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

now that i think about it, i remember liking the membranes a lot. songs of love and fury, kiss ass godhead. wonder why i didn't nominate them? or the three johns...

the 80s were, now that i think about it, quite a long time ago.

now that i think about it

I bought a Three Johns album on the cheap once because people I trusted said it would be good. I did not like it one bit.

I count 15 albums so far that I hadn't heard prior to the start of this poll - I've since listened to three of them (Tabula Rasa, Violent Femmes, Fear & Whiskey) and loved them all. I might try and give the other 12 a go although I'm already sure I'd hate Hysteria...

the Three Johns did their best work on EPs and singles, none of the LPs really nail it to my ears. Seek out the Demonocracy singles compilation for true enjoyment.

which three johns album was it though? i don't know all their stuff, but the singles comp "rock & roll in the demonocracy" is fantastic. or at least half great. get pink-headed bug, awol & english white boy engineer stuck in my head all the time, and i haven't heard it in years. should track down a copy i guess...

hey, i said that!

how is spirit of eden only at 14

also rio isn't going to be here. what the actual fuck.

I had to go look at album covers to remember which one it was: The World By Storm from 1986. I honestly don't remember much about it at all except not liking it.

if i had ordered my ballot i'd have put spirit of eden first and miss america second. i'd like to know if margaret o'hara made the top 200.

Listening to I Against I again, I can understand why it doesn't make it. Such an odd, new wave Police sheen for an SST record from 1986. I've been obsessed with all four Bad Brains albums from the 80s, but they all have their weaknesses. Probably one of the best bands to fail to properly document their greatness on tape. No, the live albums don't do them justice either.

I had to go look at album covers to remember which one it was: The World By Storm from 1986. I honestly don't remember much about it at all except not liking it.

― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 1 December 2009 22:31 (22 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

you mad.
that album is brilliant. easily my favourite of theirs.
the drum machine + guitars + chorus + samples = simple but effective pop songs.
and live, T3J used to make me laugh out loud .. but this was back in their drinking daze.

am now wishing SOE had been top rather than second, sort of, not that that'd have changed anything

The only suspense left is whether Computer World or Straight out of Compton were ignored.

So little Birthday Party/Nick Cave love. No token appearance by Children of God. Synth pop (Eurythmics, Yaz, DM) polled remarkably poorly given this decades resurgence. 12 of my picks will make it in. I'd still take my 30 over the entire list.

Then you must have voted correctly!

The only suspense left is whether Computer World or Straight out of Compton were ignored.

I'm not giving up on Peter Gabriel 3 yet.

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If any PG got in it'd only be So, and somehow I cant see that happening.

3 got high points from me but otoh I am the one who nominated it.

Interesting to see folks repping for PG III and So. I like both of those, but my favorite PG album by a wide margin is IV/Security (headless chickens and all...)

predictions

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Sign o’ The Times
Remain In Light
Hounds Of Love
Doolittle
Daydream Nation
Murmur
Thriller
Purple Rain
Nation Of Millions

but was will be the 10th?

'Family & the Fishing Net' + 'Shock the Monkey' are rly the only ones I cld 100% dig on that album. I love Peter Gabriel but there are some mediocre tracks on 1, 2 & 4.

but what will be the 10th?

a wild card: Throwing Muses debut

i'm guessing number one will be: angelic upstarts - 2,000,000 voices

should probably do an 80's metal AND punk poll. unless there already was a punk poll.

No Scott, see my forecast upthread. It will be Zoogz Rift- Island Of Living Puke.

Oh man, San Jacinto and I Have the Touch are way up there in my favorite PG songs list. xxxxp

tbh i could totally see Thriller getting the shaft

btw i look at that forecast top 10 and i feel nothing but deep ennui - sorry

with the caveat that i am getting into prince and will probably love him unreservedly within a year from now

i could easily name 500 80's albums that are better than that my bloody valentine album on here.

just so you know.

a wild card: Throwing Muses debut

I'd consider myself as Muses fan, and even I don't like that album more than several others.

i do!

Fat Skier, Hunkpapa, Real Ramona, House Tornado >>>>> debut.

Oooh no I prefer the debut over all else of theirs.

"Billy Jean" was 3rd and "Beat It" 52nd on the 80s singles poll. "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'" wasn't nominated. Thriller doesn't commit enough sins to be omitted, although I suggest 30 lashes for "The Girl is Mine."

throwing muses debut is better than 59 albums on this list so far.

No idea what the missing 10th will be. Back In Black maybe? I doubt it'll be any of my choices, unless everyone thinks Tango In The Night is too obvious to mention.

with Trayce on the TM debut. It easily has the tightest rhythm section to grace jangle pop, outside of the occassional Pylon single.

rio is better than 89 of the albums on this list so far but i promise this is the last i'll talk of it on this thread. unless it's the mystery 10th.

Rio *is* a good album, and I'm as suprised as you and Crut that they and DM (and madonna, heck) arent on here.

Enough with the Rio talk, sonny. You'd never shown the slightest interest in Duran before yesterdya evening.

Computer Love will probably be tenth

This was the review where I decided I could no longer trust Robert Christgau:

When friends turn psychotic, I withdraw. I haven't found black leotards sexy since I broke up with Sheila in 1962. I'm rarely persuaded that verbal dissociation reflects any social problems but the poet's own. So while I'm happy to grant the originality and even craft of Kristen Hersh's quavery free-form folk-punk, I'd do the same for the art of H.P. Lovecraft, Anaïs Nin, or Diamanda Galas. Fans of whom will pay more mind to Hersh's buzz than I do. C

I can't believe this poll will likely not have Straight Outta Compton. That's kind of mindblowing to me.

xxxp Martian - The 10th could be Back In Black, Deceit, Youth of America, Reign In Blood or Master Of Puppets. Probably the latter. I really, really doubt it will be Computer Love.

ILM was never OG, and excepting "Express Yourself", the second side of Compton is nowhere near as good. I'd go so far as to say I like Yo, Bum Rush the Show more.

others: the tenth, so many suggestions including

Master of Puppets
JuJu
A Secret Wish
Peter Gabriel 3
Computer World
Colour of Spring
Love
Low-life
Back in Black
Deceit
Youth of America
Reign in Blood

maybe ilm will, like, not automatically vote an REM record into its top 10

(that's the assumption that's annoying me the most, by far. why does it have to be this way? someone convince me.)