Nominations for an 80s Albums That Rock Poll(inc indie/Alt,punk,metal,heavy/glam etc) CLOSES SUNDAY NIGHT 11:59 p.m. UK

Had this idea for several years and I've decided,with some help from my friends, to run another big poll. Its not an exclusively metal poll obviously but obviously metal is allowed. It's not just 'heavy' stuff either. As I will hopefully explain in a minute.

Not sure when voting will start and results be announced as I believe there's electronic poll/indie singles polls coming up and they are first (unless they wont be doing it for a while - will need to ask whoever is running them) But no harm in opening voting. We wont be jumping any queues or stepping on toes. And there's no rush.

There has already been an 80s poll so this won't simply be a rehash of that.

There will be no REM/talking Heads/Tom Petty/U2/Springsteen/Blondie/Stone Roses/Smiths type 'rock'.
Yes technically they come under the banner of 'rock' but simply they do not fit what we are after.
As emil.y puts it everyone will be "voting for their favourite 'things that rock' rather than 'things that are rock'. If you see the difference?" Just ask on thread if you want to know if something is allowed.

There will also be a tracks poll, which will have it's own nominations thread.

What will be allowed is the rockier end of indie/Alternative rock. You all know the stuff. think SST or Touch & Go. Big Black, Sonic Youth,Minutemen,Sonic Youth,Husker du,JAMC, Butthole Surfers,The Young Gods,Swans etc etc but not just confined to that.

Any metal is allowed. Same with Heavy rock. Yes Messrs Fever & Snappin that includes glam metal.

Punk is allowed but it shouldnt be too poppy. But we can iron all these things out on this thread.

Other things that cant be pigeonholed will be nominated and that's fine. It just has to ROCK. (more my definition than some other peoples)
If you have any questions then please ask.

If i feel any nominations don't fit the remit of the poll I will not include them. If anyone has objections to what gets nominated then feel free to (nicely) mention it on the thread.

Above all please everyone be friendly and no silly arguments or flaming.

ps
'London Calling' will NOT be allowed. I don't care if it was released in the USA in 1980 its a 70s album.

No doubt some of you will be confused as I'm utterly shite at explaining things so please feel free to ask about it. I'm a lot better at answering questions than explaining , honestly.

I guess I should start with a few nominations.

Rules - PLEASE bold all nominations. That way its easier for me and less likely to miss out on anything nominated.

Nirvana - Bleach
Bad Brains - Bad Brains
Swans - Children Of God
Redd Kross - Neurotica
Flipper - Generic Flipper
Jesus And Mary Chain - Darklands
Big Black - Atomizer
Big Black - Songs About Fucking
Black Flag - Damaged
Dinosaur Jr - You're Living All Over Me
Meat Puppets- II
Husker Du - Metal Circus
Husker Du - Zen Arcade
Husker Du - New day Rising
Husker Du - Flip Your Wig
Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
Trouble - Psalm 9
Young Gods - L'eau Rouge
Saint Vitus - Born Too Late
Metallica - Ride The Lightning
Ministry - The Land of Rape and Honey
Discharge - Hear Nothing, See Nothing, Say Nothing
Mudhoney - Superfuzz Bigmuff
Melvins - Ozma
Sonic Youth - Sister

Thank you for reading this and I hope everyone has fun. Hopefully we can work out soon when we can start voting. (if anyone from the other big polls that are planned are reading this please webmail me).

Nominate away!

U2 - The Joshua Tree

The Telescopes - Taste

(emil.y in Telescopes nomination shocker.)

There *will* be arguments. But hey, that's part of the fun of a non-strict genre poll, right?

Oh, and I missed the first rule of thread.

The Telescopes - Taste

one two ilxors can't read rules then :)

btw Sisters Of mercy type goth ok. The Cure = no (sorry dan)

Some great albums in the OP.

Voivod - Nothingface

Motorhead - Ace of Spades

I get to pick:

Slayer - Reign in Blood

Sisters of Mercy - Floodland

Sisters of Mercy - Floodland

Killing Joke - Killing Joke

What are the paramaters whereby Sonic Youth and Swans and Jesus and Mary Chain rock more than R.E.M. or Tom Petty or U2 or Springsteen?

Or the Meat Puppets or the Minutemen.

you guys should have a verification widget

enter album title: widget processes: SAD TROMBONE.WAV YOUR ALBUM DOES NOT ROCK

:D

Godflesh - Streetcleaner

xpost I imagine the parameters are "THEIR POLL: THEIR RULES"

xps

mine :)

xp

aye

AC/DC - Back in Black
Def Leppard - Pyromania
Def Leppard - Hysteria

fIREHOSE - Ragin', Full On

Def Leppard - On Through the Night
Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime

btw nothing against those bands. i like most of them. They just dont fit in with my idea of the poll.

What are the paramaters whereby Sonic Youth and Swans and Jesus and Mary Chain rock more than R.E.M. or Tom Petty or U2 or Springsteen?

― timellison, Wednesday, August 1, 2012 1:24 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I will say that this is harder to judge for albums, where there are some rockers and some non-rockers. I'd be likely to let people choose their own level of rockage, as long as you could post proof that the song does indeed rock. But it is AG's poll not mine, so he gets to choose the rules.

I think the idea is that they are trying to do an 80s rock poll that does not include 80s college or radio rock. It is somewhat arbitrary, but I understand what they're going for.

It looks like the criteria has more to do with being fringe than being rock. There's no reason whatsoever to say that the BH Surfers rock more than R.E.M.

You mean besides the documented, objective fact that REM don't rock?

the criteria has more to do with being fringe than being rock. There's no reason whatsoever to say that the BH Surfers rock more than R.E.M.

Def Leppard is acceptable so it's not about being fringe.

xpost

It seems to be with alt/indie stuff.

you guys should have a verification widget

enter album title: widget processes: SAD TROMBONE.WAV YOUR ALBUM DOES NOT ROCK

:D

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, August 1, 2012 1:24 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is actually hilarious. I wish we had one.

Please someone make it exist!

If anything, it seems to be more about being heavy (as opposed to wispy jangle). Of the bands you listed, only JAMC raises doubts in my mind. (After the first album, they weren't all that different from REM.)

xpost to timellison

So a part of the criteria is that it has to be underground? So no AC/DC even though it "rocks" in the sense you're referring to? Just trying to get my bearings straight.

D. Boon used a Fender Twin.

Blind Idiot God - Undertow

AC/DC is allowed. Even though they suck.

:)

Van Halen - 1984

Last Exit - Köln
Sonny Sharrock - Guitar

Does this count?:
King Crimson - Discipline

Sure, it rocks

I accidentally nominated this on the tracks thread:

R.E.M. - Lifes Rich Pageant

Minor Threat - Minor Threat
Rites Of Spring - End on End
Embrace - Embrace

Tbf, I'd personally probably agree that Life's Rich Pageant rocks harder than Darklands. However, I like the idea of this poll so much that it's more fun to just play along with the criteria.

xpost to tim

I'm just paranoid enough to believe that AG and Viceroy devised this poll specifically with me in mind. You're gonna make me work for my nominations, aren't you.

I already know 95% of my ideal noms "do not rock"

*Cough birthday party cough*

Ha, I was just about to nominate
The Birthday Party - Prayers on Fire

"Heavier" covers some of it. "Uglier guitar tones" covers some of it. "Rocks harder" doesn't seem to.

xxpost like I said, 95%

;_;

Oh sorry, did I steal your moment there, VG?

If I may...

Loop - Black Sun
Loop - The World in Your Eyes

should be fun, hostility towards "overground" and pop stuff sucks. ramones rock, and they're pop as fuck. for instance:

Ramones - End of the Century

not the most rockingest shit they ever cut, obv, but still pretty damn great. tbh, the idea that J&MC's darkland "rocks" is way more offensive to me than the threat of pop. otoh, it's not my poll, so...

also:

Lazy Cowgirls - Tapping the Source
Bad Brains - I Against I
Blue Oyster Cult - Cultosaurus Erectus
Lemonheads - Hate Your Friends (for reals)
Spacemen 3 - Sound of Confusion
The Scientists - Blood Red River
Cosmic Psychos - Go the Hack
Killdozer - Snake Boy
Scratch Acid - s/t & Just Keep Eating
The Cynics - Blue Train Station

dead kennedys - fresh fruit for rotting vegetables
x - los angeles
joan jett - bad reputation
rush - moving pictures
x - wild gift
iron maiden - number of the beast
the misfits - walk among us
dio - holy diver
motley crue - shout at the devil
fela kuti - original suffer head / TI
iron maiden - powerslave
misfits - legacy of brutality
bon jovi - slippery when wet
bathory - under the sign of the black mark
manowar - fighting the world

sorry if i did it wrong

nice try sneaking that in mordy. You think because i adore him i'd allow it? haha

lol Sund4r, it's cool

Hopefully these will make the cut?

Manowar - Sign of the Hammer
X - Los Angeles
Black Sabbath - Mob Rules
Iron Maiden - Killers
Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast
Motley Crue - Too Fast For Love
Dio - Last In Line
Replacements - Let It Be
Scorpions - Love At First Sting
Twisted Sister - Stay Hungry
WASP - WASP
Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
Ministry - Land of Rape and Honey
Soundgarden - Louder Than Love

Christian Death - Only Theatre of Pain

Soundgarden - Ultra Mega OK
Screaming Trees - Buzz Factory

lol this would probably just be easier if everyone submitted ballots and you strike whatever doesn't fit the criteria from said ballots when tallying points. Results would be a complete surprise.

Mission of Burma - Vs.

Boredoms - Soul Discharge

it's the poll equivalent of the sounddrop room; instead of deleting songs that are 'lame', here the albums are just deemed ineligible. :D

I know you said glam but I figured I'd not waste my noms on Faster Pussycat and LA Guns, lol

Fugazi - Fugazi
Fugazi - Margin Walker

Pixies - Come On Pilgrim
Pixies - Surfer Rosa
Pixies - Doolittle

Sonic Youth - Confusion Is Sex

The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace
Pussy Galore - Sugarshit Sharp <-- an EP, does that count?
Glenn Branca - The Ascension

I almost forgot this!:
King Diamond - Abigail

Ha, I was going to ask if Branca counts.

Yeah if not the whole album, then at least the title track for the other poll.

ps STOKED

I think ep's as in mini albums count (like minor threat,superfuzz bigmuff or metal circus) 3 or 4 track eps that arent very long are more for the tracks poll.

and yeah the Branca is fine

I'm curious about the criteria for qualification with fIREHOSE, Pixies, the Fall, and Spacemen 3.

(if they do indeed qualify)

maybe we will do an indiepop/college rock poll sometime after this. (that was the plan but it was meant to be a surprise if this poll went well)

I'm curious about the criteria for qualification with fIREHOSE, Pixies, the Fall, and Spacemen 3.

Noisy, or at least harsh, guitars?

rites of spring - s|t

By the criteria of this thread I'd be surprised if Spacemen 3 count. But again, not my rules.

i think the 1st album is fine, later stuff no chance

^^^ posts v much in character :)

go stand on a chair and headbang

i think the 1st album is fine, later stuff no chance

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Tuesday, July 31, 2012 7:43 PM (3 minutes ago)

^ why i only nominated SOC (though "revolution" deserves a slot in singles)

Swans - Filth
Chrome - Blood on the Moon
Chrome - Third From the Sun
The Fuzztones - Lysergic Emanations
Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction
Living Colour - Vivid
The Cult - Electric
TSOL - Change Today?
NoMeansNo - Wrong
Band of Susans - Love Agenda

Judas Priest - British Steel
Cryptic Slaughter - Money Talks
Raw Power - Screams From the Gutter
Suicidal Tendencies - Institutionalized
Megadeth - Peace Sells...But Who's Buying?
Exodus - Fabulous Disaster
Cheap Trick - One On One
Skid Row - Slave to the Grind
Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Motley Crue - Shout At the Devil
Death - Scream Bloody Gore
Napalm Death - Scum
Carcass - Symphonies of Sickness
Godflesh - Streetcleaner
Mercyful Fate - Melissa
Venom - Welcome to Hell
Metallica - Master of Puppets

wait, pardon me...

Judas Priest - British Steel
Cryptic Slaughter - Money Talks
Raw Power - Screams From the Gutter
Suicidal Tendencies - Institutionalized
Megadeth - Peace Sells...But Who's Buying?
Exodus - Fabulous Disaster
Cheap Trick - One On One
Skid Row - Slave to the Grind
Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Motley Crue - Shout At the Devil
Death - Scream Bloody Gore
Napalm Death - Scum
Carcass - Symphonies of Sickness
Godflesh - Streetcleaner
Mercyful Fate - Melissa
Venom - Welcome to Hell
Metallica - Master of Puppets

Oh, for some reason, I thought Scum was 90s.

Joan Jett - Bad Reputation

Head of David should be nommed. Can't recall any of their stuff tho.

