1970-1979 WTF - The Hard 'n' Heavy 'n' Loud + Krautrock, Arty, Noisy, Weird, Funky, Punky Shit - Albums Poll! - VOTING THREAD! Closes Mar 8th 11.59 PM UK Time - All ILXORS/LURKERS WELCOME

I'll have submitted my ballot by the weekend btw. I had been planning to catch up on a load of stuff I hadn't heard & refamiliarise myself w stuff I hadn't heard in a while, but it turned out to be an unusually busy feb so I'm just gonna work out the ordering & send as is.

Can I ask a n00b question? What do you guys mean by "buttrock"? I have a vague idea I guess - scuzzy hard rock - but does it refer to something specific, like the pub or psych end of things?

My understanding is it refers to more blues/boogie based hard rock along the lines of Grand Funk, Black Oak Arkansas, etc. Some people like to characterize nearly all 70s rock as buttrock.

or 'Chuck Eddy Music1

I think we hit 50 ballots (it's hard to tell from the way its set up but I dont think I included double ballots so it should be right)

29 tracks ballots but strangely about 10 of them haven't done album ballots. So it's quite possible both polls will get very different results bandwise.
So everyone please go vote in the tracks poll if you haven't already.

Was A Night at the Opera vetoed? I seem to remember nominating it.

70s >>> 80s

still totally don't get big star tho except as the intro for that 70s show

I think Balls vetoed it? I cant remember why. Im pretty sure others just wanted the proper early hard rock Queen lps.

oh shit maybe i'll just submit an exclusively fela kuti ballot

Mordy do you prefer 70s production values to the 80s? I recall you saying on the 80s poll how all the 80s albums sounded like shit.

A Night at the Opera rocks at least as hard than many of the other prog albums on the list, surely. Were Atom Heart Mother and Meddle vetoed too?

Who doesn't prefer 70s production values to 80s?

yup
xp

Mordy just realised there's so much nominated that he likes he will struggle to get his ballot under 100 :)

btw please remember there's a limit to how many albums by acts you can vote for UNLESS you do a ballot of 100, then you have no limits.

Mordy do you prefer 70s production values to the 80s? I recall you saying on the 80s poll how all the 80s albums sounded like shit.

^^ yes otm so many amazing sounding records

but you listen to them on CD and not the vinyl they were intended for ;)

while i admit that playing vinyl has a very nice sound that's not really the thing that turns me off about 80s music. after all can't i get a bunch of shitty cure albums on vinyl too?

i want to vote for all the fela kuti albums so much that i will balloon my ballot to make it happen

you wont have a problem making 100. The majority of ballots are 100

i voted@

full 100?

half of 100 i got bored in the middle :/ sorry fela kuti

What are your top two FK albums?

I counted well over 100 albums that I know and like already before diving more deeply into funk albums I don't know, Fela Kuti, some of the more obscure prog albums I don't know.

Mine are
Open & Close
Gentlemen

but the first half of the 70s albums he really really really spoiled us

my top 3 were

expensive shit
zombie
shuffering and shmiling

but i could've voted for all of them. top 3 meant i had to include sentimental faves (i was obsessed w/ zombie in college) over current faves (gentlemen over zombie atm).

what is it with college kids and 70s music? Bet you had Marley - Legend ;)

obv, and 10 other marley albums

but no dmb?

hey no need to get personal

dave mordy band?

just over a week to go. Stragglers better get some listening done so they can vote before closing date

you do know that you started this thread last october, right? juuuuuuust checking....

yes but mods dont edit opening posts just thread titles.
You going to vote Scott?

or wish to recommend some albums to us all from the list? that would be cool!

Armageddon - S/T!!!

Bruising hard rock feat keith ralf (sp) of the yardbirds and bobby caldwell of captain beyond.

also everybody vote for Judas Priest "sinner"

wait no I mean "dissident aggressor"

i just couldn't believe this was still going on. when i saw this thread today. it's an oldie but a goodie. i vote for armageddon as well. you have a winner.

also nobody forget Jefferson Airplane, they're responsible for Amon duul and all that other freaky crap

crap as in "stuff" not as in "bad stuff"

http://991.com/newGallery/The-Ruts-The-Crack-549754.jpg

The Ruts - The Crack (Virgin, 1979)
Along with Stiff Little Fingers, The Ruts were the best of the second wave punk bands to put out debut albums in '79. It's hard to know if they would have become bigger if lead singer Malcolm Owen died shortly after of heroin O.D., but there's no denying what a great band they were in their brief run. Scorching tracks like the funky, disciplined "Savage Circle" showed how incredibly tight they were, able to stop, turn on a dime and explode. No wonder they were worshiped early on by members of Bad Brains and Minor Threat. And unlike Bad Brains' early work, their reggae-influenced songs were just as strong as the punk barnstormers, with the original, steely "It Was Cold" another highlight. Essential.

...[had not] died shortly after of...

i just couldn't believe this was still going on. when i saw this thread today. it's an oldie but a goodie. i vote for armageddon as well. you have a winner.

― scott seward,

you only just spotted the thread??

a few weeks after it opened we postponed it until after the EOY polls. So it hasn't really been going all that time.

Takin' Care of Business: ILX 70s RAWK TRAX VOTING RULES AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD - VOTING THREAD!- Closes Nov 8th 11.59 PM UK Time - All ILXORS/LURKERS WELCOME

seandalai things all ok for march 8th?