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Singles

...and the Native Hipsters – "There Goes Concorde Again"
2 Live Crew - "We Want Some Pussy"
23 Skidoo - "The Gospel Comes to New Guinea"
808 State - "Pacific"
A Certain Ratio - "Flight"
A Flock of Seagulls - "I Ran"
A Guy Called Gerald - "Voodoo Ray"
ABBA - "The Day Before You Came"
ABC - "All of My Heart"
Adam and The Ants - "Kings Of The Wild Frontier"
Adam Ant - "Desperate But Not Serious"
Adam Ant - "Goody Two Shoes"
Adonis - “No Way Back”
Afrika Bambaataa & the Soul Sonic Force - "Planet Rock"
After The Fire - Der Kommissar
A-ha - "Cry Wolf"
A-ha - "Take On Me"
A-ha - "The Sun Always Shines On TV"
Airto - Samba de Flora
Alan Parsons Project - "Eye In the Sky"
Alex Chilton - "No Sex" EP
Alison Moyet, "Invisible"
Altered Images - "Dead Pop Stars"
Altered Images - "Don't Talk To Me About Love"
Anne Clarke - "Our Darkness"
Art Of Noise - "Moments In Love"
Artists United Against Apartheid - "Sun City"
Associates - Party Fears 2
Associates - Tell Me Easter's on Friday
Audio Two - "Top Billin'"
Aztec Camera - "Jump"
Aztec Camera - Oblivious
Bananarama - "Cruel Summer"
Bangles - "Hero Takes a Fall"
Bangles - "Walk Like an Egyptian"
Beastie Boys - "Fight for Your Right (To Party)"
Beastie Boys - "Hey Ladies"
Beat, The - "Mirror in the Bathroom"
Beat, The - "Save It for Later"
Beat, The - “Twist and Crawl”
Beautiful South - "Song For Whoever"
Berlin - "Take My Breath Away"
Berlin - "The Metro"
Big Daddy Kane - Ain't No Half Steppin'
Billy Idol, "Eyes Without A Face"
Billy Joe Royal - “Burned Like a Rocket”
Black Flag - "TV Party"
Black Uhuru - "Sponji Reggae"
Blancmange - "That's Love, That It Is"
Blondie - Call Me
Blondie - The Tide Is High
Blow Monkeys - It Doesn't Have To Be This Way
Blue Nile - Tinseltown in the Rain
Blue Oyster Cult - "Burnin' For You"
Bob Dylan - "Man in the Long Black Coat"
Bolshoi, The - Away
Bon Jovi - "Livin' On A Prayer"
Bonnie Tyler - "Total Eclipse of the Heart"
Boys Don't Cry - "I Wanna Be a Cowboy"
Bronski Beat - "Smalltown Boy"
Bruce Springsteen - "Atlantic City"
Bruce Springsteen - "Born in the U.S.A.”
Bruce Springsteen - "Brilliant Disguise"
Bruce Springsteen - "Glory Days"
Bryan Ferry - "Don't Stop The Dance"
Butthole Surfers - "I Saw an X-Ray of a Girl Passing Gas"
Cameo - "Single Life"
Cameo - "Word Up"
Camouflage - The Great Commandment
C-Bank - One More Shot
Chameleons - "Swamp Thing"
Chaka Khan - "I Feel For You"
Charlie - "Spacer Woman"
Chicago - "Will You Still Love Me?"
Chicago Bears Shufflin' Crew - "The Superbowl Shuffle"
Chills, The - Pink Frost
Chris Isaak - "Wicked Game"
Church, The - "The Unguarded Moment"
Church, The - "Under The Milky Way"
Clash, The - Rock the Casbah
Class Action f/ Chris Wilshire - "Weekend"
Clean, The - Odditty
Clean, The - Tally Ho
Cliff Richard - Wired For Sound
Close Lobsters - "Let's Make Some Plans"
Cocteau Twins - "Aikea Guinea"
Cocteau Twins - "Sugar Hiccup"
Coldcut f/ Yazz & The Plastic Population - Doctorin The House
Colourfield - Thinking of You
Communards - Don't Leave Me This Way
Company B - "Fascinated"
Cookie Crew - "Born This Way"
Cookie Crew - "Females (Get On Up)"
Cover Girls - "Inside Outside"
Crispy Ambulance - "The Presence"
Crowded House - "Don't Dream It's Over"
Cult, The - She Sells Sanctuary
Culture Club - "Church of the Poison Mind"
Culture Club - "Karma Chameleon"
Culture Club - "Time (Clock of the Heart)"
Cure, The - "A Forest"
Cure, The - "How Beautiful You Are"
Cure, The - "Inbetween Days"
Cure, The - "Just Like Heaven"
Cure, The - "Love Song"
Cure, The - "Lovecats"
Cure, The - "Primary"
Cybotron - Clear
Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
Cyndi Lauper - Money Changes Everything
Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time
Cyndi Lauper - True Colours
Cynthia - "Change On Me"
D Train - "You're the One for Me"
DAF - Der Mussolini
Danielle Dax - "Cat House"
David Bowie - Let's Dance
David Bowie - Modern Love
Dazz Band - "Let It Whip"
dB's - "Black and White"
De La Soul - Eye Know
De La Soul - Me Myself and I
De La Soul - Plug Tunin
Dead Milkmen - Smoking Banana Peels
Dead or Alive - "You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)"
Debbie Deb - "When I Hear Music"
Def Leppard - "Photograph"
Def Leppard - "Rocket"
Depeche Mode - "Dreaming of Me"
Depeche Mode - "Everything Counts"
Depeche Mode - "I Just Can't Get Enough"
Depeche Mode - "Never Let Me Down Again"
Depeche Mode - "Shake the Disease"
Depeche Mode - "Somebody"
Depeche Mode - "Strangelove"
Devo - "Beautiful World"
Devo - "Girl U Want"
Dexys Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen
Dhar Braxton - "Jump Back"
Diana Ross - "Swept Away"
Dimples D - "Suckapella"
Dimples D - "Sucker DJ"
Doctor's Cat - "Feel the Drive"
Dollar - Hand Held in Black and White
Dominatrix - "The Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight"
Don Henley - "Boys of Summer"
Donna Summer - "Dinner With Gershwin"
Double Dee & Steinski - Lessons 1 - 3
Doug E. Fresh & the Get Fresh Crew - The Show
Dramarama - "Anything, Anything (I’ll Give You)"
Duran Duran - "Careless Memories"
Duran Duran - "Girls On Film"
Duran Duran - "New Moon on Monday"
Duran Duran - "Planet Earth"
Duran Duran - "Rio"
E.U. - "Da' Butt"
Echo & The Bunnymen - Bring on the Dancing Horses
Echo & The Bunnymen - The Cutter
Echo & The Bunnymen - The Killing Moon
Elton John - I'm Still Standing
Elvis Costello - "I Want You"
EPMD - "Strictly Business"
Erasure - A Little Respect
Erasure - Chains of Love
Erasure - Sometimes
Eric B & Rakim - Follow the Leader
Eric B & Rakim - I Know You Got Soul
Eric B & Rakim - Paid In Full
Expose - "Point Of No Return"
Falco - Jeanny
Falco - Vienna Calling
Fall, The - "Eat Y'self Fitter"
Fall, The - "New Big Prinz"
Fall, The - "The Classical"
Fall, The - "Victoria"
Firmament and the Elements – "The Tabernacle of Frothy Muggament"
Fishbone - Party At Ground Zero
Fleetwood Mac - Farmer’s Daughter
Fleetwood Mac - Gypsy
Fleetwood Mac - Hold Me
Flipper - "Sex Bomb"
Flirts, The - "Passion"
Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax
Frankie Goes To Hollywood - The Power of Love
Frankie Knuckles f/ Jamie Principle - "Baby Wants to Ride"
Frankie Ruiz - "Desnúdate Mujer"
Frankie Ruiz - "La Cura"
Front 242 - Headhunter
Fugazi - "Margin Walker"
Fugazi - "Waiting Room"
Funky Four + 1 - "That's The Joint"
Furniture - "Brilliant Mind"
Galaxie 500 - Blue Thunder
Galaxie 500 - When Will You Come Home
Gang of Four: To Hell With Poverty
Gap Band - "Burn Rubber (Why You Wanna Hurt Me)"
Gap Band - "You Dropped A Bomb On Me"
Gary Numan - "I Die:You Die"
General Public - Tenderness
George Clinton - Atomic Dog
George Michael - Careless Whisper
Gil Scott-Heron - B Movie
Giorgio Moroder & Phil Oakey - Together in Electric Dreams
Go-Betweens - Cattle and Cane
Go-Betweens - Part Company
Go-Betweens - Right Here
Go-Go's - "Our Lips Are Sealed"
Grandmaster and Melle Mel - "White Lines (Don't Do It)"
Grandmaster Flash - “The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel”
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five - "The Message"
Grauzone - "Eisbär"
Gruesome Twosome - “Hallucination Generation”
Guns n' Roses - "Patience"
Guns n' Roses - "Sweet Child o' Mine"
Guns n' Roses - "Welcome to the Jungle"
Haircut 100 - "Love Plus One"
Half Man Half Biscuit - The Trumpton Riots
Half Pint - "Greetings"
Hall & Oates - I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)
Hank Williams, Jr. - "A Country Boy Can Survive"
