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

^ and that one

That's the one I meant ^

someone did the candyman again

haha xp

48 Def Leppard - Photograph 666 Points, 11 Votes
http://open.spotify.com/track/60Fhq9SGHtIgsvZUI9WBdC
http://youtu.be/VZ5bS3_BCDs

666

How many bands on this list are jealous of the hair metal band getting that particular score?

The Number Of The Poodle

one of the few def lep songs that don't shred my vocal cords when i attempt it at karaoke

Haha that's so ILM, dying here

Also I never realized that I knew any Def Leppard songs.

It's a great song. I have no complaints.

didn't vote in this cuz i didn't have time and it was alot to digest and tbh i was skeptical of the parameters and definition of terms so to speak but loving the results and thanking you ag for making it top 250. think i would've voted 'youth of america' #1 fwiw.

47 Blue Öyster Cult - Burnin' for You 666 Points, 12 Votes
http://open.spotify.com/track/1uZOev7V8UkfhCKuMDnAdy
http://youtu.be/ipqqEFoJPL4

my votes that have placed:

230 Swans - Right Wrong 193 Points, 4 Votes. (TIE)
201 Bauhaus - Dark Entries 230 Points 6 Votes
189 Scraping Foetus off the Wheel - Clothes Hoist 250 Points, 4 Votes (TIE)
189 F/i - Why Not Now? Alan! 250 Points, 4 Votes (TIE)

180 Black Flag - What I See 259 Points, 4 Votes (TIE)
170 Glenn Branca - Lesson No. 1 271 Points, 5 Votes
162 Scratch Acid - She Said 280 Points, 4 Votes One #1
157 Live Skull - Fort Belvedere 296 Points, 4 Votes
155 Minutemen - Boy Dylan Wrote Propaganda Songs 300 Points, 4 Votes
154 Swans - Half Life 301 Points, 5 Votes
140 Ministry - Flashback 323 Points, 7 Votes
125 Killing Joke - The Wait 375 Points, 8 Votes
109 Flipper - Ever 415 Points, 6 Votes
95 Einsturzende Neubauten - Tanz Debil 468 Votes 6 Points, One #1
94 Spacemen 3 - OD Catastrophe 469 Points, 9 Votes
68 Hüsker Dü - Chartered Trips 559 points, 8 Votes, One #1
54 Black Flag - My War 621 Points, 10 Votes
51 Sonic Youth - Death to Our Friends 641 Points, 9 Votes

I haven't even checked which of mine placed. I can only remember a couple of songs I voted for.

Bowing out for tonight, but have faint hopes that Pay To Cum and/or Holiday In Cambodia might place in the next few.

tough to forget when I spent so much fucking time fiddling w/the order (which in many cases was wholly irrelevant 'cause they didn't have a shot).

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46 Public Enemy - She Watch Channel Zero 672 Points, 13 Votes
http://open.spotify.com/track/4eUU3QxXeWX9WSbyLmLtCP
http://youtu.be/8NNCm7kAAVs

http://www.thebuffalobullet.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/DougWilliamsSIcoverLarge1.jpg

classic

remember when the mix of rap n metal was fresh n exciting?

more than half of mine have placed. amazed!

Einsturzende Neubauten - Tanz Debil
Skinny Puppy - Assimilate
Flux of Pink Indians - Tube Disaster
Scraping Foetus off the Wheel - Clothes Hoist
8-Eyed Spy - Lazy in Love
Grauzone - Eisbär
Cramps - Goo Goo Muck
Big Black - Jordan, Minnesota
Bauhaus - Dark Entries
Colourbox - Just Give 'Em Whiskey
Flipper - Ever
Minutemen - This Ain't No Picnic Wipers - Youth Of America
Ministry - Burning Inside
Sonic Youth - Flower
Swans - Half Life
The Young Gods - Envoyé
Glenn Branca - Lesson No. 1
Gang Of Four - To Hell With Poverty!
Shriekback - My Spine (Is The Bassline)
A Certain Ratio - Do the Du
Psychic TV - Unclean
Husker Du - Makes No Sense at All
Birthday Party - Dead Joe
Killing Joke - Eighties
Public Enemy - She Watch Channel Zero
AR Kane - Lollita

more than half of everyone's ballot has placed

45 Nine Inch Nails - Head Like a Hole 689 Points, 15 Votes
http://open.spotify.com/track/60ig0jG8TkhAwfDRUbP6Eo
http://youtu.be/cV2EUUF47Ms

I forget if stirmonster voted for this or not..

