Now this is how it started: THE ILX 1980s ALBUM POLL RESULTS!!

there is closer on the list, all joy division votes will go to it. under normal conditions that should be enough to win.

disintegration may well be top 5 fwiw, if i'd been voting tactically i'd have given it megapoints in an effort to get it ahead of some of its rivals, but i wasn't voting tactically so i didn't actually vote for it in the end :-/

So far it's a good list.

surely underwater moonlight has to make it if a hitchcock solo album scraped the top 100, right?

i didn't vote for disintegration neither, i voted for another cure album which hasn't shown up yet. tactical voting is the worst, really. disintegration will be in the top 20, maybe even top 10 but i doubt it will crack the top 5.

Not necessarily. I can't be the only person who listens to 10x as much solo Hitchcock as I do Soft Boys (not that I don't like Soft Boys, but they just don't cross my mind as often).

Kinda bummed by the Swans absence here. Damn you to hell!

i voted for 'faith' as well as 'pornography' but 'faith' was always a no-hoper...yeah, between 5 and 10 sounds about right for disintegration

dude i haven't heard that swans record yet...maybe i should

i wouldn't give up on faith, its chances are better than those for 17 seconds for which i voted. it's a shame but there were too many good cure albums in the 80s.

surely underwater moonlight has to make it if a hitchcock solo album scraped the top 100, right?

I don't actually remember seeing this on the list of nominations. I almost certainly would have voted it for it had it been there. Unless I just completely missed it.

Children of God? It's on Spotify, but pc speakers might not do it justice.

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i.e. it might not demolish your front room.

nice to see sister place so high - was my only #1 pick, and while i 2nd guess many of my other choices, i've got no regrets about this one. as perfect an album as sonic youth (or the decade) ever produced. and while i rated daydream nation just as highly in its day, it hasn't aged anywhere near as well. dn's gray cinderblock density is certainly impressive, as a statement, but i prefer the variety and wildness of what came before (evol too).

appetite for destruction placing in the top 30 makes me smile. would have loved to see it break the top 10, but yeah, that was never gonna happen.

plus isn't dirty mind synth-pop? at least in part?

I'm wondering if there's any more metal/hard rock to come? Is Back In Black in with a shot? Can't think of anything else that'd make it this high up.

Unfortunately I cant see Black Flag , Butthole Surfers or Swans making it now :(

I'm wondering if there's any more metal/hard rock to come? Is Back In Black in with a shot? Can't think of anything else that'd make it this high up.

Surely Master Of Puppets and Reign In Blood will be in the next 5 places

wow, so ultramagnetic's critical beatdown won't even chart?

Surely Master Of Puppets and Reign In Blood will be in the next 5 places

Ah yeah, of course. Would like to see Slayer in there somewhere (wouldn't mind Master Of Puppets either though I didn't vote for it).

Mind you, getting ilx metal fans to vote is like getting blood from a stone so no guarantees either will make it, but they should.

4 of the top 32 sounds about right for PRINCE.
80's Prince still gets played all the time around my parts. It still sounds super fresh.
easily the writer/producer/performer of the decade.

It feels too obvious to even bother writing it.
Let me now tell you how great the sun, moon, and the stars are...

wow, so ultramagnetic's critical beatdown won't even chart?

― DustyLoops, Sunday, 29 November 2009 22:16 (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

dude i'm gonna be happy if 6/100 are hiphop albums

I'll bet EPMD just missed.

I'm really nervous about the Beastie Boys. If it's on the list, I'm glad it's doing better than I thought.

2 of my favorites I'm starting to give up on are TMBG and the Pyschedelic Furs.

i think hiphop will be better represented than country and metal somehow
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yeah but country and metal suck

Its pretty funny there is no metal (G&R aside so far) considering at one point in the 80s, it was all about the hair metal - Bon Jovi, Poison, Europe, G&R, Metallica...

And late to the party but I'm suprised at the complete "buh?" UK response to the first Femmes album. I thought it was one of those embedded 80s canon albums - it certainly has been in Australia for decades. Even little kids recognise the opening riff of "Blister".

