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

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.

Although these polls have reminded me that I do quite like Ride The Lightning as well.

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.

It just didn't make sense to me that the subset of ILM that would be motivated to vote for 50 albums from this nomination list would also have enough love for the one nominated album each by REM/U2/The Cure (none of which is the most popular album by the respective band) to get one of those to #1. I had no trouble believing that many people would vote for Pornography. I just couldn't see THAT many people ranking it highly ENOUGH. Apparently, I was not wrong.

Btw, where is contenderizer these days? He was all over the noms thread.

Awesome way to start the top 100 btw.

he was eaten by a 700 lb hog

They only had to vote 15 though (quite a few of the cure voters probably did only vote for 15)

And yeah where is contenderizer?

he tends to disappear for weeks or months at a time

97 Bathory - Under The Sign Of The Black Mark 589 Points, 10 Votes
http://www.kolonyrecords.com/store/images/detailed/0/cover13325315414f6cd1552676b.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/450O7sJi2GTzmLqHS03T88

fuck yes

damn, this poll is sick. nice job ag.

cheers Ade! Glad everyones enjoying it. It's certainly a bit different.

great album, one I only recently discovered.

btw we're still in bizarre section

for the rest of the 90s

96 Napalm Death - Scum 591 Points, 11 Votes
http://themetalden.com/wp-content/uploads/Scum1.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/51wqCUWehVrNj2Ltc83zJu

awesome

too low

Now That's What I Call Too Low.

Stoked that the Head of David made it that high, but once Dustbowl had placed I knew LP would.

we can go stranger btw

95 Coil - Scatology 596 11 Votes
http://www.israbox.com/uploads/posts/2010-12/1292424646_r-87848-1206410322.jpeg

KILL EM ALL 4 EVA

my second favorite Metallica after Ride the Lightning which is my alltime fave

Timely as we go from scat to more shit

94 Rush - Moving Pictures 603 Points, 9 Votes, One #1
http://cdn-images.recordinghacks.com/albumcovers/rush-moving-pictures.jpg

this album pwns

no, but THIS album does.

93 Ministry - Twitch 609 Points, 10 Votes
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lo1sp1BoJf1qeetdyo1_500.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/1CEBvP4PPZatx4SH3vTbm6

AG hates Rush? how very Rolling Stone of him

I really expected Moving Pictures to be top 50.

Also sd OTM.

i did too tbh

FUCK YES TWITCH

92 Cramps - Songs The Lord Taught Us 609 Points, 11 Votes
http://www.regrettablemusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/cramps.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/6S9rbimtTmC0v6UBWqSpay

Who gave MP the #1 vote?

man remember when Ministry was genuinely awesome?

I'll give you a clue sund4r - I sacked him as co-runner for doing it!

Heh, I expected Moving Pictures to be #1... ;)

By the way that Christgau freeverse about Branca has got to be the most misguided and OFF THE MONEY thing I've read in a long time.

a run of my picks there. cramps, coil and the mighty TWITCH :)

i was fairly sure scatology wasn't going to place which gives me hope for horse rotorvator. the suspense!

viceroy read his sabbath reviews

silly question stirmonster but which one of you guys is named after that album? I always assumed it was the other guy but your twitter handle made me wonder

viceroy read his sabbath reviews
― Algerian Goalkeeper

I don't think I'm that masochistic... Then again, I am a Rush fan.

btw Spotify has Twitched
http://open.spotify.com/album/3MJ6psnb2Tw6AdZST42Q33

91 Ministry - The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste 610 Points, 12 Votes
http://geekhardshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Ministry-The-Mind-Is-A-Terrible-Thing-To-Taste.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/2Z73HeYQNCf5T8dzzHaoz5