Nominations for an 80s Albums That Rock Poll(inc indie/Alt,punk,metal,heavy/glam etc) CLOSES SUNDAY NIGHT 11:59 p.m. UK

It occurs to me that the criteria for eligibility seem pretty similar to those for Stairway to Hell (except that Run DMC made it into that iirc?).

xpost Ha, Kix nom!

That book is definitely responsible for me checking out at least 5 of those albums I nominated

Screaming Trees - Even If & Especially When
Three Johns - Atom Drum Bop
Wipers - Youth Of America

fuck yeah

its not a metal poll contenderizer. indie rock that rocks is fine. indie pop not

yeah, i geddit. anywayz...

The Gun Club - Fire of Love
The Cramps - Bad Music for Bad People (a comp, but definitive)

Slint - Tweez
Bitch Magnet - Umber
Bastro - Diablo Guapo

Drunks with Guns - Drunks with Guns (s/t on chopper)

Avengers - Avengers (s/t on civil defense)
Pagans - Buried Alive

^ two more artist comps

Thin Lizzy - Thunder and Lightning
English Dogs - Forward Into Battle

Dream Syndicate - The Days of Wine and Roses
The Lords of the New Church - The Method to Our Madness

Nick Cave + The Bad Seeds - Your Funeral, My Trial
Nick Cave + The Bad Seeds - Firstborn Is Dead

honestly I think Firstborn might qualify more as 'rock' for the blues thing but the formula's pretty much impenetrable, lol so I'll throw both out.

Agent Orange - Living in Darkness
The Pretenders - Pretenders II
Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance
Y&T - Open Fire (live)

the last vote's just for my own amusement

Indie pop cannot rock?

don't get too sad, tim, i think the boss rocks too but kerr won't let me nom him

la pop ne rock pas plus

rule out everything you've ever heard on the radio for a start

Except if it's pop metal.

Darklands is about as heavy as Tiny Tim which gives me some confusion from the off tbh

Dead Kennedys – Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Glenn Branca – The Ascension
Wipers – Youth of America
Minutemen – Double Nickels on the Dime
Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel – Nail
Beat Happening – Beat Happening
Einsturzende Neubauten – Haus der Lüge
Pixies – Surfer Rosa

Do Television Personalities fit i'd love to nominate them but maybe they're too twee? Also why has noone nominated the Pixies? Are they forbidden? If so I'm sorry.

smdh@ jamc

Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind

Beat Happening – Beat Happening

lmao

George Thorogood & The Destroyers - Bad to the Bone

D.R.I. - Dealing With It
Metallica - ...And Justice For All
Dead Milkmen - Beelzebubba

Do comps or soundtracks count?

plugz - better luck
crass - christ - the album
the ex - 1936 spanish revolution
minor threat - out of step
cows - daddy has a tail
pil - flowers of romance

Squirrel Bait - Skag Heaven
Thin White Rope - Moonhead
Live Skull - Dusted
MX-80 Sound - Out Of The Tunnel
Birthday Party - Junkyard
Halo of Flies - Garbageburn
Wolfhounds - Bright & Guilty

Also why has noone nominated the Pixies? Are they forbidden? If so I'm sorry.

Johnny had already nominated three Pixies albums!

Exciter: Long Live the Loud
Judas Priest: Defenders of the Faith
Helios Creed: The Last Laugh
Voivod: Dimension Hatross
Venom: Possessed
Celtic Frost: To Mega Therion
Loop: Fade Out (their pinnacle)
This Heat: Deceit

ok fine i can remove jamc

comps are ok if the artist has no full albums, but no greatest hits type things. (please point out if anything nominated is like that)

