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

ha inhuman scratches my helios creed itch. thats good btw!

I don't mind bored thurston but there is something to be said for being-boiled-in-oil thurston

if I get jjjusten to like SY I might just call it a night, this is a major achievement

It is kind of funny that a band that started out wanting to synthesize Throbbing Gristle and Black Flag went in a more slacker-ish pop-rock direction.

If all bands aspired for Confusion is Sex pummel and texture I swear our lives would be the better for it

world looks red has an ok shouty fIRE eNGINES thing going on - thats not right at all, but its the first thing that came to mind.

i would do a quid pro quo thing but the only thing i have to offer is for swans peeps that dont get the foetus deal to listen to the live album rife

which is holy crap available on spotify i guess?

album credits speak for themselves:

J. G. Thirlwell (as Clint Ruin) - vocals
Algis Kizys - Bass
Norman Westberg - Guitar
Ted Parsons - drums
Raymond Watts (as Ray Scaballero or Raymondo Watts) - Keyboards and guitar

or translated

foetus
swans
swans
swans
kmfdm (well and pig but we can ignore that)

I was at the foetus show that got released as male!

It is kind of funny that a band that started out wanting to synthesize Throbbing Gristle and Black Flag went in a more slacker-ish pop-rock direction.

― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, September 26, 2012 12:57 AM (10 minutes ago)

well I think we've already established why because dinosaur

it's an exaggeration to say nail changed my life when it came out but it sure felt like it

i am one of the dudes that is way more into rife than male. that is not to diminish your fucking awesome show btw.

xpost haha i will say that actually, i bought it on cassette used and never looked back. its my favorite album of all time actually.

super actually, too many actuallys to count

some links to rife versions of poll winners:

english faggot http://open.spotify.com/track/2xTNh7Afutp2jE9wK6xvV0
clothes hoist http://open.spotify.com/track/4oYoPnnK4St99G1C2ddlNy

those are tamer than some of the other tracks, fin is a real cuddler. private war/anything is long, but worth it.

note: might be slightly more aggro than studio, altho studio is pretty fucking aggro tbh

if i hadnt been worried abt foetus voter dilution i would have def nommed some stuff from ache. and maybe deaf, altho it doesnt "rock", it fucking rocks.

oh man I could fill a thread with my thoughts on foetus but I will say hole/nail are all time classics yet I kinda fell out of love with him after that

also mad that "wash it all off" was not nommed in tracks, the 12" version of that, the chorus just sounded so murderous when it kicked in

ok I'm gonna go watch oslo, august 31st now bye all and by all I mean jjjusten

oh fuck why did i nom no wiseblood fuuuuuck

Totally Wired! Nice.

That was one of my noms. I was expecting that if I nommed a Fall song ILM would follow suit and we'd have at least 10 Fall songs to choose from. Didn't happen. This was the only Fall song on the noms list. I assumed the voters in this poll weren't particularly excited about them, had I known I would have added How I Wrote 'Elastic Man', Cruiser's Creek, Hit the North or... i dont know, there's so many songs to choose from, a Fall tracks poll should be in line if it isn't already.

I wish I'd nominated ''Couldn't get ahead' as that's ferocious' , thought there'd be more Fall nominated

Just to add my tuppence into the SY debate: after BMR (or more specifically once DDN came out) they never did anything for me except in a live setting until we get into the 00s. SYR4 (I think, the critically derided one where they take on modern composition) seemed to form a watershed point and they became more interesting on record again after that.

As far as Foetus live albums are concerned for me Male>Rife.

Also lol at Neil Young making the top 50 in an anti-RS Canon poll.

Keep on rockin in a rolling stone canon free world

No big, but "Where Eagles Dare" came out in '79, right?

Love the balance of genres so far.

I do love 'em and stuff, but anyone else not vote for a single SY or Pixies track?

xxxp The Classical wasn't nominated? that's perverse

was going to nominate a few more fall tracks (including the classical) but didn't get round to it.

"they (Dino Jr) laid a path forward for sonic youth, who began to ape them on sister and daydream nation."

I don't know, "ape" is pretty strong. Sonic Youth seemed to be making it's own progressions with Bad Moon Rising and then EVOL.

40 Sonic Youth - Eric's Trip 717 Points, 10 Votes
http://open.spotify.com/track/2QEGxYcfNbrJqWpSlk6XvL
http://youtu.be/jk0tKWqus4E

Good song.

yeah, every "good song" SY made is going to make it

that is the first of the great lee ranaldo songs iirc?

xp which I don't mind as much as the Pixies onslaught which is likely to follow. oh, and the funny feeling that Hungry Wolf will be the only X song to place. hope I'm wrong there

I'm linking the voting thread (with links to the nominations lists) here: 1980'S ROCK POLL ALBUMS/TRACKS VOTING THREAD. (Voting closes September 20) (all welcome to vote inc Lurkers)

I think the only nominated Pixies songs that have not appeared already are "Tame" (the only one I voted for, at #48) and "Tony's Theme". I would have probably voted for "Debaser" if it had been nominated.

"gigantic" too.

Oh yeah.

39 The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary 717 Points, 13 Votes
http://open.spotify.com/track/66glXjjFvlS5r1gDUK4ugq
http://youtu.be/8I8mWG6HlmU

lol no debaser?

i guess everyone assumed everyone else voted for it

Genuinely thought this had a shot at making #1.

choon

I would have probably voted for "Debaser" if it had been nominated.

Not even sure about this, listening now. Whatever its virtues may be, they don't seem related to rocking in a heavy way, to my ears.

"Eric's Trip" is another track that just doesn't feel like a standout for me.

"She Sells Sanctuary" was #20 on my list. I'm considering why I think of the Cult as a heavier band than the Pixies. I think I'd be pretty surprised it was #1 on this list, considering how other mainstream hard rock has placed.

38 Black Flag - Depression 722 Points, 11 Votes One #1
http://open.spotify.com/track/2PlwkgeUSTw8V8j76o86oy
http://youtu.be/cv6OwbBqQEA

I'm considering why I think of the Cult as a heavier band than the Pixies.

So, as far as Love is concerned, they weren't. Later Cult probably is though.

I'm not sure I'll ever get Black Flag.

I get to be jjj about BF.

I'll give "Depression" a listen though.

I think Black Flag is a much better band in theory than they are in practice

37 Pixies - Gigantic 725 Points, 15 Votes
http://open.spotify.com/track/3oqJ3POeLfa2TJh6BFLhPM
http://youtu.be/Nx_SKiSmvdc