ILX 70s album poll - results

Regret: As my vote was sent to the wrong place, Pere Ubu's "The Modern Dance" and CaptBeef's "Lick my Decals" missed out (shame).

However, there was something so right about the Nuggets box being in position 100.

And heck, how much fighting would there have been if "London Calling" was the 'real' number one?

You choose.

for completeness, here's the rest of the PFM 100. you can barely put a feather between the two camps these days, huh?

1 Low David Bowie
2 London Calling The Clash
3 Marquee Moon Television
4 There's A Riot Goin' On Sly & the Family Stone
5 Blood On The Tracks Bob Dylan
6 Trans-Europe Express Kraftwerk
7 Led Zeppelin IV
8 Entertainment! Gang of Four
9 Unknown Pleasures Joy Division
10 Another Green World Brian Eno
11 Exile On Main Street Rolling Stones
12 Fun House The Stooges
13 Pink Moon Nick Drake
14 Loaded The Velvet Underground
15 Who's Next The Who
16 Singles Going Steady Buzzcocks
17 Maggot Brain Funkadelic
18 Bitches Brew Miles Davis
19 Ege Bamyasi Can
20 Electric Warrior T Rex
21 Histoire de Melody Nelson Serge Gainsbourg
22 Pink Flag Wire
23 Ramones The Ramones
24 Here Come the Warm Jets Brian Eno
25 Neu!
26 Innervisions Stevie Wonder
27 Led Zeppelin III
28 Let It Be The Beatles
29 Tago Mago Can
30 On the Corner Miles Davis
31 Fear Of Music Talking Heads
32 The Wall Pink Floyd
33 Chairs Missing Wire
34 Saturday Night Fever (soundtrack)
35 Y Pop Group
36 Wish You Were Here Pink Floyd
37 My Aim Is True Elvis Costello
38 Drums and Wires XTC
39 Suicide
40 The Modern Lovers
41 Rumours Fleetwood Mac
42 The Specials
43 Off The Wall Michael Jackson
44 The Clash
45 More Songs About Buildings and Food Talking Heads
46 Heart of The Congos
47 Call Me Al Green
48 Live-Evil Miles Davis
49 What's Going On Marvin Gaye
50 Starsailor Tim Buckley
51 Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols
52 This Year's Model Elvis Costello & the Attractions
53 Music for 18 Musicians Steve Reich
54 Cosmo's Factory Creedence Clearwater Revival
55 Bryter Layter Nick Drake
56 Future Days Can
57 Paul Simon

Hah! Me, too. I hated it until "Poptones" came on during shuffle. I'd heard it many times by them, but that anti-lilting guitar line just assailed me.. After that, listen to "Swan Lake" and then "Albatross".. I'm still not sure if I really like the second side (as it were) all that much..

I feel the same way about "Exile on Main Street", which I finally got around to listening to the other day. I mean it's pleasant enough - kind of like the Stones doing the Dead - that sort of innocuous jammy country-blues-rock, but best Stones album? I don't get it.

A singles list seems like a nightmare because there are so many of them.

Sorry, was this thread going to sleep beore I prodded it again?

Quod Erat Demonstrandum

Thank you.

Just to recap, for convenience and posterity:

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

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I'd actually love it if Tuomas or Gear were to run the 70s poll again next.

hobart paving made a bit of a pig's ear of this really.

I'd be happy to curate another take on the seventies poll (lord knows I spend enough time on the computer already).

woohoo!!!
Please dont limit nominations per person though!

I'll start a nominations thread as soon as the current poll wraps up, then.

cool, looking forward to this

fuck all other decades but the 70s imo

there better be prog in the top 100 this time

thanks Johnny! This could be great!

There'll be a lot of crossover, but surely we can surpass this nominations list right?

the 70s poll - rules, and nominations (¡FINAL VOTING ABOUT TO CLOSE - LAST CHANCE TO "MAKE THAT DIFFERENCE"!)

well copy and paste that list onto the nominations thread then we can all add to it and make it comprehensive.

Steely Dan will be in the top 5 positions knowing ILM ;)

I just had an idea about the re-poll. What if we remove the 100 albums in this list from contention in order to produce a much more interesting poll? Like, anything that placed here is completely off limits for nomination/voting this time. Canon be damned!

Thoughts?

I'm in favour. Then I can vote for "The Belle Album"!

I like that idea.

cant believe 'tusk' didnt even place on that poll

ILM hadn't discovered it then

nor Aja!

i would be *completely* down for excluding everything here, but i'm not sure it should happen, if that makes sense

i mean it would distort things too much and i wouldn't be able to vote for 154 which is godhead

Or "Pacific Ocean Blue". ILM had different favourites in those days.

no, dont remove anything please. You will get much less voters too if you do, people wont be bothered to vote. The results will be different enough.

What's missing? From my library: I am Sitting in a Room, Sex Machine, Look-ka Py Py, Food for Thought, The Revolution Will Not be Televised, Delusion of the Fury, Right Time, Cochin Moon, Disco Club, Music for Airports, The Flying Lizards. Would a single one of these garner enough points to make the list? Maybe the Eno.

You will get much less voters too if you do, people wont be bothered to vote.

You could be right about this. But on the other hand, less people vote in polls now because the thinking is "Oh, [x albums] will make up most of the list, and that's boring...zzzz." I can see both sides of this, but not sure what would better suit a re-poll.

My brain couldn't handle coming up with a best albums of the 80s list, so it certainly won't be able to handle this

fuck all other decades but the 70s imo

Fixed.