VERILY, IT'S THE ILX 1980s ALBUM POLL VOTING THREAD! Voting ends on Sunday, November 22nd.

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For those of you who might have missed the nomination thread: this is a poll where we vote for the best albums of the 1980s. An 1980s singles poll was already done a few years ago, but the album poll was never finished back then, so we are doing it now. Before I post the list of nominations, here are the instructions for the poll...

INSTRUCTIONS

1) This is an email ballot. Send your vote in an email to this address: lixnixn[at]yahoo[dot]co[dot]uk. Put the text "ILX 1980s POLL" in your email title, so I know it's not spam.

2) Please include your ILX username to your email. This is to avoid vote rigging. If I start to get a lot of emails with no ILX username in them, I'll have to disqualify them.

3) You can vote for the maximum of 30 albums. You can choose either an ordered ballot or an unordered one. If you choose an ordered ballot, the points will be allotted like so:

1st place: 40 points
2nd place: 30 points
3rd place: 25 points
4th place: 20 points
5th place: 15 points
6-10th places: 11 points each
11-15th places: 8 points each
16-20th places: 6 points each
21-25th places: 5 points each
26-30th places: 4 points each

If you send an unordered ballot, the albums on the list will all get 10 points each. Thus, if you vote for 30 albums, you have the total amount of 300 points to allot. If you want to send an ordered ballot, please number the album list. An unnumbered list will be automatically interpreted as an unordered ballot.

4) You may vote for less than 30 albums, but the points will still be alloted according to the system above. For example, if you send an unordered ballot with 15 albums, they will all get 10 points, not 20.

5) You may only vote for the albums on the nomination list. Any votes for albums that are not on the list will be ignored.

6) The voting time ends on Sunday, November 22nd, at midnight GMT. Any ballots sent after that will not be counted.

7) If there's a tie between albums, the total number of votes an album has received will be the tiebreaker. If it's still a tie, the number of #1 votes will be the second tiebreaker.

Here is the list of nominations:

A

ABBA - The Visitors
ABC - The Lexicon of Love
Accept - Balls to the Wall
AC/DC - Back in Black
AC/DC - For Those About to Rock We Salute You
Adam and the Ants - Kings of the Wild Frontier
Age of Chance - One Thousand Years of Trouble
A-ha - Hunting High and Low
American Music Club - California
Laurie Anderson - Big Science
Laurie Anderson - Strange Angels
A.R. Kane - 69
A.R. Kane - “i”
The Art of Noise - (Who's Afraid of?) the Art of Noise
Associates - Sulk
Virginia Astley - From Gardens Where We Feel Secure
The Au Pairs - Playing with a Different Sex
Aztec Camera - High Land, Hard Rain

B

The B-52's - Cosmic Thing
The B-52’s - Wild Planet
Bad Brains - s/t
Bad Brains - I Against I
Bad Brains - Rock for Light
Anita Baker - Rapture
The Bangles - Different Light
Bauhaus - Burning from the Inside
Bauhaus - In the Flat Field
Bauhaus - Mask
Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
Heidi Berry - Below the Waves
Bhundu Boys - Shabini
Big Audio Dynamite - Megatop Phoenix
Big Black - Atomizer
Big Black - Songs About Fucking
The Birthday Party - s/t
The Birthday Party - Prayers on Fire
Black Flag - Damaged
The Blue Nile - Hats
The Blue Nile - A Walk Across the Rooftops
Boogie Down Productions - Ghetto Music: The Blueprint of Hip Hop
Boredoms - Soul Discharge
David Bowie - Scary Monsters
Billy Bragg - Talking with the Taxman About Poetry
Glenn Branca - The Ascension
Bronski Beat - Truthdare Doubledare
Harold Budd / Elizabeth Fraser / Robin Guthrie / Simon Raymonde - The Moon and the Melodies
Buggles - Adventures in Modern Recording
Kate Bush - The Dreaming
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
Kate Bush - The Sensual World
Butthole Surfers - Locust Abortion Technician
Butthole Surfers - Psychic...Powerless...Another Man's Sac

C

Cabaret Voltaire - Micro-Phonies
Cabaret Voltaire - Red Mecca
Cactus World News - Urban Beaches
John Cale - Music for a New Society
Cameo - Word Up!
Camper Van Beethoven - Key Lime Pie
Camper Van Beethoven - Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart
Can - Delay 1968
Nuno Canavarro - Plux Quba
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - Doc at the Radar Station
Cardiacs - A Little Man and a House and the Whole World Window
Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion
George Carlin - A Place for My Stuff!
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - From Her to Eternity
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Your Funeral...My Trial
A Certain Ratio - Sextet
Change - The Glow of Love
Chic - Real People
Chris & Cosey - Heartbeat
The Chameleons - Script of the Bridge
The Chameleons - Strange Times
The Chameleons - What Does Anything Mean? Basically
The Chills - Brave Words
The Chills - Kaleidoscope World
The Church - Starfish
The Clash - Sandinista!
Close Lobsters - Foxheads Stalk This Land
Cocteau Twins - Blue Bell Knoll
Cocteau Twins - Head Over Heels
Cocteau Twins - Treasure
Cocteau Twins - Victorialand
Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man
Leonard Cohen - Various Positions
Coil - Horse Rotorvator
Lloyd Cole and the Commotions - Rattlesnakes
Phil Collins - No Jacket Required
Colourbox - s/t
Comsat Angels - Sleep No More
Sam Cooke - Live at the Harlem Square Club 1963
Julian Cope - Saint Julian
Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Blood & Chocolate
Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Get Happy!!
Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Imperial Bedroom
Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Trust
John Cougar - American Fool
John Cougar Mellencamp - Scarecrow
Cowboy Junkies - The Trinity Session
The Cramps - Psychedelic Jungle
The Cramps - Songs the Lord Taught Us
Crass - Penis Envy
Marshall Crenshaw - s/t
Julee Cruise - Floating Into the Night
The Cult - Love
The Cure - Disintegration
The Cure - Faith
The Cure - The Head on the Door
The Cure - Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
The Cure - Pornography
The Cure - Seventeen Seconds
The Cure - Standing on a Beach / Staring at the Sea: The Singles

D

The dB's - Like This
The dB's - Repercussion
De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising
Dead Can Dance - The Serpent's Egg
Dead Kennedys - Plastic Surgery Disasters
DeBarge - In a Special Way
Def Leppard - Hysteria
Def Leppard - Pyromania
Depeche Mode - Black Celebration
Depeche Mode - Construction Time Again
Depeche Mode - Music for the Masses
Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward
Descendents - Milo Goes to College
Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Mambo Nassau
Devo - Freedom of Choice
Devo - Oh, No! It's Devo
Dexy's Midnight Runners - Don't Stand Me Down
Dexy’s Midnight Runners - Searching for the Young Soul Rebels
Hazel Dickens - It's Hard to Tell the Singer from the Song
Dinosaur Jr. - Bug
Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me
Dire Straits - Making Movies
Thomas Dolby - The Flat Earth
Thomas Dolby - The Golden Age of Wireless
Dr. Alimantado - Born For a Purpose / Sons of Thunder
The Dream Syndicate - The Days of Wine and Roses
Duran Duran - Rio
Duran Duran - Seven and the Ragged Tiger
The Durutti Column - Another Setting
The Durutti Column - LC
The Durutti Column - The Return of the Durutti Column
Bob Dylan - Infidels
Bob Dylan - Saved

