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

That PIL album really counts? Is there even any guitar on it?

i dunno it

im relying on people pointing out these things. noone can know everything ever made!

Lol, that PiL album is abrasive as hell...but yeah, I think it might be completely guitarless.

does it ROCK!? as y'know industrial stuff can rock with no guitars. Abrasive is a good quality for the poll.

It's totally abrasive. (I think there's some processed guitar noise in the background on some tracks.) And I nominated Naked City and Sonny Sharrock for a 'rock' poll so I won't be really hardcore about this. I just thought we were going for more of a heavy electric guitar aesthetic.

I won't be really hardcore about this.

like about arguing this; obviously, it's not up to me.

(It doesn't rock in any sense in which I would use the term.)

Btw
Sonny Sharrock - Seize the Rainbow

the flowers of romance rocks based on drums only... banging the door is f'kn heavy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMbAgiTN2gM

that suicidal tendencies album is s/t, it's not called institutionalized

Dead Kennedys - Plastic Surgery Disasters
Dicks - Kill from the Heart
Dicks - These People
Fear - The Record
Minutemen - The Punch Line
Minutemen - What Makes a Man Start Fires?
Saccharine Trust - Pagan Icons
SS Decontrol - The Kids Will Have Their Say

man I forgot how good these people by the dicks is

that suicidal tendencies album is s/t, it's not called institutionalized

duh, 2nd time i've subbed a track for an album title

Guys, things can definitely rock without guitars. However, I'm honestly not sure if AG is gonna let me have this next nomination...

Art Bears - The World As It Is Today

If not there are definitely a couple of tracks that can go on the singles poll.

the flowers of romance rocks based on drums only... banging the door is f'kn heavy

i often think that heaviness and rockingness are opposing forces held in complementary tension. like the extreme of rocking = thin, fast, syncopated, aggressive but relatively light-bodied shit like chuck berry and jerry lee lewis. not at all heavy. and the extreme of heaviness is crawling brutal sludge like early swans or boris, shit that has less sense of how to rock than "candle in the wind".

It doesnt have to be heavy per se. this is not an exclusively metal poll. heavy noisy abrasive are all good descriptions. Intense rock is good. Though noone else might get what i mean (unless they look a
t my noms)

most people seem to get it with their nominations so far though

i have no idea if art bears should count. Can anyone help me out here?

It's cool that we're doing the 80s. The 80s had rock, but I don't think of it as a particularly ROCK decade. Even a lot of the glam metal I'll eventually get around to nominating is really just pop music with power chords.

I bet you thought I wouldnt allow it!

Naw, I knew the time would come eventually.

The thing about the 80s is (even though there's a definite rock underground) the whole decade seems coated in affected and stagey sheen with very little "real" peeking through. I realize that's painting with a broad brush, but it's my overwhelming impression of the music made in those years. Not that that's a bad thing...I love a ton of 80s music. In fact, I probably love more music from the 80s than any other decade (except for maybe the 60s).

i think that definitely feels true in relation to the 90s, when being "real" in an unaffected sense became a big priority in american pop culture. but i'm not sure that it really means much.

the disguise-wearing of 80s pop and rock (whether it be cartoonish mainstream stars like motley crue and cindy lauper, or equally exaggerated underground artists like the butthole surfers and jim foetus) allowed an authenticity of emotional and imaginative expression that the mask of ordinary, quotidian realness forbids.

It doesnt have to be heavy per se. this is not an exclusively metal poll. heavy noisy abrasive are all good descriptions. Intense rock is good. Though noone else might get what i mean (unless they look at my noms)

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Wednesday, August 1, 2012 11:41 AM (1 hour ago)

oh yeah, i know. i wasn't trying to police your poll, just thinking out loud about rock vs heavy.

lol Art Bears! They definitely rock. Allow it.

I mean this is pretty much mental metal without guitars:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHFwdvx2Dq4

I don't really understand this poll but...

Bailter Space ‎– Tanker
The Gordons - The Gordons
Killing Joke - Night Time
That Petrol Emotion - Manic Pop Thrill
Bolt Thrower - In Battle There Is No Law

Stiff Little Fingers - Nobody's Heroes

can someone please link me to this indie poll that a few people have mentioned?

Need to find out when we can do the voting and results. I suppose a longer voting period may be no bad thing.

the indie pop/college rock poll will almost certainly need to be done next year though , when i had the idea for the 2 polls i didnt realise so many polls were in the queue. but im sure timellison can wait.

I think people talked about the prospect of a college rock poll, but it's yet to be organized.

what about the 80s indie songs poll?

