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

i'm not sure. i guess why not

I voted for Y&T's Open Fire which is a live album

though if it got bounced I doubt it'd be for that reason alone, lol

Can a live album not rock? Can a various artists comp not rock? SO MANY RULES.

SO MANY TROLLS

I'm honestly not trolling. Trolls don't have any interest in the topic they troll. I'm interested in this. I just wonder what the justification is for disqualifying perfectly reasonable things (like v/a comps, soundtracks) on what amounts to a personal preference. Rock's not about rules.

(Also, Beastie Boys, Run-DMC and Public Enemy are all three squarely positioned in the rock canon, but I won't go there with you over that.)

(I mean, if The Boss is disqualified, there's no way to convince you those three acts belong.)

you do it every poll i run. its part of the poll tradition now. Along with you saying we fix the results..

Stop, Kerr. I'm not trolling. And I've apologized for that accusation now a hundred times, and if you bring it up again it's going to start making YOU look bad.

My point is this...being more inclusive with nominations rather than exclusive makes these totally meaningless exercises more fun and less contentious. It's not like we're engaging in geoglobal politics here. It's a poll on a music forum.

plus that's kerry on "no sleep" and "fight for your right"

KERRY

^ trolling

I dunno, personally it's kinda fun to try to participate in a poll with pretty rigid rules. I mean my tastes are almost embarrassingly mainstream compared to the rest of you fuckers so if I can get a kick out of this, I think all you indie weirdos can too :)

Open your hearts, submit to the fascist poll

my rule of thumb so far has been if you can dance to it chances are Kerr will throw it to the lions

lol these rules aren't rigid. You get rigid rules in a decade poll or a year poll or a label or artist poll. In a genre poll, the rules should be as loosey goosey as possible, and they are here for the most part...except when they aren't, for whatever arbitrary reason.

then forget I said anything

*shrug*

Sorry. Am I being an a-hole? I'll shut up.

No it's cool. I should just pull my head in.

Just...there's plenty of polls in the sea, is all.

anyway I would like to vote for

Lita Ford - Out For Blood
Girlschool - Demolition

nominate you mean. Voting is later

Lol, apparently I don't know my iTunes library that well since I have a copy of Spacemen 3's Dreamweapon on there that I can even remember listening to.

nominate, vote, whatever.

Septic Death - Now That I Have the Attention, What Do I Do with It?
Cryptic Slaughter - Money Talks
Stormtroopers of Death - Speak English or Die
Neurosis - Pain of Mind
Repulsion - Horrified
Macabre - Gloom

Oh I see Raoul covered a lot of those...

yeah, and i nominated money talks a couple days back

The Gories - House Rockin'

^ early politicking: VOTE FOR THE GORIES

it's the one that looks like this:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MCH2co0YwiI/Tl7QuJQj2fI/AAAAAAAACxc/EsC4sUE3zLY/s1600/GoriesHouse.jpg

hint

i think we get the hint

this may be pushing it, but how about a comp. from ’93 comprised of tracks from the 80s? afaik, it’s actually the second RRR F/i comp, with a different track listing from the first, and the two complementary recs contain most if not all of F/i’s output.

if yes, then I’ll nom:

F/i - Out of Space & Out of Time

if no, then:

F/i - Why Not Now? Alan!

and in any case I’ll also nom. these:

Band of Susans- Hope Against Hope
Blind Idiot God - s/t
Crash Course in Science - Signals from Pier 13
Gore - Mean Man’s Dream

which should look like this:

F/i - Out of Space & Out of Time
F/i - Why Not Now? Alan!
Band of Susans- Hope Against Hope
Blind Idiot God - s/t
Crash Course in Science - Signals from Pier 13
Gore - Mean Man’s Dream

Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
Journey - Escape
Journey - Departure
Dark Angel - Darkness Descends
Whitesnake - Slip of the Tongue
Whitesnake - Whitesnake
Pantera - Power Metal
Sodom - Agent Orange

(I nominated Mindcrime early on.)

Aerosmith - Pump
Kix - Blow My Fuse
Motley Crue - Dr. Feelgood
The Pretenders - The Pretenders
The Ramones - Pleasant Dreams

the pretenders? really? i dont think so

i was going to ask about their eligibility before nominating but then i saw you put the Pretenders II nomination into the master list no questions asked

well i hadnt noticed! I should check the master list to see what else sneaked by me.
thanks!

the pretenders? really? i dont think so

You've ever listened to that album, obvs.

That would probably be in my top 20.

xp *never

I would say, AG, that in order to discount stuff, you have to at least listen to it. I have no inclination to ever listen to the Pretenders, but if I was the sole veto person, I would make it my job to hear stuff before ruling it out.

umm it was paul who said i never heard it not me

Well, okay. If you know it, then fine. But you got to pinky swear that you'll listen to everything you veto.

i mean it's his list and i respect that he's trying to police the boundaries of something he defines, so it's all good. like i said, wouldn't have even nommed Pretenders if they hadn't been nommed already.

If this doesn't count as rock, then what the hell does?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YA3hZEDPNI

I ain't mad anymore, but this whole process is going to result in short outbursts of complete genuine shock and disdain.

name me a poll or list that doesn't!

See, I think that would totally count as 'rocking'. Not 'good', but 'rocking', yeah. I guess nom it in the tracks poll? I think AG is a little more hands-off, if not totally so, in that one.

yeah

Can we keep the youtube embeds to a minimum though please in both threads. Just use the shortened links

Ones where the host of the poll doesn't just arbitrarily disqualify things on a whim. Usually there are facts to back it up (like year or decade of release or whether or not it was a single or who sang a song). Here, just like the metal poll, the jazz poll, etc it's left up to totally shady discretion.

But whatevs.

My polls generally don't have this kind of bickering, btw. Why? Because I don't set them up with bizarro subjective parameters.

i would be fine w/ just nomming, say, "The Wait" or "Mystery Achievement" in the tracks poll to represent The Pretenders if not the album. i mean the tracks poll SHOULD be about highlighting hard rocking tracks whether or not the whole album or band's career rocks that hard.