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

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

very happy about the 2 Janes Addiction tracks, and Sonic Youth's "Pacific Coast Highway."

Who the fuck cares if people don't like Sonic Youth?

"its a case of sonic youth fans voting for tracks from albums"

just speaking for myself, as a fan, it's the 6 or 7 standout tracks on each album that make me rep for the albums.

Weird. I've never really had much of a sense of what Black Flag is in theory, or what there is to understand about them. They seem pretty immediate and straightforward, though that doesn't mean I think everyone should like them or anything. (I don't have much time for them any more, but I at least played the heck out of Damaged at one point in my life.)

I mean, they don't seem like one of those bands built around much of an idea.

it's not like I don't listen to shouty music at all (I mean I voted for "Flashback") but there's something about the Black Flag style of hardcore I find almost impenetrable

but enough of that, let's talk about how "Gigantic" is a fucking awesome song

36 Meat Puppets - Plateau 729 Points, 13 Votes
http://open.spotify.com/track/1szDksEZ8FUIESuhvoi2yN
http://youtu.be/F0IWHxvswLk

this is very gentle song, huh

says the guy who voted for the cure

Meat Puppets, bleah.

by the time i'd heard the MP 'Plateau' I'd heard the Nirvana Unplugged version too many times to be convinced by the original

says the guy who voted for the cure

says the guy who voted for "Give Me It"

35 Sonic Youth - Eliminator Jr. 737 Points, 10 Votes
http://open.spotify.com/track/1fmQi4ZRpuUKfhfKewqXS3
http://youtu.be/wbrvGu5bBvc

At this point, I'm sorry I voted for the two Sonic Youth tracks I voted for (one of which hasn't even shown up yet).

lol

If any you punks voted a SY track as your number one, so help me...

... I just hope it's the same one I voted for

black flag another situation where I don't think particularly strong tracks were nominated for them

kinda surprised by "gigantic" placing, thought that might be top 10 tho maybe that's because it's the only pixes song I like and y'all luv the pixies

you know, a lot of Sonic Youth is meandering nonsense in the best possible way

I wanna say that the more I listen to it, the more I feel there's a deconstructed Bauhaus element to a lot of their 80s stuff

oh fuck why did i nom no wiseblood fuuuuuck

― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, September 26, 2012 1:29 AM (9 hours ago)

yeah I woulda voted the fuck out of "0-0"

http://youtu.be/F_j3g-3jSfs

Talk about being late catching up on the playlist. . . I am enjoying Bon Jovi and Rush and even Skid Row a lot more than I'm enjoying any of the more alternative/underground stuff so far. Maybe the mean kids in school were right to make fun of the queer music that queers like me listened to. (Except obviously I still love X and "Mr. Jones" and so on and don't really mean this.)