Head Of David - Dustbowl
Head Of David - Head Of David

much better

Lyres - Lyres Lyres
Pussy Galore - Dial 'M' for Motherfucker
Naked Raygun - Throb Throb
Celibate Rifles - The Turgid Miasma of Existence
Thee Mighty Caesars - English Punk Rock Explosion
The Nomads - Outburst

Extreme Noise Terror - A Holocaust in Your Head

i am mad about people nominating pixes and early swans and sonic youth. mostly because i like to be made about things, but also cuz the former seem too indie-pop for this poll, and the latter don't rock in any sense i understand. "death valley '69", otoh, definitely belongs in tracks.

Sister and Daydream Nation totally rock in classic fashion; 80s Swans grinds like metal.

NoMeansNo - Wrong
Joan Jett - Bad Reputation

― cock chirea

otmfm

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"stereo sanctity" and "rain king" fucking rock. sister and daydream nation i dunno about, but it's not up to me.

but i nominated albums with wimpy shit, so whatevs

Why single out "Rain King" over "Teenage Riot", "Silver Rocket", "'Cross the Breeze", "Total Trash", "Eliminator Jr",...?

cuz it's so mean. but yeah, you're right: silver rocket, half of total trash, eliminator jr.

Didjits - Hey Judester

eric's trip too

white kross, pch, hot wire my heart, point taken. it's funny, but those albums are defined in my head by their blurrier & softer aspects, but song for song, there's a lot of straight up action rock.

confusion is sex has a good amount of legit rockers: inhuman, world looks red, making the nature scene, etc.

There are soft/blurry tracks on Zeppelin and Sabbath albums too!

ZZ Top - Eliminator

Run-D.M.C. - King of Rock
Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill

lol I already know what's gonna happen to those

yeah dont think we can allow them

im sure a few tracks are totally eligible for the tracks poll however!

There are soft/blurry tracks on Zeppelin and Sabbath albums too!

i know, i'd just hate to see the pixies and sonic youth (though i love em both and the latter are maybe my favorite 80s rock band) wind up at the top of an explicitly anti-indie punk/hardrock/metal poll

oops, looks like the goalkeeper has spoken

:( about beastie boys and run-DMC. poop.

see, i'd LOVE to see run-DMC sweep a metal poll

Descendents - Milo Goes To College
Fire Party - s/t
Billy Idol - Rebel Yell
Kix - s/t
Loverboy - Get Lucky
Motorhead - Orgasmatron
My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything
Poison - Open Up And Say...Ahhh!
Replacements - Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out The Trash
Screaming Trees - Even If & Especially When
Three Johns - Atom Drum Bop
Warrant - Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich
Wipers - Youth Of America
Wipers - Over The Edge
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Re*Ac*Tor

It occurs to me that the criteria for eligibility seem pretty similar to those for Stairway to Hell (except that Run DMC made it into that iirc?).

xpost Ha, Kix nom!

That book is definitely responsible for me checking out at least 5 of those albums I nominated

Screaming Trees - Even If & Especially When
Three Johns - Atom Drum Bop
Wipers - Youth Of America

fuck yeah

its not a metal poll contenderizer. indie rock that rocks is fine. indie pop not

yeah, i geddit. anywayz...

The Gun Club - Fire of Love
The Cramps - Bad Music for Bad People (a comp, but definitive)

Slint - Tweez
Bitch Magnet - Umber
Bastro - Diablo Guapo

Drunks with Guns - Drunks with Guns (s/t on chopper)

Avengers - Avengers (s/t on civil defense)
Pagans - Buried Alive

^ two more artist comps

Thin Lizzy - Thunder and Lightning
English Dogs - Forward Into Battle

Dream Syndicate - The Days of Wine and Roses
The Lords of the New Church - The Method to Our Madness

Nick Cave + The Bad Seeds - Your Funeral, My Trial
Nick Cave + The Bad Seeds - Firstborn Is Dead

honestly I think Firstborn might qualify more as 'rock' for the blues thing but the formula's pretty much impenetrable, lol so I'll throw both out.

Agent Orange - Living in Darkness
The Pretenders - Pretenders II
Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance
Y&T - Open Fire (live)

the last vote's just for my own amusement

Indie pop cannot rock?

don't get too sad, tim, i think the boss rocks too but kerr won't let me nom him

la pop ne rock pas plus

rule out everything you've ever heard on the radio for a start

Except if it's pop metal.

Darklands is about as heavy as Tiny Tim which gives me some confusion from the off tbh

Dead Kennedys – Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Glenn Branca – The Ascension
Wipers – Youth of America
Minutemen – Double Nickels on the Dime
Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel – Nail
Beat Happening – Beat Happening
Einsturzende Neubauten – Haus der Lüge
Pixies – Surfer Rosa

Do Television Personalities fit i'd love to nominate them but maybe they're too twee? Also why has noone nominated the Pixies? Are they forbidden? If so I'm sorry.

smdh@ jamc

Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind

Beat Happening – Beat Happening

lmao

George Thorogood & The Destroyers - Bad to the Bone

D.R.I. - Dealing With It
Metallica - ...And Justice For All
Dead Milkmen - Beelzebubba

Do comps or soundtracks count?

plugz - better luck
crass - christ - the album
the ex - 1936 spanish revolution
minor threat - out of step
cows - daddy has a tail
pil - flowers of romance

Squirrel Bait - Skag Heaven
Thin White Rope - Moonhead
Live Skull - Dusted
MX-80 Sound - Out Of The Tunnel
Birthday Party - Junkyard
Halo of Flies - Garbageburn
Wolfhounds - Bright & Guilty

Also why has noone nominated the Pixies? Are they forbidden? If so I'm sorry.

Johnny had already nominated three Pixies albums!

Exciter: Long Live the Loud
Judas Priest: Defenders of the Faith
Helios Creed: The Last Laugh
Voivod: Dimension Hatross
Venom: Possessed
Celtic Frost: To Mega Therion
Loop: Fade Out (their pinnacle)
This Heat: Deceit

ok fine i can remove jamc

comps are ok if the artist has no full albums, but no greatest hits type things. (please point out if anything nominated is like that)

Ok so far we have
AC/DC - Back in Black
Agent Orange - Living in Darkness
Avengers - Avengers
Bad Brains - Bad Brains
Bad Brains - I Against I
Bad Brains - s/t
Band of Susans - Love Agenda
Bastro - Diablo Guapo
Bathory - Under The Sign Of The Black Mark
Beat Happening – Beat Happening
Big Black - Atomizer
Big Black - Songs About Fucking
Billy Idol - Rebel Yell
Birthday Party - Junkyard
Bitch Magnet - Umber
Black Flag - Damaged
Black Sabbath - Mob Rules
Blind Idiot God - Undertow
Blue Oyster Cult - Cultosaurus Erectus
Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet
Boredoms - Soul Discharge
Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
Candlemass -Nightfall
Capt Beefheart - Doc at the Radar Station
Capt Beefheart - Ice Cream for Crow
Carcass - Symphonies of Sickness
Celibate Rifles - The Turgid Miasma of Existence
Celtic Frost - Into the Pandemonium
Celtic Frost - Morbid Tales
Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion
Cheap Trick - One On One
Christian Death - Only Theatre of Pain
Chrome - Blood on the Moon
Chrome - Third From the Sun
Corrosion of Conformity - Animosity
Cosmic Psychos - Go the Hack
cows - daddy has a tail
crass - christ - the album
Cryptic Slaughter - Money Talks
D.R.I. - Dealing With It
Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit For Rotten Vegetables
Dead Milkmen - Beelzebubba
Death - Scream Bloody Gore
Def Leppard - Hysteria
Def Leppard - On Through the Night
Def Leppard - Pyromania
Descendents - Milo Goes To College
Didjits - Hey Judester
Dinosaur Jr - You're Living All Over Me
Dio - Holy Diver
Dio - Last In Line
Discharge - Hear Nothing, See Nothing, Say Nothing
Dream Syndicate - The Days of Wine and Roses
Drunks with Guns - Drunks with Guns
Einsturzende Neubauten – Haus der Lüge
Embrace - Embrace
English Dogs - Forward Into Battle
Exciter - Long Live the Loud
Exodus - Fabulous Disaster
Extreme Noise Terror - A Holocaust in Your Head
F/I - Space Mantra
Fire Party - s/t
fIREHOSE - Ragin', Full On
Flipper - Generic Flipper
Fugazi - Fugazi
Fugazi - Margin Walker
Game Theory - Big Shot Chronicles
George Thorogood & The Destroyers - Bad to the Bone
Glenn Branca - The Ascension
Godflesh - Streetcleaner
Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction
Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Halo of Flies - Garbageburn
Head Of David - Dustbowl
Head Of David - Head Of David
Helios Creed - Superior Catholic Finger
Helios Creed - The Last Laugh
Husker Du - Flip Your Wig
Husker Du - Metal Circus
Husker Du - New day Rising
Husker Du - Zen Arcade
Iron Maiden - Killers
Iron Maiden - Number Of The Beast
Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
Jesus And Mary Chain - Darklands
Joan Jett - Bad reputation
Judas Priest - British Steel
Judas Priest - Defenders of the Faith
Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance
Killdozer - Snake Boy
Killing Joke - Killing Joke
King Crimson - Discipline
King Diamond - Abigail
Kix - s/t
Last Exit - Köln
Lazy Cowgirls - Tapping the Source
Lemonheads - Hate Your Friends
Live Skull - Dusted
Living Colour - Vivid
Loop - Black Sun
Loop - The World in Your Eyes
Loop: - Fade Out
Loverboy - Get Lucky
Lyres - Lyres Lyres
Manowar - Fighting The World
Manowar - Sign of the Hammer
Masters Of Reality- Masters Of Reality
Meat Puppets- II
Megadeth - Peace Sells...But Who's Buying?
Melvins - Ozma
Mercyful Fate - Melissa
Metallica - ...And Justice For All
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Metallica - Ride The Lightning
Ministry - Land of Rape and Honey
Ministry - The Land of Rape and Honey
Minor Threat - Minor Threat
Minor Threat - out of step
Minutemen – Double Nickels on the Dime
Misfits - Legacy Of Brutality
Mission of Burma - Vs.
Motley Crue - Shout At The Devil
Motley Crue - Too Fast For Love
Motorhead - Ace of Spades
Motorhead - Orgasmatron
Mudhoney - Superfuzz Bigmuff
MX-80 Sound - Out Of The Tunnel
My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything
Naked Raygun - Throb Throb
Napalm Death - Scum
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Re*Ac*Tor
Nick Cave + The Bad Seeds - Firstborn Is Dead
Nick Cave + The Bad Seeds - Your Funeral, My Trial
Nirvana - Bleach
NoMeansNo - Wrong
Pagans - Buried Alive
pil - flowers of romance
Pixies - Come On Pilgrim
Pixies - Doolittle
Pixies - Surfer Rosa
plugz - better luck
Poison - Open Up And Say...Ahhh!
Pussy Galore - Dial 'M' for Motherfucker
Pussy Galore - Sugarshit Sharp
Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime
Ramones - End of the Century
Raw Power - Screams From the Gutter
Redd Kross - Neurotica
Redd Kross -Third Eye
Replacements - Let It Be
Replacements - Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out The Trash
Rites Of Spring - End on End
rites of spring - s/t
Rush - Moving Pictures
Saint Vitus - Born Too Late
Scorpions - Love At First Sting
Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel – Nail
Scratch Acid - s/t & Just Keep Eating
Screaming Trees - Buzz Factory
Screaming Trees - Even If & Especially When
Sisters of Mercy - Floodland
Skid Row - Slave to the Grind
Slayer - Reign in Blood
Slint - Tweez
Sonic Youth - Confusion Is Sex
Sonic Youth - Sister
Sonny Sharrock - Guitar
Soundgarden - Louder Than Love
Soundgarden - Ultra Mega OK
Spacemen 3 - Sound of Confusion
Squirrel Bait - Skag Heaven
Suicidal Tendencies - Institutionalized
Swans - Children Of God
Swans - Filth
The Birthday Party - Prayers on Fire
The Cult - Electric
The Cynics - Blue Train Station
the ex - 1936 spanish revolution
The Fall - Hex Enduction Houir
The Fall - Perverted by Language
The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace
The Fuzztones - Lysergic Emanations
The Gun Club - Fire of Love
The Gun Club - The Las Vegas Story
The Lords of the New Church - The Method to Our Madness
The Misfits - Walk Among Us
The Nomads - Outburst
The Pretenders - Pretenders II
The Scientists - Blood Red River
The Telescopes - Taste
Thee Mighty Caesars - English Punk Rock Explosion
Thin Lizzy - Thunder and Lightning
Thin White Rope - Moonhead
This Heat - Deceit
Three Johns - Atom Drum Bop
Throwing Muses - s/t
Throwing Muses - The Real Ramona
Trouble - Psalm 9
TSOL - Change Today?
Twisted Sister - Stay Hungry
Ut - Conviction
Van Halen - 1984
Venom - Possessed
Venom - Welcome to Hell
Voivod - Dimension Hatross
Voivod - Nothingface
Warrant - Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich
WASP - WASP
Wipers - Over The Edge
Wipers - Youth Of America
Wolfhounds - Bright & Guilty
X - Los Angeles
X - Wild Gift
Y&T - Open Fire
Young Gods - L'eau Rouge
ZZ Top - Eliminator

How completist are we being with this? Cuz if they're going to have representation as artists, Bathory's s/t and Blood Fire Death really need to be on there, as do Venom's Black Metal and At War With Satan, plus a lot of other things from other artists I'm sure. Is the concern excessive vote-splitting?