Ok so far we have
AC/DC - Back in Black
Agent Orange - Living in Darkness
Avengers - Avengers
Bad Brains - Bad Brains
Bad Brains - I Against I
Bad Brains - s/t
Band of Susans - Love Agenda
Bastro - Diablo Guapo
Bathory - Under The Sign Of The Black Mark
Beat Happening – Beat Happening
Big Black - Atomizer
Big Black - Songs About Fucking
Billy Idol - Rebel Yell
Birthday Party - Junkyard
Bitch Magnet - Umber
Black Flag - Damaged
Black Sabbath - Mob Rules
Blind Idiot God - Undertow
Blue Oyster Cult - Cultosaurus Erectus
Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet
Boredoms - Soul Discharge
Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
Candlemass -Nightfall
Capt Beefheart - Doc at the Radar Station
Capt Beefheart - Ice Cream for Crow
Carcass - Symphonies of Sickness
Celibate Rifles - The Turgid Miasma of Existence
Celtic Frost - Into the Pandemonium
Celtic Frost - Morbid Tales
Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion
Cheap Trick - One On One
Christian Death - Only Theatre of Pain
Chrome - Blood on the Moon
Chrome - Third From the Sun
Corrosion of Conformity - Animosity
Cosmic Psychos - Go the Hack
cows - daddy has a tail
crass - christ - the album
Cryptic Slaughter - Money Talks
D.R.I. - Dealing With It
Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit For Rotten Vegetables
Dead Milkmen - Beelzebubba
Death - Scream Bloody Gore
Def Leppard - Hysteria
Def Leppard - On Through the Night
Def Leppard - Pyromania
Descendents - Milo Goes To College
Didjits - Hey Judester
Dinosaur Jr - You're Living All Over Me
Dio - Holy Diver
Dio - Last In Line
Discharge - Hear Nothing, See Nothing, Say Nothing
Dream Syndicate - The Days of Wine and Roses
Drunks with Guns - Drunks with Guns
Einsturzende Neubauten – Haus der Lüge
Embrace - Embrace
English Dogs - Forward Into Battle
Exciter - Long Live the Loud
Exodus - Fabulous Disaster
Extreme Noise Terror - A Holocaust in Your Head
F/I - Space Mantra
Fire Party - s/t
fIREHOSE - Ragin', Full On
Flipper - Generic Flipper
Fugazi - Fugazi
Fugazi - Margin Walker
Game Theory - Big Shot Chronicles
George Thorogood & The Destroyers - Bad to the Bone
Glenn Branca - The Ascension
Godflesh - Streetcleaner
Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction
Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Halo of Flies - Garbageburn
Head Of David - Dustbowl
Head Of David - Head Of David
Helios Creed - Superior Catholic Finger
Helios Creed - The Last Laugh
Husker Du - Flip Your Wig
Husker Du - Metal Circus
Husker Du - New day Rising
Husker Du - Zen Arcade
Iron Maiden - Killers
Iron Maiden - Number Of The Beast
Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
Jesus And Mary Chain - Darklands
Joan Jett - Bad reputation
Judas Priest - British Steel
Judas Priest - Defenders of the Faith
Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance
Killdozer - Snake Boy
Killing Joke - Killing Joke
King Crimson - Discipline
King Diamond - Abigail
Kix - s/t
Last Exit - Köln
Lazy Cowgirls - Tapping the Source
Lemonheads - Hate Your Friends
Live Skull - Dusted
Living Colour - Vivid
Loop - Black Sun
Loop - The World in Your Eyes
Loop: - Fade Out
Loverboy - Get Lucky
Lyres - Lyres Lyres
Manowar - Fighting The World
Manowar - Sign of the Hammer
Masters Of Reality- Masters Of Reality
Meat Puppets- II
Megadeth - Peace Sells...But Who's Buying?
Melvins - Ozma
Mercyful Fate - Melissa
Metallica - ...And Justice For All
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Metallica - Ride The Lightning
Ministry - Land of Rape and Honey
Ministry - The Land of Rape and Honey
Minor Threat - Minor Threat
Minor Threat - out of step
Minutemen – Double Nickels on the Dime
Misfits - Legacy Of Brutality
Mission of Burma - Vs.
Motley Crue - Shout At The Devil
Motley Crue - Too Fast For Love
Motorhead - Ace of Spades
Motorhead - Orgasmatron
Mudhoney - Superfuzz Bigmuff
MX-80 Sound - Out Of The Tunnel
My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything
Naked Raygun - Throb Throb
Napalm Death - Scum
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Re*Ac*Tor
Nick Cave + The Bad Seeds - Firstborn Is Dead
Nick Cave + The Bad Seeds - Your Funeral, My Trial
Nirvana - Bleach
NoMeansNo - Wrong
Pagans - Buried Alive
pil - flowers of romance
Pixies - Come On Pilgrim
Pixies - Doolittle
Pixies - Surfer Rosa
plugz - better luck
Poison - Open Up And Say...Ahhh!
Pussy Galore - Dial 'M' for Motherfucker
Pussy Galore - Sugarshit Sharp
Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime
Ramones - End of the Century
Raw Power - Screams From the Gutter
Redd Kross - Neurotica
Redd Kross -Third Eye
Replacements - Let It Be
Replacements - Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out The Trash
Rites Of Spring - End on End
rites of spring - s/t
Rush - Moving Pictures
Saint Vitus - Born Too Late
Scorpions - Love At First Sting
Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel – Nail
Scratch Acid - s/t & Just Keep Eating
Screaming Trees - Buzz Factory
Screaming Trees - Even If & Especially When
Sisters of Mercy - Floodland
Skid Row - Slave to the Grind
Slayer - Reign in Blood
Slint - Tweez
Sonic Youth - Confusion Is Sex
Sonic Youth - Sister
Sonny Sharrock - Guitar
Soundgarden - Louder Than Love
Soundgarden - Ultra Mega OK
Spacemen 3 - Sound of Confusion
Squirrel Bait - Skag Heaven
Suicidal Tendencies - Institutionalized
Swans - Children Of God
Swans - Filth
The Birthday Party - Prayers on Fire
The Cult - Electric
The Cynics - Blue Train Station
the ex - 1936 spanish revolution
The Fall - Hex Enduction Houir
The Fall - Perverted by Language
The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace
The Fuzztones - Lysergic Emanations
The Gun Club - Fire of Love
The Gun Club - The Las Vegas Story
The Lords of the New Church - The Method to Our Madness
The Misfits - Walk Among Us
The Nomads - Outburst
The Pretenders - Pretenders II
The Scientists - Blood Red River
The Telescopes - Taste
Thee Mighty Caesars - English Punk Rock Explosion
Thin Lizzy - Thunder and Lightning
Thin White Rope - Moonhead
This Heat - Deceit
Three Johns - Atom Drum Bop
Throwing Muses - s/t
Throwing Muses - The Real Ramona
Trouble - Psalm 9
TSOL - Change Today?
Twisted Sister - Stay Hungry
Ut - Conviction
Van Halen - 1984
Venom - Possessed
Venom - Welcome to Hell
Voivod - Dimension Hatross
Voivod - Nothingface
Warrant - Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich
WASP - WASP
Wipers - Over The Edge
Wipers - Youth Of America
Wolfhounds - Bright & Guilty
X - Los Angeles
X - Wild Gift
Y&T - Open Fire
Young Gods - L'eau Rouge
ZZ Top - Eliminator

