YOU TOTALLY MISSED THE ILX HEAVY ROCK/METAL ALBUM POLL COUNTDOWN, SUCKA (CLICK FOR A RECAP)

its spacey doomy sludge

Those are two bands I've never connected to Yob, so I can't even get where you're coming from.

xpost to Dan

pfuunk, new york. they are coming 10/24. pretty psyched.

I think Dan is trying to fool johnny fever into liking them

the second song I played made me just want to listen to Labradford rather than wait for something to happen

(the songs were "Breathing From the Shallows" and "The Great Cessation Pt 1")

(I only listened to about 3 min of both on Youtube)

Here's what I wrote about The Great Cessation at the end of 2009, when I chose it as my favorite record of that year (pardon the flowery cheese - it comes naturally):

Yob was one of the first bands I discovered when I got back into metal. Their combination of epic build and sustained release is like a snapping wire in a vacuum, the tension building until it breaks and then carries that momentum indefinitely. Listening to this changes my state of mind. It isn’t a meditative cleansing like Grandeur Of Hair, but a kind of heightened awareness; a releasing of constraints that keep things distant. I swear I have a better understanding of the world and its possibilities afterward. Also, it does a damn good job of freeing me of whatever hangups I was fretting about before putting it on, thus living up to it’s title. All this justification of purpose should not downplay just how amazing this album sounds. Scheidt’s vocals have never been better, from his clean soaring lines to his growls of multitrack menace; the band has never sounded as together, the moments of space amidst the tumult natural and effective. This is doom with feeling, as odd as that sounds.

Godspeed! You Doom Metal Band

made me just want to listen to Labradford

^ describes 90% of my music listening experience to tedious shit.

YOB are not tedious. Pitchfork is over there ---------------->

48 AC/DC · Highway to Hell (1979) (607 Points, 17 votes)
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf700/f733/f73339heog3.jpg

My fave AC/DC album

My least favorite Bon Scott AC/DC album. Still like it better than the Brian stuff.

The "Shameful music teens used to get to second base to" poll is right down the hall on the left johnny fever

Someday Johnny Fever, after all these fucking polls have blown over, I will make this poll for you.

why anyone would bother naming their tedious doom drivel aggregate after an U2 album spelled backwards is tr00ly beyond my reckoning? Henry?

Johnny should do an 80s hair metal album poll and get it over with.

or do a best 70s metal/heavy rock poll and then an 80s one.

No one who likes QotSA can judge anyone else's taste. It says so in the Bible.

No one who likes the Bible can judge QotSA ZING

Zing fail: Didn't say I liked the Bible.

You don't like the Bible?!

i only dig the early stuff, before all them mid-eastern dudes sold out tbh

Some falser than false coming up

i blame p-fork as always of course

xp?

47 Iggy and the Stooges · Raw Power (1973) (666 Points, 14 votes)
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc500/c552/c552952bw10.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/6vHqopioDuXtXTDoJhQZls

The beast called and he wants his number back

I'm with Ioannis - I go old school with the Bible. "Pillars of Salt" is my jam. Not as into the hippie phase, but the upcoming End of Times looks promising.

xposts

the falsest band on the poll gets the 666, lol

Maybe Fun House will be number one. Oh well.

great album but i didn't vote for it
xp

By the way, did you decide not to start with place #666? Or did I somehow miss it?

yeah, wot up with that?

there was no outright 666

may be able to do it with alphabetical order and reveal it on friday

Maybe throw the 666 ties on here before #1?

how many are we talking about here?

hopefully 666.

none on 666, its got loads on 662 so by alphabetical order we could work out a 666

For the record, Fun House >>>>> Slayer >>> Sabbath >>> Maiden >>>>>>>>>>> Zep >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Metallica

you are fired

How many #1 votes did Raw Power get? None?? C'mon!

How would you guys feel if Fun House beat all this other shit to #1?

even more confident about my wish that proto-punk/punk/alternative/grunge stuff was more forcibly excluded from the proceedings

only 4 of my top ten to go btw. -_-

Only 4 of my top 10 left too, with no real hope for 2 of those. 1 I figure is guaranteed.

46 Mastodon · Remission (2002) (681 Points, 18 votes - ONE #1 vote)
http://img15.nnm.ru/1/8/6/0/4/18604e035df4fdd14fa9c82eefdc2642_full.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/1aQZecM7d2R3SvPs2HNNIA

too low

your #1?

My position on Mastodon is well known, so I will just say that the mere idea that Mastodon has done anything better than Sad Wings of Destiny should be punishable by death.

no, not my #1

4 of my top ten left too, 3 of them ought to make it. 4 left in my 11-20 and I think my 21-30 too.