E

Steve Earle - Guitar Town
Echo & the Bunnymen - Crocodiles
Echo & the Bunnymen - Ocean Rain
The Egyptian Lover - On the Nile
Einstürzende Neubauten - Halber Mensch
The English Beat - I Just Can't Stop It
Brian Eno - Ambient 4: On Land
Brian Eno - Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks
Brian Eno / David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
EPMD - Strictly Business
Eric B. & Rakim - Follow the Leader
Eric B. & Rakim - Paid In Full
ESG - Come Away with ESG
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
Eurythmics - Touch
Everything But The Girl - Eden
The Ex - Blueprints for a Blackout
Eyeless in Gaza - Caught in Flux
Eyeless in Gaza - Pale Hands I Loved So Well

F

Donald Fagen - The Nightfly
Faith No More - Introduce Yourself
Faith No More - The Real Thing
The Fall - Grotesque (After the Gramme)
The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour
The Fall - Perverted by Language
The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace
The Fall - The Wonderful and Frightening World of the Fall
Feederz - Ever Feel Like Killing Your Boss?
The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms
The Feelies - The Good Earth
The Feelies - Only Life
Felt - Forever Breathes the Lonely Word
Felt - The Strange Idols Pattern and Other Short Stories
Fingers Inc. - Another Side
Fishbone - Truth and Soul
Fleetwood Mac - Tango in the Night
Flipper - Album / Generic Flipper
John Foxx - Metamatic
Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Welcome to the Pleasuredome
Fred Frith - Gravity
Fred Frith / René Lussier - Nous Autres
Fugazi - 13 Songs
Funkadelic - The Electric Spanking of War Babies

G

Peter Gabriel - 3
Peter Gabriel - 4 / Security
Peter Gabriel - Passion
Peter Gabriel - So
Diamanda Galás - The Litanies of Satan
Diamanda Galás - Masque of the Red Death
Galaxie 500 - On Fire
Galaxie 500 - Today
Game Theory - Lolita Nation
Gang of Four - Solid Gold
Marvin Gaye - In Our Lifetime
Genesis - Abacab
Girls at Our Best! - Pleasure
Philip Glass - Solo Piano
The Go-Betweens - Before Hollywood
The Go-Betweens - Send Me a Lullaby
The Go-Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane
The Go-Betweens - Tallulah
Godflesh - Streetcleaner
Manuel Göttsching - E2-E4
Gun Club - Fire of Love
Gun Club - Miami
Gun Club - The Las Vegas Story
Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction

H

Merle Haggard - Big City
Daryl Hall & John Oates - H2O
Daryl Hall & John Oates - Ooh Yeah!
Daryl Hall & John Oates - Private Eyes
Happy Mondays - Bummed
Jon Hassell - Power Spot
Jon Hassell / Brian Eno - Fourth World, Vol.1: Possible Musics
Heaven 17 - Penthouse and Pavement
Robyn Hitchcock - I Often Dream of Trains
Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians - Fegmania!
The House of Love - s/t
The Housemartins - London 0 Hull 4
The Housemartins - The People Who Grinned Themselves to Death
Keith Hudson - Playing It Cool & Playing It Right
The Human League - Dare!
Human Switchboard - Who's Landing In My Hangar?
Hüsker Dü - Flip Your Wig
Hüsker Dü - New Day Rising
Hüsker Dü - Warehouse: Songs and Stories
Hüsker Dü - Zen Arcade
David Hykes & the Harmonic Choir - Hearing Solar Winds

I

Billy Idol - Rebel Yell
Indigo Girls - s/t
Inner City - Paradise
INXS - Kick
INXS - Listen Like Thieves
IQ - The Wake
Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
Iron Maiden - Powerslave

J

Janet Jackson - Control
Janet Jackson - Rhythm Nation 1814
Joe Jackson - Night and Day
Michael Jackson - Bad
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
Japan - Gentlemen Take Polaroids
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Automatic
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Darklands
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy
Linton Kwesi Johnson - Bass Culture
Linton Kwesi Johnson - Making History
Daniel Johnston - Hi, How Are You?
Jon and Vangelis - The Friends of Mr. Cairo
George Jones - I Am What I Am
Grace Jones - Nightclubbing
Grace Jones - Warm Leatherette
Howard Jones - Human's Lib
Nic Jones - Penguin Eggs
Jonzun Crew - Lost in Space
Josef K - The Only Fun in Town
Journey - Escape
Joy Division - Closer
Joy Division - Substance
Judas Priest - British Steel
Jungle Brothers - Done by the Forces of Nature
Just-Ice - Back To the Old School
The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu - 1987 What the Fuck's Going On?

K

Kano - s/t
Kid Creole & the Coconuts - Fresh Fruit in Foreign Places
Kid Creole & the Coconuts - Wise Guy / Tropical Gangsters
Killing Joke - Night Time
Killing Joke - What's THIS For…!
King Crimson - Discipline
King Sunny Ade and His African Beats - Aura
King Sunny Ade and His African Beats - Juju Music
Kissing the Pink - Naked
Kitchens of Distinction - Love Is Hell
Kix - s/t
Klark Kent - s/t
Kraftwerk - Computer World
Fela Kuti - Original Sufferhead (1984 Capitol compilation with “Original Sufferhead”, “Sorrow Tears and Blood”, “Colonial Mentality” and “I.T.T.”)

L

Cyndi Lauper - She's So Unusual
Héctor Lavoe - Strikes Back
The Legendary Pink Dots - Asylum
The Lewd - American Wino
Loop - Fade Out
The Lounge Lizards - s/t
Love and Rockets - Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven
Lyle Lovett - Pontiac

M

Paul McCartney - Tug of War
Malcolm McLaren - Duck Rock
Madness - 7
Madonna - Like a Prayer
Madonna - Like a Virgin
Madonna - s/t
Magazine - The Correct Use of Soap
Thomas Mapfumo and the Blacks Unlimited - Corruption
Bob Marley & the Wailers - Uprising
Masters of Reality - s/t
Meat Puppets - Meat Puppets II
Meat Puppets - Up on the Sun
The Mekons - The Edge of the World
The Mekons - Fear and Whiskey
The Mekons - The Mekons Rock 'n' Roll
Melvins - Ozma
Mercyful Fate - Melissa
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Pat Metheny & Ornette Coleman - Song X
Midnight Oil - Red Sails in the Sunset
Ministry - The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste
Minutemen - The Punch Line
Ronnie Milsap - Greatest Hits, Vol. 2
Minor Threat - Complete Discography (1988 compilation)
Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
The Misfits - Legacy of Brutality
The Misfits - Walk Among Us
Mission of Burma - Mission of Burma (Rykodisc compilation)
Meredith Monk - Dolmen Music
Van Morrison - Inarticulate Speech of the Heart
Morrissey - Viva Hate
This Mortal Coil - It'll End in Tears
Motörhead - Ace of Spades
Motörhead - No Sleep 'til Hammersmith
Motörhead - Orgasmatron
Peter Murphy - Deep
My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything
Amina Claudine Myers Trio - The Circle of Time