AC Temple - Sourpuss
AC/DC - Back in Black
Agent Orange - Living in Darkness
AR kane - 69
Art Bears - The World As It Is Today
Avengers - Avengers
Bad Brains - Bad Brains
Bad Brains - I Against I
Bad Brains - s/t
Bailter Space ‎– Tanker
Band of Susans - Love Agenda
Bastro - Diablo Guapo
Bathory - Under The Sign Of The Black Mark
Bauhaus - In The Flat Field
Bauhaus - The Sky'S Gone Out
Beat Happening – Beat Happening
Big Black - Atomizer
Big Black - Songs About Fucking
bIG fLAME - Rigour 1983-1986
Billy Idol - Rebel Yell
Birthday Party - Junkyard
Bitch Magnet - Umber
Black Flag - Damaged
Black Flag - In My Head
Black Flag - Jealous Again
Black Flag - My War
Black Flag - Slip It In
Black Sabbath - Mob Rules
Blind Idiot God - Undertow
Blue Oyster Cult - Cultosaurus Erectus
Bolt Thrower - In Battle There Is No Law
Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet
Boredoms - Soul Discharge
Butthole Surfers - A Brown Reason To Live
Butthole Surfers - Locust Abortion Technician
Butthole Surfers - Psychic... Powerless... Another Man'S Sac
Butthole Surfers - Rembrandt Pussyhorse
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 - Red Exposure
Chrome - Third From the Sun
Cop Shoot Cop - Headkick Facsimile
Corrosion of Conformity - Animosity
Cosmic Psychos - Go the Hack
cows - daddy has a tail
Cramps - Psychedelic Jungle
Cramps - Smell Of Female
Cramps - Songs The Lord Taught Us
crass - christ - the album
Cro-Mags - Best Wishes
Cryptic Slaughter - Money Talks
D.R.I. - Dealing With It
Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit For Rotten Vegetables
Dead Kennedys - Plastic Surgery Disasters
Dead Milkmen - Beelzebubba
Death - Scream Bloody Gore
Def Leppard - Hysteria
Def Leppard - On Through the Night
Def Leppard - Pyromania
Descendents - Milo Goes To College
Dicks - Kill from the Heart
Dicks - These People
Didjits - Hey Judester
Die Kreuzen - S/T
Dinosaur - S/T
Dinosaur Jr - Bug
Dinosaur Jr - You're Living All Over Me
Dio - Holy Diver
Dio - Last In Line
Discharge - Hear Nothing, See Nothing, Say Nothing
Dog Faced Hermans - Every Day Timebomb
Dog Faced Hermans - Humans Fly
Dream Syndicate - The Days of Wine and Roses
Drunks with Guns - Drunks with Guns
Einsturzende Neubauten - Drawings Of Ot
Einsturzende Neubauten - Fuenf Auf Der Nach Oben Offenen Richterskala
Einsturzende Neubauten - Halber Mensch
Einsturzende Neubauten – Haus der Lüge
Einsturzende Neubauten - Kollaps
Electro Hippies - The Only Good Punk... Is A Dead One
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
Faith No More - Introduce Yourself
Faith No More - The Real Thing
Fear - The Record
Fire Party - s/t
fIREHOSE - Ragin', Full On
Flesheaters - A Minute To Pray A Second To Die
Flipper - Generic Flipper
Fugazi - Fugazi
Fugazi - Margin Walker
Fushitsusha - Live I
Game Theory - Big Shot Chronicles
Gang of Four - Solid Gold
George Thorogood & The Destroyers - Bad to the Bone
Glenn Branca - The Ascension
Godfathers - Birth, School, Work, Death
Godflesh - Streetcleaner
Grong Grong - S/T
Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction
Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Halo of Flies - Garbageburn
Halo Of Flies - Singles Going Nowhere
Head Of David - Dustbowl
Head Of David - Head Of David
Helios Creed - Superior Catholic Finger
Helios Creed - The Last Laugh
Hoodoo Gurus - Mars Needs Guitars
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 - Intellectuals Are The Shoeshine Boys Of The Ruling Elite
Killdozer - Snake Boy
Killing Joke - Killing Joke
Killing Joke - Night Time
Kilslug - Answer The Call
King Crimson - Discipline
King Diamond - Abigail
Kix - s/t
Last Exit - Köln
Lazy Cowgirls - Tapping the Source
Lemonheads - Hate Your Friends
Live Skull - Bringing Home The Bait
Live Skull - Cloud One
Live Skull - Dusted
Live Skull - Dusted
Live Skull - S/T
Living Colour - Vivid
Loop - Black Sun
Loop - The World in Your Eyes
Loop: - Fade Out
Loverboy - Get Lucky
Lubricated Goat - Paddock Of Love
Lyres - Lyres Lyres
Manowar - Fighting The World
Manowar - Sign of the Hammer
Masters Of Reality- Masters Of Reality
Meat Puppets - Huevos
Meat Puppets - Monster
Meat Puppets- II
Megadeth - Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good!
Megadeth - Peace Sells...But Who's Buying?
Megadeth - So Far, So Good... So What
Melvins - Gluey Porch Treatments
Melvins - Ozma
Mercyful Fate - Melissa
Metallica - ...And Justice For All
Metallica - Kill 'Em 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
Minutemen - The Punch Line
Minutemen - What Makes a Man Start Fires?
Misfits - Beware
Misfits - Earth Ad
Misfits - Legacy Of Brutality
Mission of Burma - Signals, Calls, and Marches
Mission of Burma - Vs.
Monster Magnet - Forget About Life I'M High On Dope
Mother Love Bone - Shine
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 City - Naked City
Naked Raygun - Throb Throb
Napalm Death - From Enslavement to Obliteration
Napalm Death - From Enslavement To Obliteration
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
No Trend ‎– When Death Won'T Solve Your Problem
NoMeansNo - Wrong
Obituary - Slowly We Rot
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!
Poison Idea - Kings of Punk
Pop Group - For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder
Pussy Galore - Dial 'M' for Motherfucker
Pussy Galore - Sugarshit Sharp
Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime
Ramones - End of the Century
Rapeman - Two Nuns and a Pack Mule
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
Royal Trux - Royal Trux
Rush - Moving Pictures
Saccharine Trust - Pagan Icons
Saint Vitus - Born Too Late
Saint Vitus - V
Scientists - This Heart Doesn'T Run On Blood, This Heart Doesn'T Run On Love
Scientists - Weird Love
Scorpions - Love At First Sting
Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel - Hole
Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel – Nail
Scratch Acid - s/t & Just Keep Eating
Screaming Blue Messiahs - Gun-Shy
Screaming Trees - Buzz Factory
Screaming Trees - Even If & Especially When
Sisters of Mercy - Floodland
Skid Row - Slave to the Grind
Skullflower - Form Destroyer
Slayer - Reign in Blood
Slint - Tweez
Slovenly - We Shoot For the Moon
Sonic Youth - Confusion Is Sex
Sonic Youth - Evol
Sonic Youth - Sister
Sonny Sharrock - Guitar
Sonny Sharrock - Seize the Rainbow
Soundgarden - Louder Than Love
Soundgarden - Ultra Mega OK
Spacemen 3 - Playing With Fire
Spacemen 3 - Sound of Confusion
Spacemen 3 - The Perfect Prescription
Squirrel Bait - Skag Heaven
Squirrel Bait - Squirrel Bait
SS Decontrol - The Kids Will Have Their Say
Stiff Little Fingers - Nobody's Heroes
Suicidal Tendencies - Institutionalized
Swans - Children Of God
Swans - Cop
Swans - Filth
Swans - Public Castration Is A Good Idea
Swans - S/T
That Petrol Emotion - Manic Pop Thrill
The Birthday Party - Prayers on Fire
The Cult - Electric
The Cynics - Blue Train Station
The Del Fuegos - The Longest Day
The Del Lords - Johnny Comes Marching Home
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 Gordons - The Gordons
The Gun Club - Fire of Love
The Gun Club - The Las Vegas Story
The Jesus And Mary Chain - Psychocandy
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 Sound -Jeopardy
The Telescopes - Taste
The Wedding Present - Bizarro
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
Void/Faith Split LP
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 - More Fun In the New World
X - Wild Gift
Y&T - Open Fire
Young Gods - L'eau Rouge
ZZ Top - El Loco
ZZ Top - Eliminator

