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

re. my Melvins call, i keep forgetting that this is an 80s poll. in fact i've defaulted a couple of times to the expectation that a whole bunch of 90s albums are going to start cropping up.

hellhouse, that post was from the tracks poll -- i was referring more to how i think of SY as an albums band and loaded my tracks ballot up with singles by bands with radio hits. but whatever, blowhard, idgaf.

yeah, that Gun Club album packs a real punch.

can someone please point me to a good youtube of the gun club

- this is a band i have often suspected i would love, but the lack of options via fopp et al, means i have never had the chance to dive in ..

i think it sounds like the sultans of ping f.c. 's "swamp blues" album

Gun Club seem to have become fashionable again, at least over here in the UK. Bands like the Jim Jones Revue are constantly citing them as an influence.

^^^^ indeed. hence why i'd like to hear more ..

hellhouse, that post was from the tracks poll -- i was referring more to how i think of SY as an albums band and loaded my tracks ballot up with singles by bands with radio hits. but whatever, blowhard, idgaf.

then quit trolling the fucking poll.

just kiss already

i'm trolling the albums poll because you're cherrypicking posts from the OTHER poll out of countext as evidence that i don't understand the poll? wtf is your problem? i've given AG a hard time here and there but he's been a good sport about it and has welcomed my contributions to the thread, and after all it's his fucking poll, not yours. all 5 SY albums are on my ballot btw.

lol xpost

no sweetcheeks, this:

this is hilariously rong!

is trolling. now can we kiss and make up? 'cause this is really fucking boring.

oh hey this Gun Club album is pretty good

I think this is what I expected The Feelies to sound like when I blind-bought Only Life on a whim

Giving the Gun Club another go, could never really get into Jeffrey Lee's voice though tbh. Always get a few songs in and then wonder why I'm not listening to the Scientists instead.

didn't expect any hot hellhouse/some dude action this morning but hey looky there

i don't get what the beef is

Bender: Get a room, you two!
Man: We are in a room.
Bender: Then lose some weight!

you and me both, iglu

how about posting another album, AG?

no beef. I'm done w/all SY-related beef. nothing to do now but sit around and wait f/the other four recs.

xp

i'm spoilin for a fight tho, any anthrax fans wanna try tellin me nuclear assault ain't gonna be number one up in this thing i will TYPE YOU DOWN!

cool, so i'm allowed to post again.

http://www.jcnot4me.com/images/Wheres%20The%20Beef-%20clara_peller5.jpg

38 The Replacements - Let It Be 1172 Points, 16 Votes, One #1
http://991.com/newGallery/The-Replacements-Let-It-Be-441400.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/4LwFCUyV4wM6SEg84PaLuL

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

FUCK THE REPLACEMENTS

thought that'd be higher!

I am 90 seconds into "I Will Dare" and I basically still despise this band in all its flaccid bullshit glory

although I do really like the song "Within Your Reach" *shrug*

DJP bringing the 80s cultural references, I am putting on leg warmers right now

one of the reasons I went so hard for Prince/The Time when I was growing up, besides them being balls-out awesome, is that the main competing choices from the Twin Cities music scene were The Replacements and Soul Asylum, and honestly fuck The Replacements and Soul Asylum

RIP The Suburbs, you should have been massive

so its not just jjj who hates them but dan too

booooo the Minneapolis 2!

haha iirc hating The Replacements was one of our early bonding points

What age did you guys meet?

12-13?

