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

186 Die Kreuzen - S/T 341 Points 6 Votes
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_j2lahJEjoEU/TIZ231zOixI/AAAAAAAAA1g/f-CEPhGdB6Y/s1600/die+kreuzen.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/20sv7pqZWgeIW1jzYorEoP

185 Naked City - Naked City 342 Points, 7 Votes

http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/4791/cover_554163182009.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/1ZJtXPcSA64FHSo5mHzvaZ

I used to have problems with the production of Pyro, it sounded band on my cheap record player. I got the reissue with the extra live disc a while back and it sounds awesome, both studio and live. They really need to remaster the first two also.

I'm going to be that guy and say that naked city is way too low. Another album that pretty much rewired my head.

187 for Pyromania? Damn, was hoping for top 100

184 Foetus Interruptus - Thaw 343 Points, 7 Votes
http://ihrtn.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Thaw.jpeg?cda6c1

yay naked city!

yeah and ya don't stop, it's 187 on the underrated lep

Die Kreuzen a v. late cut, and one of the best hardcore recs ever in a field littered w/homogenous crap. jagged and metallic and nasty and tight as fuck. only Man in the Trees IMO matches the intensity of the earlier material while successfully exploring a wider aesthetic (postpunk noise-metal w/occasional grabs f/pop hooks). October File may be due f/a revision, though.

183 Wipers - Over The Edge 346 Points, 6 Votes
http://post.portlandmercury.com/images/blogimages/2009/03/06/1236353685-wipers.jpg

where's G

no Foetus Interruptus on Spotify, but here are a couple of entertaining examples of his swaggering, bombastic take on industrial-tinged hard rock:

Foetus Interruptus - A Prayer For My Death: http://youtu.be/xJXP73FAYLA
Foetus Interruptus - English Faggot/Nothin Man: http://youtu.be/wzylm9fdUxQ

I didnt vote for this Wipers album, but I voted for the other two

182 Danzig - Danzig 346 8 Points, Votes
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TvRfAm8drjQ/T6xjm93IO6I/AAAAAAAAAs0/sKq2vo7ktBc/s1600/Danzig.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/7iNVpD0QtlhjsmDgW4IlBI

Thaw has Foetus toying w/Spinal-Tap levels of rock excess, but his irony is ramped as high as the histrionics, giving you the option to enjoy the rec's untrammeled wallowing in advanced gutter-pomp. EIII may provide the dissenting opinion if he's around.

xp

Have never really got on with solo Nick Cave, but it might be getting near time for me to give him yet another try.

From Her to Eternity's a good place to start. I nominated the rec, like it and think that it's Cave's best, but I still didn't vote f/it because it seems so antithetical to the intent of the poll. this is funny and fucked up b/c people have complained about Mars and Neubauten and Thin White Rope and Public Enemy and Slovenly and Beefheart and every other goddamn band in this poll, and I'm cool w/ALL of it, but anything even remotely resembling vaudeville/showbiz/torch-song croon gets automatically roped off from rock in my mind. I could give you a spiel about theatrical, mannered music negating genuine catharsis or some such horseshit (which may not even be crazy), but I'm really just revealing my own biases and lines of demarcation. I mean, if anyone rocks the singer-songwriter schtick it's Cave on Saint Huck or From Her to Eternity or Cabin Fever!, but as good as these songs are, in the back of my mind I'm still thinking that at base it's all a bit of bombastic twaddle. but that's just me, so fuck all that and get the rec, which is great.

181 Social Distortion - Mommy's Little Monster 347 Points, 6 Votes
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3647SGFgI5w/T9iyogoovXI/AAAAAAAAAeA/wQanrU6euMs/s1600/album-mommys-little-monster.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/6xlKxTBg89hnWdfCrye6Fy

180 Avengers - Avengers 347 Points, 7 Votes
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179 DNA - A Taste of DNA 350 Points, 7 Votes
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#178 will be last one for tonight

Avengers are awesome; another one of mine.

