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

Whew, that worked, except Candy-O shouldn't be boldface, it didn't place in the top 100 results.

1. Wyatt, Robert Rock Bottom
2. Steely Dan Aja
3. Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin III
4. Ben, Jorge África Brasil
5. Lowe, Nick Jesus of Cool
Bowie, David Lodger
Who, The Who's Next
Buckley, Tim Starsailor
Faust Faust IV
Ramones Rocket to Russia

Mayfield, Curtis Roots
Mayfield, Curtis Curtis
Parliament Osmium
McCartney, Paul Ram
Hawkwind Space Ritual
Green, Al Let's Stay Together
Judas Priest Sad Wings of Destiny
Neu! Neu! 75
Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon
Hayes, Isaac Black Moses

Damned, The Damned Damned Damned
Funkadelic Funkadelic
Pere Ubu Datapanik in the Year Zero EP
Adverts, The Crossing the Red Sea With The Adverts
Lennon, John Imagine
King, Carole Tapestry
Soft Machine Third
Black Sabbath Sabotage
Black Sabbath Master of Reality
Kuti, Fela No Agreement

Kraftwerk Autobahn
Pop, Iggy Lust for Life
Creedence Clearwater Revival Cosmo's Factory
Green, Al Livin' for You
Beach Boys, The Sunflower
Blondie Blondie
Eno, Brian Ambient 1: Music for Airports
Haack, Bruce Electric Lucifer
Kinks, The Muswell Hillbillies
Black Sabbath Vol. 4

this poll was a huge success--concept and results. thanks Johnny Fever for putting together a list i'm gonna mine for years to come!

18 of my 40 made it. I bolded the ones that didn't make it.

1. Presley, Elvis - Elvis Country
2. ZZ Top - Tres Hombres
3. Crosby, David - If I Could Only Remember My Name
4. Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
5. Newman, Randy - Good Old Boys
6. Steely Dan - Aja
7. Roxy Music - Country Life
8. Nilsson, Harry - Nilsson Schmilsson
9. Springsteen, Bruce - The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle
10. Parker, Graham - Squeezing Out Sparks
11. Mott the Hoople - Mott
12. Ferry, Bryan - These Foolish Things
13. Who, The - Live at Leeds
14. Young, Neil - Zuma
15. Davis, Miles - Get Up With It
16. Stewart, Rod - Every Picture Tells a Story
17. Fleetwood Mac - Tusk
18. Green, Al - The Belle Album
19. Lynyrd Skynyrd - (pronounced 'leh-'nérd 'skin-'nérd)
20. Mayfield, Curtis - Curtis
21. Martyn, John - Solid Air
22. Boston - Boston
23. Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
24. Mitchell, Joni - The Hissing of Summer Lawns
25. Flatlanders, The - More a Legend Than a Band
26. Rolling Stones, The - Some Girls
27. Morrison, Van - Moondance
28. Franklin, Aretha - Spirit in the Dark
29. Grateful Dead - Europe '72
30. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
31. McCartney, Paul - Ram
32. Nico - Desertshore
33. Jefferson Starship - Blows Against the Empire
34. Parton, Dolly - The Best of Dolly Parton (1975)
35. Allman Brothers Band, The - Eat a Peach
36. Buckley, Tim - Starsailor
37. Simon, Paul - Paul Simon
38. Staple Singers, The - Be Altitude: Respect Yourself
39. Dylan, Bob - Slow Train Coming
40. T.Rex - Electric Warrior

Wanna thank folks for turning me on to that Comus album as well as free your mind and your ass will follow (really only knew maggot brain before this). That title track on that is some kinda fucking brain-melting scorcher.

Only really disappointed that my #1, pleasure principle, didn't place. Biggest head scratcher, imo, is x-ray spex placing so high. It's as baffling to me as if like sham 69 or some other first gen brit punk also rans placed that highly. But then maybe I should give it another listen.

Otherwise just continually mystified by the world's love for the talking heads. I'd take devo, b-52s, gary numan, and pere ubu among others as bands who at least sometimes mined a similar aesthetic over that "Electric Guitar" shit any day.

Well here's my ballot. Accidentally voted the wrong motorhead album. A few other things I'd do differently today as well, especially vote for La Dusseldorf.

