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

ha brings a tear to my eye to see a noted bon scott loyalist give it up for back in black

I don't know if I can defend voting for the Cult three times without giving a vote to AC/DC or Motorhead tbh.

Wait, did I not even vote for Def Leppard? WTF?

i love that the Cult got proper respect though!

i didn't realize until making it that the top 3 songs are all mutt lange productions and that three other songs have the word "she" in the title

half of back in black is godly, half is bleh, and the only song i truly love after that album is the "baba o'riley" disco stomp that they did twice ("who made who"/"thunderstruck")

yeah post-BIB is spotty for sure but some people will even try to deny BIB

so many ballots here OTM, WHERE DID IT ALL GO WRONG

thanks AG, seandalai, v. cool poll.

yes, thank you guys

yeah this was awesome, and i know how much work goes into running these things, so gold stars for both of you

yeah thank you guys! this was fun!

thanks!

This is possibly my most hive mind ballot ever, but that's probably because I liked contemporary popular music more in the 80s than I have since (and even if most of it hasn't worn than well for me, some of it has stuck).

Also it may have helped that I didn't make any nominations (but there have been EOY polls in which, had I not made any nominations, I basically wouldn't have voted for anything).

I'm glad you enjoyed the poll.

i love that the Cult got proper respect though!

So weird, considering that I've never bought a Cult album, while I own copies of Pyromania and Hysteria. I made my ballots pretty quickly tbh.

Definitely: thanks to AG and seandalai!

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yeah i've never bought a Cult album either, but they're a great singles act, which is exactly why i voted for them a bunch in the tracks poll and was happy to see them place

my unranked ballot:

8 Eyed Spy - Love Split With Blood
A Certain Ratio - Do the Du
Band of Susans - The Pursuit of Happiness
Bauhaus - Double Dare
Big Black - Bad Penny
Butthole Surfers - Human Cannonball
Chrome - Firebomb
Dead Kennedys - Holiday in Cambodia
Dinosaur Jr - Little Fury Things
Faith No More - Epic
Flipper - Sex Bomb
Fugazi - Waiting Room
Gang Of Four - To Hell With Poverty!
Guns N' Roses - Welcome To The Jungle
Iron Maiden - The Trooper
Jane's Addiction - Mountain Song
Jim Carroll Band - Jealous Twin
Joan Jett - Bad Reputation
Joy Division - Dead Souls
Killing Joke - Eighties
Killing Joke - Feast of Blaze
Lime Spiders - Weirdo Libido
Love and Rockets - Kundalini Express
Meat Puppets - Lake of Fire
Metallica - Creeping Death
Ministry - Stigmata
Mink DeVille - Savoir Faire
Mission of Burma - Academy Fight Song
Motorhead - Ace of Spades
Mudhoney - Touch me I'm Sick
My Bloody Valentine – Sueisfine
New Order - Denial
Nirvana - Negative Creep
Nitzer Ebb - Getting Closer
Nomeansno - Rags and Bones
Of Cabbages and Kings - Father
Pixies - Tame
Plasmatics - Headbanger
Queen - Dragon Attack
Revolting Cocks - Stainless Steel Providers
Screaming Blue Messiahs - Twin Cadillac Valentine
Siouxsie & the Banshees - Night Shift
Sisters of Mercy - This Corrosion
Sonic Youth - Death Valley '69
Swans - Right Wrong
The Cult - Love Removal Machine
The Cure - Give Me It
The Godfathers - Birth, School, Work, Death
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Never Understand
Unsane - Urge to Kill

i voted for six tracks in the top 10, not bad.

