ILX 70s album poll

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General Elections have taken place in less time..

But, anyway, here's some results.

THE ILX 70S POLL TOP 100 ALBUMS

Hurray!

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 09:22 (twenty years ago)

100:

points: 199
votes: 6
1st place votes: 0

VARIOUS ARTISTS - NUGGETS

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Feel free to add your own comments.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 09:26 (twenty years ago)

#1 Howzat- Sherbert

Hurray!!

― Frogman Henry, Saturday, 16 April 2005 09:26 (twenty years ago)

points: 203
votes: 6
1st place votes: 0

NEW YORK DOLLS - NEW YORK DOLLS

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― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 09:41 (twenty years ago)

oops.

This is what comes of getting images from Amazon. I can only assume the original cover art did not include a red circle and the phrase
£6.97. Not very punk, that..

Also, I don't have blurbs for most of these, and I'll spare you my comments (for most of them, at least). I could pull something off Amazon reviews to fill in spaces, but again that seems rather pointless when people here will probably have something better to add.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 09:44 (twenty years ago)

If you click on the Amazon album pics you get a bigger version with no price tag, I think.

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 16 April 2005 09:49 (twenty years ago)

points: 203
votes: 7
1st place votes: 0

DAVID BOWIE - HEROES

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Ties were resolved by

1. Number of first place votes
2. Next highest placing
3. Total votes

Neither of these got a first place - Heroes' highest placing was 7 and New York Dolls' was 8.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 09:55 (twenty years ago)

arse

http://www.up-to-date.com/bowie/heroes/index.gif

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 09:59 (twenty years ago)

my linking, not the album

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 10:00 (twenty years ago)

I think ihttping an https secure image ia a no go, hobart. Go with the bigger Amazon pics!

x-post

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 16 April 2005 10:00 (twenty years ago)

Cheers Alba.

Here's a NICE BIG PICTURE of David Bowie waving his arms about.

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― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 10:07 (twenty years ago)

and here's one of Kate Bush doing..

whatever it is Kate Bush does.

points: 203
1st place votes: 0
total votes: 5

KATE BUSH - THE KICK INSIDE

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― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 10:10 (twenty years ago)

Disguising herself as David Bowie, by the looks of it.

She's a tricksy one that Kate, and no mistake.

She REALLY looks like this.

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hopefully.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 10:13 (twenty years ago)

Kate Bush's highest placing was 4, for anyone that hasn't already run screaming from the thread..

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 10:14 (twenty years ago)

Aha... the first album in this list which I actually own.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Saturday, 16 April 2005 10:17 (twenty years ago)

points: 203
1st place votes: 0
total votes: 8

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN - DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN

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Bruce's highest placing was also 4, but he got more votes.

I do hope the above is a picture of Bruce Springsteen.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 10:19 (twenty years ago)

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fucking hell...

does anyone have a hard object I can bang my head against?

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 10:20 (twenty years ago)

points: 204
1st place votes: 1
total votes: 6

THE CURE - THREE IMAGINARY BOYS

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― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 10:24 (twenty years ago)

There. One out of six aint bad.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 10:25 (twenty years ago)

You're doing better than I'd be able to manage at this ungodly hour, Hobart. Before lunchtime on a Saturday = official mental downtime. It can take me two hours to read the Guardian Weekend magazine...

Best album so far, as well. I went off The Cure a bit when "A Forest" came out...

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Saturday, 16 April 2005 10:27 (twenty years ago)

points: 204
1st place votes: 0
total votes: 7

AUGUSTUS PABLO - KING TUBBY MEETS ROCKERS UPTOWN

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― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 10:33 (twenty years ago)

Shock! (That the results are being posted.) I guess I won't be able to get into ILX by the time I get to work because of the online traffic.

