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

― 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

almost disappointed someone hasn't pulled some WHAT IS WITH ALL THIS ART GOTH SHIT trollage yet

ha! actually i'm looking forward to reading it in one blast later.

"I thought this poll was for people who miss rock not people who miss smoke machines"

daydream nation
surfer rosa
atomiser
new day rising
zen arcade
sister
bleach
damaged
evol
tom troccolis dog
out of step

Holy fuck, this clip is amazing, Edward!

OK a guess at 1-10:

Daydream Nation
Surfer Rosa
Damaged
Reign in Blood
Sister
Atomizer
Born Too Late
Zen Arcade
You're Living All Over Me
Rock for Light

some goofy art fucks who recently reunited yelling about death x 10

oh duh slayer yes

that looks pretty good to me. Reign in Blood a possible #1?

I'd say Evol instead of whatever Rock for Light is. Otherwise, that looks right.

xpost to Gavin Leeds

croup's last two posts = classic

oh Surfer Rosa will be up there too

as Gavin said!

making a top 10 neil before i post the next one?
will dan and jjj be bold enough to make one?

not sure about Rock for Light, would probably swap that out for another SY album, but Gavin's list looks good. Am sticking my neck out and saying Slayer for #1.

14 Nirvana - Bleach 1772 Points, 32 Votes, One #1
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JbbqqUQNvNQ/TTW235vgFzI/AAAAAAAAAEk/un75-Go0Tl0/s1600/Nirvana-Bleach-Frontal.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/2Lfy46M23IUeiDATnra0Bl

I'll be surprised if ILM votes Reign in Blood over Daydream Nation or even Surfer Rosa, although I'd be pleased in the second case. It was my #9.

Holy fuck, this clip is amazing, Edward!

― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, October 4, 2012 3:01 PM (9 minutes ago)

yeah that gila monster jamboree footage was a much viewed VHS at my house in '87, great vers of "the burning spear"

you'll never guess who opened for them at that show

In '85? I dunno. Swans?

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.

oh, absolutely, I understand that the notion that SY even has signature elements is contentious. off the top of my head, I would say prominent, dual-guitar interplay that often spins off into dissonance (that bypasses yr. prepared/unprepared distinction), the strong and often foregrounded bass/drum foundation, a penchant f/dark, psych-oriented beauty (bypassing the goth/not-goth distinction), their bent f/suggestive but surreal and drug-hazed lyrics, and generally speaking, as I mention above, their essential orientation as a no-wave/art-rock band grounded in a hard-rock sensibility. the band that we all know as SY essentially gelled w/that record. we can disagree about the degree that these elements are present in subsequent works, the aesthetic worth of their later recs, etc., but I feel that I’m solid ground in saying that the primary aesthetic that launched them and ultimately sustained them (even if it’s occasionally opaque in some of the later, far more conventional works), was established on that rec. don’t forget, I’m ultimately talking about permutations, amalgams that will not wholly resemble CIS, but are grounded in the sensibility that was established at that time. the standard indie-rock narrative is that SY more-or-less puttered about in an aesthetic cesspool until they burst out w/the huge conceptual leap of DDM. I see the opposite: a powerful, stunningly original band that really came into their own by '83, but who, by the time DDN came out, were kind of just doing dull variations on a well-worn theme. but, again, getting anyone to agree on anything when it comes to SY is nearly impossible, so, you know, YMWV.

psi com! perry farrell's pre-jane's band lol

xp
Slayer?

oh

perry was the organizer's roommate, who got busted for holding a show in the middle of the mojave desert iirc

13 Slayer - Reign in Blood 1791 Points, 27 Votes, One #1
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tvvW_94E3oU/T0SFuAgK_JI/AAAAAAAABfQ/TEjjrmoMME8/s1600/Slayer%2Bcover.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/40Gnj6i9oFUxttqTQvelhQ

lol ah well. That was my #1 vote.

OK I'm enjoying those SY Mojave Desert clips a lot.

TOO LOW! my #2 (and, for a while, my #1 just b/c this was such a rock-oriented poll; that didn't last long, though).

my #4

There always has to be one favourite for the top spot that misses the top 10, neil.

a long time ago I did blurbs for my top 10 recs, my take on reign in blood:

All the horrors of the 20th century, plus those of the world's permanently stunted adolescents, are wrapped in a compact 30 minute orgasm of blind rage.

ha! OTM.

perfect summary!

IMO the most perfect album-as-a-unified-whole ever made. didn't even bother voting f/any of the individual tracks.

12 Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation 1804 Points, 34 Votes, One #1
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kS_7XDtxzn0/TaCYpH6K9CI/AAAAAAAAAq0/VEUWjz0Diuk/s1600/Daydream+Nation.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/0n6dZEvzLUq0qUm5e8zFn5

too lol

okay, so Sister or Atomizer at #1?

Anyone care to predict the top 10 now?

!!!!!

props f/the semi-challopsy placement (it's a start!)