I meant like, soundtracks.

or like, flex your head or something

Not at all. Nominate it all.

Im not sure with soundtracks. I guess if its a soundtrack by the one artist and you wanna vote for it then its fine. (things may change once i see whats nominated obviously)

Can i remind you all to nominate tracks here Pfunkboy, Viceroy & emil.y productions present: the most rockingest tracks of the 1980s poll NOMINATIONS THREAD

^ i've nominated a few comps: the avengers s/t, the cramps bad music for bad people, and the pagans buried alive. each is the artist's definitive release, and none announces itself as a comp.

the avengers album was for ages the only full-length one might hope to find by the band, and while the pagans did put out one "proper album" during their lifetime, they've always been known for the clutch of singles collected on buried alive. bad music for bad people is thee essential cramps album, and none of these bands ever really had "hits" anyway.

I think genre polls are more forgiving where comps and/or soundtracks are concerned. Or they should be, at least.

How completist are we being with this? Cuz if they're going to have representation as artists, Bathory's s/t and Blood Fire Death really need to be on there, as do Venom's Black Metal and At War With Satan, plus a lot of other things from other artists I'm sure. Is the concern excessive vote-splitting?

― Clarke B., Wednesday, August 1, 2012 8:50 AM (3 minutes ago)

yes, the concern is vote-splitting. i nominated venom's in league with satan because it's my favorite venom album. i was hoping it would be the only venom album nominated, cuz that'd give it a better shot at finishing high, but if other people prefer black metal or w/e, then i figure they'll nominate it. the goal shouldn't be complete representation of an artist's output, it should be complete representation of the shit that ILM posters love above all else.

derp, venom's in league with satan WELCOME TO HELL, ffs

i do especially love that song, though

Unless others object then I guess those comps can count. Doesnt mean ALL comps are though. Will play it by ear.

Im happy for noms to be completist. Nothing worse than people complaining that their fave album ever ,that they could not be arsed to nominate , isnt included.

Not a popular choice, but Possessed is probably my fave! I'll vote for any Venom record on the list, though. I'm new to contributing to these, so I'm still getting the strategy straight.

Hi folks! Apparently I'm helping run this thing. Anything I can do for you? Warm Towells? Tea? Coffee?

also can I just nom:

Ministry - The Land of Rape and Honey

it appears to be there TWICE already haha

LOL nm then hah

Slovenly: We Shoot For the Moon
The Sound: Jeopardy
The Wedding Present: Bizarro

Would the Feelies qualify or do they not have ugly enough guitar tones?

Beat Happening – Beat Happening

lmao

― cock chirea

lol, sorry, I copy and pasted from my 'best indie albums' list and forgot to remove that one. It's definitely too twee, lo-fi, for this poll. Please remove it.

Would the Feelies qualify or do they not have ugly enough guitar tones?

― timellison, Wednesday, August 1, 2012 12:29 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This crossed my mind as well, but I decided they flop too much to rock enough for this list.

Naked City - Naked City

(Does that count?)

No Rickenbackers allowed?

black flag - jealous again
black flag - my war
black flag - slip it in
black flag - in my head
chrome - red exposure
cop shoot cop - headkick facsimile
cramps - songs the lord taught us
cramps - psychedelic jungle
cramps - smell of female
dinosaur - s/t
einsturzende neubauten - kollaps
einsturzende neubauten - drawings of OT
einsturzende neubauten - halber mensch
einsturzende neubauten - fuenf auf der nach oben offenen richterskala
halo of flies - singles going nowhere
kilslug - answer the call
live skull - s/t
live skull - bringing home the bait
live skull - cloud one
misfits - beware
misfits - earth AD
monster magnet - forget about life I'm high on dope
no trend ‎– when death won't solve your problem
scientists - this heart doesn't run on blood, this heart doesn't run on love
scientists - weird love
scraping foetus off the wheel - hole
skullflower - form destroyer
sonic youth - evol
swans - s/t
swans - cop
swans - public castration is a good idea

jesus christ edward III is me

hi me!

bauhaus - in the flat field
bauhaus - the sky's gone out
butthole surfers - a brown reason to live
butthole surfers - psychic... powerless... another man's sac
butthole surfers - rembrandt pussyhorse
butthole surfers - locust abortion technician
die kreuzen - s/t
dog faced hermans - humans fly
flesheaters - a minute to pray a second to die
grong grong - s/t
killdozer - intellectuals are the shoeshine boys of the ruling elite
lubricated goat - paddock of love

A certain poster not posting on ilx insists that Spacemen 3 be allowed and ive agreed.

also do us a favour and capitalize like the others do.

otherwise its harder to catch doubles

and clarke use - instead of : please

your wish is my command

Bauhaus - In The Flat Field
Bauhaus - The Sky'S Gone Out
Black Flag - In My Head
Black Flag - Jealous Again
Black Flag - My War
Black Flag - Slip It In
Butthole Surfers - A Brown Reason To Live
Butthole Surfers - Locust Abortion Technician
Butthole Surfers - Psychic... Powerless... Another Man'S Sac
Butthole Surfers - Rembrandt Pussyhorse
Chrome - Red Exposure
Cop Shoot Cop - Headkick Facsimile
Cramps - Psychedelic Jungle
Cramps - Smell Of Female
Cramps - Songs The Lord Taught Us
Die Kreuzen - S/T
Dinosaur - S/T
Dog Faced Hermans - Humans Fly
Einsturzende Neubauten - Drawings Of Ot
Einsturzende Neubauten - Fuenf Auf Der Nach Oben Offenen Richterskala
Einsturzende Neubauten - Halber Mensch
Einsturzende Neubauten - Kollaps
Flesheaters - A Minute To Pray A Second To Die
Grong Grong - S/T
Halo Of Flies - Singles Going Nowhere
Killdozer - Intellectuals Are The Shoeshine Boys Of The Ruling Elite
Kilslug - Answer The Call
Live Skull - Bringing Home The Bait
Live Skull - Cloud One
Live Skull - S/T
Lubricated Goat - Paddock Of Love
Misfits - Beware
Misfits - Earth Ad
Monster Magnet - Forget About Life I'M High On Dope
No Trend ‎– When Death Won'T Solve Your Problem
Scientists - This Heart Doesn'T Run On Blood, This Heart Doesn'T Run On Love
Scientists - Weird Love
Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel - Hole
Skullflower - Form Destroyer
Sonic Youth - Evol
Swans - Cop
Swans - Public Castration Is A Good Idea
Swans - S/T

Various Artists - Repo Man Soundtrack
Metallica - Kill 'Em All
Melvins - Gluey Porch Treatments
Electro Hippies - The Only Good Punk... Is A Dead One
Mission of Burma - Signals, Calls, and Marches
Saint Vitus - V
Faith No More - Introduce Yourself
Faith No More - The Real Thing
Rapeman - Two Nuns and a Pack Mule
Megadeth - Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good!
Megadeth - So Far, So Good... So What
Dinosaur Jr - Bug
Squirrel Bait - Squirrel Bait
Poison Idea - Kings of Punk
Napalm Death - From Enslavement to Obliteration
Obituary - Slowly We Rot
Void/Faith Split LP

I'm sure I'll think of some more, there must be loads of fun glam and hard rock records not on the list.

thanks

no various artists comps!

also I suspect "the" will be your enemy, not capitalization, when it comes to spotting duplicates

xp

oops sorry xp

though that Repo Man ST was one of the first things I thought of!

A certain poster not posting on ilx insists that Spacemen 3 be allowed and ive agreed.

like the jesus & mary chain, their first album should definitely be included. beyond that, i'd be inclined to quibble.