― RS_LaRue (RSLaRue), Saturday, 16 April 2005 10:35 (twenty years ago)

ahem...

points: 207
1st place votes: 0
total votes: 7

AUGUSTUS PABLO - KING TUBBY MEETS ROCKERS UPTOWN

http://www.ayeverily.com/stuff/images/albums/ktmru.jpg

That's better.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 10:36 (twenty years ago)

Thanks for your understanding, btw, Mike.. I will try and repay it by posting one of the next 10 results correctly.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 10:39 (twenty years ago)

i am starting to worry that Randy Newman Live didn't make the top 100.

― Lee F# (fsharp), Saturday, 16 April 2005 10:41 (twenty years ago)

points: 208
1st place votes: 0
total votes: 5

PHILIP GLASS - EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH

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― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 10:44 (twenty years ago)

points: 210
1st place votes: 0
total votes: 7

SPARKS - KIMONO MY HOUSE

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― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 10:48 (twenty years ago)

points: 211
1st place votes: 0
total votes: 7

CHEAP TRICK - AT BUDOKAN

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― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 10:54 (twenty years ago)

The best part about Budokan is how my memory is that there are lots of tracks saying "hello" then Surrender and I Want You To Want Me then lots of tracks saying "goodbye"
-- Sterling Clover, April 3rd, 2003

i had the original lp for years and the way it rocked from beginning to end (except for "need your love" and the horrible "i want you to want me") used to leave me wanting more -- if that "want you .." song hadn't been pandemic radio novelty junk back then Live at Budokan wouldn't have been released at all except in Japan, and Rick Nelson reckoned Dream Police wouldn't have been in the can for a year -- the band wouldn't have lost their momentum, as they seem to have peaked around then
this was the band i always wanted to see appear at the pub when i went out at night, ie one that really rocked -- no bullshit, just thoroughly down-to-work rock music from a band that used to work 200 nights of the year, so they knew how to do it live (so it was nice of Albini to let them headline ATP years after all the fuss)
so when i finally got the double cd it was a great thrill -- the encore stuff in the right order right through to Rick mumbling like some bemused tourist "Mmmm.., the great Budokan .." at the beginning before they hit the stage and get that reaction like nothing they'd ever had back home in the u.s. -- i thought there'd have to be filler in a two cd long concert but no, just this endless energy
as good as the original lps are i think that only "high roller" rocks better in the studio -- the live concert, "warts and all" entirety, really does deliver on live rock, something you couldn't say about most old double live lps that fit on single cds

-- george gosset, April 3rd, 2003

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 16 April 2005 11:01 (twenty years ago)

points: 212
1st place votes: 0
total votes: 6

STEELY DAN - COUNTDOWN TO ECSTASY

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― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 11:10 (twenty years ago)

Good idea, Alba...why didn't I think of that?

(that's a rhetorical question and does NOT require an answer..)

Countdown To Ecstacy is a fantastic album. My Punk story, the day I bought Never Mind The Bollocks I also bought Pretzel Logic. I played the second one much more.

-- Pete (pb1...), February 27th, 2002.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 11:17 (twenty years ago)

I've listened to Countdown to Ecstasy about 20 times in the last 2 days, and it's not enough. Now I'm drunk as fuck and I'm going to stay up all night with it on rotation. Please note: I'm restraining myself from asking why everybody doesn't live with this thing forever. The slide on "Pearl of the Quarter". Fuck Music. Just submit, mother-lovers.
-- noodle vague (noodle_vagu...), November 26th, 2004
For me the one that bears the most frequent revisiting is Countdown to Ecstasy, but it's unbelievably dark.
-- J0hn Darn1elle (edito...), October 20th, 2003

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 16 April 2005 11:18 (twenty years ago)

In theory I'm at work today, but I can probably keep this up for a while if you want to concentrate on getting the album posts together.

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 16 April 2005 11:19 (twenty years ago)

points: 220
1st place votes: 0
total votes: 6

SPARKS - NO.1 IN HEAVEN

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_The Number One Song in Heaven_ -- the album itself is a Giorgio Moroder-produced classic, and for me is easily the equal of his work with Donna Summer. Anyone even slightly interested in how the eighties were invented needs to hear this.

