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

woah notekillers! This is amazing

love the version of "house rent boogie" on endless boogie, esp around 4 minutes in when it takes off into space

http://youtu.be/synGK_GIFcY

hey johnny! my wife is acting a little funny
yeah? everybody funny, you funny too

wray's three track shack is a bundle of link wray / beans & fatback / mordicai jones

guess I shoulda nommed 'em individually but they're all great in their own way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfk6UAou77o

Here is my not very rock list. It's weighted but I'd already make a lot of changes.

Roxy Music - Roxy Music
Curtis Mayfield - Curtis
Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets
Sparks - Kimono My House
The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers
Funkadelic - Standing On The Verge Of Getting It On
Curtis Mayfield - Theres No Place Like America Today
Television - Marquee Moon
Roxy Music - Stranded
Devo - Q: Are we not men ? A: We Are Devo
Pere Ubu - Dub Housing
Curtis Mayfield - Superfly
Parliament - Mothership Connection
Big Star - Radio City
War - All Day Music
Parliament - Funkentelechy Vs. the Placebo Syndrome
Magazine - Real Life
Can - Future Days
Earth, Wind & Fire - Earth, Wind & Fire
Sly & The Family Stone - There's A Riot Goin' On
Sparks - A Woofer In Tweeter's Clothing
Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
Buzzcocks - A Different Kind of Tension
Chairmen Of The Board - Skin I'm In
Cymande - Cymande
Meters - Rejuvenation
Ian Dury - New Boots and Panties
Parliament - Up For The Down Stroke
Cameo - Cardiac Arrest
War - The World Is a Ghetto
Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance
Todd Rundgren - A Wizard, A True Star
Rufus & Chaka Khan - Rufusized
Wire - Chairs Missing
Isley Brothers - Live It Up
Wire - Pink Flag
David Bowie - Aladdin Sane
Shuggie Otis - Inspiration Information
Iggy Pop - Lust for Life
Isley Brothers - 3+3
Mandrill - Mandrill Is
Can - Ege Bamyasi
Cheap Trick - Cheap Trick
Sly Stone - High On You
Lene Lovich - Stateless
B.T. Express - Do It Til You're Satisfied
T. Rex - The Slider
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
La Dusseldorf - La Dusseldorf
Sly & The Family Stone - Fresh
Iggy Pop - The Idiot
Can - Soon Over Babaluma
Faust - Faust IV
Magazine - Secondhand Daylight
The Adverts - Crossing the Red Sea with the Adverts
Neu! 2
Ohio Players - Honey
David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
Funkadelic - Cosmic Slop
The Residents - Duck Stab/Buster & Glen
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Kool & The Gang - Spirit Of The Boogie
Neil Young - Zuma
Isley Brothers - The Heat Is On
Ramones - Leave Home
X-Ray Spex - Germ Free Adolescents
Queen - Sheer Heart Attack
Rufus & Chaka Khan - Rags To Rufus
Wipers - Is This Real
Television - Adventure
The Clash - s/t
Bootsy's Rubber Band - Stretchin' Out In Bootsy's Rubber Band
The Lafayette Afro Rock Band - Soul Makossa
Baby Huey & The Babysitters- The Baby Huey Story
Big Star - #1 Record
Kool And The Gang - Wild & Peaceful
La Dusseldorf - Viva
Mandrill - Composite Truth
Neu! - Neu! 75
Gang of Four - Entertainment!
Jobriath - Creatures Of The Street
Iggy & The Stooges - Raw Power
PIL - Metal Box
Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band - Clear Spot
Slave - The Concept
Cheap Trick - Heaven Tonight
Brass Construction - Brass Construction
Patti Smith - Horses
The Temptations - Psychedelic Shack
The Raincoats - s/t
The Undertones - s/t
Ultravox! - Ha! Ha! Ha!
Ultravox! - s/t
XTC - White Music
Buzzcocks - Another Music In A Different Kitchen
Tower of Power - Tower Of Power
Ramones - Rocket To Russia
The Fall - Live at the Witch Trials

nice job putting the s/t Roxy Music at number 1, KP!

Thanks. It's one of my five favourite albums ever.

hey KP some quality funk in the 502-600 range.