Happy Mondays - Wrote For Luck/WFL/W.F.L.
Heaven 17 - "Fascist Groove Thang"
Hector Lavoe - "Triste y Vacia"
Hellhammer - "Apocalyptic Raids" EP
Herbie Hancock - "Rockit"
House Of Love - "Christine"
House Of Love - "Destroy The Heart"
Housemartins - Caravan Of Love
Housemartins - Happy Hour
Human League - (Keep Feeling) Fascination
Human League - Don't You Want Me
Human League - Human
Human League - Love Action (I Believe In Love)
Hüsker Dü - "Eight Miles High"
Hüsker Dü - "Makes No Sense At All"
I, Ludicrous - "Preposterous Tales"
Ice T - "Colors"
Inner City - “Good Life”
INXS - Don't Change
INXS - Need You Tonight
INXS - New Sensation
Jam, The - "Going Underground"
Jam, The - "That's Entertainment"
James Brown - "Bring It On"
Janet Jackson - "Rhythm Nation"
Janet Jackson - "What Have You Done For Me Lately"
Jesus and Mary Chain - Just Like Honey
Jesus and Mary Chain - Never Understand
Jesus and Mary Chain - You Trip Me Up
Jim Carroll - "People Who Died"
Joan Jett and The Blackhearts - "Crimson and Clover"
Joan Jett and The Blackhearts - "I Love Rock-n-Roll"
JoBoxers - "Just Got Lucky"
Joe Jackson - It's Different For Girls
Joe Jackson - Steppin' Out
Joe Smooth - Promised Land
John Anderson - "Swingin'"
John Cougar Mellencamp - "Jack and Diane"
John Cougar Mellencamp - "Pink Houses"
Jonathan Richman - “That Summer Feeling”
Jonzun Crew - "We Are The Jonzun Crew"
Josef K - "It's Kinda Funny"
Josie Cotton - "Johnny Are You Queer?"
Journey - "Any Way You Want It"
Journey - "Don't Stop Believin'"
Journey - "Stone In Love"
Joy Division - Atmosphere
Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
Julian Cope - "World Shut Your Mouth"
Junkyard Band - "The Word"
Justified Ancients of MuMu - "Whitney Joins the Jams"
Kajagoogoo - "Hang On Now"
Kano - "Another Life"
Kate Bush - "Cloudbusting"
Kate Bush - "Hounds Of Love"
Kate Bush - "Running Up That Hill"
Katrina and the Waves - Going Down to Liverpool
Katrina and the Waves - Walking on Sunshine
KC Flightt - "Planet E"
Ken Laszlo - Hey Hey Guy
Kid Creole & the Coconuts - Stool Pigeon
Killing Joke - "Love Like Blood"
Kim Carnes - "Bette Davis Eyes"
Kim Wilde - "Kids in America"
Kirsty MacColl - "A New England"
Kirsty MacColl - "There's A Guy Works Down the Chipshop Swears He's Elvis"
Kitchens of Distinction - "The Third Time We Opened Up The Capsule"
Klein & MBO - "Dirty Talk"
Kool & the Gang - "Misled"
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo - "Road to the Riches"
Korgis - "Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime"
Kraftwerk - Computer Love
Kraftwerk - Tour De France
Kurtis Blow - "The Breaks"
La's - "There She Goes"
Laura Branigan - Gloria
Laura Branigan - Self Control
Laurent X - Machines
Laurie Anderson - "O Superman (For Massenet)"
Leonard Cohen - "Everybody Knows"
Les Rita Mitsouko - "Marcia Baila"
L'il Louis - French Kiss
Liliput - “Eisiger Wind”
Lionel Richie - All Night Long (All Night)
Lipps Inc. - "Funkytown"
Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam - "I Wonder If I Take You Home"
LL Cool J - "Going Back to Cali"
LL Cool J - "Rock The Bells"
Lloyd Cole and the Commotions - Brand New Friend
Loose Joints - "Is It All Over My Face?"
Loose Joints - "Tell You (Today)"
Lords Of Acid - “I Sit On Acid”
Love And Rockets - Ball Of Confusion
Love And Rockets - So Alive
L'Trimm - "Cars with the Boom"
Luther Vandross - "Never Too Much"
M/A/R/R/S - "Pump Up The Volume"/"Anitina (The First Time I See She Dance)"
Madness - Baggy Trousers
Madness - Embarrassment
Madness - House Of Fun
Madonna - "Borderline"
Madonna - "Holiday"
Madonna - "Into the Groove"
Madonna - "Like a Prayer"
Madonna - "Material Girl"
Malcolm McLaren - "Buffalo Gals"
Maldita Vecindad y Los Hijos del Quinto Patio - "Pachuco"
Mantronix - "Bassline"
Marine Girls - "Love To Know"
Mark Stewart + Maffia - "Jerusalem"
Marty Balin - "Hearts"
Marvin Gaye - "(Sexual) Healing"
MC Lyte - "I Cram to Understand U (Sam)"
McCarthy - "Should the bible be banned"
Meat Loaf - "Dead Ringer for Love"
Megadeth - "Peace Sells, But Who's Buying?"
Mekons - Amnesia
Mekons - Memphis, Egypt
Mel & Kim - Respectable
Men Without Hats - "Safety Dance"
Metallica - "One"
Metallica - "Orion"
Michael Jackson - Beat It
Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
Michael Jackson - Leave Me Alone
Michael Jackson - P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)
Michael Jackson - Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'
Mikey Dread - "World War III"
Ministry - “Everyday Is Halloween”
Mission of Burma - Academy Fight Song
Model 500 - No UFO's
Modern English - Melt With You
Morrissey - Last Of The Famous International Playboys
Morrissey - Suedehead
Mory Kanté - "Yéké Yéké"
Motels - "Only the Lonely"
Motorhead - "Ace of Spades"
Mr. Bungle - Travolta/Quote Unquote
Mudhoney - Touch Me, I'm Sick
Murray Head - One Night In Bangkok
My Bloody Valentine - You Made Me Realise
My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult - Daisy Chain 4 Satan
Nails, The - "88 Lines About 44 Women"
Naked Eyes - "Promises, Promises"
Nanci Griffith - "Listen to the Radio"
Negativland - Christianity is Stupid
Nena – 99 Luftballoons
Neneh Cherry - Buffalo Stance
Neneh Cherry - Manchild
Neon Judgement - "TV Treated"
New Order - Age Of Consent
New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle
New Order - Blue Monday
New Order - Ceremony
New Order - Everything's Gone Green
New Order - Fine Time
New Order - Love Vigilantes
New Order - Perfect Kiss
New Order - Temptation
New Order - Thieves Like Us
New Order - True Faith
New Order - Vanishing Point
Newcleus - “Jam On It”
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - "The Mercy Seat"
Night Ranger - "Sister Christian"
Nina Hagen - "New York (N.Y.)"
Nu Shooz - "I Can't Wait"
NWA - Express Yourself
Odyssey - Use It Up and Wear It Out
Ofra Haza - Im Nin Alu
Oingo Boingo - "Nothing Bad Ever Happens"
Opus - "Live Is Life"
Oran "Juice" Jones - "The Rain"
Orange Juice - "Falling and Laughing"
Orange Juice - "Rip It Up"
Orbital - "Chime"
Orchestral Maneouvres in the Dark - If You Leave
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Messages
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Souvenir
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Telegraph
Outfield - "Your Love"
Passions - I'm In Love with a German Film Star
Past Seven Days - "Raindance"
Pat Benatar - Invincible
Pat Benatar - Love is a Battlefield
Pato Banton - "Don't Sniff Coke"
Paul Parker - "Right On Target"
Paul Simon - "Graceland"
Paula Abdul - Straight Up
Pavement - Box Elder
Peech Boys - Don't Make Me Wait
Pet Shop Boys - Always On My Mind
Pet Shop Boys - Rent
Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls
Pet Shop Boys - What Have I Done to Deserve This?
Pete Shelley - "Homosapien"
Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush - Don't Give Up
Peter Murphy - "Cuts You Up"
Phase II - "Reachin"
Phil Collins - In The Air Tonight
Pigbag - "Papa's Got a Brand New Pigbag"
PIL - "Flowers of Romance"
PIL - "Rise"
Pixies - "Debaser"
Pixies - "Gigantic"
Pixies - "Monkey Gone to Heaven"
Plimsouls - A Million Miles Away
Pogues & Kirsty MacColl - "Fairytale Of New York"
Poison - "Talk Dirty to Me"
Police - "Every Breath You Take"
Police - "Synchronicity II"
Police - "Tea In The Sahara"
Pop Will Eat Itself - "Wise Up Sucker"
Prefab Sprout - "Appetite"
Pretenders - "Brass in Pocket"
Primal Scream - "Velocity Girl"
Primitives - "Crash"
