ILM's Now For Something Completely Different... 70s Album Poll Results! Top 100 Countdown! (Part 2)

i think a sixties one in a very similar vein to this (only open it up to more folk stuff), limit canon where really necessary (beatles/stones/kinks/who/dylan) but not across the board (ie hendrix/velvets/dead/zappa flow freely man)(though dead's omission here seems curious now, victim to not rawking hard enough i guess to obv that fell by the wayside some)(no gainsbourg is kinda fucked up also) might work, i'd really limit to stuff that's really steeped in rock though, invite that rockist charge however much you have to, all genres is just gonna be insulting in the end. maybe just make it hippie shit and stuff that led to it, seems as good a fencepost as any i can think of right now. i think it would make sense in the end. all non-anglo seems insulting and too broad also somehow - maybe someone can tie mpb/tropicalia and forro and reggae and dub and afrobeat and highlife and whatever together, seems like you'd have some focus w/ timeline but you wouldn't have to necessitate so that outliers that fall outside of 66-79 or so wouldn't be eliminated by technicality. someone should do a eurotrash poll someday also, just the continent.

thx ag!

How would Kraftwerk qualify as non-anglo unless we're using anglo SPECIFICALLY to represent proper anglo-saxon legacies. Perhaps non-western would be a better distinction.

otm

Which would mean Russian and Eastern Euro stuff is fair game, imo.

i totally agree

oops voted for bad reputation twice, think one of them was supposed to be jailbreak. in any case i'm afraid we're gonna have to do this all over again.

split after 25. this is another v. rushed ballot due to ~events~ that prevented proper listening/selection, though the only additions (so far, ha) would've been Ash Ra/LRD, Fela, Miles, Pop Group (weird omission), JB + Maggot Brain + a bit more krautrock (no love f/AOR + burnt out on Zep + Sabbath from 70s/80s saturation-bombing airplay).

1) V/A - No New York
2) PIL - Metal Box
3) Black Flag - The First Four Years
4) Throbbing Gristle - The First Annual Report
5) Teenage Jesus and the Jerks - Beirut Slump: Shut Up and Bleed
6) Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
7) Suicide - Suicide
8) Jandek - Ready For The House
9) DNA - DNA on DNA
10) Iggy & The Stooges - Raw Power
11) Throbbing Gristle - 20 Jazz Funk Greats
12) Mars - The Complete Studio Recordings NYC 1977-1978
13) Destroy All Monsters - 1974 1976
14) Cabaret Voltaire - Mix-Up
15) Chrome - Alien Soundtracks
16) Chrome - Half Machine Lip Moves
17) DAF - Ein Produkt der Deutsch-Amerikanischen Freundschaft
18) SPK - Auto-Da-Fe
19) James Chance & The Contortions - Buy
20) The Stooges - Fun House
21) Throbbing Gristle - D.O.A. - The Third and Final Report
22) Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music
23) Notekillers - Notekillers 1977-1981
24) Gang of Four - Entertainment!
25) Theoretical Girls - Theoretical Record

26) Black Flag - Everything Went Black
27) Buzzcocks - A Different Kind of Tension
28) Buzzcocks - Another Music In A Different Kitchen
29) Buzzcocks - Love Bites
30) Cabaret Voltaire - Extended Play
31) Can - Ege Bamyasi
32) Can - Future Days
33) Circle X - Live in Dijon ‘79
34) Circle X - s/t
35) Dan Graham & The Static - At Riverside Studios London, 2/24/79
36) Destroy All Monsters - Bored
37) Germs - G.I.
38) Glaxo Babies - Dreams Interrupted: The Bewilderbeat Years 1978-1980
39) Glenn Branca - Songs '77-'79
40) Jack Ruby - s/t
41) James White and the Blacks - Off White
42) Kleenex - Liliput
43) Les Rallizes Dénudés - '77 Live
44) Metal Urbain - Les hommes morts sont dangereux
45) Misfits - Static Age
46) Monitor - Beak
47) MX-80 Sound - Hard Attack
48) Negative Trend - s/t
49) Nervous Gender - Live at the Hong Kong Cafe 1979
50) Neu! - Neu! 75
51) Robert Rental & The Normal - Live at West Runton Pavilion, 6/3/79
52) Rocket From The Tombs - The Day The Earth Met The Rocket From The Tombs
53) Rosa Yemen - s/t
54) Screamers – In A Better World
55) Siouxsie & the Banshees - The Scream
56) Sleepers - s/t EP
57) Swell Maps - A Trip To Marineville
58) Television - Marquee Moon
59) The Damned - Damned Damned Damned
60) The Fall - 77-Early Years-79
61) The Fall - Dragnet
62) The Fall - Live at the Witch Trials
63) The Residents - The Third Reich 'n Roll
64) The Slits - Cut
65) The Units - History Of The Units The Early Years: 1977-1983
66) This Heat - This Heat
67) Thomas Leer & Robert Rental - The Bridge
68) Tubeway Army - Tubeway Army
69) Tuxedomoon - No Tears
70) Urinals - Negative Capability...Check It Out!
71) V/A - 135 Grand Street, New York, NY, 1979
72) Vertical Slit - Slit & Pre-Slit
73) Wire - 154
74) Wire - Chairs Missing
75) Wire - Pink Flag

