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no post-Rock For Light Bad Brains = no "Re-Ignition"

candyman

I haven't listened to much Bad Brains, so maybe I'm off here. All I know is I've never felt drawn in by their music, and I remember it as vaguely messy, but listening to "I Against I" just now was okay. I think part of the issue here is that I just don't remember hearing them much at the same to I was listening to Black Flag or related things, so I wasn't exposed to them in a big way at the time I would have been most receptive to their sound. I think there's just a random thing here, that I don't remember knowing anyone who was really into them, but surely they were being played on college radio in Philadelphia in the 80s--but I just don't remember noticing their songs. Ramble ramble ramble.

Re-Ignition one of the greatest riffs of all time.

33 Ministry - Stigmata 759 Points, 14 Votes
http://open.spotify.com/track/3gIxT1s0gqauz95wbwBzLj
http://youtu.be/2Chgc6vwmuo
http://youtu.be/YBi8U9hJy-E
http://youtu.be/qxaPj19VnRA

it's weird when I read about ppl not getting black flag, they were a lingua franca of punk in the 80s. some liked west coast punk, some were into the DC or boston scene, some grew out of or didn't like hardcore anymore, but most folks could find something in black flag's sprawling body of work to like. after not listening to them for years, I went through a late 90s / early 00s phase of returning to their stuff and finding it as bracing as it was back in the day. so, a lot of love and respect for black flag, and not just for the huge role they played in building the infrastructure of the american underground.

I definitely get early Bad Brains but kinda wish they'd stayed broken up after Rock For Light.

― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, September 26, 2012 11:08 AM (8 minutes ago)

ha truth bomb

where's dan?

I read "Re-Ignition" as "Ignition (Remix)" and wondered what the fuck Bad Brains had to do with R Kelly.

Stevie Chick's book convinced me Greg Ginn and Rollins were dicks when they were in Black Flag. And I ended up thinking less of Chuck for tolerating and, to a degree, feeding it.

32 The Jesus and Mary Chain - Never Understand 768 Points, 15 Votes
http://open.spotify.com/track/3tArKAiS8FGNpU9q3H2Iba
http://youtu.be/b2bzrCCKDwc

East kilbride Forever

Whereas since he left Black Flag, Greg Ginn's been the coolest dude!

Not saying anything about Rollins cos I kinda like him and his goofy ways.

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rollins was obv an egomaniacal dick during his black flag tenure, ginn is just an american wacko of the first order, like if black flag ended up selling a billion records he would be the howard hughes of rock

but they were driven and always pushing and imagine this poll w/ no SST

RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

"Stigmata" is one of the best album openers ever

I'd trade one "stigmata" for the entire NIN discog

31 Prince and the Revolution - Let's Go Crazy 777 Points, 13 Votes One #1
http://youtu.be/W6YVto_IcWg

TOO LOW

I thought that had a chance of being #1. Prince + ILM poll = #1 placement? I guess not in this case.

"It's So Easy" sounds way better than I remember it sounding. I would have probably voted for this if I had bothered to go back and listen to it.

