Now this is how it started: THE ILX 1980s ALBUM POLL RESULTS!!

I can see Thriller in the top 10, but I think Bad will struggle to somewhere in the 20s.

You think Bad will make it at all?!? Yikes.

I suspect Bad will not be on the list at all. And I agree, can't see Daydream Nation as number 1. Maybe Prince of the Smiths or PE though.

xp

closer will be in the top 5. and i am not sure if surfer rosa will be in front of doolittle. what about madonna and the beastie boys? they will both be in the top ten, i guess. daydream nation won't be no. 1 because it is shite and ilm knows it.

Disintegration, Closer, Hounds Of Love, Purple Rain and Appetite for Destruction will all be pretty high eh? Vote splitting will dash Talk Talk's chances. Shock win for the Alarm might still happen though.

Not to mention Oingo Boingo.

list is pretty rad so far - good job dudes - its order is pretty o_O but whatevs

thanks for yr seal of approval

Where is Depeche Mode in this?

Were they even nominated? I don't remember seeing them on the list. Their stock is low.

Several Depeche Mode albums were nominated, though I'm not sure if anybody cares

I predict a minimum of 20 of the following 25 will appear in the top 34:

1999, Children of God, Closer, Computer World, Daydream Nation, Disintegration, Doolittle, In the Flat Field, Isn't Anything, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, Murmur, Music for the Masses, Psychocandy, Purple Rain, Remain in Light, Sister, Spirit of Eden, Surfer Rosa, Swordfishtrombones, The Colour of Spring, The Queen Is Dead, The Smiths, The Stone Roses, Thriller, Tin Drum, Zen Arcade

I've pretty much given up hope for my personal favorites like Prayers on Fire, Head Over Heels, Horse Rotorvator, Halber Mensch, and Mambo Nassau appearing in the less than 9 slots remaining.

thanks for yr seal of approval

― Chillwave Is an Ill Wave (askance johnson), Saturday, November 28, 2009 1:31 PM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

o wasnt talkin abt u askance johnson

black celebration might have gotten a good number of votes maybe?

Really poor showing for metal on this list.

xpost it got one from me ;-)

Kinda depends on how many of us will deny our thrash metal years.

Master of Puppets, Ride the Lightning, Reign in Blood, and are there enough votes for Powerslave?

I didn't vote cos bollocks to that really but then I have nobody to blame that To Mega Therion won't claim a Totally Fucking Deserved spot.

I'd take a guess at Remain In Light being number one. I think most of the other bands who will be high up will suffer from split voting, especially Prince and The Smiths.

I'm still waiting on my number one which I thought would make it easily but this has been a really unpredictable list on the whole. At this stage though I can rule out a few things I voted not being included, I guess Kid Creole & The Coconuts just aren't that popular on here.

i'm predicting a very strong showing for a certain Ms. Bush

http://taszara.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/laura-bush-killed-a-guy.jpg

http://www.twolia.com/blogs/zoboxrox/files/2009/03/barbara_bush_beautiful-7557361.jpg

saw that comin

I figure Thriller and Graceland will (rightly) place highly.

And So.

so ilx will resemble a Mojo or Q list?

i have still some hopes for outsiders like house of love, rattlesnakes, youth of america (will definitely be there), fire of love (ditto), miss america (probably not) etc. to show up

House Tornado is more likely than House Of Love IMO.

Finally all of my picks are being mentioned as contenders - I'll need to check out this "Q Magazine", it sounds spiffing.

Double Nickels in the top 5 or I'm permabanning somebody at random.

i know the quotes are shite (& i'm sorry) but i'm pretty honored to be quoted for both the Fall albums that placed...esp. honored to have my quote hot on the heels of that Mark S De La Soul quote, seeing that Sinker is kind of a hero of mine and I have that whole thread saved on my PC

top three will prolley be Sign o the Times, The Queen Is Dead, and Remain in Light. Sister & Daydream Nation will prolley be on the lower end of the top 10--perhaps right next to each other??? If Surfer Rosa makes top 10 I will be very pleased, though I expect it to be #11...

If AR Kane's 69 makes the list, that wd be awesome...

I think there's a good chance Purple Rain will be towards the top of the list -- maybe higher than Sign??

maybe...my best guess would be #10 though...I'll bet Thriller will beat PR...

I am kind of surprised to see ABC place so high! I think I voted for that record. I know I put it on the other day while cooking...it's got such a good energy to carry you through any task. "Date Stamp" was the song that took me by surprise last go round, such great chemistry between the singers.

I am guessing maybe Britishers voted for it, tho, bcz everyone I know thinks it is the squarest shit ever.

Was going to say I'm surprised to see ABC place so low, TBH.

(I guessed it was more popular on ILX than in general)

your friends have bad taste.

my favorite discoveries from this thread so far have been laurie anderson, prefab spout (on the strength of two listens this seems amazing), and e2-e4, which i can see becoming my default late night/reading/scootering home at sunset soundtrack. the feelies didnt really jump out at me, and i continue to be perplexed by the love for world of echo, which still sounds to me like they left the tape running in the studio and a.r. just wandered around plucking and plonking things and humming to himself while he waited for his ride, although, full disclosure -- i dont think ive ever made it to the end. still waiting for it to click for me.

im still not sure if my #1 will make it.

