ILX 70s album poll - results

What was #101?

Where was Station to Station, hobart?

Congrats on conduting a very entertaining poll

x-post Alba Station to Station was number 62.
Mark, I think Marquee Moon would have made number 2 with your votes included - but I'll go away and add them up properly.

101-200 coming up..

Oops! Totally missed that.

YEAR BY YEAR
(Overall rank in parentheses)

1970 - The Stooges, Fun House (19)
1971 - Sly & The Family Stone, There's a Riot Goin' On (1)
1972 - Rolling Stones, Exile on Main St. (11)
1973 - Stevie Wonder, Innervisions (12)
1974 - Brian Eno, Here Come The Warm Jets (23)
1975 - Bob Dylan, Blood on the Tracks (3)*
1976 - Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers (15)**
1977 - Television, Marquee Moon (4)
1978 - Blondie, Parallel Lines (7)
1979 - The Clash, London Calling (2)***

*Had Columbia rushed the release of Blood on the Tracks a couple weeks (it is sometimes dated 1974), the best record of '75 would have been Eno's Another Green World, which ranked #36 overall, cementing the notion that for whatever reason — post-Watergate exhaustion? Quaaludes? — 1975 was kind of a drag. (BTW where the hell is Physical Graffiti?!)

** If you believe that Modern Lovers is really a 1973 record, then the best album of '76 was The Ramones' debut (#22).

***The bumper crop. 1979 had 6 among the top 18. (Are you listening, I.M.?) In addition to the overrated London Calling: UNKNOWN PLEASURES, Singles Going Steady, Metal Box, Entertainment! and Off The Wall.... (+ Dragnet, among many others, insulted at #52...)

-- hobart paving (elvistear...), April 28th, 2005.

I'm not sure this could be topped as a blurb.

(and why does that make the poll sound like cat food?)

This might have been my #1. I don't remember. I guess #110 isn't that bad..

So, what I would really say here is how striking it is that even though there's been nearly seventy sets of votes, one vote can make all the difference.

You know what to do come election day, right?

Too bad about John McLaughlin's Devotion. I really think a lot of you could love it if you haven't heard it. It seriously has more of a stoner Zep/Sab feel than his other stuff.

I know there aren't any real absolute truths in music fandom, but can I at least submit the possibility that any of these albums should be in the top ten instead of Metal fucking boring dirge-ass go-nowhere joyless piece of shit Box?

(But why am I bitching when my two favorite albums of the decade finished 1-2? Because I gotta be me, I guess.)

xp: Where is Radio goddamned Birdman?

I voted it #1. My conscience is clear...

But, take your point about X ray Spex.

Come on, Metal Box is great!

not meant to be taken totally seriously (though Metal Box is great).

Hmm, that's funny, because I thought it had dated excellently.

100. VA - Nuggets
99. New York Dolls - s/t
98. David Bowie - Heroes
97. Kate Bush - The Kick Inside
96. Bruce Springsteen - Darkness On the Edge of Town
95. The Cure - Three Imaginary Boys
94. Augustus Pablo - King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown
93. Philip Glass - Einstein on the Beach
92. Sparks - Kimono My House
91. Cheap Trick - Live at Budokan
90. Steely Dan - Countdown to Ecstacy
89. Sparks - No. 1 in Heaven
88. Can - Future Days
87. The B52s - The B52s
86. Parliament - Funkentelechy Vs. the Placebo Syndrome
85. Leonard Cohen - Songs of Love and Hate
84. Iggy and the Stooges - Raw Power
83. The Slits - Cut
82. Nick Drake - Bryter Layter
81. The Beach Boys - Surf's Up
80. Neu! - Neu!
79. The Beatles - Let It Be
78. John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band
77. Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
76. Big Star - Third
75. John Cale - Paris 1919
74. Donna Summer - On the Radio
73. Miles Davis - A Tribute to Jack Johnson
72. Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It On
71. Parliament - The Mothership Connection
70. Brian Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
69. VA - Saturday Night Fever
68. Wire - 154
67. Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
66. Led Zeppelin - IV
65. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
64. Big Star - #1 Record
63. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
62. David Bowie - Station to Station
61. Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps
60. Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True
59. Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
58. Bob Dylan - The Basement Tapes
57. The Congos - Heart of the Congos
56. Fleetwood Mac - Rumors
55. Ornette Coleman - Dancing in Your Head
54. Richard and Linda Thompson - I Want To See the Bright Lights Tonight
53. David Bowie - Hunky Dory
52. The Fall - Dragnet
51. Neil Young - Tonight's the Night
50. Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic
49. Roxy Music - Roxy Music
48. Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
47. Stevie Wonder - Talking Book
46. Suicide - First Album
45. Miles Davis - On the Corner
44. Curtis Mayfield - Superfly
43. Steve Reich - Music For 18 Musicians
42. Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings and Food
41. Neil Young - On the Beach
40. Gram Parsons - Grievous Angel
39. Wire - Chairs Missing
38. Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
37. Can - Ege Bamyesi
36. Brian Eno - Another Green World
35. Serge Gainbourg - Histoire De Melody Nelson
34. Nick Drake - Pink Moon
33. Elvis Costello - This Year's Model
32. Neil Young - After the Goldrush
31. Big Star - Radio City
30. The Clash - The Clash
29. The Velvet Underground - Loaded
28. The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
27. Wire - Pink Flag
26. Can - Tago Mago
25. David Bowie - Low
24. Joni Mitchell - Blue
23. Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets
22. Ramones - Ramones
21. Al Green - Call Me
20. Kraftwerk - The Man Machine
19. The Stooges - Fun House
18. Michael Jackson - Off the Wall
17. VA - The Harder They Come
16. The Sex Pistols - Nevermind the Bollocks
15. The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers
14. David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
13. Gang of Four - Entertainment
12. Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
11. The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
10. Marvin Gaye - What's Goin' On
9. Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady
8. PiL - Metal Box
7. Blondie - Parallel Lines
6. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
5. Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express
4. Television - Marquee Moon
3. Bob Dylan - Blood On the Tracks
2. The Clash - London Calling
1. Sly & the Family Stone - There's a Riot Goin' On

Pay close attention, as you will never see this result in a '70s poll ever again.

Did anyone else vote for Caress of Steel? (Pashmina?) Side 2 is one of the most unique things I've ever heard anyone do with rock. It has a very distinctive and special feel for me, warm and open or something. Seeing it on the nominations list got me to play it again and realize this. Much better than 2112.

xpost haha

But, yeah, what the fucking fuck happened to Who's Next

And have you seen the triple LP version?

That said, I didn't vote for it because I didn't.