The ILM 1980s Anti-Rolling Stone Canon (FREE PUSSY RIOT) Rock Poll Results - ALBUMS! Top 20! ends today

well except the 80s stuff also sucks

lol

there were several iterations of the flesheaters, a minute to pray a second to die featured the best lineup with dave alvin, john doe, dj bonebrake, steve berlin. desjardins' vocals can be an acquired taste but the entire b-side is killer. if you can't get down with "cyrano de berger's back" rock n roll just ain't for you kid. "divine horsemen" is primitive tribal ass-shake taken to epic lengths, and heights.

drugs a money, I can't imagine you not liking halo of flies. "headburn" is prolly their most accomplished recording sound-wise, though "tired & cold" sums up their appeal pretty handily.

It's amazing that F/i has been putting out all that crazy space-rock psych since the 80s without many of us noticing. I didn't dig into them until last year, so nothing has been ingrained enough to vote for, but glad to see 'em appear. I found my list, looks like Comsat Angels' Sleep No More was my #8.

291 Cop Shoot Cop - Headkick Facsimile 201 Points, 5 Votes
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EExyK9_OciM/SL7Z0oyEDxI/AAAAAAAAABQ/a9bTv4su_OQ/s320/head1.jpg

291 The Cult - Sonic Temple 201 Points, 5 Votes
http://www.simplysyndicated.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/sonictemple.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/63OBcEi1BZqY1nApYSHu4n

one of my favorite halo of flies jams is their cover of the urinals' "I'm a bug", unfortunately not available on youtube

I remember seeing Cop Shoot Cop live. Lots of bangin' metal percussion. Never could get into that Cult album.

I do like the Cult, I remember loving Sonic Temple when it came out but now it just feels very...ill-advised

that cop shoot cop EP is fantastic. rare as fuck, the band gave me a copy back in the day which I lost somewhere over the ensuing decades, much to my chagrin.

incidentally, cop shoot cop's maniac drummer phil puleo now plays for the current reincarnation of swans

290 Embrace - Embrace 203 Points, 6 Votes
http://www.punkorder.com/bilder/artikel/EMBRACEst.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/6hgvPpFtEUDYVsBwvkiSty

it bums me out that i've been a big Firewater fan for over a decade and STILL haven't heard Cop Shoot Cop, none of their stuff is on Spotify, is it even in print?

289 Autopsy - Severed Survival 204 Points, 4 Votes
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/20/Autopsy_severed_survival.jpg/220px-Autopsy_severed_survival.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/03fNa3vi2wlAJ1e0xkfNkd

Hey some dude, I can't do it from my phone, but there appears to be a bunch of freely downloadable stuff here http://copshootcop.com/

288 Dead Kennedys - Frankenchrist 204 Points, 5 Votes
http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/fiction/music/frankenchrist.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/0DkZOzn9MsEjayFfMAA2QZ

Highly under appreciated album imo

i tried for years to like frankenchrist but only sparing moments on the album every dug deep for me.

i also have heard it in years so

Hey EIII, thanks for posting that Chatham piece. Definitely my favorite Chatham moment, and it is totally making my day. Don't have access to Spotify right now and youtubes are standing in.

hope we'll still see dreams less sweet, a much better record imo

it wasn't nominated, was it? i voted for "mouth of the night" which is no doubt outside the 400.

& not one of Psychic TV's more rocking albums as I remember it. It's been a while thought since I've heard it. I might have a cassette copy from vinyl somewhere.

Mouth of the Night, I mean.

I don't remember seeing Dreams Less Sweet on the nominations list.

287 Paul Chain - Violet Art Of Improvisation 207 Points, 3 Votes
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/31991829/Violet+Art+of+Improvisation++Co.jpg

Violet Art Of Improvisation stands as the man’s most experimental release. This long passage through the (deranged) mind of Paul Chain starts with the monstrously long “Tetri Teschi In Luce Viola”, or when translated into English “Sad Skulls in Violet Light”. As one would expect from the title, there is a large amount of psychedelic influence in that particular track. It centers solely around the same rhythm that is repeated on guitar and drum every five seconds. Being a thirty one minute track, this must be excruciatingly boring, right? Not at all. Plenty of keyboards, synthesizers, electronic sounds, and lively guitar riffs sprinkle this half hour experimentation. It takes away focus from the rhythm. The rest of the album is very much the same way, with different styles thrown in.

Awesome album from the genius that is Paul Chain. Note that this is not one of his doom metal releases.

285 Drunks with Guns - Drunks with Guns 208 Points, 5 Votes
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gw9Pk8qVNW4/SVMJhSTgj1I/AAAAAAAAAEM/oesfgKRIHr4/s400/drunks+with+guns.jpg

it bums me out that i've been a big Firewater fan for over a decade and STILL haven't heard Cop Shoot Cop, none of their stuff is on Spotify, is it even in print?

