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

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

234 Gorilla Biscuits - Start Today 262 Points, 5 Votes
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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
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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.

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.

OK this makes me want to check them out.

ha yeah never ever has anything i've heard about Branca or math rock intersected at all

How many votes were there for that unjustly neglected Mercyful Fate album?

Anyone know of anything before Branca that could be termed "math rock"?

King Crimson and Rush? [ / ducks]

xpost But yeah, I never really thought about Branca as math-y at all. Dude doesn't really deal in stops and starts and rapid shifts in metre and tempo.

xp to Nick: That sounds awesome. I recognize them as an overlooked SST band, but I kind of hate the name. But I love Ice Cream for Crow: after re-listening to it in the last few days I believe I put it in my top 15

Well I'm not talking about genre designations I'm just talking about the sound. But I guess he sounds more like, I dunno, Lightening Bolt than he does something like Don Caballero. I'll shut up since I guess I thought stuff like Hella and Marnie Stern was referred to as math rock too but I seem to be way wrong.

232 Killing Joke - What's THIS For...! 264 Points, 5 Votes
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http://open.spotify.com/album/3rw5vGk8j0Kd72T3KkrVmD

they are math-rock viceroy

I voted f/Mean Man's Dream, and it's probably the greatest boring album ever made. Dutch dope fiends start w/stark, three-piece metal and trudge their way to lumbering, monobrow psych using nothing but riffs. can't decide whether it's a high-brow conception of low-brow bludgeon or its opposite. something of a weird, alt. experiment in removing all of the tall-hair-and-leather baggage of metal. not much remains, but A f/effort.

Anyway, I hope its not too controversial to suggest that Killing Joke is fucking awesome!

231 Discharge - Hear Nothing, See Nothing, Say Nothing 265 Points, 5 Votes
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http://open.spotify.com/album/7tlh0UNHCkENgoMm7NEizn

I think we've gone beyond obscure cult classics to actual cult classics now.

Oh yeah this was def. on my ballot! Can't believe its not even in the top 100 though.

I dunno they're not actually discussed much round here. Remember it is an ILM poll.

plus we have about 400 albums who some think should be top 100!

haha very true.

And some people thought not enough got nominated!

And I will say it again, albums/tracks that get campaigned for will do better. Some just get forgotten about. It's always better to campaign for stuff.

Anyway, I hope its not too controversial to suggest that Killing Joke is fucking awesome!

no, that Killing Joke rec is fucking great, and a genuine classic. cliched to say it's low, but it seems to have great appeal beyond the usual circle of weirdo listeners (not that I know any of those creeps).

I have heard a lot of people say its the best KJ. Whilst others go for the other obvious 2.

Discharge used to be my fave from that early 80s UK wave of hardcore-ish anarcho-punk stuff. Not listened to anything by them in a long, long time though.

I'm reading a recent interview though and I didn't realize they (KJ) were total conspiracy nutters... talking about fluoridation and tavistock and all that.

230 Savage Republic - Ceremonial 268 Points, 5 Votes
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I have heard a lot of people say its the best KJ. Whilst others go for the other obvious 2.
― Algerian Goalkeeper

Yeah I think my favorite is still the self-titled one.

plus we have about 400 albums who some think should be top 100!

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Saturday, September 29, 2012 4:34 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha no, we have 100. that's how that works.

I'm reading a recent interview though and I didn't realize they (KJ) were total conspiracy nutters... talking about fluoridation and tavistock and all that.

would actually be disappointed if they weren't completely nuts.

They reject "all forms of Malthusianism" and are ready to wage war against the "Kissinger Associates," so I don't think you'll be disappointed any time soon.

229 Cro-Mags - The Age of Quarrel 268 Points, 8 Votes
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hey okay Savage Republic made it; this album is cool tho I am one who think not enough albums got nominated and wished Tragic Figures was here as well.

plus we have about 400 albums who some think should be top 100!

OTM, everyone has a different top 50, so obv every voter feels that their recs should be in the top 100 (and this applies to every rec that received even a single vote).

there's a difference between "this was in my personal ballot" and "i am disappointed/annoyed this was not voted higher on the list by others"

After the Quarrel...

http://www.metalsucks.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Harley-Flanagan-Being-Arrested.jpeg

Ducking out for a bit, which will conveniently stop me from getting into my conflicted feelings about KJ's distinct creepy nutter vibes.

no Age of Quarrel on Spotify, but this is the only track anyone needs to hear:

Cro-Mags - We Gotta Know: http://youtu.be/f7eIQBCii_E

i think i have the album on mp3. if not i need to fix that.

there's a difference between "this was in my personal ballot" and "i am disappointed/annoyed this was not voted higher on the list by others"

only sometimes true. and it doesn't stop people who voted f/obscure recs that they wholeheartedly love to bits from thinking that the rec should be higher. maybe the left brain is okay w/the low placing, but the music-loving lizard brain wants that fucker in the top 10.

228 Atheist - Piece Of Time 270 Points, 4 Votes
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The Atheist albums were on Spotify a few months ago but now seem to be gone.

it wasn't so very long ago that idea of Big Black's Kerosene winning any 80s poll was virtually unthinkable (and the notion was 100% unthinkable in the 80s). so it's occasionally tough to "rationally" gauge where the music "should" place. Keiji Haino placing above Bon Jovi can ignite all sorts of "irrational" hopes and ideas about where certain albums "should" be.

xxp

big black winning that only happened due to the last couple of ballots iirc.

a win is a win, no?

227 Dog Faced Hermans - Humans Fly 273 Points, 5 Votes
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