I bet my #1 doesn't make it.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 8 January 2010 19:07 (fourteen years ago) link
I voted for "Zombie" on the strength of the title track alone (considering it takes up about half the album, that doesn't seem too unreasonable).
― o. nate, Friday, 8 January 2010 19:07 (fourteen years ago) link
The one I really hope makes it is Tapestry
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 8 January 2010 19:09 (fourteen years ago) link
looking at my ballot, the only 100% lock left that i see is Aja, and maybe Electric Warrior, not sure if ilx likes that one better than Slider
still holding out for my #1-3 which could all be in the 11-25 range i think but unlikely top 10s
― bread has no effect on you (ciderpress), Friday, 8 January 2010 19:09 (fourteen years ago) link
oh wait Tusk is 100% lock too and likely top 5
and i had Rock Bottom at #8 and it's gotten some other mentions on here so i think it's still coming
― bread has no effect on you (ciderpress), Friday, 8 January 2010 19:10 (fourteen years ago) link
To be honest I have no idea. I'm still quite certain Curtis will make it, but I doubt it'll be in the top 10. If Talking Heads are gonna win this poll too, that would be a shame. When Clube de Esquina made it, I was hoping that would mean more Brazilian music would follow, but to be honest I can't think of any Brazilian album with strong enough following to make it to the top 25. The number 1 will probably be some hoary old rock or post-punk album, can't think of any funk/soul/jazz record that would be popular enough among ILXors to top the list.
― Tuomas, Friday, 8 January 2010 19:12 (fourteen years ago) link
I'd like to think an AC/DC album made it, and maybe Meddle. I figure another one of the Dan's too. I'd guess my ballot's probably got one or two left.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 8 January 2010 19:12 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm going to shocked -- SHOCKED -- if Tusk isn't #1, but I was also shocked that Double Nickels On the Dime wasn't top-5 in the 80s poll, so what do I know.
― wanna be shartin' somethin' (WmC), Friday, 8 January 2010 19:13 (fourteen years ago) link
I think the weird thing about the 70s is that there were a ton of musicians/bands who had a long run of good albums in the decade, which in polls like these leads to a lot of vote splitting. The most likely surprise candidates are the artists with only one or two highly-regarded albums since then there's actually a forced consensus among the people who want to vote for them.
― bread has no effect on you (ciderpress), Friday, 8 January 2010 19:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Another artist I'm still crossing my fingers for is Alice Coltrane. Her early-to-mid-70s run of albums is incredibly classic, it would be a shame if none of them made it. I put Journey to Satchidananda high in my ballot, and I know it has many other fans here too.
― Tuomas, Friday, 8 January 2010 19:17 (fourteen years ago) link
I really, really, really want to see Ogum Xangô in there too.
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 8 January 2010 19:18 (fourteen years ago) link
...and I still don't know what "Tusk" is.
(x-post)
― Tuomas, Friday, 8 January 2010 19:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Fear Of MusicCurtisElectric WarriorI'm Still In Love With YouThe Modern DanceLust For LifeBlank GenerationFrom Here To EternityClear SpotRock BottomThe RaincoatsReal LifeTuskSex MachineEvening StarGerm-Free AdolescentsSomething/AnythingJoao Gilberto Tales Of Captain BlackFaust IVReproductionLive At The Witch TrialsRocket To RussiaCatch A Fire or Natty Dread
I'd like to say Super Ape, but I sadly doubt it.
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 8 January 2010 19:19 (fourteen years ago) link
It's my anti-ballot!
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 8 January 2010 19:21 (fourteen years ago) link
xpost to ismael
i think ogum xango has a decent shot, it seemed like the gil e jorge thread was pretty actively getting converts (and it was in my top 10 fwiw)
― uncle spam w4nts u (m bison), Friday, 8 January 2010 19:24 (fourteen years ago) link
(Tie) 24. T.Rex - Electric Warrior (1971) [151 points, 17 votes]
http://i49.tinypic.com/j9x2xl.jpg
The Slider and Electric Warrior are both great albums. The Slider is a bit more classic rock and roll songs and Electric Warrior has more of a stoner soul songs.
