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

it's not a clusterfuck, i was just confused as usual

swans - time is money (bastard)

i nearly shed a tear when i saw that wasn't there.

it's not a clusterfuck, i was just confused as usual

no offense intended.

straight out of compton was nominated as part of this entirely commendable set, in apparent sincerity:

Anthrax - Among The Living
Bauhaus - Burning From The Inside
Bauhaus - In the Flat Field
Bauhaus - Mask
Bauhaus - The Sky's Gone Out
Black Sabbath - Heaven And Hell
Death - Leprosy
Depeche Mode - Black Celebration
Depeche Mode - Music for the Masses
Exodus - Bonded By Blood
Kreator - Pleasure To Kill
Ministry - The Land Of Rape And Honey
Ministry - The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste
Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness
N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
Primus - Suck On This
Repulsion - Horrified
S.O.D. - Speak English Or Die
Sepultura - Beneath the Remains
Skinny Puppy - Cleanse Fold And Manipulate
Skinny Puppy - Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse
Skinny Puppy - VIVIsectVI
Slayer - Hell Awaits
Slayer - South Of Heaven
Testament - The Legacy
Testament - The New Order
The Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique

― Raoul Duke (ku4u1u), Wednesday, August 1, 2012 8:45 PM (1 month ago)

lol @ me for straight "out of" compton

but I will say for the record that this is one of the most nebulous, mystifying polls I've participated in, lol. I haven't participated in many though so that's not really saying much, hahah.

it's an exciting adventure!

xpost god bless raoul

nominations were open like 3 weeks. It's a pity I had to deal with trolling and joke noms otherwise I might've noticed myself.

btw Im not sure when results will rollout as it depends when seandalai sends me the results but if i get them before monday i will extend the rollout and start early. if i get them overnight I'll start tomorrow. If I get them saturday i'll start on saturday. in other words i hope to stsart before monday but fuck knows if i will.
Also still not heard from viceroy if he still wants to do it so it looks like im stuck with it.

rocky was just plain trolling. he sneaked it in. And because of that i might swap all nwa votes for danzig TO TEACH HIM

He's pretty familiar with your brand of fascism, I doubt he'd be surprised :D

just keep emailing him youtubes of the evil elvis

stirmonster has the poll made you nostalgic like it has for a few others?

I really have no idea what has won and I cannot wait to see the results. Wish I could do them myself.

It seems like forever since I voted. Because I was so brutal I have not looked at them since so I can't wait to see the results, particularly since Leichenshrei would probably have been top 10 for me too.

Wonder how different the results would have been if I had gone with the 100 vote ballots :(

and yeah it seems ages since I voted. I can remember what my #1 was but not the order of the rest. And I bet there's stuff I didn't vote for that I thought it did.

just out of interest who would have been happy to vote for up to 100 tracks/albums?

could have done it, sure, but my first cut got me down to fewer than 100 for both tracks and albums, so it would have been stretching things

Submitted my tracks ballot this morning. Won't be putting in an albums ballot I'm afraid, it was just taking too long.

aww you dont need to rank them. just do an unweighted ballot

could have done 100 albums I reckon. Doubtful on tracks though

Contenderizer you could have done more than 50 though, right?

oh, sure. i at least like most of what was nominated, tbh.

no account for spreadsheet so copied off here

u have to include nwa

im guessing whoever put nwa here thought it 'rocked'

AG's not known for his calm, rational logic

but I voted for all the Def Leppard I could find so put that in yr pipe and smoke it (ducks)

Voted! Ranked tracks, unranked albums seemed the way to go, fairly stress free. Kinda skewed punk on tracks and metal on albums. And can I say my left hand devil horns are appropriately sore (from furious copy-pasting).

OK in the spirit of fully joining in the fun I've submitted a quick unweighted ballot featuring 27 of my fave albums from the list.

Tracks ballot is the full 50 and much more considered & wide-ranging 'cause I managed to listen to quite a lot of the tracks that I'd not heard before. Still unweighted though.

stirmonster has the poll made you nostalgic like it has for a few others?

not really as i reckon i was born without a nostalgia gene and still listen to most of the things i nominated fairly often. i was a big nwobhm fan from the age of about 12 to 13, and i did get an odd twinge of nostalgia for that stuff on the list as i only ever dig out my girlschool, angel witch etc. records about once every 5 years if i'm very drunk.

but, i did find this poll experience (which i don't usually partake in, hence missing the nominations thread) very thrilling, even though i am convinced when i see the results it will appear as if it is a metal poll.

I think we might have reached the 80 ballots mark for albums!
ONE HOUR OF VOTING LEFT

(I could have voted for 100.)

tracks

From the stuff that I've heard for the first time through doing this, so far the Young Gods have been the nicest surprise. They've been a group I've been aware of and vaguely meaning to check out for quite a while now, but turned out to be considerably better & more fun than I was expecting.

I know people have complained about this 10000x but seriously why the fuck is Soliloquy For Lilith on this list

ADVANCE WARNING, here are some bands that I don't much like but that I'm fairly certain will show up on the rollout:
Def Leppard (sorry VG), Aerosmith, Jane's Addiction, Slayer.
When these bands make their appearences, I may be unable to resist the urge to indulge in low-quality attempts at zings, but this is all meant in the interests of a fun and lively thread obvs.

Stirmonster I don't know the results but I'd be surprised if metal was the dominant genre but who knows what will be in the poll.

xpost Andy I will be ready with my trusty allcaps to deflect your zings

30 mins left

I know people have complained about this 10000x but seriously why the fuck is Soliloquy For Lilith on this list

least rock record ever but it rocks my world.

Stirmonster I don't know the results but I'd be surprised if metal was the dominant genre but who knows what will be in the poll.

yup. genuinely excited to see the results.

the answer to crut is probably jjj nominated it instead of nominating dead kennedys

damn.

hasn't this thing closed yet.

i.e. bravo to AG for working this poll harder than any other poll on ilm ever ....

i mean, even i f*cking voted.

not that i had a choice in the matter.

I think we all know what is quite likely to be top 50 but there will be surprises I'm sure. There is always some incredibly unexpected high placings and stuff that is expected to be top 20 but misses out completely. It is really hard to tell what will be in an ILM poll as there are lots of big posters on here who do not vote in polls but people associate them with ilx taste. Some fans of genres just dont vote either (see extreme metal fans)

AG = a one man campaign machine

mark e you love the 80s and the thirlwell fan in you made you vote. of course you had no choice!

I just wish I could have the results at midnight to start the countdown right away!

the big question is
will the goth brigade have turned out in numbers?

or the hair metal crüe?

or the rivetheads?

oooh AG .. you gave my limited options of choice away !