Acclaimed Music Top 25 from 1979 poll

"only occurred to me now"

Kind of a weak year, IMO, at least for albums. Surprising, since it seems like so much was going on around that time. I guess I'd vote for B-52s.

yeah '79 looks kind of like a falloff compared to '77 and '78.

A weak year based on these lists? I don't know how someone could look at the top 1,000 albums from '77, '78, and '79 and make any comparative judgment at all.

yeah that seems unbearably wrong. 79 is one of my favorite years easy.

If no one votes for Y, I will be very sad.

"Armed Forces"

As my tastes go, looking at the top 50 albums on Acclaimed Music, 1977 does seem like a much better year while 1976 is about unbeatable.

Voted AC/DC in the end. Chic is good though.

As my tastes go, looking at the top 50 albums on Acclaimed Music, 1977 does seem like a much better year while 1976 is about unbeatable.

yeah, but why would you want to use some bullshit aggregator site's top lists as a basis for comparison?

Entertainment over 154 by a smidge.

What makes it bullshit? The lack of transparency about its algorithms?

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

If those 25 albums were the only albums I owned, I'd be pretty satisfied. I'm glad they're not, of course, but hypothetically - I could live with these.

I saw Waters do "The Wall" last year, and it may have been the first time I'd heard the album (as such) in almost 25 years. It was weird how much of it I had forgotten about but immediately remembered. (Still don't really like it, but I won't begrudge it its moments).

so i decided to vote for The Cure Three Imaginary Boys/Boys Don't Cry as it got absolutely no love on this thread, so i will be that single vote.

yeah, but why would you want to use some bullshit aggregator site's top lists as a basis for comparison?

Only because it's the poll we're discussing and voting on.

i don't care about 'acclaimed music,' but many times i've looked at my favorite albums of 76, 77, 78 and then 79, and seen way more albums i am fanatical about in each of the first three years than in the latter. that's all i'm saying.

i mean 78 may be my favorite year of the decade and 79 my least favorite, albums-wise.

Only because it's the poll we're discussing and voting on.

Otherwise, I basically never think about music in this way, especially since plenty of music I care about is written on paper and then performed or recorded at various times by various people.

Undertones. (but only the late-'79 release with "Teenage Kicks" and "Get Over You" on it - I didn't know until now that early pressings didn't have those two essential singles on it).

B-52's and Marianne Faithfull runners-up.

Boys Don't Cry was released well into 1980, not sure why it's on this list, even if five of its tracks were recycled from the previous year's Three Imaginary Boys

I assume it's because it was the US debut of that material. The same way you might list The Clash's UK/US self-titled first album together as a 1977 release, even though it did not have a Stateside release until 1979, and then with a modified track listing.

It was their US debut, but the same album with the same track listing was also released in the UK a few months later in the summer of 1980

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Very happy that B-52's squeaked it out over the Clash

bullshit

Ha. Yeah, that's about right. I love London Calling but I LOVE the first B-52's album.

Looks good to me. Love the first two in that order, though Highway To Hell would be in third.

lol joy division, fuck is wrong with y'all

i'll take unknown pleasures over b-52s and london calling

though i'll take cosmic thing and clash s/t over unknown pleasures

voted rust. the only album i haven't heard of this list is the pop group, but even the albums i think are overrated (london def being one) have some golden tracks on them.

i guess i wasn't the only one to vote for the cure.

this order seems like the ranking ILM would have with only two albums not getting any votes.

nice, was hoping the B-52's would take this

They do all 16 dances
They do all 16 dances

Neglected to vote in this, it would have been one more vote for B-52's. Actually, that's pretty much my top 5, except I've never found Joy Division particularly, erm, pleasurable. Swap that for The Slits.

Yeah, this top 5 (well 6) seems right, regardless of order.

The B52's scored anomalously high relative to its Acclaimed Music ranking. Is it just a peculiar favourite on this board?

B-52s get love on ilx, yes

B-52's were, like, my first favourite band

The B52's scored anomalously high relative to its Acclaimed Music ranking. Is it just a peculiar favourite on this board?

no, thing is the acclaimed music ranking is horseshit and means nothing

Acclaimed Music get it ranking from critics lists from around the world. it comes from print and more recognizable on-line sites.

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no, thing is the acclaimed music ranking is horseshit and means nothing

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well i mean, it is far to say that London Calling and Off The Wall and Fear Of Music generally have a more assured place in the canon than The Bs' debut in most places outside ilx

DO THE AQUA VELVA

Kind of surprised by this - don't even know any B52s outside of about three singles.

Which three?

there's a huge gulf of public recognition between their three biggest hits and whatever their 4th biggest hit is, so it shouldn't be that hard to guess

Lol right on

btw it makes me so happy that the album on this list that John Lennon was most excited about at the time was The B-52s

Had no idea the B52's were that loved on ILM. They've never vibed that well with me. Is this album a good starting point?