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

I think it's among the best things they did. I see it as the culmination of their Branca-influenced work, where they are still doing something clearly different with what they took. It's really well-constructed.

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

This surprises me. Why would they not fit in? They've probably played with or have some ties to 30% of the bands here. Sister and Daydream Nation especially are clearly hard rock albums imo. It's not like SY was some chamber ensemble.

44 Misfits - Where Eagles Dare 691 Points, 12 Votes
http://open.spotify.com/track/1YF5xOqP5yUYfaKjKZ5Heg
http://youtu.be/4LOaEzmaPfU

forget if stirmonster voted for this or not..

i'm a NiN free zone.

had a funny feeling you might be

something you like will be up after the next one

Why would they not fit in?

(especially considering some of the other things on this list)

looking back at the nominations, there were surprisingly few from EVOL. i like death to our friends but to my ears (and i'm a big branca fan) it's not thee choice moment from that record. xp

how many sonic youth tracks were nominated?

12

43 AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long 693 Points, 11 Votes
http://youtu.be/Bomv-6CJSfM

What would you pick from Evol, stirmonster?

i can think of a couple of obvious ones

I like the whole album. Just asking what stirmonster considers the standout tracks.

Also, while I do think SY belong in (and in some ways epitomize the aesthetic of) this poll, Evol is one of their least rocking albums so I didn't nominate much from it. I'm guessing other people might have felt the same way.

off the top of my head shadow of a doubt, marilyn moore and expressway. but, i love the whole album and it's probably my 2nd favourite of theirs. xp

old biz f/Sund4r:

I don't think this is true: Journey and Bon Jovi were about as far from the RS canon in the 80s as possible (certainly more so than Husker Du or the Replacements). Iirc, RS's 'end of the 90s' list included an 'alternative' section with hardly any albums on independent labels and a 'rock' section dominated by rootsy classic rock warhorses like the Stones or Van Morrison.

I don't think we disagree. I guess I'm referring to the "classic" (boomer-originated) RS sensibility re: rock. as an angry teen listening to SY and Big Black in the 80s, I recall leafing through their doorstop tomes in bookstores a number of times, and my (admittedly subjective and time-warped) impression is that RS used the term "rock" almost the way "pop" is used today, which is to say as a larger, umbrella term under which other genres could be regarded. the editors of these bloated texts seemed to associate funk and hip-hop and R&B loosely but regularly with "rock" in a very casual manner while simultaneously ignoring vast swathes of metal and underground rock. so, iirc, RS was for years content to expand their domain of "music that rocks" (ie: music that owes some allegiance to rock), but within the context of actual rock music per se they were wholly middlebrow and outright refused for a very long time to deal w/a huge amount of what they considered “obscure” or “genre” music. RS was ultimately forced to evolve - by U2 and REM and Metallica and Nirvana and many other bands - and they gradually modified their coverage and their lists and canons. But if this poll were taking place in the 80s, before RS began changing their v. condescending stance towards quite a bit of metal and underground rock, w/a few obvious classic-rock exceptions it really would be very close to an anti-RS endeavor.

sorry f/the v. late post. just wanted to address yr. point.

Yeah, "Shadow of a Doubt" is great. I actually feel like "Expressway" goes on a bit on record but I like most of it. "Secret Girl" is one of my favourites that gets much less press than some of the others.

xpost to stirmonster

42 The Fall - Totally Wired 702 Points, 13 Votes
http://open.spotify.com/track/1BXthN4HlDTY5HGfQrT1xM
http://youtu.be/aT-ZD5Q8G2w

yes, "secret girl" is great too; one of the kim gordon vox greats. i always want to hear "shaking hell' after i've listened to it. xp

Ah, OK, I think we're actually on pretty much the same page, Hellhouse. I would personally tend not to oppose including funk, hip-hop, and some R&B (as well as plenty of country) as "rock", actually, considering how the term was originally used in the 60s. The Carducci approach to defining "rock" actually seems pretty rooted in a 70s conception of hard rock. This is not too far from how many people use the term now so fair do's.

didn't think the fall were going to make it. nice.

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

This surprises me. Why would they not fit in? They've probably played with or have some ties to 30% of the bands here. Sister and Daydream Nation especially are clearly hard rock albums imo. It's not like SY was some chamber ensemble.

― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, September 25, 2012 7:43 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i guess i just wonder how much more they fit compared to so many amerindie bands that were willfully excluded

haha its ILM it was Never In Doubt
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well, after a decade i'm still trying to get the hang of this place.