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

haven't seen "Death Valley '69" yet either, have we?

I thought we had but you're right.

death valley and schizophrenia sure to still place i'd reckon.

xp Biafra's take on the N-word in Holiday in Cambodia:

"[Producer Geza X] thought it would be stornger to put it that way and probe deeper into the mindset of the bourgeois, comfortable, spoilt white kid that the song focusses on. Whejn DH Peligro joined the band I vaguely remember asking him about the line and I believe I changed it back to 'blacks', which I’ve used ever since."

Sure is a lot of Sonic Youth in this poll.

I can't even remember which SY tracks I ended up voting for (I'm thinking it was Death Valley and Schizophrenia which haven't appeared yet) but I'm with Rudi... had I knew that almost a quarter of the top 100 would be filled by them I might have abstained.

the nom thread felt like 90% 'Daydream Nation classic or dud" - it clearly planted the earworm

i'm just going to pretend they're all Maiden songs

I basically see this poll as a way to get in touch with my inner 17-year-old. As such, a Sonic Youth-dominated top 50 seems very appropriate.

Dissapointed Cardboard Lamb didn't make it in the top 250

Me too Moka, but it looks like we're the only ones.

feel like the 80s was a big time for shock-the-bourgeoisie tactics that wound up just seeming racist, misogynistic, fascist, or otherwise douchey

i voted for cardboard lamb. xp

6 Motorhead - Ace of Spades 1238 Points 20 Votes, One #1
http://open.spotify.com/track/13g6lOv0c3FOaCMH8kdHQW
http://youtu.be/sjkzbCkZEuQ
http://youtu.be/GTd1SSYYyss

ALL IS FORGIVEN

Spades will never not rule

lol @ Death Valley 69 beating it though

RECAP BEFORE THE TOP 5:

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
29 World Domination Enterprises - Asbestos Lead Asbestos 802 Points, 10 Votes, One #1
28 AC/DC - Back in Black 818 Points, 14 Votes One# 1
27 Spacemen 3 - Revolution 828 Points, 15 Votes
26 Bad Brains - Pay To Cum 842 Points, 14 Votes
25 Mission of Burma - Academy Fight Song 852 Points, 16 Votes
24 Joy Division - Dead Souls 870 Points, 17 Votes
23 Sonic Youth - Inhuman 874 Points, 12 Votes, One #1
22 Nirvana - School 886 Points, 14 Votes One #1
21 Butthole Surfers - Human Cannonball 905 Points, 14 Votes
20 Hüsker Dü - Turn On the News 912 Points, 14 Votes
19 Spacemen 3 - Losing Touch with My Mind 921 Points, 15 Votes
18 The Gun Club - Sex Beat 933 Points, 16 Votes
17 Hüsker Dü - Girl Who Lives On Heaven Hill 973 Points, 15 Votes
16 Sonic Youth - Brother James 1018 Points, 16 Votes, One #1
15 Suicidal Tendencies - Institutionalized 1018 Points, 19 Votes
14 Mudhoney - Touch me I'm Sick 1049 Points, 19 Votes, One #1
13 Flipper - Sex Bomb 1087 Points, 17 Votes
12 Sonic Youth - Teenage Riot 1095 Points, 20 Votes, Two #1s
11 My Bloody Valentine - You Made Me Realise 1102 Points, 18 Votes
10 Jane's Addiction - Mountain Song 1155 Points, 19 Votes
9 Dead Kennedys - Holiday in Cambodia 1171 Points, 18 Votes One #1
8 Fugazi - Waiting Room 1213 Points, 20 Votes
7 Sonic Youth - Expressway to Yr Skull 1234 Points, 19 Votes
6 Motorhead - Ace of Spades 1238 Points 20 Votes, One #1

<i>woah hey, I don't hate a Fugazi song? what happened, I'm confused

oh wait the singing started, never mind</i>

--the mashup with "Independent Woman" might solve this problem...

Had forgotten Ace Of Spades was on The Young Ones!

2 sonic youth. one dinosaur jr. in the top 5. what else??

This poll rules for the very reason that the top 5 is kind of a mystery still. Feel like Negative Creep might place.

I thought "Seek And Destroy" would be a shoo-in but I'm not so sure now.

Crossing fingers for Seek & Destroy.

Run to The Hills better place or you're all fired

Hi,

excellent re #29

ta.

Spotify playlist:

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

ok "Run to the Hills" is another possibility.

5 Nirvana - Negative Creep 1241 Points, 24 Votes
http://open.spotify.com/track/0xdiLQkal65DtxcIqpIxxb
http://youtu.be/-5ijtz6Du_s

Too high but obviously a good song.

AG's little poll ain't a poll no more

Hah.

when i saw 'school' at 22 i figured 'negative creep' had to be top ten for sure

4 Sonic Youth - Death Valley '69 1354 Points, 23 Votes
http://open.spotify.com/track/7KbUmd1LW9Tn5Vu5g3sp1j
http://youtu.be/9k0dJEkzXc4

I did not vote in this poll; I find everything about to be a series of dreadful mistakes. That said: Oh, Lung Leg....

Negative Creep yes; love that riff so much

I usually turn off bad moon rising before "death valley '69" comes on

my second-favorite Sonic Youth song after "The Diamond Sea"

these results really are absurd. <3 you ILM

^ On my ballot, but seeing this come above things like Ace Of Spades and Back In Black is kind of giving me a taste of 'voter's regret'.

(With more voter's regret if Freak Scene goes Top 3 as seems possible. I had them pegged as solid Top 30-40 ish type tunes).

Inhuman was my #2 pick, Brother James was #22, and I didn't vote f/this at all. love it f/sentimental reasons, but its hammy theatrics undermine the carpet-bombing din.

xpost Lol @ me acting like I've been doing these ballots forever and know all the ins and outs.

I don't remember where we were but I distinctly remember some random all ages thing with I believe jjj where they played this and put the video up on monitors scattered around the nightclub and I just remember sitting there rapt the entire time, especially the "HIT IT" section

some of you guys spilt tears leaving stuff off your ballots then deciding on rankings.

I think AC/DC's best work was in the 70s tbh.

it was but Back In Black is still great.

I'm not saying I don't like it. Just that I don't really see a problem with the idea that Husker Du and Sonic Youth might have been making more vital hard rock in the 80s.

I'm surprised it didn't make my ballot though! "Ace of Spades" either! WTF? I've seen both AC/DC and Motorhead live btw.

me neither others may agree others might not

I think I was really hating Brian Johnson when I was making my ballot. Weird.

yep dan that was me, and it was at first avenue danceteria

DV'69 also works better in context as the bracing coda to Bad Moon's twilight drift.

I only love a few Brian songs - You Shook Me, Back in Black, Hells Bells, maaaaayyybe Money Talks if I'm really drunk and feeling silly but mostly I'm all Bon all the time