N

Napalm Death - Scum
New Order - Brotherhood
New Order - Low-Life
New Order - Movement
New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies
New Order - Substance
New Order - Technique
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
Nirvana - Bleach
No Trend - Too Many Humans
Gary Numan - Telekon
Nurse with Wound - Merzbild Schwet
Nurse with Wound - The Sylvie and Babs Hi-Fi Companion
N.W.A - Straight Outta Compton

O

Sinéad O'Connor - The Lion and the Cobra
Mary Margaret O'Hara - Miss America
Opal - Happy Nightmare Baby
Orange Juice - You Can't Hide Your Love Forever
Roy Orbison - Mystery Girl
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Architecture & Morality
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Dazzle Ships
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - s/t
Ozzy Osbourne - Diary of a Madman

P

Robert Palmer - Clues
Eddie Palmieri - s/t
Nikos Papazoglou - Xaratsi
Bernard Parmegiani - La Création du monde
The Passions - Thirty Thousand Feet Over China
The Pastels - Up for a Bit with the Pastels
Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Broadcasting from Home
Pet Shop Boys - Actually
Pet Shop Boys - Disco
Pet Shop Boys - Introspective
Pet Shop Boys - Please
Pixies - Doolittle
Pixies - Surfer Rosa
Plasmatics - New Hope for the Wretched
The Pogues - If I Should Fall from Grace with God
The Pogues - Rum, Sodomy & the Lash
The Police - Ghost in the Machine
The Police - Synchronicity
The Police - Zenyatta Mondatta
Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen
The Pretenders - Learning to Crawl
The Pretenders - s/t
Prince - Dirty Mind
Prince - Lovesexy
Prince - 1999
Prince - Sign ‘O’ the Times
Prince and the Revolution - Parade
Prince and the Revolution - Purple Rain
The Proclaimers - This Is the Story
Propaganda - A Secret Wish
The Psychedelic Furs - Talk Talk Talk
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Public Enemy - Yo! Bum Rush the Show
Public Image Ltd. - The Flowers of Romance
Pussy Galore - Dial 'M' for Motherfucker
Pylon - Gyrate
Arvo Pärt - Tabula Rasa (ECM 1984)

Q

R

The Red Crayola with Art & Language - Kangaroo?
Redd Kross - Neurotica
Lou Reed - The Blue Mask
Lou Reed - Legendary Hearts
Lou Reed - New York
Steve Reich - Tehillim
R.E.M. - Document
R.E.M. - Fables of the Reconstruction
R.E.M. - Green
R.E.M. - Lifes Rich Pageant
R.E.M. - Murmur
R.E.M. - Reckoning
The Replacements - Let It Be
The Replacements - Pleased to Meet Me
The Replacements - Tim
Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers - Rockin' and Romance
Rites of Spring - s/t
Willie Rosario - The Salsa Machine
Diana Ross - Diana
Roxy Music - Avalon
Run-D.M.C. - Raising Hell
Run-D.M.C. - Tougher Than Leather
Rush - Moving Pictures
Arthur Russell - World of Echo

S

Sade - Stronger Than Pride
Saint Vitus - Born Too Late
Savage Republic - Tragic Figures
Schoolly D - Saturday Night! - The Album
Scraping Foetus off the Wheel - Hole
Scraping Foetus off the Wheel - Nail
Scratch Acid - Just Keep Eating
Scritti Politti - Cupid & Psyche 85
Sonny Sharrock - Guitar
Michelle Shocked - Short Sharp Shocked
Michelle Shocked - The Texas Campfire Tapes
The Shop Assistants - Will Anything Happen?
Shriekback - Jam Science
Shriekback - Oil and Gold
Michael Shrieve - Transfer Station Blue
Paul Simon - Graceland
Simple Minds - New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84)
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Juju
Siouxsie and the Banshees - A Kiss in the Dreamhouse
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Once Upon a Time: The Singles
The Sisters of Mercy - First and Last and Always
The Sisters of Mercy - Floodland
Skinny Puppy - Bites
Slapp Happy - Acnalbasac Noom
Slayer - Reign in Blood
Slayer - South of Heaven
Slick Rick - The Great Adventures of Slick Rick
The Smiths - Hatful of Hollow
The Smiths - Louder Than Bombs
The Smiths - Meat Is Murder
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
The Smiths - Strangeways, Here We Come
The Smiths - The World Won't Listen
Soft Cell - The Art of Falling Apart
Soft Cell - Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
Sonic Youth - Bad Moon Rising
Sonic Youth - Confusion Is Sex
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Sonic Youth - EVOL
Sonic Youth - Sister
Sonic Youth - Walls Have Ears
Sonora Ponceña - New Heights
Spacemen 3 - The Perfect Prescription
Spacemen 3 - Playing with Fire
Spacemen 3 - Sound of Confusion
Sparks - Angst in My Pants
The Specials - More Specials
Laurie Spiegel - The Expanding Universe
Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA
Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
Bruce Springsteen - The River
Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel of Love
Squeeze - East Side Story
SSD - How We Rock
Steely Dan - Gaucho
Stetsasonic - In Full Gear
The Stone Roses - s/t
Stump - A Fierce Pancake
Sun City Girls - s/t
Swans - Children of God
Swell Maps - In “Jane from Occupied Europe”
David Sylvian - Brilliant Trees
David Sylvian - Gone to Earth
David Sylvian - Secrets of the Beehive

T

Talk Talk - The Colour of Spring
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
Talking Heads - Remain in Light
Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
Talking Heads - The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads
The Teardrop Explodes - Kilimanjaro
Tears for Fears - The Hurting
Tears for Fears - Songs from the Big Chair
Television Personalities - And Don't the Kids Just Love It
Television Personalities - The Painted Word
The The - Soul Mining
They Might Be Giants - Lincoln
Thinking Plague - In This Life
3rd Bass - The Cactus Album
This Mortal Coil - Filigree & Shadow
This Heat - Deceit
Richard & Linda Thompson - Shoot Out the Lights
Throwing Muses - House Tornado
Throwing Muses - s/t
The Todd Terry Project - To the Batmobile Let's Go
Tom Tom Club - s/t
Tones on Tail - Pop
The Traveling Wilburys - Vol. 1
Randy Travis - Storms of Life
The Triffids - Born Sandy Devotional
Trouble Funk - Drop the Bomb
Tuxedomoon - Desire

U

U2 - The Joshua Tree
U2 - The Unforgettable Fire
U2 - War
Ultramagnetic MC's - Critical Beatdown
Units - Digital Stimulation

V

Van Halen - Fair Warning
Van Halen - 1984
Van Halen - Women and Children First
Various - Indestructible Beat of Soweto, Vol. 1
Various - Mutant Disco: A Subtle Dislocation of the Norm
Various - Techno! The New Dance Sound of Detroit
The Vaselines - Dum-Dum
Venom - Welcome to Hell
Tom Verlaine - Flash Light
The Verlaines - Hallelujah All the Way Home
The Verlaines - Juvenilia
Vietnam Veterans - Catfish Eyes and Tales
Violent Femmes - s/t
Voivod - Dimension Hatröss
Voivod - Nothingface
Vulgar Boatmen - You and Your Sister