AG, you don't happen to have my list do you? i have a shortlist here, but no trace of the actual order i ended up with. cheers

need to ask seandalai

ah ok, no worries man. i have a pretty vague notion of how it would have looked anyhow

wait i think you mighta sent me it on fb once

here's your ballot
Big Star - Radio City
Television - Marquee Moon
Roxy Music - Stranded
Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
Can - Ege Bamyasi
T. Rex - Electric Warrior
Wire - 154
Blue Öyster Cult - Secret Treaties
Rolling Stones - Exile On Main St.
King Crimson - Red
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
Miles Davis - A Tribute To Jack Johnson
Pere Ubu - Terminal Tower
PIL - Metal Box
Roxy Music - Roxy Music
Soft Machine - Third
The Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette
Alice Cooper - Killer
Os Mutantes - Os Mutantes
Neil Young - Zuma
Ramones - Rocket To Russia
Sir Lord Baltimore - Kingdom Come
T. Rex - The Slider
Tuxedomoon - No Tears
Devo - Q: Are we not men ? A: We Are Devo
Suicide - Suicide
The Fall - Dragnet
The Raincoats - s/t
Throbbing Gristle - 20 Jazz funk Greats
Wire - Chairs Missing
Ash Ra Tempel - Ash Ra Tempel
Black Sabbath - Vol. 4
Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets
Can - Future Days
Captain Beefheart - Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)
Cheap Trick - Cheap Trick
Faust - Faust IV
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
Chrome - Half Machine Lip Moves
Hawkwind - Space Ritual
Sly & The Family Stone - There's A Riot Goin' On
The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers
Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
Wipers - Is This Real
Neu! - s/t
Van der Graaf Generator – Godbluff
Amon Düül II - Yeti
AC/DC - Powerage
Big Star - #1 Record
Blues Creation - Demon & Eleven Children
Les Rallizes Dénudés - '77 Live
Pere Ubu - Dub Housing
James Brown - The Payback
Iggy & The Stooges - Raw Power
Budgie - Never Turn Your Back On A Friend
Captain Beyond - Captain Beyond
Buzzcocks - Another Music In A Different Kitchen
Black Sabbath - Sabotage
Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
Ramones - s/t
The Adverts - Crossing the Red Sea with the Adverts
Mountain - Nantucket Sleighride
Gong – The Flying Teapot, Radio Gnome Invisible Pt. 1
The Saints - I'm Stranded
Todd Rundgren - A wizard a true Star
Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny
Jimi Hendrix - Band Of Gypsys
Deep Purple - Made in Japan
Judas Priest - Unleashed In The East
King Crimson - Larks' Tongues in Aspic
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
Magma - Mekanïk Destruktïw Kommandöh
Motorhead - Overkill
Miles Davis - Agharta
New York Dolls - New York Dolls
Queen - Sheer Heart Attack
Scorpions - Fly To The Rainbow
Stiff Little Fingers - Inflammable Material
The Clash - s/t
Agitation Free - 2nd
AC / DC - Highway To Hell
Bloodrock - s/t
Buffalo - Volcanic Rock
Can - Tago Mago
Cheap Trick- Live At Budokan
Germs - G.I.
Bröselmaschine - Bröselmaschine
Arachnoid - Arachnoid
Alice Cooper - Love It to Death
Allman Brothers - Fillmore East
Buzzcocks - Spiral Scratch
Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band - lick my decals off baby
Caravan – In The Land Of The Grey & Pink
Dead Boys - Young, Loud, and Snotty
Dust - Dust
Faust - Faust
Fela Kuti – Expensive Shit
Flower Travellin' Band - Satori
David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
Peter Hammill – Over

-charlie h

thanks!

it'd be a bit different now in light of new information

Going to post full results again for those who havent seen them who will be going to work today

Direct Link to poll recap & full results

I don't think anyone can accuse the poll of being the same old canonical results :)

hey KP some quality funk in the 502-600 range.

― Algerian Goalkeeper

I somehow missed The Jimmy Castor Bunch album being nominated, would have voted for that. Any funk albums I might have missed in that section? I don't recognise all the titles.

Mixed. Bold missed the 501.

