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

would love to see some evidence of tusk being canonical or overrated. for years i was told it was either a) the most coked-out album evar or b) a huge flop

LA WOMAN

socks still on

I don't understand, from what I know of the votes, a very unexpected album made the top 100 (more than 80 points) that hasn't been listed here yet.

also thanks Abbott! will bear in mind.

If you invert the results it's much better. Looks like the album I picked 29th (The Royal Scam, #15 here) will be the highest placed one I'll get. Definitely not part of the ILX hivemind!

This is why my camera is still filming in the area where I expect the trajectory of my flying socks to pass through.

xxxp are you just setting up for your fake #1

No way, it's legit.

2. Talking Heads - Fear of Music (1979) [405 points, 28 votes]

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Total gateway album for me. It was the first really strange new wave album I ever bought. I was 13, and had already heard the Police, Elvis Costello and Squeeze (I think). I didn't know what to make of the LP - at 13, how could I have known about Eno's solo albums, Hugo Ball, or the other highbrow influences therein? - but there was something addictive there that made me keep listening. I'm certain that Fear of Music prepared me for Red Krayola, Essential Logic, Wire's 154, etc.

― mike a, Monday, November 29, 2004 9:37 AM (5 years ago)

I never get sick of this record, ever. The extreme dance-worthiness of "Cities" keeps whacking me in the face, and the way you can almost hear him gritting his teeth through the last lines.

― Z S, Tuesday, February 12, 2008 7:58 PM (1 year ago)

This album spans the entire range of the human experience. It would be perfect if it weren't for one song: I Zimbra. Barf and a half. Luckily, you can just start the CD on track 2 and not worry about having to get up and skip it -- whereas "It ain't easy" is number 5 on Ziggy and totally breaks the mood.

― Klamm, Friday, November 26, 2004 10:08 PM (5 years ago)

"It would be perfect if it weren't for one song: I Zimbra. Barf and a half."

You're insane.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, November 26, 2004 10:10 PM (5 years ago)

(xposts^100000)
Devo and Kraftwerk both things which could easily have been my #1 had I compiled votes on another day. Nice to see Pere Ubu as well, though after much deliberation my Ubu vote went to Dub Housing instead.

LJ you would probably like PU, you ought to like Devo (hell, you'll like "Gut Feeling" even if not the other tracks) and anyone who likes Max Tundra's last album should definitely check out Todd Rundgren.

(have heard Mongoloid and Girl U Want both at indie discos in my ancient past and waiting for gigs to start more recently, so they are still on the Britisher indie radar imo)
(possible irony of "synthy" and "wacky" being considered maybe more British than American pop traits and then the British Devo pick is maybe the most straight-forwardly rocking that they've ever been?)

Thread moves fast! Still have literally no idea what #1 is, though I haven't really been keeping count. Exciting!

ZS, if it got 80 points and only 2 votes, then it won't show up, whatever it is.

It got more than 80 (according to what people said in this thread), and at least 3 votes.

LJ you shld check "Smart Patrol/Mr DNA" if you want to hear what is IMO Devo's proggiest joint.

I love that the #2 album got 405 points, but no one cared enough to rank it their very first choice.

surprised that Tusk missed out, but it'll be worth it when my socks are blown off

I guess someone thought they had voted for it and actually didn't.

Man, sadface.jpg all over the place in my apt, I'm putting my shoes back on.

I very nearly made it my #1 - wish I'd gone for Tapestry now

"Cities" another mixtape song that changed and confused my world when I was a kid. "I forgot to mention Memphis!" one of the great meta "the song is about the song" moments in pop.

LJ: Devo Corporate Anthem is what the Viceroy & I marched down the aisle to at our wedding.

Sorry, I'll stop turning this into "tell LJ abt Devo"

REALLY? That is one of the most awesome things I have ever heard.

but I still prefer the greater exuberance and wackiness of 77

Abbott, I wish I could've come to your wedding just for the thrill of being in the middle of such a thing as Devo being the march song.

It felt so right.

(should have been top 100: Yellow Magic Orchestra - Solid State Survivor (1979) [at least 80 points, at least 3 votes

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I was really hoping YMO (specifically SSS) would make it, but there's little chance now.

― chicken sandwich CARL!! (Z S), Friday, January 8, 2010 6:59 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

This was my #1! So you never know.

― Ork Alarm (Matt #2), Friday, January 8, 2010 7:14 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

Another vote for that from me. I think it was in my top 20.

― Kitchen Person, Friday, January 8, 2010 7:19 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

It was also my #1, so I figured two people voting it for #1 is 80 points, plus someone putting it in their top 20, should be more than 80 points. \_0_/

Talking Heads are one of those bands where I love live recordings and am left completely cold by the studio stuff. All the life has been sucked out in search of perfection. Bootlegs from '76--81 > entire legit output.

what the hell is number 1? it can't be that fleetwood mac album, can it? i hope it is stranded but somehow i don't think so. meddle, not really. l.a.woman or the wall are the two ends of the decade, they can't win this. any soul/funk album left?

Wow I am just going to live in your universe ZS bcz that would be an awesome #1.

btw I had a dream last night you were showing me this totally beautiful & psychedelic chandelier!

OKAY< HUGE MISTAKE ON MY PART GUYS! YMO SHOULD'VE MADE THE LIST SOMEWHERE. I WENT BACK AND LOOKED AT BALLOTS AND I MISSED A FIRST PLACE VOTE!!! This poll is now cursed with a doofus asterisk.

1. Fleetwood Mac - Tusk (1979) [527 points, 30 votes, 4 first place votes]

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50 great things about Fleetwood Mac's "Tusk"

HOLD THE PHONE

What a disaster for ZZ Top xxpost

r.i.p. zz top

that's a HUGE win. now to find out whether they've all got a point

absolutely, zz top was robbed!

Sorry Johnny Fever, I didn't mean to draw attention to any miscounting here at the end, and I think you did a fantastic job putting this together, I really enjoyed it!

Just bump ZZ Top - so few of us liked it anyways...

xx-post

A haw, haw, haw, haw, a haw.
A haw, haw, haw.

Thanks for the work on this. It was... interesting.

do-over!

thanks Mr. Fever!

My contribution to the Tusk thread:

93. The title track is the only Fleetwood Mac song I like.

― EZ Snappin

yeah thanks for running this one, felt good to participate since i somehow missed the 80s poll completely until the results

It would've been...

51. Yellow Magic Orchestra - Solid State Survivor (1979) [112 points, 6 votes, 2 first place votes]

And ZZ Top wouldn't have placed.

great job!

xposts to Abbott

I've been staring at this big blank spot on our wall the past few minutes, trying to figure out what to put there. 0 results for "beautiful psychedelic chandelier" on eBay. :( God that would be so perfect

Well that was fun, even if the top 2 are records I find it impossible to care about. I reckon I'll get Tusk one day, but Talking Heads.......don't hate them, but they're just so middlebrow: if they wrote books they'd be multiple Booker Prize winners, if they made movies, C4 would be involved.

Thanks johnny, that was terrific fun!

how is tusk compared to rumours?