Prince - "1999"
Prince - "Adore"
Prince - "Alphabet Street"
Prince - "I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man"
Prince - "Little Red Corvette”
Prince - "Uptown"
Prince and the Revolution - "Kiss"
Prince and the Revolution - "Erotic City"
Prince and the Revolution - "When Doves Cry"
Prince and The Revolution - "Raspberry Beret"
Prince and The Revolution - "Take Me With U"
Propaganda - Duel
Propaganda - P:Machinery
Psychedelic Furs - "Love My Way"
Psychedelic Furs - "Pretty In Pink"
PTP -- Rubber Glove Seduction
Public Enemy - "Black Steel In the Hour of Chaos"
Public Enemy - "Bring the Noise"
Public Enemy - "Fight the Power"
Public Enemy - "Night of the Living Baseheads"
Public Enemy - "Rebel Without a Pause"
Pylon - "Cool"
Queen & David Bowie - "Under Pressure"
R.E.M. - "Carnival of Sorts (Box Cars)”
R.E.M. - "Don't Go Back to Rockville"
R.E.M. - "Fall on Me"
R.E.M. - "It's the End of the World As We Know It (and I feel fine)"
R.E.M. - "Radio Free Europe"
R.E.M. - "Superman"
R.E.M. - "The One I Love"
Raincoats – No One’s Little Girl
Ratt - "Round And Round"
Ray Parker Jr. - “I Still Can’t Get Over Loving You”
Raze - "Jack The Groove"
Ready For The World - "Oh Sheila"
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Knock Me down
Replacements - Alex Chilton
Replacements - Bastards of Young
Replacements - I Will Dare
Replacements - Unsatisfied
Rick James - Super Freak
Rick Springfield - Jessie's Girl
Roachford - "Cuddly Toy"
Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock - "It Takes Two"
Robert Wyatt - At Last I Am Free
Robert Wyatt - Shipbuilding
Romeo Void - "Never Say Never"
Rosanne Cash - “Seven Year Ache”
Roxanne Shanté - "Bite This"
Roxanne Shanté - "Roxanne's Revenge"
Roxy Music - "Avalon"
Roxy Music - "More Than This"
R-Tyme - "R-Theme"
Rufus & Chaka Khan - Ain't Nobody
Run-DMC - "Sucker MCs"
Run-DMC f/Aerosmith - "Walk This Way"
Rush - "The Spirit Of Radio"
Rush - "Tom Sawyer"
Rythim is Rythim - Nude Photo
Rythim is Rythim - Strings of Life
S.O.S. Band - Just Be Good To Me
S.O.S. Band - Take Your Time, Do It Right
Salt 'n' Pepa - "Push It"
Sandie Shaw - “Hand in Glove”
Scotch - Penguins Invasion
Scritti Politti - Jacques Derrida
Scritti Politti - The 'Sweetest Girl'
Scritti Politti - The Word Girl
Scritti Politti - Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin)
Section 25 - Looking From A Hilltop
Senseless Things "Andii in a Karman" EP
Severed Heads - “Dead Eyes Opened”
S-Express - "Theme from S-Express"
Shannon - Let The Music Play
Shayne Carter And Peter Jefferies - "Randolph's Going Home"
Sheena Easton - "Modern Girl"
Sheila E. - "A Love Bizarre"
Shop Assistants - "Safety Net"
Shop Assistants - "Somewhere in China"
Shriekback - "Nemesis"
Simple Minds - The American
Sinead O'Connor - Troy
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Israel
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Peek-A-Boo
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Spellbound
Sisters Of Mercy - "Lucretia, My Reflection"
Sisters Of Mercy - "Temple of Love"
Sisters Of Mercy - "This Corrosion"
Slayer - "Raining Blood"
Sly Foxx - "Let's Go All The Way"
Smiths - "Ask"
Smiths - "Back to the Old House"
Smiths - "Bigmouth Strikes Again"
Smiths - "How Soon is Now?"
Smiths - "Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me"
Smiths - "There is a Light that Never Goes Out"
Smiths - "This Charming Man"
Smiths - "What Difference Does It Make?"
Snapper - Buddy
Soft Boys - "I Wanna Destroy You"
Soft Cell - Say Hello, Wave Goodbye
Soft Cell - Tainted Love
Soft Cell - Torch
Sonic Youth - Death Valley ‘69
Sonic Youth - Expressway to Yr Skull
Sonic Youth - Teenage Riot
Sons of Freedom -- The Criminal
Soundgarden - "Nothing to Say"
Spacemen 3 - "Revolution"
Spandau Ballet - "True"
Specials - "Ghost Town"
Spoonie Gee - "Love Rap"
Squeeze - Another Nail In My Heart
Squeeze - Tempted
Stakker - Humanoid
Stan Bush - Dare
Stan Bush - The Touch
Stan Ridgway - Camouflage
Starlight - Numero Uno
Steinski & Mass Media - "We'll Be Right Back"
Stephen 'Tin Tin' Duffy - "Kiss Me"
Sterling Void - "It's Alright"
Steve Earle - "Guitar Town"
Stevie Nicks - "Edge of Seventeen"
Stevie Wonder - Do I Do
Stevie Wonder - Overjoyed
Stone Roses - Elephant Stone
Stone Roses - Fools Gold 9.53
Stone Roses - I Am the Ressurection
Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored
Strafe - Set it Off
Stranglers - "Golden Brown"
Strawberry Switchblade - "Since Yesterday"
Strawberry Switchblade - "Trees and Flowers"
Sugarcubes - "Birthday"
Sugarhill Gang - "8th Wonder"
Suicidal Tendencies - Institutionalized
Sundays - "Can't Be Sure"
Suzanne Vega - "Luka"
Swing Out Sister - "Breakout"
Sylvester & Patrick Cowley - "Do You Wanna Funk?"
Talk Talk - "I Believe In You"
Talk Talk - "It's My Life"
Talk Talk - "Life's What You Make It"
Talking Heads - And She Was
Talking Heads - Once In A Lifetime
Talking Heads - This Must Be The Place (Naïve Melody)
Talulah Gosh - "Talulah Gosh"
Teardrop Explodes - "Reward"
Teardrop Explodes - "Treason (It's Just A Story)"
Tears For Fears - "Everybody Wants to Rule the World"
Tears For Fears - "Head Over Heals"
Tears For Fears - "Mad World"
Tears For Fears - "Shout"
Techtronic - Pump Up the Jam
Teena Marie - "Lips to Find You"
Television Personalities - "Smashing Time"
Ten City - "That's The Way Love Is"
Terence Trent D'Arby - "Sign Your Name"
Terence Trent D'Arby - "Wishing Well"
The The - "Infected"
They Might Be Giants - Ana Ng
They Might Be Giants - Don't Let's Start
This Heat - "Health and Efficiency"
This Mortal Coil - "Song To The Siren"
Thompson Twins - "Hold Me Now"
'Til Tuesday - "Voices Carry"
Time Zone - World Destruction
Tina Turner - "Private Dancer"
TKA - "One Way Love"
Tom Petty - "Free Fallin'"
Tom Tom Club - "Genius of Love"
Tommy Tutone - "8675309 (Jenny)"
Tones On Tail - "Go!"
Tracey Ullman - They Don't Know
Trans-X - "Living On Video"
Trio - "DaDaDa"
Tuxedomoon - "In a Manner of Speaking"
U2 - I Will Follow
U2 - New Year's Day
U2 - Two Hearts Beat as One
U2 - With or Without You
Ultravox - "The Thin Wall"
Undertones - "Got To Have You Back"
Undertones - "Wednesday Week"
Underworld - "Underneath the Radar"
Van Halen - Hot For Teacher
Van Halen - Jump
Van Halen - Unchained
Vapors - Turning Japanese
Venom – Evil (In league with Satan)
View From A Hill - No Conversation
Violent Femmes - "Kiss Off"
Violent Femmes - Blister in the Sun
Visage - "Fade To Grey"
Visage - "The Damned Don't Cry"
Vivien Goldman - "Launderette"
Wah! - The Story Of The Blues
Waitresses - "Christmas Wrapping"
Wall Of Voodoo - "Mexican Radio"
Was (Not Was) - Out Come the Freaks
Was (Not Was) - Wheel Me Out
Waterboys - The Whole of the Moon
Wayne Smith - Under me sleng teng
Weekend - The View from Her Room (12” version)
Weird Al Yankovic - "I Lost On Jeopardy"
We've Got A Fuzzbox & We're Gonna Use It - "Love Is The Slug"
Wham - "Wham Rap"
When in Rome - "The Promise"
Whitney Houston - “How Will I Know”
Whodini - "Friends"
World Class Wreckin' Cru - "Surgery"
World Domination Enterprises - "Catalogue Clothes"
XTC - "Burning With Optimism's Flames"
XTC - "Earn Enough For Us"
XTC - "Generals and Majors"
XTC - "Senses Working Overtime"
XTC - "This World Over"
Yazoo - "Situation"
Yazz & The Plastic Population - "The Only Way is Up"
Yello - "Domingo"
Yellowman - "Zungguzungguguzungguzeng"
Yoko Ono - "Walking On Thin Ice"
Young Marble Giants - "Final Day"
Young MC - "Bust a Move"
Zapp - "More Bounce to the Ounce"