"Monolith" in retrospect sounds like a prototype for triphop/downbeat, with the lazy funky drums, the strings and soul stirrer backup vocals.
― earlnash, Friday, October 17, 2003 11:03 AM (6 years ago)
Does most T. Rex sound like "Get It On"?
― Sundar (sundar), Wednesday, April 27, 2005 1:59 PM (4 years ago)
Sundar, ignore Electric Warrior at your peril. For years I didn't get it because all I knew was "Get It On." Big mistake.
― Keith C (kcraw916), Wednesday, April 27, 2005 2:25 PM (4 years ago)
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 8 January 2010 19:26 (fourteen years ago) link
xxp - Not my ballot just my guess at winners. I have no problem with most of those making it, except I don't get the Tusk love. I'll have to hear it again. I'm guessing about 75% of my guesses will be right, heh.
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 8 January 2010 19:26 (fourteen years ago) link
9 of 40 and rising...
― bread has no effect on you (ciderpress), Friday, 8 January 2010 19:27 (fourteen years ago) link
I think only Rock Bottom and Faust IV are gonna complete albums I voted for to place. Would have voted Live At The Witch Trials, probably, if I'd heard it, but my Fall listening hasn't quite gotten back that far yet.
If either of the Magazine albums show I will whoop and holler. Ditto Drums And Wires. I still hold out a naive hope that Yes will feature, somehow.
― Electric Universe (wherever that is) (acoleuthic), Friday, 8 January 2010 19:28 (fourteen years ago) link
It would be nice if the top album doesn't end up just being a less canonical album by a canonical artist.
― o. nate, Friday, 8 January 2010 19:28 (fourteen years ago) link
The grammar in my first sentence there is...original.
o.nate it's gonna be a Tusk-Aja 1-2 and I will yawn copiously
― Electric Universe (wherever that is) (acoleuthic), Friday, 8 January 2010 19:29 (fourteen years ago) link
have we had any prog yet other than Red? i know there's other people here who like it and voted for it.
― bread has no effect on you (ciderpress), Friday, 8 January 2010 19:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Tuomas, Tusk is a 1979 album by Fleetwood Mac. It amazes me that you seem to be able to be impervious to casual free-floating information, the random factoids that other folks seem to soak in, but they just bounce off of you unless you have your factoid-receptors pointed the right way.
50 great things about Fleetwood Mac's "Tusk"
"Tusk": Fleetwood Mac vs. Camper Van
Tusk Vs The White Album
Don't Say That You Love Me: The TUSK Poll.
This will tar me as unnecessarily snarky, but dang, man.
― wanna be shartin' somethin' (WmC), Friday, 8 January 2010 19:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Then Tusk'll be a worthy winner. I don't know what Aja is.
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 8 January 2010 19:31 (fourteen years ago) link
I've got to take some blame for "Aja" if it shows, since I did vote for it (though not in the top half of my ballot). "Tusk" has moments, but it's not something I could picture wanting to listen to all the way through.
― o. nate, Friday, 8 January 2010 19:31 (fourteen years ago) link
I think you'll be pretty on the money - look, here's one! I just got a kick out of the fact that I own four of those on your guess list, but none of them came even close to getting my vote. I'm with you on Tusk; like "Tusk" the song but loathe the rest of the recorded works of post-Green Fleetwood Mac.
xx-post to fastnbulbous
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 8 January 2010 19:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Some more predictions for the top 25
AutobahnThe WallAll Things Must PassNeu 75StrandedBefore & After ScienceSunflowerDr Buzzard's Original Savannah Band (please!)
I would love to see a surprise disco entry in the top 25. I'd be happy with Cerrone's Supernature or Black Devil Disco Club.
Also I'm backing Curtis for the top spot.
― Kitchen Person, Friday, 8 January 2010 19:31 (fourteen years ago) link
The Wall, no chance. Autobahn was surely in the original poll!