-- Ned Raggett (ne...), August 28th, 2000.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 11:23 (twenty years ago)

see if this link works instead:

http://www.connollyco.com/discography/sparks/heaven.jpg

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 11:25 (twenty years ago)

Alba - if you're happy doing that, that's great. Searching is taking a while today. I think my dial-up connection is a little ill.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 11:26 (twenty years ago)

Hmm. Good as it is, Kimono My House, Propaganda and Indiscreet are all better.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Saturday, 16 April 2005 11:27 (twenty years ago)

...and the ILX search facility itself has been horribly slow for quite some time now. I'd offer to help as well, but I'm on steam-driven dial-up myself...

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Saturday, 16 April 2005 11:28 (twenty years ago)

points: 222
1st place votes: 0
total votes: 9

CAN - FUTURE DAYS

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― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 11:32 (twenty years ago)

One of several Can albums nominated. IS IT THE HIGHEST PLACED??

(err..did that attempt to copy Mike and introduce an element of suspense work? I suspect not.)

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 11:35 (twenty years ago)

points: 229
1st place votes: 1
total votes: 9

THE B52s - THE B52s

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― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 11:39 (twenty years ago)

The 'Future Days' LP, with Damo Suzuki singing low down in the mix of motorik and completely TIMELESS grooves presses my kosmische button, one play is never enough, neither 2, nor 3...
-- Morfe (morf...), September 4th, 2001
Future Days is wonderful "finally finding a path home after driving around lost for an hour or so" music.
-- Alan N (ala...), February 25th, 2003
'Classic' Can is a chore, Future Days excepted.

-- Dr. C (Daveatcrossdee...), February 25th, 2003

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 16 April 2005 11:40 (twenty years ago)

points: 231
1st place votes: 1
total votes: 6

PARLIAMENT - FUNKENTELECHY VS. THE PLACEBO SYNDROME

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― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 11:43 (twenty years ago)

ahem..

I thought that was going too well..

points: 231
1st place votes: 1
total votes: 6

PARLIAMENT - FUNKENTELECHY VS. THE PLACEBO SYNDROME

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― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 11:45 (twenty years ago)

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― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 11:45 (twenty years ago)

That yellow album has been played at just about every party I've been to.
-- P. Remak (remakp...), November 27th, 2002
the first 2 LPs are godlike.
-- electric sound of jim (electricsoun...), July 9th, 2003
"Planet Claire" = first single mark s evah bought
-- mark s (mar...), September 9th, 2001

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 16 April 2005 11:47 (twenty years ago)

(sorry - I can't quite keep up. That was for the B52s album)

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 16 April 2005 11:47 (twenty years ago)

points: 232
1st place votes: 0
total votes: 10

LEONARD COHEN - SONGS OF LOVE AND HATE

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― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 11:49 (twenty years ago)

Funkentelechy vs. the Placebo Syndrome = best concept album EVAH.

-- M Matos (michaelangelomato...), July 12th, 2002.

Funkentelechy vs. the Placebo Syndrome by Parliament. No gaps, no holes, weird stuff right next to glorious pop moments, doo-wop science-fiction funk with no apologies.

-- Matt C. (cibul...), October 3rd, 2002.

If you're looking for the straight-up, most accessible of the Parliament records that sound like what most people consider the "Parliament sound"--i.e. the "disco-y, funky, rubbery bass kinda stuff you see sample on the G-Funk hip hop albums" that Jason D pointed out--then Funkentelechy is tough to beat. Two killer singles, hilarious dead-on concept w/ great characters and great extended jams.
And ironically, in light of the early P-Funk records, it's one of the all-time greatest acid records.
-- Naive Teen Idol (matthewjweine...), March 17th, 2003.

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 16 April 2005 11:51 (twenty years ago)

Any chance you could slow down just a tad? Don't worry if not.