LPs
23 Skidoo - Seven Songs
A Certain Ratio - Sextet
ABC - How To Be A Zillionaire!
ABC - The Lexicon of Love
AC/DC - Back in Black
African Head Charge - My Life In a Hole In the Ground
A-ha - Scoundrel Days
Amina Claudine Myers Trio - Circle of Time
Angry Samoans - Back From Samoa
Anita Baker - Rapture
Anthony Braxton - Five Compositions (Quartet) 1986
Anthrax - Among The Living
AR Kane - i
Art Bears - The World As It Is Today
Art Of Noise - (Who's Afraid Of?) The Art Of Noise!
Art Of Noise - Into Battle With The Art Of Noise
Arthur Russell – World of Echo
Astor Piazzolla - Tango: Zero Hour
Au Pairs - Sense and Sensuality
Aztec Camera - High Land, Hard Rain
B-52s - Whammy
Bad Brains - Bad Brains
Bad Brains - I against I
Bad Brains - Rock For Light
Bad Dream Fancy Dress - Choirboy's Gas
Band of Blacky Ranchette - Heartland
Band of Holy Joy – Manic, Magic, Majestic
Bangles - All Over the Place
Bathory - The Return
Bats - Daddy's Highway
Bauhaus - In the Flat Field
Bauhaus - Mask
Bauhaus - The Sky's Gone Out
Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
Beat Happening - s/t
Beat, The - I Just Can't Stop It
Big Black - Atomizer
Big Black - Songs About Fucking
Billy Bragg - Back To Basics
Billy Bragg - Talking with the Taxman About Poetry
Billy Idol - Rebel Yell
Black Flag - Damaged
Blancmange - Mange Tout
Blondie, Auto-American
Blue Nile - Hats
Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet
Boney M - Ten Thousand Lightyears
Bonnie Raitt - Nick of Time
Boogie Down Productions - Criminal Minded
Breathless - The Glass Bead Game
Breathless - Three Times and Waving
Brian Eno - Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks
Bronski Beat - The Age of Consent
Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA
Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
Bruce Springsteen - The River
Buckner and Garcia - Pac Man Fever
Buffalo Tom - s/t
Butthole Surfers - Hairway To Steven
Butthole Surfers - Locust Abortion Technician
Cactus World News - Urban Beaches
Camper Van Beethoven - Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart
Camper Van Beethoven - Telephone Free Landslide Victory
Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band - Doc At The Radar Station
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - Ice Cream for Crow
Cars, The - Heartbeat City
Chameleons - Script of the Bridge
Chameleons - Strange Times
Chameleons - What Does Everything Mean, Basically?
Chic - Real People
Chills, The - Brave Words
Christian Death - Only Theatre Of Pain
Church, The - Starfish
Cindytalk - In This World
Circle Jerks - Group Sex
Clash, The - Combat Rock
Clash, The - Sandinista
Clean, The - Boodle Boodle Boodle EP
Cocteau Twins - Blue Bell Knoll
Cocteau Twins - Head over Heels
Cocteau Twins - Treasure
Cocteau Twins - Victorialand
Colourbox - Colourbox
Comsat Angels - Sleep No More
Comsat Angels - Waiting for a Miracle
Concrete Blonde - Concrete Blonde
Costello Show, The - King of America
Cover Girls Show Me
Cowboy Junkies - Trinity Session
Cowboy Junkies - Whites off Earth Now!
Cramps - Songs the Lord Taught Us
Crass - Penis Envy
Crowded House - Temple of Low Men
Cure, The - 17 Seconds
Cure, The - Disintegration
Cure, The - Faith
Cure, The - Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
Cure, The - Pornography
Cure, The - The Head on the Door
Cure, The - The Top
Cyndi Lauper - She's So Unusual
David Bowie - Lets Dance
David Bowie - Scary Monsters… and Super Creeps
David Byrne and Brian Eno - My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts
David Hykes and the Harmonic Choir - Hearing Solar Winds
David Sylvian - Gone to Earth
David Thomas & The Pedestrians – Variations on a Theme
Dazz Band - Keep It Live
dB's - Repercussion
De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising
Dead Can Dance - The Serpent's Egg
Dead Can Dance - Within the Realm of the Dying Sun
Def Leppard - Hysteria
Def Leppard - Pyromania
Depeche Mode - Black Celebration
Depeche Mode - Music For The Masses
Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward
Descendents - All
Devo - Freedom of Choice
Dexys Midnight Runners - Don't Stand Me Down
Dexys Midnight Runners - Searching for the Young Soul Rebels
Dexys Midnight Runners - Too Rye Ay
Diana Ross - Diana
Dinosaur Jr. - Yr Living All Over Me
Dire Straits - Making Movies
Discharge - Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing
Dolly Mixture - Demonstration tapes
Don Henley - The End of Innocence
Donald Fagen - The Nightfly
Dream Syndicate - Days of Wine & Roses
Dukes Of Stratosphear - Chips From The Chocolate Fireball
Duran Duran - Rio
Duran Duran - s/t
Durutti Column - LC
Durutti Column - Return of the Durutti Column
Durutti Column - The Guitar and Other Machines
Echo & the Bunnymen - Ocean Rain
Edwyn Collins - Hope and Despair
Einstürzende Neubauten – Haus der Lüge
Elvis Costello - Blood and Chocolate
Elvis Costello - Get Happy!!
Elvis Costello - Imperial Bedroom
Elvis Costello - Punch the Clock
Elvis Costello - Trust
Emmylou Harris - Roses in the Snow
EPMD - Strictly Business
Eric B & Rakim - Follow the Leader
Eurythmics - Be Yourself Tonight
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)
Everything But The Girl - Eden
Everything But The Girl - Idlewild
Faith No More - The Real Thing
Fall, The - Grotesque (After The Gramme)
Fall, The - Hex Enduction Hour
Fall, The - Perverted by Language
Fall, The - This Nation's Saving Grace
Feelies - Crazy Rhythms
Feelies - The Good Earth
Felt - Strange Idols Pattern and Other Short Stories
Fingers Inc - Another Side
Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Welcome to the Pleasuredome
Fred Frith – Gravity
Fugazi - Fugazi EP
Fun Boy Three - Waiting
Funkadelic - The Electric Spanking of War Babies
Galaxie 500 - On Fire
Galaxie 500 - Today
Game Theory - Lolita Nation
Gang of Four - Solid Gold
Gary Numan - Telekon
Genesis - Invisible Touch
George Michael - Faith.
Giant Sand - The Love Songs
Glenn Branca -- The Ascension
Go-Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane
Go-Betweens - Before Hollywood
Go-Betweens - Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express
Go-Betweens - Spring Hill Fair
Go-Betweens - Talulah
Go-Go's - Beauty and the Beat
Grace Jones - Nightclubbing
Gun Club - Fire of Love
Guns n' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Half Man Half Biscuit - Back In The DHSS
Hall & Oates - H2O
Happy Mondays - Bummed
Happy Mondays - Twenty-Four Hour Party People Plastic Face Carnt Smile (White Out)
Harold Budd/Brian Eno - Ambient 2: The Plateaux Of Mirror
Headgirl (Motorhead + Girlschool) - "St. Valentine's Day Massacre" EP
Hector Lavoe - Hector Lavoe Strikes Back
Herbie Hancock - Future Shock
Housemartins - London 0 Hull 4
Huey Lewis and The News - Sports
Human League - Dare
Human Switchboard - Who's Landing In My Hangar?
Hüsker Dü - New Day Rising
Hüsker Dü - Warehouse: Songs and Stories
Hüsker Dü - Zen Arcade
Inner City -- Big Fun
INXS - Kick
Iron Maiden - Killers
J.Geils Band - Freeze-Frame
Jaco Pastorius: Word of Mouth
Jamaaladeen Tacuma - Renaissance Man
James Blood Ulmer - Are You Glad to Be in America?
James Blood Ulmer - Odyssey
Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
Janet Jackson - Rhythm Nation 1814
Japan - Gentlemen Take Polaroids
Jason and the Scorchers - Ferver
Jazz Butcher Conspiracy - A Scandal In Bohemia
Jazz Butcher Conspiracy - Big Planet Scarey Planet
Jennifer Warnes - Famous Blue Raincoat
Jesus and Mary Chain - Darklands
Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy
Joan Jett - Bad Reputation
Joe Jackson - Night and Day
John Lennon/Yoko Ono - Double Fantasy
John Zorn - The Big Gundown
Jon Hassell/Brian Eno - Fourth Worlds Vol. 1: Possible Musics
Jonathan Richman - Jonathan Sings!
Jonzun Crew - Lost in Space
Joy Division - Closer
Judas Priest - British Steel
Julee Cruise - Floating into the Night
Julian Cope - St. Julian
June Brides - There Are Eight Million Stories
Justified Ancients of MuMu - 1987 (What the Fuck's Going On?)
Kajagoogoo - White Feathers
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
Kate Bush - The Dreaming
Katrina and the Waves - st
Killing Joke - Night Time
Killing Joke - s/t
Killing Joke - What's THIS For?
King Crimson - Discipline
King Sunny Ade - Juju Music
Kirsty MacColl - Kite
Kitchens of Distinction: Love Is Hell
Klaus Schulze - Audentity
Kraftwerk - Computer World
Laibach - Opus Dei
Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man
Lester Bowie - The Great Pretender
Lionel Richie - Can't Slow Down
Living Colour - Vivid
Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Mambo Nassau
LL Cool J - Radio
Lloyd Cole and the Commotions - Easy Pieces
Lloyd Cole and the Commotions - Rattlesnakes
Lou Reed - The Blue Mask
Lounge Lizards - Voice of Chunk
Love And Rockets - Earth. Sun. Moon
Love And Rockets - Express
L'Trimm - Drop that Bottom
Ludus - The Seduction
Luther Vandross - Never Too Much
Lyle Lovett - Lyle Lovett and his Large Band
Madness - Absolutely
Madness - The Rise and Fall
Madonna - Like A Prayer
Madonna - Like A Virgin
