Nominations for a 70s 'Anti-Rolling Stone Canon ' style Albums Poll

Misfits - Static Age

Siouxsie & the Banshees - The Scream
Alternative TV - The Image Has Cracked
Ramones - s/t
Ramones - Leave Home
Ramones - Rocket To Russia

Iggy & The Stooges - Raw Power

May as well get some of these out of the way

David Bowie - Station to Station
David Bowie - Low
David Bowie - "Heroes"
David Bowie - Lodger

Request thread title change to Nominations for a 70s 'Anti-Rolling Stone Canon ' style Albums Poll (FREE PATTY HEARST)

shouldn't these polls have to wait in the queue like the rest of them?

trying again...

David Bowie - Station to Station
David Bowie - Low
David Bowie - "Heroes"
David Bowie - Lodger

low? really?

shouldn't these polls have to wait in the queue like the rest of them?

^ poll!

these arent artist polls k3vin

I do wish you'd go back and make sure that your previous poll's messes are cleaned up before starting new ones though.

messes?

Hamilton Bohannon - On My Way
La Dusseldorf- La Dusseldorf
La Dusseldorf - Viva

Montrose - Montrose
Thin Lizzy - Black Rose: A Rock Legend
Thin Lizzy - Johnny the Fox
Mountain - Climbing!

Rolling Stones - Get Yer Ya-Yas Out! The Rolling Stones in Concert
Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St.
Rolling Stones - Goats Head Soup
Rolling Stones - Black and Blue
Rolling Stones - Some Girls

xps to AG: Try using the search function to search for any band name or album title in the wake of these types of polls. I have to scroll through pages and pages of each time you decide to update the nominations list. It would be good housekeeping for pollstarters to go back and delete everything except maybe only the last noms list. It's really annoying when searching for posts of substance about musical acts.

I've brought this up on mod request board once and I think one of the mods even went back and deleted a bunch of the horrible noms list from a thread or two (God bless you, sir or ma'am), but I don't know if the people running these polls realize it.

well im not a mod so cant do that

ok it happened someone nominated rolling stones.
i assume most say no rolling stones in the poll?

maybe we go for the one album only compromise?

Also anyone volunteering to help with a tracks poll or does noone want a tracks poll?

the endless reposts of nominee lists are ridiculous. AG posted the results of the OTHER 80s poll three times during the rollout for his own poll.

well im not a mod so cant do that

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, October 5, 2012 1:24 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, but you could take some responsibility for your shit and submit a humble mod request for someone to go back and delete posts that may repeat themselves too many times.

seems daft to exclude exile on main st tbh

yeah if that's not a rock album I don;t know what is.

Do the noms lists really mess up searching? I always search on thread titles or use Google...

PiL - Public Image
Mahavishnu Orchestra - the inner mounting flame
Mahavishnu Orchestra - birds of fire
Kennelmus - folkstone prism
The Hampton Grease Band - music to eat
Glenn Phillips - lost at sea
the red crayola - soldier talk
pere ubu - dub housing
pere ubu - new picnic time
captain beefheart and hhis magic band - lick my decals off baby
magma - 2
magma - köhntarkösz
magma - udu wudu
magma - attahk
osanna - palepoli
osanna - milano calibro 9
il balletto di bronzo - ys
museo rosenbach - zarathustra

i know what how's life is saying. if you sort search results by relevance, then the all the gigantic lists tend to end up right at the end iirc

Yeah, but you could take some responsibility for your shit and submit a humble mod request for someone to go back and delete posts that may repeat themselves too many times.

― how's life,

A mod already told me last year not top other them with poll stuff.
ps. your tone sucks.

This is more an issue with every poll thread ever than just some crazy thing that AG does. But anyway, if we maintain a Google Spreadsheet there shouldn't be any need to post nomination lists in the thread.

yes - fragile
yes - close to the edge
yes - relayer

seandalai could you set one up then please and let me edit it?

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AumbddEHET5xdEZaQ0paMUZpNEdGeUdRSGRTY3BfV2c

AG, you can edit it; everyone can view

saying yes to Rolling Stones in the poll

thanks!

I have included exile and animals for now.

oh c'mon Exile is much closer to the rest of the band's output for the decade that Animals is to PF's -- you get that in you need Sticky Fingers and everything else

so basically are we just using chuck eddy's definition of metal here?

if the issue is the Stones/ Floyd will dominate, I think the presence of Bowie/ Roxy/ Sabbath/ Zeppelin etc. etc. will ensure that no band could possibly dominate. let 'em in I say!

And if "Loaded" is allowed the threshold of rockingness must be pretty low.

Van der Graaf Generator – Pawn Hearts
Van der Graaf Generator – Godbluff
Van der Graaf Generator – Still Life
Peter Hammill – Over

from the intro to stairway to hell:

"Basically, I include all (decent) loud-guitar squashing-ears-like-bugs brain-damamge that could conceivably (theoretically) appeal to a heavy metal audience, not just observers-of-arbitrary-dress-code already accepted by said crowd. Everybody else's definition changes annually, I decided, so the only sensible way to handle the predicament was to make eligible for Stairway To Hell all extant wax that would've been considered metal at any time in HM's elongated life span, whether said wax was considered metal at the time of releae or not. The only exception was the Rolling stones, who cannot be heavy metal because, well, they're the Rolling Stones. And so are the Clash."

Is stuff like Steely Dan + Randy Newman allowed in this poll?

Cheap Trick - Heaven Tonight
The Clash - Give 'Em Enough Rope
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Cosmo's Factory
Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick
Led Zeppelin - Presence
Little Feat - Feats Don't Fail Me Now
Patti Smith - Horses
Peter Frampton - Frampton Comes Alive!
Queen - Queen
Thin Lizzy - Vagabonds Of The Western World
War - All Day Music

Gotta admit that so far this poll makes less intuitive sense to me than the 80s poll. I love Television but they were mostly basically jangle-rock with jams, not very heavy or noisy. In fact, I've always seen them as a precursor to REM and jangly indie. Have trouble seeing the rationale for including them but not Talking Heads or Blondie. Springsteen and the Stones probably rocked harder (although I like Television more than 70s Heads, Blondie, or Springsteen.) I'd say similar things about Loaded (except that I've never liked it much): it's a pretty mellow folk-rock-ish record imo. Why is there even a question about the Stones?

Yes is another one of my all-time favourite bands but much of what they did is pretty light/soft. Why is Pink Floyd borderline if Yes and ELP are in? Does Genesis count? Or would Nursery Cryme count but not The Lamb? Van der Graaf Generator? I get that King Crimson, Rush, and Queen should fit. Tull and Heep too.

these arent artist polls k3vin

I thought genre polls were covered in that thread too?

many xposts

xp
no.

(croup: I thought of the 80s poll in terms of Eddy's definition of metal/Carducci's definition of rock.)

Miles Davis - A Tribute To Jack Johnson
Miles Davis - Agharta
Miles Davis - Pangaea
Miles Davis - Dark Magus

yeah i'm trying to come up with nominees and it's hard to see a logical through-line here between what is and isn't allowed, beyond just sort of desiring an alternative canon

Miles Davis - Big Fun And nobody tell me it isn't a proper album cos as far as I am concerned it is !

maybe it should just be an anti-Rolling Stones canon where everybody remotely rock except the Rolling Stones are allowed in