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

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.

Added Black Sabbath catalog to the playlist:
http://open.spotify.com/user/olken2000/playlist/5sdu93N2DjKkDk0NMe6sFH

going to see if anything else got added to Spotify

After a short break, I was planning to start a thread on Psych-Prog 1968-69. I've discovered a lot of stuff from those years lately from research inspired by the poll. It could also be useful as a pre-poll campaigning thread. I do NOT volunteer to co-run a 60s poll though! ― Fastnbulbous, Friday, March 29, 2013

Better late than never!

Psych Prog 1968-72

heh dont think that 60s poll will ever happen now

stirmonster wants me to run the 60s version next year. yay or nay?

Yay. I'd hope that the end results would be a little different from the usual '60s lists.