Madonna - True Blue
Madonna - You Can Dance
Magazine - The Correct Use Of Soap
Malcolm McLaren - Duck Rock
Manuel Gottsching - E2-E4
Marcel Khalife - At the Border
Marshall Crenshaw - Field Day
Massacre – Killing Time
Meat Beat Manifesto - Storm the Studio
Meat Puppets - Meat Puppets II
Meat Puppets - Up On the Sun
Mekons - Fear & Whiskey
Mekons - Rock 'n' Roll
Mekons - The Edge Of The World
Mel & Kim - FLM
Melvins - Ozma
Meredith Monk - Dolmen Music
Merle Haggard - Big City
Metallica - ...And Justice For All
Metallica - Master Of Puppets
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Michael Jackson - Bad
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Michael Torke - Color Music
Michelle Shocked - Short Sharp Shocked
Microdisney - Crooked Mile
Mighty Lemon Drops – World Without End
Ministry - Land Of Rape And Honey
Ministry - The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste
Ministry - Twitch
Minor Threat - Complete Discography
Minutemen - Double Nickels On The Dime
Misfits - Earth A.D./Wolfsblood
Misfits - Walk Among Us
Mission of Burma - s/t
Mission of Burma - Signals, Calls, and Marches
Momus - Tender Pervert
Monitor - s/t
Monochrome Set - Strange Boutique
Morrissey - Bona Drag
Motorhead - Ace of Spades
Motorhead - No sleep til’ Hammersmith
Mudhoney - Superfuzz Bigmuff (Plus Early Singles)
My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything
My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult - I See Good Spirits, I See Bad Spirits
N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton
Naked Raygun - Throb Throb
Napalm Death - From Enslavement to Obliteration
Napalm Death - Scum
Negativland - Escape from Noise
Neil Young - Freedom
Neil Young - Hawks and Doves
Neil Young - Trans
Nervous Gender/Beelzebub Youth – Music From Hell
New Model Army - The Ghost of Cain
New Order - Low Life
New Order - Movement
New Order - Power Corruption and Lies
New Order - Substance
New Order - Technique
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Tender Prey
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
Nirvana - Bleach
OMD - Architecture & Morality
OMD - Dazzle Ships
One Last Wish - 1986
Orange Juice - You Can't Hide Your Love Forever
Orchids - Lyceum
Original Concept - Straight From the Basement of Cooley High
Ornette Coleman - Of Human Feelings
Ornette Coleman - Virgin Beauty
Ozzy Osbourne - Diary of a Madman
Paul Simon - Graceland
Pet Shop Boys - Actually
Pet Shop Boys - Introspective
Pet Shop Boys - Please
Peter Gabriel - Passion
Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel 4
Phil Collins - Face Value
Phil Collins - No Jacket Required
Philip Glass - Glassworks
Philip Glass - Koyaanisqatsi OST
PIL - Flowers of Romance
Pink Floyd - The Final Cut
Pixies - Come On Pilgrim
Pixies - Doolittle
Pixies - Surfer Rosa
Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God
Pogues - Red Roses for Me
Pogues - Rum, Sodomy, & the Lash
Police - Synchronicity
Police - Zenyatta Mondatta
Pop Will Eat Itself - This Is The Hour...
Prefab Sprout - Protest Songs
Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen
Pretenders - Learning to Crawl
Pretenders - Pretenders
Prince - 1999
Prince - Controversy
Prince - Dirty Mind
Prince - Lovesexy
Prince - Purple Rain
Prince - Sign 'O' The Times
Prince and The Revolution - Parade
Propaganda - A Secret Wish
Psychedelic Furs - Forever Now
Psychedelic Furs - s/t
Psychedelic Furs - Talk Talk Talk
Psychic TV - Tekno Acid Beat
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Public Enemy - Yo! Bum Rush the Show
Pylon - Chomp
Queen Latifah - All Hail The Queen
R.E.M. - "Chronic Town" EP
R.E.M. - Document
R.E.M. - Fables of the Reconstruction
R.E.M. - Green
R.E.M. - Life's Rich Pageant
R.E.M. - Murmur
R.E.M. - Reckoning
Raincoats - Odyshape
Randy Travis - Always and Forever
Randy Travis - Storms of Life
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Mother's Milk
Redskins - Neither Washington nor Moscow
Replacements - Let It Be
Replacements - Pleased to Meet Me
Replacements - Tim
Richard & Linda Thompson - Shoot Out the Lights
Richard Thompson - Hand of Kindness
Rip Rig and Panic - God
Robert Ashley - Perfect Lives (The Bar)
Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians - Element of Light
Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians - Fegmania
Rodney Allen - Happysad
Rolling Stones - Dirty Work
Rolling Stones - Tattoo You
Roseanne Cash - Seven Year Ache
Roxy Music - Avalon
Run-DMC - Kings of Rock
Run-DMC - Raising Hell
Run-DMC - s/t
Rush - Moving Pictures
Sade - Diamond Life
Scott Walker - Climate of Hunter
Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel - Nail
Scritti Politti - Cupid and Psyche ‘85
Scritti Politti - Songs to Remember
Sepultura - Beneath The Remains
Severed Heads - Come Visit The Big Bigot
Sex Clark Five - Strum and Drum
Shop Assistants - Will Anything Happen
Shriekback - Care
Silos - Cuba
Sinead O'Connor - The Lion And The Cobra
Siouxsie and the Banshees - A Kiss in the Dreamhouse
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Juju
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Tinderbox
Sir Mix-A-Lot - Swass
Sisters Of Mercy - First And Last And Always
Sisters Of Mercy - Floodland
Skeptics - Skeptics III
Skinny Puppy - Bites
Slayer - Reign in Blood
Slayer - Show No Mercy
Slick Rick - The Great Adventures of Slick Rick
Sly and Robbie - Rhythm Killers
Smiths - Hatful of Hollow
Smiths - Louder than Bombs
Smiths - Meat Is Murder
Smiths - Strangeways, Here We Come
Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
Smiths - The Smiths
Social Distortion - Prison Bond
Soft Boys - Underwater Moonlight
Soft Cell - Non-stop Erotic Cabaret
Sonic Youth - Confusion Is Sex
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Sonic Youth - EVOL
Sonic Youth - Sister
Sonora Ponceña - New Heights
Spacemen 3 - Playing with Fire
Spacemen 3 - Sound of Confusion
Spacemen 3 - The Perfect Prescription
Spandau Ballet - True
Special Ed - Youngest In Charge
Squeeze - East Side Story
Stacey Q Hard Machine
Steel Pulse - Earth Crisis
Steve Reich - Different Trains/Electric Counterpoint
Steve Reich - Tehillim
Stevie Wonder - Hotter Than July
Stone Roses - Stone Roses
Stump - A Fierce Pancake
Sugarcubes - Life's Too Good
Suzanne Vega - Solitude Standing
Swans - Children of God
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
Talk Talk - The Colour Of Spring
Talking Heads - Little Creatures
Talking Heads - Remain In Light
Talking Heads - Speaking in Tounges
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
Tall Dwarfs - Hello Cruel World
Talulah Gosh - Rock Legends Volume 69
Teardrop Explodes - Kilimanjaro
Tears For Fears - Songs From The Big Chair
Ted Hawkins - On the Boardwalk
Ted Hawkins - Watch Your Step
Teena Marie - Emerald City
Television Personalities - And Don't the Kids Just Love It
Television Personalities - The Painted Word
The The - Infected
The The - Mind Bomb
The The - Soul Mining
They Might Be Giants - Lincoln
Thin White Rope - Exploring The Axis
Thin White Rope - In The Spanish Cave
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 - Wormed By Leonard
Thinking Plague - In This Life
This Heat - Deceit
This Kind of Punishment - In the same room
This Mortal Coil - It'll End in Tears
Three O'Clock - Arrive Without Traveling
Three O'Clock - Sixteen Tambourines
Throbbing Gristle - Heathen Earth
Throwing Muses - [untitled]
'Til Tuesday - Everything's Different Now
Todd Terry - To the batmobile (let’s go)
Tom Petty - Full Moon Fever
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones
Tones on Tail - Pop
Traveling Wilburys - Vol. 1
Triffids - Born Sandy Devotional
Triffids - Calenture
Trouble Funk - Drop The Bomb
Tuxedomoon - Desire
U2 - Boy
U2 - October
U2 - The Joshua Tree
U2 - The Unforgettable Fire
Ultramagnetic MC's - Critical Beatdown
Ultravox - Rage In Eden
Ultravox - Vienna
Undertones - Hypnotised
Undertones - Positive Touch
Utopia - Deface The Music
Van Halen - 1984
Van Morrison - Irish Heartbeat
Vanity 6 - s/t
Various - Less Than Zero ost
Various - Repo Man ost
Various - Techno! The New Dance Sound of Detroit
Various - The House Sound of Chicago
Various - The Indestructable Beat of Soweto
Various - Tuatara
Various - Wanna Buy a Bridge?
Verlaines - Hallelujah all the way home
Violent Femmes - s/t
Virginia Astley - Hope in a Darkened Heart
Visage - The Anvil
Voivod - Nothingface
Volcano Suns - Bright Orange Years
Was (Not Was) - s/t
Waterboys - This Is The Sea
Wedding Present - Bizarro
Wedding Present - George Best
Weekend - La Variété
Wham - Make it Big
Wipers - Youth of America
World Class Wrecking Cru - World Class
World Domination Enterprises - Let's Play Domination
Would Be Goods - The Camera Loves Me
X - Los Angeles
X - Wild Gift
XTC - English Settlement
XTC - Skylarking
Yazoo - Upstairs at Eric's
Yello - Stella
Yellow Magic Orchestra - Technodelic
Yes - Drama
Yoko Ono - Its Alright (I see Rainbows)
Young Gods - L'eau rouge
Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth
Zapp - Zapp I
Zapp - Zapp II


