i voted for 'faith' as well as 'pornography' but 'faith' was always a no-hoper...yeah, between 5 and 10 sounds about right for disintegration
dude i haven't heard that swans record yet...maybe i should
― Puddle of Thudd (acoleuthic), Sunday, 29 November 2009 22:07 (fourteen years ago) link
i wouldn't give up on faith, its chances are better than those for 17 seconds for which i voted. it's a shame but there were too many good cure albums in the 80s.
― alex in mainhattan, Sunday, 29 November 2009 22:09 (fourteen years ago) link
surely underwater moonlight has to make it if a hitchcock solo album scraped the top 100, right?
I don't actually remember seeing this on the list of nominations. I almost certainly would have voted it for it had it been there. Unless I just completely missed it.
― emil.y, Sunday, 29 November 2009 22:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Children of God? It's on Spotify, but pc speakers might not do it justice.
x-posts
― The bugger in the short sleeves (NickB), Sunday, 29 November 2009 22:10 (fourteen years ago) link
i.e. it might not demolish your front room.
nice to see sister place so high - was my only #1 pick, and while i 2nd guess many of my other choices, i've got no regrets about this one. as perfect an album as sonic youth (or the decade) ever produced. and while i rated daydream nation just as highly in its day, it hasn't aged anywhere near as well. dn's gray cinderblock density is certainly impressive, as a statement, but i prefer the variety and wildness of what came before (evol too).
appetite for destruction placing in the top 30 makes me smile. would have loved to see it break the top 10, but yeah, that was never gonna happen.
plus isn't dirty mind synth-pop? at least in part?
― a dimension that can only be accessed through self-immolation (contenderizer), Sunday, 29 November 2009 22:13 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm wondering if there's any more metal/hard rock to come? Is Back In Black in with a shot? Can't think of anything else that'd make it this high up.
― Gavin in Leeds, Sunday, 29 November 2009 22:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Unfortunately I cant see Black Flag , Butthole Surfers or Swans making it now :(
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Sunday, 29 November 2009 22:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Surely Master Of Puppets and Reign In Blood will be in the next 5 places
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Sunday, 29 November 2009 22:15 (fourteen years ago) link
wow, so ultramagnetic's critical beatdown won't even chart?
― DustyLoops, Sunday, 29 November 2009 22:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Ah yeah, of course. Would like to see Slayer in there somewhere (wouldn't mind Master Of Puppets either though I didn't vote for it).
― Gavin in Leeds, Sunday, 29 November 2009 22:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Mind you, getting ilx metal fans to vote is like getting blood from a stone so no guarantees either will make it, but they should.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Sunday, 29 November 2009 22:20 (fourteen years ago) link
4 of the top 32 sounds about right for PRINCE.80's Prince still gets played all the time around my parts. It still sounds super fresh.easily the writer/producer/performer of the decade.
It feels too obvious to even bother writing it.Let me now tell you how great the sun, moon, and the stars are...
― nicky lo-fi, Sunday, 29 November 2009 22:23 (fourteen years ago) link
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dude i'm gonna be happy if 6/100 are hiphop albums
― I'll hold your boobs a little better. (a hoy hoy), Sunday, 29 November 2009 22:32 (fourteen years ago) link
I'll bet EPMD just missed.
― nicky lo-fi, Sunday, 29 November 2009 22:33 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm really nervous about the Beastie Boys. If it's on the list, I'm glad it's doing better than I thought.
2 of my favorites I'm starting to give up on are TMBG and the Pyschedelic Furs.
― nicky lo-fi, Sunday, 29 November 2009 22:38 (fourteen years ago) link
i think hiphop will be better represented than country and metal somehowxposts
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Sunday, 29 November 2009 22:39 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah but country and metal suck
― I'll hold your boobs a little better. (a hoy hoy), Sunday, 29 November 2009 22:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Its pretty funny there is no metal (G&R aside so far) considering at one point in the 80s, it was all about the hair metal - Bon Jovi, Poison, Europe, G&R, Metallica...
― hulk would smash (Trayce), Sunday, 29 November 2009 22:41 (fourteen years ago) link
And late to the party but I'm suprised at the complete "buh?" UK response to the first Femmes album. I thought it was one of those embedded 80s canon albums - it certainly has been in Australia for decades. Even little kids recognise the opening riff of "Blister".
― hulk would smash (Trayce), Sunday, 29 November 2009 22:43 (fourteen years ago) link
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i had reign in blood, psychic...powerless, the number of the beast, youth of america, born too late, ace of spades and dial 'm' for motherfucker on my list, but i dunno man. really thought theindie/punk stuff had a solid shot at the bottom end of the list - but i can't see pussy galore, the butthole surfers or even the wipers cracking the top 25.
suppose slayer, iron maiden and metallica have better odds, but i ain't got my fingers crossed...
― a dimension that can only be accessed through self-immolation (contenderizer), Sunday, 29 November 2009 22:43 (fourteen years ago) link
There's a staggering amount of huge 80s missing completely from this list (I didnt see the noms so I'm not sure what was there). Wither Ultravox, Spandau Ballet, even *cough* Genesis?
― hulk would smash (Trayce), Sunday, 29 November 2009 22:45 (fourteen years ago) link
King Crimson ffs!
― hulk would smash (Trayce), Sunday, 29 November 2009 22:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Trayce, I think everyone knows 'Blister in the Sun', but they were pretty much a one-hit wonder - as far as I'm aware, no albums ever broke through in Britain.
― emil.y, Sunday, 29 November 2009 22:46 (fourteen years ago) link
is Spandau Ballet a ilm favourite?
