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

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

26 Metallica - Ride The Lightning 1451 Points, 24 Votes, One #1
http://www.heavymetalnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/HEAVYMETALNOW.COM-Metallica-Ride-the-Lightning-album-cover1.jpeg

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

okay I feel kinda vindicated, Appetite and Ride the Lightning twofer will stop my whining for the rest of the countdown I think

i like spacemen 3 just fine (way more than spiritualized) but tend to listen to tracks rather than albums xp

fking love RTL

no chaff, all meat, badass from start to finish. AND the opening riff to the title track still facemelting

I need to listen to this again. agree w/EIII that MOP is a frustrating, all-over-the-map affair that would benefit from considerable editing.

25 The Jesus And Mary Chain - Psychocandy 1452 Points, 21 Votes, Two #1s
http://bluecalx.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/psychocandy.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/57mYCld1dvc3oGRtO8jcIJ

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

― costly pussy riot (jjjusten), Thursday, October 4, 2012 11:57 AM (30 minutes ago)

nah, spacemen 3 were pretty well-loved in the states at the time, and their stuff has aged well. cosloy did a big interview w/ sonic boom in conflict that was controversial (sonic boom casually advocating heroin use), forced exposure loved 'em, everybody at the fanzine I wrote for loved 'em, think we even did a mail interview w/ 'em? perfect prescription was #30 on my ballot.

a lot of the bands mentioned on the rolling drone/psych threads owe something to their influence, and if these tracks don't get some trails going for you then we had different hobbies in the 80s:

od catastrophe
http://youtu.be/SaBz49jZo_Y

things'll never be the same
http://youtu.be/tAu9R_XvHPo

East Kilbride representing.

Appropriate (im originally from there)

Spotify playlist:

http://open.spotify.com/user/1234500846/playlist/29WgnIq2XbpntkEJYkZeoR

I guess after years of grunge bands leaning on their wah pedals and decades of ppl exploiting vintage gear maybe spacemen 3's sound doesn't seem all that amazing but it was v unique at the time

heavy psych was big for me after the floor fell out of scumrock in the late 80s

Lol way too high for Psychocandy. But otherwise I very much approve of today's results so far.

I've never even heard of Ride the Lightning. I guess that shows how utterly out of touch I am with metal (or just--period).

I think the Suicide influence and the gospel stuff in Spacemen 3 still separates them from a lot of the straight-up Stooge flavoured stuff that followed.

xp: wow really? that is mind-boggling to me

xxxp
Hah, I was thinking too low for 'Psychocandy', but YMMV I suppose.

Ride the Lightning beating Master of Puppets is a little surprising to me.

Considering how low Bon Jovi and Def Leppard and fucking 1984 (which I'd rank as a better album) placed, this placing for G'n'R doesn't seem low at all.

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If I've seen it, it's never registered. And I was certainly aware of Metallica at the time, though not into them. (I always associate Metallica with an anarchist stripper (who was a fan) a friend and I talked with at a topless/bottomless bar on 13th Street (haha--13th Street, Center City, in the 80s) in Philadelphia, the one and only one I ever went to since it just seemed pointless torment and I wasn't interested in paying for actual sex.)

(An anarchist stripper with some Mayan glyphs tattooed to her, etc.)

24 Butthole Surfers - Psychic... Powerless... Another Man'S Sac 1455 Points, 22 Votes, One #1
http://www.themelvins.net/wiki/images/d/da/Butthole_Surfers_PPAMS.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/4jgNgHLmDszGP5TAXegn4t

meanwhile I went to high school with multiple dudes who had Ride The Lightning t-shirts

"For Whom the Bell Tolls" is a good one to sample.

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23 Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime 1499 Points, 27 Votes, 3 #1s
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tuDddsn5TNU/TcFecn68P_I/AAAAAAAAADE/I0oz7Jab65c/s1600/The+Minutemen+Double+Nickels+On+The+Dime.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/5viZ5HyYtV0wafK7DoXmgF

How many of the two low brigade coming up didn't vote this album high enough or didn't vote at all? It still got 27 votes.

and 3 #1s

one of which was mine!

there's a buttholes i can get excited about. with minutemen placing i think that's me almost done minus the sonic youths and any big black still to come.

and maybe children of god if it's still in with a chance.

The albums poll got twice as many ballots as the tracks poll. Which means it looks different to the tracks poll but I'm sure you all figured that out by comparing the top 250s of each so far.

like Bug finishing way down

and minutemen

but another big album by a big band on SST fails to make the top 20 and is up next

I would be stunned if children of god did not finish in the top 400

xp

Tom Troccoli's Dog? xp

Wished I brought a laptop on the plane to follow this. Basically the soundtrack to my college daze - Melvins, Mudhoney, Fugazi, Buttholes, My Bloody Valentine, Pixies. I was actually hugely disappointed with Doolittle when it came out. It's grown on me gradually, but still prefer Surfer Rosa. Great memories of getting the Melvins to play in front of our student union in 1990, seeing Mudhoney in a tiny room by U of MN, Pixies at 7th St. Entry in '88, Fugazi in some sort of warehouse in Mpls on an intensely hot summer night. Heading to north woods, gotta run.

Zen Arcade

the Minutemen never made a bad record, but Double Nickels never felt like it deserved the honor of being considered their best rec. I applaud the perversity of band built around minute-long songs releasing a 43-track monster, never mind a nominally hardcore band doing so, but the record feels less epic than padded. their strength resides in brevity, and f/me The Punch Line is the obvious pick. trying to reward the band w/ill-fitting AOR honors, picking in rote fashion their longest rec as their best, never quite made sense to me. that being said, I realize that a lot of people love it, and the Minutemen generally deserve all the compliments tossed their way.

zen arcade feels more padded than double nickels tbh

22 Hüsker Dü - Flip Your Wig 1638 Points, 26 Votes, One #1
http://www.slaytracks.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/tumblr_lcoihpfQLC1qdbq5l.jpeg
http://open.spotify.com/album/64ww8DQgkLRSFTUjNg0v47

absolutely xpost

I don't think I actually listened to all of Double Nickels until voting closed. It's great obv. Voted for fIREHOSE.