ILX 70s album poll - results

(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.

I'm really surprised to see London Calling so high as there seems to be nothing but anti-Clash sentiment around here. I was sure that would be the one canonic album to be toppled. I thought Metal Box would have been a bit higher.

The #1 matches my #1 though so I was quite happy with the way it all ended.

156 Milton Nascimento & Lo Borges - Clube Da Esquina 121

Hey wow, I wasn't the only one who voted for these! I guess I'm not surprised by their placing (actually, #115 is higher than I expected for Sextant), but I find it weird Fela Kuti didn't even make the top 100.

Damn fucking str8.

"Space Ritual is better than xxxxxxxxxxxxx."

you fill in the exes, and it'll probably still be right.

But, come on, fucking Who's Next! John Entwistle!

xposts Sextant was my #13, Tuomas. I want to thank you for having turned me on to it a year or two ago.

haha the inverse might work for me: "xxxxxxx is better than Metal Box". OK, truthfully, I did buy it, there are a couple really good songs, and a lot of cool ideas. But I still find it hard to relate to how anyone could really love it. (I like the Pistols FWIW.) It might be the sort of thing that has to grow on me, like lots of other records have. I do like the guitar sound. I wonder if it might be a British thing, somehow.

And re: "bumper crop" in '79---yep, I'm listening : )

You're welcome, I think this is the first time I've heard someone on ILM say I've influenced their listening tastes. Sextant was my number 1, it is indeed a brilliant record, and cannot be praised enough (Lord knows I've tried, though).

much, much, much better.

this has got to be the real SHOCKA... how could this have happened??

And I'm glad The Who got clowned haha

much, much, much longer