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

yes, like fine grade sandpaper on my cerebral cortex

xp

obv that dio record rules

WHY IS THIS SO GODDAMN LOW WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU ALL

not enough tru metal voters I guess

I mean I had 6 metal albums on my ballot but couldn't find room for it

*shakes fist at u*

See I kind of get Queensryche as being for prog fans who think Voivod are 'just too out there'.

B-b-but Nothingface was #4 on my ballot.

Dio would have made my list had I been able to do 100 entries!

See, I kind of think of Iron Maiden as proggy too.

long /= prog

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prong_%28band%29

long duk prong

I think xhuxk described Maiden as a louder version of Jethro Tull once, which doesn't seem too far off to me. "Hallowed Be Thy Name" has a lot of proggy elements: quasi-classical allusions, acoustic/electric contrasts, a fantastic narrative, tempo changes.

maiden wasn't prog until dickinson joined, once you start all that sword n sorcery bullshit it's game over

Pretty much all their popular material was done with Dickinson!

popular in whose house not mine

just bc u don't like them doesn't make them prog

^ this, the Dianno era is nearly latter-era punk and it's only once he's gone prog weighs in big time.

okay if this is all just Maiden sucks after the first two albums then that's a totally different conversation to are Maiden prog y/n

I do like them! but d'ianno >>>>> dickinson

most popular iron maiden album in my house: killers

but c'mon if you are recording 14 minute songs based on 18th century poems about ghost ships you just might be prog maybe a lil bit

I like Dianno fine for those 2 albums, but creatively they didn't go very far with him. I love those 2 albums but what I love about Maiden in sum total has more to do with Dickinson and Harry and what the band did after Dianno left, than anything that happened before Bruce joined.

They'd never have been able to do anything like Run to The Hills or Aces High or Prisoner with Paul, which is the maiden stuff I really truly love

And if you're coming at Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner as a prog song then lol, there's sooooooooo much storybook metal that's long and overwrought that's not prog, it just doesn't make sense to me

unles prog = you just don't like it, in which case fine, lol

Maiden's music has more to do with Steve Harris than the singers, and there's plenty of continuity. I hear some prog influences in "Prodigal Son" for example. I don't know about the sorcery part, but there's been plenty of swords and war themes in the first two albums, much like the later ones.

Swords and sorcery is just kind of a dismissive catchall though -- Harry's fking bonkers, he pulls from bloody near anything that gets his attention, whether it's pulp thrillers or Hammer Horror movies or tv or mythology, military history or christing Coledrige

Well put. Funny that there's a long convo about Maiden when they haven't even made an appearance in the poll yet!

just say 'Maiden' and I'm all in, lol

But I gave musical reasons why I think they're prog-influenced. It wasn't just about song length. I thought Maiden were Genesis and Tull fans? 2112/Farewell to Kings-era Rush is another reference point that makes some sense to me.

I actually can't remember why I brought this up in the first place though tbh.

I think it was because people were hating on Queensryche?

272 Void/Faith - Split LP 217 Points, 5 Votes
http://assets.dischord.com/images.d/release/image/446517/087.jpg

271 Journey - Escape 219 Points, 5 Votes
http://wac.450f.edgecastcdn.net/80450F/ultimateclassicrock.com/files/2011/06/AlbumCovers-Journey-Escape1981.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/43wpzak9OmQfrjyksuGwp0

#18

#19, actually

270 Bad Religion - No Control 222 Points, 4 Votes
http://www.rockfreaks.net/files/badreligionfeature-nocontrol.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/5hosHbfLPbpvCUSS29fFfF

Voted for No Control but tbh I'm not sure that I could listen to it much these days.

269 Killdozer - Intellectuals Are The Shoeshine Boys Of The Ruling Elite 225 Points, 5 Votes
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_B2o-gXUaMwo/SPuAl9TbPRI/AAAAAAAAGB0/jASN_x60l6w/s320/000-kill-D-ozer_shoeshineboi.png
http://open.spotify.com/album/6dr4rjfKPeLkCQnCDD9BIv

yes

Is that title a quote from something?

TIE
267 Einsturzende Neubauten - Drawings Of Ot 225 Points, 6 Votes
http://991.com/NewGallery/Einsturzende-Neubauten-Drawings-Of-OT-557476.jpg

267 Slayer - South Of Heaven 225 Points, 6 Votes
http://midnightpunk.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/slayer-seasons-in-the-abyss.jpeg
http://open.spotify.com/album/4GS0pooX8JTgHO1ljDBYgN

I think I voted for both of them too. Am I king of the ties?

266 Angel Witch - Angel Witch 227 Points, 4 Votes
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ZTInxdsRKgc/S67vv8yuUYI/AAAAAAAABZ8/OfqRb_YoOFo/s1600/Angel+Witch.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/4V1ZuhNYJh1bzsVRohvxX3

Many great tracks on that Angel Witch album, not just the obvious one. Crap production though.

265 Angry Samoans - Back From Samoa 227 Points, 5 Votes
http://bp0.blogger.com/_-LvJQKf6B5U/SAGPyZEglYI/AAAAAAAAAuw/TYFQvr0FbdA/s320/angry.jpg

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264 Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind 229 Points, 5 Votes
http://991.com/newGallery/Iron-Maiden-Piece-Of-Mind-284102.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/3dFAfH33aNku65qm8IPS54

Many great tracks on that Angel Witch album, not just the obvious one. Crap production though.

they should have got vic maile to do it.

neubauten's "zeichnungen des patienten o.t" way too low.

starting to worry that Dr. Feelgood didn't make it

thanks sund4r

I've got a Neubauten vs Angel Witch thing going on in my head right now, it's a close-run thing

Of course dr. Feelgood didn't make it!