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

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
http://www.cmdistro.com/images/xlarge/20099.jpg

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.

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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
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/53/167524552_dfc863b4c3.jpg

Indeed, but that track has always stood out beyond the album, esp round here. So I'm not surprised it was top 10. Didn't expect it to win though. Nobody even discussed big black on the threads! so i guess it won without campaigning. Biggest surprise in the poll obviously was bands with highly rated albums also getting tracks from those albums that aren't seen as classic standalone tracks placing so high.
Well, until you saw the ballots and every sonic youth track took up the top 10 in plenty of occasions, lol.

That of course doesn't automatically mean it happened in the albums ballots.

226 Urge Overkill - Jesus Urge Superstar 276 Points, 5 Votes
http://991.com/newGallery/Urge-Overkill-Jesus-Urge-Supers-542312.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/6FN26dIfAZ6CbPs6jmCg6X

I have that on vinyl.

224 Black Flag - Jealous Again 277 Points, 6 Votes
http://www.damagerecords.net/store/images/jealous.again.jpeg
http://open.spotify.com/album/5yDGiOf7em18SXpToclPo5

224 Green On Red - Gas Food Lodging 277 Points, 6 Votes
http://991.com/newGallery/Green-On-Red-Gas-Food-Lodging-518561.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/5aRwtE4eIalAcLq23Q9IdE

223 The Jesus And Mary Chain - Automatic 278 Points, 4 Votes
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tcXhl49Rt_Q/T6IBT7xA8YI/AAAAAAAAC1o/N4KAgrsg1xU/s320/The%2BJesus%2Band%2BMary%2BChain.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/3W4GA8mOLJpARbJCxWWqFm

Since no one is around I'll just take it down to 220 tonight.

NO! TAKE IT TO 213!

hahahaha

222 Death In June - The World That Summer 279 Points, 6 Votes
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f9/TheWorldThatSummer.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/6R6q6GKodtkF9BXwMGbBOJ

They're not nazis really

NO! TAKE IT TO 213!

srsly, you're so close to 200. we're getting to the heart of the matter.

but are they conspiracy theorists?

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I'm surprised this placed so much higher than The Guilty Have No Pride, since it's got so many of, at least IMO, DI6's "hits."

221 Fishbone - Truth and Soul 286 Points, 7 Votes
http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/f/fishbone/album-truth-and-soul.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/3fFLTUfssjzN4vipRRfGxZ

Anyone know if jjj has purchased that Sonic Youth album he promised to buy?

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That's a good boy. There are no hidden agendas, and it is of course perfectly rational to rule out conspiracy ahead of any facts. Only crazies become convinced that anything is ever a conspiracy. Laughing on cue at the things you've been taught to automatically laugh at is a sign of an educated and intelligent mind.

Anybody ever read that Gwenyth Todd thread?

Will anyone be around for another 10 albums tonight?

That's a good boy. There are no hidden agendas, and it is of course perfectly rational to rule out conspiracy ahead of any facts. Only crazies become convinced that anything is ever a conspiracy. Laughing on cue at the things you've been taught to automatically laugh at is a sign of an educated and intelligent mind.

I actually don't have any beef w/"conspiracy" theorists at all, and recognize the term as one of condescension and dismissal, typically employed to discount the ugly and primitive motivations that have always driven fucked-up policy decisions (usually regarding cash, land, oil and other resources). I was simply making a reference to the earlier comment about Killing Joke. but all of this is f/another thread.

sorry I slept in way late & am going out this evening so won't be around much

Bummed that Prayers on Fire came in so low, it's a brilliant album

Firstborns is Dead coming low I understand. It's not high on that many ppl's list. Your Funeral will hopefully crack the hundreds

I'll be around if you want to go to, say 200.

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go as far as you want, AG, but i bet there'll be as many people around as any other time

always more people the closer you get to top.

I'll be around kind of... helping my 60+ year old parents set up a wireless home network

can you get them to comment on some of these records?

maybe the Keiji Haino?

Dont think 200 is a go tonight but if ppl arearound we can do 210 i guess

are you running on fumes at this point? like, about to drop dead?

220 Giant Sand - Valley Of Rain 287 Points, 6 Votes
http://img12.nnm.ru/1/8/b/d/6/18bd6558bbfcae050de318e9f520b1b7_full.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/4bjn3TpuhyAO3T0m21ybka

no not at all but a lot of british people will be in bed by 2am as theyre all old now so its not really fair to go beyond that

that giant sand album is great

Well, I'm listening to some Terrorizer right now, and was gonna suggest a bit of that to put a spring in yr. step.

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For real, how many votes for Mercyful Fate? The number was left out when the album was rolled out.

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love that gore album, in my top 20 iirc. agree with AG re: its prescience and influence.

219 Manilla Road - Open The Gates 288 Points, 6 Votes
http://en.metalship.org/archives/albums/album4604.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/3ceoaXMpuTHn6RMLL7igNG

great album, but sometimes the concept outstrips the execution. I think it intentionally toys w/the fine line between psych and monotony, driving metal down dead ends to find the breaking points in its aggressive minimalism. v. much an art project in that way, but I'm not always in the mood f/that gamesmanship.

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that being said, I think there's a lot of Gore in Prong's Beg to Differ, just f/one example.

218 The Flaming Lips - Oh My Gawd 290 Points, 5 Votes
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7M7u21WmKoY/T_RnFLgFtVI/AAAAAAAACq4/5fulrDIDCdc/s1600/Oh%2BMy%2BGawd.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/3f8KtWE5rYu3tHZ48iHrSW