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

Live Skull totally rocked.

― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, October 1, 2012 6:06 PM (9 minutes ago)

Yeah, definitely when Thalia Zedek was in the band. Maybe they did more on the early records than I'm remembering, too.

holy shit actual canonical ROCK in this poll = ZZ Top

fuck yes

HELL YEA Skinny Puppy! VIVIsectVI was their first album that I heard. It's usually a toss up between this and Too Dark Park for my favorite.

VIVIsectVI was one that i pulled out and listened to during my ballot making and realized how gonzo badass it still sounds this many years later

likewise. time has been kind to it. genius and way ahead of its time programming.

Yea, IMO you need some headphones to fully appreciate it.

oh god, so much rock in pre-zedek live skull, "fort belvedere", "x w/ the light", "glee product". "haircut for pigs".

"mr evil" doesn't just rock, it swings!

^^^

OTM, but I've moved on to trying to crack the mystery of Skinny Puppy's appeal.

are you an oldschool ministry fan? if so, give facist jock itch a try

"if so, give fascist jock itch a try" = the "centipedes? in my vagina?" of 2012

FOR sticks w/the traditional instrumentation, though, making it a bit like the outraged version of post-rock.

compared to neubauten maybe, but there's very little bass on the record due to wobble's exit and levene was more interested in playing offbeat instruments like the violumpet than gtr

he tried fascist jock itch in high school, did not agree w/ him iirc

re you an oldschool ministry fan? if so, give facist jock itch a try

their recs are so neat and clean and tidy and fussy that I'm not hearing the gonzo badass aspect. I keep thinking of the Calvin Klein aesthetic writ in leather and pushed to disaffected youth.

vx gas attack = gonzo badass.

yes! exactly!

I'm listening to "Fort Belvedere" on Youtube for the first time in many years. The guitars are rocking, but the rhythm section sounds like a band on Postcard.

you were on firmer ground w/Thin White Rope and The Dream Syndicate. this Live Skull fixation is quixotic at best.

Nice rhetorical move to call two sentences a "fixation."

listening w/o hearing

xp

Aw, I insulted some indie rock music, did I?

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I do like mid-era Skinny Puppy* tons and tons but Bites and Remission will always be the pinnacle for me with them

* I guess I can't keep calling the three albums that placed on this poll "mid-era" anymore, can I

Aw, I insulted some indie rock music, did I?

― timellison, Monday, October 1, 2012 10:41 PM (16 minutes ago)

yes you have certainly besmirched the shining reputation of beloved indie rock stars live skull

^Very nice surprise to see Swell Maps show up!

this morning the poll is giving me an excuse to listen to the Sisters of Mercy.

117 Hüsker Dü - Candy Apple Grey 495 Points, 11 Votes
http://www.classiclps.co.uk/images/shopcovers/P01014.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/6zoU9wwvh8ETkMsWU3Mtv1

now that's low. Not a critically revered album I guess.

It is in the UK but not in the USA afaik

When the warners cds got reissuedin the early 90s Kerrang and a few other mags all said it was the last of the classic albums. But NME only had Warehouse in their top albums (ever or 80s i forget) list.

upon release candy apple grey was filed under disappointing major label debut by a lot of folks.

as time goes on I like husker du less and less. as this poll goes on we will see them more and more.

116 King Crimson - Discipline 504 Points, 9 Votes
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ABANeR4e3RM/TnqeFNCjsDI/AAAAAAAAALU/D_-ncrCjI58/s1600/Discipline.jpg

I would so much prefer an instrumental version of Discipline.

a bit of old biz:

I voted f/Swans' Public Castration is a Good Idea, and though not my #1, it was damn close. the rec used to be available on iTunes and everywhere else, but now it's not even on Spotify, so here are two of tracks of exhausting world-weariness hammered into hypnotic brutality:

Swans - A Screw: http://youtu.be/krw03hVF1RQ
Swans - Money is Flesh: http://youtu.be/jlTvNcn5j0E

the tracks admittedly work better in the context of the album's obsessive, two-rec grind that concretizes its feverish will-to-live hitting the immovable object of overwhelming futility.

TIE
114 Captain Beefheart - Ice Cream for Crow 509 Points, 8 Votes
http://www.freewebs.com/teejo/disco/15crow1.jpg

114 Suicidal Tendencies - S/T 509 Points, 8 Votes
http://image.lyricspond.com/image/s/artist-suicidal-tendencies/album-suicidal-tendencies/cd-cover.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/2LWrY7TrQkE2MNgUH6GhIj

Candy Apple Grey was the first Dü album I bought - the Warner Bros. CDs were always cheaper than the SST ones but I do recall it being cited as their best (this was in about 1998 fwiw). Nowadays I'd rank it as second-best behind Flip Your Wig but then my tastes very much lean towards pop. (xposts)

xp cover connection!

113 Meat Puppets - Huevos 517 Points, 11 Votes
http://991.com/newGallery/Meat-Puppets-Huevos-503396.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/3YQBupuImH0sIeJ63yNxrQ

I've never heard Huevos but noticed a lot of praise for it on one of the Meat Puppets threads. I love the cover. Am I right in thinking it's in a similar style to Monsters?

yeah zz top influenced and awesome

much prefer it to Monsters. has a breezier, more country-informed feel.

OK, sounds promising, I'll give it a listen tonight.

112 Band of Susans - Love Agenda 522 Points, 9 Votes
http://cdn.7static.com/static/img/sleeveart/00/006/054/0000605432_500.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/2gA0i5tJecvSKiIxAvmfk7

Band of Susans seem to be doing very well. I'm totally unfamiliar with them. Is the above a good place to start?

yes!

I would say get the first album instead (Hope Against Hope). Also, that cover is some nasty shit.

ta, will check them out.

get both

the name puts me off TBH. They sound pretty no-wavey on first listen.

111 Screaming Trees - Buzz Factory 526 Points, 12 Votes
http://www.silverdisc.com/images/00/018861024820.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/3bBJWfysy0SV14sQGPtIG5

One of my votes I think