recap 250-31
250 The Replacements - God Damn Job - 170 Points , 3 votes
249 Jerry's Kidz - That's Life - 171 Points, 3 Votes
248 D.R.I. - I Don't Need Society 172 Points, 3 votes
247 Hanoi Rocks - Don't Never Leave Me - 173 Points, 4 votes
246 Pussy Galore - Sweet Little HiFi - 175 Points, 3 votes
245 Nitzer Ebb - Getting Closer 176 Points, 4 votes
243 8-Eyed Spy - Lazy in Love 177 Points, 4 votes (TIE)
243 Bon Jovi - Livin' on a Prayer 177 Points, 4 votes (TIE)
242 Lard - The Power of Lard 178 Points, 6 Votes
241 Dead Kennedys - Hellnation 179 Points, 3 Votes
240 Skid Row - Youth Gone Wild 183 Points, 4 Votes
239 Colourbox - Just Give 'Em Whiskey 184 Points, 3 Votes
238 F/i - Electric Waltz 185 Points, 4 Votes
237 Dead Kennedys - Stars and Stripes of Corruption 186 Points, 4 Votes
236 Revolting Cocks - Stainless Steel Providers 187 Points, 3 Votes
235 Descendents - Good Good Things 188 Points, 4 Votes
234 Rush - Freewill 189 Points 4 Votes
233 Adolescents - Amoeba 189 Points, 5 Votes
232 Iron Maiden - Hallowed Be Thy Name 192 Points, 3 Votes
230 Pixies - I've Been Tired 193 Points, 4 Votes. (TIE)
230 Swans - Right Wrong 193 Points, 4 Votes. (TIE)
229 Husker Du - Makes No Sense at All 195 Points, 5 Votes
228 Bad Brains - I Against I 196 Points 3 Votes
227 Dicks - Dicks Hate the Police - 198 Points, 4 Votes
225 The Clash - Should I Stay or Should I Go 198 Points, 5 Votes (TIE)
225 Rites of Spring - For Want of 198 Points, 5 Votes (TIE)
224 Dramarama - Anything, Anything 199 points, 3 Votes
223 AR Kane - Lollita 199 Points, 4 Votes, One #1
222 Blurt - The Fish Needs a Bike 200 Points, 2 Votes One #1
220 Cocteau Twins - Persephone 201 points, 3 Votes (TIE)
220 Minutemen - Cut 201 Points, 3 Votes (TIE)
219 Prince & the Revolution - Computer Blue 201 Points, 4 Votes
218 Scraping Foetus off the Wheel - Pigswill 202 Points, 4 Votes
217 Iron Maiden - Aces High 204 Points, 4 votes
216 X - The Hungry Wolf 205 Points, 4 Votes
215 Foetus Interruptus - English Faggot/Nothing Man 208 Points 4 Votes
214 KMFDM - Don't Blow Your Top 208 Points, 5 Votes
213 Guns N' Roses - It's So Easy 212 Points 3 Votes
212 Hanoi Rocks - Tragedy 214 Points, 4 Votes
211 Bauhaus - She's in Parties 215 Points, 4 Votes
210 Butthole Surfers - The Shah Sleeps In Lee Harvey's Grave 217 Points, 4 Votes
209 A Certain Ratio - Do the Du 218 Points, 5 Votes
208 Trouble - Assassin 219 Points, 3 Votes
207 Chrome - New Age 219 Points, 4 Votes
206 The Vandals - Urban Struggle 223 Points, 3 Votes
205 Run-DMC - Rock Box 225 Points, 4 Votes
204 The Psychedelic Furs - Mr Jones 227 Points, 4 Votes
203 Red Cross - Annette's Got the Hits 227 Points, 5 Votes
202 The Cult - Rain 228 Points, 4 votes
201 Bauhaus - Dark Entries 230 Points 6 Votes
200 Dinosaur Jr - The Lung 232 Points, 5 Votes
199 Metallica - Fade To Black 234 Points, 5 Votes
198 The Telescopes - 7th# Disaster 236 Points, 4 Votes
197 Gang of Four - I Love A Man In Uniform 236 Points, 5 Votes
196 Birthday Party - Blast Off! 237 Points, 3 Votes