I'm wondering if there's any more metal/hard rock to come? Is Back In Black in with a shot? Can't think of anything else that'd make it this high up.

― Gavin in Leeds, Sunday, November 29, 2009 2:13 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark

i had reign in blood, psychic...powerless, the number of the beast, youth of america, born too late, ace of spades and dial 'm' for motherfucker on my list, but i dunno man. really thought theindie/punk stuff had a solid shot at the bottom end of the list - but i can't see pussy galore, the butthole surfers or even the wipers cracking the top 25.

suppose slayer, iron maiden and metallica have better odds, but i ain't got my fingers crossed...

There's a staggering amount of huge 80s missing completely from this list (I didnt see the noms so I'm not sure what was there). Wither Ultravox, Spandau Ballet, even *cough* Genesis?

King Crimson ffs!

Trayce, I think everyone knows 'Blister in the Sun', but they were pretty much a one-hit wonder - as far as I'm aware, no albums ever broke through in Britain.

is Spandau Ballet a ilm favourite?

as any fule kno ultravox were better when they had an exclamation mark, and genesis when they had a gabriel, i.e. 70's 70's 70's

lol also king crimson

agree w trayce that there is tons of stuff missing that i wouldn't in a million years have voted for had it been present

Yeah ok ok you lot, give it a rest ;P

(also I said Spandau for lols tbh)

they were pretty much a one-hit wonder - as far as I'm aware, no albums ever broke through in Britain

Violent Femmes' legacy isn't built on actual "hit" hits. It's one of those albums that gets passed down from older sibling to younger sibling, parent to child, high school friend to middle school friend, etc.

they were also played on 'collage radio.' did britain have the equivalent of this in the 80's.

as may have already been noted, 'Appetite For Destruction' beating 'The Stone Roses' is lolz

Funny that PSB, Springsteen and The Smiths have all placed back-to-back w/o having any ties.

bodes well for a Thompson Twins one-two

Violent Femmes' legacy isn't built on actual "hit" hits. It's one of those albums that gets passed down from older sibling to younger sibling, parent to child, high school friend to middle school friend, etc.

that album was weird that way. i was listening to college radio when it came out and so i heard it all the time, and the small hipster-music circle at my high school all had the cassette, but it had zero mainstream/commercial presence at all. and then i got to college and it seemed like everybody had it, everybody knew all the words, and "blister in the sun" and "add it up" were on the mandatory frat-party soundtrack. i'm still not sure when/how that happened.

It went platinum 10 years after its release.

ILM 80s poll = Imagine at the end of 1980s if Sounds, Melody Maker, NME, Record Mirror, Spin, Alternative Press and Rolling Stone had a combined music poll

The last suprise placing (in the top 100) may be Colossal Youth at 29, and before that, Doc at the Radar Station at 45, though it seems there are at least 3 of us who rate Children of God highly. Otherwise, I'm much more interested in 101-125 than 1-25.

surprised that anyone would be surprised by colossal youth's ranking, though doc at the radar station raised my eyebrows a bit, too

i mean, world of echo and e2-e4 were much less a part of the (semi) mainstream indiemag consensus than colossal youth - at least in the 80s/america.

e2-e4 seems to have an interesting role as a stepping stone between Kraftwerk & Berlin school electropop towards both 90s IDM and minimal house, though its a role that only critics seem to attest to.

heard it for the first time last night and liked it a lot. like world of echo, it seems to be one of those albums that's much more popular and well-known now that it ever was in its day. or maybe i was just reading the wrong magazines, i dunno...

Like so much else from the 80s, I knew about E2-E4 at the time from college radio play (but that station played a lot of prog., Krautrock, and electronic music).

It was largely unknown in the day (at least outside of krautrock revenant mags). I first heard of e2-e4 on a number of ambient music mailing lists in the mid-90s. Ie, krautelectronica fans postulating roots for Aphex etc.