1) Numan, Gary The Pleasure Principle
2) Tubeway Army Replicas
3) Pere Ubu Datapanik in the Year Zero EP
4) Devo Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
5) Pere Ubu Dub Housing
6) Pere Ubu The Modern Dance
7) Kraftwerk Autobahn
8) Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band Lick My Decals Off, Baby
9) Waits, Tom Small Change
10) Tubeway Army Tubeway Army
11) Bowie, David Lodger
12) Devo Duty Now For the Future
13) Vibrators, The Pure Mania
14) Rolling Stones, The Some Girls
15) Young, Neil Harvest
16) Smith, Patti Horses
17) Who, The Who's Next
18) Stranglers, The Rattus Norvegicus
19) Yes Relayer
20) Stiff Little Fingers Inflammable Material
21) Black Flag Nervous Breakdown EP
22) Motörhead Motörhead
23) Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)
24) Jennings, Waylon Honky Tonk Heroes
25) Dead Boys, The Young, Loud and Snotty
26) Yes The Yes Album
27) Judas Priest Sad Wings of Destiny
28) Damned, The Machine Gun Etiquette
29) Zappa, Frank Apostrophe
30) Yes Close to the Edge
31) Yes Going for the One
32) Brown, James Get on the Good Foot
33) Brown, James Sex Machine
34) Kristofferson, Kris Kristofferson
35) Can Unlimited Edition
36) Kristofferson, Kris & Rita Coolidge Full Moon
37) Schulze, Klaus Cyborg
38) Cluster Zuckerzeit
39) Bowie, David The Man Who Sold the World
40) Thunders, Johnny & The Heartbreakers Live at Max's Kansas City

Kristofferson, Kris & Rita Coolidge Full Moon

Thanks for voting for this btw. I knew it never had a chance, and didn't even bother to cast a vote for it in the end, but I love it beyond words.

50% made it in. The lost causes were mostly singer-songwriter stuff, classic rock and reggae.

1 Van Morrison - Veedon Fleece
2 Bruce Springsteen - The Wild, the Innocent and E Street Shuffle
3 Talking Heads - Fear of Music
4 Guy Clark - Old No. 1
5 Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood Mac
6 Joni Mitchell - Court & Spark
7 Flatlanders - More a Legend Than a Band
8 Led Zeppelin - III
9 The Cars - The Cars
10 Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
11 Van Morrison - Moondance
12 Derek & the Dominoes - Layla
13 Al Green - The Belle Album
14 Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
15 Tom Petty - Damn the Torpedoes
16 Talking Heads - 77
17 Culture - Two Sevens Clash
18 Bob Dylan & the Band - Before the Flood
19 Rolling Stones - Some Girls
20 Stevie Wonder - Fulfillingness' First Finale
21 Bonnie Raitt - Home Plate
22 Little Feat - Dixie Chicken
23 Grateful Dead - American Beauty
24 Joe Jackson - Look Sharp!
25 Linda Ronstadt - Greatest Hits
26 Paul Simon - Paul Simon
27 The Specials - The Specials
28 Steely Dan - Aja
29 Willie Nelson - Red Headed Stranger
30 Lynyrd Skynyrd - Second Helping
31 Bob Marley - Burnin'
32 John Martyn - Solid Air
33 Neil Young - Harvest
34 Toots & the Maytals - Funky Kingston
35 Van Morrison - It's Too Late To Stop Now
36 Joe Cocker - Mad Dogs & Englishmen
37 Al Green - I'm Still In Love With You
38 Isley Brothers - 3 + 3
39 Gene Clark - White Light
40 Elvis Costello - Armed Forces

For some reason it never occurred to me that much of my ballot didn't really have a chance. Ironically, I figured cluster was one of the least likely to place. Maybe that's not ironic though. Whatever the word for that is, that's not ironic, but that we often erroneously call ironic anyway - strangely coincidental perhaps?

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listening to Zombie right now. super-dopeness

^ listening to it right now as well. I'm not even going to ask where to go after Zombie, because that question is answered 12 different ways in every Fela thread. But I'm going to check out more.

Shakara! (nb: that is the only other Fela album I have heard. I first heard it at a Catholic church, strangely enough)

You can't basically go wrong with any of Fela's albums, but after Zombie I'd recommend listening to the Open & Close/Afrodisiac two-album disc, as it has pretty much everything that makes Fela great. Afrodisiac especially is pure dope from the beginning to end, and the first tune on it one of the heaviest, most awesome groove of all time!