are v/a comps allowed? because if so

Various Artists - Dope-Guns-'N-Fucking in the Streets Volume 1-3

xpost well shit never mind

AC/DC - Back in Black
Agent Orange - Living in Darkness
AR kane - 69
Avengers - Avengers
Bad Brains - Bad Brains
Bad Brains - I Against I
Bad Brains - s/t
Band of Susans - Love Agenda
Bastro - Diablo Guapo
Bathory - Under The Sign Of The Black Mark
Bauhaus - In The Flat Field
Bauhaus - The Sky'S Gone Out
Beat Happening – Beat Happening
Big Black - Atomizer
Big Black - Songs About Fucking
Billy Idol - Rebel Yell
Birthday Party - Junkyard
Bitch Magnet - Umber
Black Flag - Damaged
Black Flag - In My Head
Black Flag - Jealous Again
Black Flag - My War
Black Flag - Slip It In
Black Sabbath - Mob Rules
Blind Idiot God - Undertow
Blue Oyster Cult - Cultosaurus Erectus
Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet
Boredoms - Soul Discharge
Butthole Surfers - A Brown Reason To Live
Butthole Surfers - Locust Abortion Technician
Butthole Surfers - Psychic... Powerless... Another Man'S Sac
Butthole Surfers - Rembrandt Pussyhorse
Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
Candlemass -Nightfall
Capt Beefheart - Doc at the Radar Station
Capt Beefheart - Ice Cream for Crow
Carcass - Symphonies of Sickness
Celibate Rifles - The Turgid Miasma of Existence
Celtic Frost - Into the Pandemonium
Celtic Frost - Morbid Tales
Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion
Cheap Trick - One On One
Christian Death - Only Theatre of Pain
Chrome - Blood on the Moon
Chrome - Red Exposure
Chrome - Third From the Sun
Cop Shoot Cop - Headkick Facsimile
Corrosion of Conformity - Animosity
Cosmic Psychos - Go the Hack
cows - daddy has a tail
Cramps - Psychedelic Jungle
Cramps - Smell Of Female
Cramps - Songs The Lord Taught Us
crass - christ - the album
Cryptic Slaughter - Money Talks
D.R.I. - Dealing With It
Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit For Rotten Vegetables
Dead Milkmen - Beelzebubba
Death - Scream Bloody Gore
Def Leppard - Hysteria
Def Leppard - On Through the Night
Def Leppard - Pyromania
Descendents - Milo Goes To College
Didjits - Hey Judester
Die Kreuzen - S/T
Dinosaur - S/T
Dinosaur Jr - Bug
Dinosaur Jr - You're Living All Over Me
Dio - Holy Diver
Dio - Last In Line
Discharge - Hear Nothing, See Nothing, Say Nothing
Dog Faced Hermans - Humans Fly
Dream Syndicate - The Days of Wine and Roses
Drunks with Guns - Drunks with Guns
Einsturzende Neubauten - Drawings Of Ot
Einsturzende Neubauten - Fuenf Auf Der Nach Oben Offenen Richterskala
Einsturzende Neubauten - Halber Mensch
Einsturzende Neubauten – Haus der Lüge
Einsturzende Neubauten - Kollaps
Electro Hippies - The Only Good Punk... Is A Dead One
Embrace - Embrace
English Dogs - Forward Into Battle
Exciter - Long Live the Loud
Exodus - Fabulous Disaster
Extreme Noise Terror - A Holocaust in Your Head
F/I - Space Mantra
Faith No More - Introduce Yourself
Faith No More - The Real Thing
Fire Party - s/t
fIREHOSE - Ragin', Full On
Flesheaters - A Minute To Pray A Second To Die
Flipper - Generic Flipper
Fugazi - Fugazi
Fugazi - Margin Walker
Game Theory - Big Shot Chronicles
George Thorogood & The Destroyers - Bad to the Bone
Glenn Branca - The Ascension
Godflesh - Streetcleaner
Grong Grong - S/T
Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction
Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Halo of Flies - Garbageburn
Halo Of Flies - Singles Going Nowhere
Head Of David - Dustbowl
Head Of David - Head Of David
Helios Creed - Superior Catholic Finger
Helios Creed - The Last Laugh
Husker Du - Flip Your Wig
Husker Du - Metal Circus
Husker Du - New day Rising
Husker Du - Zen Arcade
Iron Maiden - Killers
Iron Maiden - Number Of The Beast
Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
Jesus And Mary Chain - Darklands
Joan Jett - Bad reputation
Judas Priest - British Steel
Judas Priest - Defenders of the Faith
Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance
Killdozer - Intellectuals Are The Shoeshine Boys Of The Ruling Elite
Killdozer - Snake Boy
Killing Joke - Killing Joke
Kilslug - Answer The Call
King Crimson - Discipline
King Diamond - Abigail
Kix - s/t
Last Exit - Köln
Lazy Cowgirls - Tapping the Source
Lemonheads - Hate Your Friends
Live Skull - Bringing Home The Bait
Live Skull - Cloud One
Live Skull - Dusted
Live Skull - S/T
Living Colour - Vivid
Loop - Black Sun
Loop - The World in Your Eyes
Loop: - Fade Out
Loverboy - Get Lucky
Lubricated Goat - Paddock Of Love
Lyres - Lyres Lyres
Manowar - Fighting The World
Manowar - Sign of the Hammer
Masters Of Reality- Masters Of Reality
Meat Puppets- II
Megadeth - Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good!
Megadeth - Peace Sells...But Who's Buying?
Megadeth - So Far, So Good... So What
Melvins - Gluey Porch Treatments
Melvins - Ozma
Mercyful Fate - Melissa
Metallica - ...And Justice For All
Metallica - Kill 'Em All
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Metallica - Ride The Lightning
Ministry - The Land of Rape and Honey
Minor Threat - Minor Threat
Minor Threat - out of step
Minutemen – Double Nickels on the Dime
Misfits - Beware
Misfits - Earth Ad
Misfits - Legacy Of Brutality
Mission of Burma - Signals, Calls, and Marches
Mission of Burma - Vs.
Monster Magnet - Forget About Life I'M High On Dope
Motley Crue - Shout At The Devil
Motley Crue - Too Fast For Love
Motorhead - Ace of Spades
Motorhead - Orgasmatron
Mudhoney - Superfuzz Bigmuff
MX-80 Sound - Out Of The Tunnel
My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything
Naked City - Naked City
Naked Raygun - Throb Throb
Napalm Death - From Enslavement to Obliteration
Napalm Death - Scum
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Re*Ac*Tor
Nick Cave + The Bad Seeds - Firstborn Is Dead
Nick Cave + The Bad Seeds - Your Funeral, My Trial
Nirvana - Bleach
No Trend ‎– When Death Won'T Solve Your Problem
NoMeansNo - Wrong
Obituary - Slowly We Rot
Pagans - Buried Alive
pil - flowers of romance
Pixies - Come On Pilgrim
Pixies - Doolittle
Pixies - Surfer Rosa
plugz - better luck
Poison - Open Up And Say...Ahhh!
Poison Idea - Kings of Punk
Pussy Galore - Dial 'M' for Motherfucker
Pussy Galore - Sugarshit Sharp
Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime
Ramones - End of the Century
Rapeman - Two Nuns and a Pack Mule
Raw Power - Screams From the Gutter
Redd Kross - Neurotica
Redd Kross -Third Eye
Replacements - Let It Be
Replacements - Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out The Trash
Rites Of Spring - End on End
rites of spring - s/t
Rush - Moving Pictures
Saint Vitus - Born Too Late
Saint Vitus - V
Scientists - This Heart Doesn'T Run On Blood, This Heart Doesn'T Run On Love
Scientists - Weird Love
Scorpions - Love At First Sting
Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel - Hole
Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel – Nail
Scratch Acid - s/t & Just Keep Eating
Screaming Trees - Buzz Factory
Screaming Trees - Even If & Especially When
Sisters of Mercy - Floodland
Skid Row - Slave to the Grind
Skullflower - Form Destroyer
Slayer - Reign in Blood
Slint - Tweez
Slovenly - We Shoot For the Moon
Sonic Youth - Confusion Is Sex
Sonic Youth - Evol
Sonic Youth - Sister
Sonny Sharrock - Guitar
Soundgarden - Louder Than Love
Soundgarden - Ultra Mega OK
Spacemen 3 - A Perfect Prescription
Spacemen 3 - Playing With Fire
Spacemen 3 - Sound of Confusion
Squirrel Bait - Skag Heaven
Squirrel Bait - Squirrel Bait
Suicidal Tendencies - Institutionalized
Swans - Children Of God
Swans - Cop
Swans - Filth
Swans - Public Castration Is A Good Idea
Swans - S/T
The Birthday Party - Prayers on Fire
The Cult - Electric
The Cynics - Blue Train Station
the ex - 1936 spanish revolution
The Fall - Hex Enduction Houir
The Fall - Perverted by Language
The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace
The Fuzztones - Lysergic Emanations
The Gun Club - Fire of Love
The Gun Club - The Las Vegas Story
The Jesus And Mary Chain - Psychocandy
The Lords of the New Church - The Method to Our Madness
The Misfits - Walk Among Us
The Nomads - Outburst
The Pretenders - Pretenders II
The Scientists - Blood Red River
The Sound -Jeopardy
The Telescopes - Taste
The Wedding Present - Bizarro
Thee Mighty Caesars - English Punk Rock Explosion
Thin Lizzy - Thunder and Lightning
Thin White Rope - Moonhead
This Heat - Deceit
Three Johns - Atom Drum Bop
Throwing Muses - s/t
Throwing Muses - The Real Ramona
Trouble - Psalm 9
TSOL - Change Today?
Twisted Sister - Stay Hungry
Ut - Conviction
Van Halen - 1984
Venom - Possessed
Venom - Welcome to Hell
Void/Faith Split LP
Voivod - Dimension Hatross
Voivod - Nothingface
Warrant - Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich
WASP - WASP
Wipers - Over The Edge
Wipers - Youth Of America
Wolfhounds - Bright & Guilty
X - Los Angeles
X - Wild Gift
Y&T - Open Fire
Young Gods - L'eau Rouge
ZZ Top - Eliminator

shaping up pretty well tbh

The Del Fuegos - The Longest Day
The Del Lords - Johnny Comes Marching Home
Screaming Blue Messiahs - Gun-Shy
Godfathers - Birth, School, Work, Death
Hoodoo Gurus - Mars Needs Guitars
Dog Faced Hermans - Every Day Timebomb
bIG fLAME - Rigour 1983-1986
Gang of Four - Solid Gold
AC Temple - Sourpuss

wasn't sure about Go4 but i decided solid gold rock hard enough and deserves to be included

Mother Love Bone - Shine

I'll stan for V/A comps in a genre poll, especially things like Dope, Guns, etc... and Repo Man. And Heavy Metal or Decline of Western Civilation or whatever. This is a genre poll!

X - More Fun In the New World
ZZ Top - El Loco

(really glad that first die kreuzen album got nominated)

I think the only Spacemen 3 I've heard might be from the first album. Did they go in an indie-pop direction afterwards?

no

not really, but they get a lot more quiet & gentle within the same general framework (hypnotic psyche drones)

Anyway they got 3 albums in

not that it matters much, but their second album is called The Perfect Prescription

That PIL album really counts? Is there even any guitar on it?

i dunno it

im relying on people pointing out these things. noone can know everything ever made!

Lol, that PiL album is abrasive as hell...but yeah, I think it might be completely guitarless.

does it ROCK!? as y'know industrial stuff can rock with no guitars. Abrasive is a good quality for the poll.

It's totally abrasive. (I think there's some processed guitar noise in the background on some tracks.) And I nominated Naked City and Sonny Sharrock for a 'rock' poll so I won't be really hardcore about this. I just thought we were going for more of a heavy electric guitar aesthetic.

I won't be really hardcore about this.

like about arguing this; obviously, it's not up to me.

(It doesn't rock in any sense in which I would use the term.)

Btw
Sonny Sharrock - Seize the Rainbow

the flowers of romance rocks based on drums only... banging the door is f'kn heavy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMbAgiTN2gM

that suicidal tendencies album is s/t, it's not called institutionalized

Dead Kennedys - Plastic Surgery Disasters
Dicks - Kill from the Heart
Dicks - These People
Fear - The Record
Minutemen - The Punch Line
Minutemen - What Makes a Man Start Fires?
Saccharine Trust - Pagan Icons
SS Decontrol - The Kids Will Have Their Say

man I forgot how good these people by the dicks is

that suicidal tendencies album is s/t, it's not called institutionalized

duh, 2nd time i've subbed a track for an album title

Guys, things can definitely rock without guitars. However, I'm honestly not sure if AG is gonna let me have this next nomination...

Art Bears - The World As It Is Today

If not there are definitely a couple of tracks that can go on the singles poll.

the flowers of romance rocks based on drums only... banging the door is f'kn heavy

i often think that heaviness and rockingness are opposing forces held in complementary tension. like the extreme of rocking = thin, fast, syncopated, aggressive but relatively light-bodied shit like chuck berry and jerry lee lewis. not at all heavy. and the extreme of heaviness is crawling brutal sludge like early swans or boris, shit that has less sense of how to rock than "candle in the wind".

It doesnt have to be heavy per se. this is not an exclusively metal poll. heavy noisy abrasive are all good descriptions. Intense rock is good. Though noone else might get what i mean (unless they look a
t my noms)

most people seem to get it with their nominations so far though

i have no idea if art bears should count. Can anyone help me out here?

It's cool that we're doing the 80s. The 80s had rock, but I don't think of it as a particularly ROCK decade. Even a lot of the glam metal I'll eventually get around to nominating is really just pop music with power chords.

I bet you thought I wouldnt allow it!

Naw, I knew the time would come eventually.

The thing about the 80s is (even though there's a definite rock underground) the whole decade seems coated in affected and stagey sheen with very little "real" peeking through. I realize that's painting with a broad brush, but it's my overwhelming impression of the music made in those years. Not that that's a bad thing...I love a ton of 80s music. In fact, I probably love more music from the 80s than any other decade (except for maybe the 60s).

i think that definitely feels true in relation to the 90s, when being "real" in an unaffected sense became a big priority in american pop culture. but i'm not sure that it really means much.

the disguise-wearing of 80s pop and rock (whether it be cartoonish mainstream stars like motley crue and cindy lauper, or equally exaggerated underground artists like the butthole surfers and jim foetus) allowed an authenticity of emotional and imaginative expression that the mask of ordinary, quotidian realness forbids.

It doesnt have to be heavy per se. this is not an exclusively metal poll. heavy noisy abrasive are all good descriptions. Intense rock is good. Though noone else might get what i mean (unless they look at my noms)

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Wednesday, August 1, 2012 11:41 AM (1 hour ago)

oh yeah, i know. i wasn't trying to police your poll, just thinking out loud about rock vs heavy.

lol Art Bears! They definitely rock. Allow it.

I mean this is pretty much mental metal without guitars:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHFwdvx2Dq4

I don't really understand this poll but...

Bailter Space ‎– Tanker
The Gordons - The Gordons
Killing Joke - Night Time
That Petrol Emotion - Manic Pop Thrill
Bolt Thrower - In Battle There Is No Law

Stiff Little Fingers - Nobody's Heroes

can someone please link me to this indie poll that a few people have mentioned?

Need to find out when we can do the voting and results. I suppose a longer voting period may be no bad thing.

the indie pop/college rock poll will almost certainly need to be done next year though , when i had the idea for the 2 polls i didnt realise so many polls were in the queue. but im sure timellison can wait.

I think people talked about the prospect of a college rock poll, but it's yet to be organized.

what about the 80s indie songs poll?

