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

I think its safe to say the next one is way lower than expected due to tracks poll success

Y&T Open Fire?

oh wait 'tracks poll success' nm

omg wtf is this remix of "our love lies"

can someone pay gira a million dollars to reissue all the 80s albums mastered straight from vinyl pretty please

17 Big Black - Songs About Fucking 1706 Points, 33 Votes
http://www.silverdisc.com/images/00/036172072415.jpg

I still chuckle about watching Gira getting knocked back from entry to one of the Sufjan Steven's auditorium shows at Primavera in 2011. He kinda pleaded with the Spanish girl on the door about how he was someone important and all that and she was having none of it.

I mean they went straight from this
http://youtu.be/yHES9YAGGkU
to this
http://youtu.be/ijIPY-MTClI

yeah, it's just sick what they accomplished w/those two recs.

here's the original (superior) version of "our love lies"

http://youtu.be/gmFrEQzVshQ

Is anyone going to make predictions? instead of waiting until the #3 is posted and saying "oh i knew that would win"

Who is going to be brave? Who will do a jjj and do a ludicrous bet?

I mean they went straight from this
http://youtu.be/yHES9YAGGkU
to this
http://youtu.be/ijIPY-MTClI

yes, but the skin albums came out in the interim which offered a bit of a clue as to other possible directions. "in my garden" could easily have been on "blood, women, roses.

I really dug songs about fucking when it came out but don't think much of it now, enjoyable but not as good as atomizer so don't get your hopes up headcheese

i predict the top 5 will be mainly big black and sonic youth.

Songs About Fucking always seemed to have a hollowness to it. only voted f/Atomizer.

wow Double Nickels, Ride the Lightning, Flip your Wig all v low IMO.

true, but I'd only heard the "1000 years" 12" at that point, and thought it was just jarboe's side project. had no idea that skin's style was going to get completely folded into swans.

xps

I expect high placement for Zen Arcade, Atomizer and a slew of Sonic Youth albums

Songs About Fucking was always the NME's pick

ok who knew there was a video for "1000 years"?

http://youtu.be/QFXo7W_k4Qs

I expect that I maybe won't be as excited about the rest of the results now maybe?

i was obsessed with the first skin album, the second one not so much, so i guess that lessened the shock. rico conning's production is also a big part of the story i feel.

xp

i seem to recall that channel 4 made the skin video to be shown on "the tube".

16 Sonic Youth - Bad Moon Rising 1717 Points, 27
http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/527839_10151232846455590_1654520344_n.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/1PGCwSEn89JCadZIBYXUsZ

has jjj played his purchase yet?

loool

so 1/4 of the top 16 will be SY albums, awesome, good job ilx

ha, nice pic. my second favorite SY rec, showing in its expected order (Zzzzzz).

A++ pic

New Day Rising should make it I think

Yay for Meat Puppets II showing up. Lost is such a beautiful song.
Think I prefer Atomizer to SAF but it's close.

Going back:

by the time they recorded Confusion is Sex, however, the band had found their calling as a hard rock band. There’s nothing tentative about Inhuman, Brother James, The World Looks Red, She’s in a Bad Mood, Shaking Hell, or Kill Yr. Idols (I’m obv including the Kill Yr. Idols material from the same period). all of the essential, signature Sonic Youth elements are fully present in their purest incarnation, and in this sense I would compare Confusion is Sex to Damaged. Yes, they would of course with every subsequent record add various ornamental elements, but the foundation of a no-wave/art-rock sensibility channeled through a hard rock framework remained unchanged.

Well, it depends on what you consider to be the "essential, signature elements". Some of the things I would consider essential, signature elements of CIS (especially the prepared guitar sound, also the gothic/horror lyrics) are absent on later albums. By the late 90s/early 00s, Television-style dual or triple-guitar interplay is something I'd consider an essential, signature element of the band's style, which is not something you find on CIS.

guessing that jjj's pic was taken while in parking lot, as the alternate possibility is HOLY SHIT WATCH THE ROAD

i'm looking forward to test dept and crash course in science placing in the top ten.

I like Bad Moon Rising plenty but imo with the exception of Dead Valley 69 it's not a rock record.

(especially the prepared guitar sound, also the gothic/horror lyrics

The latter faded out more slowly than the former, which afaict they abandoned altogether after CIS.

really? I'm pretty sure they were still doing prepared guitar up through sister

I like Bad Moon Rising plenty but imo with the exception of Dead Valley 69 it's not a rock record.

I voted for it on the grounds that it was no less rock than Drawings of Patient OT, which I also voted for. I do think there's something to this pov though.

really? I'm pretty sure they were still doing prepared guitar up through sister

Examples? I don't hear it on Sister. I could believe that some of the sounds on Evol might be prepared guitar.

Did I tell you that the album that won the poll led from the front all the way and won easily?

Well sorry stirmonster but it wasn't this album

15 Butthole Surfers - Locust Abortion Technician 1727 Points, 29 Votes, One #1
http://img12.nnm.ru/8/6/0/9/d/b624bad4b9f8d398ebb8a59abe0.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/3jOpGJzljTdOAYYPrBmyQE

Prediction for the top three:

1. Daydream Nation
2. Reek of Putrefaction
3. Power Windows

it's way more rock than a multitude of things (i voted for) in this poll. xp

I think its safe to say the next one is way lower than expected due to tracks poll success

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, October 4, 2012 6:23 PM (24 minutes ago)

hang on there bucky, kerosene isnt on this one.

here's a live version of "I love her all the time" from '85, there's all kinds of stuff getting jammed in gtr necks

http://youtu.be/Vbab0q7UJQw

it's going to be sister, isn't it AG?

i love how everyones too scared to make predictions incase they're wrong

xp to stirmonster obv

I like Bad Moon Rising plenty but imo with the exception of Dead Valley 69 it's not a rock record.

listening to BMR right now and this seems crazy to me

come on guys have a go at predicting the top 10. Lets see who comes closest! Whoever wins gets to choose what album jjj buys from the poll.

Oh, cool, thanks! I don't listen to BMR enough. I think you're probably right that Sister is where the switch really happens. I always saw the transition between Evol and Sister as the real shift. I'm surprised when people say DN marks the real shift from Sister: they both sound like indie rock albums to me.

xpost to Edward III

i gotta go. tweet me the top ten AG. :)

ok stirmonster i'll tweet the top 10 to you as it happens