I just got to see the results... The top 2 is a bit disappointing, but yay for Curtis making to #3! And I'm even happier for Alice Coltrane making it to the top 10, as I was fearing she wouldn't place at all. She has pretty much become my favourite jazz artist of the seventies, her whole early-to-mid-70s output is awesome. I love the later string albums as much as Journey to Satchidananda, but there is something totally immersive and hypnotic with the slow molasses grooves on that album. When I first played that album and the first song started to roll, I could just feel the groove in my body, it got me so giddy.

"and the first tune on it has one of the heaviest, most awesome grooves of all time"

Here's my ballot, with the albums that made it bolded:

1. Mayfield, Curtis - Curtis
2. Purim, Flora - Stories to Tell
3. Powell, Baden - Canto on Guitar
4. Coltrane, Alice - Journey in Satchidananda
5. Hancock, Herbie - Sextant

6-10th places: 12 points each
Airto - Seeds on the Ground
Carvalho, Beth - Pandeiro e Viola
Coltrane, Alice - Eternity
Kuti, Fela - He Miss Road
Thomas, Leon - Blues and the Soulful Truth

11-15th places: 9 points each
Austin, Patti - Havana Candy
Hathaway, Donny - Everything is Everything
Henderson, Joe & Alice Coltrane - The Elements
Muhammad, Idris - Black Rhythm Revolution!
Riperton, Minnie - Adventures in Paradise

16-20th places: 6 points each
Coltrane, Alice - Universal Consciousness
J.B.'s, The - Groove Machine
Meters, The - Fire on the Bayou
Nascimento, Milton - Milton
Sanders, Pharoah - Jewels of Thought

21-25th places: 5 points each
Hector - Nostalgia
Kirk, Rahsaan Roland - Blacknuss
Meters, The - Rejuvenation
Pascoal, Hermeto - Slaves Mass
Regina, Elis - …Em Pleno Verão

26-35th places: 3 points each
De Valença, Rosinha - Rosinha De Valença
Hancock, Herbie - Crossings
Kuti, Fela - Afrodisiac
Makeba, Miriam - Pata Pata: The Hit Sound of Miriam Makeba
Mayfield, Curtis - Back to the World
Muhammad, Idris - House of the Rising Sun
Riperton, Minnie - Come to My Garden
Schifrin, Lalo - Black Widow
Simone, Nina - Emergency Ward
Turrentine, Stanley - Salt Song

36-40th places: 1 point each
Earth, Wind & Fire - All n' All
Henderson, Eddie - Realization
Santamaría, Mongo - Afro Indio
Staple Singers, The - Be What You Are
Tyner, McCoy - Sahara

It's kinda sad that nothing outside the top 5 placed in the poll.

I'm a bit surprised that Adventures in Paradise was the only Minnie Riperton album to even make it to the top 200. I wonder who was the thrid person besides me and Abbott who voted for it?

Whoops, I was supposed write "you can't basically go wrong with any of Fela's 70s albums" up there. I'm not so familiar with his post-70s output, might be some duds among them. When Tony Allen left him in the late 70s, that certainly hurt the sound of his band.

1. Fleetwood Mac – Tusk
2. Todd Rundgren – A Wizard, A True Star
3. Alice Coltrane – Journey In Satchidananda
4. Joni Mitchell – Court & Spark
5. Steely Dan – Aja
6. Roy Harper – Stormcock
7. Curtis Mayfield – Curtis
8. Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin III
9. Cheap Trick – Cheap Trick
10. The Residents – Duck Stab/Buster & Glen
11. Augustus Pablo – Original Rockers
12. Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes – Expansions
13. Comus – First Utterance
14. Black Sabbath – Master Of Reality
15. Randy Newman – Good Old Boys
16. Culture – Two Sevens Clash
17. Linda Perhacs – Parallelograms
18. Paul McCartney – Ram
19. Shoes – Present Tense
20. Al Green – I’m Still In Love With You
21. Milton Nascimento & Lô Borges – Clube Da Esquina
22. Funkadelic – Standing On The Verge Of Getting It On
23. Pharoah Sanders – Thembi
24. Robert Wyatt – Rock Bottom
25. Harmonia – Deluxe
26. Flamin’ Groovies – Shake Some Action
27. Blue Öyster Cult – Agents Of Fortune
28. Elton John – Madman Across The Water
29. Joni Mitchell – The Hissing Of Summer Lawns
30. Neu! – Neu! 75
31. AC/DC – Highway To Hell
32. Creedence Clearwater Revival – Cosmo’s Factory
33. David Crosby – If I Could Only Remember My Name…
34. Françoise Hardy – La Question
35. Steely Dan – Can’t Buy A Thrill
36. Chic – C’est Chic
37. Earth, Wind & Fire – I Am
38. The Cars – Candy-O
39. Gene Clark – No Other
40. Cymande – Cymande

