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

12. Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime [1984] (300 points, 15 votes, 3 first place votes)

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Double Nickels on the Dime seems to try to be all things to all people, and hell, it almost succeeds. 19 years later, and its still a confounding and moving album...and easier to dance to than 200KM/H. I've nothing against chart-pop but, if I have to take sides...
"The Roar of the Masses Could Be Farts"

― Ryan McKay (Ryan McKay), 9. maaliskuuta 2003 21:50

I always liked the clean production, sonic restlessness and passionate/ goofy lyrical/vocal Minutemen thing more than the Huskers thing in a general sort of way, although as a teen I loved both bands for totally different reasons/moods. As an adult, I think where DN beats out ZA is in the jazz pretensions department: there's more swing and adventure in any single Watt bass-line on DN than in the whole of the bloated "Reocurring Dreams" -- Plus, how many great songs could the 'men have shoved into 14 minutes?

― Major Bloodnok (Major Bloodnok), 14. maaliskuuta 2006 21:42

double nickels on the dime, no question. husker du was forever spoiled for me when i was a college radio dj in the '90s. one of the dudes at the station who was way older than me, who lorded his holier-than-thou musical knowledge over me on a near-daily basis, said to me 'i was going to husker du shows when you were still in the womb!' god, i'm rolling my eyes just thinking about it.

also, i would way rather have a beer and rock out with mike watt than drink herbal tea and listen to new-age electronica with bob mould.

― geeta (geeta), 15. maaliskuuta 2006 21:44

This is the greatest album of all time, so this poll is impossible.

But for today, it's "One Reporter's Opinion."

― a new Rock Hardy screen name because I can't find the old one (Rock Hardy), 21. marraskuuta 2008 6:07

Blimey!

I've got to hear this album then!

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i think colour spring will feature soon. split-voting is the only possible explanation of the poor perfomance of spirit of eden. everyone sensible knows that it is far more subtle and complex than most of the albums on the list.

FUCK

This missing the top 5 is shitting even more on an already bad day.

Didn't vote for it, but it's a great album. I reckon you'd like at least a large-ish chunk of it tbh Tom.

This is odd it's really obvious what ten of of the final list will be but there's just one place left for all the albums that we've been predicting. I'm sticking with Computer World it has to be in!

Is there any way that Thriller might not make the list?

heard of Minutemen but not this album

few more selected positions in the top 100 80s albums of my friends and favourites on rateyourmusic.com currently:

14: Dead Kennedys
Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

18: Metallica
Master of Puppets

19: Kraftwerk
Computerwelt

22: Siouxsie and the Banshees
Juju

24: Depeche Mode
Black Celebration

28: Dead Can Dance
Within the Realm of a Dying Sun

33: The Chameleons
Strange Times

34:Talk Talk
The Colour of Spring

46: New Order
Low-Life

48: King Crimson
Discipline

54: John Foxx
Metamatic

61: Rush
Moving Pictures

65: Propaganda
A Secret Wish

67: Virgin Prunes
...If I Die, I Die

72: The Blue Nile
Hats

74: Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
Architecture & Morality

75: The Sisters of Mercy
First and Last and Always

79: Brian Eno
Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks [With Daniel Lanois and Roger Eno]

86: Magazine
The Correct Use of Soap

96: Tuxedomoon
Desire

I guess Tuomas didn't fully credit my ballot, which gave Double Nickels a first place vote and 40,000,000 points.

Never heard of it. Next.

I am starting to think my vote for Janet Jackson's 'Control' meant nothing.

It meant something to you and to Janet.

are these the 11 albums left?

The Queen is Dead
Remain in Light
Sign of the Times
Hounds of Love
Thriller
Daydream Nation
Purple Rain
Murmur
Doolittle
it takes a nation of millions
Master of Puppets - is in the top 11 or something else?

An 80s poll with absolutely NO Housemartins would be fucking ridiculous.

Don't blame me, I had them at #7.

