ZS, if it got 80 points and only 2 votes, then it won't show up, whatever it is.
― emil.y, Saturday, 9 January 2010 20:24 (fourteen years ago) link
It got more than 80 (according to what people said in this thread), and at least 3 votes.
― chicken sandwich CARL!! (Z S), Saturday, 9 January 2010 20:24 (fourteen years ago) link
LJ you shld check "Smart Patrol/Mr DNA" if you want to hear what is IMO Devo's proggiest joint.
― girl moves (Abbott), Saturday, 9 January 2010 20:24 (fourteen years ago) link
I love that the #2 album got 405 points, but no one cared enough to rank it their very first choice.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 9 January 2010 20:25 (fourteen years ago) link
surprised that Tusk missed out, but it'll be worth it when my socks are blown off
― Ismael Klata, Saturday, 9 January 2010 20:25 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― chicken sandwich CARL!! (Z S), Saturday, 9 January 2010 20:26 (fourteen years ago) link
I very nearly made it my #1 - wish I'd gone for Tapestry now
― Ismael Klata, Saturday, 9 January 2010 20:27 (fourteen years ago) link
"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.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 9 January 2010 20:27 (fourteen years ago) link
LJ: Devo Corporate Anthem is what the Viceroy & I marched down the aisle to at our wedding.
― girl moves (Abbott), Saturday, 9 January 2010 20:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Sorry, I'll stop turning this into "tell LJ abt Devo"
REALLY? That is one of the most awesome things I have ever heard.
― emil.y, Saturday, 9 January 2010 20:28 (fourteen years ago) link
but I still prefer the greater exuberance and wackiness of 77
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 9 January 2010 20:29 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 9 January 2010 20:29 (fourteen years ago) link
It felt so right.
― girl moves (Abbott), Saturday, 9 January 2010 20:30 (fourteen years ago) link
(should have been top 100: Yellow Magic Orchestra - Solid State Survivor (1979) [at least 80 points, at least 3 votes
http://i46.tinypic.com/23tgutf.jpg
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_/
― chicken sandwich CARL!! (Z S), Saturday, 9 January 2010 20:31 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 9 January 2010 20:31 (fourteen years ago) link
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?
― alex in mainhattan, Saturday, 9 January 2010 20:32 (fourteen years ago) link
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!
― girl moves (Abbott), Saturday, 9 January 2010 20:32 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 9 January 2010 20:34 (fourteen years ago) link
1. Fleetwood Mac - Tusk (1979) [527 points, 30 votes, 4 first place votes]
http://i50.tinypic.com/a9spsk.jpg
50 great things about Fleetwood Mac's "Tusk"
HOLD THE PHONE
― chicken sandwich CARL!! (Z S), Saturday, 9 January 2010 20:34 (fourteen years ago) link
What a disaster for ZZ Top xxpost
― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 9 January 2010 20:34 (fourteen years ago) link
r.i.p. zz top
― bread has no effect on you (ciderpress), Saturday, 9 January 2010 20:35 (fourteen years ago) link
that's a HUGE win. now to find out whether they've all got a point
― Electric Universe (wherever that is) (acoleuthic), Saturday, 9 January 2010 20:36 (fourteen years ago) link
absolutely, zz top was robbed!
― alex in mainhattan, Saturday, 9 January 2010 20:36 (fourteen years ago) link
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!
― chicken sandwich CARL!! (Z S), Saturday, 9 January 2010 20:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Just bump ZZ Top - so few of us liked it anyways...
xx-post
A haw, haw, haw, haw, a haw.A haw, haw, haw.
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 9 January 2010 20:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Thanks for the work on this. It was... interesting.
do-over!
― cheesy porn film background banjo music (KMS), Saturday, 9 January 2010 20:37 (fourteen years ago) link
thanks Mr. Fever!
― girl moves (Abbott), Saturday, 9 January 2010 20:37 (fourteen years ago) link
My contribution to the Tusk thread:
93. The title track is the only Fleetwood Mac song I like.
― EZ Snappin
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 9 January 2010 20:38 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah thanks for running this one, felt good to participate since i somehow missed the 80s poll completely until the results
― bread has no effect on you (ciderpress), Saturday, 9 January 2010 20:38 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 9 January 2010 20:38 (fourteen years ago) link
great job!
― sleeve, Saturday, 9 January 2010 20:39 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― chicken sandwich CARL!! (Z S), Saturday, 9 January 2010 20:40 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― sonofstan, Saturday, 9 January 2010 20:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Thanks johnny, that was terrific fun!
― Ismael Klata, Saturday, 9 January 2010 20:40 (fourteen years ago) link
how is tusk compared to rumours?
― alex in mainhattan, Saturday, 9 January 2010 20:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Thanks Johnny, good stuff.
Now post 200-101 please!!