Throbbing Gristle - D.O.A. - The Third and Final Report
Sparks - Kimono My House
The Residents - The Third Reich 'n Roll
Flower Travellin' Band – Satori
Can - Tago Mago
Sly & The Family Stone - There's A Riot Goin' On
Miles Davis - Get Up With It
Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets
The Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette
Queen - Queen II
PIL - Metal Box
Suicide – Suicide
Amon Düül II - Wolf City
ZZ Top - Tres Hombres
Fela Kuti – Confusion
T. Rex - The Slider
Brainticket - Cottonwoodhill
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks - s/t
Ram Jam - Portrait of the Artist as a Young Ram
Todd Rundgren - A Wizard, A True Star
Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music
Les Rallizes Dénudés - '77 Live
Swell Maps - A Trip To Marineville
Debris - Static Disposal

Yoko Ono - Fly
Yes - Fragile
X-Ray Spex - Germ Free Adolescents
Wire - Chairs Missing
War - The World Is a Ghetto
V/A - No New York
Tonto's Exploding Head Band - Zero Time
Thomas Leer & Robert Rental - The Bridge
The Who - Who's Next
The Stooges - Fun House
The Slits - Cut
The Ruts - The Crack
The Residents - Duck Stab/Buster & Glen
Television - Marquee Moon
Tangerine Dream - Electronic Meditation
T. Rex - Electric Warrior
Sweet - Desolation Boulevard
Soft Machine - Third
Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
Rolling Stones - Exile On Main St.
Robert Fripp - Exposure
Pink Floyd - Animals
PiL - Public Image
Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance
Nurse With Wound - Chance Meeting On A Dissecting Table Of A Sewing Machine And An Umbrella
Niagara - S.U.B.
New York Dolls - New York Dolls
Neu! - s/t
Mountain - Climbing!
Modulo 1000 - Não Fale Com Paredes
Model Citizens - s/t
Misfits - Static Age
Miles Davis - Agharta
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin III
Kraftwerk - I
King Crimson - Larks' Tongues in Aspic
Judas Priest - Hell Bent for Leather
Josefus - s/t
James White and the Blacks - Off White
High Tide - s/t
Hawkwind - Space Ritual
Guru Guru - Känguru
Graham Central Station - Ain't No 'Bout-A-Doubt It
Gong - Camembert Electrique
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
Fela Kuti - Zombie
Faust - Tapes
Far Out - s/t
Devo - Hardcore Vols 1 and 2
Cymande - Cymande
Cheap Trick - Heaven Tonight
Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band - lick my decals off baby
Black Sabbath - Vol. 4
Bedemon - Child of Darkness
Ash Ra Tempel - Schwingungen
Agitation Free - Malesch
A.R. & Machines - Die grüne Reise - The Green Journey

Don't know how I missed Black Dots, would have totally voted for that. Also I should have nommed Catherine Ribeiro. Next time. Great poll!

I somehow missed The Jimmy Castor Bunch album being nominated, would have voted for that. Any funk albums I might have missed in that section? I don't recognise all the titles.

these are the ones i can tell apart. las grecas are/were a flamenco rock band but they do sound hella funky in their own peculiar way.

522 Tower of Power - Urban Renewal 366 3 0
525 Las Grecas - Gipsy Rock 362 3 0
526 The Lafayette Afro Rock Band - Soul Makossa 361 4 0
530 Tower of Power - Back to Oakland 356 3 0
535 Black Merda - Black Merda 343 3 0
538 The Wild Magnolias - The Wild Magnolias 341 3 0
570 Ofege - Ofege 291 4 0
592 Kool & The Gang - Live At The Sex Machine 263 2 0
599 The Undisputed Truth - S/T 259 2 0

^^^ plus there's like 4 Graham Central Station records strewn amongst that stretch

Thanks. I voted for one of the Tower of Power albums and The Lafayette Afro Rock Band. A few of those I've not heard of and will look into.

I mentioned earlier in the thread Graham Central Station are one of those bands I'm sure I'd like but I've just never got hearing, think I need to change that.

just catching up with the results now. Great stuff, would never have guessed Satori would win it. Vol 4 was my #1 vote. Thanks AG and FnB for a brilliant run-down, I've already discovered loads of new stuff and intend to discover more!

