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

'should be glad it just placed' = an odd sentiment in a poll thats running the top 400 out 493 (not a dig). I'm really hoping that that last 93 aren't hiding any crucial gems :\

Well if it had been a top 50 or a top 77 (hoho board injokes)like some people wanted you would not have any of these albums and it would just be a case of what order do the 50 albums we all know place

In My Head my second fave Black Flag rec after Damaged, if only f/title track and Out of this World.

In My Head: http://youtu.be/_31h2YxKEQI
Out of this World: http://youtu.be/kuD6icgNtsE

the entire rec is a front-row seat to the band's road-war fatigue wrestling w/Ginn's refusal to quit. a wired-from-exhaustion buzz dropping euphoria and obsession a hundred miles from hardcore.

I mean, I'm happy they placed bcz the list was so long--I'm fully in support of there being a top 400--I just thought Misfits were kinda considered sacred cows round here, but yknow votespliting sera sera...

246 Hanoi Rocks - Bangkok Shocks, Saigon Shakes, Hanoi Rocks 247 Points, 6 Votes
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/93/Bangkok_Shocks_Saigon_Shakes_Hanoi_Rocks.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/7oNcvrsiZ7Zc9LtW0yWqXN

I'm not sure I've read a lot about Misfits here but I suppose the people who are into them didn't vote whilst those into other similar sized bands did vote. It certainly makes a poll unpredictable.

Sund4r if the idea of "ac/dc meets the cars" intrigues you, def check out the first two Kix albums

Re: Misfits, I'm with the people way upthread that beyond the box set it's weirdly difficult to get a proper grip on their discography, what with the held-back releases, different versions of same songs, different editions of albums etc. So it's not surprising that there doesn't seem to be a strong consensus choice of theirs for this poll.

245 Slovenly - We Shoot For the Moon 248 Points, 4 Votes
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2IjE77e29wQ/SSc6-Yu1T_I/AAAAAAAAAO0/oUTxedri-Yo/s400/we+shoot.jpg

I voted for Obituary and King Diamond, both excellent records. Lots more stuff I've never heard on this run, I'll have to do some more investigating.

listening now to Repulsion's Horrified, btw, capital spew sporting riff-action that towers over the hash of bad grind. serenades f/yr. inner window-smasher. recommended.

244 Carcass - Symphonies of Sickness 249 Points, 5 Votes
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/SymphoniesOfSickness.jpg/220px-SymphoniesOfSickness.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/0hZQj8vgT0AEU4DYKBo9Ir

love Slovenly, but I don't why the fuck I didn't nominate any of their recs. v. weird band that musically makes the most sense to me as a post-no-wave excursion into punk-prog (sort of like Saccharine Trust w/a heavy Ut fixation, and even that's off-base).

early Slovenly tends to be shot through w/far more amphetamine quirk:

Slovenly - Inhale: http://youtu.be/PgZvg8ey1gw
Slovenly - Plug: http://youtu.be/F7sS8N5UVZQ

xp nice. another good cover too.

243 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Uplift Mofo Party Plan 251 Points, 7 Votes
http://i1000.photobucket.com/albums/af124/zavala-javier/Album%20Covers/RedHotChiliPeppers-TheUpliftMofoPar.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/0hqb6YQ8AOMbHfmE1ywBz5

djp to thread

242 Billy Idol - Rebel Yell 252 Points, 5 Votes
http://www.silvertentacle.com/images/billyidolrebelyell.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/2GWgADRfO423cyzHa1rKc5

djp to thread again probably

241 Cramps - Smell Of Female 254 Points, 4 Votes
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EbcDVQib2nA/TfwntdEimYI/AAAAAAAAABo/rdT7vmrslLQ/s1600/The-Cramps-Smell-Of-Female--202674.jpg

240 Nick Cave + The Bad Seeds - Firstborn Is Dead 254 Points, 5 Votes
http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/41epiowmarl_sl500_aa280_.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/0Kk1rEWl9xXFXME8BkVhcc

am v worried that some of my albums didn't make it out now!

