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

#1. THE INTERNET

post the winner but wait like 10 years

aye , hiphop and metal dudes dont like to vote really
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dont actually like straight outta compton that much, just surprised it never made it.

People will whine and kvetch that SOC is spotty. In which case I would refer them to most of the albums on this bleeding list.

straight outta compton was a completely game-changing record that got 25 points from me tbh

Let the wild speculation on what is #1 begin!

― Tuomas, Wednesday, December 2, 2009

since we're assuming it's not straight outta compton it's gotta be one of these:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31NBCDRD8CL._SL500_AA240_.jpg

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/B000003JAX/sr=1-3/qid=1259787523/ref=dp_image_0?ie=UTF8&n=5174&s=music&qid=1259787523&sr=1-3

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41ATRAS6F8L._SL500_AA240_.jpg

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31WuS65LjDL._SL500_AA180_.jpg

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/2175VZXQREL._SL500_AA240_.jpg

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000025STY.jpg

that missing image shd be

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/87/Lionandcobra.jpg

(and yes the US cover was better)

It's clearly this

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f6/Beaches_album.JPG

http://i79.servimg.com/u/f79/12/79/37/48/mc_mik10.jpg

btw I had Daydream Nation at 63 on my ballot and Doolittle at 94

So, everyone likes my idea, and no one wants to know what #1 would've been?

Yes.

Plz post it, plz!

you tease

http://image3.examiner.com/images/blog/EXID5745/images/album-talk-talk-talk.jpg

post it on xmas day

^^^ voted for this. way down on my ballot, but a vote's a vote. xp

Fuck y'all for Talk Talk Talk not placing tbh

Well okay then...

1. Talking Heads - Remain in Light [1980] (568 points, 37 votes, 4 first place votes)

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In my opinion, Fear of Music and Remain in Light are, by a mile, the best Talking Heads records. I kind of count "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts" too, since it's half the same people and comes in between these records. It's a belter too. One of these records with a real air of mystery to it.

You can't go wrong with Remain in Light, unless you're looking for their more tuneful, song stuff, which is more evident on later records; I think they're largely poor.

Remain in Light sounds like a weird mix of James Brown, Dr.Feelgood and inevitably Brian Eno. It's a terrific record.

― Keith Watson (kmw), 5. kesäkuuta 2004 17:37

But that said, Remain in Light was my personal entry point, when my dad happened to bring it home because he liked "Once in a Lifetime." It's a spectacular record, and definitely their best studio album. I don't know that it's exactly "representative," because its vibe is really different than any other Talking Heads record (or any other record, period). But then, they went through so many different phases that it's hard to call any one album representative. I think everything through "Little Creatures" is worth having for one reason or another.

― spittle (spittle), 5. kesäkuuta 2004 23:39

One random thing about Remain in Light that kinda surprised me -- I read an interview with Adrian Belew a while ago where he said he basically recorded all his parts in a day. The basic tracks were already done, they invited him in, and he just went and sort of made things up as he listened. His guitar sounds have always seemed so integral to the record that it just seemed weird to me that it was basically a drive-by cameo.

― spittle (spittle), 7. kesäkuuta 2004 6:07

I think Byrne's schtick was more that he was a square (which he wasnt, except in the huey lewis sense) weirded out by a fucked-up world. That works as novelty up to a point until you realise the world he's describing isn't actually that fucked-up (what lets down Fear Of Music and ruins all the stuff from Speaking In Tongues on). But I think Remain In Light is an absolutely extraordinary album.

― Tom, 22. helmikuuta 2001 3:00

Bij mij staat Remain In Light op nummer 1 in elk lijstje met beste albums ooit gemaakt. Daarna een hele tijd niets, en daarna ongeveer honderds album op een gedeelde tweede plaats. Dé perfectie fusie van zo ongeveer alles wat muziek de moeite waard maakt: intelligente teksten, onweerstaanbare grooves, fantastisch gitaarspel, eigenzinnig geluid, inventief en effectief gebruik van electronica en wereldmuziek, uitgebalanceerde productie... etc. etc.

Ik heb nog nooit ook maar één zwak punt kunnen ontdekken aan die plaat.

― Dwars, 23. elokuuta 2004 13:49

Remain in Light - an alltime classic, one of the finest albums ever made. So many influences, a brilliant production, and those guitar sounds - epic and sublime - the way the sounds stretch out.