INSTRUCTIONS

1. You must vote for at least 20 albums and 20 singles. You may vote for up to 100 albums and 100 singles. You may vote for however many albums and singles you wish so long as you vote for no more than 100 albums or 100 singles and no less than 20 albums or 20 singles.
2. Mark your ballot clearly. Mark number placement beside appropriate record plz ie. put a "1" before your first place, a "37" before your 37th place, a "100" before your 100th place. This will be helpful to me. List them in a LIST, like so:

1. Jim McMahon - "Suck on this Petey"
2. Prince feat. Carrie Fisher - "R U R2D2?"
3. Band-Aid - "Do They Know It's Christmas?"
etc.

4. In the e-mail with your ballot, right after or right before your ballot (but NOT in the midst of it) by all means feel free to include some remarks. Boring mojo canon style remarks are expected and welcomed I guess if you're really good at pulling off that sort of thing BUT what I'd really like is personal memories of the tracks ie. what it was like when it first dropped, when you first heard it, etc. I'm aiming more for oral history than yet more list type crit with the remarks.

5. E-mail Ballots to: ilx1980s@gmail.com . Deadline: HALLOWEEN

6. Point totals will be allotted like so:
1st Place - 300 pts.
2nd Place - 100 pts.
3rd Place - 99 pts.
4th Place - 98 pts.
...
100th Place - 2 pts.

Total Number of Ballots is first tiebreaker, Highest Ranking is second tiebreaker, Total Mentions on ILM as of Sept. 27, 2005 is third tiebreaker should it come to that.

Da ha ha ha, Da haha haha ha

Darryl Strawberry (Darryl Strawberry), Thursday, 29 September 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)

dude, awesome rappin' duke reference.

petesmith (plsmith), Thursday, 29 September 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)

o yeah, and i shouldn't have to say this but judging from the nod thread some people lack common sense: YOU SUBMIT ONE BALLOT AND YOU GET TO SUBMIT IT ONCE IE. DO NOT COME BACK AFTER A WEEK AND GO 'CHANGE MY 34TH PLACE VOTE FROM ____ TO ______' OR 'I ONLY VOTED FOR 72 RECORDS SO CAN YOU SLIDE IN ________ IN 73RD PLACE THX'. The answer will be 'no'.

Darryl Strawberry (Darryl Strawberry), Thursday, 29 September 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)

1st Place - 300 pts.
2nd Place - 100 pts

Hmmmm.... going to have to pick very carefully between 1st and 2nd choice.

Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Thursday, 29 September 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

well some people want number one weighed very very very heavily and some people want it weighed just one point more than second so the balance i found came from hot 100 singles chart statistical pattern where the number one song in the country usually has gotten played three times as many times as the number two song in the country that week.

Darryl Strawberry (Darryl Strawberry), Thursday, 29 September 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)

That's the balance? Did the "very very heavily" people want #1 weighed 10 times more than #2?

Sundar (sundar), Thursday, 29 September 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)

I still think you're wrong about that, Mr. Strawberry, or misquoting me/Whitburn, but that's okay!

jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 29 September 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)

I READ IT IN USA TODAY. I WAS IN A MCDONALDS READING USA TODAY AND IT SAID THAT.

Darryl Strawberry (Darryl Strawberry), Thursday, 29 September 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

THEY HAD NUMBERS JACK. AND A PIE CHART.

Darryl Strawberry (Darryl Strawberry), Thursday, 29 September 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

SWEET!

jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 29 September 2005 19:16 (twenty years ago)

Wow, VERY interesting weighting given to the #1 song ... it's a bit strange to have only one point separating *all* of the other votes, as I would have preferred something more spread out like the 70's poll so that the #2, #3, etc. votes also carry more weight ... but if them's the rules, them's the rules!

On one hand, this will nearly guarantee that a song with *any* amount of non-isolated support will make the top 100 ... in past polls, songs/albums could get multiple #1 votes but not make the final list because there are only ten techno fans on this board, and their relatively pithy number of votes couldn't carry enough weight to compete with the Pavement fans.

Hopefully the list won't look like a "most #1 votes list", but if enough people vote -- ***and lots of people take advantage of being able to cast 100 votes*** -- then that shouldn't be the case.

EXCITING!!

MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 29 September 2005 21:07 (twenty years ago)

Also, I mentioned this on the other thread, but do you want to move the voting deadline up a couple of weeks? Presently, we have five weeks to vote, and most people will forget about this thread for roughly four of those five weeks. Why not have an Oct 15 deadline and take advantage of the momentum and interest that the poll has right now?

MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 29 September 2005 21:11 (twenty years ago)

the balance i found came from hot 100 singles chart statistical pattern where the number one song in the country usually has gotten played three times as many times as the number two song in the country

does the number 2 song get roughly the same amount as play as number 3? how about:

#1 - 300pts
#2 - 200pts
#3 - 100pts
#4 - 99pts
...
#100 - 1pt
(note, i dunno if it works out that way)

my name is john. i reside in chicago. (frankE), Thursday, 29 September 2005 21:19 (twenty years ago)

we definitely should move up the voting deadline a few weeks.

(and thanks for putting all this together)

poortheatre (poortheatre), Thursday, 29 September 2005 21:27 (twenty years ago)

I agree with the people who want more weight on top votes other than 1. It seems a bit ludicrous to make #1 count three times as much as #2, and #2 count only two times as much as #51. Especially since you're basing your weighting decision on the Billboard charts - does the #2 song on the charts get played only twice as much as #51? I don't think so, bub.

I know I have quite a few songs I'm very passionate about and I'd like to see get heavy weight - perhaps since a top 20 is required of all voters, those twenty should be weighted more heavily?

Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 29 September 2005 21:47 (twenty years ago)

(songs = songs/albums)

Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 29 September 2005 21:48 (twenty years ago)

I'd also like to add that i'm a total dork and came specifically to my school's computer lab to print this list out-- I don't have net access at my apt. yet.

poortheatre (poortheatre), Thursday, 29 September 2005 21:49 (twenty years ago)

curtis number two does only get played twice as much as 51 (cf. usa today). shit ain't changing.

j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 29 September 2005 21:50 (twenty years ago)

arrrgh, USA Today, why hast thou betrayed me at this darkness of hour?

Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 29 September 2005 21:59 (twenty years ago)

I know I shouldn't be fuming over an ILX poll, but STILL. Why does the decade I love get the shitty voting system while the fucking seventies get a fair chance?

Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 29 September 2005 22:04 (twenty years ago)

#1 should net 1000 points. That way we can have pinball-like totals.

