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

Debaser still gives me a tiny wave of excitement, like I'm always *kinda* hearing it for the first time

Ha! This is so true.

Friend Catcher is awesome

Stirmonster you didn't even comment on the buttholes album!

yeah the mutiny/bad seed EPs are good places to start: http://open.spotify.com/album/7LT9c5MHBgDWB595HgQkvr

hits is pretty good as a career overview but it's in chronological order so you don't get to hear their signature sound until you're a couple tracks in: http://open.spotify.com/album/14q81HMQE5drKlOCmrgURf

wtf why does spotify's version of junkyard start w/ "blast off"

it's a good song but that is unholy ruination of perfect sequencing

I know Hairway isn't quite up there with earlier Buttholes but I always loved X-ray Of A Girl Passing Gas more than anything else of theirs.

spotify's junkyard is the reissue - blastoff was the bonus track

def ruins the flow, I agree

Stirmonster you didn't even comment on the buttholes album!

i like hairway to steven ok but i didn't vote for it and i never listened to anything they did after it with very much interest.

put the bloody bonus tracks at the end ffs

29 Spacemen 3 - The Perfect Prescription 1377 Points, 22 Votes
http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/4396/cover_3812142332009.jpg

sweet. Lots of Spacemen 3 in this poll!

xxxp yeah as long as i can remember cd versions of junkyard have always kicked off with blastoff. love the song, hate that placing.

a few weeks ago i randomly had a nostalgia fit abt debaser and played it a bunch of times in a row and followed my wife around the house jabbering about what a huge important album it was while she tried to get things done and live a normal life. when she divorces me, these moments will be the reasons why.

so i assume that the spacemen 3 domination is 99% uk-ish votes? because i am pretty sure i have never met anyone in america that has thought about them in the last 10 years

oh man wait until you inundate her with "The Friend Catcher", "Nick the Stripper" and "Mutiny In Heaven"

haha there was a night where i tried to convert her to nurse with wound fandom. that went poorly.

haha I can imagine

I'm still happy I got my wife into TKK, kind of can't believe that happened tbh

99% english votes? not a whole lot of love for them in this street in this part of scotland anyway.

every so often "salt marie celeste" will come up on random play while we are cleaning and about 10 minutes in she will ask me why we are listening to a sound effects record. xpost

lots of love in this street in scotland for spacemen 3

i honestly dont remember ever hearing them, so im not criticizing really. are they the ones who turned into spiritualized? because if so thats prob why i never listened to them

they are, and sometimes Spiritualized is awesome (have you heard "Cop Shoot Cop"?)

the single dullest 4 hours of my life were me stuck at a spiritualized show at first avenue

I don't care for Spiritualized at all, but Spacemen 3 are great.

xp: now I know for a fact that's not true, didn't you have Mr 5chutt in 9th grade for social studies

mr schutt didnt teach me for 4 hours by playing a single note at 130 db while constantly backlit by white light

28 Bad Brains - S/T 1402 Points, 26 Votes
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_66T1v32JwZ0/TQXcEXdrF4I/AAAAAAAAA38/7kab5K-EFF8/s1600/bad%2Bbrains.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/2GHBFUAIQGSVJtZnwdnEAc

mr schutt didnt teach me for 4 hours by playing a single note at 130 db while constantly backlit by white light

... are you SURE?

yeah that class was only 50 minutes, the rest of it may be true, but i was too busy repeatedly removing and stealing the outlet cover next to me to notice

Bad Brains promote terrorism, I see.

btw reading your criticism of Spiritualized while listening to "She and Me Fall Together in Free Death" by NWW is kind of hilarious

had to go w/Sound of Confusion solely f/OD Catastrophe and Rollercoaster, even though I'm not that crazy about the rest of the rec. The Perfect Prescription might be a better all-around choice, but over the years my love f/the band has essentially been reduced to those two tracks. I had a US cassette of The Perfect Prescription that actually included both, but I went w/the original sequencing f/the voting.

im assuming that the votes for bad brains - bad brains and bad brains - s/t were combined yes

Bad Brains are just awesome

Bad Brains seems low f/such an all-time classic. I've never met a single person who didn't love that ROIR tape.

yes

you want shockingly low that will butthurt people?

bring it.

if something you thought would be top 10 and actually placed next what would you hope it was?

I'll just guess Damaged.

It has 2 #1 votes

and it sold shitloads

27 Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction 1445 Points, 26 Votes, Two #1s
http://www.yellmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/appetite-for-destruction-guns-n-roses.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/1oR3KrPIp4CbagPa3PhtPp

backing up a bit, the dead kennedys were the first punk band I was into. it was strange because I was a total metalhead, but I bought the bleed for me 12" on a whim in 7th grade and it scared the shit out of me. being a horror fan, I dug it. I kept on being a metalhead, jamming on priest and maiden and the like 95% of the time but still fascinated by the DKs. there was something indefinably weird and sickening about the music.

I remember the day I bought fresh fruit for rotting vegetables, I was at the mall with a friend and we went back to his house to listen to it. his aunt and one of her friends, both in their 60s, were hanging out in the living room with the stereo, and I was like, "oh it's ok, we'll come back later" but they cajoled and insisted until I finally put on fresh fruit for rotting vegetables on their enormous wood cabinet record player and we all sat there together on the plush rococo furniture with jello biafra's voice spilling bile from the speakers while they smiled pained little smiles. I think we made it to "forward to death" before everyone agreed this wasn't working out. I can't imagine what it must've sounded like to them.

from an adult perspective jello biafra is an irritating personality, but he did have a flair for embedding withering social critique into their songs, and I was pretty much a fan until bedtime for democracy where it felt like they were rotely repeating themselves. I've got a soft spot for FFfRV, those songs are tattooed on my psyche, and they really were fantastic players. most hardcore bands couldn't come up with something as unhinged sounding as "ill in the head".

http://youtu.be/LrX-I4JO9eo

I've often wished there was an instrumental version of plastic surgery disasters, cuz those are some wild tunes but I could do without the hilarious preachifying of herr biafra.

kind of think Appetite is too high

yeah, Biafra was always the ultimate dealbreaker f/me w/r/t the DKs.

xp

naw appetite feels pretty right to me

right since nobody cares about guns n roses lets move on