Thinking about the results I reckon Neil Young is the ghost at the feast. I think the top 100, and possibly the top 10, might have looked very different if all his albums had been allowed. Tonight's the Night or On the Beach might have been #1 I think. I understand why he was vetoed, just an interesting thought experiment.

some more Bowie and Kraftwerk in there could have changed the climate as well. but yeah, appreciate why they weren't in contention.

With a good dose of fusion in this poll, kind of surprised this wasn't nominated:

Jeff Beck - Wired (1976)

Beck was one of the few rockers to make the transition to jazz. His 1976 masterpiece Wired – particularly his cover of Charles Mingus’s Goodbye Pork Pie Hat – is one of the few albums you could describe as jaw-dropping and mean it. Entirely instrumental, and at just under 35 minutes comparatively short, Wired is an album that passes in a blur of high-speed funk, ultra-heavy technoflash guitar solos and thrilling power chords. Yes, it’s Beck shamelessly showing off, but it’s hardly self-indulgent. It’s like a shopping list of musical ideas and directions, each of which could have spawned an entire album in its own right. Marvellous. -- Tommy Udo, Classic Rock

Found this while trying to find Udo's feature on Christian Vander & Magma that was in the Prog issue in '09, Life, the universe and everything, which doesn't seem to be online.

I thought I posted this last night but it didn't take?

When I was typing in Greil Marcus' review of Pink Flag I found this:

The Pirates - Out Of Their Skulls (WB, 1977)

I confess an affection for the Pirates' first American album, Out of Their Skulls, that far exceeds its critical worth. A three-piece band of the British pub-rock persuasion, the Pirates have been around since the early Sixties. Now they are picking up pedantic bits from R&B standards and pummeling them into the New Wave format.

Mindful that R&B is an old genre that's found a new audience, this outfit orchestrates like an electric washboard ensemble. NO horns, no strings, no fancy harmonies. "Drinkin' Win Spo'D'O'D"--a clever misspelling--is a strong indication of the Pirates' roots; the song's been recorded by practically every R&B artist worth his bourbon. The Pirates jumble its beat but leave its dancing spirit intact, perhaps even enhanced, with their enthusiasm.

Lead singer Johnny Spence (in the instant tradition of Richard Hell and Tom Robinson) growls and gargles as if he'd swallowed a luffa mitt and is enjoying the sensation of relieving its itch. On both the live and studio sides of the LP, the lyrics and guitarist Mick Green's passion for repetition make less sense than the heady emotions they actually convey. Green plays simultaneous lead and rhythm guitar in a sharp, choppy manner that reminds me of John Lennon. (Who influenced whom?)

At any rate, the Pirates are providing joy and sustenance, and Out of Their Skulls is a record that will outlive its value as mere "product." Like they say: "We'll be together/Till the very last show." Amen. -- Susan Shapiro, RS

Uh, what tha f...?????

I mean.... sorta speechless here

"Satori"? I've heard it. It's quite good. In fact, it's good but...

Seems like a certain constituency on ILM voted in this poll. It's a rock poll, though, so fair enough but then why have Curtis Mayfield in it?

I reckon Neil Young is the ghost at the feast. I think the top 100, and possibly the top 10, might have looked very different if all his albums had been allowed.

Ummmmmmmmmm, what's that all about?

Anyway, I'm really out of the loop as to what da kidz are rating these days

Eh, well, it was AG's vision for his poll and the people who voted had to go along with it. But technically it wasn't "a rock poll", rather a "Hard 'n' Heavy 'n' Loud + Krautrock, Arty, Noisy, Weird, Funky, Punky Shit" poll.

for kitchen person

504 Graham Central Station - Release Yourself 397 4 0
507 Black Nasty - Talking To The People 390 5 0
530 Tower of Power - Back to Oakland 356 3 0
535 The Next Morning - The Next Morning 343 3 0
545 Graham Central Station - Mirror 333 3 0
559 Fela Kuti - Gentleman 308 2 0
560 Graham Central Station - Graham Central Station 306 3 0
561 Fela Kuti - Shuffering and Shmiling 305 2 0
576 Graham Central Station - My Radio Sure Sounds Good To Me 284 3 0
592 Kool & The Gang - Live At The Sex Machine 263 2 0

Tom D now you got over the shock of the results are there any albums the poll has made you want to hear?

hey thx for the pirates review fastnbulbous, one of the few 70s reviews itt that actually gets it right! they have a great live album too.