W

Bunny Wailer - Sings the Wailers
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones
Scott Walker - Climate of Hunter
Was (Not Was) - s/t
The Waterboys - This Is the Sea
The Wedding Present - Bizarro
The Wedding Present - George Best
The Wedding Present - Tommy
Keith Whitley - I Wonder Do You Think of Me
Lucinda Williams - s/t
Win - …Uh! Tears Baby
Wipers - Youth of America
Womack & Womack - Love Wars
Stevie Wonder - Hotter Than July
Robert Wyatt - Nothing Can Stop Us
Robert Wyatt - Old Rottenhat

X

X - Los Angeles
X - Under the Big Black Sun
X - Wild Gift
Xmal Deutschland - Tocsin
XTC - The Big Express
XTC - Black Sea
XTC - English Settlement
XTC - Oranges & Lemons
XTC - Skylarking

Y

Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Symphonic Suite Akira / Akira (Original Soundtrack)
"Weird Al" Yankovic - In 3-D
Yazoo - Upstairs at Eric's
Yello - One Second
Yellow Magic Orchestra - Naughty Boys
Yes - Drama
Dwight Yoakam - Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc.
Neil Young - Freedom
The Young Gods - L'Eau Rouge
The Young Gods - s/t
Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth

Z

John Zorn - Naked City

Tom Waits - Frank's Wild Years

Looks I forgot to add this one to the official nomination list. It should be there, so you can vote for it too.

The first votes have already been cast, keep on voting!

I thought you'd missed another one but happily discovered the other This Mortal Coil album under M.

My 'shortlist' is still treble figures...

Oh yeah, one more thing: if you want to, you may write blurbs for the albums you voted and include them in your email. If the album ends up in the top 100, I'll post your blurb when the final results are revealed.

The Cramps - Psychedelic Jungle
The Cramps - Songs the Lord Taught Us

No 'Off The Bone' :(

Oops, that was a mistake, This Mortal Coil should obviously be under "T". Sorry about that, glad you found it anyway.

(xx-post)

Bump.

Thanks Tuomas!

Interesting to compare my votes from this poll and its ill-fated predecessor. Some notable climbers and fallers along the way - and a couple of significant new entries - but overall there's more consistency than I would have expected.

I couldn't find my older vote, but I'm sure it was pretty different from what I voted today, as I've discovered a lot of 80s gems (such as "Nightclubbing", "Critical Beatdown", "The Friends of Mr. Cairo", and "Corruption") during the last four years.

I really struggled to fill my thirty votes. Years ago I'd have voted for all sorts of dreck, but my taste has boiled down to singles & individual tracks recently. It takes a lot for an album to grip me now.

Bummed that I missed the nominations for this. No Thin White Rope! No Moonhead! Fuck fuckity fuck.

A pedant notes that the Shop Assistants' Will Anything Happen is a compilation that came out around 1997. The original album was just called The Shop Assistants.

Oh dear, I thought I'd checked all the albums on the list, but apparently I missed that one. Any votes for Shop Assistants will go to the original self-titled album then, and not the 1997 comp (which apparently is the album plus some EP tracks).

wow, thanks for doing this, Tuomas. should be exciting.

Thin White Rope's absence is a pity, but there's plenty of great stuff here.

wot no Rattle And Hum?! Only joking.

Bump.

You can't commit to bumping this every couple of hours for three whole weeks, it's too much for one man. Thread needs some controversy to make it self-reviving. How about disqualifying Gaucho or something?

Or ppl should post brief lolexcerpts from SPIN, FORCED EXPOSURE and MUSICIAN reviews of the time.

someone start a thread where everyone can post their ballot. individual ballots would be fun to look at.

Had to say it on the tv voting thread, will say it here: Leave ballot posting till after or it will spoil the countdown when some nerd figures out who wins.

I was hoping that some folks would nom Golden Palominos albums, but that was a pipe dream. I had to compile this and shoot it off fast, because otherwise, the creeping uncertainty of, well, yeah, I like it but is it the greatest? and the conflict between brilliant but deeply flawed and consistent but not transcendent albums would drive me insane.

Props to whoever nommed "In 3-D". My nine-year-old self thanks you.

someone start a thread where everyone can post their ballot.

What's wrong with this thread?

please don't

someone start a thread where everyone can post their ballot. individual ballots would be fun to look at.

This is traditionally done after the poll results have been revealed. Please don't do it before, as it might give away the results.

As somebody said on the other thread, The Jam are conspicuous by their absence. (They didn't appear on the previous poll, either.) And while I wouldn't have voted for it myself, whither Combat Rock?

Well, about 80-90 people nominated albums, that should be quite representative of the whole ILM. So maybe The Jam aren't that loved around here?

Fuck, I've just noticed Yello's "You've Gotta Say Yes to Another Excess" and The Associates' "Affectionate Punch" are not on there - that's two of my Top 10 gone already

I was hoping people would nominate more Yello than the one album I nominated, but I've noticed before there aren't that many Yello fans around here.

I was the only one to nominate Yello in the previous poll too.

I didn't nominate at all. Yello fans be lazy fuckers.

I've been feeling similarly thwarted, as You've Gotta Say Yes To Another Excess would been in my Top 20 for sure. Kinda wish I'd nommed it, but never mind...

Ah, if I'd realized that You've Gotta Say Yes to Another Excess is the most popular Yello album, I might've nominated that. To me the

I don't know if it is, but it is with me and mike

To me the trio of YGSYtAE/Stella/One Second are all equally good, but I nominated One Second because I was pretty sure no other Yello album would be nominated, and I think One Second best exemplifies the full scale of what makes Yello great.

(Sorry, I accidentally posted before finishing the sentence.)

To be honest, though, YGSYtAE is maybe still a bit too "new wave" for me, especially when it comes to the vocals. I'm not that fond of Dieter Maier's "rock" singing, I think he's much better when does the "crooner" or the "storyteller" partts. And I think Billy McKenzie, Rush Winters, and Shirley Bassey help to make Boris Blank's sound more versatile and "full" on One Second than what it is on YGSYtAE.

Not to mean YGSYtAE is bad or anything, it's great, but I think Stella and One Second are the albums where the unique Yello thing came into its full fruitition.

Whereas I slightly prefer the new-wavey-ness of YGSTtAE. But it's also because I have strong personal memories attached to I Love You, Lost Again, and especially Swing.

Can I ask what sort of memories you have attached to Swing? That's a fun song.

There was this late night bar-with-a-dancefloor that I used to frequent in West Berlin, usually on the way home from somewhere else, and they always played "Swing" next to "Right Now" (The Creatures) and "The Love Cats". Happy days.

You lived in West Berlin when it was 'West Berlin', not just the western part of Berlin? What was that like?

many xposts I feel the grief at no Moonhead myself. I did my noms real early and i figured one of the other Thin White Rope-heads on here would take care of it. ;_;

Well, about 80-90 people nominated albums, that should be quite representative of the whole ILM. So maybe The Jam aren't that loved around here?

When you can only nominate 7, but vote for 30, some classics are gonna slip through the cracks. Sound Affects would have been my #17.

Will vote in this after i'm finished with my own poll. good going tuomas though.

You lived in West Berlin when it was 'West Berlin', not just the western part of Berlin? What was that like?

Aug-Dec: best time ever.
Jan-Mar: worst time ever.
Apr-Jul: best time ever.