Whoa, this E2-E4 thing is awesome.

downloading e2-e4 now. never so much as heard of it. youtube clips are amazing, downloading now. thx, ilm!

I had no idea that people liked ABC this much

You guys and this thread are making me so excited to get back to having broadband access. Although I think a lot of these are also pretty widely available in the $5 bin, which is sweet too.

34. The Smiths - Hatful of Hollow [1984] (173 points, 16 votes)

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'Hatful of Hollow' definitely. 'Louder than Bombs' never felt like anything other than an arbitrary collection of songs from various periods of the Smiths to me, particularly since it shares so many of the songs with 'The World Won't Listen' (which I probably prefer).

The songs on 'Hatful..' all come from the same period, and mostly have the same production, thrillingly basic and brutal. It feels like a document of the first months of the Smiths, an outrageous demonstration of pure talent. It says, "We started this band last year. Since then, we've knocked out a couple of dozen classic songs. Here are our b-sides!" It feels like a proper album.

― Eyeball Kicks, 27. elokuuta 2002 18:29

But Louder than Bombs has 'Half a Person' which is about as perfect as music gets.

I dunno. The lyrics are so repetitive...

Mozz's downfall as a lyricist is that he abuses his punchlines -- instead of writing a plaintive song with one really ace punchline at the end, or writing something with MANY MANY good jokes, he just recycles the same jokes throught the song and assumes they'll be as funny/potent each time.

Hatful is my fave Smiths record -- it just sounds wonderful, a bit wirier and more postpunk-perturbed than the others.

― Jody Beth Rosen, 27. elokuuta 2002 20:05

Louder than Bombs was a compilation for the American market, wasn't it? I am not even 100% sure if I have it, I guess yes, but bloody hell it's a compilation.
Hatful of Hollow is my second favourite Smiths album after The World Won't Listen (which is a comp as well but a comp which flows better than 99,9% of all albums ever released). Hatful basically is only second as it is too short and doesn't represent the Smiths well enough.
But it has this garage sound (B-sides!) and my favourite Smiths song Girl Afraid which really was an obsession around 1985 (I came late to the party as so often) for me. On Hatful The Smiths sound so unpolished and rough. It is the least typical Smiths album and that's why I love it. The freshest of their albums. Like Boy was for U2.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), 27. elokuuta 2002 21:15

I listen to Hatful of Hollow more than any other Smiths album.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), 28. elokuuta 2002

And here we go with the massive overratement.

fav smiths album

also morrissey was on dessert island discs this morning, would hate that dude if it werent for this record

Morrissey spent a lot of time on Dessert Island these last 20 years huh?

Those concerned this is ranking too high might consider an alternate world without vote-splitting; I don't know Hatful but threw a good-sized vote to Louder Than Bombs, one of the first five or so CDs I ever bought and jam-packed with classics. Intellectually I do kind of agree with Eyeball Kicks' quote above - LtB is miscellaneous and over-long, but it's my go-to Smiths whatnot collection and I do love it.

louder than bombs was high on my list too, def the best smiths cd imo

33. The Smiths - Louder Than Bombs [1987] (174 points, 20 votes)

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yeah it's odd, i know alot of people that really really prefer hatful to bombs and almost without fail they had/heard hatful first. suffice it to say 'sheila take a bow' is terribly special to me (terribly terribly special to me when i was fifteen), so ymmv obv. the smiths hits comps have always looked like poorly done cash-ins to me.

― j blount (papa la bas), 29. tammikuuta 2005 9:46

if someone says; "hey you like that band that morrissey was in what were they like" all that one needs do is stick louder than bombs on a tape top and tale it with this charming man and how soon is now and possibly and i keep mine hidden or jeanne just to show hey y'know i know and really it's a pretty much perfect intro to smithdom

― elwisty (elwisty), 30. tammikuuta 2005 3:14

An American compilation but a fairly regular fixture of UK HMV sales, so my first Smiths purchase and probably still the one that gets played most. Love all of the first half (my attention wanders a bit from "Golden Lights" on) but will probably vote for "Ask".

― a passing spacecadet, 1. syyskuuta 2008 13:22

What amazes me is that, 17 years after buying this on tape, a new song surprises me with a zinger I never heard, or a guitar curlicue I missed, or a rhythm more beatwise than expected. The surprise this year is "Rubber Ring," which rarely gets much love: note the cello underpinning every other verse. "Oscillate Wildly" is one of my favorite instrumentals, "Ask" is Moz oscillating wildly, with an ear to ear grin, And I wish more snark was as wise as "You Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby."

The Queen is Dead is mighty fine, but LTB is maybe all the Smiths you need own.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, 2. syyskuuta 2008 18:49

(Nice timing, don't you think?)