32. Metallica - Master of Puppets 1,178,500 points, 7 first place votes

Leeeeeeeee (Leee), Thursday, 29 September 2005 22:05 (twenty years ago)

"first place votes"

Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 29 September 2005 22:11 (twenty years ago)

I would also like to throw support to those who think the top 20 should be weighted more heavily. I mean, I'm not gonna get pissed if it doesn't get changed, but I'm just saying, in the sake of fairness, I think this is how it should be.

billstevejim (billstevejim), Friday, 30 September 2005 01:05 (twenty years ago)

Naw, I already have my Numero Uno picked out, and I'm looking forward to giving it the triple weight. I like the system.

gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 30 September 2005 01:38 (twenty years ago)

Is it too late to suggest again that people include their year of birth with their vote so we can compare the judgments of those of us who lived through it all with those of the later comers?

Guayaquil (eephus), Friday, 30 September 2005 02:36 (twenty years ago)

"Don't tell me about the '80s -- I was there, man!"

gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 30 September 2005 03:40 (twenty years ago)

YER DAM RIGHT KID AN' I WANT ALL ILX TO KNOW IT!

Guayaquil (eephus), Friday, 30 September 2005 04:01 (twenty years ago)

curtis number two does only get played twice as much as 51 (cf. usa today). shit ain't changing.

But that's based on the preferences of millions of people while this is a poll of individual preference. This poll gives little incentive for a poster to make the list greater than 20. Why should 10 people fill out to number 70 when my number one alone has about as much power as all of their preferences combined? This poll will look like what would happen if we asked everyone to vote for their top five 80s songs and then proceeded to count from there. That would've been better too because it would've saved a lot of us a month of coming up with nominations and listening to stuff we haven't heard before because we wanted to know if it was good enough to make our top 100 or top 50, not top 20 or 10 (where sentimental and longtime favorites have a stronghold that is unlikely to be broken in a few weeks). This system will ruin the internet music community if you don't change it.

Cunga (Cunga), Friday, 30 September 2005 04:08 (twenty years ago)

Oh I get it. We choose from the list. Whew, that makes things a lot easier, otherwise I wouldn't dream of attempting this.

That Garbage Pail Kids card is UBERCLASSIC. I've seen two very extensive collections of those cards and neither one had that one.

Bimble The Nimble, Jumped Over A Thimble! (Bimble...), Friday, 30 September 2005 04:14 (twenty years ago)

This system will ruin the internet music community if you don't change it.

haha

I have one question, can we send in our singles and albums list separate? I read the instructions and realize there are no modifications but no mention of this. The reason I ask is because I would like to tackle these lists one at a time, take a mental break and proceed onto the next one. Realize I could always hold on to it until they are both finished but I would rather send it in so I don't keep looking at it, agonize about placement and modify it over and over again.

BeeOK (boo radley), Friday, 30 September 2005 05:20 (twenty years ago)

I believe that's a wise decision.

Bimble The Nimble, Jumped Over A Thimble! (Bimble...), Friday, 30 September 2005 05:27 (twenty years ago)

hmm... y'know, Cunga's pretty otm up there...

rogermexico (rogermexico), Friday, 30 September 2005 06:48 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, 300 to 100 is INSANE. We demand a fairer system.

Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Friday, 30 September 2005 06:57 (twenty years ago)

Hell No! We Won't Go!

The Norma Raes will crush your head, Kids-In-The-Hall Style (Bimble...), Friday, 30 September 2005 07:01 (twenty years ago)

Power to the people!

Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 30 September 2005 07:01 (twenty years ago)

I don't like my #1 choice three times as much as my #2 choice, and I don't like my #1 choice 150 times as much as my #100 choice. This is where the airplay analogy falls down.

mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Friday, 30 September 2005 08:46 (twenty years ago)

mike t-diva OTM as per usual.

vinegar (Koens), Friday, 30 September 2005 09:04 (twenty years ago)

How kind. OK, warming to my theme... heavily weighted higher places will lead to *hack, spit* Tactical Voting.

Example: My #1 album is a dead obvious choice which will almost certainly place in the final Top 10. However, my #5 album is a much less likely candidate, which I'd like to see do well. The urge to place my #5 album in first position is therefore almost overhwelming. However, the dead obvious #1 album IS ACTUALLY MY FAVOURITE album of the 1980s.

mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Friday, 30 September 2005 09:13 (twenty years ago)

I don't mind the points being weighted more heavily towards the top, but the bias towards the #1 is too top heavy and could skew the poll for the reasons mike-t suggest above.

How about weighting the top 10 e.g

1. 200
2. 190
.
.
10. 110
11. 100
12. 99
.
.
.
100. 11

Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Friday, 30 September 2005 09:53 (twenty years ago)

OTM again. The originally proposed scoring system is not befitting of The Best Decade In the World Evah and its mouthwatering smorgasbord of nominations.

xpost: yeah, that might do it BD.

Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Friday, 30 September 2005 09:58 (twenty years ago)

It's better to burn out than fade away.

zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Friday, 30 September 2005 10:56 (twenty years ago)

Let me propose my own scoring system ... since Straw desires a heavier weight on top selections how about strongly favoring the top 10 of each list instead of just #1?

#1 - 250 pts
#2 - 200 pts
#3 - 175 pts
#4 - 160 pts
#5 to #10 - decrement by 5 pts
#10 to #25 - decrement by 3 pts
#25 to #40 - decrement by 2 pts
#40 to #85 - decrement by 1 pt
#86 to #88 - 4 pts ea.
#89 to #91 - 3 pts ea.
#92 to #95 - 2 pts ea.
#96 to #100 - 1 pt ea.

This results in about the same total amount of points per vote (5349 vs. 5334).

There's higher discrimination amongst the top 25 of each vote, moving 700 points from #26-#100 in Straw's system up to #1 to #25. And everyone's #1 vote is double their #10 so the ranking of top selections is still crucial.

BTW Straw I'd be glad to pitch in with tallying results if you need help.

zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Friday, 30 September 2005 11:04 (twenty years ago)

(I think we need to be a bit less subtle and reasonable about this, guys.)

OI! DARRYL! NOOOO! Yr 300 points for #1 is mentalism. Rethink, plz.

zebedee (zebedee), Friday, 30 September 2005 11:05 (twenty years ago)

zaxxon25's system is just about crazy enough to actually work really well!

vinegar (Koens), Friday, 30 September 2005 11:29 (twenty years ago)

Another crazy system:

Each voter gets a max of 5000 points to distribute at will, though no more than 100 to any single record (plus only integer values allowed).

OleM (OleM), Friday, 30 September 2005 11:51 (twenty years ago)

how about this:

#1 - green
#2 - blue
#3 - orange
#4 - gray
etc...

Dan Gr (certain), Friday, 30 September 2005 12:13 (twenty years ago)

Jesus, why didn't I nominate anything? I obviously don't hate the 80s as much as i thought I did. To whoever nominated, "Up on the Sun", I kiss you!

Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 30 September 2005 12:40 (twenty years ago)

Sad thing is I do this kind of stuff for a living. Just not with records from the 80's (unfortunately).

zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Friday, 30 September 2005 12:50 (twenty years ago)

how about this:
#1 - green
#2 - blue
#3 - orange
#4 - gray
etc...

I'd be okay with this, but can we have brown for #3 instead of orange?

o. nate (onate), Friday, 30 September 2005 14:19 (twenty years ago)

The thing is, I like my #1 pick more than my #2 pick but not yellow more.

walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 30 September 2005 14:30 (twenty years ago)

Guess someone should have done some nominatin'

rogermexico (rogermexico), Sunday, 2 April 2006 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

But alas, this poll was before my time here. If only...

musically (musically), Sunday, 2 April 2006 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

three months pass...
http://kofis-hat.blogspot.com/2006/07/40-best-albums-of-80s.html
40 Best Albums of the 80s, according to Q magazine:

1. U2 - The Joshua Tree

Key Track: "Where The Streets Have No Name"

Yet that song is not one of the "best tracks of the 80s"...(that list's forthcoming)

2. Michael Jackson - Thriller

Key Track: "Billie Jean"

3. The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead

Key Track: "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out"

4. Kate Bush- Hounds Of Love

Key Track: "Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)"

5. The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses

Key Track: "I Am The Resurrection"

What a strange typo. "I Am The Resurrection" looks very little like "I Wanna Be Adored".

6. R.E.M. - Murmur

Key Track: "Radio Free Europe"

7. Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Key Track: "Rebel Without A Pause"

8. Joy Division - Closer

Key Track: "Isolation"

9. AC/DC - Back In Black

Key Track: "You Shook Me All Night Long"

10. Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction

Key Track: "Sweet Child O' Mine"

11. Pixies - Doolittle

Key Track: "Debaser"

12. Prince - Sign O' The Times

Key Track: "Sign O' The Times"

13. Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska

Key Track: "Atlantic City"

14. Madonna - Like A Prayer

Key Track: "Like A Prayer"

15. The Jam - Sound Affects

Key Track: "That's Entertainment"

16. Beastie Boys - Licensed To Ill

Key Track: "(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party)"

17. The Cure - Disintegration

Key Track: "Pictures Of You"

18. Happy Mondays - Bummed

Key Track: "Wrote For Luck"

19. The Human League - Dare

Key Track: "Don't You Want Me"

20. De La Soul - 3 Feet High And Rising

Key Track: "The Magic Number"

21. New Order - Technique

Key Track: "Fine Time"

22. Pet Shop Boys - Actually

Key Track: "It's A Sin"

23. The Jesus And Mary Chain - Psychocandy

Key Track: "Never Understand"

24. George Michael - "Faith"

Key Track: "I Want Your Sex"

25. The Police - Synchronicity

Key Track: "Every Breath You Take"

26. Lou Reed - New York

Key Track: "Dirty Blvd."