178 Iron Maiden - Powerslave 351 Points, 7 Votes
http://www.drinkingblackcoffee.com/wp-content/uploads/iron-maiden-powerslave.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/4hFcwazEjeg3gJEu0AuxM7

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1800-track Spotify playlist f/the insomniacs:

http://open.spotify.com/user/1234500846/playlist/29WgnIq2XbpntkEJYkZeoR

TOO LOW FOR POWERSLAVE

re: DNA: the entire nine-minute rec in its entirety:

DNA - A Taste of DNA: http://youtu.be/_gA-R62agx0

too much entire. time to pack it in.

it has been a good day.

aw man Powerslave rules so hard

Y'all are crazy.

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kind of thought that danzig would be higher. was thaw even on the nom list? i prefer hole and nail, but its fucking awesome.

Thaw was my nomination, so yes it was on the list

Oh ha never mind, I voted for it

Hahaha

Hellhouse totally otm over Die Kreuzen s/t. I also liked October File a lot, although the production/engineering was too muffled. Man in the Trees got a vote for me in the tracks list.
Blind Idiot God were mining a similar, albeit instrumental furrow.

The Avengers had some wonderful tunes.

Same goes for Wipers, although from recollection their first got my vote. Or was it YoA.

THAW is fucking insane.

i love it.

i once wore my foetus interruptus t-shirt (album cover art), at a cheesy night club in leeds, and a woman gave me serious grief about the name of the band.

happy daze.

Yay Foetus.

I need to listen to the Avengers s/t record again, it's another one that I used to like but can now barely remember how it goes.
Surprised that Social Distortion made it, although Mommy's Little Monster is def better than their later stuff. Music-wise it's actually not a million miles away from some early-to-mid period Replacements stuff (to my ears), although obv with different and notably worse lyrics.

From Her to Eternity's a good place to start. I nominated the rec, like it and think that it's Cave's best,
Thanks for the recommendation. I have heard parts of FHTH but never the whole thing right through. I think generally my problem with Cave solo is that I find the music unengaging (morseo with the stuff from the 90s onwards but even some of the 80s stuff that people tend to find a bit more exciting I've had that problem with). Obviously I wouldn't dispute his talent as a songwriter.

I love the Avengers but not sure if it should've been allowed in this poll since it's all 70s music. But the boundaries of this poll have always seemed a bit weird to me.

^Gave the Avengers album a listen and it still sounds good. I can't tell if this is how it actually worked out historically, but their tunes really sound like the blueprint for a whole swathe of the more straightahead US punk that's appeared over the last 30-odd years - I can hear traces of their sound in stuff by X, Adolescents, TSOL & then later on Pennywise, Offspring, Distillers etc. Maybe that sounds a bit like damning with faint praise given that the later stuff in that vein can be fairly mediocre, but I think Avengers really nailed that sound (basically garage-rock at root I guess but wound up super-tight and with a layer of extra nastiness).

177 Squirrel Bait - Skag Heaven 352 Points, 6 Votes
http://www.vinylsolution.com/images/products/133570.jpg

176 Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness 352 Points, 9 Votes
http://www.morbidangel.com/images/altars_cover.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/2vWHACnDiSnFM52octEvY0

<3 Skag Heaven, that would have been top twenty for me

175 Throwing Muses - s/t 353 Points, 7 Votes
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174 Sisters Of Mercy - First And Last And Always 354 Points, 8 Votes
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FKhYhwMU2OA/TiaUn0q5apI/AAAAAAAAFBI/itb8D9QTeAo/s1600/som.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/6vUYa9RUUkdMNOCNipcCiu

^^^ this album is tinny as fuck and yet still manages to pwn for at least half of its running time

Definitely prefer the Wayne songs on that to the Gary ones, second half of that is a bit of a drag imo.

173 Bad Religion - Suffer 355 Points, 6 Votes
http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa11/xicanodd/1988Suffer.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/3SsWXUMMsBgqmACSGh25Ak

Throwing Muses s/t was my #9; thought it was a lock for the top 100--I really have no idea what to expect now

anyways, hi-five to the other six who voted for it!