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

xp yeah Psalm 69 is great

it's sort of sad but it is a personal point of pride that I identified how horribly Ministry was starting to suck and jumped off the bandwagon before they could Filth Pig me

stuff I voted for so far

243 8-Eyed Spy - Lazy in Love 177 Points, 4 votes (TIE)
216 X - The Hungry Wolf 205 Points, 4 Votes
200 Dinosaur Jr - The Lung 232 Points, 5 Votes
174 F/i - Trauma at the Beach 264 Points, 4 Votes
170 Glenn Branca - Lesson No. 1 271 Points, 5 Votes
161 Agent Orange - Bloodstains 281 Points 6 Votes
154 Swans - Half Life 301 Points, 5 Votes

all these were in my top 10, scratch acid was my #1 vote

162 Scratch Acid - She Said 280 Points, 4 Votes One #1
157 Live Skull - Fort Belvedere 296 Points, 4 Votes
185 Psychic TV - Unclean 253 Points, 4 Votes (TIE)
207 Chrome - New Age 219 Points, 4 Votes

yeah, I'm just watching all my fave picks go down in flames long before the top 100. v. glad AG is running a top 250 poll so I can actually participate (ha!). a bit surprised you voted f/the Dinosaur, though (never knew your love of them went beyond the first rec).

139 Misfits - Astro Zombies 326 Points, 5 Votes
http://open.spotify.com/track/7dWyBjRr6F6Ap2N6xNNXf2
http://youtu.be/HZJPPOLBDcc

yeah Misfits not the one I voted for, but awesome anyway

I came to terms w/ you're living all over me in later years so I wanted to throw it a bone, don't think anything from the s/t was nommed in tracks

also DJP otm re: ministry

also I voted for NO misfits lol

oh wait I voted for 1 track/1 album

haha wait what someone who didn't like you're living all over me? are you the indie nate carson?

137 Dio - Rainbow in the Dark 335 Points, 6 Votes
http://open.spotify.com/track/1sRNnxZZDt6rPyvSbCw5im
http://youtu.be/KUXSTY9AW-s

Surprised Dan doesn't like So What, if I'm honest.

Ahhh nice, was starting to suspect no Misfits tunes would make it. Astro Zombies wasn't one of the ones I voted for (still great though).

They were obv such a corny band, but they really did have great vocal melodies.

this Dio track is great!

Is that Dio tied with something? We're missing a #138.

Also, whoa, jjj hates him some Sonic Youth.

Most of the Mind songs suffer from the same problem, which is that there is enough musical material to sustain the song for 2 - 3 minutes, but the songs go on for 6 - 8 minutes; I vividly remember my first listenthrough thinking that most of the songs started out great but got really REALLY old by the time they hit the three minute mark and "Burning Inside" was the only one that managed to sustain energy and interest over the course of the whole song (possibly because it is one of the few songs to make use of consistent rhythmic syncopation on the album).

It's the same problem that a lot of terrible acid records have, where the repetition does not build anywhere and basically you just keep hearing the same musical idea over and over and over with little to no development or variation, leaving this static pile that really is a textbook exercise in sound and fury signifying nothing.

I was a huge fan of the first dinosaur rec for its ghostly melancholy + rawness, waited eagerly for the follow-up and when it came out it sounded like some well-formed pop album to me. so I was that guy walking around saying "the first album was better". prolly wasn't until '92 that I finally came around to it.

incidentally the other night somebody said to me "I like you, ed" and I involuntarily recited the opening to "clothes hoist"

yeah its a tie with This but didn't want 2 of metals greatest vocalists to overshadow one another.

137 Candlemass - Mirror Mirror 335 Points, 6 Votes
http://open.spotify.com/track/2riv9QkQLgXyr0a7RWohcF
http://youtu.be/XRHEnREuJZQ

This track is fucking amazing.

THAT RIFF! THAT VOICE!

They were obv such a corny band, but they really did have great vocal melodies.

― Neckbeard's Castle (Mr Andy M), Monday, September 24, 2012 4:39 PM (6 minutes ago)

corny maybe, but pound for pound they produced the greatest body of work of any punk band imo

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/20789097/Candlemass+_Messiah.jpg

Aldo get in thread

playlist going from the adolescents -> iron maiden is causing some cognitive dissonance

surprised anyone doesn't like "so what", if i'm honest.

like, you look at how a song like "(Everyday Is) Halloween" is structured and then compare it to "So What", which is two minutes longer and has fewer musical ideas in it, and you really start seeing how Ministry really just turned into a vehicle for a drugged-up Jourgenson to shout at a microphone more than a band making music

Even "Flashback", which is a simple 4 minute long aggro blast, introduces more weirdo variations and phrases into its semi-brainless howl of anger than the meandering rumble of "So What", which basically alternates between "here's the part where the guitar noodles" and "here's the part where the guitar plays a riff" with little to no development within those sections distinguishing one from another as the song listlessly alternates through them, at which point I'm basically stuck trying to like the song solely because Al shouts "ANAL FUCKFEST" in it.

and that's why I don't like post-Land and Rape Ministry *bows*

*applause*

Oh not arguing with that, and I'd consider myself a fan. But they do have some elements where... the best way I could put it is I could imagine other people cringing although I don't. And a few indefensible lyrics obv.
xpost to EdwardIII

I get the feeling Dan & John have been arguing about this for over 20 years.

Didn't vote for Candlemass, but Messiah era is great, aye. Chapter VI is fucking dreadful though.

I just want to say however WHY WASN'T JUST LIKE YOU NOMINATED?

Dio pwns

and I know it's assumed when I'm posting now but fyi its' criminal that Rainbow isn't higher

hehehehe aldo is still sore from a messiah-less candlemass making a power metal album and not doom.

I strongly considered nominating Twitch era songs but they didn't feel sufficiently "rock" enough for what I thought ppl were looking for

In retrospect, I would have nominated the entire album and voted for "Isle of Man" and "The Angel Song"

136 Ministry - Deity 339 6 Votes
http://open.spotify.com/track/2C4r66hSqKhvTvBHxZiJG3
http://youtu.be/h6MAPQw665Y

Did Dan nip out for a crap?

135 Celtic Frost - Procreation Of The Wicked 340 Points, 5 Votes
http://open.spotify.com/track/3TNb7BL1votP59buumqgrv
http://youtu.be/Fa4gp8CNSes

If you don't dig this you're dead to me.

I do like "Deity" but it's not my favorite Rape and Honey song (which would be "You Know What You Are" or "Flashback")

It's no Into The Crypt Of Rays.

btw I'm listening to "Fascist Jock Itch" right now and kind of mad that I didn't vote for it; the Ministry template from this era works so much better on non-Ministry bands

I know I've been a bit 'meh' about most of the metal selections so far (this is just vmic for me I'm afraid) but yeah, this Celtic Frost one I quite like.

how can anyone be meh about Candlemass?????

Think I tend to like my metal mid-to-slow tempo and chunky/crunchy sounding (with a few exceptions, e.g. I love Motothead's uptempo stuff).

yeah cmon Candlemass is awesome

xpost well then Candlemass is yr thing, they are super slow!

yeah I don't remember hearing Candlemass before today and that's kind of my takeaway "I should look into this band more" for the day

xpost the vocals are certainly impressive, I'll give you that. They're not in a style I'd go out of my way for, but he's good at what he does.

also if "Tin Omen" doesn't show up on this poll I'm gonna pitch one

Candlemass go from super slow to mid-paced epic doom and back again. Just like Trouble both bands are the gods of the genre along with a certain SST band.

ok the cries of TOO LOW are really gonna come thick and fast now. But blame those who cba voting.