Eastern Euro stuff

And I don't mean krautrock and prog.

Ah, I had read "non-Anglo" as "non-Anglophone".

How would Kraftwerk qualify as non-anglo unless we're using anglo SPECIFICALLY to represent proper anglo-saxon legacies. Perhaps non-western would be a better distinction.

I was meaning "non-English language". But I would be equally happy to go for a stricter definition.

xp

Ah, I had read "non-Anglo" as "non-Anglophone".

Gotcha.

Can I get my ballot sent to me,plz?

Non-anglophone would rule out all of the reggae/dub/ska that was the start point of this hypothetical poll

- Bob Marley

typical how you all want to get rid of the black music and just keep i to white dudes with synths!!! ;)

Non-anglophone would rule out all of the reggae/dub/ska that was the start point of this hypothetical poll

True. So... not from the UK, US, or Western Europe?

Or if u cd AG post my ballot too plz?

Men At Work ftw xp

743 Skull Snaps - Skull Snaps

^ what is this mark?

blimey .. good spot !

tis stripped back funk.
amazed that AG didn't rep for this to be honest ..
got a reissue a couple of years ago ..
the cover is not representative ..
its very 70s funk.

more detail : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skull_Snaps

Oh okay, thanks Mark! Not even heard of that before, smart cover though.

xxxxp

ffs already voted f/ LRD, but wd smash Brainticket/Mahavishnu.

Bold = top 100, normal = top 500, italic = outside the top 500

RANKED:
La Dusseldorf - La Dusseldorf
Slapp Happy - Acnalbasac Noom
Can - Ege Bamyasi
Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets
Residents - Meet the Residents
Faust - Faust IV
Can - Tago Mago
Brainticket - Cottonwoodhill
Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance
Devo - Q: Are we not men ? A: We Are Devo
Jandek - Ready For The House
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Faust - Faust
Neu! - s/t
Neu! 2
The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers
Comus - First Utterance
This Heat - This Heat
Nurse With Wound - Chance Meeting On A Dissecting Table Of A Sewing Machine And An Umbrella
Suicide - Suicide
Throbbing Gristle - 20 Jazz funk Greats
Funkadelic - Cosmic Slop
Goblin - Suspiria
Kleenex - Liliput

