1970-1979 WTF - The Hard 'n' Heavy 'n' Loud + Krautrock, Arty, Noisy, Weird, Funky, Punky Shit - Albums Poll! - VOTING THREAD! Closes Mar 8th 11.59 PM UK Time - All ILXORS/LURKERS WELCOME

A.R. & Machines thirded, I can also vouch for Alphataurus (Their s/t album made the lower reaches of my ballot - this is my favourite track: http://youtu.be/BOIOsN1Az6s).

That's a band I've never heard of. Usually in these polls if bands are nominated I've never heard of its because the following 3 nominated them - edward iii, acid metrics and rudipherous.

So if anyone wants to tell us why they nominated the albums or want to campaign for them please do!

btw which A.R. & Machines do you think is the best?

39 ballots are in btw. Thanks to those who voted and keep em coming!

Ha, no musical knowledge comes out of my ass. I have to suckle at every available teat like the rest of us addicts.

heyup ferrignu here.
@AG,'pologies no time to fart around w/ a ballot anymore. schedule sadly upped a gear (hooray for €) i shouldn't have spare time for this, even ! gawd bless you all!
@fastnbulbous - if i had to pinpoint any recommendations from your list of "unheard of" items:
check: chico magnetic band (hall of mirrors yowl-rock), kennelmus( tv theme tunes vs twangy surf guitar vs proto sun city girlsiness), lula cortes & ze ramalho ( uetzcoatl worship brazilian psych w/ flutes & weirdness), osanna (aggressive, dramatic, operatic italian prog unbeatable on "palepoli", univeria zekt & weidorje are magma spin-offs in the same vein, gary wilson is a creepy stalker persona besement geek doing steely-dan loverz jamz

Well look on the bright side , you can now check out a bunch of stuff you had never heard of now thanks to the poll. Which is always my prime motivation in running them and why I like larger roll-outs.
So everybody who has access to Spotify please subscribe to http://open.spotify.com/user/pfunkboy/playlist/1rFbtUwZlcYHBD6gcemMeK

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does that mean you cant do a ballot or you're putting in a quick one?

Minimum is a top 20 maximum is 100. You can do anything inbetween obviously.

A top 20 can be rattled off in minutes!

btw which A.R. & Machines do you think is the best?

I've only heard A.R. 4 but I voted for it - it's not *that* rocking to be honest but it's a great record.

I do wonder though if I should allow a min of ten (1 album per artist max) but a recommended min of 20 (ie id still prefer everyone to do 20 at least) but you can understand why balls and i wanted to avoid ballots of the top 10 best known albums of the 70s and then just end up with the same old boring top 10.

I recommend
http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/895/MI0002895418.jpg?partner=allrovi.com

Cool, I'll check that one out.

Is there a lack of punk love on ILM now? No chat on punk at all, probably hardly any votes. wtf are all the punks?

punk and prog fans get in here!

Go have a listen to my fave 70s punk LP
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdkwjdrelg1qkoukro1_1280.jpg

http://open.spotify.com/album/5Wmr7UWbQr7XuBb1wbKbXg

mike t-diva pointed out to me that the opening post wasn't changed so here is something for those just reading for the 1st time
You can vote for a minimum of 20 and maximum of 100 albums, But you CANNOT VOTE FOR MORE THAN 3 ALBUMS BY THE ONE BAND unless YOU FILL OUT A FULL BALLOT OF 100

If a kindly mod can edit the 1st post that would be most helpful.

Looks like we got over the 40 ballot mark!

I have never listened to "A Wizard, a True Star". Remedying that now.

oh you're in for a treat!

I'm not hugely into punk but it's more of a singles thing isn't it? I'll be voting for that adverts album, it & another music in a different kitchen are the only punk albums that I can remember (offhand) enjoying from start to finish.

Also: you poll dudes need to learn how to play hard to get a little :-)

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just funnin man, your tireless "everybody vote" enthusiasm is cute & made me smile is all

ssooooo is anybody gonna vote for that emerson lake & palmer album?

I see, well dont forget to vote in the sister poll run by the viceroy Takin' Care of Business: ILX 70s RAWK TRAX VOTING RULES AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD - VOTING THREAD!- Closes Nov 8th 11.59 PM UK Time - All ILXORS/LURKERS WELCOME

I dont think this poll can compete with Madonna though.

Yeah but Madonna will be over with by 3/8

they said that after her first hit

Has anyone else discovered album(s) they like that they had never heard before?

Pavlov's Dog sounds OK so far but also don't sound very different to me from other American AOR bands that you hate. If someone told me it was an early Styx record, I would have probably believed them.

"doesn't sound... told me that album was an..."

None of them have a song like Song Dance I first heard them when my mate bought a 2 albums in 1 Double LP in the late-ish 90s. At first the vocals made us laugh hard but i grew to love them.

http://youtu.be/bn6PoixRZcs

ok since ILM will be down for a spot of maintenance tonight it would be a great time to do the poll!

k sweet I did nominate Paul Kantner's Sunfighter. First track on that is called "SIlver Sppon" and I have grown irrationally in love with it in the last 24 hours...

http://youtu.be/7Is2OeUZ6Sg

nothing quite sums up 1971 like Grace Slick balls out singing a song she wrote celebrating cannibalism on an album where her infant daughter is on the cover. \m/

Damn, Gary Wilson - YTYRKM is really insane. I got Mary Had Brown Hair when it came out and never really got into it.

one I've not heard of

Has anyone else checked out the Man albums yet?

and we're back

nothing quite sums up 1971 like Grace Slick balls out singing a song she wrote celebrating cannibalism on an album where her infant daughter is on the cover. \m/

I just started listening to that last night. I thought she was singing about wanting to eat her baby! Or maybe about how nursing is kind of like cannibalism?

