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

in re: def leppard, they were a pop band much more than a metal band, so they pick up pop-voter votes that metallica and slayer don't. how that excuses the absence of back in black, i don't know.

(of course, it's not actually absent yet...)

I think you're right, back in black has a better chance of placing than Slayer, Maiden or even Metallica. Which would mean there's a couple of hard rock albums in the top 100 but zero metal. Which would be bizarre. The one hope slayer and metallica have is that metal dudes would probably have these albums as their 1 & 2 so they could break the top 20 despite having a fewer number of people voting for them.

20. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy [1985] (243 points, 23 votes, 1 first place vote)

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"it's not very good!"

haha no i'm sure it's pretty good, just not my thing

"they made a career of not knowing how to play guitars."

Psychocandy is utterly exhilarating sonically, on vinyl or CD.

Yes indeed. (He says while finishing listening to it.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), 29. tammikuuta 2005 8:55

I always thought the problem with Psychocandy's recording could be solved by just turning up your stereo to the point where the record started skipping, then turning it down just enough to keep the needle in the grooves. People who complain about it just aren't playing it loud enough.

― js (honestengine), 9. maaliskuuta 2006 17:58

― Ben Crazee (Ben Crazee), 22. kesäkuuta 2006 13:41 Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
ARGH, ARGH, ARGH, ARGH, ARGH!!!!

This is like the "Daddy or chips?" of my musical world.

I think I might just have to go with Psychocandy. I have listened to that several times in the past year, while I'm not sure when was the last time I dragged out Loveless. (I think I actually probably listen to Isn't Anything more regularly.) Something about the 3 minute pop format of Psychocandy is more pleasing to me in my day to day listening. It's, to me, a more successful marriage of my twin loves of bubblegum and noise.

― How does a ferret get invisible, then? (kate), 22. kesäkuuta 2006 13:45

JAMC, motherfucker. In a heartbeat. Loveless is boring, sexless waif+feedback wafts that are an anathema to rock and roll. Psychocandy IS rock and roll. As something is better than nothing, as my friend Pangloss says, a world with Psychocandy is the best of all possible worlds.

― js (honestengine), 22. kesäkuuta 2006 15:17

TOOOOOOO LOOWWWWWWWWWW but I knew it would be. This came into my life like a wave from outer space and deposited me -- well, it left me where I was, actually, but _at the time_ I was infused with this record as I have seldom been before or since. At the time I liked Darkland even better but in the end Psychocandy seems to float above time and space a little more securely.

for some reason the reversed N but non-reversed everything else on the album-cover is really annoying me

It's William Reid scratching his arse that puts me off.

what's left then?

11-19
- youth of america
- fire of love
- the name of this band is th
- reign in blood
- master of puppets
- purple rain
- surfer rosa
- hounds of love
- thriller

top 10
- daydream nation
- double nickels on the dime
- it takes a nation of millions
- sign o' the times
- paul's boutique

top 5
- the queen is dead
- doolittle
- remain in light
- closer
- spirit of eden

how many times do i have to say RIO

lol @ Psychocandy derivative placing 2 spots below Psychocandy

crutis why has 'new gold dream' not placed, i am cross and you should be too

In a just world Truth and Soul would sneak in their and surprise everyone.

new gold dream has not placed because while it is very very very very good it is not particularly relevant

;_;

I feel your pain, my beloved chameleons records suffer the same fate

oh FUCK

I spent all of 100-50 just ASSUMING that at least Strange Times would be in there.

I voted for both ST and SOTB, but probably not highly enough. ST I placed 7th. HOW is it not in the top 100? Soul In Isolation IS the 1980's!

I'll be surprised if there's no Replacements or Madonna albums in the Top 100. Victims of vote-splitting perhaps?

Also, my favourite two 80's XTC albums have gone totally MIA. English Settlement and Black Sea. Just not there at all. I bet there's a HUGE pile of records I really like within 10 of 100th place. Only a third of my ballot is due to figure, which is sad.

new gold dream hasnt placed because its by simple minds and simple minds are scum.

What about Elvis Costello? Get Happy could be top 10. Mekons Rock n Roll could be a surprise too.

Let It Be by The Replacements is a lock.

i'm a little surprised at no echo. i should've put crocodiles on my ballot, tbh.

Rio has to place! How can it not?

5 of my top 10 have placed already. Of the remaining 5, 3 will fer-sure place and the other 2 I guess are just a lot more cult than I thought (though maybe the Blue Nile could still surprise?)

xp Black Sea was the only XTC on my ballot.

Soul In Isolation? Had to google it just now, as this is the first time I've heard of it. 'Strange Times' is on spotify, so I'll check it out later.

I voted EngSett And Gethap, fwiw.

Starting to worry about No Jacket Required tbh.

glad you guys all helped out getting Just-Ice into the top 20. <3

i'm a little surprised at no echo.