― I'll hold your boobs a little better. (a hoy hoy), Sunday, 29 November 2009 22:46 (fourteen years ago) link
as any fule kno ultravox were better when they had an exclamation mark, and genesis when they had a gabriel, i.e. 70's 70's 70's
lol also king crimson
― Puddle of Thudd (acoleuthic), Sunday, 29 November 2009 22:47 (fourteen years ago) link
agree w trayce that there is tons of stuff missing that i wouldn't in a million years have voted for had it been present
― a dimension that can only be accessed through self-immolation (contenderizer), Sunday, 29 November 2009 22:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah ok ok you lot, give it a rest ;P
(also I said Spandau for lols tbh)
― hulk would smash (Trayce), Sunday, 29 November 2009 22:49 (fourteen years ago) link
they were pretty much a one-hit wonder - as far as I'm aware, no albums ever broke through in Britain
Violent Femmes' legacy isn't built on actual "hit" hits. It's one of those albums that gets passed down from older sibling to younger sibling, parent to child, high school friend to middle school friend, etc.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 29 November 2009 22:51 (fourteen years ago) link
they were also played on 'collage radio.' did britain have the equivalent of this in the 80's.
― nicky lo-fi, Sunday, 29 November 2009 22:56 (fourteen years ago) link
as may have already been noted, 'Appetite For Destruction' beating 'The Stone Roses' is lolz
― mdskltr (blueski), Sunday, 29 November 2009 23:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Funny that PSB, Springsteen and The Smiths have all placed back-to-back w/o having any ties.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 29 November 2009 23:07 (fourteen years ago) link
bodes well for a Thompson Twins one-two
― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 29 November 2009 23:11 (fourteen years ago) link
that album was weird that way. i was listening to college radio when it came out and so i heard it all the time, and the small hipster-music circle at my high school all had the cassette, but it had zero mainstream/commercial presence at all. and then i got to college and it seemed like everybody had it, everybody knew all the words, and "blister in the sun" and "add it up" were on the mandatory frat-party soundtrack. i'm still not sure when/how that happened.
― hellzapoppa (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 29 November 2009 23:24 (fourteen years ago) link
It went platinum 10 years after its release.
― President Keyes, Sunday, 29 November 2009 23:39 (fourteen years ago) link
ILM 80s poll = Imagine at the end of 1980s if Sounds, Melody Maker, NME, Record Mirror, Spin, Alternative Press and Rolling Stone had a combined music poll
― djmartian, Sunday, 29 November 2009 23:39 (fourteen years ago) link
The last suprise placing (in the top 100) may be Colossal Youth at 29, and before that, Doc at the Radar Station at 45, though it seems there are at least 3 of us who rate Children of God highly. Otherwise, I'm much more interested in 101-125 than 1-25.
― Biodegradable (Derelict), Sunday, 29 November 2009 23:43 (fourteen years ago) link
surprised that anyone would be surprised by colossal youth's ranking, though doc at the radar station raised my eyebrows a bit, too
― a dimension that can only be accessed through self-immolation (contenderizer), Sunday, 29 November 2009 23:52 (fourteen years ago) link
i mean, world of echo and e2-e4 were much less a part of the (semi) mainstream indiemag consensus than colossal youth - at least in the 80s/america.
― a dimension that can only be accessed through self-immolation (contenderizer), Sunday, 29 November 2009 23:58 (fourteen years ago) link
e2-e4 seems to have an interesting role as a stepping stone between Kraftwerk & Berlin school electropop towards both 90s IDM and minimal house, though its a role that only critics seem to attest to.
― Biodegradable (Derelict), Monday, 30 November 2009 00:08 (fourteen years ago) link
heard it for the first time last night and liked it a lot. like world of echo, it seems to be one of those albums that's much more popular and well-known now that it ever was in its day. or maybe i was just reading the wrong magazines, i dunno...
― a dimension that can only be accessed through self-immolation (contenderizer), Monday, 30 November 2009 00:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Like so much else from the 80s, I knew about E2-E4 at the time from college radio play (but that station played a lot of prog., Krautrock, and electronic music).
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 30 November 2009 00:18 (fourteen years ago) link
It was largely unknown in the day (at least outside of krautrock revenant mags). I first heard of e2-e4 on a number of ambient music mailing lists in the mid-90s. Ie, krautelectronica fans postulating roots for Aphex etc.
― Biodegradable (Derelict), Monday, 30 November 2009 00:23 (fourteen years ago) link
i think there are documented stories of the first generation detroit techno guys listening to e2-e4.
― mizzell, Monday, 30 November 2009 00:26 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't know why people are saying certain entries are "too low." There's easily a couple hundred worthy albums that won't make the list at all.
Most of these probably won't make it:Orange Juice - You Can't Hide Your Love ForeverWipers - Youth Of AmericaComsat Angels - Sleep No MoreMission Of Burma - VS.The Birthday PartyThe Birthday Party - Prayers On FireKing Sunny Ade - AuraU2 - WarThis Heat - DeceitGang of Four - Solid GoldThe Au Pairs - Playing With A Different SexBad Brains - I Against I
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 30 November 2009 01:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Surely not even ILM could have a list with def leppard in it but not metallica and slayer.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 30 November 2009 02:30 (fourteen years ago) link
it boggo the mind
― a dimension that can only be accessed through self-immolation (contenderizer), Monday, 30 November 2009 02:31 (fourteen years ago) link
and i like that def leppard album. Wonder if Hysteria will make it?
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 30 November 2009 02:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Infact I'm changing it to Surely not even ILM could have a list with def leppard in it but not metallica and slayer AND AC/DC.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 30 November 2009 02:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Listening to the Feelies "Original Love" for the first time right now and it's kind of amazing -- like Peter Murphy fronting the Modern Lovers.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 30 November 2009 03:15 (fourteen years ago) link