AC Temple - Sourpuss
AC/DC - Back in Black
Agent Orange - Living in Darkness
AR kane - 69
Art Bears - The World As It Is Today
Avengers - Avengers
Bad Brains - Bad Brains
Bad Brains - I Against I
Bad Brains - s/t
Bailter Space ‎– Tanker
Band of Susans - Love Agenda
Bastro - Diablo Guapo
Bathory - Under The Sign Of The Black Mark
Bauhaus - In The Flat Field
Bauhaus - The Sky'S Gone Out
Beat Happening – Beat Happening
Big Black - Atomizer
Big Black - Songs About Fucking
bIG fLAME - Rigour 1983-1986
Billy Idol - Rebel Yell
Birthday Party - Junkyard
Bitch Magnet - Umber
Black Flag - Damaged
Black Flag - In My Head
Black Flag - Jealous Again
Black Flag - My War
Black Flag - Slip It In
Black Sabbath - Mob Rules
Blind Idiot God - Undertow
Blue Oyster Cult - Cultosaurus Erectus
Bolt Thrower - In Battle There Is No Law
Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet
Boredoms - Soul Discharge
Butthole Surfers - A Brown Reason To Live
Butthole Surfers - Locust Abortion Technician
Butthole Surfers - Psychic... Powerless... Another Man'S Sac
Butthole Surfers - Rembrandt Pussyhorse
Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
Candlemass -Nightfall
Capt Beefheart - Doc at the Radar Station
Capt Beefheart - Ice Cream for Crow
Carcass - Symphonies of Sickness
Celibate Rifles - The Turgid Miasma of Existence
Celtic Frost - Into the Pandemonium
Celtic Frost - Morbid Tales
Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion
Cheap Trick - One On One
Christian Death - Only Theatre of Pain
Chrome - Blood on the Moon
Chrome - Red Exposure
Chrome - Third From the Sun
Cop Shoot Cop - Headkick Facsimile
Corrosion of Conformity - Animosity
Cosmic Psychos - Go the Hack
cows - daddy has a tail
Cramps - Psychedelic Jungle
Cramps - Smell Of Female
Cramps - Songs The Lord Taught Us
crass - christ - the album
Cro-Mags - Best Wishes
Cryptic Slaughter - Money Talks
D.R.I. - Dealing With It
Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit For Rotten Vegetables
Dead Kennedys - Plastic Surgery Disasters
Dead Milkmen - Beelzebubba
Death - Scream Bloody Gore
Def Leppard - Hysteria
Def Leppard - On Through the Night
Def Leppard - Pyromania
Descendents - Milo Goes To College
Dicks - Kill from the Heart
Dicks - These People
Didjits - Hey Judester
Die Kreuzen - S/T
Dinosaur - S/T
Dinosaur Jr - Bug
Dinosaur Jr - You're Living All Over Me
Dio - Holy Diver
Dio - Last In Line
Discharge - Hear Nothing, See Nothing, Say Nothing
Dog Faced Hermans - Every Day Timebomb
Dog Faced Hermans - Humans Fly
Dream Syndicate - The Days of Wine and Roses
Drunks with Guns - Drunks with Guns
Einsturzende Neubauten - Drawings Of Ot
Einsturzende Neubauten - Fuenf Auf Der Nach Oben Offenen Richterskala
Einsturzende Neubauten - Halber Mensch
Einsturzende Neubauten – Haus der Lüge
Einsturzende Neubauten - Kollaps
Electro Hippies - The Only Good Punk... Is A Dead One
Embrace - Embrace
English Dogs - Forward Into Battle
Exciter - Long Live the Loud
Exodus - Fabulous Disaster
Extreme Noise Terror - A Holocaust in Your Head
F/I - Space Mantra
Faith No More - Introduce Yourself
Faith No More - The Real Thing
Fear - The Record
Fire Party - s/t
fIREHOSE - Ragin', Full On
Flesheaters - A Minute To Pray A Second To Die
Flipper - Generic Flipper
Fugazi - Fugazi
Fugazi - Margin Walker
Fushitsusha - Live I
Game Theory - Big Shot Chronicles
Gang of Four - Solid Gold
George Thorogood & The Destroyers - Bad to the Bone
Glenn Branca - The Ascension
Godfathers - Birth, School, Work, Death
Godflesh - Streetcleaner
Grong Grong - S/T
Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction
Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Halo of Flies - Garbageburn
Halo Of Flies - Singles Going Nowhere
Head Of David - Dustbowl
Head Of David - Head Of David
Helios Creed - Superior Catholic Finger
Helios Creed - The Last Laugh
Hoodoo Gurus - Mars Needs Guitars
Husker Du - Flip Your Wig
Husker Du - Metal Circus
Husker Du - New day Rising
Husker Du - Zen Arcade
Iron Maiden - Killers
Iron Maiden - Number Of The Beast
Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
Jesus And Mary Chain - Darklands
Joan Jett - Bad reputation
Judas Priest - British Steel
Judas Priest - Defenders of the Faith
Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance
Killdozer - Intellectuals Are The Shoeshine Boys Of The Ruling Elite
Killdozer - Snake Boy
Killing Joke - Killing Joke
Killing Joke - Night Time
Kilslug - Answer The Call
King Crimson - Discipline
King Diamond - Abigail
Kix - s/t
Last Exit - Köln
Lazy Cowgirls - Tapping the Source
Lemonheads - Hate Your Friends
Live Skull - Bringing Home The Bait
Live Skull - Cloud One
Live Skull - Dusted
Live Skull - Dusted
Live Skull - S/T
Living Colour - Vivid
Loop - Black Sun
Loop - The World in Your Eyes
Loop: - Fade Out
Loverboy - Get Lucky
Lubricated Goat - Paddock Of Love
Lyres - Lyres Lyres
Manowar - Fighting The World
Manowar - Sign of the Hammer
Masters Of Reality- Masters Of Reality
Meat Puppets - Huevos
Meat Puppets - Monster
Meat Puppets- II
Megadeth - Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good!
Megadeth - Peace Sells...But Who's Buying?
Megadeth - So Far, So Good... So What
Melvins - Gluey Porch Treatments
Melvins - Ozma
Mercyful Fate - Melissa
Metallica - ...And Justice For All
Metallica - Kill 'Em All
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Metallica - Ride The Lightning
Ministry - Land of Rape and Honey
Ministry - The Land of Rape and Honey
Minor Threat - Minor Threat
Minor Threat - out of step
Minutemen – Double Nickels on the Dime
Minutemen - The Punch Line
Minutemen - What Makes a Man Start Fires?
Misfits - Beware
Misfits - Earth Ad
Misfits - Legacy Of Brutality
Mission of Burma - Signals, Calls, and Marches
Mission of Burma - Vs.
Monster Magnet - Forget About Life I'M High On Dope
Mother Love Bone - Shine
Motley Crue - Shout At The Devil
Motley Crue - Too Fast For Love
Motorhead - Ace of Spades
Motorhead - Orgasmatron
Mudhoney - Superfuzz Bigmuff
MX-80 Sound - Out Of The Tunnel
My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything
Naked City - Naked City
Naked Raygun - Throb Throb
Napalm Death - From Enslavement to Obliteration
Napalm Death - From Enslavement To Obliteration
Napalm Death - Scum
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Re*Ac*Tor
Nick Cave + The Bad Seeds - Firstborn Is Dead
Nick Cave + The Bad Seeds - Your Funeral, My Trial
Nirvana - Bleach
No Trend ‎– When Death Won'T Solve Your Problem
NoMeansNo - Wrong
Obituary - Slowly We Rot
Pagans - Buried Alive
pil - flowers of romance
Pixies - Come On Pilgrim
Pixies - Doolittle
Pixies - Surfer Rosa
plugz - better luck
Poison - Open Up And Say...Ahhh!
Poison Idea - Kings of Punk
Pop Group - For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder
Pussy Galore - Dial 'M' for Motherfucker
Pussy Galore - Sugarshit Sharp
Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime
Ramones - End of the Century
Rapeman - Two Nuns and a Pack Mule
Raw Power - Screams From the Gutter
Redd Kross - Neurotica
Redd Kross -Third Eye
Replacements - Let It Be
Replacements - Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out The Trash
Rites Of Spring - End on End
rites of spring - s/t
Royal Trux - Royal Trux
Rush - Moving Pictures
Saccharine Trust - Pagan Icons
Saint Vitus - Born Too Late
Saint Vitus - V
Scientists - This Heart Doesn'T Run On Blood, This Heart Doesn'T Run On Love
Scientists - Weird Love
Scorpions - Love At First Sting
Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel - Hole
Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel – Nail
Scratch Acid - s/t & Just Keep Eating
Screaming Blue Messiahs - Gun-Shy
Screaming Trees - Buzz Factory
Screaming Trees - Even If & Especially When
Sisters of Mercy - Floodland
Skid Row - Slave to the Grind
Skullflower - Form Destroyer
Slayer - Reign in Blood
Slint - Tweez
Slovenly - We Shoot For the Moon
Sonic Youth - Confusion Is Sex
Sonic Youth - Evol
Sonic Youth - Sister
Sonny Sharrock - Guitar
Sonny Sharrock - Seize the Rainbow
Soundgarden - Louder Than Love
Soundgarden - Ultra Mega OK
Spacemen 3 - Playing With Fire
Spacemen 3 - Sound of Confusion
Spacemen 3 - The Perfect Prescription
Squirrel Bait - Skag Heaven
Squirrel Bait - Squirrel Bait
SS Decontrol - The Kids Will Have Their Say
Stiff Little Fingers - Nobody's Heroes
Suicidal Tendencies - Institutionalized
Swans - Children Of God
Swans - Cop
Swans - Filth
Swans - Public Castration Is A Good Idea
Swans - S/T
That Petrol Emotion - Manic Pop Thrill
The Birthday Party - Prayers on Fire
The Cult - Electric
The Cynics - Blue Train Station
The Del Fuegos - The Longest Day
The Del Lords - Johnny Comes Marching Home
the ex - 1936 spanish revolution
The Fall - Hex Enduction Houir
The Fall - Perverted by Language
The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace
The Fuzztones - Lysergic Emanations
The Gordons - The Gordons
The Gun Club - Fire of Love
The Gun Club - The Las Vegas Story
The Jesus And Mary Chain - Psychocandy
The Lords of the New Church - The Method to Our Madness
The Misfits - Walk Among Us
The Nomads - Outburst
The Pretenders - Pretenders II
The Scientists - Blood Red River
The Sound -Jeopardy
The Telescopes - Taste
The Wedding Present - Bizarro
Thee Mighty Caesars - English Punk Rock Explosion
Thin Lizzy - Thunder and Lightning
Thin White Rope - Moonhead
This Heat - Deceit
Three Johns - Atom Drum Bop
Throwing Muses - s/t
Throwing Muses - The Real Ramona
Trouble - Psalm 9
TSOL - Change Today?
Twisted Sister - Stay Hungry
Ut - Conviction
Van Halen - 1984
Venom - Possessed
Venom - Welcome to Hell
Void/Faith Split LP
Voivod - Dimension Hatross
Voivod - Nothingface
Warrant - Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich
WASP - WASP
Wipers - Over The Edge
Wipers - Youth Of America
Wolfhounds - Bright & Guilty
X - Los Angeles
X - More Fun In the New World
X - Wild Gift
Y&T - Open Fire
Young Gods - L'eau Rouge
ZZ Top - El Loco
ZZ Top - Eliminator

looks pretty solid so far... can't wait for the 200+ more noms that will get 1 vote (maybe).

Savage Republic - Tragic Figures
Skids - The Absolute Game
Slovenly - Thinking of Empire
Swell Maps - ...In Jane From Occupied Europe
Ut - In Gut's House

well, ffs...

The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy

ilx is apparently not big on east coast hardcore

what about the 80s indie songs poll?
If this is a thing that is happening, I've not been made aware.

I don't really understand this poll

I thought I did and am less sure now but I still like most of the music that is eligible.

Volcano Suns - All Night Lotus Party
Squirrel Bait - Skag Heaven
Circle Jerks - Golden Shower of Hits
Red Kross - Red Kross EP (aka "Annette's Got the His")

^ oops, skag heaven already nommed

Crass - Penis Envy
Crass - Yes Sir I Will

ilx is apparently not big on east coast hardcore

Then nominate it. I thought hardcore might dominate the poll but honestly got no idea what will. But thats fun innit?

lol, i'm not big on it either. just sort of a funny omission. figure someone here has to know and love the stuff.

lol contenderizer, you're like the UN :)

I'm sure it will be. Ive not even properly researched stuff i want to nominate, just adding stuff that pops into my head.

nakh gave me a good link
http://www.scaruffi.com/ratings/80.html

I nominated SS decontrol what more do you want

it will be handy for an indiepop/college rock poll too
xp

Brooce is on that list fyi :D

yes i know. hes also in the big 80s poll results ilm did. but not in this poll!

;_;

Paul Chain - Violet Art Of Improvisation
Paul Chain Violet Theatre - Detaching From Satan EP

Brooce ;_;

Bad Brains - S/T
Cro-Mags - The Age of Quarrel
D.R.I. - Crossover

The Meatmen - We're The Meatmen...and You Suck!!

Naked Raygun - Jettison
Soul Asylum - Hang Time

Wonder where Sean is with the thrash and the hair metal

Sore Throat - Death to Capitalist Hardcore
Terrorizer - World Downfall

i expect lots of thrash,grind and death metal to appear in the list shortly.

but in the meantime...

Girl Trouble - Hit It or Quit It
The Fluid - Clear Black Paper
Dwarves - Horror Stories

Dwarves - Tooling for a Warm Teabag

give a bit more time I have some videotapes to return...

The Three O'Clock - Arrive Without Travelling

Are the Jam eligible or ineligible because of the Rickenbacker?

Never got an answer on the Feelies.

tim you are more butthurt than a tory mp in a dungeon in soho

any no to the feelies and no to 80s the jam

Cheers.

Three O'Clock were pretty rocking, though. Drummer sounded like he was playing in the Sweet or something and pretty punchy guitar on stuff like "Her Head's Revolving."

Always meant to listen to them so will get back to you on them.
ps its nothing personal knocking back album noms.

And all of that stuff will be eligible for a follow up indiepop/college rock poll

It's a subject I'm interested in, anyway. I just wonder if there are inconsistencies - I mean why no Jam yes Lyres?

i nominated lyres. don't mess.

plus they garage. is rocks by definition.

Or like I wonder if Sire-era Flamin Groovies would have been eligible.

Anthrax - Among The Living
Bauhaus - Burning From The Inside
Bauhaus - In the Flat Field
Bauhaus - Mask
Bauhaus - The Sky's Gone Out
Black Sabbath - Heaven And Hell
Death - Leprosy
Depeche Mode - Black Celebration
Depeche Mode - Music for the Masses
Exodus - Bonded By Blood
Kreator - Pleasure To Kill
Ministry - The Land Of Rape And Honey
Ministry - The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste
Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness
N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
Primus - Suck On This
Repulsion - Horrified
S.O.D. - Speak English Or Die
Sepultura - Beneath the Remains
Skinny Puppy - Cleanse Fold And Manipulate
Skinny Puppy - Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse
Skinny Puppy - VIVIsectVI
Slayer - Hell Awaits
Slayer - South Of Heaven
Testament - The Legacy
Testament - The New Order
The Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique

FYI: Skid Row - Slave To The Grind was 1991

dammit

plus i already tried with the beastie boys. no go, apparently. assume the same will apply to NWA.

though the logic by which an "albums that rock" poll includes the likes of foetus and (perhaps) skinny puppy while excluding the beastie boys and run-DMC will forever be obscure to me....