looks pretty solid so far... can't wait for the 200+ more noms that will get 1 vote (maybe).

Savage Republic - Tragic Figures
Skids - The Absolute Game
Slovenly - Thinking of Empire
Swell Maps - ...In Jane From Occupied Europe
Ut - In Gut's House

well, ffs...

The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy

ilx is apparently not big on east coast hardcore

what about the 80s indie songs poll?
If this is a thing that is happening, I've not been made aware.

I don't really understand this poll

I thought I did and am less sure now but I still like most of the music that is eligible.

Volcano Suns - All Night Lotus Party
Squirrel Bait - Skag Heaven
Circle Jerks - Golden Shower of Hits
Red Kross - Red Kross EP (aka "Annette's Got the His")

^ oops, skag heaven already nommed

Crass - Penis Envy
Crass - Yes Sir I Will

ilx is apparently not big on east coast hardcore

Then nominate it. I thought hardcore might dominate the poll but honestly got no idea what will. But thats fun innit?

lol, i'm not big on it either. just sort of a funny omission. figure someone here has to know and love the stuff.

lol contenderizer, you're like the UN :)

I'm sure it will be. Ive not even properly researched stuff i want to nominate, just adding stuff that pops into my head.

nakh gave me a good link
http://www.scaruffi.com/ratings/80.html

I nominated SS decontrol what more do you want

it will be handy for an indiepop/college rock poll too
xp

Brooce is on that list fyi :D

yes i know. hes also in the big 80s poll results ilm did. but not in this poll!

;_;

Paul Chain - Violet Art Of Improvisation
Paul Chain Violet Theatre - Detaching From Satan EP