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 16 April 2005 11:52 (twenty years ago)

Skipping 675 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

So what would have been the #1 in your ideal fantasy ILM 70s poll? Not necessarily what you would pick for #1 but what you would have expected it to be based on the type of stuff that's generally discussed here? I haven't been here for very long so I can't really answer that myself but I did expect the poll to be a lot more post-punk heavy.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Monday, 9 May 2005 00:03 (twenty years ago)

"old ilm" (groan!) 70s poll woulda been more dominated by bowie, had more roxy, had at least SOME t. rex (still a wtf).

― j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 9 May 2005 04:10 (twenty years ago)

So, less Pitchfork, more Mojo?

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Monday, 9 May 2005 04:59 (twenty years ago)

yes cuz mojo often has glam acts on the cover

― j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 9 May 2005 05:09 (twenty years ago)

http://www.tilldawn.net/images/mojo47.jpg

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Monday, 9 May 2005 05:20 (twenty years ago)

If I'm interpreting Alba's, er, breviloquence correctly, then it's proof that my ILM is Extremely British (and Stylus isn't far behind) Theory is spreading like wildfire.. I will present it in full at next year's Experience Music Project 2006. Until then, recommended viewing: The ILM Top 100 Albums of the 90s (note the disturbingly high placement of trip-hop, St. Etienne, Different Class, and Magnetic Fields); Stylus Magazine's Top 40 albums of 2004 and Top 50 Albums of 2000-2004 (note mad love for Nellie McKay, Junior Boys, and esp. Girls Aloud); finally, both groups' forthcoming Top 100 Albums of the 1980s, which The Stone Roses will invariably win in a landslide, almost certainly followed by 23 consecutive releases by The Fall (which would certainly have been 27 had compilations not been forbidden) from Totale's Turn to the Cab it Up/Descendant EP.

Quod Erat Demonstrandum

Thank you.

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Monday, 9 May 2005 05:42 (twenty years ago)

four years pass...

Just to recap, for convenience and posterity:

100. VA - Nuggets
99. New York Dolls - s/t
98. David Bowie - Heroes
97. Kate Bush - The Kick Inside
96. Bruce Springsteen - Darkness On the Edge of Town
95. The Cure - Three Imaginary Boys
94. Augustus Pablo - King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown
93. Philip Glass - Einstein on the Beach
92. Sparks - Kimono My House
91. Cheap Trick - Live at Budokan
90. Steely Dan - Countdown to Ecstacy
89. Sparks - No. 1 in Heaven
88. Can - Future Days
87. The B52s - The B52s
86. Parliament - Funkentelechy Vs. the Placebo Syndrome
85. Leonard Cohen - Songs of Love and Hate
84. Iggy and the Stooges - Raw Power
83. The Slits - Cut
82. Nick Drake - Bryter Layter
81. The Beach Boys - Surf's Up
80. Neu! - Neu!
79. The Beatles - Let It Be
78. John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band
77. Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
76. Big Star - Third
75. John Cale - Paris 1919
74. Donna Summer - On the Radio
73. Miles Davis - A Tribute to Jack Johnson
72. Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It On
71. Parliament - The Mothership Connection
70. Brian Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
69. VA - Saturday Night Fever
68. Wire - 154
67. Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
66. Led Zeppelin - IV
65. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
64. Big Star - #1 Record
63. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
62. David Bowie - Station to Station
61. Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps
60. Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True
59. Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
58. Bob Dylan - The Basement Tapes
57. The Congos - Heart of the Congos
56. Fleetwood Mac - Rumors
55. Ornette Coleman - Dancing in Your Head
54. Richard and Linda Thompson - I Want To See the Bright Lights Tonight
53. David Bowie - Hunky Dory
52. The Fall - Dragnet
51. Neil Young - Tonight's the Night
50. Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic
49. Roxy Music - Roxy Music
48. Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
47. Stevie Wonder - Talking Book
46. Suicide - First Album
45. Miles Davis - On the Corner
44. Curtis Mayfield - Superfly
43. Steve Reich - Music For 18 Musicians
42. Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings and Food
41. Neil Young - On the Beach
40. Gram Parsons - Grievous Angel
39. Wire - Chairs Missing
38. Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
37. Can - Ege Bamyesi
36. Brian Eno - Another Green World
35. Serge Gainbourg - Histoire De Melody Nelson
34. Nick Drake - Pink Moon
33. Elvis Costello - This Year's Model
32. Neil Young - After the Goldrush
31. Big Star - Radio City
30. The Clash - The Clash
29. The Velvet Underground - Loaded
28. The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
27. Wire - Pink Flag
26. Can - Tago Mago
25. David Bowie - Low
24. Joni Mitchell - Blue
23. Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets
22. Ramones - Ramones
21. Al Green - Call Me
20. Kraftwerk - The Man Machine
19. The Stooges - Fun House
18. Michael Jackson - Off the Wall
17. VA - The Harder They Come
16. The Sex Pistols - Nevermind the Bollocks
15. The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers
14. David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
13. Gang of Four - Entertainment
12. Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
11. The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
10. Marvin Gaye - What's Goin' On
9. Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady
8. PiL - Metal Box
7. Blondie - Parallel Lines
6. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
5. Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express
4. Television - Marquee Moon
3. Bob Dylan - Blood On the Tracks
2. The Clash - London Calling
1. Sly & the Family Stone - There's a Riot Goin' On