I don't think it's that hard to understand how satori won. There was no vote splitting for one. On the nominations thread I talked about how Made in Japan has some of my favorite songs of theirs, but Satori is clearly their best album. With bands like Black Sabbath or Can it's almost arbitrary what gets picked because I think most will agree they have multiple equally great albums. Satori is also fairly accessible and not as divisive as some of the other "Hard 'n' Heavy 'n' Loud + Krautrock, Arty, Noisy, Weird, Funky, Punky Shit" that got nominated. And only one person chose it as #1 so it's not like a lot of people were wildly overrating it, it's just that many people ranked it.

a triumph for AG's philosophy: "campaign, campaign, campaign"

john cale got shafted eh

Well, whatever anyone says, it's really a rock poll, it's not a best album of the 70s poll. Unless somebody has a better explanation for "Paris 1919", "Desertshore" or "Rock Bottom" not being in there at all. Or lack of electronic music.

Tom D now you got over the shock of the results are there any albums the poll has made you want to hear?

There's a few I hadn't heard of before but I am not filled with an urgent desire to go out and listen to "Argus" by Wishbone Ash, for example. Overall, poll doesn't really reflect my tastes. Didn't realise people still liked Joy Division!

There had already been two best album of the 70s polls and most didn't want another version of that just to reaffirm 'canon'. People asked for a poll in the style of last years 80s poll- The ILM 1980s Anti-Rolling Stone Canon (FREE PUSSY RIOT) Rock Poll Results - ALBUMS! Top 20! ends today . (which I assume you saw, Tom?) Which tbh wasn't possible so this was as close as possible and most voted in the spirit of the 80s poll.

Don't remember that poll, anyway you know I'm not that interested in these mega polls, I mean There had already been two best album of the 70s polls, say no more.

Anyway if you read upthread , *if I do a 60s poll next(in a couple of months maybe) it will likely be an all-genre poll rather than a rock poll (though it's possible people may still vote in the rock spirit of these polls)

*johnny fever may decide to do the poll himself as he mentioned a 60s poll first apparently so I wont steal it from him as that wouldn't be fair.

Don't remember that poll, anyway you know I'm not that interested in these mega polls, I mean There had already been two best album of the 70s polls, say no more.

― Step not on a loose unforgiving stone on a pyramid to paradise (Tom D.),

and all 3 had different results.

Yeah well good luck with those 60s polls, but I'm not voting in those either! I found a list I'd made up for a best album of 70s poll but I don't think I ever sent it in. It was also mysteriously short on some of my favourite albums, so there may have been some strict rules about what was in or out.

Oh and by the way, have people just not heard "Kill City" or something?

Well that is why there are nominations threads - so you can nominate all you want to vote for. And unlike other polls I have no limits on nominations.

It's interesting to see where the zeitgeist is

Didn't realise people still liked Joy Division!

otm. or the fall.

the zeitgeist is with spotify, i'd posit. how many people would have tracked down a copy of satori? i wouldn't have. i didn't vote for it either, but i only heard it because it was on spotify.

winners:

j. cope
spotify
sabbath
satori

i feel similarly detached from caring about the actual results because the concept still seems kinda weird to me -- it's what makes this a contest rather than a survey, and personally i tend to prefer surveys to contests. but that's because i'm not into the "insider sports"/influence jockeying angle of music enjoyment. i can see how it would be enjoyable for those people.

lol did you miss the 2 films & ~300 books that popped up in recent years? Joy div are an industry, man. xp

(I like em)

imho a poll like this is just a fun way of being exposed to new music. kerr could've started a thread called "70s albums that rock" but probably wouldn't have gotten the same level of participation or enthusiasm. judging the poll on the only metric that matters to me - the quantity of new music i was exposed to - i think it was a huge success. i don't really care about whether it meaningfully represents any serious kind of consensus or zeitgest tho.