(but yeah, that album had about 50 hit singles... surprised it didn't at least scrape the bottom quarter of the poll.) xxxp

Have the Housemartins aged particularly well? I find myself listening to The Beautiful South much more often these days.

if the eurythmics dont make it i am going to be really angry at u all

― NAKES HAVE THE STAPLES IN THEM (jjjusten), Monday, November 30, 2009

request special anger dispensation on account of i voted the fuck out of sweet dreams (edging out touch on the strength of "i could give you (a mirror)"

Why's everybody so sure Remain in Light is in? I've got two Talking Heads albums on my ballot and neither of them is this. I always thought of "Stop Making Sense" as the canonical "if you have one TH record" record, but I don't see even it (much less the superior Name of This Band..) placing this high. Remain in Light edged Fear of Music to win the ILM studio albums poll, it's true, but note well this caveat at the beginning: "I've purposefully taken off live albums for fear of landsliding (admit they were a lot better live)"

Hmmm... Discipline you guys, it could happen. It's the only 80s KC anyone would even consider voting for and it does have quite a following...?

Yes ppl who have never hear Double Nickels, go forth and do so! That album is my I Ching. Be aware that there are a few tracks that were left off the CD version, but you can find them on the internet as vinyl rips and stick them back in where they belong.

I stopped caring about King Crimson when I was 20, and that's more than most people ever did. I don't see them making the top 10 at all.

Have the Housemartins aged particularly well?

tbh not really.

Remain In Light is arguably TH's canonical album and easily their canonical 80s album, it's not even up for debate that it'll be here. Personally I think it's overrated and didn't vote for it, but that's how it is.

"Remain in Light" is considered the key Talking Heads 80s album as indicated by the high placing on friends and favourites custom chart at number 3

also re: Talk Talk: if Spirit of Eden can't the crack the top 10 then i am ruling out Colour of spring

I didn't vote for Discipline myself-- maybe I'm wrong in my notion of how much people like it.

King Crimson no chance in the top 11 this ain't Progressive Ears message board

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Have the Housemartins aged particularly well?

Do we stil like fancy singing and do the rich still stick it to the poor?

GET UP OFF OUR KNEES!

I love the Housemartins but they're sadly not in my top 30 for the 80s, in part b/c I'm not sure which album to vote for (I have both albums but I have a comp. called Now That's What I Call Quite Good that I listen to much more often). I'd probably have voted for The People Who Grinned... in my top 50, though.

This Heat - Deceit is 15 on my friends & favourites 80s custom chart - do This Heat have enough fans on ILM?

Those last two entries are probably my two favourite 'wandering around town aimlessly on a sunny day' albums ever - two sprawling records with a carefree, sort of goofy feel to them.

And there goes my #1. Double Nickels On The Dime. Just typing it gives me chills.

A lot of the best punk rock makes it sound easy, like anyone can do it. And that's a big part of the appeal. But when you play Double Nickels, you think, Those guys are way better than me. I could never do that.

Even the Central American references have aged well.

Do the Housemartins have a proper best-of album? I'd consider throwing it a vote if so, but their as-is albums never hung together really well for me.

im relieved the minutemen made it. Was beginning to think it missed out along with black flag, bad brains etc

btw i voted crimson so im not giving up hope just yet

the Housemartins had better tunes than the Smiths, I shocked myself by realising recently

youre crazy

That comp. I listed above works as a good best-of, though it's somewhat long for that.

Siouxsie and the Banshees - Juju for the top 11? will they got the goth block vote

Propaganda - A Secret Wish - are the popists going to spring a big surprise?

the goths on ilm dont admit to being goths so they might not want to blow their cover

I voted Crimson & This Heat, got no hope for either of them charting.

not with PSBs so low xp2

The Housemartins do have a 14 track 'Best Of', though I'd say Quite Good or the Live at the BBC are better buys.

the Housemartins are NME endorsed vermin Rodents

Q: which Melody Maker scribe would have said such a thing?

how many Prince albums to come?

People Who Grinned is hit or miss for me, but London 0 Hull 4 is close to perfect and represents the high point of the "pretty" side of 80s college rock for me. It's ABSOLUTELY UNABASHED about striving for effect, maybe because it believes itself in the service of a higher political aim...? L0H4, the Now That's While... comp (which grabs the best off both LPs but has too much filler) and maybe even their amazing demo tape Themes for the Well-Dressed Man would have made my top 100 album list.

Crim's in my top 10, but I don't see it happening at this point.

Sign of the Times
Purple Rain

anymore?

BTW I'm listening to Alphaville right now and I'd laugh really hard if they placed