ILM's Now For Something Completely Different... 70s Album Poll Results! Top 100 Countdown! (Part 2)

Great ballot, Greatjon! Nice to see you had Blackwater Park and Night Sun even higher than me! I campaigned for the latter but it was probably too late in the voting timeline. Yeah, Chelled's book (the English version) was published just after the nominations ended, too bad. I just learned the second printing of his book is now available - http://www.demonsfairies.com/

I have a lot of work to do going through albums, plenty of Ohio Players and Graham Central Station for starters.

― Kitchen Person,

You're in for a treat.

Thanks everyone involved for an amazing poll. I'll be digging out from the newly discovered albums for months to come.

My ballot (weighted):

Sparks - Kimono My House
ZZ Top - Tres Hombres
Hawkwind - Space Ritual
Les Rallizes Denudes - '77 Live
Budgie - Never Turn Your Back On A Friend
Ramones - s/t
Todd Rundgren - A Wizard, A True Star
Desperate Bicycles - Another Commercial Venture
King Crimson - Red
Flower Travellin' Band - Satori
Speed, Glue & Shinki - S/T
Red Rhodes - Velvet Hammer in A Cowboy Band
Wayne County and the Electric Chairs - Things Your Mother Never Told You
Destroy All Monsters - Bored
Yes - Close To The Edge
Neu! - Neu! 75
Blue Öyster Cult - Secret Treaties
Can - Future Days
Amon Duul II - Yeti
100% Unknown Fibers Odd-Lots
Faust - So Far
Bobby Beausoleil - Lucifer Rising OST
Twink - Think Pink
Goblin - Suspiria
Träd, Gräs & Stenar - Mors Mors
Swell Maps - A Trip to Marineville
Sir Lord Baltimore - Kingdom Come
The Damned - Damned Damned Damned
Captain Beyond - Captain Beyond
Budgie – Budgie
Faust - IV
Betty Davis - Betty Davis
John Cale & Terry Riley - Church of Anthrax
Lula Cortes e Ze Ramalho - Paebiru
The Pop Group - Y
Bad Brains - Black Dots
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire
Richard Hell and the Voidoids - Blank Generation
Robert Fripp - Exposure
The Fall - Live At The Witch Trials
Sparks - A Woofer in Tweeter's Clothing
Wire - Chairs Missing
Agitation Free - Malesch
Alice Cooper - Love It To Death
Big Star - Radio City
Harlem River Drive Harlem River Drive
La Dusseldorf - La Dusseldorf
Flower Travellin' Band - Made In Japan
Fela Kuti - Zombie
Chrome - Half Machine Lip Moves
Kleenex - Liliput
Träd, Gräs & Stenar - Djungelns Lag
Thin Lizzy - Bad Reputation
ZZ Top - Degüello
The Raincoats - S/T
Stray- Stray
Guru Guru - Känguru
The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers
Hawkwind - In Search of Space
Donnie and Joe Emerson - Dreamin' Wild
PiL - Metal Box
Ash Ra Tempel - Ash Ra Tempel
Brainticket - Cottonwood Hill
Popol Vuh - Coeur de Verre
Throbbing Gristle - 20 Jazz Funk Greats
The Undertones - Teenage Kicks
Aphrodite's Child - 666
Xhol - Motherfuckers GMBH & Co KG
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks - Beirut Slump: Shut Up and Bleed
Chico Magnetic Band - Chico Magnetic Band
Organisation - Tone Float
Niagara - S.U.B.
The Residents - Duck Stab/Buster & Glen
Sly & The Family Stone - There's A Riot Goin' On
Van Halen - s/t
Fela Kuti – Expensive Shit
This Heat - This Heat
Ya Ho Wha 13 - Penetration: An Aquarian Symphony
New York Dolls - New York Dolls
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
Judas Priest - Hell Bent for Leather
The Adverts - Crossing the Red Sea with the Adverts
Barrabas - Wild Safari
Mandrill - Composite Truth
Pere Ubu - Dub Housing
Theoretical Girls - Theoretical Record
Wipers - Is This Real
The Hampton Grease Band - music to eat
Simply Saucer - Cyborgs Revisited
A.R. & Machines - Die grüne Reise - The Green Journey
David Johansen - David Johansen
Pink Fairies - Kings of Oblivion
Essential Logic - Beat Rhythm News
Gaseneta - Sooner Or Later
SBB - Slovenian Girls
Blue Öyster Cult - Tyranny and Mutation
Taj Mahal Travellers - August 1974
Gong - You
Jandek - Ready For The House
Dom - Edge of Time

Months indeed! I got a nice list made up

You're in for a treat.

― Algerian Goalkeeper

Currently doing my Ohio Players homework. Think I'll revive their albums poll thread with the results.

Isley Brothers 1970s Funk/Rock Period (3+3 line up)

Yeah revive all the funk threads! Everyone needs the *one*

still seems silly to me to have so many OP albums in a poll with no Chic, no Stevie Wonder, no Headhunters, only one Earth Wind & Fire album, no Gil Scott-Heron, no Last Poets, etc.

Yeah I agree with that. I missed all the nomination talk so I didn't really know the rules but I just didn't understand why Curtis Mayfield was in there and the people you mentioned were not. Plenty of others too, why no Commodores or Labelle?

yeah, I didn't nominate or vote for any of that stuff because I thought it was a hard, heavy & loud poll.

seemingly every '70s miles davis record except for on the corner lol

but it clearly said FUNK on it

Sorry I shouldn't complain, it's my own fault for not getting involved in the nominations process. When I heard you were doing a rock poll I was surprised I could find a 100 albums to vote for but luckily there was plenty of glam, new wave and funk nominated. You can probably see by my list I'm not a huge rock fan.

Maybe this poll will help you check out some?