I am going to give it play tomorrow, as I have not listened to it in a while.

(America had to wait 8 years until Jane's Addiction - Nothing Shocking album - that could match the tripped out brilliance of Remain in Light)

― DJ Martian, 12. huhtikuuta 2001 3:00

In the end it wasn't even close.

Clearly it is this:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51b4xj-v4eL._SS500_.jpg

xp- oh damn, too late, joke spoiled.

i think ILM should remain in the dark about this for a while

Fuck y'all for Talk Talk Talk not placing tbh

Wasn't Spirit Of Eden at 14?

ha

So here's the damage

100. Robyn Hitchcock - I Often Dream of Trains [1984] (75 points, 5 votes)
98. (tie) Scraping Foetus off the Wheel - Hole [1984] (76 points, 5 votes)
98. (tie) Spacemen 3 - The Perfect Prescription [1987] (76 points, 5 votes)
97. Big Black - Atomizer [1986] (77 points, 8 votes)
96. Associates - Sulk [1982] (79 points, 6 votes)
95. Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking [1988] (79 points, 7 votes)
94. Def Leppard - Pyromania [1983] (80 points, 6 votes, 1 first place vote)
93. Thomas Dolby - The Golden Age of Wireless [1982] (80 points, 7 votes, 1 first place vote)
92. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Dazzle Ships [1983] (80 points, 9 votes)
91. Run-D.M.C. - Raising Hell [1986] (80 points, 10 votes)
90. Meat Puppets - Meat Puppets II [1984] (81 points, 9 votes)
89. Prince and the Revolution - Parade [1986] (83 points, 10 votes)
88. Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel of Love [1987] (86 points, 7 votes)
87. Pet Shop Boys - Actually [1987] (86 points, 8 votes)
86. Pet Shop Boys - Please [1986] (87 points, 8 votes)
84. (tie) Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine [1989] (87 points, 8 votes, 1 first place vote)
84. (tie) Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues [1983] (87 points, 8 votes, 1 first place vote)
83. David Bowie - Scary Monsters [1980] (89 points, 6 votes, 1 first place vote)
82. Scraping Foetus off the Wheel - Nail [1985] (91 points, 5 votes, 1 first place vote)
81. The Beat (aka The English Beat) - I Just Can't Stop It [1980] (91 points, 13 votes)
80. Various - The Indestructible Beat of Soweto [1985] (93 points, 6 votes, 1 first place vote)
79. The The - Soul Mining [1983] (93 points, 7 votes, 1 first place vote)
78. The Pogues - Rum, Sodomy & the Lash [1985] (93 points, 16 votes)
77. Meat Puppets - Up on the Sun [1985] (94 points, 8 votes)
76. U2 - The Joshua Tree [1987] (95 points, 7 votes, 1 first place vote)
75. Cyndi Lauper - She's So Unusual [1983] (95 points, 9 votes)
74. Galaxie 500 - On Fire [1989] (96 points, 10 votes)
73. X - Wild Gift [1981] (97 points, 9 votes)
72. The Chills - Kaleidoscope World [1986] (98 points, 7 votes, 1 first place vote)
71. Roxy Music - Avalon [1982] (99 points, 10 votes)
70. Laurie Anderson - Big Science [1982] (99 points, 11 votes)
69. Scritti Politti - Cupid & Psyche 85 [1985] (100 points, 7 votes)
68. New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies [1983] (100 points, 16 votes)
67. Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes [1983] (101 points, 12 votes)
66. Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen [1985] (104 points, 10 votes, 1 first place vote)
65. Donald Fagen - The Nightfly [1982] (105 points, 8 votes, 1 first place vote)
63. (tie) Tom Waits - Rain Dogs [1985] (106 points, 12 votes)
63. (tie) Cocteau Twins - Treasure [1984] (106 points, 12 votes)
62. Grace Jones - Nightclubbing [1981] (106 points, 12 votes, 1 first place vote)
61. Arthur Russell - World of Echo [1986] (108 points, 11 votes, 1 first place vote)
60. Eric B. & Rakim - Paid In Full [1987] (111 points, 8 votes, 1 first place vote)
59. Mekons - Fear and Whiskey [1985] (111 points, 8 votes, 2 first place votes)
58. The Cure - Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me [1987] (112 points, 7 votes, 2 first place votes)
57. Arvo Pärt - Tabula Rasa [1984] (112 points, 9 votes, 1 first place vote)
56. R.E.M. - Lifes Rich Pageant [1986] (112 points, 12 votes)
55. Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me [1987] (115 points, 13 votes)
54. Bruce Springsteen - Born in the U.S.A. [1984] (118 points, 14 votes)
53. Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska [1982] (120 points, 14 votes)