19 in, not bad. Lots to check out, starting with the 11 from the list I've never heard. Thanks Johnny!

I'm a bit surprised that Adventures in Paradise was the only Minnie Riperton album to even make it to the top 200. I wonder who was the thrid person besides me and Abbott who voted for it?

That would be me I guess. I had three Minnie albums on my ballot, fat lot of good it did. But hey.

1-40

XTC - Drums and Wires
ABBA - The Album
Fleetwood Mac - Tusk
Anne Briggs - The Time Has Come
Minnie Riperton - Come to My Garden
Wings - Back to the Egg
ABBA - Arrival
Derek & Clive - Live
Slade - Slayed?
Vashti Bunyan - Just Another Diamond Day
Chicago - Chicago
T-Rex - Electric Warrior
Queen - Queen
Carole King - Tapestry
Leonard Cohen - New Skin for the Old Ceremony
Paul McCartney - Ram
ABBA - Voulez-Vous
Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood Mac
The Specials -The Specials
Chic - Risqué
John Lennon - Imagine
Hawkwind - Space Ritual
Nick Lowe - Jesus of Cool
Iggy Pop - The Idiot
Wings - London Town
Kraftwerk - Autobahn
10cc The Original Soundtrack
The Stylistics - The Best of The Stylistics
Wings - Venus and Mars
Todd Rundgren - Something/Anything?
Minnie Riperton - Perfect Angel
Minnie Riperton - Adventures in Paradise
Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy
Queen - Queen II
Iggy Pop - Lust For Life
Todd Rundgren - A Wizard, A True Star
Steeleye Span - Hark! The Village Wait
Tubeway Army - Replicas
Wings - Band on the Run

(what on earth possessed me to put Imagine so high?)

Well, listening to a track from each album was fun. Although I did have to skip through the Van Morrison and Steely Dan tracks, and a couple of others - what are you people thinking, seriously? I gave them as much of a chance as possible, but just - NO. My favourite surprise track was probably '(Don't Worry) If There's a Hell Below, We're All Going To Go' from Curtis. I definitely need to dig further into the Alice Coltrane and Fela LPs, too. Also, I was very surprised at how much I enjoyed having Joni Mitchell and T-Rex on, two artists who I have never hated, but would never have put on of my own volition after my teenage years.

My ballot, unordered:

Amon Düül II - Yeti
David Bowie - Aladdin Sane
David Bowie - Lodger
Vashti Bunyan - Just Another Diamond Day
Cabaret Voltaire - Mix-Up
John Cale - Vintage Violence
Can - Soon Over Babaluma
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Lick My Decals Off, Baby
Chrome - Half Machine Lip Moves
Cluster - Cluster (1971)
Cluster - Zuckerzeit
Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
The Durutti Column - The Return of the Durutti Column
Brian Eno - Before and After Science
Brian Eno - Discreet Music
John Fahey - America
Faust - Faust IV
Robert Fripp and Brian Eno - Evening Star
Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel (1977)
Harmonia - Musik von Harmonia
Jandek - Ready for the House
Kraftwerk - Autobahn
La Dusseldorf - La Dusseldorf
John Lennon - Imagine
Magazine - Secondhand Daylight
Neu - Neu! 75
Nico - Desertshore
Yoko Ono - Plastic Ono Band
The Pop Group - Y
Popol Vuh - In Den Gärten Pharaos
Lou Reed - Transformer
Roxy Music - Country Life
Siouxsie & the Banshees - The Scream
Talking Heads - Fear of Music
This Heat - This Heat
Throbbing Gristle - 20 Jazz Funk Greats
Various Artists - No New York
Tom Waits - Closing Time
Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom
XTC - Drums and Wires

^^^This ballot I like.