I've now heard five Man albums and enjoy them, but they will not make my ballot. Not much prog had broken into my top 100 because I'm organizing per the "hard, heavy, loud" factors. Brainticket, Kraan, Walter Wegmuller, Selda, A.R. & Machines, Sand and Erkin Koray haven't shown much of those characteristics either, though I haven't finished listening to all of them. From what I read about A.R. & Machines, it seems the sprawling double album Echo (1972) is their most far-out. I heard half of it last night, it's pretty great, but haven't gotten through the others yet. Les Rallizes Denudes is promising though.

Have you heard Man - Rhinos, Winos and Lunatics yet? That's their best (and not on Spotify)

a few of the tracks are on one of the comps on Spotify like Kerosene but sadly Taking The Easy Way Out Again isn't on it.

Are all of these really ending up on someone's ballot, or did people go a little crazy with the noms??? Please enlighten us if any of these are must-hears!

― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, February 19, 2013 4:03 PM (Yesterday)

here are some notes on ones I know and/or nommed, some of these descriptions I'm just c&p'ing from the noms thread which is here for all interested archaeologists: 1970-1979 WTF - The Hard 'n' Heavy 'n' Loud + Krautrock, Arty, Noisy, Weird, Funky, Punky Shit - Albums Poll! Nominations ! (ends Oct 17 you slack bastards - jjjusten edit)

Circle X - early industrial/noise rock band, influential on swans and SY

Coum Transmissions - this was genesis p-orridge's pre-TG experimental art group, I nommed them cuz hahaha

Crushed Butler - these guys were kind of like the UK version of death, an unsigned band that had a rocking EP discovered and released decades later, made a big splash in hard rock circles some years back, wouldn't be surprised if they placed.

Demics - canadian punkers, their "new york city" is kind of renowned in canada, and yeah, it's a pretty cool tune: http://youtu.be/wwfkpW63Nj8

Gary Wilson - weirdo outsider soft rock guy who made a comeback in the oughties, I actually dig his recent work more than the original stuff, this pretty much explains it all: http://youtu.be/-AYQyHxhhic

Gaseneta - an early entry in japanese noise rock berserkitude circa 1978, they were a big influence on high rise. sounds like a flying nun band got pumped full of amphetamines and then shot out of a cannon, strong ballot contender for me. entire thing's here: http://youtu.be/we88Aj7RzZ8

Gift - german acid fried riff rock from 1972

Good Rats - long island band, legendary in the northeastern US in the 70s due to their live shows, albums never got much recognition and not much of a legacy to speak of but all boogie blues bandits should prolly check em out

Johnny Moped - are kidding me this guy's f'kn grrreat, a yobbo legend, and frankly this is one of the greatest UK punk songs ever recorded: http://youtu.be/8UI48HKarcY

Legionaire's Disease - off the hook houston punk shit http://youtu.be/xBMUhvBM888

Les Rallizes Denudes - you've been significantly chided about yr blind spot on these guys, there are numerous ILM threads for them if you want to dig in. also they improbably have an album on spotify (improbable because most of their albums were bootlegs). psychedelia gets no heavier.

Monitor - KILLS ME that ppl don't know more about these guys, tho the record's been out of print forever. def a top 10 album contender for me. spooky LA synth punk that I'm almost certain influenced a young kim gordon (who was in art school in LA at the time they were gigging), they were instrumental in getting the meat puppets started on their career, and were part of the LAFMS. plus they have their own ILM thread so you can't even front like they're unknowns: Monitor's - "Monitor"

Satan's Rats - lumped in w/ the UK punk movement but these guys are mostly straight-ahead rock n roll imo, did a string of great singles in '77 and '78 http://youtu.be/YAiQITWuHRQ

Teenage Head - canadian glammy/rockabilly, kind of thunders-damaged stuff, also they were the punk band in the classic motion picture class of 1984 lol http://youtu.be/ahstXVB3BEU

The Drones - mancunian contemporaries of the buzzcocks tho obv y'all will be voting for the latter and not the former

The Gizmos - bloomington indiana's finest! http://youtu.be/JDxTpfmA1pQ

The Hand of Doom - awesome but obscure german band doing stripped down NWOBHM type stuff, just meat n potatoes riffs w/ no nonsense: http://youtu.be/ekQC7B9VDCY

The Kids - underloved belgian punk band, also direct and right on, dig these guys so much: http://youtu.be/mx7dtY4HAwg

Vertical Slit - jim shepard fronted ohio pre/post-punk shit, mutated into V3 who oddly enough ended up on this poll: The 40 Weirdest Post-'Nevermind' Major-Label Albums (according to Spin) . here's my fave vertical slit tune, "living in fear": http://youtu.be/jyTQQYujPyg

Told you that he was responsible for a lot of it!

such filth
http://s3.amazonaws.com/quietus_production/images/articles/9011/cactus_1339318450_resize_460x400.jpg

Proto-trash metal Texas boogie!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvBJzHNjb0I

imagine wearing a tshirt of that to school in the 70s

blimey there's a ton of Les Rallizes Denudes on spotify (15 albums or so)
http://open.spotify.com/artist/1LxdCpPSFpzNBKyQI22aDz

wow, a couple months ago I think they only had heavier than a death in the family and blind baby has its mothers eyes

And probably by next week they will all be gone! its 17 btw. I didn't scroll down far enough last time.