UNRANKED:
A Certain Ratio - The Graveyard And The Ballroom
Amon Düül II - Made In Germany
Amon Düül II - Yeti
Aphrodite's Child - 666
Ash Ra Tempel - Schwingungen
Barış Manço - 2023
Betty Davis - Betty Davis
Big Star - #1 Record
Black Widow - Sacrifice
Bobby Beausoleil - Lucifer Rising OST
Brainticket - Psychonaut
Buzzcocks - Spiral Scratch
Cabaret Voltaire - Extended Play
Can - Future Days
Can - Soon Over Babaluma
Can - Soundtracks
Cosmic Jokers - Cosmic Jokers
Curtis Mayfield - Curtis
DAF - Ein Produkt der Deutsch-Amerikanischen Freundschaft
David Bowie - Aladdin Sane
Desperate Bicycles - Another Commercial Venture
Edgar Broughton Band - Sing Brother Sing
Emtidi - Saat
Etron Fou Leloublan - Batelages
Far East Family Band - Parallel World
Faust - Tapes
Faust - So Far
Flower Travellin' Band - Satori
Gang of Four - Entertainment!
Gary Wilson - You Think You Really Know Me
Glaxo Babies - Dreams Interrupted: The Bewilderbeat Years 1978-1980
Hawkwind - Space Ritual
Jean-Claude Vannier - L'enfant assassin des mouches
Kraftwerk - I
Kraftwerk - II
La Dusseldorf - Viva
Las Grecas - Gipsy Rock
Laser Pace - Granfaloon
Lene Lovich - Stateless
Les Rallizes Dénudés - '77 Live
Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music
Magazine - Secondhand Daylight
Magma - Mekanïk Destruktïw Kommandöh
Magma - Udu Wudu
Mandrill - Mandrill Is
MC5 - Back in the USA
Miles Davis - Agharta
Nina Hagen Band - Nina Hagen Band
Os Mutantes - A Divina Comedia ou Ando Meio Desligado
Os Mutantes - Os Mutantes
Parliament - Mothership Connection
PIL - Metal Box
Popol Vuh - Coeur de Verre
Selda - Selda
Soft Machine - Third
Sparks - Kimono My House
Speed, Glue & Shinki - S/T
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks - s/t
Television - Marquee Moon
The Desperate Bicycles - Remorse Code
The Fall - Dragnet
The Fall - Live at the Witch Trials
The Monochrome Set - Black & White Minstrels 1975-1979
The Pop Group - Y
The Raincoats - s/t
The Residents - The Third Reich 'n Roll
The Slits - Cut
Theoretical Girls - Theoretical Record
Thomas Leer & Robert Rental - The Bridge
Univers Zero - Heresie
Walter Wegmuller - Tarot
Wire - Pink Flag
Wreckless Eric - The Wonderful World of Wreckless Eric
X-Ray Spex - Germ Free Adolescents
Ya Ho Wha 13 - Penetration: An Aquarian Symphony
Yoko Ono - Fly

skull snaps was one of the most expensive collectible break records back in the '90s or whenever, wasn't it?

like the rarest most collectible shit before people really started digging into weirdo library records & stuff

skull snaps was one of the most expensive collectible break records back in the '90s or whenever, wasn't it?

so i've been told ..

and the fact is that the album is good ... but not that good !

not heard it

you would have if you were a funk fan

what are these emil.y?

Etron Fou Leloublan - Batelages
Black Widow - Sacrifice
Las Grecas - Gipsy Rock
Laser Pace - Granfaloon

what about the placing of those Chrome albums hellhouse/EIII?

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, March 28, 2013 6:03 PM (3 hours ago)

predictable, unlike everything else in this poll

thx for the wild ride, dude

it was the greatest of pleasures and I hope everyone finds new albums on it for a long while to come! Im sure I will.

what are these emil.y?

Etron Fou Leloublan - Batelages

French rock-in-opposition outfit, avant-garde satirists and weirdos. Friends with Henry Cow, iirc.

Black Widow - Sacrifice

Leicester's finest occult rock outfit. If you didn't catch it placing in the tracks poll, be sure to check out 'Come to the Sabbat'.

Las Grecas - Gipsy Rock

Spanish, female-fronted, light-ish rock-pop? Recommended by Johnny Fever a few years ago, it's a pretty charming record.

Laser Pace - Granfaloon

Oddball psych w/ touch of prog, there's a thread on ilx where I believe skott introduced everyone to it, and I think ilx may have been somehow involved with it getting a re-release? It's excellent, anyway, and probably the one out of these four I'd most recommend (though obviously I'd recommend them all, I voted for them).

I'm assuming the EFLel's are not on Spotify?

I'm not on spotify, so I dunno!

pop in http://plug.dj/ilxors/ ppl be going through faves from the poll now (and usual weirdo stuff)

Etron Fou Leloublan - Batelages
http://open.spotify.com/album/18PCzvSkP3L9JKykNfsO7Z
spotify:album:18PCzvSkP3L9JKykNfsO7Z

about to play that black widow track in plug btw

AG can you send me my ballot?

I know what I voted for but lost my rankings in an unfortunate sorting incident

also you should do a 60s poll so I can vote for monster movie

ONLY MALCOLM MOONEY IS REAL

meant to do an unweighted ballot but i think i blew it before submitting. i also regret having voted for satori, it feels like the dumbest #1 ever.

