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

you should hang around for the next ten stirmonster (btw no its not kerosene)

gonna have to check my ballot to see if i voted for kerosene. will be mighty mad if i didnt

Ahh yes i did vote for it

120 AC/DC - For Those About to Rock 386 Points, 6 Votes , One #1
http://youtu.be/H33vSYapNNs

this might turn into a pro-rolling stone canon top 100 (minus Livin on a Prayer and Sweet Child o' Mine) but fuck it, it's still refreshing

yeah, Ana Ng!

Right I need to duck out for tonight. Big thanks to AG for all the time & effort put into this, I've ended up getting much more involved and invested than I expected, as you've prob noticed.

119 Sisters of Mercy - This Corrosion 388 Points, 8 Votes
http://open.spotify.com/track/2D35UNG23mlFcGtEZQrJ3r
http://youtu.be/pgifFdi8eio

did not vote for

So many great songs outside the top 100 kinda shows what a great decade it was for underground music, and I wish I had been aware of it!

sick of it, crut?

118 The Replacements - Color Me Impressed 390 Points, 7 Votes
http://open.spotify.com/track/0WmtuICNV7SqnQwYDa7F0t
http://youtu.be/9_358OhIRqo

surprised there were so few Replacements nominations.

calling it the "anti-rolling stone canon" never made any sense

don't think I voted for any big black in tracks cuz I voted atomizer in albums

woulda if "racer x" had been nommed

117 Hüsker Dü - Pink Turns To Blue 396 Points, 7 Votes
http://open.spotify.com/track/1icyef1nNmLusODA03FLGf
http://youtu.be/kTjfl0yhyRk

Rolling Stone canons have always stretched the definition of rock to include any kind of pop music that has even vague associations w/rock. this poll is sticking w/a narrower definition of rock, but within that has expanded laterally to embrace all forms of metal at one end and noise rock at the other. so even though there may be some overlap between the two, and AG's poll isn't an anti-RS canon in the strictest sense, it's rooted in a different sensibility.

xxp

no Big Black tracks? I have three that I'm still hoping will show.

xp

116 The Young Gods - Longue Route 398 Points, 7 Votes
http://open.spotify.com/track/2dEOQMQJ243w8rlxsD0w2W
http://youtu.be/KdJH8q5c1k8

Think this was pretty high on my ballot

at least that's my interpretation of the poll's working aesthetic. didn't mean to speak f/you.

Wait, I lied earlier. Apparently, I did vote for "Rain".

no that sounds like a good interpretation!

115 Faith No More - Epic 398 Points 9 Votes
http://open.spotify.com/track/4ReyTz0y3TGkX48wO3Llot
http://youtu.be/8yoABwIlX3s

very much of its time

Re Husker, the Living End version of "What's Going On" is pretty crucial to hear if you just know the studio version. Both are great, but in different ways.

114 Metallica - Creeping Death 399 Points, 8 Votes
http://youtu.be/UO_84C3fpuI

Was in mine too

I voted f/a Metallica album, but thought my track votes were best used repping f/the likes of SPK and Cop Shoot Cop, whose tracks I imagine are floating about in the 400s.

Imagine the fuss if I had done a top 400

113 The Young Gods - Envoyé 408 Points, 8 Votes
http://open.spotify.com/track/6FEE5JQ4FY8IIM00jOxdiE
http://youtu.be/vdhHMXTGCC8

there's pure gold out in the nether reaches, man. well, a lot of shit and some pure gold, perhaps.

xp

only one other Young God track left.

Tbh a top 400 albums could be done.

Young Gods, that is, 'cause I'm fucking tired and thinking of the Swans EP.

yes, you could post the list just to infuriate some dude.

xp

Theres like 3 albums with one vote (but all over 90 points)
the rest have 2 or 3 min.

the album at #400 has 3 votes.

no tracks w/zero votes? or just albums?

i dunno what got no votes, would need to ask seandalai

516 tracks got a vote and 493 albums got a vote.

112 The Jesus And Mary Chain - Some Candy Talking 409 Points 9 Votes
http://open.spotify.com/track/58TNv157yqqV8BGewhQThW
http://youtu.be/LDmzfVMVr8k

idk, I'd like to see that list, but I suspect it may be due to a morbid fascination w/the forlorn. other people prob. don't care.

xp

btw, do you want me to start a separate Spotify playlist f/the top 100?

OK i'll do a top 400 albums then (was gonna be 350 but the tracks polls gonna finish a few days earlier so what the hell) The full lists will be posted at the end too. Those who don't care about #400 can always start reading later if they're not bothered about missing some good stuff. The point of these polls is to introduce music so the best way is to roll out a long list. The tracks poll has been justified and a lot will say there's loads of great songs outside the top 250. Posting a big list at the end doesn't get anywhere as many people checking that stuff out.

nah the one list is fine. Quite a few seem to be enjoying it.

*waits for incoming fire*

last one for tonight then.

111 Minutemen - Little Man With a Gun In His Hand 413 7 Votes
http://open.spotify.com/track/3rx424lBV5i6F3WpMtAIw7
http://youtu.be/uTVl_2ENTXo

sund4r will post the 250-111 Recap shortly.

will try start a bit earlier tuesday. maybe about 12. Try and get down to 51 so we finish on wednesday evening not too late.

well, should be interesting regardless, if you don't drop dead from a stroke.

xxp