― some dude, Friday, September 28, 2012 1:08 PM (54 minutes ago)

aw man, you should definitely hunt down their last album, release. closest to the firewater sensibility and it was on interscope so copies aren't too hard to come by (nb: I have not searched for this album in years but supply def outstripped demand). the early records are great but heavily foetus/swans damaged affairs. then they entered a mid-career phase of growing pains as their experimental and pop instincts acted out some neurotic battle. release is the spoils of that war. if you dig that, working your way backwards is a sensible approach.

lol wrong cover but pleased as punch to see st louis' finest, drunks with guns

my favorite thing by them tho is the alter human industrial fetishism 7" which wuz robbed in the tracks poll

That was a tie with
285 Anthrax - Among The Living 208 Points, 5 Votes
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/12/AnthraxAmongTheLiving.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/0UEuf5G8IVev5K5v6a1sbO

^^^ THIS ALBUM RULES

White Noise is probably the furthest a casual observer should go with Cop Shoot Cop. Beyond that it does descend into Swans/Foetus madness. David Ouimet was in the live Foetus band around this point - he's on Male, certainly.

Yeah I like consumer revolt, but it is def not for everyone. But white noise is awesome - judas/Jesus is all time great.

284 Blind Idiot God - Undertow 209 Points, 3 Votes
http://img13.nnm.ru/1/d/6/1/e/c7e4853b8914bb78a4bf91ad097.jpg

sadly it has been so long since I've actively listened to Cop Shoot Cop that when I try to remember what they sounded like I get the Spiritualized song stuck in my head

Undertow was my #12.

DJP otm re Among The Living - def awesome

283 Bitch Magnet - Star Booty 210 Points, 3 Votes
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__HjqXAVlmB0/S6nd9-sKUjI/AAAAAAAAAic/5wBAfu7p-rk/s1600/star-booty.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/0Pb4ax5odzSkYgQ2mfR0Lc

Hey EIII, thanks for posting that Chatham piece. Definitely my favorite Chatham moment, and it is totally making my day. Don't have access to Spotify right now and youtubes are standing in.

― grandavis, Friday, September 28, 2012 1:47 PM (38 minutes ago)

np, hopefully I can get live skull's bringing home the bait up shortly if this ios6 install would stop being a rancid cock

White Noise is probably the furthest a casual observer should go with Cop Shoot Cop. Beyond that it does descend into Swans/Foetus madness. David Ouimet was in the live Foetus band around this point - he's on Male, certainly.

― passive-aggressive display name (aldo), Friday, September 28, 2012 2:26 PM (10 minutes ago)

generally true, go backwards until you can't take anymore, but don't avoid headkick facsimile's "shine on elizabeth", one of the best things they ever did

Yeah I like consumer revolt, but it is def not for everyone. But white noise is awesome - judas/Jesus is all time great.

― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Friday, September 28, 2012 2:27 PM (9 minutes ago)

I'm thanked on the white noise album (one of the ugly boys) </ braggin>

Cool (xpost to EIII)! Have been loving the Live Skull tracks posted so far. A band I have not explored nearly enough it seems. Love the guitars.

TIE
281 Einsturzende Neubauten - Haus der Lüge 211 Points, 4 Votes
http://www.japagirl.com.br/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Einstuerzende-Neubauten-Haus-Der-Luege-Remastered.jpg

281 Venom - Welcome to Hell 211 Points, 4 Votes
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-848oGiFQvXY/TgpfLnPTckI/AAAAAAAABy4/9QQHwQtl_ko/s1600/Venom+-+Welcome+to+hell.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/072WXyXY18Tnbb9RCjW9wu

two fantastic sleeves

280 Dag Nasty - Can I Say 212 Points, 4 Votes
http://www.neonfiller.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Dag-Nasty-Can-I-Say.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/6fChptnZEkS7QK1u1xQGpB

haus der luge is where I got off the einsturzende busbauten

279 Diamond Head - Lightning to the Nations 213 Points, 4 Votes
http://fanoegerm.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/dheaddeluxe.jpg?w=627
http://open.spotify.com/album/5Zf6AmEtLYps5wwkhtjGV7

Three awesome covers on the trot there but I think (out and can't check my vote) I voted for both the EN and Venom which is weird.

AG was asking me about EN and I said Haus Der Luge is really the transition where you begin to hear the bits which are more influenced by Blixa's time in the Bad Seeds more, in other words a jumping on point for people.

I typed this before the lazy Diamond Head cover (on a great album, admittedly).

yeah I'm kinda used to most folks' jumping on points being my jumping off points

apparently they were still bringing it live during that period and I kick myself for not seeing them at the ritz when they toured

This is what the original Diamond Head covers looked like :

http://www.diamond-head.net/albums/LightningToTheNations-lowres.jpg

278 Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime 214 Points, 4 Votes
http://zackforreal.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Queensryche-Operation-mind-crime1-300x300.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/4eEQ3aNA8mptFIfbFdX79p

A guy we tailgate with has the Operation Mindcrime logo tatooed on the back of his neck. Which he revealed to us moments after Mr Veg had given a long diatribe on why he hated that album so much, lol

terrible band

I never really 'got' them

Even the stuff before mindcrime that's supposedly better just seems v pretentious. I also really don't like Geoff Tate

lol i will never forget when my brother worked at a movie theater where one of his co-workers was a Queensryche obsessive with a 'Got Ryche?' sticker on the back of their car

heard an unfamiliar Queensryche song on the local hard rock station's lunchtime 'hairball' block the other day, sounded more like Gated Drum Zep than Whitesnake