27. Talking Heads - Remain In Light

Key Track: "Once In A Lifetime"

28. Echo & The Bunnymen - Ocean Rain

Key Track: "The Killing Moon"

29. Peter Gabriel - 3

Key Track: "Games Without Frontiers"

30. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation

Key Track: "Teen Age Riot"

31. Talk Talk - Spirit Of Eden

Key Track: "Desire"

32. Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking

Key Track: "Jane Says"

33. Bob Dylan - Oh Mercy

Key Track: "Most Of The Time"

34. Soul II Soul- Club Classics Vol. One

Key Track: "Keep On Movin'"

35. Def Leppard - Pyromania

Key Track: "Photograph"

36. Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones

Key Track: "In The Neighborhood"

37. The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God

Key Track: "Fairytale Of New York"

38. The Blue Nile - Hats

Key Track: "Headlights On The Parade"

39. Paul Simon - Graceland

Key Track: "Homeless"

40. Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

Key Track: "The Number Of The Beast"

DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 3 July 2006 12:41 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...
Did the ILM 80s album poll results ever get posted?

peepee (peepee), Thursday, 7 September 2006 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

I can't find it

peepee (peepee), Friday, 8 September 2006 01:37 (nineteen years ago)

Nope.

Post-Rodney (But no one called it that at the time) (R. J. Greene), Friday, 8 September 2006 03:04 (nineteen years ago)

it's still too soon

a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Friday, 8 September 2006 03:06 (nineteen years ago)

???????????????

peepee (peepee), Friday, 8 September 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

So what decade can we expect the results?

One Man's Mede Is Another Man's Persian (Dada), Friday, 8 September 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

It would be such a nice way to celebrate the 1-year anniversary of ballot submissions...

rogermexico (rogermexico), Monday, 11 September 2006 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

another way to celebrate would be to actually read people's posts!

j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 11 September 2006 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think we've seen the results to the 60s album poll, either.

kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Monday, 11 September 2006 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

Nope. I think Billy was thinking about holding off until nu-nu-ILX got sorted, but I wouldn't mind seeing that one also.

Danny Aioli (Rock Hardy), Monday, 11 September 2006 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

blount is there a post when you explain what happened to this? i can't find one.

Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

xpost

Yup, absolutely right. I didn't want to start doing the poll if it meant that ILM may disappear half way through. Hopefully Andrew will have some news in the next week or two.

Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

two years pass...

Memories fade but the scars still linger...

ilxor, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 05:11 (sixteen years ago)

butt-rock miyagi (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 05:17 (sixteen years ago)

my list would be soooooooo different now

on some charter shit no doubt (Curt1s Stephens), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 06:50 (sixteen years ago)

mine as well, plus i have no idea if i really voted or not. assume i did as i posted in that thread but...

Bee OK, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 06:52 (sixteen years ago)

finally done, 69 albums. Now I'm going to try and get some singles done and hopefully have enough time (banking on east coast deadline time).

― BeeOK (boo radley), Monday, October 31, 2005 8:38 PM (3 years ago)

wait, what are those 69 albums i voted for? i need to find that e-mail!

Bee OK, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 06:59 (sixteen years ago)

This poll should get the "reboot" treatment that seems so popular in Hollywood these days. Keep the album nominations list (maybe let everybody add two more?) and we'll resend them all in.

My list would look drastically different as well - I think last time it was #1 Daydream Nation #2 On Fire #3 Stone Roses.

Cunga, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 07:07 (sixteen years ago)

If I remember correctly the singles poll results eventually did come out, I think "When Doves Cry" won it. I'm not sure if Blount is around anymore, but maybe he still has the albums vote data somewhere?

Tuomas, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 07:30 (sixteen years ago)

Oh yeah, here's the singles poll results:

****************THIS IS A JOURNEY INTO SOUND - IT'S THE ILX 1980s SINGLES POLL RESULTS COUNTDOWN WHAMBAM FOOFARAW****************

Tuomas, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 07:31 (sixteen years ago)

I wonder why the hell I wasn't a participant in this mayhem the first time around.

Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 07:33 (sixteen years ago)

if it did get redone I think it would only be fair to allow people to renominate, I imagine there are lots of new people to ILX who maybe have a bunch of favorites that didn't even get a nom.

lil waynes babymama (musically), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 15:48 (sixteen years ago)

Hey, M-ly, what are the plans for the inevitable 00's poll? Should someone else take it?

Mequophidiophobia: fear of the beer snake (country matters), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 15:48 (sixteen years ago)

Let's wait until November at least.

Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 15:50 (sixteen years ago)

oh man, I haven't even thought about that...if I'm still around and doing these I imagine I would put it together after the 2009 poll tho.

lil waynes babymama (musically), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 15:51 (sixteen years ago)

I've been thinking about it way too much :-/

Mequophidiophobia: fear of the beer snake (country matters), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 15:53 (sixteen years ago)

Ha, yeah, on New Years, I said one of the things I was most looking forward to about 2009 was end-of-decade lists and polls.

Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 16:00 (sixteen years ago)

I've already got an ever-expanding list of albums which, if they win the poll, will occasion actual damage to my laptop screen

Mequophidiophobia: fear of the beer snake (country matters), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 16:02 (sixteen years ago)

seriously, guy? i really appreciate how you're taking internet mad to a whole new level and all? but seriously? stfu.

brainless popcorn (some dude), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 16:08 (sixteen years ago)

dramatic license, my dear fellow!

Mequophidiophobia: fear of the beer snake (country matters), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 16:10 (sixteen years ago)

just smash your screen now

O Supermanchiros (blueski), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 16:19 (sixteen years ago)

eight months pass...

So, since Blount isn't around anymore(?) and the votes for the album poll are presumably lost forever, and I need some distraction from writing my thesis, I thought it would be fun redo the 1980s album poll. With a new nomination process and all. Do you folks think it would be a good idea if I'd rearrange the poll?

Tuomas, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 14:01 (sixteen years ago)

"would be fun to redo"

Tuomas, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 14:02 (sixteen years ago)

Yes. Please do it.

Many of the seminal electrodribble records were released in that decade.

kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 14:34 (sixteen years ago)

For some reason I never participated the first time around, so I'd be up for this. I feel like the idea of having a "nomination process" for these polls is almost never necessary, though -- people should be able to just vote for whatever they want to vote, especially since I don't think it's nearly as hard to form a consensus for an '80s list as it would be for a '90s or '00s list. A suggestions thread or something would be cool, though, I just hate the idea of anyone not being able to vote for something just because it wasn't 'nominated.'

some dude, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 14:43 (sixteen years ago)

excited about this if you do it tuomas. might just be the synth brittania doc that has determined my listening habits for the last few days though.

The Devil's Avocado (Gukbe), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 14:47 (sixteen years ago)

Okay, I think I will do it then. I will include a nomination process though, if for no other reason than to make my job easier.

Tuomas, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 15:19 (sixteen years ago)

Not trying to be argumentative, if you wanna do that that's cool, but serious question: how does it make your job easier? Doesn't that just add a whole other step to keep track of, and something you have to cross-reference every ballot with?

some dude, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 15:22 (sixteen years ago)

Yeah, but having a pre-existing list of albums will make the final counting of votes easier, plus the various debates about whether something is a 1980s album will be solved during the nomination process. If we go straight to the voting, some people might include albums to their votes that were actually released in 1979 or 1990, and then I'll have to ask them for another, corrected vote, etc etc.

Tuomas, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 15:29 (sixteen years ago)

I've still got the ballot I sent in, yay OS/X mail. Away we go.

Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 15:45 (sixteen years ago)

Here we go:

ILX 1980s ALBUM POLL REDUX: Nomination Thread (nomination time ends on Sunday, October 31st)

Tuomas, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 15:48 (sixteen years ago)

what if you kept the nominations above and had a short 2nd nomination process? like, people can add 2-3 things.

iatee, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 16:05 (sixteen years ago)

^^^this.

Samuel (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 16:10 (sixteen years ago)

^^^yes

some dude, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 16:46 (sixteen years ago)

Sorry, too late. And I'm not sure if it would be fair to folks who've joined the board after 2005.

Tuomas, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 17:40 (sixteen years ago)

I dunno why you want to create so much extra work for yourself (+ ilmors who are gonna have to scroll through a long ass page to figure out what has/hasn't been nominated)

iatee, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 17:43 (sixteen years ago)

I mean the list is gonna look more or less the same either way, ilm's taste in 80s music hasn't changed drastically afaik

iatee, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 17:43 (sixteen years ago)


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