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

old school guitar pedals innit

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

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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

btw shameful confession time: I have never paid attention to the Melvins before and I am thinking that was a terrible, terrible mistake

yes dan, a terrible terrible shocking disgusting mistake

Melvins rool, as do Flipper

well Rush are nominated for rock n roll hall of shame 2013

I mean if Lard's "Time To Melt" wasn't going to place in the tracks poll, at least I can get my creeping sludge fix from "Eye Flys"

given my listening tastes the melvins seem like they'd be right up my alley, but no. I do love lysol tho.

Album Generic was prob. the first "hardcore" rec that I heard that I loved. no one knew how else to categorize the band f/a very long time.

Flipper aligned w/my teen metalhead tastes far more than the Dead Kennedys, who sounded thin and twee (and consequently seemed antithetical to any notion of "hardcore punk" that I carried around in my head).

35 Saint Vitus - Saint Vitus 1211 points, 21 Votes, One #1
http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/2333/saintvitussaintvitusfro.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/3UczOeVR3mGyEwJXSdDuAH

I should probably give the Melvins more of a try too. I don't think I've ever heard a whole album by them. I don't even recognize the covers or titles of a couple of their albums here.

I remember probably making too big a deal of the fact that Flipper played really slow instead of really fast, and wasn't that out-punking the other punks or something.

totally BLOWING their TINY MINDS

Saint Vitus is... pleasant? Which seems like a weird adjective to use

Thanks to this thread, I finally checked out Slowly We Rot by Obituary... Amazing record. I've been on a huge death metal kick recently, as it's a genre I've only recently started to "get" I guess. This, Altars of Madness and Blessed are the Sick by Morbid Angel, Necroticism by Carcass... All rule mightily. They're scratching an itch I didn't know I had.

Saint Vitus were pleasing my face off the other night live! They still bring it x1000, and the thin production on their early records (Spot strikes again!) does no justice to the immensity of their sound.

Fully expect Born Too Late in the top 20

Dan, listen to Bullhead by Melvins... Or Gluey Porch Treatments

I think the problem I'm having with Saint Vitus is that they have song titles like "The Psychopath" and "Zombie Hunger" and the songs sound like lo-fi Lynyrd Skynyrd

xp: I was listening to Gluey Porch Treatments earlier and going "OMG AWESOMENESS"

34 Fugazi - Fugazi 1243 Points, 23 Votes
http://www.examiner.com/images/blog/EXID20585/images/fugazi.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/21wERoyBas2JCRCgysPDJX

Thanks to this thread, I finally checked out Slowly We Rot by Obituary... Amazing record. I've been on a huge death metal kick recently, as it's a genre I've only recently started to "get" I guess. This, Altars of Madness and Blessed are the Sick by Morbid Angel, Necroticism by Carcass... All rule mightily. They're scratching an itch I didn't know I had.

if you haven't already, definitely check out Decide's Legion and Once Upon the Cross. their approach is similar to Morbid Angel's on Altars of Madness, but their take is less sprawling and more "punk rock", with a outsized emphasis on truly pummeling rhythms. compact and brutal.

xxp Dan check out Born too late, it has less of the trad heavy metal tropes, it's actually very like My War.

xp also Glen "666" Benton

Dan, my favorite Melvins are Ozma and Houdini, if they're on Spotify pls jam out.

if you haven't already, definitely check out Decide's Legion and Once Upon the Cross. their approach is similar to Morbid Angel's on Altars of Madness, but their take is less sprawling and more "punk rock", with a outsized emphasis on truly pummeling rhythms. compact and brutal.

― Hellhouse, Thursday, October 4, 2012 11:02 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Thanks, that sounds right up my alley. I'm not at all prog-averse, I just find it doesn't mix with death metal in a way that I like--at least not in my limited experience. Opeth left me very cold, for example. I like when there's a rawness, a kind of surrender to the pummel. It feels like Opeth is controlling the pummel via leashes, whereas Morbid Angel are right in there with blood and dust and stuff all over them.

Curious if Dan has checked out Candlemass yet and if so what he thinks of them... (My fave-by-far Candlemass has not yet placed.)

cosign on decide's legion

33 Pixies - Doolittle 1257 Points, 23 Votes
http://fozboot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8345565f069e20115718bb9ab970b-800wi
http://open.spotify.com/album/6ymZBbRSmzAvoSGmwAFoxm

yay!

now who thought that would be so low?

didn't vote for this in the end, but another great record, screw the haters

indeed

I love Doolittle, it was the first Pixies album I heard

I totally bought Doolittle because of a girl

thank you, German camp crush

Doolittle isn't my fave but it's dear to me because it was also the first I heard.

first thing I ever heard by the Pixies was "I've Been Tired"

later on, I realized I'd also heard "Gigantic" and "Where Is My Mind?" but they hadn't immediately registered

I sometimes think my favourite Pixies album is Trompe Le Monde.

all the coolest crushworthy guys at college liked the Pixies. it was like a rule

when I unwrapped Doolittle and played it for the first time (btw this was in the same batch of CDs that included the Feelies album I ended up hating), this was me during "Debaser":

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/6a00d8341cce2453ef014e5fb949eb970c-800wi.jpg

next one up is a surprisingly low position.

wait a min dan you dropped a tab then listened to Doolittle?