jealous ones envy, imo

Too low

another album that placed much higher on the all-genre 80s poll

traveling wilburys - volume one - 1988

Previous 80s poll on ilm

100. Robyn Hitchcock - I Often Dream of Trains [1984] (75 points, 5 votes)
98. (tie) Scraping Foetus off the Wheel - Hole [1984] (76 points, 5 votes)
98. (tie) Spacemen 3 - The Perfect Prescription [1987] (76 points, 5 votes)
97. Big Black - Atomizer [1986] (77 points, 8 votes)
96. Associates - Sulk [1982] (79 points, 6 votes)
95. Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking [1988] (79 points, 7 votes)
94. Def Leppard - Pyromania [1983] (80 points, 6 votes, 1 first place vote)
93. Thomas Dolby - The Golden Age of Wireless [1982] (80 points, 7 votes, 1 first place vote)
92. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Dazzle Ships [1983] (80 points, 9 votes)
91. Run-D.M.C. - Raising Hell [1986] (80 points, 10 votes)
90. Meat Puppets - Meat Puppets II [1984] (81 points, 9 votes)
89. Prince and the Revolution - Parade [1986] (83 points, 10 votes)
88. Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel of Love [1987] (86 points, 7 votes)
87. Pet Shop Boys - Actually [1987] (86 points, 8 votes)
86. Pet Shop Boys - Please [1986] (87 points, 8 votes)
84. (tie) Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine [1989] (87 points, 8 votes, 1 first place vote)
84. (tie) Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues [1983] (87 points, 8 votes, 1 first place vote)
83. David Bowie - Scary Monsters [1980] (89 points, 6 votes, 1 first place vote)
82. Scraping Foetus off the Wheel - Nail [1985] (91 points, 5 votes, 1 first place vote)
81. The Beat (aka The English Beat) - I Just Can't Stop It [1980] (91 points, 13 votes)
80. Various - The Indestructible Beat of Soweto [1985] (93 points, 6 votes, 1 first place vote)
79. The The - Soul Mining [1983] (93 points, 7 votes, 1 first place vote)
78. The Pogues - Rum, Sodomy & the Lash [1985] (93 points, 16 votes)
77. Meat Puppets - Up on the Sun [1985] (94 points, 8 votes)
76. U2 - The Joshua Tree [1987] (95 points, 7 votes, 1 first place vote)
75. Cyndi Lauper - She's So Unusual [1983] (95 points, 9 votes)
74. Galaxie 500 - On Fire [1989] (96 points, 10 votes)
73. X - Wild Gift [1981] (97 points, 9 votes)
72. The Chills - Kaleidoscope World [1986] (98 points, 7 votes, 1 first place vote)
71. Roxy Music - Avalon [1982] (99 points, 10 votes)
70. Laurie Anderson - Big Science [1982] (99 points, 11 votes)
69. Scritti Politti - Cupid & Psyche 85 [1985] (100 points, 7 votes)
68. New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies [1983] (100 points, 16 votes)
67. Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes [1983] (101 points, 12 votes)
66. Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen [1985] (104 points, 10 votes, 1 first place vote)
65. Donald Fagen - The Nightfly [1982] (105 points, 8 votes, 1 first place vote)
63. (tie) Tom Waits - Rain Dogs [1985] (106 points, 12 votes)
63. (tie) Cocteau Twins - Treasure [1984] (106 points, 12 votes)
62. Grace Jones - Nightclubbing [1981] (106 points, 12 votes, 1 first place vote)
61. Arthur Russell - World of Echo [1986] (108 points, 11 votes, 1 first place vote)
60. Eric B. & Rakim - Paid In Full [1987] (111 points, 8 votes, 1 first place vote)
59. Mekons - Fear and Whiskey [1985] (111 points, 8 votes, 2 first place votes)
58. The Cure - Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me [1987] (112 points, 7 votes, 2 first place votes)
57. Arvo Pärt - Tabula Rasa [1984] (112 points, 9 votes, 1 first place vote)
56. R.E.M. - Lifes Rich Pageant [1986] (112 points, 12 votes)
55. Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me [1987] (115 points, 13 votes)
54. Bruce Springsteen - Born in the U.S.A. [1984] (118 points, 14 votes)
53. Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska [1982] (120 points, 14 votes)
52. Brian Eno / David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts [1981] (120 points, 17 votes)
51. Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man [1988] (121 points, 11 votes)
50. The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms [1980] (123 points, 13 votes)
49. The Go-Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane [1988] (125 points, 9 votes, 1 first place vote)
48. XTC - Skylarking [1986] (127 points, 16 votes)
47. Steely Dan - Gaucho [1980] (128 points, 9 votes)
46. R.E.M. - Reckoning [1984] (131 points, 14 votes)
45. Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - Doc at the Radar Station [1980] (133 points, 11 votes)
44. The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace [1985] (136 points, 13 votes)
43. Sonic Youth - EVOL [1986] (143 points, 12 votes, 1 first place vote)
42. Hüsker Dü - New Day Rising [1985] (146 points, 14 votes)
41. The Cure - Pornography [1982] (148 points, 9 votes)
40. Dexy’s Midnight Runners - Searching for the Young Soul Rebels [1980] (148 points, 11 votes, 1 first place vote)
39. Manuel Göttsching - E2-E4 [1984] (154 points, 12 votes, 2 first place votes)
38. New Order - Substance [1987] (156 points, 16 votes)
37. De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising [1989] (164 points, 23 votes)
36. The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour [1982] (166 points, 14 votes, 1 first place vote)
35. ABC - The Lexicon of Love [1982] (173 points, 11 votes, 1 first place vote)
34. The Smiths - Hatful of Hollow [1984] (173 points, 16 votes)
33. The Smiths - Louder Than Bombs [1987] (174 points, 20 votes)
32. Prince - 1999 [1982] (191 points, 17 votes, 1 first place vote)
31. Sonic Youth - Sister [1987] (199 points, 21 votes, 1 first place vote)
30. Hüsker Dü - Zen Arcade [1984] (200 points, 13 votes)
29. Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth [1980] (200 points, 17 votes, 1 first place vote)
28. The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses [1989] (201 points, 15 votes, 2 first place votes)
27. Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction [1987] (201 points, 18 votes)
26. Prince - Dirty Mind [1980] (210 points, 14 votes, 1 first place vote)
25. The Clash - Sandinista! [1980] (211 points, 11 votes, 3 first place votes)
24. The Cure - Disintegration [1989] (218 points, 19 votes, 1 first place vote)
23. The Human League - Dare [1981] (219 points, 17 votes, 2 first place votes)
22. My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything [1988] (229 points, 19 votes, 2 first place votes)
21. Paul Simon - Graceland [1986] (237 points, 17 votes, 1 first place vote)
20. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy [1985] (243 points, 23 votes, 1 first place vote)
19. The Replacements - Let It Be [1984] (252 points, 18 votes, 1 first place vote)
18. Joy Division - Closer [1980] (255 points, 24 votes)
17. Kate Bush - The Dreaming [1982] (269 points, 13 votes, 3 first place votes)
16. New Order - Technique [1989] (273 points, 15 votes, 2 first place votes)
15. Pixies - Surfer Rosa [1988] (273 points, 21 votes, 1 first place vote)
14. Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden [1988] (274 points, 18 votes, 2 first place votes)
13. Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique [1989] (291 points, 25 votes, 1 first place vote)
12. Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime [1984] (300 points, 15 votes, 3 first place votes)
11. The Smiths - The Queen is Dead [1986] (307 points, 26 votes, 1 first place vote)
10. Pixies – Doolittle [1989] (323 points, 31 votes)
9. Michael Jackson - Thriller [1982] (331 points, 35 votes)
8. Kraftwerk - Computer World [1981] (338 points, 29 votes)
7. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation [1988] (356 points, 28 votes, 3 first place votes)
6. R.E.M. - Murmur [1983] (359 points, 30 votes, 2 first place votes)
5. Prince - Sign “O” the Times [1987] (381 points, 28 votes, 2 first place votes)
4. Kate Bush - Hounds of Love [1985] (422 points, 35 votes, 2 first place votes)
3. Prince and the Revolution - Purple Rain [1984] (423 points, 35 votes, 2 first place votes)
2. Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back [1988] (478 points, 39 votes, 2 first place votes)
1. Talking Heads - Remain in Light [1980] (568 points, 37 votes, 4 first place votes)