― whenuweremine (whenuweremine), Thursday, 28 April 2005 15:36 (4 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 30 November 2009 14:47 (sixteen years ago)

I'd actually love it if Tuomas or Gear were to run the 70s poll again next.

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 30 November 2009 18:23 (sixteen years ago)

hobart paving made a bit of a pig's ear of this really.

― DavidM, Monday, 30 November 2009 18:44 (sixteen years ago)

I'd be happy to curate another take on the seventies poll (lord knows I spend enough time on the computer already).

― Johnny Fever, Monday, 30 November 2009 18:51 (sixteen years ago)

woohoo!!!
Please dont limit nominations per person though!

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 30 November 2009 19:02 (sixteen years ago)

I'll start a nominations thread as soon as the current poll wraps up, then.

― Johnny Fever, Monday, 30 November 2009 19:03 (sixteen years ago)

cool, looking forward to this

― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Monday, 30 November 2009 19:07 (sixteen years ago)

fuck all other decades but the 70s imo

― it's like 10,000 goons when all you need is a trife (m bison), Monday, 30 November 2009 19:08 (sixteen years ago)

there better be prog in the top 100 this time

― a. cole, u thic (acoleuthic), Monday, 30 November 2009 19:09 (sixteen years ago)

thanks Johnny! This could be great!

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 30 November 2009 19:10 (sixteen years ago)

There'll be a lot of crossover, but surely we can surpass this nominations list right?

the 70s poll - rules, and nominations (¡FINAL VOTING ABOUT TO CLOSE - LAST CHANCE TO "MAKE THAT DIFFERENCE"!)

― Johnny Fever, Monday, 30 November 2009 20:13 (sixteen years ago)

well copy and paste that list onto the nominations thread then we can all add to it and make it comprehensive.

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 30 November 2009 20:26 (sixteen years ago)

Steely Dan will be in the top 5 positions knowing ILM ;)

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 30 November 2009 22:19 (sixteen years ago)

I just had an idea about the re-poll. What if we remove the 100 albums in this list from contention in order to produce a much more interesting poll? Like, anything that placed here is completely off limits for nomination/voting this time. Canon be damned!

Thoughts?

― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 1 December 2009 10:37 (sixteen years ago)

I'm in favour. Then I can vote for "The Belle Album"!

― E Poxy Thee Fule (Tom D.), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 10:40 (sixteen years ago)

I like that idea.

― mooncup journey to vaja (The Reverend), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 11:00 (sixteen years ago)

cant believe 'tusk' didnt even place on that poll

― just sayin, Tuesday, 1 December 2009 11:32 (sixteen years ago)

ILM hadn't discovered it then

― E Poxy Thee Fule (Tom D.), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 11:32 (sixteen years ago)

nor Aja!

