ILX 70s album poll - results

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

If you don't think DSOTM isn't top fucking ONE HUNDRED you're a dickpipe.

Who's Next
Every Picture Tells A Story
Born To Run
Zuma

Classic rock was woefully under-represented and post-punk was over-represented. Can't wait to see the singles poll.

What's next, Hobart? 80s? 90s? 60s? This is the most fun ever.

please no 50s or Jazz polls
-- The Good Dr. Bill, April 28th, 2005.

What is the logic for only voting on nominated albums, anyway? Why be so exclusive?

I think the idea is to prevent having lots of albums that only one or two people have voted for, to make insure that the winners have won by some sort of substantial margin.

xpost Especially considering how flexible the nomination process was for this poll.

A joke taken too far?

-- RS_LaRue (Al__suca...), April 28th, 2005.

oh, i take back the "I really wish I'd voted", I forgot that the reason I abstain from all these polls is that I think this 'nominations' process is the stupidest bullshit ever.

xposts Fair enough. I think minimalism and free funk and motherfucking FUSION were robbed worst. Those and fucking Who's Next.

A joke taken too far?

No, that would be:

15 THE MODERN LOVERS - THE MODERN LOVERS

I agree, I'd prefer if there were no nominations and we could vote for whatever we like. In that case, we'd need about 400 more people to vote in order get any sort of consensus so that the list would mean something.

I think it'd be better to eliminate the one-offs from the tally at the end instead of excluding them outright from the voting. For instance, you just say up front that "albums with only one vote don't get counted." So if you want to take that risk, that's your choice.

xpost

The poll results wouldn't look that different with open nominations. Look at pitchfork's.

Exactly -- you can't get much consensus by polling only 20 people, which is why you need to take some of those lists with a grain of salt (they do make up for it somewhat by voting for 100 albums each, rather than the 35 (on average) that we did).

I was thinking of volunteering my servics to do an 80's poll, but I was going to leave it a few weeks. Well, at least until the tracks are out of the way.