― Electric Universe (wherever that is) (acoleuthic), Friday, 8 January 2010 19:32 (fourteen years ago) link
i had aja and tusk in my ballot and NO REMORSE. both great albums though maybe not quite as great as ilx hivemind opinion of them.
― bread has no effect on you (ciderpress), Friday, 8 January 2010 19:33 (fourteen years ago) link
loathe the rest of the recorded works of post-Green Fleetwood Mac
I know all of these words, but the order confuses me
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 8 January 2010 19:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Any boring bastards have tusk,aja and fear of music all in their top 10?
― Pfunkboy : The Dronelord vs The Girly Metal Daleks (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 8 January 2010 19:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Autobahn wasn't in the original poll. Hmmmm.
― Electric Universe (wherever that is) (acoleuthic), Friday, 8 January 2010 19:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Ah, Tusk is by Fleetwood Mac? I do know the name, I've noticed ILX seems to love them a lot, but I've never found out why. I don't think I've ever heard any music by them.
― Tuomas, Friday, 8 January 2010 19:35 (fourteen years ago) link
nah i stuck them down below all my pet favorites xxp
― bread has no effect on you (ciderpress), Friday, 8 January 2010 19:35 (fourteen years ago) link
2/3rds boring bastard over here
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 8 January 2010 19:35 (fourteen years ago) link
We'll get you educated yet. xxp
― wanna be shartin' somethin' (WmC), Friday, 8 January 2010 19:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Fleetwood Mac: really good. That's my thoughts on the matter.
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 8 January 2010 19:37 (fourteen years ago) link
nothing wrong with those records btw, but it just seems to go against the spirit of an alternate 70s poll if it's chockfull of ilm canon anyway.
― Pfunkboy : The Dronelord vs The Girly Metal Daleks (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 8 January 2010 19:38 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^agreed, but such was the downright challopsy and terrible nature of the first poll that it's being countered like this
― Electric Universe (wherever that is) (acoleuthic), Friday, 8 January 2010 19:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Well I just voted for the ones I like
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 8 January 2010 19:38 (fourteen years ago) link
seriously, what was everyone smoking that first go around
― Electric Universe (wherever that is) (acoleuthic), Friday, 8 January 2010 19:39 (fourteen years ago) link
the idea that someone would prefer peter green-era fleetwood mac still baffles me
― psychgawsple, Friday, 8 January 2010 19:39 (fourteen years ago) link
79. The Beatles - Let It Be
exhibit A
does tusk get much praise outside of ILM? it's still kind of an 'alternative' choice, just if you hang out around these parts too long it doesn't really feel that way
― psychgawsple, Friday, 8 January 2010 19:42 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm thinking if one of these polls is done for the 90s as was suggested previously it might be more interesting to eliminate not only the albums from the first go-around but the artists too. This poll's still got plenty of Neil Young, Bowie, etc since fans of those dudes (myself included! oops) will just vote for their other albums that didn't make it the first time, which kind of waters down the alternative concept of it.
― bread has no effect on you (ciderpress), Friday, 8 January 2010 19:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Tusk gets plenty of praise elsewhere.
― Pfunkboy : The Dronelord vs The Girly Metal Daleks (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 8 January 2010 19:44 (fourteen years ago) link
I think it's been rehabilitated a lot, but we have a pretty skewed idea of mainstream on ILM
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 8 January 2010 19:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Once an artist has made a certain number of arguably great records, even their lesser albums become somehow more interesting. Plus the '70s was kind of the ur-decade for rock careerists.
xxp
― o. nate, Friday, 8 January 2010 19:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh man, an alternative poll for the 90's would see me suggest-banned before the top 20 ;-)
Currently listening to Damn The Torpedoes, which I voted for, and which I'm kinda hoping places. It won't, but it's one of the best American albums of the 70's IMO
― Electric Universe (wherever that is) (acoleuthic), Friday, 8 January 2010 19:46 (fourteen years ago) link