― jabba hands, Tuesday, 1 December 2009 11:33 (sixteen years ago)

i would be *completely* down for excluding everything here, but i'm not sure it should happen, if that makes sense

― a. cole, u thic (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 11:34 (sixteen years ago)

i mean it would distort things too much and i wouldn't be able to vote for 154 which is godhead

― a. cole, u thic (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 11:35 (sixteen years ago)

Or "Pacific Ocean Blue". ILM had different favourites in those days.

― E Poxy Thee Fule (Tom D.), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 11:36 (sixteen years ago)

no, dont remove anything please. You will get much less voters too if you do, people wont be bothered to vote. The results will be different enough.

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 13:46 (sixteen years ago)

What's missing? From my library: I am Sitting in a Room, Sex Machine, Look-ka Py Py, Food for Thought, The Revolution Will Not be Televised, Delusion of the Fury, Right Time, Cochin Moon, Disco Club, Music for Airports, The Flying Lizards. Would a single one of these garner enough points to make the list? Maybe the Eno.

― Biodegradable (Derelict), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 14:00 (sixteen years ago)

You will get much less voters too if you do, people wont be bothered to vote.

You could be right about this. But on the other hand, less people vote in polls now because the thinking is "Oh, [x albums] will make up most of the list, and that's boring...zzzz." I can see both sides of this, but not sure what would better suit a re-poll.

― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 1 December 2009 18:29 (sixteen years ago)

My brain couldn't handle coming up with a best albums of the 80s list, so it certainly won't be able to handle this

― E Poxy Thee Thule (Tom D.), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 18:31 (sixteen years ago)

fuck ~~all other decades but~~ the 70s imo

Fixed.

― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 18:32 (sixteen years ago)

no point in running a poll if you exclude stuff.

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 20:09 (sixteen years ago)

cant believe 'tusk' didnt even place on that poll
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Or "Pacific Ocean Blue". ILM had different favourites in those days.

Indeed. A re-poll is needed.

― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 1 December 2009 20:15 (sixteen years ago)

Start from scratch a la the '80s poll imo.

― DavidM, Tuesday, 1 December 2009 20:16 (sixteen years ago)

Okay, everything will be eligible then. I'm just not looking forward to seeing the same ol'. Do not disappoint me, nominators and voters!

― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 1 December 2009 20:18 (sixteen years ago)

As i said, start the thread off with every album nominated last time so we can all add to it and make it really comprehensive.

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 20:19 (sixteen years ago)

naw, Johnny Fever, your OG idea is great, ignore this dude

― mooncup journey to vaja (The Reverend), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 22:57 (sixteen years ago)

I'm ready for this!

― Naive Teen Idol, Wednesday, 2 December 2009 03:45 (sixteen years ago)

Any position on the canon/no-canon debate?

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 2 December 2009 03:47 (sixteen years ago)

ILX 70s album poll - results

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 2 December 2009 03:48 (sixteen years ago)

FIRMLY FOR NO-CANON

― balearific, Wednesday, 2 December 2009 04:30 (sixteen years ago)

dunno how many votes we get but i think all of mine will go to the cars debut JUST TO MAKE MOTHERFUCKING SURE

― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 04:54 (sixteen years ago)

I'm going to use the same system Tuomas did, except nominations will have no limit.

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 2 December 2009 05:09 (sixteen years ago)

steve reich - drumming
philip glass - music in 12 parts

― it's like 10,000 goons when all you need is a trife (m bison), Thursday, 3 December 2009 04:34 (sixteen years ago)

oops!

― it's like 10,000 goons when all you need is a trife (m bison), Thursday, 3 December 2009 04:34 (sixteen years ago)

So, what do we need to do?

― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 3 December 2009 04:37 (sixteen years ago)

go here and get to nominatin'
DAMN THE CANON! It's the Alternate 1970s Albums Poll on ILX — Nominations Thread (Due by 11:59pm GMT, December 14th)

― WmC, Thursday, 3 December 2009 04:40 (sixteen years ago)

What a great poll. Too bad I missed it!

― US EEL (u s steel), Friday, 4 December 2009 02:35 (sixteen years ago)

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