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

^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
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zl6z6XjsE_Q/T8JVWVsRtXI/AAAAAAAALZo/aYCIAYKuuF0/s1600/ThrowingMuses.jpg

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!

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

I just checked the writing credits and this is so OTM even though I do like "First and Last and Always"

Why were The Mission such utter shite?

because Eldritch wasn't writing their lyrics and Wayne doesn't have that stentorian bellow

For a song with such deeply terrible lyrics, Walk Away is soooo fucking great.

^ Not a bad showing for Suffer, I'd def be more inclined to listen to it rather than No Control these days. It doesn't really have any of their standout songs (except the title track maybe) but just has an appealing overall sound and flows together well. Intro riff to You Are The Government still sounds great too.

Feel like BR's best 80s albums weren't nominated though, blah blah moan whine.

172 Band of Susans - Hope Against Hope 356 Points, 7 Votes
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vKD7WiDMrVM/TIZoaeMw8mI/AAAAAAAABN0/JY_AGOdRUtQ/s1600/susans.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/4n1Y8rPJNh6t9gBlqFe7Ne

I def need to check out more Live Skull and Band of Susans, I know a few songs from each but they both sound great + right up my alley...

Great album and their best one I think. Not Even Close, Throne of Blood, Ready To Bend, and obviously the title song still sound thrilling to me, they were at their best the harder they pushed it rather than on some of the more meandering stuff.

171 Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance 360 Points, 8 Votes
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2oxQIiEhgmI/T4Rb70Lg07I/AAAAAAAAD_g/K880g5t0Bzg/s1600/judas_priest-screaming_for_vengeance.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/55MZQrenomrTq0aQneC7Pi

British Steel and Screaming For Vengeance this low BAH HUMBUG

true metal needs no polling to validate it's existence anyway harrumph

*cries*

true metal ppl need to vote instead of trying to be true elite

Voted f/Altars of Madness. Difficult to say what exactly sets it apart from the many other death metal recs of the era, but Morbid Angel's penchant for churning out clouds of choking riff-smog atop aggressive but grooving rhythms seems to slot them nicely into an imaginary niche between Drunks With Guns and Skullflower, two other bands that I think of as exploring violent psychosis as a wing of psychedelic derangement (in v. different ways, however). Or maybe it was all lol drugs + college + nasty riffs = guaranteed satisfaction and hopeless bias, so w/e.

true metal ppl need to vote instead of trying to be true elite

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Monday, October 1, 2012 12:22 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

didn't you get more votes for your metal polls? i figured a lot of those folks were like "what, plain old hard rock, fuck that" about this poll

the problem with the voter collective is that they are not honoring the fire imo

oh quite possibly.

but some troo metal made it...

170 Venom - Black Metal 360 Points, 9 Votes
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WL3SQtD41hk/T0LeNwfcXtI/AAAAAAAAA9I/DG4cmVgrhrc/s1600/Venom-%2BBlack%2BMetal.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/3cfbJ5DXFE5PU5f9Ld5oPq

There were only a fewall metal ballots iirc so some dude is probably right. I know Glenn will only vote if its a metal poll as otherwise its too hard to make a ballot with having to leave stuff out. Making it all one genre is easier for him.

yahhhhh VENOM weee

Black Metal is p cool though it was def different than I expected

I always wanted to check out Drunks with Guns; I didn't know they had any kind of rep at all--after my first attempt at college, I came back to my hometown and start hanging out with a sort wild & druggy crowd. One of my best friends during that time was a budding guitarist, and he wanted to start a band with me called 'Drunk Bums with Guns.' Of course that idea went nowhere, but a few years back whilst cruising RYM I came across Drunks with Guns and wondered if that was where he got that idea. I doubt it though; your chances of being exposed to underground 80s rock where I live is p much nil.

guys like j3ff will vote in EOY metal poll as they have their lists for whatever mags they get paid by so its just C&P but most of the thread regs dont even bother voting in our poll so basically we rely on other ilxors/lurkers which then leads to it being called hipster metal polls or whatever. But the results are still good imo

but j3ff doesnt vote in this or all time polls. but nor does he care about the results otherwise im sure he would post

^Sweet album cover for Venom.

bad religion suffer is still a pretty killer album despite the mushball vibes of latter day BR. i like several albums that came after suffer, but in a lot of ways that was the last one they pulled a home run on.

so blame him if metal albums are too low!

I love metal, but I think the places for most of these are fair enough, given how many hundreds of albums they're competing with. I doubt there's ever been any other rock poll that would have Venom and Bathory in the top 200. I would have my favorite Iron Maiden, Piece Of Mind place higher, but I realize it's not everyone's fave.

169 Nick Cave + The Bad Seeds - Your Funeral, My Trial 362 Points, 7 Votes
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_y-Qon5Eq6DE/TE7hzZ8azWI/AAAAAAAABKY/wDK_o4hRR-w/s1600/img_1_pr.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/5nOJEPqqmZJ0lWYgzTi5wi

bad religion suffer is still a pretty killer album despite the mushball vibes of latter day BR.
Yeah I would prob still like it more if I hadn't totally burned out on Greg Graffin's earnest-old-man vocal stylings.

Henry's Dream was and still kind of is my favorite album but I think Your Funeral is the album that gave back to me in adulthood. His songwriting here is just, effortless. Like now he really works at it but back then he was all scagged out and living in a squat and collecting Anita Lane's hair in a diary or some shit and just writing the most genius torrid vivid pieces songs

I'm a total fangirl, I make no apologies for it. I'm just in awe of that kind of effortless craft

and I fucking love the Bad Seeds in that era

still kinda violent and almost explosive and the quiet stuff they did was always menacing even when it was tender

and the fucking CARNY

I mean

and Sad Waters kills me

and stranger than kindness. my very favourite non cave penned bad seeds song.

yeeees. so haunting

168 The Sound - From The Lions Mouth 363 Points, 6 Votes
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v620/centaxerror1/The-Sound-From-The-Lions-Mo-4481211.jpg

well its nice to see that stuff i have never even heard of is still making the countdown

167 Corrosion of Conformity - Animosity 371 Points, 7 Votes
http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/c/corrosion-of-conformity/album-animosity.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/23zZJWBeijaL85vyRsN1jN

that's hardcore era CoC btw

166 Royal Trux - Royal Trux 372 Points, 9 Votes
http://www.freecodesource.com/album-cover/51MEQHSA3FL/Royal-Trux-Royal-Trux.jpg

165 fIREHOSE - Ragin', Full On 372 Points, 10 Votes
http://rockthatfont.com/wp-content/images/firehose-ragin-full-on.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/5le5vGVP95wIXsgezyOSyS