How completist are we being with this? Cuz if they're going to have representation as artists, Bathory's s/t and Blood Fire Death really need to be on there, as do Venom's Black Metal and At War With Satan, plus a lot of other things from other artists I'm sure. Is the concern excessive vote-splitting?

I meant like, soundtracks.

or like, flex your head or something

Not at all. Nominate it all.

Im not sure with soundtracks. I guess if its a soundtrack by the one artist and you wanna vote for it then its fine. (things may change once i see whats nominated obviously)

Can i remind you all to nominate tracks here Pfunkboy, Viceroy & emil.y productions present: the most rockingest tracks of the 1980s poll NOMINATIONS THREAD

^ i've nominated a few comps: the avengers s/t, the cramps bad music for bad people, and the pagans buried alive. each is the artist's definitive release, and none announces itself as a comp.

the avengers album was for ages the only full-length one might hope to find by the band, and while the pagans did put out one "proper album" during their lifetime, they've always been known for the clutch of singles collected on buried alive. bad music for bad people is thee essential cramps album, and none of these bands ever really had "hits" anyway.

I think genre polls are more forgiving where comps and/or soundtracks are concerned. Or they should be, at least.

How completist are we being with this? Cuz if they're going to have representation as artists, Bathory's s/t and Blood Fire Death really need to be on there, as do Venom's Black Metal and At War With Satan, plus a lot of other things from other artists I'm sure. Is the concern excessive vote-splitting?

― Clarke B., Wednesday, August 1, 2012 8:50 AM (3 minutes ago)

yes, the concern is vote-splitting. i nominated venom's in league with satan because it's my favorite venom album. i was hoping it would be the only venom album nominated, cuz that'd give it a better shot at finishing high, but if other people prefer black metal or w/e, then i figure they'll nominate it. the goal shouldn't be complete representation of an artist's output, it should be complete representation of the shit that ILM posters love above all else.

derp, venom's in league with satan WELCOME TO HELL, ffs

i do especially love that song, though

Unless others object then I guess those comps can count. Doesnt mean ALL comps are though. Will play it by ear.

Im happy for noms to be completist. Nothing worse than people complaining that their fave album ever ,that they could not be arsed to nominate , isnt included.

Not a popular choice, but Possessed is probably my fave! I'll vote for any Venom record on the list, though. I'm new to contributing to these, so I'm still getting the strategy straight.

Hi folks! Apparently I'm helping run this thing. Anything I can do for you? Warm Towells? Tea? Coffee?

also can I just nom:

Ministry - The Land of Rape and Honey

it appears to be there TWICE already haha

LOL nm then hah

Slovenly: We Shoot For the Moon
The Sound: Jeopardy
The Wedding Present: Bizarro

Would the Feelies qualify or do they not have ugly enough guitar tones?

Beat Happening – Beat Happening

lmao

― cock chirea

lol, sorry, I copy and pasted from my 'best indie albums' list and forgot to remove that one. It's definitely too twee, lo-fi, for this poll. Please remove it.

Would the Feelies qualify or do they not have ugly enough guitar tones?

― timellison, Wednesday, August 1, 2012 12:29 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This crossed my mind as well, but I decided they flop too much to rock enough for this list.