A Certain Ratio - The Graveyard And The Ballroom
Amon Düül II - Yeti
Area - Crac!
Arti & Mestieri - Tilt
Black Merda - Black Merda
Black Oak Arkansas - High on the Hog
Black Widow - Sacrifice
Blues Creation - Demon & Eleven Children
Brainticket - Cottonwoodhill
Buffalo - Volcanic Rock
Can - Future Days
Chico Magnetic Band - Chico Magnetic Band
Christian Vander - Wurdah Itah
Chrome - Half Machine Lip Moves
Cos - Postaeolian Train Robbery
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Cosmo's Factory
Cymande - Cymande
David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
Dead Boys - Young, Loud, and Snotty
Debris - Static Disposal
Dr. Feelgood - Down By The Jetty
Eddie & The Hot Rods - Teenage Depression
El Chicano - Revolución
Embryo - Opal
Etron Fou Leloublan - Batelages
Far East Family Band - Parallel World
Flower Travellin' Band - Satori
Focus - Moving Waves
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
German Oak - German Oak
Gila - Gila / Free Electric Sound
Gong - You
Grand Funk Railroad - Closer to Home
Guru Guru - UFO
Hairy Chapter - Can't Get Through
Henry Cow - Unrest
Iggy & The Stooges - Raw Power
Isley Brothers - The Heat Is On
James Chance & The Contortions – Buy
Japan - Adolescent Sex
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
King Crimson - Red
Magazine - Real Life
Magma - Köhntarkösz
Magma - Mekanïk Destruktïw Kommandöh
Mahavishnu Orchestra - birds of fire
Malo - Malo
Mandrill - Mandrill
Mink DeVille - Cabretta
Morly Grey - The Only Truth
Mountain - Nantucket Sleighride
MX-80 Sound - Hard Attack
Nina Hagen Band - Nina Hagen Band
Ohio Players - Honey
Osibisa - Osibisa
Pau Riba - Electroccid Accid Alquimistic Xoc
Pere Ubu - Dub Housing
Picchio dal Pozzo - Picchio dal Pozzo
PIL - Metal Box
Ramones - Leave Home
Raven - Back to Ohio Blues
Richard Hell and the Voidoids - Blank Generation
Robert Fripp - Exposure
Rufus & Chaka Khan - Rufusized
Salem Mass - Witch Burning
Sapo - Sapo
Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks
Silberbart - 4 Times Sound Razing
Simply Saucer - Cyborgs Revisited
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Join Hands
Sir Lord Baltimore - s/t
Slapp Happy - Acnalbasac Noom
Subway Sect - We Oppose All Rock & Roll
Swamp Dogg - Total Destruction to Your Mind
Television - Marquee Moon
The Beat - The Beat
The Beginning of the End - Funky Nassau
The Cure - Three Imaginary Boys
The Damned - Damned Damned Damned
The Dictators - Go Girl Crazy!
The Jam - In the City
The Last - L.A. Explosion!
The Monochrome Set - Black & White Minstrels 1975-1979
The Only Ones - The Only Ones
The Pop Group - Y
The Quick - Mondo Deco
The Residents - Duck Stab/Buster & Glen
The Slits - Cut
The Stranglers - No More Heroes
The Undertones - Teenage Kicks
The Wild Magnolias - The Wild Magnolias
Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
Tower of Power - Back to Oakland
Truth & Janey - No Rest For The Wicked
Twinkeyz - Aliens In Our Midst
War - The World Is a Ghetto
Wire - Chairs Missing
X-Ray Spex - Germ Free Adolescents
XTC - White Music
Yoko Ono - Fly

btw i still say id do a 60s poll first but there would eventually be a 90s rock poll for those wanting one. Maybe late on in year, if not def next year. it all depends on timing.

what won

bay city rollers

otm lads, otm

Here's the final full spotify playlist:

http://open.spotify.com/user/olken2000/playlist/5sdu93N2DjKkDk0NMe6sFH

Direct Link to poll recap & full results

ta

lol who that fucj are all these bands, lol ilx

see yis again for the 60's one

very satisfying poll from beginning to end. hugely informative and sure to provide many new revelations well into the future. also, gratifying to see a lot of my favourites get their dues.

otm charlie ...

idk, there's basically no *rock* pre-65 in the sense these polls are structured so i'm fine with skipping the 60s poll myself.