Sound Affects would have been my #17.

Love the specificity. Not #16, not #18, that's too high/low, respectively... but #17, oh yes.

Just what I was looking for, it's like the cold war in haiku

Coincidentally, You've Gotta Say Yes... would have been my #17.

(Or #18, if the Style Council's Cafe Bleu had also been nominated.)

Heh, well I was doing my ballot! Maybe I'll move it to 16, how 'bout that?

Ismael, I did the correction to your vote like you asked. But since it's kinda complicated to change votes afterwards, I won't do those anymore. Once you've emailed your ballot it's final, no further changes.

Thanks very much Tuomas, I appreciate it.

"A pedant notes that the Shop Assistants' Will Anything Happen is a compilation that came out around 1997. The original album was just called The Shop Assistants."

No, it was called Will Anything Happen (I think with the question mark), and was itself a kind of comp. I only know because a friend gave me a tape of it in 1989 with the title "Will Anything Happen?" I think it's also called Shop Assistants for some reason. I'm not sure why it has the double title or ambiguity, because I don't have the physical record and have never been able to track down the original.

Most sources I've checked say "Will Anything Happen?" is the CD reissue of "The Shop Assistants" (originally released in 1986) with a few bonus tracks from their EPs. So it's essentially the same album. Since those same sources say the reissue came out in 1997, I will count the votes going for it to be votes for The Shop Assistants' 1986 album, whatever it's called.

Anyway, I've received 20 ballots so far, and I think I can already reveal that some albums are bigger than others.

Yeah, the album (LP) wasn't called "Will Anything Happen?", I reckon they got plagued with afterthought...

wow thanks whoever nominated that nuno canavarro record, it totally skipped my mind but will be on my ballot

i've just looked at my oroginal copy of the Shop Assistants LP, the spine just says "Shop Assistants", one side of the inner label says "Will Anything Happen" (no question mark)

More pointless trivia:

* After 21 ballots the #1 album has 179 points.

* The album with the most votes has 14 votes in total. It's not the same as above though.

* Only one album has two #1 votes. It is neither of the above.

damn i didn't see nominations thread or else I woulda nommed this
http://www.discogs.com/image/R-173171-1238731282.jpeg

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41X8VYGGJAL._SL500_AA240_.jpg

I think I can already reveal that some albums are bigger than others

As it happens, I very nearly nommed Divine's Bobby O-produced Jungle Jezebel - but it's let down by a couple of so-so fillers.

no Hairway to Steven :(

damn, no A Flock of Seagulls - Listen, no Gang of Four - Songs of the Free... bummer

just sent in my ballot!

i thought this would be easy because i haven't heard most of the great 80s albums i'm supposed to have heard, but it turns out I adore 80 albums on the list. :/ what a decade

I've received about 25 ballots so far, so this poll has begun to roll nicely. A little over 50% of the albums have gotten at least one vote so far, but on the other hand almost half of them are still without votes. They need your love too! Send your ballots!

I think my method of cogitatin' on this is gonna be 1. print out the whole list on paper 2. mark happy stars next to the albums that are gut level HAVE TO GET A VOTE 3. realize I have 35 albums with happy stars and commence to agonizing.

That's how it worked for me, except substitute "81" for "35"...

The one time I never pay attention to the nominations process and you guys leave off Underwater Moonlight.

Yeah that is a shame, completely forgot about it myself :(

phew. that was exhausting but fun ..

Mine are ordered but awaiting blurbs. I'm amazed how little influence lurking for 4-5 years on ILX has had on my 80s album favorites I only discovered one of my top 30 during that period. Whereas my taste for the 70s, 90s, and this decade are highly influenced by others hereabouts.

These were simply my formative years (I formed my personal "canon" in college in the early 90s), and I'm not sure critical distance and perspective are available to me. Whereas I've been able to completely reappraise how I once felt about pre-1977 or post-1991 musics.

Dang, I missed out on nominations and so nobody put The Clean's Compilation. I saw it was suggested in the late going, too! Would've put that in my top 10 probably. Whoops.

"I think my method of cogitatin' on this is gonna be 1. print out the whole list on paper 2. mark happy stars next to the albums that are gut level HAVE TO GET A VOTE 3. realize I have 35 albums with happy stars and commence to agonizing."

The first step was to cut all the albums I've never really listened to, even if I've heard 'em. The second step was to cut out all the albums that I used to own, but sold back. The third step was to cut out everything that I own but haven't bothered either buying on CD or somehow getting a digital copy (ripped or downloaded). Then everything with a glaring flaw, or with high skip counts in iTunes. Then everything that I own and like but haven't really wanted to listen to lately. Then it was, well, you've got, like, 45 albums left on the list. Start shuffling them with a half-assed quicksort; cut the last ten (though it hurts, it hurts).

I just kind of had to make my peace with the idea that I was sorting this particular list from best to worst, in part because a fair number of albums that I would have ranked higher I wrongly assumed would be nominated later (so my pro-tip is to wait on nomination next time, since I think I nommed some stuff that would have easily made it in otherwise, and folks missed a lot of other great albums—Beauty and the Beat, Underwater Moonlight, etc.—in their nominations).

It'll be a really sad thing if the following albums are left out of my ballot. I have a preliminary voting list and would like to make room for some of these, but I'm not sure what to eliminate from my top 30. Alas:

Bauhaus - In the Flat Field
David Bowie - Scary Monsters
Eric B. & Rakim - Paid In Full
Galaxie 500 - On Fire
The Go-Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane
Madonna - s/t
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Architecture & Morality

2. mark happy stars next to the albums that are gut level HAVE TO GET A VOTE 3. realize I have 35 albums with happy stars and commence to agonizing.

This is basically what I already did -- limited myself to one album per artist, even.

And I have 37.

aaaaggggghhhh just noticed that no one nommed the top, which is the cure i was going to vote for

^^^My favorite Cure album.

Argh, I want to vote in this, but nominations threads are always too massive for me to bother with, and then I end up grumpy that the things I want to vote for aren't there.

I did mine by going through the list and every time I saw an album that made me go "holy shit I love that fucking album" I copied it into a text file, and then I shifted them around till I had the ones I liked best at the top, and then just cut off whatever wasn't in the top 30 lines. Less agonizing this way – after my top 20 I liked 'em all about the same.

I keep thinking of albums that "should have been nominated" and feeling traces of regret even though they're outside my top 30 so they make no difference to my vote.

So since I couldn't (and at any rate wouldn't) vote for them, but I evidently still have feelings for them, here's a quick shout out to...
* Thompson Twins - Quick Step & Side Kick
* Gary Numan - I, Assassin
* Let's Active - Big Plans for Everybody
(A few others have already been mentioned in this thread or the one with nominations)

That was tough but ballot sent. Thanks for doing all this Tuomas.

I was very methodical and I'm happy with my final 30 and the order.

initial run through has given me 126 options. will have to think on it more before i just give up and go with my gut.

1984 was a real high point for good records. I'll bet at least 25% of the top 20 come from that year.

i had to leave out lots of albums i loved, tried to limit it to 1 album per band but wasnt possible in a couple of cases. I eventually left out things i knew would get lots of votes elsewhere.

