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

I'm keeping hope alive, you know, in a formaldehyde jar guarded by Zoogz Rift.

102 The Cure - Pornography 558 Points, 11 Votes
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Ie_qQfHx8Z4/TN79bVsVwtI/AAAAAAAAAI0/R-o72j29-sU/s1600/pornography.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/2EmAkZR9xVDWTjRQ60QpdU

wait whoa waht

OH FUCK YEAH

TAKE THAT, REPLACEMENTS

i figured that would have been top 50 for sure actually

well it should have been, obv

I'm just glad it beat Tim

also massive thumbs up to that display name

i appreciate band of susans heads up because i have always just lumped them into the late 90s three word band names with proper names in them (better than ezra, letters to cleo). srsly. it appears that they are a little different than that.

also can i veto the hanoi rocks homework assignment and push really really hard for the wipers if you haven't heard them? i found that 3 cd box set for a dollar at the salvation army by my house and bought it because why not and holy shit, they are goooooood.

xpost i try to do my best

veto fuck, can he not listen to the wipers AND hanoi rocks lol

fascist :)

i thought it would win it before the poll started.
Unlike the tracks poll where the last 2 votes swapped the top 2 places the albums winner led from the start and it wasn't The Cure. Which shocked me, but hey a poll needs shocks n surprises.

he should listen to the wipers and hanoi rocks simultaneously

And when that skinny puppies rarities comp tops the poll jjj will buy all the hanoi rocks albums like he promised

also can i veto the hanoi rocks homework assignment and push really really hard for the wipers if you haven't heard them? i found that 3 cd box set for a dollar at the salvation army by my house and bought it because why not and holy shit, they are goooooood.
Cheers, I'll prob be listening to them before the night is out. Youth Of America was one of my big finds from the tracks poll rollout, one of the tunes where I thought 'wait, how come I never heard this before?'. It almost feels like the 80s equivalent of Time Has Come Today if that's not too corny a comparison.

Unlike the tracks poll where the last 2 votes swapped the top 2 places the albums winner led from the start and it wasn't The Cure. Which shocked me, but hey a poll needs shocks n surprises

Haha if I am right about the chronology here I think this means djp and I have one more reason for infinite high fives

because djp was in the last 2 ballots? i think onimo was the other

hahaha omg that is amazing

OUR VOTES MATTERED

lol because of dan and onimo - jjj had to buy a sonic youth album

101 Head Of David - Head Of David 568 Points, 11 Votes
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Au-Z2P3lBpg/0.jpg

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alright, let the countdown begin!

yeah guys the fun part is over, i'm sorry

wow, that head of david placement is insane

I would've been surprised if it placed at all, let alone beating stuff like killers and misfits walk among us

I never expected that voters in an 80s heavy/noisy rock poll would put the Cure at #1, although I did think there was a chance that they might go top 50. My money is on Daydream Nation for #1.

u_u

there's a youtube playlist for head of david's LP

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gpjt3AQZNc&feature=share&list=PL10B3164BB9CC5D55

dunno why sund4r ilm loves the cure and it still got loads of high placing votes. Just not the 30 it needed. I'm sure if a lot of people had looked at the noms and saw the cure/u2/rem etc then they could have been top 10 but I guess most dismissed at as i heavy/noisy/indie rock poll so didn't bother.

Anyway lets start the top 100

just remembered I received head of david's LP as an xmas gift from girlfriend in '86

head of david WIN!

joyride joyride burning xmas lol

100 Glenn Branca - The Ascension 571 Points, 12 Votes
http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/909-the-ascension.jpg

man Pornography is such a beast of an album

We writhed under a red light
Voodoo smile, Siamese twins
The girl at the window looks at me for an hour
Then everything falls apart
Broken inside me, it falls apart
The walls and the ceiling move in time
Push a blade into my hand
Slowly up the stairs
And into the room
Is it always like this?
Dancing in my pocket
Worms eat my skin
She glows and grows with arms outstretched
Her legs around me
In the morning, I cried

a hard rock classic, VG will be pleased

xp

love this rec, top ten f/me.

Number of albums from 400-101 I have at one point owned : 138.

I think I underrate every song on Pornography that isn't "The Hanging Garden", "Siamese Twins" or "A Strange Day"

"The Ascension" rules.

youtube playlist for glen branca's the ascension

www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4cclMp2FpV6bp8XhAJUjnDlb7mGJBgWN

99 X - Wild Gift 577 Points, 10 Votes
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_fiI_6-aqfF0/SLRnRcXezDI/AAAAAAAAA9Y/HnDUunDisg0/s400/wild_gift.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/6a3a1We83O9GOK6S4EyqiP

kind of impressed that Glenn Branca beat Pornography.

On The Ascension
by R. Christgau

Okay,
so he makes hot
"experimental"
("serious") ("classical") ("new")
music.

What we wanna know
is whether it's cool
rock and roll
("rock").

Not by me.

It's great sonically,
with ringing overtones
that remind me of a carillon
or the Byrds,

but the beat's overstated
and the sense of structure
(i.e. climax)
mired in nineteenth-century
corn.

This can be endearing
in Pete Townshend
or Bruce Springsteen
(maybe even opera),

but it sounds weak-minded
in an artist of such otherwise
austere means.

― Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, February 9, 2006 9:59 AM (6 years ago)

fuck christgau and his shitty opinions

Pornography is an intense album, just missed my top 50 only because I'm only in the mood for it certain times. I'll shut up about them after this, but fans of that would probably like Comsat Angels' Fiction.

X on the other hand, gets played a lot in my house.

http://www.lyricsreg.com/lyrics/sonic+youth/I+Killed+Christgau+With+My+Big+Fuckin+Dick/

I don't know Comstat Angels that well but the few things I've heard have been super badass

Sorry, I meant Sleep No More

98 Metallica - Kill 'Em All 581 Points, 11 Votes
http://media.moddb.com/images/groups/1/1/351/538.jpg

Does a friendly mod want to edit thread title to Counting Down Top 100?

Branca’s Ascension highlights the brief period after Theoretical Girls and Static but before the symphonies, when he channeled the angularity of no wave into a form of extended art-rock using hard-rock dynamics fed by a sense of classical composition to direct no wave’s scattered energies into rhythmically jagged but compelling hybrid works. a loud landmark far removed from sterile avant-garde fussing.

two great tracks:

Glenn Branca - Structure: http://youtu.be/6KkLvw1e3J0
Glenn Branca - The Spectacular Commodity: http://youtu.be/JPkaiW2ZYnE

Kill Em All 4 Lyfe.