195 Minor Threat - I Don’t Want to Hear It 237 Points, 5 Votes
194 Metallica - Battery 239 Points, 4 Votes
193 Megadeth - Peace Sells 244 Points, 5 Votes
192 Bob Mould - Whichever Way The Wind Blows 245 points, 4 Votes One #1
191 Faith No More - From Out of Nowhere 246 Points, 4 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)
187 Fishbone - Party At Ground Zero 251 Points, 6 Votes (TIE)
187 Skinny Puppy - Assimilate 251 Points, 6 Votes (TIE)
185 Psychic TV - Unclean 253 Points, 4 Votes (TIE)
185 Trouble - Tempter 253 Points, 4 Votes (TIE)
184 Napalm Death - You Suffer 253 Points, 4 Votes One #1
183 Angry Samoans - Lights Out 254 Points, 6 Votes
182 Killing Joke - Pssyche 256 Points, 4 Votes
180 Slade - Run Run Away 259 Points, 4 Votes (TIE)
180 Black Flag - What I See 259 Points, 4 Votes (TIE)
179 Butthole Surfers - Jimi 260 Points, 4 Votes
178 Sisters Of Mercy - Temple Of Love 260 Points, 5 Votes
177 Candlemass - At The Gallows End 261 Points, 5 Votes
175 Pixies - River Euphrates 263 Points, 4 Votes (TIE)
175 Nomeansno - It's Catching Up 263 Points, 4 Votes (TIE)
174 F/i - Trauma at the Beach 264 Points, 4 Votes
173 Flux of Pink Indians - Tube Disaster 267 Points, 4 Votes
172 KMFDM - A Drug Against War 268 Votes, 5 Points
171 Grauzone - Eisbär 269 4 Votes
170 Glenn Branca - Lesson No. 1 271 Points, 5 Votes
169 Van Halen - Hot for Teacher 272 Points, 5 Votes
168 My Bloody Valentine - Thorn 274 Points, 4 Votes One #1
167 Pop Will Eat Itself - Wise Up! Sucker 275 Points, 6 Votes
166 The Cult - Love Removal Machine 276 Points, 5 Votes
165 Loop - Collision 276 Points, 7 Votes
164 Def Leppard - Bringin' on the Heartbreak 279 Points, 6 Votes
163 Nomeansno - The Tower 280 Points, 3 Votes
162 Scratch Acid - She Said 280 Points, 4 Votes One #1
161 Agent Orange - Bloodstains 281 Points 6 Votes
160 Rapeman - Trouser Minnow 283 Points, 5 Votes One #1
158 Night Ranger - Sister Christian 283 Points 6 Votes (TIE)
158 The Dead Milkmen - Bitchin' Camaro 283 Points, 6 Votes (TIE)
157 Live Skull - Fort Belvedere 296 Points, 4 Votes
156 Judas Priest - Electric Eye Points, 297 6 Votes
155 Minutemen - Boy Dylan Wrote Propaganda Songs 300 Points, 4 Votes
154 Swans - Half Life 301 Points, 5 Votes
153 Ramones - Bonzo Goes To Bitburg (My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down) 302 Points, 6 Votes
152 Ramones - Chinese Rock 309 Points , 7 Votes
151 Husker Du - Ice Cold Ice 310 Points, 5 Votes
150 Soundgarden - Hands All Over 311 Points, 5 Votes
149 Birthday Party - Dead Joe 311 Points, 6 Votes
148 Redd Kross - What They Say 312 Points, 5 Votes
147 Black Sabbath - Neon Knights 313 Points, 5 Votes One #1
145 The Godfathers - Birth, School, Work, Death 313 Points, 7 Votes (TIE)
145 Joan Jett & the Blackhearts - I Love Rock 'n Roll 313 Points, 7 Votes (TIE)
144 Killing Joke - Eighties 314 Points, 9 Votes
143 Iron Maiden - The Trooper 316 Points, 6 Votes
142 Ministry - Burning Inside 319 Points, 7 Votes
141 Def Leppard - Foolin' 320 Points, 6 Votes
140 Ministry - Flashback 323 Points, 7 Votes
