Like a Prayer 13. Various - Indestructible Beat of Soweto, Vol. 114. New Order - Movement 15. Sinéad O'Connor - The Lion and the Cobra16. R.E.M. - Reckoning17. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Your Funeral...My Trial18. The Cure - Disintegration 19. The Sisters of Mercy - Floodland20. The Chameleons - Script of the Bridge21. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy 22. Eyeless in Gaza - Caught in Flux23. U2 - The Unforgettable Fire24. R.E.M. - Green 25. Prince and the Revolution - Purple Rain 26. Michael Jackson - Thriller27. The Smiths - Hatful of Hollow 28. Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska29. The Pogues - Rum, Sodomy & the Lash 30. Cocteau Twins - Head Over Heels
Genuinely surprised at the lack of Gun Club love on ILM. But great poll, a lot of fun, and much thanks to Tuomas for doing this.
― Lostandfound, Saturday, 5 December 2009 05:04 (8 months ago) Permalink
The Las Vegas Story is the best of their records, imo. the wild, sharp, emotional vocals take it over the top
― Dan S, Saturday, 5 December 2009 07:02 (8 months ago) Permalink
Yet another stat-trivia post hurrah!
The four non-Top-100 albums that got double digit votes (and would thus make Top 71 if #votes was the criterion:
1. N.W.A - Straight Outta Compton (74p / 11v / 6.73avg)2. The Smiths - Meat Is Murder (74p / 10v / 7.4 avg)3. The Cure - Standing on a Beach / Staring at the Sea: The Singles (73p / 10v / 7.3avg)4. Metallica - Master of Puppets (64p / 10v / 6.4avg)
― anatol_merklich, Saturday, 5 December 2009 10:13 (8 months ago) Permalink
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― anatol_merklich, Saturday, 5 December 2009 10:14 (8 months ago) Permalink
I'm pleased to see Meat Is Murder get some recognition. I think it's their best, but no-one else seems to.
― Ismael Klata, Saturday, 5 December 2009 10:21 (8 months ago) Permalink
Yello clearly robbed btw, but that probably happened in nomination process. Stella!!
― anatol_merklich, Saturday, 5 December 2009 10:40 (8 months ago) Permalink
It was kinda hard to decide whether I should nominate Stella or One Second or You Gotta Say Yes to Another Excess, as I think they're all equally good. I guess if I'd nominated Stella it might've gotten more votes.
― Tuomas, Saturday, 5 December 2009 10:46 (8 months ago) Permalink
Can't be arsed going through the whole artists list but Brian Eno earns 911 points for all his contributions.
― go in go hard brother (Billy Dods), Saturday, 5 December 2009 12:45 (8 months ago) Permalink
hey hey it's my ballot why not
#1: Paul Simon - Graceland#2: Daryl Hall & John Oates - Private Eyes #3: The Smiths - Louder Than Bombs#4: The Traveling Wilburys - Vol. 1#5: R.E.M. - Murmur#6: Pixies - Surfer Rosa #7: They Might Be Giants - Lincoln#8: Pylon - Gyrate #9: Michael Jackson - Thriller#10: R.E.M. - Fables of the Reconstruction#11: "Weird Al" Yankovic - In 3-D #12: The B-52's - Cosmic Thing #13: Paul McCartney - Tug of War #14: Peter Gabriel - 3#15: R.E.M. - Reckoning#16: R.E.M. - Lifes Rich Pageant #17: Adam and the Ants - Kings of the Wild Frontier #18: Klark Kent - s/t #19: The Smiths - Strangeways, Here We Come #20: Laurie Anderson - Big Science #21: Stevie Wonder - Hotter Than July #22: Kraftwerk - Computer World #23: Pixies - Doolittle#24: The B-52's - Wild Planet#25: Buggles - Adventures in Modern Recording
I knew a bunch of those were pretty long shots and I admit a few are just things I kinda like, and not necessarily sincerely offered as the 21st best album of the decade or whatever - - but I guess I am naive enough to be surprised that the Ants, the Traveling Wilburys, and Hall & Oates didn't make it. Oh well! Thanks once again Tuomas. I'm looking forward, as I said above, to having broadband again and checking out all these unfamiliar things. I guess I really do need to pick up some dollar Prince records though...
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 5 December 2009 17:07 (8 months ago) Permalink
And Weird Al! Come on, people!
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 5 December 2009 17:09 (8 months ago) Permalink
ha, cool to see someone else that voted for Weird Al and Klark Kent and Cosmic Thing and Lincoln
― some dude, Saturday, 5 December 2009 18:22 (8 months ago) Permalink
why'd you stop at 25 though?
― some dude, Saturday, 5 December 2009 18:23 (8 months ago) Permalink
Ha, those are practically the only 25 albums on the nom list that I've heard! (Well, not really, but the remainder were ones I couldn't quite muster a vote for.)
Cosmic Thing is really underrated I think - hell of a hook-packed, fun comeback album considering what the band had been through and lost. The singles alone justify it, but there's lots of great stuff in there - "Deadbeat Club," "Channel Z," "Junebug" - damn fine record.
Lincoln is also totally great - although I've never actually heard just the album, since I got it as part of that two-disc Then set, where the album segues straight into the b-sides/EP material. So I think I subconsciously give Lincoln the points for "Nightgown of the Sullen Moon," "It's Not My Birthday" etc. The main album tracks are about as good as the band ever did though!
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 6 December 2009 10:00 (8 months ago) Permalink
Blasting the Suburbs's In Combo in honor of guitarist Bruce Allen, who died this week. This probably isn't the only bit of awesomeness that utterly slipped my mind in the nominations process, but it's the one voters in this poll would seem to dig.
― Pete Scholtes, Friday, 11 December 2009 02:56 (8 months ago) Permalink
I'll check it out in his honor.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 11 December 2009 03:00 (8 months ago) Permalink
I would take any of those Butthole Surfers nominations, which I didn't vote for and which I never listen to any more, over 3/4 of the rock that ended up on this list. Reminded by: Turn back the hands of time. . . drifting into my head out of nowhere.
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 11 December 2009 07:05 (8 months ago) Permalink
Man, I can't believe I forgot to nominate Billy Joel's Greatest Hits I & II.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 11 December 2009 11:27 (8 months ago) Permalink
Man, I can't believe I forgot to nominate the Original Broadway Cast Recording of Cats!.
― I was in a drop-D metal band we called Requiem (staggerlee), Saturday, 12 December 2009 01:00 (8 months ago) Permalink