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

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.

xpost!

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

im a casual butthole surfers listener at best but this makes me want to look deeper

apologies in advance, prob going to be livebloggin here for a while while i roll through the last results because i dont have anything better to do

actually moving backwards because i missed some stuff last night. little fury things makes me think abt why i dont pay more attention to dinosaur jr, this is pretty good, might be the only slackervibe stuff i actually like

I totes think Fa Ce La was worth inclusion

(I mean I just relistened to it just now)

skipping stuff i know

people who died - i hated this for years but it is starting to click with me, despite seeing him junkie destroy it years ago after a spoken word deal that was shockingly good.
ha ha ha - forever and always the shit. fuck me for not voting for this

thieves - the other best use of drill sample if it weren't for slapshot - blast furnace. not saying this song isnt huge for me, just saying that hearing it reminded me how fucking badass that super unpopular slapshot album is. http://open.spotify.com/track/5sGZAcFI70fgKILFuxRA4S

let me be clear thats a super odd reaction.

margin walker is sort of my eh song on 13 songs, the first indication of what was going to happen with later fugazi albums, which to me is navel gazing self love.

wardance is a+++ and i am a dick for not voting for it

paradise city is my least favorite track on appetite

sludgefeast - huh this is maybe great? slacker solos are so weird to me, so the end both makes the song and ruins it. maybe. idk i have to think abt this some more. would rather be listening to built to spill.

sueisfine - why the fuck doesnt my bloody valentine always sound like this? fuck loveless, this is awesome.

crazy train - mr. crowley deserved this spot, but fuck it, this song is all time badass

solitude - never heard this until now, holy fucking shit. need now.

in 'n' out of grace - listen to the album version, not the spotify live thing. super powerhouse srs freakout shit, makes soundgarden look like half-assed hair metal pretenders. oh wait.

chartered trips - i want to hold up the mpls flag, but this song is a slab of mush and also boring as hell.

we care a lot - best seems dumb but is actually smart as shit song ever. seriously. chuck mosely ending up as a crazed out music footnote is one of the saddest things ever to me.

ocean size - i dont give this song enough credit, forgot how it hammers down in the first 15 seconds. should have given this some points prob.

had a dad - i love the shit out of this song, always have, voted for it. the "if you see my dad..." moment still kills me. now i feel bad for dropping nothings shocking from my album votes.

flower - these might be the dumbest lyrics so far. srsly dudes i am doing what i can wrt sonic youth. this is awful

welcome to the jungle - fuck hip, this shit is great. that weirdo howl over the top of the intro would make this alone. also axl sounds sorta alice cooper. not on this album, but another band that was destroyed by the power ballad (FUCK U NOVEMBER RAINS).

angel witch - another spotify mistake, not that the live shredding w/e is bad per se, but the original is so tight and the harmonies sell it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXZc9-mtFDk

that's the wrong version iirc, this is the classic mix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpOJew3K79o

didn't vote in this bcs I don't tend to involve myself in polls at the best of times and I didn't totally understand the parameters of this one BUT it has a lot of my favourite music ever in it and 19-year-old me is really siked that a bunch of people from the internet have justified his Big Black fandom

Weighted ballot:

