TURN THIS MUTHA OUT! It's the Alternate 1970s Albums Poll on ILX — Results Thread

9 of 40 and rising...

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.

It would be nice if the top album doesn't end up just being a less canonical album by a canonical artist.

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

have we had any prog yet other than Red? i know there's other people here who like it and voted for it.

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.

Then Tusk'll be a worthy winner. I don't know what Aja is.

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.

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

Some more predictions for the top 25

Autobahn
The Wall
All Things Must Pass
Neu 75
Stranded
Before & After Science
Sunflower
Dr 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.

The Wall, no chance. Autobahn was surely in the original poll!

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.

loathe the rest of the recorded works of post-Green Fleetwood Mac

I know all of these words, but the order confuses me

Any boring bastards have tusk,aja and fear of music all in their top 10?

Autobahn wasn't in the original poll. Hmmmm.

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.

nah i stuck them down below all my pet favorites xxp

2/3rds boring bastard over here

We'll get you educated yet. xxp

Fleetwood Mac: really good. That's my thoughts on the matter.

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.

^^^agreed, but such was the downright challopsy and terrible nature of the first poll that it's being countered like this

Well I just voted for the ones I like

seriously, what was everyone smoking that first go around

the idea that someone would prefer peter green-era fleetwood mac still baffles me

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

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.

Tusk gets plenty of praise elsewhere.

I think it's been rehabilitated a lot, but we have a pretty skewed idea of mainstream on ILM

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

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

Tusk was considered 'the biggest failure ever' for years & years

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

Dude, it's a 1970s poll. It's all hoary and old!

mega xpost

Whereas in reality it was only a small failure </challops>

I would have no problem with a poll where the artists are eliminated too. If that had been the case here, only oen album in my ballot would have been disqualified.

(Tie) 24. Faust - IV (1974) [151 points, 17 votes]

http://i46.tinypic.com/2d78x13.jpg

Picked it up about a month ago and it just kills me. Was just listening to it this morning - it's still in that phase where every time I listen to it I realize it's even better than I thought the last time I listened to it.

― scott pgwp (pgwp), Friday, January 9, 2009 2:57 PM (11 months ago)

so many people who only own one Faust record own that one, it's total pop...

― Milton Parker, Friday, June 15, 2007 3:38 PM (2 years ago)

(oops, that's actually supposed to be 1973... I forgot to change it before I posted. like it's really a big deal...)

Should have been top 5. Bah.

Aja, Autobahn and Lust For Life didn't make the top 200 of the previous poll, so it'll be a surprise to me if they make the top 25. I just couldn't believe there isn't support for Lust For Life, so I included it.

massive x-post, i didn't see electric warrior and faust iv, i swear!

no order:
hejira
curtis
meddle
fear of music
before and after science
the modern dance
another music in a different kitchen
germfree adolescents
la woman
shiny beast
stranded
rock bottom
rocket to russia
electric warrior
are we not man, we are devo
bridges
master of reality
aja
tusk
faust iv
raincoats
band of gypsys
the köln concert
autobahn
natty dread

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Should have been higher for sure. Jennifer and Lauft... are kinda like religious experiences. Slightly silly religious experiences. But then these guys saw that the fuckaround could be more beautiful than the solemn statement, and followed that muse to this zenith

All sorts of off-topic, but why not:

the idea that someone would prefer peter green-era fleetwood mac still baffles me

I really, really hate Stevie Nicks. I like Buckingham the guitarist but not Buckingham the singer. I don't like cocaine.

Did you actually vote in this, Louis?

huh?

His ballot came in the last day, I think.

3/4 of the way through, and six from my ballot have made it.

master of reality

This was #61.

10 of mine so far, but 5 of those were in the bottom 20.

I was gonna ask what la woman is, but I realized it's L.A. Woman, heh. What's Bridges?