52. Brian Eno / David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts [1981] (120 points, 17 votes)
51. Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man [1988] (121 points, 11 votes)
50. The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms [1980] (123 points, 13 votes)
49. The Go-Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane [1988] (125 points, 9 votes, 1 first place vote)
48. XTC - Skylarking [1986] (127 points, 16 votes)
47. Steely Dan - Gaucho [1980] (128 points, 9 votes)
46. R.E.M. - Reckoning [1984] (131 points, 14 votes)
45. Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - Doc at the Radar Station [1980] (133 points, 11 votes)
44. The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace [1985] (136 points, 13 votes)
43. Sonic Youth - EVOL [1986] (143 points, 12 votes, 1 first place vote)
42. Hüsker Dü - New Day Rising [1985] (146 points, 14 votes)
41. The Cure - Pornography [1982] (148 points, 9 votes)
40. Dexy’s Midnight Runners - Searching for the Young Soul Rebels [1980] (148 points, 11 votes, 1 first place vote)
39. Manuel Göttsching - E2-E4 [1984] (154 points, 12 votes, 2 first place votes)
38. New Order - Substance [1987] (156 points, 16 votes)
37. De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising [1989] (164 points, 23 votes)
36. The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour [1982] (166 points, 14 votes, 1 first place vote)
35. ABC - The Lexicon of Love [1982] (173 points, 11 votes, 1 first place vote)
34. The Smiths - Hatful of Hollow [1984] (173 points, 16 votes)
33. The Smiths - Louder Than Bombs [1987] (174 points, 20 votes)
32. Prince - 1999 [1982] (191 points, 17 votes, 1 first place vote)
31. Sonic Youth - Sister [1987] (199 points, 21 votes, 1 first place vote)
30. Hüsker Dü - Zen Arcade [1984] (200 points, 13 votes)
29. Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth [1980] (200 points, 17 votes, 1 first place vote)
28. The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses [1989] (201 points, 15 votes, 2 first place votes)
27. Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction [1987] (201 points, 18 votes)
26. Prince - Dirty Mind [1980] (210 points, 14 votes, 1 first place vote)
25. The Clash - Sandinista! [1980] (211 points, 11 votes, 3 first place votes)
24. The Cure - Disintegration [1989] (218 points, 19 votes, 1 first place vote)
23. The Human League - Dare [1981] (219 points, 17 votes, 2 first place votes)
22. My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything [1988] (229 points, 19 votes, 2 first place votes)
21. Paul Simon - Graceland [1986] (237 points, 17 votes, 1 first place vote)
20. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy [1985] (243 points, 23 votes, 1 first place vote)
19. The Replacements - Let It Be [1984] (252 points, 18 votes, 1 first place vote)
18. Joy Division - Closer [1980] (255 points, 24 votes)
17. Kate Bush - The Dreaming [1982] (269 points, 13 votes, 3 first place votes)
16. New Order - Technique [1989] (273 points, 15 votes, 2 first place votes)
15. Pixies - Surfer Rosa [1988] (273 points, 21 votes, 1 first place vote)
14. Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden [1988] (274 points, 18 votes, 2 first place votes)
13. Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique [1989] (291 points, 25 votes, 1 first place vote)
12. Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime [1984] (300 points, 15 votes, 3 first place votes)
11. The Smiths - The Queen is Dead [1986] (307 points, 26 votes, 1 first place vote)
10. Pixies – Doolittle [1989] (323 points, 31 votes)
9. Michael Jackson - Thriller [1982] (331 points, 35 votes)
8. Kraftwerk - Computer World [1981] (338 points, 29 votes)
7. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation [1988] (356 points, 28 votes, 3 first place votes)
6. R.E.M. - Murmur [1983] (359 points, 30 votes, 2 first place votes)
5. Prince - Sign “O” the Times [1987] (381 points, 28 votes, 2 first place votes)
4. Kate Bush - Hounds of Love [1985] (422 points, 35 votes, 2 first place votes)
3. Prince and the Revolution - Purple Rain [1984] (423 points, 35 votes, 2 first place votes)
2. Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back [1988] (478 points, 39 votes, 2 first place votes)
1. Talking Heads - Remain in Light [1980] (568 points, 37 votes, 4 first place votes)