I only vaguely remember what was on my ballot

256 Siouxsie & the Banshees - Night Shift - 161 points, 4 votes, 0 first place votes
265 The Cure - Give Me It - 153 points, 3 votes, 0 first place votes
265 New Order - Denial - 153 points, 3 votes, 0 first place votes
287 Bauhaus - Third Uncle - 142 points, 2 votes, 0 first place votes
289 Pixies - Tame - 140 points, 4 votes, 0 first place votes
290 Skinny Puppy - Tin Omen - 140 points, 3 votes, 0 first place votes
301 Public Image Limited - Home - 134 points, 3 votes, 0 first place votes
302 March Violets - Snake Dance - 133 points, 2 votes, 0 first place votes
305 Shriekback - Malaria - 129 points, 2 votes, 0 first place votes
318 Anthrax - Among The Living - 115 points, 2 votes, 0 first place votes
330 Fishbone - Subliminal Fascism - 103 points, 2 votes, 0 first place votes
331 Bad Brains - Re-Igniton - 102 points, 2 votes, 0 first place votes
331 Bauhaus - Swing the Heartache - 102 points, 2 votes, 0 first place votes
331 The Cure - Shake Dog Shake - 102 points, 2 votes, 0 first place votes
331 Fishbone - Lyin' Ass Bitch - 102 points, 2 votes, 0 first place votes
331 Lard - Time To Melt - 102 points, 2 votes, 0 first place votes
331 Lush - Baby Talk - 102 points, 2 votes, 0 first place votes
331 Violent Femmes - Add It Up - 102 points, 2 votes, 0 first place votes
355 fIREHOSE - Brave Captain - 96 points, 2 votes, 0 first place votes
380 Skinny Puppy - Fascist Jock Itch - 86 points, 3 votes, 0 first place votes
399 Love and Rockets - **** (Jungle Law) - 76 points, 2 votes, 0 first place votes
411 Virgin Prunes - Pagan Lovesong - 70 points, 2 votes, 0 first place votes
417 Red Lorry Yellow Lorry - Walking On Your Hands - 64 points, 1 votes, 0 first place votes
418 Rush - YYZ - 63 points, 2 votes, 0 first place votes
435 Big Black - Cables - 51 points, 1 votes, 0 first place votes
435 Cocteau Twins - Blood Bitch - 51 points, 1 votes, 0 first place votes
435 Fishbone - Ma and Pa - 51 points, 1 votes, 0 first place votes
435 Love & Rockets - Mirror People - 51 points, 1 votes, 0 first place votes
435 My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult - X-Communication - 51 points, 1 votes, 0 first place votes
435 Skinny Puppy - The Choke - 51 points, 1 votes, 0 first place votes
435 Tones on Tail - Christian Says - 51 points, 1 votes, 0 first place votes
481 Sisters of Mercy - Gimme Shelter - 40 points, 2 votes, 0 first place votes
501 Pop Will Eat Itself - Satellite Ecstatica - 23 points, 1 votes, 0 first place votes
504 Rush - Jacob's Ladder - 18 points, 1 votes, 0 first place votes

fwiw this is not my actual ballot but I voted for some of these and I would like to formally e-kiss everyone who voted for a song on this list

esp. "Night Shift"

shame on you all for not voting for "The Choke" tho

also "**** (Jungle Law)" which is secretly one of the best Love and Rockets songs ever, and actually led to their most popular album being a big disappointment to me because I felt like it didn't live up to the amazing opener

Express is prob my fave L&R album. I love how Vamos by Pixies is basically a shameless ripoff of Yin and Yang and the Flowerpot Man.

i want to see photos of 80s goth dan

there aren't any really, I didn't look like a goth

rivethead dan then

VegGrrl, do you know "Innocence" by Harlequin? You might like it.

Had to step out so missed the finale but WOW awesome results! You guys really honored the fire.

Great work AG and Seandalai, absolutely killer rollout.