Yeah, it's one I can hang with too. Should have been ordered though! With 'Imagine' somewhere near the bottom.

Currently listening to that Devo debut. It's pretty good!

Here's my unordered list, with no shows in bold. Sixteen made it.

Barrett, Syd - The Madcap Laughs
Blue Öyster Cult - Agents of Fortune
Cale, John - Fear
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)
Cheap Trick - Heaven Tonight
Davis, Miles - Get Up With It
Davis, Miles - Agharta
Dictators, The - Go Girl Crazy
Dylan, Bob - Desire
Dylan, Bob - New Morning
Ely, Joe - Honky Tonk Masquerade
Fahey, John - America
Faust - Faust IV
Funkadelic - Standing On The Verge Of Getting It On
Germs, The - (GI)
Green, Al - I'm Still in Love With You
Jam, The - All Mod Cons
Mayfield, Curtis - Curtis
Mekons - The Quality of Mercy Is Not Strnen
Mingus, Charles - Let My Children Hear Music
Nesmith, Michael - Magnetic South
Newman, Randy - Good Old Boys
Newman, Randy - Sail Away
Nilsson, Harry - A Little Touch of Schmilsson In The Night
Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance
Pere Ubu - Dub Housing
Raincoats, The - The Raincoats
Saints, The - (I'm) Stranded
Stevens, Cat - Tea for the Tillerman
Swell Maps - A Trip to Marineville
T.Rex - The Slider
T.Rex - Electric Warrior
Talking Heads - Talking Heads '77
Thompson, Mayo - Corky's Debt to His Father
Van Zandt, Townes - High, Low and In Between
Various Artists - No New York
War - The World is a Ghetto
Who, The - Quadrophenia
Who, The - The Kids Are Alright
X Ray Spex - Germ Free Adolescents

My Southern Singer/Songwriters didn't do so good, I think I'll console myself by using President Keyes' ballot as a S S/S shopping list. And then everyone else's, you people like a lot of great music. Thanks and hats off to Johnny Fever. And the same to whoever nominated North Star Grassman, thanks for tipping me off.

And his spirituality is so natural and subtle that he would have made more sense as a reverend than Al Green, the conflicted, tortured hedonist who eventually gave up secular music, but never seemed to have as deep a grasp of spiritual matters as Mayfield.

Hey Fastnbulbous,can't agree about Rev. Al - the testimony of tortured souls can be even more compelling (e.g. Raskolnikov, St Augustine, even Mother Teresa had doubts, etc). But definitely Rev. Curtis would have been perfect.

OK, kicking off my unlistened-to catch-up with Agharta.

I've been working my way through this era chronologically--made it through about 450 albums (from 1969 to 1972) in the past year. This poll shows me I've still got a lot of decade left to absorb.

You guys ever thought about doing a genre-specific one of these countdowns?

My ballot:

1. Ananda Shankar – Ananda Shankar and His Music (no other votes)
2. Fleetwood Mac – Tusk
3. Joni Mitchell – The Hissing of Summer Lawns
4. Yes – Close to the Edge
5. The Beach Boys – Sunflower (57 points, 6 votes)
6. 10cc – Sheet Music (17 points, 2 votes)
7. Pink Floyd – The Wall (13 points, 2 votes)
8. The Carpenters – The Singles 1969-73 (38 points, 7 votes)
9. Earth, Wind & Fire – I Am (23 points, 3 votes)
10. Tubeway Army – Replicas
11. Blondie – Eat To The Beat
12. Enoch Light – Permissive Polyphonics (no other votes)
13. Bob Marley and The Wailers – Live! (18 points, 2 votes)
14. Buzzcocks – Another Music In A Different Kitchen (33 points, 4 votes)
15. The Stylistics – Best of The Stylistics (15 points, 3 votes)
16. The Cars – The Cars
17. Sister Sledge – We Are Family (18 points, 2 votes)
18. The Stranglers – Rattus Norvegicus (21 points, 3 votes)
19. Todd Rundgren – A Wizard, A True Star
20. John Holt – 1000 Volts of Holt (no other votes)
21. Electric Light Orchestra – A New World Record (30 points, 3 votes)
22. David Bowie – Aladdin Sane
23. Andrew Lloyd Webber – Variations (no other votes)
24. Steely Dan – The Royal Scam
25. Lalo Schifrin – Dirty Harry (Motion Picture Score) (no other votes)
26. Aretha Franklin – Young, Gifted and Black (27 points, 4 votes)
27. The Sweet – The Sweet’s Biggest Hits (28 points, 2 votes)
28. Lee “Scratch” Perry & The Upsetters – Blackboard Jungle Dub (???, not on list!)
29. Crass – The Feeding of the 5,000 (16 points, 3 votes)
30. Boz Scaggs – Silk Degrees (26 points, 4 votes)
31. David Crosby – If I Could Only Remember My Name (66 points, 9 votes)
32. Steve Reich – Drumming / Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ / Six Pianos (58 points, 10 votes)
33. Supertramp – Breakfast in America (12 points, 4 votes)
34. Jerry Goldsmith – Alien (Motion Picture Score) (no other votes)
35. Elton John – Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (11 points, 3 votes)
36. Status Quo – 12 Gold Bars (no other votes)
37. X Ray Spex – Germ Free Adolescents
38. ABBA – Arrival
39. Various - K-Tel presents 20 Dynamic Hits (no other votes)
40. Various - K-Tel presents 22 Dynamic Hits, Vol.II (no other votes)

Aha, the other Sheet Music voter!

Yes, that came disappointingly low. Was my #6 placement worth so little in points terms? :(

Also was Blackboard Jungle Dub disqualified or something?

Anyway, thanks J Fever for doing this. And thanks to everyone who voted for my nominees (including the ones I didn't in the end vote for).

Lee “Scratch” Perry & The Upsetters – Blackboard Jungle Dub (???, not on list!)

I probably got complacent, read the artist, and credited it to an album that had already received other votes. Sorry about that.

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (11 points, 3 votes)

This is clearly an ILM thing. Where else would an album like this get only 3 votes, all for low points?

i know, one of the first things i did when you put up the complete results was look up how many votes EJ's albums got and boggle at them

haha well my #1 vote for Elvis Country was its only vote. I'm not shocked but really, it's an absolutely stunning album. There's nothing indie about it: these are top-shelf songs with full arrangements, but Elvis' voice is in its fully mature bloom, and the ache in these songs is unsettling. It's definitely not an album for kids: Elvis sounds like a man who has seen things you people wouldn't believe. But it is a deep and rich album, and also shitloads of fun: between the heartache of "Faded Love", e.g. there's a band jamming and having a great time. That's probably the heart of Elvis' 70s work: brothers trying to work together through heartbreak, loss and physical decay, in most cases their own fault, by playing music together. Make the world go away, indeed.

^ will check this one out.

I love that album but I find the little snippets of "I Was Born A Thousand Years Ago" between every song totally bewildering.

Yeah, it's one I can hang with too. Should have been ordered though! With 'Imagine' somewhere near the bottom.

I spend too much time online/on ILM as is, I'd have happily ordered it but voting already took an hour or so (LONG nominations list!!) and I'd rather stay offline and do something else with my time than order my ballot. Priorities! :)

Top ten would have included (at a quick glance): Devo, Durutti, Fahey, Neu, Kraftwerk, Cluster 71, Gristle.

I HATE the born a thousand years snippets. but it is a great album.

My ballot, had I managed to get it in on time, wouldn't have changed much, I don't think:

1. Coltrane, Alice Ptah, the El Daoud
2. Tyner, McCoy Sahara
3. Cherry, Don Brown Rice
4. McPhee, Joe Nation Time
5. Sanders, Pharoah Deaf Dumb Blind (Summun Bukmun Umyun)
6. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Déjà Vu
7. Talking Heads Fear of Music
8. Sanders, Pharoah Black Unity
9. Alice Coltrane Journey…
10. Roxy Music Stranded
11. Hancock, Herbie Headhunters
12. Tyner, McCoy Song of the New World
13. Sparks Propaganda
14. Talking Heads Talking Heads '77
15. T.Rex Electric Warrior
16. Young, Larry Lawrence of Newark
17. Black Sabbath Vol. 4
18. Can Soon Over Babaluma
19. Little Feat Little Feat
20. Mott the Hoople Mott
21. Parton, Dolly Coat of Many Colors
22. Devo Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
23. Cars, The The Cars
24. Runaways, The The Runaways
25. X Ray Spex Germ Free Adolescents
26. Jackson, Joe Look Sharp!
27. Riley, Terry In C
28. Kraftwerk Autobahn
29. Davis, Miles Live Evil
30. Pere Ubu The Modern Dance
31. Funkadelic Funkadelic
32. Soft Machine Third
33. Thin Lizzy Jailbreak
34. A Certain Ratio The Graveyard and The Ballroom
35. Davis, Miles Agharta
36. Faces Long Player
37. Funkadelic Free Your Mind… And Your Ass Will Follow
38. Roxy Music Country Life
39. Rufus & Chaka Khan Rags to Rufus
40. This Heat This Heat