Going back and relistening to these records, some are really standing out. Neil Young's Freedom has aged particularly well for me.

xpost I agree-- 1984 probably my favorite year of music. I want to rip off Musicophilia dude some day and do a 1984 box set.

Minutemen - The Punch Line
Ronnie Milsap - Greatest Hits, Vol. 2
Minor Threat - Complete Discography (1988 compilation)
Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime

I probably would've voted for The Punch Line if I'd realized before now that it was hidden in there a few spots away from Double Nickels -- pretty funny to see a 15-minute "album" in there after Tuomas was so strict about EP twice that length.

It took enough time to check all the correct release years and album titles, I couldn't be arsed to check the lengths of all the nominated records, unless the record title clearly stated it was an EP, or if someone pointed it out in the nomination thread. For example, both Wikipedia and Allmusic call The Punch Line an "album". Go figure.

yeah it is an album, it has 18 songs. they just have really short songs.

I had the opposite problem from some people here.

My method was to go through the list and pick out albums that I own, love, and listen to on a fairly regular basis - that yielded about 7-8 albums. Next I went through and added albums I own, like, and wouldn't skip if they came on shuffle - that yielded an additional 10 albums or so. Then I went through the list and added albums I used to own and once liked a lot. That yielded another 5 or 6. Finally I added a few albums that I've never owned, but that I like a few singles from. That brought me to 30.

i am still not sure what my 30th album will be. it would have been boy if boy had been there. i still haven't chosen a sonic youth album but i don't know which one to take. in the 90s it would have been dirty, maybe bad moon rising? or a tears for fears album. their sound for me encapsulates the 90s on a nostalgic level best.

the 80s of course.

i've just looked at my oroginal copy of the Shop Assistants LP, the spine just says "Shop Assistants", one side of the inner label says "Will Anything Happen" (no question mark)

― zappi, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 22:08 (3 days ago)

ILX, I kiss you. (zappi too) Thanks for putting up with me.

The Punch Line trivia: 45 rpm LP record. SST always billed it as the label's first LP, and it feels like one, but yeah, it's over in no time.

my number 31 was back in black. that hurt.

Bummed that I missed the nominations for this. - srsly

Ach - why can I vote for Fade Out by Loop, but not Heaven's End? This is an abomination.

Also, Streetcleaner by Godflesh came out in 1990.

RYM, wikipedia, discogs.com, and the official Godflesh site (http://www.godflesh.com/) all agree that Streetcleaner was released in 1989 (RYM says November).

OK. Fair enough. I'm guessing there was a disparity b/w the UK & US release? I was crosschecking the sleeve of my copy of against AMG.

A date on the sleeve often identifies the year of copyright registration rather than the date of release. Not unusual for one to be ahead of the other by a year.

AMG is not always to be trusted with release years, I think discogs.com is usually more reliable. I checked the release year of Streetcleaner there.

Oh man I have a lot of whittling down to do. I could happily vote for the entirety of the X section, frexample.

Am I a bad person if I end up not voting for all my nominations? Hadn't quite realised the wealth of other good stuff to throw votes at.

you monster

sad that jordan: the comeback didn't get a nomination. ditto a broken frame

Don't want the thread to get bogged down in release-date pedantry, but I'm pretty sure Jordan:TC was released in 1990...

And in IMO it's fine not to vote for all of your nominations. Much worse to vote for them all reflexively, without weighing them against the rest of the nominees.

Just went through and marked up the whole list. 37 albums got happy stars. If I force a 1-album-per-artist thing it becomes 27 and I'll have three slots for the ones I marked "need more listening" to compete for...

did you get my ballot, tuomas? i think it would be a good idea to reply to the people participating so that they know their votes are counted. thanks.

Yeah, I got it, but I've been busy for the last few of days, so I haven't been able to count the votes since Thursday. I guess I could answer the mails I get if there's not an enormous amount of them, will try to do that from now on.

thanks a lot foor the quick reaction.

no "the sound" no credibility

Yeah, that's a good call. Which album though?

close betw. from the lion's mouth or jeopardy for me (wd probably plump for the former)

christ the 80s were incredible for music

didnt seem so at the time when i was growing up.

The 80s were a great decade for music - except when compared with any other decade.

Get serious. The 80s fuck the 90s in the ass pretty hard.

ouch-y.

The 80s fuck the 90s in the ass pretty hard.

I don't think so. 90s had better hip hop for one thing.

I'd disagree on that, even.

60s > 70s > 50s > 90s > 80s=00s

I don't know, I'm pretty happy with the 00s. Agree the 90s were worst though.

90s> 00s> 80s> 70s=60s. Love all of them for different reasons though.

60s=80s > 70s > 00s > 50s=90s

^ that's how it works for me too

80s > 00s > 60s > 90s > 70s

90s > 80s > 70s > 60s > 50s = 00s

I can't connect to the music from before I was born and after I turned 40.

70s > 00s > 80s > 60s > 90s > 50s.

There was a poll on this question. The '70s won:

Wat is the best/favourite decade in rock history? (poll close 14th of may)

Though the rockist term "rock history" may have skewed the results.

Too bad I didn't get to send in my nominations on time. There are a couple of 80's staples that haven't been nominated that would have made my Top 30, like George Micheal - Faith, Culture Club - Colour By Number, and The Sugarcubes - Life's Too Good.

Though the rockist term "rock history" may have skewed the results.

That might be a valid criticism elsewhere, but not here.

I've been kinda busy, so I haven't had the time to answer your emails or count the votes for a few days, but I'm doing it now. So far about 40 people have sent their ballots, the rest of you still have a week and a half to vote.

I've been listening to the Scarface Soundtrack. It's an intensely frustrating record. On first listen the songs evoke straight 80s pop, but the totally forgettable kind rather than any of the stuff you'd get a buzz out of today - Kim Wilde rather than Madonna. Eventually the odd theme or an occasional wash reminds you that Moroder was behind all this, but very infrequently. It's very strange tracking down a legendary name, only to find it attached to such weak material. It's like he got pushed around by whichever nonentities performed this stuff - as if, I don't know, Brian Eno were to produce the Libertines, and the end product came out sounding like Babyshambles. I tagged 'The Chase' and a bit of Italo onto the end of the CD I made up, and they're much more like it.

Ismael: gettin' with dreck so you don't have to.

aagghghghghhhh just finally got this done and then gmail crashed between drafts so its time for a do over i guess

Ismael how are the non-song Moroder tracks?

There are only two: 'Tony's Theme' is (from memory) the one that opens the movie and is suitably evil, though I thought it was utterly incongruous the one time I saw the film; 'Gina and Elvira's Theme' is slow and pretty boring. They're not hard-hitting at all, I wanted proper mechanised aggression but Moroder is pulling his punches.

About half of the other tracks have nice instrumental intros and you think they're going to be great, but then the song proper starts and it's just rubbish. 'Push It To Limit' has a blistering first twenty seconds and is actually a reasonable tune - except that with those lyrics it should be the soundtrack to the world's most excruciating motivation seminar, not one of the most iconic gangster movies of all time.

There's also a weird moment when 'I'm Hot Tonight' comes on and it sounds exactly like 'Found A Job' by Talking Heads. All in all, I just can't take this album seriously.

