The ILM 1980s Anti-Rolling Stone Canon (FREE PUSSY RIOT) Rock Poll Results - Tracks! Final top 10 results happening right now.

70s Halen >>>> 80s Halen

― Arvo Pärt Chimp (Neil S), Monday, September 24, 2012 8:56 AM (40 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

80s Halen >>>>> almost everything else on this list

some bollocks

yeah I like VH well enough pre- and post-1980, but that's a weird statement.

it's not THAT weird a statement, it's just one that would never occur to 90% of the ppl on this thread; outside our bubble I am certain that's the more prevalent opinion

having said that, lol some dude u mad

This next one is a message for some dude!

167 Pop Will Eat Itself - Wise Up! Sucker 275 Points, 6 Votes
http://open.spotify.com/track/0aM8c2VB8YARxTY0aO4y9c
http://youtu.be/UvgCGa0DGbE

that's a bit of metal-nerd trolling from mom's basement.

xxp to some dude.

FUCK YES

love that PWEI track, love the whole album. 'not now james were busy' is probably my fave though.

SIXTEEN DIFFERENT FLAVORS OF HELL

yes "Not Now James, We're Busy" is fucking great as well, plus "Satellite Ecstatica" and "Preaching To The Perverted" and "Can U Dig It?" and really the entire album except "Def Con One" is amazing

xxxp oh yeah I know VH are mad popular, and that I'm an indie rockist savage, but I would take quite a few of the 80s stadium rock bands over 80s VH, which might just be another manifestation of my disgusting indie rockism.

the grauzone -> branca -> halen transition is kinda hilar

That's ILM in a nutshell

A couple of better stadium rock bands due up very soon actually.

166 The Cult - Love Removal Machine 276 Points, 5 Votes
http://open.spotify.com/track/0pMvI3rFlzBBmOT1moPZ8K
http://youtu.be/joR59Izl_Zw

Excellent footage from the old greywhistle test there

i'm just talking the usual shit that always gets talked on these threads, if you guys think i'm being too sensitive or you're feeling too sensitive about it i can stop

no, its funny!

plus the cult kick van halens arse anyway! everyone knows that!

iirc there was an equal number of Cult and Van Halen songs on my ballot

I wouldn't say I hate the Cult but there's no way that they're better than VH.

xxxp nah it's cool, I'm always willing to be contradicted.

165 Loop - Collision 276 Points, 7 Votes
http://open.spotify.com/track/6PfFT9kcSlhsSDOBd2729n
http://youtu.be/74mT5ABGsKY

Van Halen have a ton of dope tracks - all sadly compromised by the singing of David Lee Roth or Sammy Hagar.

I nominated both KMFDM and PWEI but regret that "A Drug Against War" didn't make my final ballot. I probably should have found the space.

Some great guitar on "Hot for Teacher" btw. That placing seems low to me too but after "Livin' on a Prayer" placed below #200, I'm not too surprised.

heavy rock fans are the hardest people to get to vote for some reason. Doom metallers no problem. Black metallers no problem, rivetheads no problem. Poodles? impossible!

I mean, mainstream radio listeners, who would probably near-universally prefer Van Halen to Swans, are less likely to take the time to make a ballot for a poll like this.

This Loop song is really close to lots of stuff that I'm into but for some reasons just isn't doing it for me.

xpost it seemed clear to me from the noms list that this was going to be a mixture of mainstream and underground right through.

Sure, it's just the relative placings of things that is striking.

164 Def Leppard - Bringin' on the Heartbreak 279 Points, 6 Votes
http://open.spotify.com/track/0pJgpyIrpI07VDlE0UFKRo
http://youtu.be/OGh47hQzNcM

Umm, is that youtube link deliberate?

haha I'm sure it is

:)

heavy rock fans are the hardest people to get to vote for some reason. Doom metallers no problem. Black metallers no problem, rivetheads no problem. Poodles? impossible!

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Monday, September 24, 2012 10:24 AM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol unless you count almost any genre outside rock

i dunno, the ilm eoy poll gets the dance faction to vote. You would think that would be hard.

when i said 'almost' the exception i had in mind was dance

OK I loaded up the DL version and I'm going to be very nice and say I don't hate this as much as I remember hating it.

If you guys really want the Def Leppard version here it is
http://youtu.be/TMjzgWrSflU

The zinging gifs stay locked in their cage, chomping at the bit for another chance to get deployed.

I usually skipped that one on pyromania

163 Nomeansno - The Tower 280 Points, 3 Votes
http://youtu.be/D1ujT8ZYbOQ

I usually skipped that one on pyromania

"Heartbreak" is on High & Dry (and is v classic imo).

I really thought "The Tower" would be top 50!

oh yeah
xp

Contenderizer and I both said we'd rank it #1. Apparently neither of us did.

xpost

The Tower isn't as good as It's Catching Up imo but I still dig it.
There's something about a lot of nmn songs that can be really exhausting, in a good way. The drums really pummel you.

From Best Power Ballad? :

"Bringing on the Heartbreak" has to be a contender. The chunky guitars that pop in during the pre-chorus are so jarring (Radiohead stole this idea for "Creep"), and Joe Elliot's accent on the "taking all the best of me" line is amazing; all the refinement is stripped away and he just sounds like a pathetic lout. And then he takes it up an octave for the chorus...he's like, "fuck it, I'll SING my way through this" -- it's a power ballad with all sorts of personality! Also "Still Loving You" by the Scorpions, a song that seems to go on for 3 years before getting to the part everyone remembers -- the tension/release is amazing!
― Kris, Friday, 26 April 2002 19:00 (10 years ago)