― Pfunkboy : The Dronelord vs The Girly Metal Daleks (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 9 January 2010 20:40 (fourteen years ago) link
well 200-102 ;)
― Pfunkboy : The Dronelord vs The Girly Metal Daleks (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 9 January 2010 20:41 (fourteen years ago) link
weirder, coked-out, paranoid, tense crystalline beauty
― sleeve, Saturday, 9 January 2010 20:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Hooray for YMO! Wd happily replace Tusk with YMO, that is fine by me. (I think I voted for SSS and if I did not then I deserve a kicking because I totally did mean to)
Thank you very much Johnny! It's been fun.
― ⍨ (a passing spacecadet), Saturday, 9 January 2010 20:41 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah great stuff Johnny! now reveal the ghastly truth of the second hundred :P
― Electric Universe (wherever that is) (acoleuthic), Saturday, 9 January 2010 20:42 (fourteen years ago) link
do-over
was just kidding-lotsa cool things to check out/re-explore!
― cheesy porn film background banjo music (KMS), Saturday, 9 January 2010 20:42 (fourteen years ago) link
that sounds kind of interesting because rumours was not my cup of tea at all.
― alex in mainhattan, Saturday, 9 January 2010 20:43 (fourteen years ago) link
My ballot was pretty boring overall, but I was surprised how many things I thought would be sure locks didn't show up.
01 Yellow Magic Orchesta Solid State Survivor02 Talking Heads Fear of Music03 Coltrane, Alice Journey in Satchidananda04 Harmonia Deluxe05 Neu! Neu! 7506 Devo Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo07 Kuti, Fela Shuffering and Shmiling08 Black Devil Disco Club09 Coltrane, Alice World Galaxy10 McCartney, Paul Ram11 Eno, Brian Discreet Music12 Pop, Iggy Lust for Life13 Gilberto, João João Gilberto (1973)14 Grateful Dead American Beauty15 Numan, Gary The Pleasure Principle16 Young, Neil Harvest17 La Dusseldorf Viva18 Kraftwerk Kraftwerk19 Kraftwerk Kraftwerk 220 Reed, Lou Transformer21 Lennon, John Imagine22 Mayfield, Curtis Curtis23 T.Rex Electric Warrior24 Prince Prince25 Coltrane, Alice Ptah, the El Daoud26 Bowie, David Aladdin Sane27 Moroder, Giorgio From Here to Eternity 28 Numan, Gary & Tubeway Army Replicas29 Grateful Dead Workingman's Dead30 Black Sabbath Master of Reality31 Devo Duty Now For the Future32 Amon Düül II Yeti33 Cohen, Leonard New Skin for the Old Ceremony34 Art Ensemble of Chicago, The Les Stances a Sophie35 Reed, Lou Coney Island Baby36 Gabriel, Peter Peter Gabriel (1978)37 Faust The Faust Tapes38 La Dusseldorf La Dusseldorf39 Nilsson, Harry Nilsson Sings Newman40 Cale, John - Vintage Violence
― chicken sandwich CARL!! (Z S), Saturday, 9 January 2010 20:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Glad to see Yellow Magic Orchestra made it in the end, I think they were the real winners of this poll.
Many thanks Johnny Fever!
― Kitchen Person, Saturday, 9 January 2010 20:43 (fourteen years ago) link
The mister is currently attempting to find tracks from all the top 100 for me to listen to. This is going to be interesting.
― emil.y, Saturday, 9 January 2010 20:43 (fourteen years ago) link
This poll is great. Thanks, Johnny F.
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 9 January 2010 20:44 (fourteen years ago) link
oh yeah, it's ballot-posting time!
Amon Düül Paradieswarts DüülAmon Düül II YetiBlack Sabbath Master of RealityCale, John Fear Can Soon Over BabalumaCaptain Beefheart & His Magic Band Clear SpotCaptain Beefheart & His Magic Band Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)Cars, The The CarsChrome Alien SoundtracksColtrane, Alice Journey in SatchidanandaCramps, The Gravest HitsDavis, Miles Get Up With ItEno, Brian Before and After ScienceFahey, John AmericaFleetwood Mac TuskGerms, The (GI)Heldon Third: It's Always Rock and RollHurley, Michael, The Unholy Modal Rounders, Jeffrey Fredericks & The Clamtones Have Moicy!King Crimson Larks' Tongues in AspicKing Crimson RedLed Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IIILed Zeppelin Physical GraffitiMitchell, Joni HejiraPere Ubu The Modern DanceRaincoats, The The RaincoatsResidents, The Duck Stab / Buster & GlenResidents, The The Residents Present the Third Reich n' RollRezillos Can't Stand the RezillosRoxy Music StrandedSmith, Patti Easter Smith, Patti HorsesSpecials, The The SpecialsStiff Little Fingers Inflammable MaterialT.Rex The SliderTalking Heads Fear of Music This Heat This HeatThrobbing Gristle 20 Jazz Funk GreatsWyatt, Robert Rock BottomX Ray Spex Germ Free AdolescentsYes Close to the Edge
― sleeve, Saturday, 9 January 2010 20:44 (fourteen years ago) link