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

Oh yeah, I forgot to add the release year, sorry. Obviously Appetite for Destruction was released in 1987.

Americans do, because that's how it was served up. xp

xxxpost can't imagine thinking G'n'R had a shot at no.1 on a ILX 80's poll

I actually think of "Fool's Gold" as this thing aside from the Roses, that would have happened in 89/90 whether they existed or not, just kind of coalescing out of Baggy and the "Funky Drummer" break and the general pop vibe at the time.

well like 5 rad albums now

Not much to contribute here I'm afraid (hardly a peep from any of my votes so far), but I'm Spotifying Young Marble Giants just now, and whilst it's not blowing me away at all, it's definitely a fine wee record and something I'll pick up if I ever see it. Just went through Wurlitzer Jukebox, that was actually great.

Slash really never gets his due as a guitarist, but Appetite is a work of art in that respect.

xp ha maybe, but more obvious contenders nearly all have a split vote, I though Appetite might sneak through in a clear run. Plus I know nothing about what makes other people tick, that helps a lot.

Too high.

This placement is interesting since I kind of think the Stone Roses debut was kind of to the UK what AFD was to the US-- an album that seemed awfully groundbreaking and awesome to people paying attention to that kind of music, yet to outsiders it felt like refried stuff (in the case of the SRs it was 60s psych pop over trendy beats and with GNR it was Motley Crue doing Stones covers) that is still mystifying to see lionized decades later.

i hoped Appetite would at least get to the top 10. i totally think Slash gets his due, more or less, though. how many hard rock guitarists of the past 20 years are as revered?

at least it's not higher

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how many hard rock guitarists of the past 20 years are as revered?

Very few, but that's the problem. Slash gets lost in the Clapton/Hendrix/Page/Blackmore shuffle created by classicists.

Slash is on the cover of guitar hero

Slash is on the cover of Guitar Hero because he's a marketable personality. I'm just saying he gets taken for granted a lot.

well yeah of course classicists aren't gonna rep for someone whose career began in 1987, but aside from i dunno zzzz jack white or something who else since then would be their token newbie but slash?

http://barelyawakeinfrogpajamas.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/070221_buckethead.jpg

was there a zingy kfc funeral or did it just come in orig?

Johnny Lang and Doyle Bramhall II? I think they're both zzzz, but guitar mag editors seemed to worship blues licks once the spandex era folded.

(sorry to derail this into a shreddo conversation...)

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I think that was from that time when KFC where sponsoring the Arcade Fire.

i'm really unsure as to what the top 26 is gonna look like.

i hoped Appetite would at least get to the top 10

lol how much time do u spend posting to ilm????

There's definitely appreciation for that record around here. But whether or not it comes from the same people who vote in polls has now been settled publicly.

i think it's mostly going to look like the list has already looked so far (i.e. more Sonic Youth, Prince, R.E.M., Cure, Husker Du, Smiths and Talking Heads albums)

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It was my no. 2, behind Kiss Me x 3.

I doubt we're going to see any honouring of the fire at this point. (Was Killing Joke even nominated?)

you know how wmc promised to go postal if double nickels on the dime didn't go top 5? spirit of eden is my equivalent, although by 'postal' i probably mean 'not particularly bothered'

SO anxious to see when Kate Bush shows up! It would make absolutely no sense if she didn't.

one of spirit of eden or rio to be top 5. that is all i ask for, ilx.

where's new gold dream btw? is it top 25? :D

Duran Duran's Rio?

yes! there isn't another one, is there?

there are a lot of rivers in this world

i don't think double nickels will be in the top 5 but spirit of eden like closer will hopefully be in there. plus the queen is dead, daydream nation and a pixies album. sign of the times will also be up there. shit, that is already one too many.

I think Kraftwerk may do well with the renewal in interest in their back catalogue.

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I make it 6 too many.

Sorry, 5. Sign o' the Times is okay.

I'd fully expect sign of the times to win but prince might suffer vote splitting which could possibly let in joy division or kate bush or even the smiths or the pixies unless they suffer from vote splitting too.
But i still think Sign Of The Times will win.

Would be great if Kraftwerk won mind you

1. nation of millions
2. pauls boutique
3. doolittle
4-26. some other shit

Architecture & Morality should do pretty well. i wonder if both The Dreaming and HoL will still make it, i'm guessing yes.

a&d will do well in between #101 and 200, maybe. one kate bush album would be enough for me.

26. Prince - Dirty Mind [1980] (210 points, 14 votes, 1 first place vote)

http://sleevage.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/prince_dirty_mind-front-wwwfreecoversnet.jpg

Seek: "Dirty Mind" - Prince makes the new-wave/disco traffic genuinely two-way. Lots of other stuff too but that's my favourite Prince track.

Destroy: The man's own version of "Nothing Compares 2 U". Argh.

― Tom, 7. helmikuuta 2001 3:00

My only rockist objection with Dirty Mind: The complete absence of wah-wah wankery. (I don't think a token "Bambi" solo per longplayer is too much to ask, especially if it could enable the album to break the 30-minute barrier.)

― Myonga Vön Bontee, 25. helmikuuta 2008 21:06

Uh-uh. This album is PUNK. Wah-wah wankery/being over 30 minutes = not PUNK.

― The Reverend, 25. helmikuuta 2008 21:17

1)his ability to experiment within the pop form....DM doesn't really showcase any of these

I don't get this at all. How did Dirty Mind not "experiment within the pop form"?? Before it came out, "Bambi" or no "Bambi", Prince was just this disco kid who had a good Top 40 hit; it was a totally outlandish move, both musically and conceptually. There were probably precedents as far as punk-funk went (in fact, I think Rick James had invented the phrase), but Dirty Mind really didn't sound much like them, or like anybody else. It really seemed like a whole new thing at the time.

― xhuxk, 28. helmikuuta 2008 2:41

(Really, though, probably the only song on it that sounds punk is "Sister." I'm not sure what punk Prince was listening to at the time, though I wouldn't be surprised if he'd heard some Ramones. And he'd probably heard the Stones more than them. But Controversy still seemed closer to 1981 commercial dance-oriented-rock new wave, somehow.)

― xhuxk, 28. helmikuuta 2008 3:50

I really wish there was more synth pop in the list. I thought with Thomas Dolby and OMD being in low down there would be a fair bit to come. My number one is of that genre and I'm starting to think it may have missed out.

for some reason I don't think the pixies will be top 5, maybe that's because I don't like the pixies?

another prince album, yawn.

Yes but it's the best Prince album.

Dirty Mind isn't my favourite among his output, but it's hardly a yawnable album.

the only good thing about all those prince albums in the end will be that he won't win the poll due to vote-splitting, haha!

Anyway, that's it for tonight, countdown continues tomorrow.

thanks tuomas! With only 25 spots left, it seems likely that some canonical shit will actually get left off??