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

132 Run DMC - King of Rock 353 Points, 7 Votes
http://open.spotify.com/track/3SknO2Kg8WuJbOvsY6AV0F
http://youtu.be/qXzWlPL_TKw

I had Slayer's Angel Of Death in there

I've gone and lost my album votes. Was that first Scratch Acid in the options? I'm sure I voted for that. For some reason I just need to hear Owner's Lament right now. It's raining out there and this song is calling

131 Shriekback - My Spine (Is The Bassline) 354 Points, 6 Votes
http://open.spotify.com/track/3VxFd7SnACXpFR2LBROrsR
http://youtu.be/1h_N49GEMjU

I expect mike t-diva loves this one

Will take it down to 121 tonight I think. Doubt we can manage any more.

geez not even Run DMC breaks the 100?

christ

Haha, three in a row that I a) know and b) like... poll be losing its edge!

Wow, "Raining Blood" was #3 on my ballot. I also expected it would make the top 50 easily.

hahaha! I knew it!
xp

I feel like this is my fault for submitting an unweighted ballot

130 Journey - Separate Ways (Worlds Apart) 358 Points, 6 Votes
http://open.spotify.com/track/2ORySgkn0CbUMFbEoP1wwE
http://youtu.be/WR2MnSZeZsI

btw Scratch Acid is fucking fantastic

I see that track as hardcore punk warped into damaged noise rock. She Says soaks the listener in bass/drum pounding, but the guitar and vocals curdle w/unhinged, bad-acid vibes, delivering a v. choice one-two punch.

Spotify playlist:

http://open.spotify.com/user/1234500846/playlist/09Ldc3UFXvm2ZGTfgV6Xlw

I didn't vote for any Journey, I totally should have

love Separate Ways

for some reason I didn't vote for "She Said." I put my vote towards "Owner's Lament" instead.

geez not even Run DMC breaks the 100?

christ

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, September 24, 2012 5:57 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i assume a lot of people like me love Run DMC but saw them on the noms thread and were like "uh yeah sure point made, so anyway"

I'm kinda wondering what's going on with the poll. its gone kinda strange and ILM.

one of my favorite things about '80s rock that i tried to represent on my ballot was stuff like "Seperate Ways" and "Rainbow In The Dark" that had really prominent synth lines but still felt like pretty muscular guitar rock songs

I'm telling you - it'll be all Swans and Sonic Youth since that's all you guys were yammering about through the nom thread, lol

129 Hüsker Dü - What's Going On 367 Points, 7 Votes
http://open.spotify.com/track/4ChUJ2cxF1UTdRv0J6lDGa
http://youtu.be/aBQM6pYQy9c

*bounces*

I WAS TALKING

ms bogan you notice one of those bands haven't placed at all yet.

oh FUCK YES re: Shriekback

such a badass song

Re: What's Going On

low f/Zen Arcade, but it's also one of their noisiest (in a great way), so 129 makes sense.

haha dans catching up

i think what the top of the poll looks like is wholly dependant on how many songs were nominated from a given act and how strong the consensus is around one or two of them. it's all kind of a random crapshoot given the format.

My takeaway from the whole thing about the NWA tune is that votes for hip-hop wouldn't be counted, but it seems now this was a misinterpretation. Tbh even if I'd thought they would be counted I probably wouldn't have gone with the 2 Run-DMC tracks, they're good but not great imo.

I might have considered She Watched Channel Zero for my ballot though (and yeah I know it samples Slayer...).

xxpost Kilty MacFuck THAT'S WHAT i'M SAYING. None of those bands have placed yet bc they're all in the top 50/top 10

I did actually buy a Husker Du album: Candy Apple Grey. Never played it much, though; I bought the debut from Mantronix on the same day, and that kinda won. Fell hard for the first two Sugar albums, but that was still six years down the line.

but swans have placed. so you're wrong

128 Metallica - Welcome Home (Sanitarium) 370 Points 8 Votes
http://youtu.be/V6Dfo4zDduI

Anyone else nostalgic for when Metallica were an awesome band?

*raises hand*

But I've seen them live a couple of times in the last 5 years and they still play the hell out of their old stuff.

I saw them in 1996 at the Barras (capacity 1900) awesome show. They only did like 2songs from load. the rest of the show was half of black album then all the old classics you would want to hear.

Welcome Home is way too subdued f/speed metal IMO. MOP could've been a truly sick masterpiece if all the fat had been cut and the song lengths halved. not a popular opinion, granted.

I mean, I love Disposable Heroes, but eight fucking minutes?

127 Hüsker Dü - Real World 372 Points, 6 Votes
http://open.spotify.com/track/1o32J46unAwKXiIgrL788R
http://youtu.be/iJSKExpsuQo

vote splitting in effect here

Now way the fat is the best part! I love those long Puppets and Justice tracks

well they were great on puppets

126 The Jesus and Mary Chain - Taste the Floor 373 Votes, 6 Points
http://open.spotify.com/track/7DwSIfvDNZo4RslGgQNzmw
http://youtu.be/eA9Ge0qFlHA

and all the fish get drowned..

yeah, but the padding consists of all the hammy metal segments. I've basically been ruined by Reign in Blood, tbh.

xxxp

C'mon Huskers yup. One of Mould's great chorused riffs .Norton's melodic bass and Grant shoring it up and powering it home wonderfully with some sweet backing vocals.
Fuck all you anarchist 'punks'

did you get my email?

Was all ready to get mad but then remembered that I actually like this one and that by JAMC standards it gets somewhat close to rocking.

Never Understand rocks IMO, but I didn't vote f/it.

xpost Not a touch on Real World though obv.

I prob would have voted for the JAMC version of Vegetable Man if it had been nominated.

Taste The Floor is sexy as hell

Real World's lyrics are fucked up