Ranked ballot:
Sonic Youth – Inhuman
Misfits - Astro Zombies
Bad Brains - Pay To Cum
Spacemen 3 - Losing Touch with My Mind
Slayer - Angel of Death
Minutemen - Little Man With a Gun In His Hand
Flipper - Sex Bomb
Butthole Surfers - Human Cannonball
Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
Dramarama - Anything, Anything
Ministry – Thieves
The Vandals - Urban Struggle
Slade - Run Run Away
Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train
Mission of Burma - Academy Fight Song
Minor Threat - I Don’t Want to Hear It
Black Flag - Depression
Dinosaur Jr – Sludgefeast
Crash Course in Science - Cardboard Lamb
Nomeansno - It's Catching Up
Misfits - Where Eagles Dare
Ministry - Stigmata
Sonic Youth - Eliminator Jr.
Metallica - Battery
X - The Hungry Wolf
Dead Kennedys - Nazi Punks Fuck Off
Pussy Galore - Sweet Little HiFi
Agent Orange – Bloodstains
Nirvana - Negative Creep
Big Black – Kerosene
Def Leppard - Foolin'
Metallica - Damage Inc.
Blue Öyster Cult - Burnin' for You
Rapeman - Trouser Minnow
Guns N' Roses - Paradise City
Social Distortion - 1945
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts - I Love Rock 'n Roll
Red Cross - Annette's Got the Hits
Fugazi - Waiting Room
Descendents - Suburban Home
Metallica - Disposable Heroes
Adolescents – Amoeba
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Never Understand
8-Eyed Spy - Lazy in Love
Dead Kennedys - Holiday in Cambodia
Circle Jerks - Deny Everything
Husker Du - Beyond the Threshold
Fishbone - Party At Ground Zero
D.I. - Pervert Nurse
Suicidal Tendencies - Institutionalized

yeah big props to AG and seandalai for running this circus, the 250 countdown was of course opposed, decried as idiocy, and then embraced as a stroke of genius

I wish I could say the poll turned me on to some stuff but I think this decade is too tapped out for me

Thanks AG and seandalai, and I'm sorry I'm already complaining about the 400 album rollout. This was fun. I'd still rather listen to Grupo Niche than most of these songs though, most of the time.

sonic youth update - since i am not driving out to get the cd tonight, i am making up for it by listening to stuff on spotify, and my memory was correct, death valley '69 is really really fucking awesome.

decided which you will buy?

he is buying confusion is sex, there is no other option

Wait if 3 of us voted for cardboard lamb how come it only has 2 votes in the results?

hanging chad

I repeat: I demand a recount! Stirmonster, Spectrist and me voted for Cardboard Lamb and only 2 votes are registered on that list.

this poll is moot; lock thread

One of my questions was whether the parameters of the poll were informed by sociological rather than musical factors, so you can see the relation to the rockism debate there.

I didn't understand where you were coming from when you asked about this on the nomination thread. Do you see a sociological factor that links Crass, Poison, the Birthday Party, Minor Threat, Fates Warning, Einsturzende Neubauten, and Neil Young but excludes REM, the Smiths, the Talking Heads, and Bruce Springsteen?

throw bad brains in there for fun

All I really 'regret'/would do differently is over-representing some bands. I would drop one or two Rush and Husker Du songs and make room for Bad Brains and stuff.

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Well, I brought up a few topics about particular artists that I still wonder about. Like I suggested that the Feelies had just worn the wrong clothes. I think there are also questions about artists who are not particularly rock-oriented but may have been included because their aesthetic was countercultural in certain prescribed ways.

The Rickenbacker question was more of a musical one.

not starting a fight here, and i missed the feelies discussion, but my gut feeling is that the feelies wouldn't fit here, and idk what they look like.

(Right after I typed that, I clicked on the album results thread and saw someone talking about a Caroliner Rainbow record.)

xp - There was a fairly extensive conversation about why Dream Syndicate and Thin White Rope were included but R.E.M. or the Three O'Clock were not, why a group like Slovenly would be included and the Feelies would not, etc.

actually just listened to boy with the perpetual nervousness, and its like one distorted guitar away from misson of burma so i take that back. altho theres a lot of talking heads here, so if they were blocked maybe i get it? were the feelies 86ed?

that being said, as i have listened through the tracks on spotify tonight, theres something there (mostly) that is different from the feelies/rem/etc, but i cant put my finger on it quite.

yah, not to put words in any mouths but I believe that might have been the sticking point for EZSnappin

seem like a real thin line between Dream Syndicate/Soft Boys and Feelies tbh. Fa Ce La seems v Dionysian to these ears

xp

You want distortion, listen to the double-tracked solo on "Loveless Love."

holy crap man, human cannonball is so obv the gateway drug for the butthole surfers, this is fucking fantastic

somebody wake djp up and make him listen to this