1. My Bloody Valentine – Thorn
2. Mission of Burma - Academy Fight Song
3. Van Halen – Panama
4. Beastie Boys - Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun
5. Blue Öyster Cult - Burnin' for You
6. Prince & the Revolution - Computer Blue
7. My Bloody Valentine - You Made Me Realise
8. AC/DC - For Those About to Rock
9. Sonic Youth - Expressway to Yr Skull
10. Public Enemy - She Watch Channel Zero
11. Husker Du - Ice Cold Ice
12. Dinosaur Jr – Kracked
13. Metallica - For Whom The Bell Tolls
14. Husker Du - Pink Turns To Blue
15. ZZ Top - Cheap Sunglasses
16. Neil Young - Rockin' in the Free World
17. Pixies - Gouge Away
18. Run-DMC - Rock Box
19. Rush – Limelight
20. The Young Gods – Envoyé
21. Pixies - Bone Machine
22. My Bloody Valentine – Sueisfine
23. Faith No More - From Out of Nowhere
24. Slayer - Raining Blood
25. Replacements - Color Me Impressed
26. Megadeth - Peace Sells
27. Iron Maiden - The Trooper
28. The Gun Club - Sex Beat
29. Van Halen - Mean Streets
30. Dag Nasty – Circles
31. Motorhead - Iron Fist
32. Metallica - Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
33. Misfits - Where Eagles Dare
34. Angel Witch - Angel Witch
35. Dead Kennedys - Holiday in Cambodia
36. Judas Priest – Breaking the Law
37. Pop Will Eat Itself - Wise Up! Sucker
38. Nirvana - Negative Creep
39. Bad Brains - Banned In DC
40. Run DMC - King of Rock
41. Ministry – Thieves
42. Slayer - Angel of Death
43. Public Image Ltd. - Banging the Door
44. Killing Joke – Eighties
45. Descendents - Good Good Things
46. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Never Understand
47. Billy Squier - The Stroke
48. Spacemen 3 – Revolution
49. Nine Inch Nails - Head Like a Hole
50. Gang Of Four - To Hell With Poverty!

'Kerosene' is a worthy winner even if I didn't vote for it, should really have given 'Ace of Spades' some points too. Cool results all in all!

I can't remember exactly what I voted for since AG bugged me to do it at about 1am on Friday night. I was happy to see I wasn't the only one to vote for Fuck It by The Left though.

Thanks guys, awesome poll, and brilliant that Big Black won it! Here's my unranked ballot:

A Certain Ratio - Do the Du
AC/DC - Back in Black
AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long
Big Black - Bad Penny
Big Black - Kerosene
Black Flag - Six Pack
Danzig – Twist of Cain
Dead Kennedys - Holiday in Cambodia
Dead Kennedys - Nazi Punks Fuck Off
Dinosaur Jr - Freak Scene
Dinosaur Jr - The Lung
Discharge - Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing
Faith No More - Epic
Faith No More - We Care a Lot
Flipper - Sex Bomb
Fugazi - Margin Walker
Gang Of Four - To Hell With Poverty!
Guns N' Roses - Paradise City
Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child o Mine
Husker Du - Diane
Husker Du - Eight Miles High
Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
Judas Priest – Breaking the Law
Meat Puppets - Lake of Fire
Megadeth - Peace Sells
Melvins - It's Shoved
Metallica - Fade To Black
Metallica - For Whom The Bell Tolls
Minor Threat - I Don’t Want to Hear It
Minutemen - This Ain't No Picnic
Misfits - Last Caress
Mission of Burma - Academy Fight Song
Motorhead - Ace of Spades
Napalm Death - You Suffer
Neil Young - Rockin' in the Free World
Nirvana - Negative Creep
Pixies - Gigantic
Prince and the Revolution - Let's Go Crazy
Public Enemy - She Watch Channel Zero
Rapeman - Trouser Minnow
Rites of Spring - For Want of
Saint Vitus - Born Too Late
Sisters of Mercy - This Corrosion
Slayer - Angel of Death
Sonic Youth - Teenage Riot
Spacemen 3 - Revolution
Suicidal Tendencies - Institutionalized
The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary
The Fall - Totally Wired
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Never Understand

can't remember what I voted for exactly, but most of it's here. Great great winner. Going to spend an evening with the results playlist after work. free pussy riot.

awesome results. beyond awesome top ten!

great job on the poll, and this thread was like a comet flashing across the sky!

Glad you all enjoyed it.

What was I thinking not voting for "Where Eagles Dare"??

I was thinking it was the wrong decade

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

― Moka, Thursday, September 27, 2012 4:16 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Just double-checked: only two of these people actually voted for Cardboard Lamb.