Acclaimed Music Top 25 from 1979 poll

i mean 78 may be my favorite year of the decade and 79 my least favorite, albums-wise.

Only because it's the poll we're discussing and voting on.

Otherwise, I basically never think about music in this way, especially since plenty of music I care about is written on paper and then performed or recorded at various times by various people.

Undertones. (but only the late-'79 release with "Teenage Kicks" and "Get Over You" on it - I didn't know until now that early pressings didn't have those two essential singles on it).

B-52's and Marianne Faithfull runners-up.

Boys Don't Cry was released well into 1980, not sure why it's on this list, even if five of its tracks were recycled from the previous year's Three Imaginary Boys

I assume it's because it was the US debut of that material. The same way you might list The Clash's UK/US self-titled first album together as a 1977 release, even though it did not have a Stateside release until 1979, and then with a modified track listing.

It was their US debut, but the same album with the same track listing was also released in the UK a few months later in the summer of 1980

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Very happy that B-52's squeaked it out over the Clash

bullshit

Ha. Yeah, that's about right. I love London Calling but I LOVE the first B-52's album.

Looks good to me. Love the first two in that order, though Highway To Hell would be in third.

lol joy division, fuck is wrong with y'all

i'll take unknown pleasures over b-52s and london calling

though i'll take cosmic thing and clash s/t over unknown pleasures

voted rust. the only album i haven't heard of this list is the pop group, but even the albums i think are overrated (london def being one) have some golden tracks on them.

i guess i wasn't the only one to vote for the cure.

this order seems like the ranking ILM would have with only two albums not getting any votes.

nice, was hoping the B-52's would take this

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They do all 16 dances

Neglected to vote in this, it would have been one more vote for B-52's. Actually, that's pretty much my top 5, except I've never found Joy Division particularly, erm, pleasurable. Swap that for The Slits.

Yeah, this top 5 (well 6) seems right, regardless of order.

The B52's scored anomalously high relative to its Acclaimed Music ranking. Is it just a peculiar favourite on this board?

B-52s get love on ilx, yes

B-52's were, like, my first favourite band

The B52's scored anomalously high relative to its Acclaimed Music ranking. Is it just a peculiar favourite on this board?

no, thing is the acclaimed music ranking is horseshit and means nothing

Acclaimed Music get it ranking from critics lists from around the world. it comes from print and more recognizable on-line sites.

http://cdn.socialmediaexaminer.com/images/1011sh-compensated-endorser.png?9d7bd4

no, thing is the acclaimed music ranking is horseshit and means nothing

― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Wednesday, June 6, 2012 11:39 AM (54 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

well i mean, it is far to say that London Calling and Off The Wall and Fear Of Music generally have a more assured place in the canon than The Bs' debut in most places outside ilx

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Kind of surprised by this - don't even know any B52s outside of about three singles.

Which three?

there's a huge gulf of public recognition between their three biggest hits and whatever their 4th biggest hit is, so it shouldn't be that hard to guess

Lol right on

btw it makes me so happy that the album on this list that John Lennon was most excited about at the time was The B-52s

Had no idea the B52's were that loved on ILM. They've never vibed that well with me. Is this album a good starting point?

yes

i haven't really heard much of them, but at SOM records last week they were playing some amazing record, and I asked what it was and it turned out to be their debut!

Moka, check this out; a longtime holy grail for me, it recently popped up on youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gobO7spdAfg

It's difficult for me to put into words how much I love them; five slackers from smalltown GA at the dawn of the new wave, pretty much inventing their own form of music.

That show is so good.

Which three?

Love Shack, Roam and Rock Lobster obv, but was googling their singles just now to see if I knew any others and their second biggest single in the UK turns out to be something I mercifully have zero recollection of - Meet The Flintstones, which got to #3.

Nick, you should listen to the 1978 show above too, then!

They were young and on fire. Guitars on this are just cracking.

I loved "Rock Lobster" and "Private Idaho" when I first heard them but "52 Girls" is really the song that made me go "okay this band HAS IT"

Dan, I will fire that thing up just as soon as I get a chance - thanks!

Dan Peterson that is

oh shit I forgot about "6060-842"

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Wow, "52 Girls"... I guess I need this record.

Another track which may convert the unconverted: the longer alternate mix of "Cake' from Mesopotamia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu1cgHWI6iM

Love how virtually overnight ILM has come to regard itself as an enclave of massive B-52's worship

Ten years ago, before my time here, the worshippers were outnumbering the naysayers by a pretty wide margin.

B-52s: Classic or Dud.