And since I think a fair number of choices that others big-upped that seem missing from my list are simply because of weird Never Owned blind spots (I'll go out and buy Sextant at first opportunity, honest), I assume that holds for other folks too—I just don't think Rufus or Twink or Terry Riley are as popular as some of the other choices, and that's reflected in the voting.

I like your list a lot, especially for including those two McCoy Tyner albums. Sadly I could only fit Sahara into my ballot, but Song of the New World is really good too, I love the cosmic big band sound on it.

Heh. Thank my father—most of that jazz was the soundtrack for my childhood road trips. I'd like little bits of it, heads mostly, and thought most of the rest was boring. I still wouldn't necessarily put it on to drive to, but I've come to really love it, especially as albums. From talking about the runs of five and the greatest jazz albums threads, I went back and listened to a lot of this stuff again and think there's an argument to be made for it really a high point of the album format.

And I don't recall if I voted in the original '70s poll or not, but my ballot wouldn't have been that much different.

Have you ever listened to the Larry Young album? I think you'd like it a lot.

This lurker's list:

1. Genesis - Selling England By the Pound
2. Cale, John - Fear
3. Eno, Brian - Before and After Science
4. Talking Heads - Fear of Music
5. Ben, Jorge - Forca Bruta
6. Yes - Close to the Edge
7. Sparks - Indiscreet
8. Nilsson, Harry - The Point
9. Genesis - Foxtrot
10. Chic - Risque
11. Chrome - Half Machine Lip Moves
12. Fleetwood Mac - Tusk
13. Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
14. Mitchell, Joni - The Hissing of Summer Lawns
15. Slapp Happy - Casablanca Moon
16. Cale, John - Helen of Troy
17. Nascimento, Milton & Lô Borges- Clube de Esquina
18. Residents, The - Meet the Residents
19. Gainsbourg, Serge - Vu de l'Exterieur
20. Bowie, David - Lodger
21. Penguin Café Orchestra - Music from the Penguin Café
22. Leão, Nara - Dez Anos Depois
23. Pop, Iggy - The Idiot
24. Residents, The - Duck Stab / Buster & Glen
25. Roxy Music - Country Life
26. Pop, Iggy - Lust for Life
27. Roxy Music - Stranded
28. Sparks - Propaganda
29. Thompson, Mayo - Corky's Debt to His Father
30. Talking Heads - Talking Heads '77
31. Cluster - Sowiesoso
32. Kraftwerk - Ralf and Florian
33. Ono, Yoko - Plastic Ono Band
34. Costa, Gal - India
35. Tangerine Dream - Phaedra
36. Chic - C’est Chic
37. Teenage Jesus & The Jerks - Teenage Jesus & The Jerks EP
38. Blondie - Blondie
39. Oldfield, Mike - Tubular Bells
40. Sparks - Sparks

In compiling and ordering the list it was hard to decide how to weigh albums that had been favorites for, say, ten years or more vs. more recent discoveries. I tend to assume that my old favorites are going to be the same as everyone else's, due to greater overall exposure, but it didn't come out quite that way — for good and bad. I don't necessarily mind seeing Iggy and Roxy Music not make this list (much as I like them) if it makes room for something I don't know much about, like the Alice Coltrane or Yellow Magic Orchestra album (which I will investigate). I wish this had happened more often, but some of the individual ballots look really interesting. In comparison, my own seems a little boring, but maybe that's just because it's familiar to me.