I've never heard of the winner, neither the record nor the artist. Nice to see ILM can surprise me every now and then.

I'll give it a listen.

Got plenty of free time at the moment so I've kept going with checking out the goodies: Comus - First Utterance and Brainticket - Cottonwoodhill I both enjoyed but my fave for the day is Faust - So Far.

Not going back through several thousand posts... What was #195 and why was it disqualified?

One of the Os Mutantes records? Disqualified because it's from the wrong decade.

I've never heard of the winner, neither the record nor the artist.

This I why I was surprised it won, some seemed surprised that I was surprised, that and I've heard it

Not going back through several thousand posts...

I am slowly getting everything entered with some of the review quotes in a RYM list. Top 100 so far, will publish by the weekend when I have the top 500.

still seems silly to me to have so many OP albums in a poll with no Chic, no Stevie Wonder, no Headhunters, only one Earth Wind & Fire album, no Gil Scott-Heron, no Last Poets, etc.

― wk,

Like I keep having to say - they weren't nominated. Perhaps more of you should have participated in nominations that clearly said funk in the title.
Stevie probably wasn't nominated as he usually gets his token album in these polls

So SPIN just did the 60s for us! Places 500-101 seem to be missing though.

hahaha

I really wish I had nominated more Temptations albums for this poll.

That SPIN list ain't too bad, would just need to swap out the jazz and folk with more heavy psych-prog goodies and it would have been a nice companion to our poll. And add another 400 entries. Is Whiney still the poobah there?

Feel like free jazz would have fitted fine within the vague ambit of this poll too.

yeah but balls wouldnt let me...

Anyhoo the 60s poll (if I run it) will have jazz in it regardless of an all-genre poll or not.

balls wouldnt let me... - no idea what you're talking about here, this was a poll of records from the 70s that you like, not sure how i have veto power over that

Balls hold mysterious power over our lives.

Yeah, again, especially with this poll, you maintained a final veto over everything, AG.

One of many refreshing things about the poll is the lack of Pink Floyd, other than Animals. Was their exclusion discussed or is everyone just sick of 'em? I'm slightly surprised at least one other non-RS canon one wasn't included, like Meddle. I'm especially chuffed that The Wall, one of the most dire, tedious, overrated pieces of shit in history, wasn't even nominated. Obscured By Clouds was the only other album nominated, and it got zero votes.

I'm especially chuffed that The Wall, one of the most dire, tedious, overrated pieces of shit in history, wasn't even nominated.

― Fastnbulbous,

I like a bit of Floyd now and again but I could not agree more with this, a truly horrible album.

i've gone through various stages of getting behind and falling out with The Wall; these days, i'm still probably a fan of the lyrics and concepts, but can't bear how most of it sounds.

Mordy when are you running your non-western music poll?

One of many refreshing things about the poll is the lack of Pink Floyd, other than Animals. Was their exclusion discussed or is everyone just sick of 'em? I'm slightly surprised at least one other non-RS canon one wasn't included, like Meddle. I'm especially chuffed that The Wall, one of the most dire, tedious, overrated pieces of shit in history, wasn't even nominated. Obscured By Clouds was the only other album nominated, and it got zero votes.

They were vetoed for some obscure reason. I would have probably voted for Atom Heart Mother and Ummagumma.

after so much gubbins (ie pressure from AG !), i have now installed spotify ..
its not brilliant due to crappy wi-fi etc (mainly caused by teenkids need to stream endless loops of some diplo/mad decent show), but it does mean i can now start dipping into the recommendations of this thread.

lol i havent pressured you into anything. Not even spoke about spotify with you for months, you just always say you dont have spotify if i post spotify links on my wall.

yeah i know ... and each post made me feel more and more shyte ..
you're giving me all this excellence, and i was being a crap luddite ..

At least now you can finally hear all the good music you were missing out on!

RYM: http://rateyourmusic.com/list/Fastnbulbous/ilm_1970_1979_wtf_hard_%E2%80%98n%E2%80%99_heavy_%E2%80%98n%E2%80%99_loud___krautrock__arty__noisy__weird__funky__punky_album_poll/

Awesome work!

It wasn't 'til I was nearly done that I realized I could/should have included Spotify links. I don't use Spotify so I'm used to ignoring them, sorry.

obscured by clouds got 2 votes & I was one of them. Would have liked to see it beat animals actually. I can't really be bothered with floyd these days but I always liked that one: still in their drifting post-syd pre-moon phase but with waters just starting to find his voice (a voice that would turn out to be fucking insufferable). I know I'm alone in this, but I particularly like "free four" - the lyric is full of the same kind of sophomoric ~deep thoughts~ that would become waters's stock-in-trade ("the memories of a man in his old age are the deeds of a man in his prime", wow cool insight bro) but there's a lightness of touch that's missing from the ponderous later work. When I play the song in my head, it's always sung by eric idle - the lines "you get your chance to try/in the twinkling of an eye/80 years with luck or even less" are pure "galaxy song".

also the canaxisish world music/ambient thing of the last track is awesome

Looks like Dez Cadena of Black Flag/Misfits is onboard with many finalists in this poll!
http://louderthanwar.com/dez-cadena-black-flagmisfits-gives-us-his-top-ten-favourite-albums/

he didnt vote!

Wonder why contenderizer missed this poll

i have been a while in r'lyeh dreaming

black sabbatical

ATTENTION OHIO PLAYERS FANS!

Record Surplus has huge stacks of these new old stock Ohio Players concert programs from 1976 that they're giving away for free. They're pretty cool. I have a couple extras so if you're not in L.A. and want one send me your address and I'll send you one.

aww that woulda been cool but shipping is a bastard now

Probably not going to do a 60s version of this now btw even though I said I might in Aug/Sept. I still have poll fatigue. Maybe next year.