1980'S ROCK POLL ALBUMS/TRACKS VOTING THREAD. (Voting closes September 20) (all welcome to vote inc Lurkers)

NIN will show up.

top 10 maybe

I forgot about that pretty little hate machine...

There's just some albums that wont get much chat but everyone knows will place very high.

seandalai how many ballots do we have?

I must remind everyone that if you voted for N.W.A. the vote will not be counted for them.

lol keep layin down the law tough guy

All NWA votes should actually be counted towards Warrant's final total.

haha that would really please the voters

first poll i've ever felt compelled to vote in. sheer torture narrowing it down to 50.

All NWA votes should actually be counted towards Warren G's final total.

stirmonster i feel your pain

It'll be tricky trying to rank the relative merits of Blind Idiot God and Journey.

how did you manage?

I don't know. I haven't done it yet!

This is commonly my problem with polls though, unless they're e.g. artist polls. (No dis to your poll!)

Then do it! Don't be like DJP who nominates then cba voting!

I think we have 21 album ballots and 13 tracks ballots btw so please everyone vote and big thanks to those who voted!

Looking back on it, I missed out on the gimmick of up to 80 votes

Hey, there are still 2.5 weeks to listen to albums before voting. No need to rush this.

Like, I do intend to submit a ballot.

ballot submitted.

How do people think the Pixies will do? I'm not sure about critical consensus on them these days. I would expect Surfer Rosa to do well, possibly top ten?

How do people think the Pixies will do? I'm not sure about critical consensus on them these days. I would expect Surfer Rosa to do well, possibly top ten?

I'd think so, Doolittle will place somewhere too though personally I'm conflicted about voting for it - I love the album but I don't think of it as a rocking rock arecord as such (whereas Surfer Rosa seems just the right side of the line).

I know what you mean. Albini's production certainly gives Surfa Rosa some extra oomph. I suppose they're on of those bands that are perennially popular as well.

I'd be shocked if they didn't make top 10.

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stirmonster and everyone else thanks for your votes. Please keep them coming.

Actually Stirmonster I am glad you're here. I know you're the man to answer the earlier question.

"How about the Coil/Current 93/Nurse With Wound/Death In June/Young Gods/Swans/Foetus/Einsturzende Neubauten albums?"

The only one i dont know there is Einsturzende Neubauten
the others I only know the albums nominated. What else by those acts should we all listen to?

My two favourite Neubaiten albums nominated are Halber Mensch (which is the best of the early, noisy stuff) and Haus der Luge (which is the gateway into the later, more contemplative stuff and really kind of foly - especially Ein Stuhl in der Holle).

Seriously though, this poll is impossible.

You can do it. It is really funny seeing 1 group of ilxors struggling to make a ballot and another group sweating blood and tears over cutting down the shortlist to get 50.

I so wish I had done the 80 votes thing.

btw nakhs new d/n is terrific.

Not a chance. I have just tried shortlisting the albums again and got it below 300 for the first time.

You can do it!

first try cutting to down to 1 per artist. Then try cutting down a bit to x amounts per genre. Then try sticking the tail on the donkey or something

Sorry to keep harping on the Butthole Surfers, but I just wanted to add I never really associated them with the bands who got lumped together as "lo fi," although I don't think I realize that lo fi was a thing until fairly late.

Also, I remember gareth (does he still post here--I have no idea what his name is these days if so) discovering them years ago and seemingly being surprised by how interesting they were in terms of pure sound. I don't know, I may be misremembering this. They were much more of an experimental and psychedelic band than some might guess. (I think I may have expected them to be narrowly hardcore punk back before I'd heard anything by them.)

"How about the Coil/Current 93/Nurse With Wound/Death In June/Young Gods/Swans/Foetus/Einsturzende Neubauten albums?"

i didn't vote for any Death In June, but NWW, Neubauten, Coil, Swans and Foetus all feature prominently in my top 20 albums and 3 of them are in my top 5. C93 and Young Gods also feature lower down. i ended up missing out some albums i love by these acts more than albums by other people so my poll wasn't dominated by a just few artists. i'm guessing the upper echelons of this poll will all be records i've never heard.

buttholes, birthday party / cave, big black, ministry, skinny puppy, and sonic youth also getting a lot of love from me.

heh I knew which Ministry album would be your favourite.

Some of those acts you mention should be in the top half of the poll too. It should be an interesting mix results wise.

I suppose if some metal makes it; that would be the stuff you don't know?

wait aldo you don't mean literally 300 albums in your shortlist do you

he had 400 the other day. He cried buckets over cutting down from that.

oy vey

i reckon i have heard about 80 of those albums, but then most of those were recorded before i was born

They were all recorded after I was born but most of them I did not hear in the 80s.

(Also the channeling of TV/radio evangelists: "He knows all our needs. . ." I'm not going to lie, that makes me laugh.)

yup, the only metal i know (apart from the very odd slayer and metallica track) is the NWOBHM stuff listed. i had about 250 albums and a similar number of tracks in my initial list that i had to whittle down to 50. i ended up getting completely obsessed with it and stayed up 'til 6am doing this. ha!

heh I knew which Ministry album would be your favourite.

indeed. it didn't get the no. 1 spot though.

I wonder if Dog Latin can find any 'Deconstructionist' Music in these nominations hehe. It does seem an 80s thing. Of course I do not have any knowledge of Jacques Derrida so have no idea really what DL's on about, but does NWW count?

stirmonster you and aldo really make me regret not doing the 100 votes (that is what we used in the all-time metal poll and I think last years jazz poll I ran was the same).
I didn't think there was enough nominations compared to previous polls so thought I'd be the only one who did a top 100. Oh well..

Yeah that Ministry album we're talking about, I checked it out because of you posting about it years and years ago on ILM. It was the only one I hadn't heard and it blew me away. it made me appreciate the direction they kept taking. Going a bit further each time; though I realise that was a less interesting direction for you.