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

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

Neil: Their basic deal is they're a bunch of folks that met through playing with Rhys Chatham iirc and they're taking that loud multi-guitar ringing overtones thing and writing straight-up rock songs around it. They were called Band of Susans cos there were 3 different Susans in the band in their first incarnation. Think that two of those had left by the time of the second album (nasty red cover one) and Page Hamilton of Helmet had joined instead.

man, Ice Cream for Crow is such a great, solid album. Beefheart kind of went out at his peak imo (lol I know that's hardly a controversial opinion or anything)

i had a similar problem with Band of Susans as a name. kind of started to seem more reasonable when i learned that there were actually a whole bunch of people called Susan in the band (at various stages).

oh, NickB just mentioned. my post is now kinda superfluous.

OTM - some days it's my favourite Beefheart. Not the most groundbreaking or anything, but it def has some of his loveliest music

xp to D&M

Huevos is AWESOME, probably their most fun album

My fave album Mirage wasn't even nominated haha

but those 80s albums are unfuckwithable

tbf Mirage is the least rocking

yeah and the most psychedelic

dumbfounded at the band of susans love, beating out beefheart, really?

anyway love agenda not available in the US on spotify, here's my fave track off that album

http://youtu.be/BBgOBUdzjN0

110 Echo & The Bunnymen - Crocodiles 536 Points, 11 Votes
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_X3rYXG9xth8/TN8Oyhk4rlI/AAAAAAAAAP4/ZU4N8ngVg_8/s1600/Echo_y_The_Bunnymen-Crocodiles_%25281980%2529-Frontal.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/1bMSEEP5icQ9EqNbXO5prD
love this album

even mike t-diva might agree!

It's been a long time since I owned it, but that Buzz Factory cover looks a bit wrong to me.

no it's right. I still own it! It's a brilliant album.

re: Band of Susans:

Band of Susans were among the NYC post-no-wave guitar bands, and out of all them took the most literal-minded approach to multi-guitar attack, stacking three layers of guitar din in a drive towards a sonic density that aims more f/an exuberant hard-psych soundwall than the kind of reinvention of hard rock that defined some of their peers. Hope Against Hope exemplifies the punch of their early monomaniacal focus, while Love Agenda tempers that attack f/a more conventional, pop-oriented effect that IMO feels flat and at times even enervated, if only b/c the band sound a bit lost, especially on the back half of the rec.

Hope Against Hope was v. high on my ballot, and here are my two fave tracks:

Band of Susans - Hope Against Hope: http://youtu.be/y-fHOktOo4c
Band of Susans - No God: http://youtu.be/xnov_UCGLqI

Never much of a Bunnymen fan, sorry!

Candy Apple Grey is the only album so far which I ever bought. Pretty sure I've got a home-taped copy of Freedom knocking around somewhere, as well.

home taping is killing music!

(I once fell asleep during a Bunnymen set. London Lyceum, 1980. Long day at work, long bill at the gig, comfy step. A Certain Ration broke me out of my slumber.)

fucking love this thread

"Ratio", duh

thanks for the BoS lowdown. I am liking Love Agenda!

Mike's 80s was very different to the others in this thread (the ones actually buying this music back then)

Maybe that Buzz Factory is the CD version or something? Pretty sure mine didn't have the big writing on it.

Wasn't all that much into them at the time, but have been having a weird Bunnymen kick of late. Seem to be a bit of a forgotten band now, you never see their name around, but there is a whole lot of stuff around that bears some resemblance to them. Some of it even quite popular.

Sad to see The Sound not charting in the albums poll. Those first 2 LP's really deserve better than languishing in obscurity.

109 The Misfits - Walk Among Us 539 Points, 10 Votes
http://cranialspasm.com/recordclub/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/misfits.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/6jKpIJNGv3uBpI2LNeCrAk

The Sound placed in the top 400!

#168
#274

Wasn't all that much into them at the time, but have been having a weird Bunnymen kick of late. Seem to be a bit of a forgotten band now, you never see their name around, but there is a whole lot of stuff around that bears some resemblance to them. Some of it even quite popular.

Were they tarnished by ill-advised 90s comeback: hanging out with the Gallaghers, generally looking like Richard Ashcroft's petulant uncles?

I think it was more Coldplay citing them as an influence.

misfits not cracking the top 100 is some bullshit, guess it's time to bump that comp thread again

anyway love agenda not available in the US on spotify, here's my fave track off that album

untrue, check the playlist. two tracks unavailable, but the rest of the rec is there (hoping that I'm not being tricked by local-files availability)

108 Circle Jerks - Group Sex 543 Points, 11 Votes
http://punkoteca2.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/circle_jerks-group_sex.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/4vnifPGsZxxd1uiTxlB6u3

My mistake. Threads like this are impossible to follow on a iPhone.

Hopefully the albums poll has as many surprises in store as its singles counterpart.

if sund4r is around there will be a recap at 101

(hoping that I'm not being tricked by local-files availability)

I think that you are

107 Swans - Filth 544 Points, 11 Votes
http://24.media.tumblr.com/RMkJaB7ILqqm4aetlbCFA7rQo1_500.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/5DtOa9QBWKbnqwMEyEJ3WX

I think that you are

fucking hell, then why would two tracks be missing even from my playlist? bah!

different tags from spotify

106 Nurse With Wound - Soliloquy for Lilith 546 Points, 10 Votes
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NCnWRFJZFlQ/TqVqPVoRREI/AAAAAAAAGFQ/DQ_Iu8qkxUM/s1600/Nurse+With+Wound+Soliloquy+For+Lilith+%255B1988%255D.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/0CLTJj3Fl9Y2auTOjGBsC4