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

but otoh its cool to see non Daydream Nation tracks getting a look in.

Iron Maiden = Awesome running music.

but unlike the husker du tracks we had already on here , this one doesnt really work as a standalone track. I listen to their albums as a whole.

a couple of Du tracks didn't place btw just incase you're think Du fans just voted for everything. (not that im saying SY fans did either)
but i know some dude i think it was thought that their fans might vote everything into the top 20

SY is my favorite band of all time but i don't really know where they fit in this poll or why they're here, didn't put much on my ballot

56 Gang Of Four - To Hell With Poverty! 598 Points, 11 Votes, One #1
http://open.spotify.com/track/0cHtok9IcECmpLhkKsdznB
http://youtu.be/sPJHQmJAiKA

They fit as well as anyone else on here. Esp the early stuff i see no problem.

pch = highlight of late 20th c music

I like em but I don't care that much?
Even though I did vote for them I'm kind feeling this take on SY. From the noms thread on it's seemed clear that views on them tend to be quite polarized between all-time, life-changing genius on the one hand and overrated crap that represents all of that horrible indie stuff we hate on the other. For me both views seem weird because SY will always just be 'a band I quite like'.

The slow, jammy bit on Pacific Coast Highway is good.

the indie hate is quite bizarre on ilm. Because it comes from people who used to be into it.
Modern indie hate i understand i guess as its really meaningless now.

55 Mudhoney - In 'n' Out of Grace 612 Points, 12 Votes
http://open.spotify.com/track/5uDqT9eP1Jfdf7e2p6VIGt
http://youtu.be/BMuLYVOqFNQ

awesome song

hate for the indie canon on ILM comes from the exact same basic place as the impulse to make an "ANTI-ROLLING STONE CANON" afaict

^ Not a 'BOOM' I can do big enough for that one.

Out of what are obv countless contenders on the poll I think this may be personal over-enthusiastic slam-dancing fave.

The drums on the intro and breakdown/build sound so great too.

some dude rolling stone means nothing to me but i see hate for it and its cannon on ilm all the time (from americans) and i thought it was eyecatching.

i wouldve been happy if this song had been #1 tbh

lol well it definitely seems like you have no idea what the rolling stone canon is based on this thread, so that's not a surprise

I do wonder what tom and the people behind the origin of ilm would think of the poll. They might be appalled by the very idea of a rock poll?

I wish Tom and the others still posted here.

To be clear I don't have some indie hate vibe going on, I just know that sonic youth is a bag of shit.

nah that songs a cult favourite on here because of outloud/all-time metal poll.

Yeah I'd never even heard of Angel Witch before that poll, awesome song though.

i think you have a weird and inaccurate view of what those people listen to and think about music (xpost)

shame you hate pre-DN SY jjj as I thought it might be right up yer alley.

anyway
54 Black Flag - My War 621 Points, 10 Votes
http://open.spotify.com/track/4rrbptVnZifk4wC5mvNDPm
http://youtu.be/DeAje3grJCM

Death valley 69 is not terrible.

About time we had some more BF.

indeed.

jjj do you like Black Flag?

I like "Six Pack" and not much else

Still got fingers crossed that Six Pack might make it.

I keep imagining jjj groaning as another aging indie dude walks into his shop with the intonation on his guitar ruined from years of tuning it to F#F#GGAA.

53 Black Flag - Six Pack 621 Points, 11 Votes
http://open.spotify.com/track/5Og9VyCOfxmZCuv1UhIyxE
http://youtu.be/xqmZdLrLjrI

Hahahaaaa my Candyman act works again.

Still love intro on this with the instruments joining one by one. Imo Six Pack was always way catchier and funnier than TV Party.

52 Dead Kennedys - Nazi Punks Fuck Off 634 Points, 10 Votes, One #1
http://open.spotify.com/track/3JW6NlfmiZEtI33NwnDRrD
http://youtu.be/-MkRuV0aCcI

Spotify playlist:

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

Will anyone still be around if I take it past 50 tonight? Would mean i dont need to rush tomorrow and will reach the end of a poll at a decent hour for people.

Ok so if I was going to guess at highly placing dk tracks that would not have been one of them

I will be around, and really that's all that matters I think

i'll be around if you want to keep my wonderful negative energy going

51 Sonic Youth - Death to Our Friends 641 Points, 9 Votes
http://open.spotify.com/track/1cCvPyjhePg2AjIfHvYOx8
http://youtu.be/2tzX3oMaM64

OK will take it down to 41 tonight then

i know jjj is digging this song but wont admit it

I'll be around to woo for hair metal and power metal and any oddball cheese that somehow sneaks in

death to our friends is a fine album track but is pushing it a tad to be the 51st best track of the decade.

50 Danzig - Mother 647 Points, 13 Votes
http://open.spotify.com/track/7txxAtOMwLLnQTpKeBL6bp
http://youtu.be/vgSn0SbQJQI

stirmonster otm

"Mother" roolz, although i think i didn't vote for it because i think of it as a '90s track from when the live version hit big in '93