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Freaky Styley
Fishbone - Truth and Soul

So how does this work, are we just suggesting albums for a poll that will come at a later date?

though the logic by which an "albums that rock" poll includes the likes of foetus and (perhaps) skinny puppy while excluding the beastie boys and run-DMC will forever be obscure to me....

Yeah, I thought I got it until Flowers of Romance was OK.

yeah rocky a poll is forthcoming just need to arrange when we can actually do the results due to another poll that's out there. Nominations usually last 2 weeks then we vote,so the voting will last until we can do the results. But the voting period is normally 2 weeks, but mightbe longer this time. Will need to wait and see.

Did we have a yes or no on live albums?

i'm not sure. i guess why not

I voted for Y&T's Open Fire which is a live album

though if it got bounced I doubt it'd be for that reason alone, lol

Can a live album not rock? Can a various artists comp not rock? SO MANY RULES.

SO MANY TROLLS

I'm honestly not trolling. Trolls don't have any interest in the topic they troll. I'm interested in this. I just wonder what the justification is for disqualifying perfectly reasonable things (like v/a comps, soundtracks) on what amounts to a personal preference. Rock's not about rules.

(Also, Beastie Boys, Run-DMC and Public Enemy are all three squarely positioned in the rock canon, but I won't go there with you over that.)

(I mean, if The Boss is disqualified, there's no way to convince you those three acts belong.)

you do it every poll i run. its part of the poll tradition now. Along with you saying we fix the results..

Stop, Kerr. I'm not trolling. And I've apologized for that accusation now a hundred times, and if you bring it up again it's going to start making YOU look bad.

My point is this...being more inclusive with nominations rather than exclusive makes these totally meaningless exercises more fun and less contentious. It's not like we're engaging in geoglobal politics here. It's a poll on a music forum.

plus that's kerry on "no sleep" and "fight for your right"

KERRY

^ trolling

I dunno, personally it's kinda fun to try to participate in a poll with pretty rigid rules. I mean my tastes are almost embarrassingly mainstream compared to the rest of you fuckers so if I can get a kick out of this, I think all you indie weirdos can too :)

Open your hearts, submit to the fascist poll

my rule of thumb so far has been if you can dance to it chances are Kerr will throw it to the lions

lol these rules aren't rigid. You get rigid rules in a decade poll or a year poll or a label or artist poll. In a genre poll, the rules should be as loosey goosey as possible, and they are here for the most part...except when they aren't, for whatever arbitrary reason.

then forget I said anything

*shrug*

Sorry. Am I being an a-hole? I'll shut up.

No it's cool. I should just pull my head in.

Just...there's plenty of polls in the sea, is all.

anyway I would like to vote for

Lita Ford - Out For Blood
Girlschool - Demolition

nominate you mean. Voting is later

Lol, apparently I don't know my iTunes library that well since I have a copy of Spacemen 3's Dreamweapon on there that I can even remember listening to.

nominate, vote, whatever.

Septic Death - Now That I Have the Attention, What Do I Do with It?
Cryptic Slaughter - Money Talks
Stormtroopers of Death - Speak English or Die
Neurosis - Pain of Mind
Repulsion - Horrified
Macabre - Gloom

Oh I see Raoul covered a lot of those...

yeah, and i nominated money talks a couple days back

The Gories - House Rockin'

^ early politicking: VOTE FOR THE GORIES

it's the one that looks like this:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MCH2co0YwiI/Tl7QuJQj2fI/AAAAAAAACxc/EsC4sUE3zLY/s1600/GoriesHouse.jpg

hint

i think we get the hint

this may be pushing it, but how about a comp. from ’93 comprised of tracks from the 80s? afaik, it’s actually the second RRR F/i comp, with a different track listing from the first, and the two complementary recs contain most if not all of F/i’s output.

if yes, then I’ll nom:

F/i - Out of Space & Out of Time

if no, then:

F/i - Why Not Now? Alan!

and in any case I’ll also nom. these:

Band of Susans- Hope Against Hope
Blind Idiot God - s/t
Crash Course in Science - Signals from Pier 13
Gore - Mean Man’s Dream

which should look like this:

F/i - Out of Space & Out of Time
F/i - Why Not Now? Alan!
Band of Susans- Hope Against Hope
Blind Idiot God - s/t
Crash Course in Science - Signals from Pier 13
Gore - Mean Man’s Dream

Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
Journey - Escape
Journey - Departure
Dark Angel - Darkness Descends
Whitesnake - Slip of the Tongue
Whitesnake - Whitesnake
Pantera - Power Metal
Sodom - Agent Orange

(I nominated Mindcrime early on.)

Aerosmith - Pump
Kix - Blow My Fuse
Motley Crue - Dr. Feelgood
The Pretenders - The Pretenders
The Ramones - Pleasant Dreams

the pretenders? really? i dont think so

i was going to ask about their eligibility before nominating but then i saw you put the Pretenders II nomination into the master list no questions asked

well i hadnt noticed! I should check the master list to see what else sneaked by me.
thanks!

the pretenders? really? i dont think so

You've ever listened to that album, obvs.

That would probably be in my top 20.

xp *never

I would say, AG, that in order to discount stuff, you have to at least listen to it. I have no inclination to ever listen to the Pretenders, but if I was the sole veto person, I would make it my job to hear stuff before ruling it out.

umm it was paul who said i never heard it not me

Well, okay. If you know it, then fine. But you got to pinky swear that you'll listen to everything you veto.

i mean it's his list and i respect that he's trying to police the boundaries of something he defines, so it's all good. like i said, wouldn't have even nommed Pretenders if they hadn't been nommed already.

If this doesn't count as rock, then what the hell does?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YA3hZEDPNI

I ain't mad anymore, but this whole process is going to result in short outbursts of complete genuine shock and disdain.

name me a poll or list that doesn't!

See, I think that would totally count as 'rocking'. Not 'good', but 'rocking', yeah. I guess nom it in the tracks poll? I think AG is a little more hands-off, if not totally so, in that one.

yeah

Can we keep the youtube embeds to a minimum though please in both threads. Just use the shortened links

Ones where the host of the poll doesn't just arbitrarily disqualify things on a whim. Usually there are facts to back it up (like year or decade of release or whether or not it was a single or who sang a song). Here, just like the metal poll, the jazz poll, etc it's left up to totally shady discretion.

But whatevs.

My polls generally don't have this kind of bickering, btw. Why? Because I don't set them up with bizarro subjective parameters.

i would be fine w/ just nomming, say, "The Wait" or "Mystery Achievement" in the tracks poll to represent The Pretenders if not the album. i mean the tracks poll SHOULD be about highlighting hard rocking tracks whether or not the whole album or band's career rocks that hard.

My polls generally don't have this kind of bickering, btw. Why? Because I don't set them up with bizarro subjective parameters.

No, it would be silly for you to argue with yourself or troll your own poll.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGZeuf-6cJ0

That album rocked harder than any UK 80's crap. :)

i mean the tracks poll SHOULD be about highlighting hard rocking tracks whether or not the whole album or band's career rocks that hard.

correct

johnny i kinda don't know why you're bothering, because even stepping into this thread you're pretty much agreeing to enter a house of someone else's design. we've done anything-goes '80s polls before, we know how all these records are regarded, AG is trying to do something different, either you're on board or you're not (i'm kind of on the fence but i figured i'll at least nom some stuff and attempt to vote).

Svend Pfunkboy, Viceroy & emil.y Productions presents : Nominations for an 80s Albums That Rock Poll(inc indie/Alt,punk,metal,heavy/glam etc) but with some exceptions..(ie no indiepop or U2 type)

Guys everyones entitled to nominate and vote. If its not eligible then i say so. I still hope people continue to nominate and vote and enjoy the results. This isn't meant to be an 80s poll or a Rolling Stone with a token rap pick poll.

that last bit is copyrighted by Nakh btw

johnny i kinda don't know why you're bothering

I don't either. I guess AG just pushes my buttons with an enticing topic and then whittles it down in ways that make me, specifically, unhappy. Ours is a toxic relationship.

Im sure there will be plenty you can vote for

plus paul is used to running polls so its hard for him when someone else does polls on topics he likes. Everyone has their own ways and ideas.

Here, just like the metal poll, the jazz poll, etc it's left up to totally shady discretion.

See, I sort of agree with you that things are a bit too arbitrary here, but the metal poll and the jazz poll were two of my very favourite polls of all time (along with the '50s poll and a couple of others).

I guess we just view the nominations process for polling as oppositely as possible. I'm 110% for inclusion, even working around obstacles to get people's nominations in, and you're all about exclusion at your own discretion. I guess it's good to be the king.

And also, as I say, seeing as AG roped me into this, I'm gonna try to keep the tracks poll a little less arbitrary than the albums one. So go there, be free and rocking!

thx :D

I'm 110% for inclusion, even working around obstacles to get people's nominations in

yeah limiting nominations per person is really inclusive!

croup already nommed "precious" in the tracks poll anyway, like yesterday

I guess we just view the nominations process for polling as oppositely as possible. I'm 110% for inclusion, even working around obstacles to get people's nominations in, and you're all about exclusion at your own discretion. I guess it's good to be the king.

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, August 2, 2012 11:19 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

right. but i dunno, pretty much any album being knocked out of contention gets plenty of love in most other lists of '80s rock albums, so if AG wants to whittle them away to distinguish this version of the canon then w/e who cares.

Oh come on, AG, that's totally different. That's about limiting by numerical value, not by subjective value. I do have issues with limiting numerically, because I use noms as a reminder list, so I like to have everything there, but it is a completely non-comparable limit. And I'm on your side, here, I've agreed to do the poll with you, let's not get into bitching, come on.

xxpost

Also, some dude is pretty much right on in the 'who cares' stakes - this poll was started in the full knowledge that there would be controversial choices made, so you either have to go with it or not. I'm gonna disagree on some of the AG choices here, but because it's such a loose thing then, well, you got to take a chance...

emil.y- paul and i do this every poll. Dont spoil our fun!

everything ,usually, turns out ok in the end.

You might think it's fun, AG. I don't. It riles me. Twists my guts. This is my fault, of course, because who in their right mind should care too much about stupid music forum polls? I need to go clean my kitchen or something else productive.

i guess the question is this: is the nominations process more useful and appealing to ILM as a measure of what ILM thinks rocks, or of what AG thinks rocks?

i'd guess the former, but it's AG's show, so he makes the rules. tbh, i'm happy to have a poll that won't be completely dominated by ILM's rock-challenged usual suspects.

It just needs to be a bit different to other polls. And it's better than banning every band who was in the 80s poll from it.

If theres way more death and thrash metal in the results than pop metal i expect mr fever to be angry ;)

to be fair, a poll of music ILM thinks "rocks" with absolutely no editorial control would have some laughably un-rocking shit on it, so i'm ok with someone trying to steer the ship even if their judgment doesn't line up 100% with mine (and so far it lines up with mine way more than it does with Johnny's or some other people itt).

Updated List. Please check it before nominating.