Heh. I remember endless bitching in the '80s about how much '80s music sucked compared to the '70s. A lot of it was boomer washout and rockist kneejerk, but there's also the several confounders of when people's music taste formed, what's retro-hip to reference, and general awareness. I tend to think of the late '90s as a pretty dire time for music, but I wasn't listening to a lot of mainstream hip hop (my mistake) and I tend to think that indie rock was at a particular low point then (and I think it's pretty boring now). There are also plenty of musicians that are timeless for me, or associated with different times—I don't think of the Pixies as an '80s band, though they were. I tend to think of Blondie as an '80s band, even though my favorite stuff came out in the '70s. A lot of what I think about as '60s music is only the last half of that decade; I think rock pretty much sucked in the early '60s, with notable exceptions, but soul and jazz was phenomenal, and jazz especially seems to exist outside of the music timeline for me, making it hard to date without reference (like, I can tell you the year that most of the rock I listen to was recorded without even glancing at anything, but with jazz, whether something came out in '59 or '62 isn't something I can hear as easily—I think "rock" being more technologically driven than jazz makes that more apparent, at least to me.)

We also tend to be a bit rose-tinted towards the past, forgetting a lot of bullshit music that was inexplicably popular (unless, of course, our 10-year-old selves liked that music; then Samantha Fox is an underrated genius). But that means that aside from a few dedicated popists (who have their own blindspots and biases) the music of the now is often judged harsher for being pervasive and immersive.

just sent in my ballot but my god were those difficult decisions

There was an hour-long Rio special on BBC4 just now. It was lovely to see how much pleasure they took from breaking up 'Save A Prayer' and finding out just how they made it all those years ago.

cannibals, I co-sign that post 100%. (except the remembering bitching about '80s music in the '80s... I was only 14 by the end of that decade)

Samantha Fox singles had a good, meaty sound, but I don't suspect she had much to do with the production/arranging end of things.

Argh, the only thing I have decided about this poll is that if I can manage to get my ballot together in time, Slapp Happy will be at number one. I have been repeatedly contrasting the two versions of the almost-but-not-really-the-same album (the first being from the '70s) and I definitely prefer Acnalbasac to Casablanca, and I have also been making myself stupidly obsessed with it. Also, nobody else will vote for it, so I might as well make it a deranged bid for entry.

wasn't expecting sound to be where that sentence went (xpost)

nooM acnalbasaC, surely?

She's not buying what I'm selling, so what's the point. xp

xp do you think they intended for people to misread/mispronounce it as 'anal ball-sac'?

Don't strike me as having that kind of sensayuma. I admire Slapp Happy without rilly loving 'em.

To be honest, I highly doubt it myself, it's just something I can't stop myself from doing. I think it's like those word illusions where you can make sense of sentences if the words have the correct beginning and ending letters but everything else is jumbled.

Also, try listening to 'Dawn' on repeat and see if you can not love them.

As I put together my list, I realized how well many of the Goth & New Wave pioneers' records have aged. I had a hard time shedding some of them off the list to make room for other deserving albums.

"cannibals, I co-sign that post 100%. (except the remembering bitching about '80s music in the '80s... I was only 14 by the end of that decade)"

I was 11 in '90.

But my parents had moved from Milwaukee (and prior to that, Chicago) to rural Michigan right about '80, and, for them, it was a huge sea change in what music was like. My dad would make a two-hour pilgrimage to a bar called Lili's in Hamtramck because their jukebox was the only place he could hear new 45s of, like, PIL and Laurie Anderson. They'd loved the free jazz craziness and prog rock of the '70s, and disco and Duran Duran just kicked the legs out from underneath them, and being geographically isolated definitely limited what they could hear. I mean, my dad used to go to crazy lengths to hear radio from Windsor, because Detroit's major stations were so barren. And a lot of stuff that people remember fondly and ironically, the Yacht Rock and stadium stuff, it was just pervasive and if you weren't into it, it seemed oppressive.

So yeah, I remember people constantly bitching about the state of music in the '80s. And the '90s, mostly the late '90s—the Rise of the Nickleback and the post-grunge washouts. Then in the first half of the '00s, I covered local music, so I got to be one of those assholes contributing to the great pissing and moaning about how everything mainstream was terrible.

I was born in '70 so you can infer what the music of the 80s is to me. Even though SST stuff, the Buttholes and The Fall broke my brain forever in '85 there was no way I was ever gonna turn apostate against burbling analog synths or the incredible savoir-faire of 83-86 Prince.

I'm taking my time on this poll and doing a lot of close listening. As a result, Architecture and Morality and Melissa have barged their way into my 30. Almost ready to ballot now.

Also, nobody else will vote for it, so I might as well make it a deranged bid for entry.

I don't want to reveal my ballot prematurely, but suffice to say you won't be the only one voting for it.

I know ppl are tired of 'oh shit, we forgot (band)' type comments, but I was mighty chagrined to realize this weekend that there was no Naked Raygun! Throb, Throb coulda binna contenda.

Remember, voting time ends this Sunday! Hopefully people aren't holding their ballots until the last minute, it'll be easier to count the votes if I don't get 35 ballots at Sunday midnight. So if you haven't voted already, why not do it tonight?

I voted today. Pretty much drafted my ballot over a week ago, then looked at it every day for the last 8-10 days and made edits and reassessed various albums and spun pretty much everything to make my final decisions.

Turned mine in today too. Excel was helpful.

it's feeling like a university paper, and I'm confident I will never be happy with my choices, so I'll probably wait until the last minute and submit it because I know I have to. I'll try to get it in earlier though.

So if you haven't voted already, why not do it tonight?

i narrowed it down to 30, which was very difficult and that is it for tonight.

Some people have sent their ballots via ILX webmail. I have counted those too, but those of you who haven't voted yet, please use the lixnixn *at* yahoo *dot* co *dot* uk address mentioned in the first post, not ILX webmail. ILX webmail directs to my other email address, and it's easier if all votes go to my Yahoo mail inbox.

My ilx webmail, if I've ever had any, will go to an account I no longer use. Is there any way to change it?

Btw, the situation with the vote count has become pretty interesting. With the initial wave of ballots it looked like a couple of albums were gonna dominate the poll, but now the votes have begun to spread more evenly, so anything is still possible. Every vote can make a difference!

Sorry about using ILXmail, tuomas. I should have gone back and read your initial post first!

No problem.

Bump.

Only four days of voting time left.

How many albums have received no votes?

114.

Out of 567.

Are you going to be posting a top 80?

Crikey, that's a lot. Should be a lot more votes still to come then.

I'll post a top 100 if I get enough votes, if there's too few votes then it'll be a top 75 or something. So far about 60 people have voted, but I expect there'll be many votes during the last couple of days.

Just voted, bit the bullet. Leaving out so many albums I love which soundtracked different moments in my life was difficult.

I have to get mine finished, but I'll vote.

voted

finishing voting, so mad that i failed to show up to nominate the top, also anthrax - among the living, ministry - land of rape and honey, mr. bungle - mr. bungle, about a million other things but ehhhh what are you going to do.

Mr. Bungle's first album came out in the 90s, surely?

Ah yes, Wikipedia says 1991.

hah so much for my memory, you are right

i'm just surprised tuomas would know release dates for mr bungle albums

it fills me with hope for the future tbh

btw tuomas did my email ballot get through?

hoping to have at least dropped the 114 unvoted albums number a bit

Yeah, I got your ballot.