139 Misfits - Astro Zombies 326 Points, 5 Votes
137 Dio - Rainbow in the Dark 335 Points, 6 Votes
137 Candlemass - Mirror Mirror 335 Points, 6 Votes
136 Ministry - Deity 339 Points, 6 Votes
135 Celtic Frost - Procreation Of The Wicked 340 Points, 5 Votes
134 Slayer - Raining Blood 347 Points, 7 Votes
133 Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child o Mine 350 Points, 6 Votes
132 Run DMC - King of Rock 353 Points, 7 Votes
131 Shriekback - My Spine (Is The Bassline) 354 Points, 6 Votes
130 Journey - Separate Ways (Worlds Apart) 358 Points, 6 Votes
129 Hüsker Dü - What's Going On 367 Points, 7 Votes
128 Metallica - Welcome Home (Sanitarium) 370 Points 8 Votes
127 Hüsker Dü - Real World 372 Points, 6 Votes
126 The Jesus and Mary Chain - Taste the Floor 373 Votes, 6 Points
125 Killing Joke - The Wait 375 Points, 8 Votes
124 Pixies - Bone Machine 376 Points, 7 Votes
123 Big Black - Jordan, Minnesota 380 6 Votes
122 They Might Be Giants - Ana Ng 381 Points, 6 Votes
121 Cramps - Goo Goo Muck 382 Points, 6 Votes
120 AC/DC - For Those About to Rock 386 Points, 6 Votes , One #1
119 Sisters of Mercy - This Corrosion 388 Points, 8 Votes
118 The Replacements - Color Me Impressed 390 Points, 7 Votes
117 Hüsker Dü - Pink Turns To Blue 396 Points, 7 Votes
116 The Young Gods - Longue Route 398 Points, 7 Votes
115 Faith No More - Epic 398 Points 9 Votes
114 Metallica - Creeping Death 399 Points, 8 Votes
113 The Young Gods - Envoyé 408 Points, 8 Votes
112 The Jesus And Mary Chain - Some Candy Talking 409 Points 9 Votes
111 Minutemen - Little Man With a Gun In His Hand 413 Points 7 Votes
110 Living Colour - Cult of Personality 413 Points, 9 Votes
109 Flipper - Ever 415 Points, 6 Votes
108 Big Black - Fists of Love 415 Points, 9 Votes
107 Godflesh - Like Rats 419 Points, 8 Votes
106 The Cult - Firewoman 420 Points, 9 Votes
105 ZZ Top - Cheap Sunglasses 423 Points, 8 Votes
104 Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel - Throne of Agony 426 Points, 7 Votes, One #1
103 Meat Puppets - Lake of Fire 429 Points, 9 Votes
102 The Flaming Lips - Jesus Shootin' Heroin 440 Points, 8 Votes One #1
101 Metallica - One 448 Points, 9 Votes
100 Saint Vitus - Born Too Late 449 Points, 5 Votes, Two #1's
99 Blue Oyster Cult - Veteran of the Psychic Wars 450 Points, 6 Votes
98 Sonic Youth - Stereo Sanctity 451 Points, 8 Votes
97 Husker Du - Something I Learned Today 462 Points, 10 Votes
96 Def Leppard - Rock of Ages 467 Points, 8 Votes
95 Einsturzende Neubauten - Tanz Debil 468 Votes 6 Points, One #1
94 Spacemen 3 - OD Catastrophe 469 Points, 9 Votes
93 Melvins - It's Shoved 488 Points, 8 Votes, One #1
92 Van Halen - Panama - 490 Points, 8 Votes, One #1
91 Minutemen - This Ain't No Picnic 494 Points, 12 Votes
90 Hüsker Dü - Diane 498 Points, 9 Votes, One #1
89 Rush - Limelight 502 Points, 9 Votes
88 Wipers - Youth of America 522 Points, 9 Votes One #1
87 Misfits - Last Caress 523 Points, 11 Votes
86 Metallica - For Whom The Bell Tolls 525 Points, 11 Votes
85 Nirvana - About A Girl 526 Points, 9 Votes