Remain In Light was #3 on my 'best albums' list, and #1 on my 'worst sleeves' list

That joke would work better if I hadn't italicized the album title like the occasional pedant I am.

Kitchen Person courting an SB imo the wound is too fresh for zings

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Dude I think I like the sleeve better than the music, and I like the music a lot.

Well done Tuomas, excellent work in getting this organised.

Yes, props for bringing the content Tuomas.

I'm kidding, I like the sleeve fine - I just wish they hadn't dripped sealing wax all over it

Tuomas = 2nd best pollster on ILM. (musically = 1st best, obvs.)

Thank you for doing this!

Yeah brilliant Tuomas, it was loads of fun. A thousand thanks for all your hard work.

I'll try to post some additional data (#101-#150 spots, total number of points per artist, etc) later on, but that's all for today. Thanks for everyone for participating in this, it's been fun!

thanks for tallying, Mr. Tally Man

Thanks Tuomas. Great work.

My ballot

1 - The Stone Roses - s/t
2 - Hüsker Dü - New Day Rising
3 - Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
4 - Hüsker Dü - Zen Arcade
5 - The Young Gods - L'Eau Rouge
6 - Spacemen 3 - The Perfect Prescription
7 - Sonic Youth - EVOL
8 - Redd Kross - Neurotica
9 - Gun Club - Fire of Love
10 - Kraftwerk - Computer World
11 - Big Black - Atomizer
12 - Black Flag - Damaged
13 - Bad Brains - s/t
14 - Sonic Youth - Sister
15 - Godflesh - Streetcleaner
16 - Saint Vitus - Born Too Late
17 - Hüsker Dü - Flip Your Wig
18 - Masters of Reality - s/t
19 - Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me
20 - Nirvana - Bleach
21 - Butthole Surfers - Locust Abortion Technician
22 - Meat Puppets - Meat Puppets II
23 - Melvins - Ozma
24 - Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
25 - Fugazi - 13 Songs
26 - Manuel Göttsching - E2-E4
27 - King Crimson - Discipline
28 - The Replacements - Tim
29 - Echo & the Bunnymen - Crocodiles
30 - Funkadelic - The Electric Spanking of War Babies

Thank you Tuomas! At long last the ghost of Darryl Strawberry can rest.

I only voted for one album in the top ten, five in the top twenty.

Good work, Tuomas.

Here's my ballot, though I'm pretty sure it would be much different if I voted today...

01 U2 - The Joshua Tree
02 Pixies - Doolittle
03 The Church - Starfish
04 New Order - Technique
05 Peter Gabriel - 3
06 Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
07 The Cure - Disintegration
08 Def Leppard - Hysteria
09 Fleetwood Mac - Tango in the Night
10 Sinéad O'Connor - The Lion and the Cobra
11 INXS - Kick
12 Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
13 Cyndi Lauper - She's So Unusual
14 Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
15 Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
16 Michael Jackson - Thriller
17 The Chills - Kaleidoscope World
18 Prince - Sign ‘O’ the Times
19 R.E.M. - Reckoning
20 The Replacements - Let It Be
21 John Cougar Mellencamp - Scarecrow
22 Pet Shop Boys - Please
23 The Smiths - Louder Than Bombs
24 Cocteau Twins - Treasure
25 Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
26 Van Halen - 1984
27 The Psychedelic Furs - Talk Talk Talk
28 XTC - English Settlement
29 New Order - Movement
30 Dwight Yoakam - Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc.

8 of the albums were on SST. Did any other label do as well?

18 out of 30 made it. xp

13 out of 30 for me

Here's mine too, I would change a fair few of these already. Missing out Talking Heads, Duran Duran and Pet Shop Boys was a big mistake.

