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(hey Dan how do you think GAPDYX--sans G--made it on the top 10 last year. ILX polls are MAGICAL!)

GAPDYX should be called NODIX.

Sad Wings far, far too low. Like stupidly low. I don't like you all now.

― EZ Snappin, Thursday, August 12, 2010 7:55 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

^^^this

lol

GAPDYX made it to the top 10 because a lot of people genuinely like those bands; those results didn't surprise me at all. It's really easy to see several vociferous haters and just assume that everyone else agrees with them, or to take burnout by critics on an album as an indicator of burnout by the listeners but there's really no correlation in either case.

it's a fucking chore to sit through

^ this. See also: Presence, which is at least more varied.

see this poll is just making me want to pick up all of the LZ albums because I only ever owned IV on cassette and I keep being reminded that pretty much all of them have fucking amazing songs on them

actually I had a copy of II back in high school and I'm sorry but if you think something with "Ramble On" and "Whole Lotta Love" is a chore to sit through, you are not actually human

Zep II was my first Zep album, bought used for 50¢ in 1981. Played it to death for years, and don't need to hear it to bring track after track to mind. Definitely burned out on it (and didn't vote for it) but I still recall it fondly.

(lol I was going to follow up with "so sez the dude who forgot to vote for Led Zepplin II" but looking back on my ballot, I did)

(also I'm going out on a very creaky limb and predicting that IV is going to be #1)

If there is any justice Black Sabbath's self-titled debut should be #1.

what are the chances more Rush is going to pop up on here?

*Headbanging in my cube to "What Is and What Should Never Be"*

55
Boris · Heavy Rocks (2002) (550 Points, 15 votes)
http://www.metal-archives.com/images/2/6/4/4/26447.jpg

One of their best. Good entry point to the Boris catalog.

Pink obviously still to come.

I wonder if Absolutego will place, though?

Oh, for fucks sake.

Bill, did you vote for Absolutego?

Another one? Wow - every Boris fan in the world is apparently on ILM. I learned something from this poll after all.

God, it's so great to see some non-American metal bands on this poll.

and bands with females in it too!!

Seriously, it was looking like an American sausage fest in here for a while.

^ new board description?

Crazy American bands like Led Zeppelin and Iron Maiden.

Not enough dogs on the thread.

Good question, actually. A casual count comes up with something like a third non-American? Maybe more? Then again, I didn't want to assume every black metal band comes from Europe, so for all I know all that hard stuff will up the foreign (non-American) quotient.

54 Motörhead · No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith () (551 Points, 13 votes)
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd700/d705/d705961b535.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/6OOullC4UXy9DlXzje5dhR

AMERICA NUMBER 1 YEAH GO YANKEES!

Most of the bands previously unknown to me have turned out to be from The States when I investigate them.

xpost

chap is a happy chap with these poll results though ! so yay for chap!

Hooray!

Something I've been wondering all along in these polls, where are the Motorhead fans Did primal scream covering them put ilxors off?

This is one of the all time great American metal albums.

stop stealing Henry's schtick!

great American metal

Oxymoron?

This and Overkill and Ace Of Spades, seems well enough represented, though I prefer Bomber over the live one.

53 Agalloch · Ashes Against the Grain (2006) (553 Points, 15 votes)
http://www.metal-archives.com/images/1/1/3/1/113100.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/6S3IZ2TxLgK92Rxo7XzayI

Good one from my shelf. I need to play this album more, though.

Great album by a great band.

jj check email

slayingest song from that album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuPz7cMD3qs

^^^really, really slays

OK, digging that.

chay you gonna be a happier chap kinda soon, so hang around

Awesome song upthread, thanks LJ.

lj go here view youtubes Sleepytime Gorilla Museum?

ok yes let's do that

52 Led Zeppelin · Physical Graffiti (1975) (570 Points, 13 votes)
http://uploads.neatorama.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/PhysGraf.jpg

More cutting edge modern metal spoiling our awesome countdown

Dear "A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste,"

Please show up soon.

Thanks!

Dear Josh,

Please check album 253.

Thanks!

Also Heartwork please.

yeah you know what? polls dont take requests.