AC/DC - Back in Black
Aerosmith - Pump
Agent Orange - Living in Darkness
Anthrax - Among The Living
AR kane - 69
Avengers - Avengers
Bad Brains - Bad Brains
Bad Brains - I Against I
Bad Brains - s/t
Band of Susans - Love Agenda
Band of Susans- Hope Against Hope
Bastro - Diablo Guapo
Bathory - Under The Sign Of The Black Mark
Bauhaus - Burning From The Inside
Bauhaus - In The Flat Field
Bauhaus - Mask
Bauhaus - The Sky'S Gone Out
Beat Happening – Beat Happening
Big Black - Atomizer
Big Black - Songs About Fucking
Billy Idol - Rebel Yell
Birthday Party - Junkyard
Bitch Magnet - Umber
Black Flag - Damaged
Black Flag - In My Head
Black Flag - Jealous Again
Black Flag - My War
Black Flag - Slip It In
Black Sabbath - Heaven And Hell
Black Sabbath - Mob Rules
Blind Idiot God - s/t
Blind Idiot God - Undertow
Blue Oyster Cult - Cultosaurus Erectus
Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet
Boredoms - Soul Discharge
Butthole Surfers - A Brown Reason To Live
Butthole Surfers - Locust Abortion Technician
Butthole Surfers - Psychic... Powerless... Another Man'S Sac
Butthole Surfers - Rembrandt Pussyhorse
Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
Candlemass -Nightfall
Capt Beefheart - Doc at the Radar Station
Capt Beefheart - Ice Cream for Crow
Carcass - Symphonies of Sickness
Celibate Rifles - The Turgid Miasma of Existence
Celtic Frost - Into the Pandemonium
Celtic Frost - Morbid Tales
Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion
Cheap Trick - One On One
Christian Death - Only Theatre of Pain
Chrome - Blood on the Moon
Chrome - Red Exposure
Chrome - Third From the Sun
Cop Shoot Cop - Headkick Facsimile
Corrosion of Conformity - Animosity
Cosmic Psychos - Go the Hack
cows - daddy has a tail
Cramps - Psychedelic Jungle
Cramps - Smell Of Female
Cramps - Songs The Lord Taught Us
Crash Course in Science - Signals from Pier 13
crass - christ - the album
Cro-Mags - Best Wishes
Cro-Mags - The Age of Quarrel
Cryptic Slaughter - Money Talks
D.R.I. - Crossover
D.R.I. - Dealing With It
Dark Angel - Darkness Descends
Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit For Rotten Vegetables
Dead Milkmen - Beelzebubba
Death - Leprosy
Death - Scream Bloody Gore
Def Leppard - Hysteria
Def Leppard - On Through the Night
Def Leppard - Pyromania
Depeche Mode - Black Celebration
Depeche Mode - Music for the Masses
Descendents - Milo Goes To College
Didjits - Hey Judester
Die Kreuzen - S/T
Dinosaur - S/T
Dinosaur Jr - Bug
Dinosaur Jr - You're Living All Over Me
Dio - Holy Diver
Dio - Last In Line
Discharge - Hear Nothing, See Nothing, Say Nothing
Dog Faced Hermans - Humans Fly
Dream Syndicate - The Days of Wine and Roses
Drunks with Guns - Drunks with Guns
Dwarves - Horror Stories
Dwarves - Tooling for a Warm Teabag
Einsturzende Neubauten - Drawings Of Ot
Einsturzende Neubauten - Fuenf Auf Der Nach Oben Offenen Richterskala
Einsturzende Neubauten - Halber Mensch
Einsturzende Neubauten – Haus der Lüge
Einsturzende Neubauten - Kollaps
Electro Hippies - The Only Good Punk... Is A Dead One
Embrace - Embrace
English Dogs - Forward Into Battle
Exciter - Long Live the Loud
Exodus - Bonded By Blood
Exodus - Fabulous Disaster
Extreme Noise Terror - A Holocaust in Your Head
F/i - Out of Space & Out of Time
F/I - Space Mantra
F/i - Why Not Now? Alan!
Faith No More - Introduce Yourself
Faith No More - The Real Thing
Fire Party - s/t
fIREHOSE - Ragin', Full On
Fishbone - Truth and Soul
Flesheaters - A Minute To Pray A Second To Die
Flipper - Generic Flipper
Fugazi - Fugazi
Fugazi - Margin Walker
Fushitsusha - Live I
Game Theory - Big Shot Chronicles
George Thorogood & The Destroyers - Bad to the Bone
Girl Trouble - Hit It or Quit It
Girlschool - Demolition
Glenn Branca - The Ascension
Godflesh - Streetcleaner
Gore - Mean Man’s Dream
Grong Grong - S/T
Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction
Halo of Flies - Garbageburn
Halo Of Flies - Singles Going Nowhere
Head Of David - Dustbowl
Head Of David - Head Of David
Helios Creed - Superior Catholic Finger
Helios Creed - The Last Laugh
Husker Du - Flip Your Wig
Husker Du - Metal Circus
Husker Du - New day Rising
Husker Du - Zen Arcade
Iron Maiden - Killers
Iron Maiden - Number Of The Beast
Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
Joan Jett - Bad reputation
Journey - Departure
Journey - Escape
Judas Priest - British Steel
Judas Priest - Defenders of the Faith
Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance
Killdozer - Intellectuals Are The Shoeshine Boys Of The Ruling Elite
Killdozer - Snake Boy
Killing Joke - Killing Joke
Kilslug - Answer The Call
King Crimson - Discipline
King Diamond - Abigail
Kix - Blow My Fuse
Kix - s/t
Kreator - Pleasure To Kill
Last Exit - Köln
Lazy Cowgirls - Tapping the Source
Lemonheads - Hate Your Friends
Lita Ford - Out For Blood
Live Skull - Bringing Home The Bait
Live Skull - Cloud One
Live Skull - Dusted
Live Skull - S/T
Living Colour - Vivid
Loop - Black Sun
Loop - The World in Your Eyes
Loop: - Fade Out
Loverboy - Get Lucky
Lubricated Goat - Paddock Of Love
Lyres - Lyres Lyres
Macabre - Gloom
Manowar - Fighting The World
Manowar - Sign of the Hammer
Masters Of Reality- Masters Of Reality
Meat Puppets- II
Megadeth - Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good!
Megadeth - Peace Sells...But Who's Buying?
Megadeth - So Far, So Good... So What
Melvins - Gluey Porch Treatments
Melvins - Ozma
Mercyful Fate - Melissa
Metallica - ...And Justice For All
Metallica - Kill 'Em All
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Metallica - Ride The Lightning
Ministry - Land of Rape and Honey
Ministry - The Land of Rape and Honey
Ministry - The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste
Minor Threat - Minor Threat
Minor Threat - out of step
Minutemen – Double Nickels on the Dime
Misfits - Beware
Misfits - Earth Ad
Misfits - Legacy Of Brutality
Mission of Burma - Signals, Calls, and Marches
Mission of Burma - Vs.
Monster Magnet - Forget About Life I'M High On Dope
Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness
Motley Crue - Dr. Feelgood
Motley Crue - Shout At The Devil
Motley Crue - Too Fast For Love
Motorhead - Ace of Spades
Motorhead - Orgasmatron
Mudhoney - Superfuzz Bigmuff
MX-80 Sound - Out Of The Tunnel
My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything
N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton
Naked City - Naked City
Naked Raygun - Jettison
Naked Raygun - Throb Throb
Napalm Death - From Enslavement To Obliteration
Napalm Death - Scum
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Re*Ac*Tor
Neurosis - Pain of Mind
Nick Cave + The Bad Seeds - Firstborn Is Dead
Nick Cave + The Bad Seeds - Your Funeral, My Trial
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
Nirvana - Bleach
No Trend ‎– When Death Won'T Solve Your Problem
NoMeansNo - Wrong
Obituary - Slowly We Rot
Pagans - Buried Alive
Pantera - Power Metal
Paul Chain - Violet Art Of Improvisation
Paul Chain Violet Theatre - Detaching From Satan EP
pil - flowers of romance
Pixies - Come On Pilgrim
Pixies - Doolittle
Pixies - Surfer Rosa
plugz - better luck
Poison - Open Up And Say...Ahhh!
Poison Idea - Kings of Punk
Pop Group - For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder
Primus - Suck On This
Pussy Galore - Dial 'M' for Motherfucker
Pussy Galore - Sugarshit Sharp
Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime
Ramones - End of the Century
Rapeman - Two Nuns and a Pack Mule
Raw Power - Screams From the Gutter
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Freaky Styley
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Mothers Milk
Redd Kross - Neurotica
Redd Kross -Third Eye
Replacements - Let It Be
Replacements - Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out The Trash
Repulsion - Horrified
Rites Of Spring - End on End
rites of spring - s/t
Royal Trux - Royal Trux
Rush - Moving Pictures
S.O.D. - Speak English Or Die
Saint Vitus - Born Too Late
Saint Vitus - Saint Vitus
Saint Vitus - V
Scientists - This Heart Doesn'T Run On Blood, This Heart Doesn'T Run On Love
Scientists - Weird Love
Scorpions - Love At First Sting
Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel - Hole
Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel – Nail
Scratch Acid - s/t & Just Keep Eating
Screaming Trees - Buzz Factory
Screaming Trees - Even If & Especially When
Septic Death - Now That I Have the Attention, What Do I Do with It?
Sepultura - Beneath the Remains
Sisters of Mercy - Floodland
Skinny Puppy - Cleanse Fold And Manipulate
Skinny Puppy - Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse
Skinny Puppy - VIVIsectVI
Skullflower - Form Destroyer
Slayer - Hell Awaits
Slayer - Reign in Blood
Slayer - South Of Heaven
Slint - Tweez
Slovenly - We Shoot For the Moon
Sodom - Agent Orange
Sonic Youth - Confusion Is Sex
Sonic Youth - Evol
Sonic Youth - Sister
Sonny Sharrock - Guitar
Sore Throat - Death to Capitalist Hardcore
Soul Asylum - Hang Time
Soundgarden - Louder Than Love
Soundgarden - Ultra Mega OK
Spacemen 3 - Playing With Fire
Spacemen 3 - Sound of Confusion
Spacemen 3 - The Perfect Prescription
Squirrel Bait - Skag Heaven
Squirrel Bait - Squirrel Bait
Stormtroopers of Death - Speak English or Die
Suicidal Tendencies - Institutionalized
Swans - Children Of God
Swans - Cop
Swans - Filth
Swans - Public Castration Is A Good Idea
Swans - S/T
Terrorizer - World Downfall
Testament - The Legacy
Testament - The New Order
The Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
The Birthday Party - Prayers on Fire
The Cult - Electric
The Cynics - Blue Train Station
the ex - 1936 spanish revolution
The Fall - Hex Enduction Houir
The Fall - Perverted by Language
The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace
The Fluid - Clear Black Paper
The Fuzztones - Lysergic Emanations
The Gories - House Rockin'
The Gun Club - Fire of Love
The Gun Club - The Las Vegas Story
The Jesus And Mary Chain - Darklands
The Jesus And Mary Chain - Psychocandy
The Lords of the New Church - The Method to Our Madness
The Meatmen - We're The Meatmen...and You Suck!!
The Misfits - Walk Among Us
The Nomads - Outburst
The Ramones - Pleasant Dreams
The Scientists - Blood Red River
The Sound -Jeopardy
The Telescopes - Taste
The Wedding Present - Bizarro
Thee Mighty Caesars - English Punk Rock Explosion
Thin Lizzy - Thunder and Lightning
Thin White Rope - Moonhead
This Heat - Deceit
Three Johns - Atom Drum Bop
Throwing Muses - s/t
Throwing Muses - The Real Ramona
Trouble - Psalm 9
TSOL - Change Today?
Twisted Sister - Stay Hungry
Ut - Conviction
Van Halen - 1984
Venom - Possessed
Venom - Welcome to Hell
Void/Faith Split LP
Voivod - Dimension Hatross
Voivod - Nothingface
Warrant - Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich
WASP - WASP
Whitesnake - Slip of the Tongue
Whitesnake - Whitesnake
Wipers - Over The Edge
Wipers - Youth Of America
Wolfhounds - Bright & Guilty
X - Los Angeles
X - Wild Gift
Y&T - Open Fire
Young Gods - L'eau Rouge
ZZ Top - Eliminator

Look, I'm not suggesting anyone consider Wham! or Til Tuesday a rockin' band. But I think with things like the first Pretenders album or Licensed to Ill or maybe a few other things, a strong case could be made that they should be included.

It's AG's show, though. His fifteen minutes in the ILM spotlight. The rollout will be full of his cheerleading and commentary (and slams), and again the whole process will be ME ME ME instead of MUSIC MUSIC MUSIC.

It's impossible to please everyone with polls. Whatever you do there's going to be complaints. Mistakes will be made, something wont be nominated that should have, someone who has a fave album but didnt bother nominating will bitch and moan about it's exclusion. The polls already been called lol rockist.

But it is what it is and will turn out just fine as long as people aren't dicks and a clusterfuck ensues.

By ME ME ME do you mean YOU YOU YOU?

clearly this is the one thread where we can be rockists without prejudice

Because every damn poll I've ever ran has been about highlighting music. My polls are never about just having the same old polls or just about what's in the top 20. The music in the lower reaches is equally as important as the music at the top. If some sad sacks are only interested in popular music the top 20 results then that's their loss.

lol

Quick mini-poll:

Who can name all the write-in polls I've run? Now, who can name all the write-in polls AG has run?

I try to stay as anonymous as possible when it's time to roll out results.

i bet everyone remembers you in the polls ive ran

jf i love you man but let it go

I'm trying.

[insert Godfather III reference]

Leaving Trains - Fuck

D.R.I. - Dealing With It

aw shit, missed that it had been nommed, sorry (like the third time i've done that)

I had nominated two albums by Crass that do not show up in the most recent master list:
Penis Envy and Yes Sir I Will

Hee hee I voted for Pretenders II...the album that was *cough* (literally) snuck past the "goalie"

:D

JF if it really bothers you that much, don't participate. There's a lot of good polls coming down the pipeline.

Honestly I'm only participating to see if I can get any of my "popular shite" in the top 20

i want him and everyone else toparticipate. please dont try and put people off!

I thought i added the crass.

Are the first two Soundgarden albums any good? I love Badmotorfinger and Superunknown to pieces but somehow never checked out the earlier ones.

yes theyre great but quite different

(Only Christ: The Album shows up in the most recent list.)

xpost Different how?

Loud Love is fkn badass.

Screamier, Sabbathier, more metal-ish.

the banshee wail in Badmotorfinger x 1000

Ah, cool.