1.The Human League-Dare
2.ABC-The Lexicon Of Love
3.Associates-Sulk
4.Prince-Dirty Mind
5.Dexys Midnight Runners-Searching For The Young Soul Rebels
6.Cameo-Word Up
7.New Order-Technique
8.Talk Talk-Spirit Of Eden
9.Dexys Midnight Runners-Don't Stand Me Down
10.Felt-Forver Breathes The Lonely Word
11.Orange Juice-You Can't Hide Your Love Forever
12.Magazine-The Correct Use Of Soap
13.Prince-Sign O' The Times
14.Grace Jones-Warm Leatherette
15.Kraftwerk-Computer World
16.Yellow Magic Orchestra-Naughty Boys
17.Kid Creole & the Coconuts-Fresh Fruit In Foreign Places
18.Happy Mondays-Bummed
19.John Foxx-Metamatic
20.Grace Jones-Nightclubbing
21.Kano-Kano
22.Go Betweens-Liberty Belle & The Black Diamond Express
23.Prefab Sprout-Steve McQueen
24.Thomas Dolby-The Golden Age Of Wireless
25.Kid Creole & The Coconuts-Tropical Gangsters/Wiseguys
26.Chic-Real People
27.New Order-Low-life
28.Diana Ross-Diana
29.OMD-Dazzleships
30.REM-Murmer

My ballot:

1. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
2. Slapp Happy - Acnalbasac Noom
3. Donald Fagen - The Nightfly
4. Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man
5. X - Wild Gift
6. Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - Doc at the Radar Station
7. The Smiths - Louder Than Bombs
8. The Fall - Grotesque (After the Gramme)
9. Boredoms - Soul Discharge
10. Prince and the Revolution - Purple Rain
11. Pixies - Doolittle
12. Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA
13. John Zorn - Naked City
14. Michael Jackson - Thriller
15. Bob Dylan - Saved
16. Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues
17. The Pogues - Rum, Sodomy & the Lash
18. Meredith Monk - Dolmen Music
19. Metallica - Master of Puppets
20. Pet Shop Boys - Please
21. R.E.M. - Green
22. Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me
23. Fred Frith - Gravity
24. John Cougar - American Fool
25. Daryl Hall & John Oates - H2O
26. The English Beat - I Just Can't Stop It
27. INXS - Listen Like Thieves
28. Steely Dan - Gaucho
29. The Cure - Standing on a Beach / Staring at the Sea: The Singles
30. AC/DC - Back in Black

By my count 15 made it.

Straight Outta Compton has a four great tracks and then all these other tracks that are just there. It is important record, and its social impact puts on a level that I think only a few things in all of the arts reach, but there are easily 100 albums from 80-89 that make better listens from beginning to end.

But I was a week shy of three-years-old when it came out, so what the fuck do I know? Maybe the old heads still let it play through, but I think I can count one finger the number I've times I've heard the end of something 2 dance 2

More than any of that though, this just wasn't a good poll for hip-hop

I don't understand the appeal of Kate Bush. I don't think I want to.

15 out of 30, in order from 1 to 30
The Human League – Dare!
Kraftwerk - Computer World
David Bowie - Scary Monsters
Associates – Sulk
R.E.M. - Lifes Rich Pageant
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
Malcolm McLaren - Duck Rock
Colourbox - s/t
The Jesus and Mary Chain – Psychocandy
This Mortal Coil - It'll End in Tears
Lloyd Cole and the Commotions – Rattlesnakes
The The - Soul Mining
The Blue Nile – Hats
Soft Cell - The Art of Falling Apart
Motörhead - No Sleep 'til Hammersmith
Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel of Love
Talking Heads - Remain in Light
Joy Division - Closer
The Todd Terry Project - To the Batmobile Let's Go
Michelle Shocked - Short Sharp Shocked
The Blue Nile - A Walk Across the Rooftops
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Tom Waits – Swordfishtrombones
Pixies - Surfer Rosa
Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen
Philip Glass - Solo Piano
The Proclaimers - This Is the Story
Dinosaur Jr. - Bug
Brian Eno / David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
Yazoo - Upstairs at Eric's

Disappointed that Blue Nile didn't make it, thought they might have snuck in around 80-100.

I'll try to post some additional data (#101-#150 spots

100-150!? We need everything that got points! Need, neeeeed...

Great work, Tuomas -- thanks a lot! :D