84 Beastie Boys - Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun 527 Points, 9 Votes
83 Pixies - Gouge Away 528 Points, 11 Votes
82 Dinosaur Jr - Little Fury Things 533 Points, 8 Votes
81 Joan Jett - Bad Reputation 533 Points 11 Votes
80 The Jim Carroll Band - People Who Died 537 Points, 8 Votes
77 Big Black - Bad Penny 539 Points, 10 Votes (TIE)
77 Flipper - Ha Ha Ha 539 Points, 10 Votes (TIE)
77 Ministry - Thieves 539 10 Votes (TIE)
76 Fugazi - Margin Walker 542 Points, 10 Votes
75 Killing Joke - Wardance 543 Points, 11 Votes
74 Guns N' Roses - Paradise City 545 Points 9 Votes
73 Dinosaur Jr - Sludgefeast 545 Points, 10 Votes
72 My Bloody Valentine - Sueisfine 552 Points, 12 Votes
71 Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train 554 Points, 10 Votes
70 Candlemass - Solitude 555 Points, 8 Votes, One #1
69 Mudhoney - You Got It (Keep It Outta My Face) 555 Points 10 Votes
68 Hüsker Dü - Chartered Trips 559 points, 8 Votes, One #1
67 Faith No More - We Care a Lot 562 Points, 10 Votes
66 Jane's Addiction - Ocean Size 565 Points, 10 Votes
65 Jane's Addiction - Had A Dad 567 Points, 9 Votes Two #1's
64 Sonic Youth - Flower 569 Points, 8 Votes
63 Guns N' Roses - Welcome To The Jungle 575 Points, 10 Votes
62 Angel Witch - Angel Witch 582 Points 10 Votes
61 Bad Brains - Banned In DC 582 Points, 11 Votes
60 Rush - Tom Sawyer 585 points, 10 Votes
59 Judas Priest - Breaking the Law 587 Points, 12 Votes
58 Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast 596 Points, 10 Votes
57 Sonic Youth - Pacific Coast Highway 598 Points, 8 Votes
56 Gang Of Four - To Hell With Poverty! 598 Points, 11 Votes, One #1
55 Mudhoney - In 'n' Out of Grace 612 Points, 12 Votes
54 Black Flag - My War 621 Points, 10 Votes
53 Black Flag - Six Pack 621 Points, 11 Votes
52 Dead Kennedys - Nazi Punks Fuck Off 634 Points, 10 Votes, One #1
51 Sonic Youth - Death to Our Friends 641 Points, 9 Votes
50 Danzig - Mother 647 Points, 13 Votes
49 Hüsker Dü - Eight Miles High 663 Points 11 Votes
48 Def Leppard - Photograph 666 Points, 11 Votes
47 Blue Öyster Cult - Burnin' for You 666 Points, 12 Votes
46 Public Enemy - She Watch Channel Zero 672 Points, 13 Votes
45 Nine Inch Nails - Head Like a Hole 689 Points, 15 Votes
44 Misfits - Where Eagles Dare 691 Points, 12 Votes
43 AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long 693 Points, 11 Votes
42 The Fall - Totally Wired 702 Points, 13 Votes
41 Neil Young - Rockin' in the Free World 705 Points, 13 Votes
40 Sonic Youth - Eric's Trip 717 Points, 10 Votes
39 The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary 717 Points, 13 Votes
38 Black Flag - Depression 722 Points, 11 Votes One #1
37 Pixies - Gigantic 725 Points, 15 Votes
36 Meat Puppets - Plateau 729 Points, 13 Votes
35 Sonic Youth - Eliminator Jr. 737 Points, 10 Votes
34 Slayer - Angel of Death 742 Points, 13 Votes
33 Ministry - Stigmata 759 Points, 14 Votes
32 The Jesus and Mary Chain - Never Understand 768 Points, 15 Votes
31 Prince and the Revolution - Let's Go Crazy 777 Points, 13 Votes One #1

