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

Not surprised since nobody has been talking about them here

ftr #2 and #3 on my tracks ballot are going to be Sex Bomb and Sex Beat

Not surprised since nobody has been talking about them here

No, even when I downloaded the albums list, I thought "That's one I need to vote for." Somehow when I started deleting albums I didn't know or didn't like, I must have deleted it accidentally.:(

altars of madness def getting a vote from me

Maybe we need more chat on Jane's Addiction anyway

last few days of voting

how are we looking ballots-wise?

I think its 29 track ballots and 54 album ballots

And still no sign of viceroy either so I dunno whats gonna happen to tracks runout

*GALLIFREY EARTH CALLING VICEROY*

Tracks ballot submitted

thanks!

did you vote for "fish in a pool" by the electric deads? no? anybody?

can't really justify my near-mystical love for this song

http://youtu.be/wx7PBS4Abvo

Who all plans to submit a ballot?

not me

can't really justify my near-mystical love for this song

Psychocandy w/more punk + angry teen girl. v. nice.

Tracks ballot submitted.

It was hard/interesting to weigh between things I liked as a kid in the 80s, things I got into later at different stages, and things I was introduced to because of this poll itself. The latter probably got the shortest shrift, even though learning about them has obviously been the most valuable part of the exercise.

A 50-track list felt so short!

I regret not making it 100 but I didn't think enough would do it

I had to shave off a couple of Def Leppard tracks to get it down to 50 but it wasn't as tough as I thought it would be

I started with a 4-page 'long list' of tracks I know and like to varying degrees.

Viceroy are you still doing the tracks rollout on monday? Can you manage it all?

It wasn't exactly tough to make it 50, in either case, though, as much as the final list just seemed short. After I finished ranking things, I just picked the top 50. I did replace "Expressway to Yr Skull" with "For Whom the Bell Tolls" at #50 on the track list because Sonic Youth was already extremely well-represented. Otherwise, I didn't think further.

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Sonic Youth was already extremely well-represented.

haha should call the poll that

I am not voting for 50 tracks

49?

Remember everyone who only voted for albums you can still vote for tracks.

VOTING CLOSES THURSDAY

what time?

Midnight UKtime I guess.

No one needs to leave it too late however. You can do it today!

well i'm still listening to stuff, so if i can do that til thursday afternoon i will

when I said 'you' I was meaning anyone who hadn't voted yet
xp

Seandalai I emailed you.

VICEROY REPORT TO BASE

If anyone wants to do blurbs for their fave albums either email me if you have it otherwise webmail me.

Think we're close to 60 ballot mark for albums - please keep em coming!

I wish someone would have nominated Happy Nightmare Baby. But you can't complain when you have missed the nomination period and decide to vote!

gah, i wish i would have nominated it! i don't even get the "missed the nomination period" excuse.

I've been trawling the blogosphere for rare and OOP 80s recs for this poll, and I ran across a reference to the Tellus cassette magazine series, which I had completely forgotten. after a bit of digging, I found a legit and free archive of all the Tellus cassettes (which are now on MP3). for the uninitiated, Tellus was a NYC-based cassette magazine that ran from '83-'93, and covered a wide range of avant/underground music and sound art. artists such as Sonic Youth, Live Skull, Rat at Rat R, The Scene is Now, Chain Gang, F/i and Rhys Chatham contributed work. the UbuWeb archive also has a huge amount of non-Tellus material from many other avant/underground 80s artists (all of it free). if you're not completely burned out on the 80s, check out the archive.

Tellus index and history:

http://www.ubu.com/sound/tellus.html

UbuWeb archive:

http://www.ubu.com/sound/

(I only found this one ILM Ubuweb thread: Ubuweb tip offs and finds thread)

1 day to go..

Who all plans to vote? Apart from some dude

I have both ballots p. much finished, but I still have some listening (ie: procrastinating) to do. they'll be submitted before the deadline.

so what are your shortlists down to?

roughly 60 each. still fucking around w/the last spots, mainly.

That is the problem with leaving ballots to the end. You then realise there's more you want to vote for than you can. So I urge all those who are planning to vote to make a start NOW

hope y'all are combining the votes for these two entries

Bad Brains - Bad Brains
Bad Brains - S/T

That is the problem with leaving ballots to the end.

more like a modus operandi, tbh.

edward Im hoping seandalai picks that up in voting and combines them and noone is a dickhead by voting for both

I'm really looking forward to seeing the results afaik the top 20 is close and of course those albums near the bottom could sneak in the results. It will be a big rollout so don't worry about voting for obscure stuff as your vote might make something sneak in.

btw no its not a top 500.