1980'S ROCK POLL ALBUMS/TRACKS VOTING THREAD. (Voting closes September 20) (all welcome to vote inc Lurkers)

I had to shave off a couple of Def Leppard tracks to get it down to 50 but it wasn't as tough as I thought it would be

I started with a 4-page 'long list' of tracks I know and like to varying degrees.

Viceroy are you still doing the tracks rollout on monday? Can you manage it all?

It wasn't exactly tough to make it 50, in either case, though, as much as the final list just seemed short. After I finished ranking things, I just picked the top 50. I did replace "Expressway to Yr Skull" with "For Whom the Bell Tolls" at #50 on the track list because Sonic Youth was already extremely well-represented. Otherwise, I didn't think further.

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Sonic Youth was already extremely well-represented.

haha should call the poll that

I am not voting for 50 tracks

49?

Remember everyone who only voted for albums you can still vote for tracks.

VOTING CLOSES THURSDAY

what time?

Midnight UKtime I guess.

No one needs to leave it too late however. You can do it today!

well i'm still listening to stuff, so if i can do that til thursday afternoon i will

when I said 'you' I was meaning anyone who hadn't voted yet
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Seandalai I emailed you.

VICEROY REPORT TO BASE

If anyone wants to do blurbs for their fave albums either email me if you have it otherwise webmail me.

Think we're close to 60 ballot mark for albums - please keep em coming!

I wish someone would have nominated Happy Nightmare Baby. But you can't complain when you have missed the nomination period and decide to vote!

gah, i wish i would have nominated it! i don't even get the "missed the nomination period" excuse.

I've been trawling the blogosphere for rare and OOP 80s recs for this poll, and I ran across a reference to the Tellus cassette magazine series, which I had completely forgotten. after a bit of digging, I found a legit and free archive of all the Tellus cassettes (which are now on MP3). for the uninitiated, Tellus was a NYC-based cassette magazine that ran from '83-'93, and covered a wide range of avant/underground music and sound art. artists such as Sonic Youth, Live Skull, Rat at Rat R, The Scene is Now, Chain Gang, F/i and Rhys Chatham contributed work. the UbuWeb archive also has a huge amount of non-Tellus material from many other avant/underground 80s artists (all of it free). if you're not completely burned out on the 80s, check out the archive.

Tellus index and history:

http://www.ubu.com/sound/tellus.html

UbuWeb archive:

http://www.ubu.com/sound/

(I only found this one ILM Ubuweb thread: Ubuweb tip offs and finds thread)

1 day to go..

Who all plans to vote? Apart from some dude

I have both ballots p. much finished, but I still have some listening (ie: procrastinating) to do. they'll be submitted before the deadline.

so what are your shortlists down to?

roughly 60 each. still fucking around w/the last spots, mainly.

That is the problem with leaving ballots to the end. You then realise there's more you want to vote for than you can. So I urge all those who are planning to vote to make a start NOW

hope y'all are combining the votes for these two entries

Bad Brains - Bad Brains
Bad Brains - S/T

That is the problem with leaving ballots to the end.

more like a modus operandi, tbh.

edward Im hoping seandalai picks that up in voting and combines them and noone is a dickhead by voting for both

I'm really looking forward to seeing the results afaik the top 20 is close and of course those albums near the bottom could sneak in the results. It will be a big rollout so don't worry about voting for obscure stuff as your vote might make something sneak in.

btw no its not a top 500.

these albums were nommed but are missing from the voting list

Dead Kennedys - Plastic Surgery Disasters
Dicks - Kill from the Heart
Dicks - These People
SS Decontrol - The Kids Will Have Their Say

apparently no one, self included, nominated SPK's leichenschrei or monitor's self-titled, they would've been top 10 for me

that dk's was def on the spreadsheet as i remember adding it.

yeah tis there

ok it's not on the list at the top of the thread, but it's in the spreadsheet

should prolly delete list from top of thread and replace w/ link to spreadsheet but too late now I guess

EVERYONE PLEASE USE THE SPREADSHEETS FOR VOTING AND IGNORE THE LIST PRINTED AT TOP OF PAGE

Edward If a mod can do that it would be great but I think it takes a lot of faffing about to correct.

prolly just clicking delete and save, but a bit late after 60 ballots have been submitted

there are 4 albums in the spreadsheet, but not in the list at the top of the thread

Angelwitch - Angelwitch
Dead Kennedys - Bedtime For Democracy
Dead Kennedys - Frankenchrist
Dead Kennedys - Plastic Surgery Disasters

and these 3 I nommed but are missing from both the spreadsheet and the list at the top of the page oh well

Dicks - Kill from the Heart
Dicks - These People
SS Decontrol - The Kids Will Have Their Say

Are you sure? I see those 3 in there

apparently no one, self included, nominated SPK's leichenschrei or monitor's self-titled, they would've been top 10 for me

yeah, I forgot to nominate Leichenschrei, the first two Feedtime LPs, anything by Slovenly, most of the Minutemen and Husker Du tracks that I actually would've voted for, and probably a few others, but w/e. nominating 100 tracks for 50 slots is ridiculous enough, and even w/the omissions I could've easily made 100-slot ballots.

oh yeah don't mind me

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yeah leichenschrei so critical tho... loomed as large as atomizer or junkyard imo

not even heard of!

well, you can vote twice f/Auto-Da-Fe.

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does not, however, include the immortal line, "He tried to give me syphilis by wiping his cock on my sandwich".

go it down to 50 albs pretty easy, ranking is painful tho. 15 albums want to be in the top 10.

5:12

http://youtu.be/ap1nNFDwqz8

Can I assume nobody is up for doing album blurbs?

don't think anybody's interested in writing a blurb for an album they're unsure is going to place, and the popular favorites will have plenty of opinions to mine from the ILM archives

Too much work to mine anything what with the rest I need to do.

is there a blurb deadline? might give it a shot if I have time.