I'll be going away for the weekend, so I probably won't be by the computer until Sunday afternoon. But keep on sending those ballots!

will bump in your honour

Just voted. That was tough.

Cursing the lack of the two best Go-Betweens albums! Could do with an earlier Simple Minds album too. And I wish that the Birthday Party's Junkyard was there. Damn!

all SORTS of stuff that i forgot to nominate, that i wd have voted for, including my very fave album of the decade (2nd Cardiacs album) and a solid-gold top-5 contender (The The - Infected, nfi how that wasn't nommed o_O) and oh god Julian Cope - FRIED ffs how did THAT amazing record slip the net

man alive Fried is good

anyway I voted for The Correct Use Of Soap but wasn't it '79?

so mad that i failed to show up to nominate the top

OH FUCK YES

fucking hear you dude, that's pretty much alongside Pornography for me, and I put Pornography 4th

I mean, I missed the nominations thread, but NO FUCKING MEN WITHOUT HATS!? This is a joke.

ok yeah that is a travesty srsly. men without hats would have def made my list :(

in a totally petulant move i voted for no cure albums because i couldnt vote for the top.

I would have voted for Seventeen Seconds if it had been on the list.

i ended up voting for three Cure album and nominated two both of which i didn't vote for i don't think.

the only other band who got more than one album in the top 30 where New Order with two.

would've voted for talk talk - it's my life :(

I almost nominated that one, but wouldn't have voted for it over The Colour of Spring so cut it from my seven at the last minute.

I think New Order will do very well.

The Cure, too... or this isn't ILM.

I would have voted for Seventeen Seconds if it had been on the list.

― Dan S, Saturday, November 21, 2009 3:45 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark

It did make the list.

considering my favourite record of the 80s isn't on the nominations list, this is causing a major headache to think of what comes after the first run dmc album.

George Michael - major boo boo there.

would it be possible to make an artist ranking at the end, tuomas? some bands have few albums in the list, others have lots, so there will surely be a bias towards albums of artists with only few albums nominated.

With a couple of minor changes, my ballot is identical to the one I sent four years ago. That ballot felt incomplete because it never "counted", so for some reason it would have felt like cheating to send something else (of course I still stand behind the albums I voted for).

I've just searched through ancient gmails to find my original ballot from 2005. I've got mostly the same albums, but with the order shuffled quite a bit. The one big difference is that I had Happy Mondays - 24 Hour Party People... in 4th spot last time, but it wasn't even nominated this time round.

would it be possible to make an artist ranking at the end, tuomas? some bands have few albums in the list, others have lots, so there will surely be a bias towards albums of artists with only few albums nominated.

This is a fantastic idea. Seconded!

Thirded -- but then obv anyone can do this after the rundown + full list has been posted.

PSYCHED for results, this will be days of funstalgia!

of course anyone could do it with the full poll results but as tuomas calculates the album scores in a spreadsheet or something i thought it would make sense to separate artists from albums names at that point to make the artist calculation easier.

Not sure how I missed this thread for the past 19 days. Just sent my ballot.

Took ages to get my list down to anything like the right number, now going crazy looking at a list of 34 that I can't seem to remove any from, oh no!

Last day today - get those votes in!

gah i got one day to process

Only six hours left to vote! The battle for the top spots is looking pretty interesting right now, nothing is yet certain. If you haven't voted yet, now is the chance to do it!

Sorry, I meant eight hours, I was looking at the Finnish time. The voting ends today at midnight GMT.

I feel like a school boy again, turning my assignment in at the last moment. maybe I'll go walk down some alleyway now, and drink a can of beer to celebrate.

I was looking at the Finnish time

look it's a pun!

Tuomas, when will you start the countdown?

The results of this poll are going to be the best Christmas present EVER.

I think we've all learned the true meaning of christmas from this.

If there's not gonna be a lot of last moment votes, I think I can get the votes counted tomorrow, so I could start the countdown tomorrow night. However, I'm kinda busy with other things tomorrow, so it's possible I can't do it until Tuesday night. Hope you can wait until then.

it is now 9:14 gmt, which means i got 2:45 to think this thru

godspeed, me

Only a little over two hours time left, now is the final chance to vote! I'm gonna go to sleep, so I won't be around here when the deadline falls, but hopefully someone else will announce it when it's midnight GMT.

well it's sent. did the kinda dishonest "1 album per artist" thing, cuz it's easier to leave off something than somebody. regrets i have a few

Sent!

It should be open until you wake up imo

agreed

6 minutes.

just sent mine

Voting is now closed. Tuomas, be sure to check the timestamp on all incoming ballots and disqualify those that come in after now.

fuck that imo

Voting is now officially closed. If there were any ballots sent between midnight and this point, I'm gonna count them in, but nothing sent after this post will be qualified.

justice!

It's been a tight race, and your last-minute vote might actually change the order of the top 10, so I decided to count it in. But I won't reveal anything more, I'll probably start the countdown later today.

Totally missed the deadline.:(

Oh dear! If you can send me your ballot within the next 1,5 hours or so, I'll be lenient and will include it in. After that I'll start counting the last handful of votes for the final results.

Looking fwd to the results; thanks for all the work that goes into this, T...

stoked for the results!

Thanks again for doing this Tuomas.

Remember that we Americans have a holiday (Thanksgiving) on Thursday. So I know the majority of us would like you to suspend results on that day as a lot of us will be doing other things.

I'll be posting the results whenever I'll have time, it's not like I have scheduled my following week or two according to this poll. But it certainly won't be concluded on Thursday, the countdown will most likely take until next week.

Awesome! Thanks Tuomas, I'm super excited to see the results!

Thanks, Tuomas. I only saw your message when it was too late.

I'm going to use this space to cast aspersions on the 99 fellow ILXers who voted in this poll, but didn't see fit to nominate the Paris, Texas soundtrack by Ry Cooder, or anything by Hugo Largo. See how my aspersions sting! ping.....plonk....ting....

1st place: 40 points
Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime

2nd place: 30 points
Prince - Sign ‘O’ the Times

3rd place: 25 points
Paul Simon - Graceland

4th place: 20 points
Michael Jackson - Bad

5th place: 15 points
Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA

6-10th places: 11 points each
Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Van Halen - 1984
Meat Puppets - Meat Puppets II
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Bad Brains - s/t

11-15th places: 8 points each
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Public Enemy - Yo! Bum Rush the Show
N.W.A - Straight Outta Compton
Ozzy Osbourne - Diary of a Madman
Prince and the Revolution - Purple Rain

16-20th places: 6 points each
Melvins - Ozma
De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising
Meat Puppets - Up on the Sun
Madonna - Like a Prayer
Sonic Youth - EVOL

21-25th places: 5 points each
Sade - Stronger Than Pride
Boredoms - Soul Discharge
Nirvana - Bleach
Talking Heads - Remain in Light
Stevie Wonder - Hotter Than July

26-30th places: 4 points each
Eric B. & Rakim - Paid In Full
ESG - Come Away with ESG
Boogie Down Productions - Criminal Minded
Roxy Music - Avalon
Violent Femmes - s/t