so much for The Las Vegas Story; probably no Savage Republic

(actually I hadn't heard it in time, but if I had then Savage Republic's first album, Tragic Figures would've totally been nom'd by me and on my ballot. That album is p cool)

I'm getting the same feeling about some of my bottom-of-the-list votes. we seem to be past the obscure cult-fave section.

xp

239 Mercyful Fate - Melissa 255 7 Points, Votes
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4SuW4LrzcfM/Tq6gCL79XgI/AAAAAAAAAyk/-XUtoqqudiQ/s1600/MercyfulFate-Melissa.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/6Ig4BhZgma0ubEVgNaMpeo

Next to Nothing is a minor postpunk classic. need to get another copy of that rec.

xp

238 Swans - Young God 256 Points, 6 Votes
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/18/Younggod.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/6II7FDJRDbJ6eqm0sfFvwf

to think vegemite grrl thought the top 10 would be all swans

237 The Birthday Party - Prayers on Fire 259 Points, 6 Votes
http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/t/the-birthday-party/album-prayers-on-fire.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/2bclwSAoeVfNYdr49fJUxB

^Voted for Junkyard, should prob have voted for Prayers On Fire too. Going through such a resurgence of love for the Birthday Party at the moment.

Think that in my initial 'hey, this is a fun racket' reaction I missed just how tight a band they were.
On Prayers On Fire you can here the elements they took from The Pop Group more clearly than on Junkyard or the EPs (def not a criticism).

236 Masters Of Reality - Masters Of Reality 261 Points, 4 Votes One 1#
http://www.treasurecraftrecords.com/media/catalog/product/cache/4/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/m/o/mor-self-titled.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/1sUdl4Jr72JAkFZxhPMBo9

^ I love that album!

Think that in my initial 'hey, this is a fun racket' reaction I missed just how tight a band they were.
On Prayers On Fire you can here the elements they took from The Pop Group more clearly than on Junkyard or the EPs (def not a criticism).

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otm. voted for Prayers on Fire

re: Young God EP: I nominated this rec, but didn't vote f/it (too many Swans on my ballot already). Young God is generally considered the companion to the slightly heavier Cop, but all the tracks are swathed in a fog of reverb that adds a hypnotic, psych element to an otherwise mulish slog through misery. almost as much a companion to Drawings of OT with its hallucinatory air of inward collapse. heavy and hazy fun.

Yeah I voted for Prayers on Fire too. Junkyard is too much -- well, like the title sounds.

but seriously, Masters of Reality is really great. I didn't give it the #1 vote but I'm not surprised it got one.

yeah its a fabulous album.

235 Glenn Branca - Lesson No. 1 261 Points, 6 Votes
http://krautlands.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/lesson.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/2KR9Jzm77HRsp4Bzvi28NX

Here we go man!!! Anyone know of anything before Branca that could be termed "math rock"?

Cause AFAIK it started with him and primarily this album.

Lesson No. 1: title track is great and already placed, so I'll just add that I really love this short-lived period when Branca planted a flag between stripped squall and the fever of grandeur.

I always thought that the term "math-rock" evolved around Slint and their descendants.

234 Gorilla Biscuits - Start Today 262 Points, 5 Votes
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NcCuQKcZVNE/TNhWHE96RLI/AAAAAAAAB4Q/VyxGK9QN3ck/s1600/gorilla+bisciuts.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/1AAn8Qve9N7NET9v1dKceh

Have no idea what this is, going to give it a listen now.

Never cared for Civ but liked Gorilla Biscuits

233 Gore - Mean Man’s Dream 262 Points, 7 Votes
http://static.boomkat.com/images/162874/333.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/5evk0CTG6Twvb35kBdKuTE

^Classic

Yeah, a great album but I don't think I found room for it.

Surprisingly not a very gory band.

Certainly ahead of its time and highly influential.

So great to see Slovenly in this countdown. Kind of a hard band to describe, but they're pretty much in the same art-rock ballpark as Pere Ubu or Ice Cream For Crow era Beefheart. Some folks get put off by Steve Anderson's quirky singing, but that aside, the way that the two guitars weave and mesh with that rhythm section is just such a deeply joyful thing to behold.