Now this is how it started: THE ILX 1980s ALBUM POLL RESULTS!!

damn i forgot The Pretenders got shafted on this poll, makes me more pissed about Algerian un-nominating them from his poll

what? the pretenders got unnominated from the 1980s rock poll?

yes, a couple people nominated their albums and Algerian Goalpostmover nixed them

It's his poll, I guess.

oh yeah i know, i said the same thing myself in that thread, just griping that one of my fav albums of the 80s is in a weird middle ground where it's not adequately appreciated in either

I take it "London Calling" got nixed for the same reason?

London Calling got nixed because it was released in 1979 in the UK. I don't know how that works. Maybe it was time zones.

'in time for christmas 1979' yes. Guess they weren't expecting the "greatest album of the eighties, oh wait.." accolades.

The Prets were Jan 1980 though..

Nice poll, Tuomas.

Though I imagined De la Soul might have had more support.

(I only just realised such a poll had had a roll-out thread. I recall voting in the earlier equivalent that mysteriously wasn't tallied up, c.2005)

I'm still salty about Peter Gabriel III not making this poll. By all means, we must make room for both Hatful of Hollow AND Louder Than Bombs!

jf you could always rerun it