Til Tuesday are a totally rockin band btw

xpost PUT IT IN YOUR EARHOLES ASAP

I don't think Sisters Of Mercy's Floodland rocks, apart from maybe "Lucretia My Reflection". First And Last And Always is way rockier. But I see Depeche Mode is included so maybe I don't know from rocking.

But I see Depeche Mode is included so maybe I don't know from rocking.

HAHA! I <3 whomever slipped those two noms in.

AC/DC - Back in Black
Aerosmith - Pump
Agent Orange - Living in Darkness
Anthrax - Among The Living
AR kane - 69
Avengers - Avengers
Bad Brains - Bad Brains
Bad Brains - I Against I
Bad Brains - s/t
Band of Susans - Love Agenda
Band of Susans- Hope Against Hope
Bastro - Diablo Guapo
Bathory - Under The Sign Of The Black Mark
Bauhaus - Burning From The Inside
Bauhaus - In The Flat Field
Bauhaus - Mask
Bauhaus - The Sky'S Gone Out
Beat Happening – Beat Happening
Big Black - Atomizer
Big Black - Songs About Fucking
Billy Idol - Rebel Yell
Birthday Party - Junkyard
Bitch Magnet - Umber
Black Flag - Damaged
Black Flag - In My Head
Black Flag - Jealous Again
Black Flag - My War
Black Flag - Slip It In
Black Sabbath - Heaven And Hell
Black Sabbath - Mob Rules
Blind Idiot God - s/t
Blind Idiot God - Undertow
Blue Oyster Cult - Cultosaurus Erectus
Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet
Boredoms - Soul Discharge
Butthole Surfers - A Brown Reason To Live
Butthole Surfers - Locust Abortion Technician
Butthole Surfers - Psychic... Powerless... Another Man'S Sac
Butthole Surfers - Rembrandt Pussyhorse
Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
Candlemass -Nightfall
Capt Beefheart - Doc at the Radar Station
Capt Beefheart - Ice Cream for Crow
Carcass - Symphonies of Sickness
Celibate Rifles - The Turgid Miasma of Existence
Celtic Frost - Into the Pandemonium
Celtic Frost - Morbid Tales
Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion
Cheap Trick - One On One
Christian Death - Only Theatre of Pain
Chrome - Blood on the Moon
Chrome - Red Exposure
Chrome - Third From the Sun
Cop Shoot Cop - Headkick Facsimile
Corrosion of Conformity - Animosity
Cosmic Psychos - Go the Hack
cows - daddy has a tail
Cramps - Psychedelic Jungle
Cramps - Smell Of Female
Cramps - Songs The Lord Taught Us
Crash Course in Science - Signals from Pier 13
crass - christ - the album
Cro-Mags - Best Wishes
Cro-Mags - The Age of Quarrel
Cryptic Slaughter - Money Talks
D.R.I. - Crossover
D.R.I. - Dealing With It
Dark Angel - Darkness Descends
Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit For Rotten Vegetables
Dead Milkmen - Beelzebubba
Death - Leprosy
Death - Scream Bloody Gore
Def Leppard - Hysteria
Def Leppard - On Through the Night
Def Leppard - Pyromania
Descendents - Milo Goes To College
Didjits - Hey Judester
Die Kreuzen - S/T
Dinosaur - S/T
Dinosaur Jr - Bug
Dinosaur Jr - You're Living All Over Me
Dio - Holy Diver
Dio - Last In Line
Discharge - Hear Nothing, See Nothing, Say Nothing
Dog Faced Hermans - Humans Fly
Dream Syndicate - The Days of Wine and Roses
Drunks with Guns - Drunks with Guns
Dwarves - Horror Stories
Dwarves - Tooling for a Warm Teabag
Einsturzende Neubauten - Drawings Of Ot
Einsturzende Neubauten - Fuenf Auf Der Nach Oben Offenen Richterskala
Einsturzende Neubauten - Halber Mensch
Einsturzende Neubauten – Haus der Lüge
Einsturzende Neubauten - Kollaps
Electro Hippies - The Only Good Punk... Is A Dead One
Embrace - Embrace
English Dogs - Forward Into Battle
Exciter - Long Live the Loud
Exodus - Bonded By Blood
Exodus - Fabulous Disaster
Extreme Noise Terror - A Holocaust in Your Head
F/i - Out of Space & Out of Time
F/I - Space Mantra
F/i - Why Not Now? Alan!
Faith No More - Introduce Yourself
Faith No More - The Real Thing
Fire Party - s/t
fIREHOSE - Ragin', Full On
Fishbone - Truth and Soul
Flesheaters - A Minute To Pray A Second To Die
Flipper - Generic Flipper
Fugazi - Fugazi
Fugazi - Margin Walker
Fushitsusha - Live I
Game Theory - Big Shot Chronicles
George Thorogood & The Destroyers - Bad to the Bone
Girl Trouble - Hit It or Quit It
Girlschool - Demolition
Glenn Branca - The Ascension
Godflesh - Streetcleaner
Gore - Mean Man’s Dream
Grong Grong - S/T
Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction
Halo of Flies - Garbageburn
Halo Of Flies - Singles Going Nowhere
Head Of David - Dustbowl
Head Of David - Head Of David
Helios Creed - Superior Catholic Finger
Helios Creed - The Last Laugh
Husker Du - Flip Your Wig
Husker Du - Metal Circus
Husker Du - New day Rising
Husker Du - Zen Arcade
Iron Maiden - Killers
Iron Maiden - Number Of The Beast
Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
Joan Jett - Bad reputation
Journey - Departure
Journey - Escape
Judas Priest - British Steel
Judas Priest - Defenders of the Faith
Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance
Killdozer - Intellectuals Are The Shoeshine Boys Of The Ruling Elite
Killdozer - Snake Boy
Killing Joke - Killing Joke
Kilslug - Answer The Call
King Crimson - Discipline
King Diamond - Abigail
Kix - Blow My Fuse
Kix - s/t
Kreator - Pleasure To Kill
Last Exit - Köln
Lazy Cowgirls - Tapping the Source
Lemonheads - Hate Your Friends
Lita Ford - Out For Blood
Live Skull - Bringing Home The Bait
Live Skull - Cloud One
Live Skull - Dusted
Live Skull - S/T
Living Colour - Vivid
Loop - Black Sun
Loop - The World in Your Eyes
Loop: - Fade Out
Loverboy - Get Lucky
Lubricated Goat - Paddock Of Love
Lyres - Lyres Lyres
Macabre - Gloom
Manowar - Fighting The World
Manowar - Sign of the Hammer
Masters Of Reality- Masters Of Reality
Meat Puppets- II
Megadeth - Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good!
Megadeth - Peace Sells...But Who's Buying?
Megadeth - So Far, So Good... So What
Melvins - Gluey Porch Treatments
Melvins - Ozma
Mercyful Fate - Melissa
Metallica - ...And Justice For All
Metallica - Kill 'Em All
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Metallica - Ride The Lightning
Ministry - Land of Rape and Honey
Ministry - The Land of Rape and Honey
Ministry - The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste
Minor Threat - Minor Threat
Minor Threat - out of step
Minutemen – Double Nickels on the Dime
Misfits - Beware
Misfits - Earth Ad
Misfits - Legacy Of Brutality
Mission of Burma - Signals, Calls, and Marches
Mission of Burma - Vs.
Monster Magnet - Forget About Life I'M High On Dope
Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness
Motley Crue - Dr. Feelgood
Motley Crue - Shout At The Devil
Motley Crue - Too Fast For Love
Motorhead - Ace of Spades
Motorhead - Orgasmatron
Mudhoney - Superfuzz Bigmuff
MX-80 Sound - Out Of The Tunnel
My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything
N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton
Naked City - Naked City
Naked Raygun - Jettison
Naked Raygun - Throb Throb
Napalm Death - From Enslavement To Obliteration
Napalm Death - Scum
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Re*Ac*Tor
Neurosis - Pain of Mind
Nick Cave + The Bad Seeds - Firstborn Is Dead
Nick Cave + The Bad Seeds - Your Funeral, My Trial
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
Nirvana - Bleach
No Trend ‎– When Death Won'T Solve Your Problem
NoMeansNo - Wrong
Obituary - Slowly We Rot
Pagans - Buried Alive
Pantera - Power Metal
Paul Chain - Violet Art Of Improvisation
Paul Chain Violet Theatre - Detaching From Satan EP
pil - flowers of romance
Pixies - Come On Pilgrim
Pixies - Doolittle
Pixies - Surfer Rosa
plugz - better luck
Poison - Open Up And Say...Ahhh!
Poison Idea - Kings of Punk
Pop Group - For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder
Primus - Suck On This
Pussy Galore - Dial 'M' for Motherfucker
Pussy Galore - Sugarshit Sharp
Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime
Ramones - End of the Century
Rapeman - Two Nuns and a Pack Mule
Raw Power - Screams From the Gutter
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Freaky Styley
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Mothers Milk
Redd Kross - Neurotica
Redd Kross -Third Eye
Replacements - Let It Be
Replacements - Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out The Trash
Repulsion - Horrified
Rites Of Spring - End on End
rites of spring - s/t
Royal Trux - Royal Trux
Rush - Moving Pictures
S.O.D. - Speak English Or Die
Saint Vitus - Born Too Late
Saint Vitus - Saint Vitus
Saint Vitus - V
Scientists - This Heart Doesn'T Run On Blood, This Heart Doesn'T Run On Love
Scientists - Weird Love
Scorpions - Love At First Sting
Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel - Hole
Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel – Nail
Scratch Acid - s/t & Just Keep Eating
Screaming Trees - Buzz Factory
Screaming Trees - Even If & Especially When
Septic Death - Now That I Have the Attention, What Do I Do with It?
Sepultura - Beneath the Remains
Sisters of Mercy - Floodland
Skinny Puppy - Cleanse Fold And Manipulate
Skinny Puppy - Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse
Skinny Puppy - VIVIsectVI
Skullflower - Form Destroyer
Slayer - Hell Awaits
Slayer - Reign in Blood
Slayer - South Of Heaven
Slint - Tweez
Slovenly - We Shoot For the Moon
Sodom - Agent Orange
Sonic Youth - Confusion Is Sex
Sonic Youth - Evol
Sonic Youth - Sister
Sonny Sharrock - Guitar
Sore Throat - Death to Capitalist Hardcore
Soul Asylum - Hang Time
Soundgarden - Louder Than Love
Soundgarden - Ultra Mega OK
Spacemen 3 - Playing With Fire
Spacemen 3 - Sound of Confusion
Spacemen 3 - The Perfect Prescription
Squirrel Bait - Skag Heaven
Squirrel Bait - Squirrel Bait
Stormtroopers of Death - Speak English or Die
Suicidal Tendencies - Institutionalized
Swans - Children Of God
Swans - Cop
Swans - Filth
Swans - Public Castration Is A Good Idea
Swans - S/T
Terrorizer - World Downfall
Testament - The Legacy
Testament - The New Order
The Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
The Birthday Party - Prayers on Fire
The Cult - Electric
The Cynics - Blue Train Station
the ex - 1936 spanish revolution
The Fall - Hex Enduction Houir
The Fall - Perverted by Language
The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace
The Fluid - Clear Black Paper
The Fuzztones - Lysergic Emanations
The Gories - House Rockin'
The Gun Club - Fire of Love
The Gun Club - The Las Vegas Story
The Jesus And Mary Chain - Darklands
The Jesus And Mary Chain - Psychocandy
The Lords of the New Church - The Method to Our Madness
The Meatmen - We're The Meatmen...and You Suck!!
The Misfits - Walk Among Us
The Nomads - Outburst
The Ramones - Pleasant Dreams
The Scientists - Blood Red River
The Sound -Jeopardy
The Telescopes - Taste
The Wedding Present - Bizarro
Thee Mighty Caesars - English Punk Rock Explosion
Thin Lizzy - Thunder and Lightning
Thin White Rope - Moonhead
This Heat - Deceit
Three Johns - Atom Drum Bop
Throwing Muses - s/t
Throwing Muses - The Real Ramona
Trouble - Psalm 9
TSOL - Change Today?
Twisted Sister - Stay Hungry
Ut - Conviction
Van Halen - 1984
Venom - Possessed
Venom - Welcome to Hell
Void/Faith Split LP
Voivod - Dimension Hatross
Voivod - Nothingface
Warrant - Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich
WASP - WASP
Whitesnake - Slip of the Tongue
Whitesnake - Whitesnake
Wipers - Over The Edge
Wipers - Youth Of America
Wolfhounds - Bright & Guilty
X - Los Angeles
X - Wild Gift
Y&T - Open Fire
Young Gods - L'eau Rouge
ZZ Top - Eliminator

fucks sake it was rocky

he's gonna hear a LOT of Danzig for doing that

The Cult - Love
Bad Religion - Suffer
Sisters Of Mercy - First And Last And Always

The Jesus Lizard - Pure
Killing Joke - Night Time
Killing Joke - What's THIS For...!

while we're offering AG constructive criticism about how he runs his polls i would say posting the entire nominations list over and over every few hours is completely unnecessary and annoying