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

I love Messiah's voice. Candlemass def my favorite metal discovery this year

(but I'm a sucker for good quality opera-metal, lol)

EPIC DOOM METAL

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candlemass

Candlemass is an influential Swedish doom metal band established in Stockholm 1984 by bassist, songwriter and bandleader Leif Edling. After releasing five full-length albums and touring extensively throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, Candlemass disbanded in 1994, but decided to reform three years later. After breaking up again in 2002, Candlemass reformed in 2004 and have continued to record and perform since then.

Messiah has his own entry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messiah_Marcolin

opera metal

44 Butthole Surfers - Rembrandt Pussyhorse 1086 Points, 19 Votes
http://united-metal.ru/uploads/posts/2012-06/1341053296_4712600810_c79f91ce0c_b.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/4UH0BtcXXD3piP8wlFNJvL

wheres stirmonster?

So basically every Candlemass album nominated has placed? That's pretty rad!

i'm here, cracking open the champagne.

haha
are you surprised at that album placing so high?

haha that candlemass album is notable as being both the album i bought and thought "uggh i guess candlemass isnt for me" and then years later got browbeaten into listening to again (ha by AG iirc) and thought "holy shit what was wrong with my ears when i listened to this, this is badass". both reactions purely due to the vocals. which are pretty hardcore love/hate tbh.

After some of the discussion on the other thread, I've entertained thoughts about whether Confusion Is Sex might actually be the best Sonic Youth album.

I think it is their best record, and its showing was expected but nevertheless disappointing. IMO the core of the band’s aesthetic thrust was essentially formed around this record, and I would say that every document recorded thereafter is more-or-less an amalgam of Confusion is Sex and whatever genre SY happen to be exploring/appropriating at any given moment, a model I’m guessing they borrowed from Black Flag. I think this approach worked aesthetically through Sister, and financially f/much, much longer, but while the process has afforded them great longevity, it’s also delivered increasingly diminishing returns (especially over the course of decades). everyone, of course, is going to delineate the band’s prime aesthetic years (and traits) in very different ways, and your mileage absolutely will vary.

Yet on 1st ever listening Dan loved those vox
xp

Bad Moon Rising is my favorite SY that I own.

oh wait

43 Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine 1106 Points, 20 Votes
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_izaUAmrpx-Q/TOLQR9kDUII/AAAAAAAAAUM/M8QSowZv_D8/s1600/phm.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/70TPqidGabYEiTEPoyUgu4

i am! i rarely hear it getting much love but it has a very special place in my heart. i wonder if psychic..powerless will make it? i have a good feeling. xp

that seems about right, or maybe slightly low, depending on my mood.

that nin album was a gateway album fora lot of people

could be higher but HOORAY

remaster sounds bewdyful too

of course some industrial fans hate that band not mentioning any scottish monsters!

i should probably buy the remaster, my copy is probably disc rotted past playability by now

yeah me too

you def should

it's like hearing it for the first time all over again

i was lucky enough to see nin on that first real tour, and holy shit man, fucking absolute madness on stage. great show, they really suffered when the technical side exceeded 5000 strobe lights, a 500 foot mic cord to get tied up in progressively over the set, and a bunch of bored chicago junkies on the side of the stage pelting the band with cornstarch

am i an industrial fan? i guess i could be and while i don't actively hate pretty hate machine i'd happily snap a copy in two if i saw one.

42 Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables 1126 Points, 22 Votes
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YSlfyv1cobA/T8DAciTbr8I/AAAAAAAADcg/6OtLN53_jLo/s1600/Dead+Kennedys+-+Front.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/6gs2xIIDNtUJHuoIIdoZj8

i am! i rarely hear it getting much love but it has a very special place in my heart. i wonder if psychic..powerless will make it? i have a good feeling. xp

― stirmonster, Wednesday, October 3, 2012 7:14 PM (4 minutes ago)

I will spout extensively abt RP when I have a moment

also the lead singer of manilla rd isn't a martian he's an ethel merman impersonator

hold up has bedtime for democracy placed yet? i thought i was the only one who loved that album, so either i am right, or i am going to be very happy w/all yall

I saw NIN about 4 times in the past 10 years before they broke up and every show felt liek the best show I'd been to

best was a warmup show they did in Davis just outside Sacto at Freeborn Hall. That place is like a high school gym, terrible acoustics, just a cave of a venue to see any band in. But they took the time to really tweak the hell out of the sound and get the most out of that place and it was like a whole new venue when they played. It's kind of a nice perk when Trent's a huge audio nerd...great sound at shows, cool as hell live releases, great remaster. I hope he gets bored and brings them back one day.

and at #41 a band we've not seen mentioned yet

I like some of the accidental touches to Pussyhorse, all the backwards c+w violins. When I was 16 it seemed like it came from another planet.

41 Melvins - Gluey Porch Treatments 1141 Points, 20 Votes, Two #1s
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VRF896JCoRY/Tf9iX2bDBpI/AAAAAAAAAtc/VhRep3M1KgY/s1600/mgptc.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/4EJjE4wbBtOdtDhmh0w4y0

keep singing manilla road to the tune of

http://youtu.be/_nLiQBV6A7c

lol EIII

I'm singing it to the tune of this

http://youtu.be/6j7E7pvLxmI

No point in doing #40 tonight. Will leave the top 40 for tomorrow.

Everyone I've ever played that Manilla Road album to says what the hell is this singer supposed to be doing, then they all end up loving it.

Rembrandt Pussyhorse is maybe the most fucked-up album I've ever heard.

Albums results playlist by hellhouse
http://open.spotify.com/user/1234500846/playlist/29WgnIq2XbpntkEJYkZeoR

I'd say that Ethel Merman impersonator = Jello Biafra but that's not giving Merman enough credit.

no jello is an ethel merman impersonator impersonating a sammy davis jr impersonator with a mouth full of tapioca pudding

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Might start earlier tomorrow about noon-ish just so we don't finish too late. Hope to see you all there.

I predict sonic youth, husker du, vanilla road, some other stuff

Zoogz Rift will be ruling over all from his fortress of living puke.

Oh wow, a lot of stuff going on since I last checked in here.
Neubauten \m/ Es tanzt das Zet-En-Es

I've got to say that I'm a little shocked that Number of the Beast, Master of Puppets, Pretty Hate Machine, and Fresh Fruit all placed so low. I figured all of those would have been in top 20.