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

get the feeling this one sneaked in and it doesn't rock much. does it?

-AG

go to 100 today and wrap it tomorrow! (this is ridiculous, so my 2nd choice is Fri - I can only vote in accordance w/my sched!)

The earlier EP rocks pretty hard IMO. The versions on the album not so much.

http://youtu.be/ZkYW_TD8HUM

aw I missed the placement of Freaky Styley

if RHCP had completely disbanded after Uplift Mofo Party Plan they would have a much much better rep

lol I missed UMPP too

can we go back to 1987 when the Red Hots were fantastic

so far this is a completely ridiculous poll that i give my full support to, if only because it's making me go back and finally rip certain CDs to my hard drive, after letting them languish in storage for god knows how long.

155 Neil Young - Freedom 392 Points, 6 Votes
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-I-2CNlpBou4/TowUfWGpBiI/AAAAAAAAAV8/91U5fDSj64Y/s1600/Neil-Young-Freedom.jpg

Ridiculous seems the best way to describe it!

ridiculous meaning hilarious and immense, we use it in its anti-pejorative sense.

Yes I get that Strongo!
I aimed for something different from other 80s polls/ilm polls/lists and we got it and yet the poll is still very much in the spirit of ilm. Everyones votes have mattered and nobody knows what will turn up next. Its been a fun poll to do as the voters have somehow grasped what I meant despite me being unable to explain what I was after that well.

And all of ilx have has a chance to check out some great tracks n albums.

ok is EdwardIII around?

yup

154 Swans - Public Castration Is A Good Idea 394 Points, 7 Votes, One #1
http://img15.nnm.ru/f/0/3/1/8/9307a8b5258b84ca73642ecca79.jpg

The Dream Syndicate Days album is all about guitars, guitars, guitars. "Then She Remembers" rocks harder than more than half the stuff in this poll.

I think Umber was the first of mine to place - my #8. Fucking love that album so much.

yeah, public castration was my #1, happy fun time music

What made you pick it over studio albums?

153 Mercyful Fate - Don't Break The Oath 395 Points, 9 Votes
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ZTInxdsRKgc/TKkDlJzyLjI/AAAAAAAACRE/c6xjujpEXYE/s1600/Dont+Break+The+Oath.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/76qLOTDutH2qCoP0imlhXw

Pity the metal fans aren't around to discuss the albums but I'm just glad some voted. Would love to see them chat though even if they hate polls. We're all on ILM to discuss music we like. (and we all know you're lurking!)

Took me the longest time to take the Kings voice but im glad i did.

didn't vote for this one, but it's really good. I know what you mean about KD but he's got that crazy operatic thing going on which I think is cool.

It was the same with Dio. Took about 20 years to 'get' it

I hated MF when I first heard them. Mr Veg tried to play me some stuff and it was like my ears just closed over in terror.

Then I think through the Metallica Garage Inc stuff, or maybe it was the Probot collaboration with Grohl and King Diamond and I was like, oh wait I get it now, GIMME ALL OF THE MERCYFUL FATES

and now he's one of my alltime favorite singers next to like, Dio and Halford

He's fucking incredible.

early swans was all about brutality, and public castration is the purest distillation. everything gira had done prior was a build-up to that material, and after the wave broke and receded they'd never get back there again. as an absurd reduction of rock's dionysian din to its elemental roots in the suffering of the blues, it exists outside of genre with even a barely tangential relationship to music itself. yet it's so compelling, sounds so massive, hasn't aged at all, and I still haven't heard a more harrowing record. a leviathan.

xp to AG

152 Loop - Fade Out 397 Points, 10 Votes
http://www.erbadellastrega.it/public/immagini/loop_Fade_out.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/7rBFa2O5IIizkqIOWQoN15

He's fucking incredible.

OTM

you know who is underrated, is Corey Glover

151 Young Gods - s/t 398 Points, 9 Votes
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/88/The_Young_Gods_Self_Titled.jpg

Good time for a recap if sund4r is around

150 Bauhaus - In The Flat Field 400 Points, 8 Votes, One #1
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oOIbZ1Ewr3k/TQQsPbR69GI/AAAAAAAABXE/UlQsERq6MQM/s1600/In%2BThe%2BFlat%2BField-Frontal.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/7utIrfhQ98ODhOOtqFrtwT

Direct Link to poll recap & full results

Thanks

149 Sisters of Mercy - Floodland 406 Points, 10 Votes
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-075joWYHzIM/T-I0G3CEEzI/AAAAAAAADiI/kWcIb_hV-V8/s1600/tumblr_kzffw0WqcQ1qbsexpo1_500.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/7eLzF93T0FDx4hkuQ4juEj

A goth one-two there

that album changed my life

Bet you had been a happy child until then.

then the child became a goth

and met jjj

148 Saint Vitus - V 407 Points, 9 Votes
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2nHlMeGUjcM/S9hKdVeYpBI/AAAAAAAAEbw/-xaPU1LHwnc/s1600/SVVFront1.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/09YgOvGVaRSVD43fHMaFCa

recommended. btw this years reunion album is great.

147 Meat Puppets - Monsters 408 Points, 10 Votes
http://991.com/NewGallery/Meat-Puppets-Monsters-519040.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/45tfszc9ydma7WEEKBRi4E

Monsters is a big dropoff from the run of albums leading up to it w/ terrible production but I still voted for it because I had room on my ballot and "Touchdown King" is an amazing song

I think its a really good album

146 Chrome - Red Exposure 420 Points, 8 Votes
http://recordsandbeer.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/chrome-red-exposure-front.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/28x3p3VvK1pF8acqiw6kfB

^ some ppl seem lukewarm on this album but it's my 2nd favorite behind alien soundtracks (and I guess there's a silent majority since it finished above the other nommed chrome albs). wish there had been more psychedelic dystopian electropop albums like it. the album version of "new age" >>>> single version btw.

missed this in the noms but would have voted for it. half machine lip moves still my fave chrome though.

145 Candlemass - Ancient Dreams 430 Points, 8 Votes
http://united-metal.ru/uploads/posts/2010-09/1284184993_candlemass-ancient-dreams-1988-download-320.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/0Z16GpIjIcKslfajHYhrcb

awesome to see that place. viceroy to thread

144 Screaming Trees - Even If & Especially When 431 Points, 8 Votes
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000000M2C.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/0DzJYwiUSShAGl3ZBjjGiU

143 Cirith Ungol - Frost and Fire 431 Points, 9 Votes
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mKDg9EjtQb4/R8i6Gn8y1SI/AAAAAAAABBg/oif5k_esYG0/s400/CirithUngol_Frost.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/2T7YDJaLcEFFvUdaNcdNMU