30 My Bloody Valentine - Feed Me with Your Kiss 785 Points, 15 Votes
http://open.spotify.com/track/3yRVw6tj1WBOXVwfLkWH9q
http://youtu.be/s6I3JGzJAdM

777

I haven't listened to much Bad Brains, so maybe I'm off here. All I know is I've never felt drawn in by their music, and I remember it as vaguely messy

messy is the most insane description of bad brains I've ever read, they were so in the pocket they put all other hardcore bands to shame

also note the 3 way tie @ 77

ITS A SIGN

That's like the righteous 666.

x-post:

Okay, I'm going to have to go back after this poll and listen to at least the first couple Bad Brains albums.

Can a mod please change title to Top 30 & Finishes today ?

a few relief moments there for songs i was going to go ballistic abt not placing if that were the case

and yeah at points i feel like bad brains might have been the tightest punk band on the planet, the shit they execute in the early years is just insane

listen to "another damn song" and you will hear what i am saying

btw I just discovered an early 00s goa trance band named Analog Pussy so I may not be around this thread that much today

29 World Domination Enterprises - Asbestos Lead Asbestos 802 Points, 10 Votes, One #1
http://youtu.be/cTFnnsBzNWU

didnt vote for it but well worth top 50

Okay, although to be clearer I meant messy more in terms of how it all sounds, not in terms of musicianship. (Like a lot of Cuban timba sounds messy to me, but the musicianship is super tight. Messy as in: too busy and not quite fitting together to my ears.) That may still be crazy. I think I need to listen to more of them so the next time I will at least not give the wrong explanation of what I don't especially like about them.

x-posts obviously

Scanning today's entries on the list - there's quite a few there that I want to do the 'TOO HIGH' thing for, but I'm going to k.i.p and just say that I'm delighted that Where Eagles Dare and Depression made it so high. Gigantic was on my ballad too and it placing in the 30s feels just about right.

Also having Crazy Train stuck in my head all day at work was great.

if one of your too high moments was the cult song i have a high five hanging right over here for you

yeah def check out black dots by bad brains, it's stuff from '79 that wasn't released until '96, very stripped down recording so you can really hear what's going on.

and if by messy you meant the songwriting doesn't coalesce into cohesiveness, then the first 5 songs on the s/t should disavow you of that notion

xp

I had begun to think this (Asbestos Lead Asbestos) would be even higher. I agonised long and hard about making this my #1 and in the end it only just missed out, but LOVE LOVE LOVE this song. The Loop/World Dom/Godflesh tour really was a thing of wonder.

well actually I will say "Asbestos Lead Asbestos" is great

now back to Analog Pussy

unlike last nights sonic youth experience there is no need for anyone to try and get me to understand the appeal of the cult because it is never ever ever going to happen, because that lead singer never shuts up and he is 1000% awful

btw I just discovered an early 00s goa trance band named Analog Pussy so I may not be around this thread that much today

This is destined to make one of the meta-threads here.

bad jjj

they should remix lana del rey

really everything you actually want to get of The Cult can be satisfied by "Rain", there's no real need to listen to anything else they did aside from maybe poking around Southern Death Cult to satisfy goth curiosity

jjj sounds vaguely like The Lex there.

is rain an instrumental?

I know this observation is so ancient as to be useless but the version of envoye by young gods in the spotify playlist is not any version of the song I've ever heard and is not to be mistaken for the buttshaking awesomeness of what me and I'm sure everybody else voted for

http://youtu.be/vdhHMXTGCC8

Actually Dan I kind of disagree. The Death Cult ep is probably all you need, unless you want to listen to SDC.

if one of your too high moments was the cult song i have a high five hanging right over here for you
*furtively completes the high five, goes back to keeping it positive*

28 AC/DC - Back in Black 818 Points, 14 Votes One# 1
http://youtu.be/CwIvBNsSywQ

is rain an instrumental?

you should listen to it and find out!

Actually Dan I kind of disagree. The Death Cult ep is probably all you need, unless you want to listen to SDC.

that is certainly a legitimate argument; I think "Rain" is the point where Cult glossiness and SDC/DC gothiness balance each other best and as such scratches all the itches I might have for them in one handy package