another album that placed much higher on the all-genre 80s poll

i think the wacky spirit of this poll will undercut the more canonical choices a bit, which i'm cool with even if I put Let It Be as my #1

37 Mudhoney - Superfuzz Bigmuff 1188 Points 17 Votes
http://www.1234gorecords.com/catalog/images/mudhoneysuper.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/6YbDNY7VkyBqbO9rBmqVAN

that album title... is it a reference to something? I can't quite figure out what they're talking about there

old school guitar pedals innit

This, surely?: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Muff

xpost!

xpost
FX pedal IIRC

i think the wacky spirit of this poll will undercut the more canonical choices a bit, which i'm cool with even if I put Let It Be as my #1

― da croupier,

If anyone prefers the all-genres 80s poll they can always run one after this. But I just wanted something different to showcase more ignored/unknown albums. plus it just seemed a bit more fun

ah yes of course

haha why would we run the all-genre poll AGAIN.

hey hey i wasn't hating at all - this is gonna be way more educational for a shut-in record guide obsessive like myself

so timellison can vote for REM and the other trolls can vote for the joshua tree of course
xp

yeah i know that dc

36 Flipper - Generic Flipper 1207 Points, 22 Votes, One #1
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_q6NqTBHXimk/TQD9tUVE6CI/AAAAAAAAAf4/lrJwmb8SiDc/s1600/Flipper.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/1AD8nuG81UcoSeFWUbyGdN

landmark record by some guys who didn't gaf