I probably would have included Africa Brasil if I had known Jorge Ben wouldn't get any records in the final list otherwise, but while it's a vital album it doesn't move me as much as the lushly orchestrated stuff from earlier in the decade.

Individual lists are great, really interesting.

Nara Leao? second name i don't know here? tell me? (I know I could google but answers here are much better)

Nara Leao? second name i don't know here? tell me? (I know I could google but answers here are much better)

Her work spans a few Brazilian genres, but she's basically considered a bossa nova singer. Dez Anos Depois is a double album where she covers some of the classics of the genre (by João Gilberto et al) in a very understated way, mostly just with guitar accompaniment in a resonant acoustic. It luxuriates in a kind of rainy-day cool, as suggested by the album's cover; I love to play it late at night at low volume.

My faves by her are actually from the '60s — the Rogerio Duprat album (self-titled, 1968), and Nara (which is included on the Nara '67 CD from Él). The latter especially has marvelous orchestrations and a more heightened sense of drama than most of her work: it can be stomping and dangerous, joyous and maybe a tad flippant, mysterious, and/or melancholic; it is often very tender. In this context, her singing makes me melt like the chickens serenaded by Crosby and Sinatra in the Porky Pig cartoon "Swooner Crooner," but less abruptly.

The Slipcue writeup offers a decent overview (I discovered her through that site).

I just want to know the identity of the kindred spirit who put New York Dolls: In Too Much Too Soon at number one.

Thanks eatandoph. Reading that slipcue piece made me realise I didn't vote for Edu Lobo's Missa Breve (was it nominated?) - I keep noticing/ remembering things I missed.....

weird Never Owned blind spots

LOTS of those on my part

Thanks to this poll I picked up copies of Minnie Riperton's Come To My Garden and Orentte Coleman's Dancing In Your Head (and complete Science Fiction sessions). I also re-downloaded Riperton's next two albums (I can't hear "Loving You" without thinking of the South Park episode). Also re-listened to some Fleetwood Mac and ABBA. I still don't get it. People dismiss reggae albums because it was a strong singles genre, but there's many albums that have way less filler than those two MOR hit machines. It's also strange that the rest of the ballots were much different (full of interesting music I like), rather than, say, The Eagles, Gordon Lightfoot or Boz Scaggs.

7 of my top 8 made it.

1. Fela Kuti – Zombie
2. The Raincoats
3. Talking Heads - Fear Of Music
4. Toots & the Maytals - Funky Kingston
5. Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band - Lick My Decals Off Baby
6. T. Rex - Electric Warrior
7. Tim Buckley – Starsailor
8. X Ray Spex - Germ-Free Adolescents
9. Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band - Clear Spot
10. Junior Murvin - Police & Thieves
11. Al Green - I'm Still In Love With You
12. Curtis Mayfield – Curtis
13. Perry, Lee "Scratch" & The Upsetters – Super Ape
14. Rico - Man From Wareika
15. Iggy Pop - Lust For Life
16. Justin Hinds & The Dominoes – Jezebel
17. Cedric Im Brooks - The Light Of Saba
18. Max Romeo & the Upsetters - War Ina Babylon
19. Junior Byles - Beat Down Babylon
20. The Abyssinians - Satta Massagana
21. Keith Hudson - Flesh Of My Skin, Blood Of My Blood
22. Yabby You - Conquering Lion
23. The Mighty Diamonds - Right Time
24. Bob Marley & the Wailers - Catch A Fire
25. Bob Marley & the Wailers - Natty Dread
26. Pere Ubu - Dub Housing
27. Richard Hell & the Voidoids - Blank Generation
28. George Faith - To Be A Lover
29. Patti Smith – Horses
30. Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance
31. Van Morrison – Moondance
32. Harmonia – Deluxe
33. Neu! - Neu! 75
34. Alice Coltrane - Journey In Satchidananda
35. Gavin Bryars - The Sinking Of The Titanic
36. Tom Zé - Estudando O Samba
37. Burning Spear - Marcus Garvey
38. The Mystic Revelation Of Rastafari - Tales Of Mozambique
39. Max Romeo & the Upsetters - Revelation Time
40. Harmonia - Music Von Harmonia

looks like Chrome is another one that suffered from vote splitting.

if the raw data is available, could some maniac consolidate the points into an overall artist ranking?

Here's the excel file: http://www.box.net/shared/ku8ozxgd9x