Crossing my fingers for Ocean Rain in the next few. It's possible!

Rio has to place! How can it not?

I don't see that being higher than The Lexicon Of Love and Dare. I really wish more pop had made the list, no Japan, Soft Cell, Adam & the Ants, John Foxx, Yellow Magic Orchestra even a another Grace Jones album would have been great. I really thought Kid Creole & the Coconuts might have been in with a shot they had two albums on my list.

I thought the list would be full of british indie like The Chameleons, Echo & the Bunnymen, The Sound and a lot more Cocteau Twins. I'm gutted Forever Breathes The Lonely Word by Felt hasn't made it, surprise top ten entry maybe?

Is Computer World likely to be in? I listened to it today and it's just so classic!

PREDICTION: the Top 10 will consist of 2 by Zoogz Rift, 1 by Copernicus, 1 by The Romans, the Monitor s/t LP, 1 by Andre Cymone, 2 by The Scene Is Now, 1 by The Wallets and, seizing the top spot, Tripod Jimmy's A Warning To All Strangers.

Maybe it really is only me and about 3 others who see Rio as this peerless collection of sophisticated, utterly involving pop music

precisely 3 of my top 10 will place: numbers 2-4. 7 of my next 10 have placed.

The first two Duran albums are classics but they both just missed out on my list I'm afraid.

I guess that's not much comfort?

19. The Replacements - Let It Be [1984] (252 points, 18 votes, 1 first place vote)

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My favorite album of all time. Going with "Answering Machine" just because its the last, and therefore the only one that wouldn't leave me disappointed if another song from the album didn't follow.

― da croupier, 10. tammikuuta 2008 4:15

i sort of think this record (and the mats more generally, but this record especially) invented the slacker era. westerberg saw what was going on, or articulated it, 5-6 years before cobain, linklater, whoever. all the self-awareness, self-doubt, the appropriation of fm rawk (nothing ironic about "black diamond"), the refusal to aspire right in the midst of reagan america. that all got more anthemic later with "bastards of young," "i don't know," "we'll inherit the earth," but none of those top "unsatisfied." it took a recession to put this stuff in tune with the mainstream but they were there a lot earlier.

― tipsy mothra, 10. tammikuuta 2008 7:27

"Favorite Thing" — one of the greatest rock and roll songs ever.
Funny, when I first heard the song it sounded like an indecipherable mess — I couldn't make out the melody, chord structure or anything. Now when I listen, I always marvel at the incredible guitar interplay between Stinson and Westerberg.
I used this song in an air band competition in college. We stumbled around drunk and kicked beer cans into the audience. We were booed, but we kicked ass.

― Jazzbo, 10. tammikuuta 2008 15:37

Mark,I agree entirely. Any doubters please take a listen to "I will dare" or "Unsatisfied" from "Let it Be". Call it pop, call it rock, whatever you call it, it's great!

I love "Let it Be". It's just the essence of rock and roll for me, as is early Kinks or Nuggets-era 60's punk, or The Who, as are the Only Ones, as are the Buzzcocks. As are Urge Overkill! It's just something you feel, and I don't believe what I'm feeling IS a whole lot of cliched images of Americana.

"Tim" is almost there, but I really don't care for the final albums - too polished. I reckon Westerberg knew it was all up, had said all he had to say.

So, classic, despite the later albums. They deserve it despite the rubbish later albums.

― Dr. C, 16. helmikuuta 2001 3:00

awesome!

Not many 80s records better than this. Certainly not 18.

let it be seems awful low @ #19, but what the hell do i know, Wild Gift was my #2....

xpost:i'm sorry i did not vote for rio, tbh. DD sure had a knack for hooks and a gift for textures.

I do not love Duran Duran. Never have. There, I said it.

Let it Be is probably my 2nd favorite Mats album, after only All Shook Down (which still gets unfairly maligned). I love every second of it, and my favorite song changes all the time. Right now it's "We're Coming Out."

What about Elvis Costello? Get Happy could be top 10.

i voted for it, but not a chance. even his first 2 were a ways down on the 70s poll!

whats up w/these haircuts

ok now this list is getting boring. i agree with whoever said seeing #s 125-101 would be way more interesting. guess it'll be nice to see at least one kate bush album somewhere this far up the list

Replacements making the top 20 has stopped the list getting boring in my eyes

At what point will it be certain that Master Of Puppets didn't make it? Prolly around #12 or so I guess.. I stopped getting hopeful for Hysteria around #40.

Hysteria has it's fans on ILM, I wouldn't be surprised if it made it but metallica/slayer/maiden didn't. Esp since Pyromania is in the 100.

If any of them appear it will be between 11-18

Only metal album I voted for was Motorhead's 'No Sleep 'til Hammersmith' and I doubt that it will make the 20.