Best 1980 P&J Album (POLL Closes 18 May)

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Poll Results

Option	Votes
The Clash: London Calling (Epic)	6
Gang Of Four: Entertainment! (Warner Bros.)	5
Prince: Dirty Mind (Warner Bros.)	5
Talking Heads: Remain in Light (Sire)	4
Michael Jackson: Off the Wall (Epic)	4
The Specials: The Specials (Chrysalis)	3
Young Marble Giants: Colossal Youth (Rough Trade import)	3
Pretenders: Pretenders (Sire)	2
Public Image Ltd.: Second Edition (Island)	2
Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band: Doc at the Radar Station (Virgin)	2
X: Los Angeles (Slash)	2
Joy Division: Closer (Factory import)	1
Peter Gabriel: Peter Gabriel (Mercury)	1
Elvis Costello & the Attractions: Get Happy!! (Columbia)	1
David Bowie: Scary Monsters (RCA Victor)	1
Iron City Houserockers: Have a Good Time (But Get Out Alive) (MCA)	0
Professor Longhair: Crawfish Fiesta (Alligator)	0
Lydia Lunch: Queen of Siam (ZE)	0
Neil Young: Hawks and Doves (Reprise)	0
Arthur Blythe: Illusions (Columbia)	0
Carlene Carter: Musical Shapes (Warner Bros.)	0
Graham Parker: The Up Escalator (Arista)	0
John Lennon/Yoko Ono: Double Fantasy (Geffen)	0
Joan Armatrading: Me Myself I (A&M)	0
Diana Ross: Diana (Motown)	0
The Police: Zenyatta Mondatta (A&M)	0
Van Morrison: Common One (Warner Bros.)	0
T-Bone Burnett: Truth Decay (Takoma)	0
Bruce Springsteen: The River (Columbia)	0
Stevie Wonder: Hotter Than July (Tamla)	0
Steely Dan: Gaucho (MCA)	0
Peter Townshend: Empty Glass (Atco)	0
Rockpile: Seconds Of Pleasure (Columbia)	0
The Feelies: Crazy Rhythms (Stiff)	0
Dire Straits: Making Movies (Warner Bros.)	0
The Rolling Stones: Emotional Rescue (Rolling Stones)	0
The English Beat: I Just Can't Stop It (Sire)	0
Smokey Robinson: Warm Thoughts (Tamla)	0
Squeeze: Argybargy (A&M)	0
Pink Floyd: The Wall (Columbia)	0

― JN$OT, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/pnj/pj80.php

― JN$OT, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

Second Edition (Metal Box) over Dirty Mind and Remain in Light for me.

― JN$OT, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

Pretenders for me, but half a dozen others would have sufficed.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

My vote goes to my 2nd or 3rd favorite Beefheart album.

― o. nate, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

the only one i've heard is X of all things!!!

― lex pretend, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

Lex, you've never heard Michael Jackson's Off the Wall? I guess that's just more old r'n'b for some of you youngsters.

― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

i confess i didn't even look down the list before voting--for dirty mind. takes it pretty easily, for me.

― sw00ds, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

this was the first P&J I ever saw, by the way. changed everything.

― sw00ds, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

Jeez, first P&J section I ever actually got my hands on was the '87 edition. Although I was pretty much aware of the poll by '84 or so.

― JN$OT, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

Doc At The Radar Station, with the Feelies and a buncha guys filed in the "P" section as runners-up.

(Off The Wall was already on the 1979 P&J, wtf?!)

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

But this year both imports and "late-breaking" 1979 LPs were eligible, a change that had worked well when we introduced singles balloting in the previous poll. As a result, Michael Jackson's Off the Wall appears in our top 40 for the second time, Pink Floyd's The Wall sneaks in for the first, and two imports--Joy Division's Closer and Young Marble Giants' Colossal Youth--also make the list.

― JN$OT, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

So many 1980 albums I love-London Calling;Second Edition;
Doc at the Radar Station; Get Happy!! ;Hotter Than July ; Dirty Mind; Entertainment!; Just Can't Stop It ; Closer ; Warm Thoughts. I only picked up Colossal Youth and the Feelies years later.

I think the Up Escalator only made the list because Graham Parker's 1979 Squeezing Out Sparks was so highly regarded. The Up Escalator was a big, uh letdown.

― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

Jeez, first P&J section I ever actually got my hands on was the '87 editio

Hey, I'm old, what can I say? The truth is, I don't even think I'd heard of the Village Voice prior to this issue. My brother picked this up and gave it to me because the Clash were on the cover. It took me a long time to make sense of any of it.

― sw00ds, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

Testing.

― Rockist Scientist, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, okay. I thought I posted something about being split between voting for Los Angeles, which I've listened to more (I think), and Remain in Light (or Remain The Light as my Portuguese cassette copy used to say), which I somehow feel I should vote for, maybe because of "Once in a Lifetime."

― Rockist Scientist, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

xp: Oh fear not, I'm quite old myself. The main reason I never saw an earlier edition was because I lived in L.A. at the time--where we didn't know about that there New Yawk culture rag, y'see.

― JN$OT, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

Lex, you've never heard Michael Jackson's Off the Wall? I guess that's just more old r'n'b for some of you youngsters.

not the album (i've never felt the need to acquire any mj albums because his standards are still so omnipresent)

― lex pretend, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

The track "Los Angeles" would probably top my singles ballot, but the album doesn't have enough else going for it.

― o. nate, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

London Calling, easilly. What a year, though.

― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

Voted for "Peter Gabriel" in the abscense of "Gentlemen Take Polaroids". Obviously, P&J hadn't quite discovered New Pop in 1980 (or maybe "Gentlemen..." wasn't released in the US until 1981?)

― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 19:51 (nineteen years ago)

I voted for "The Specials". Might have voted for "Queen of Siam" had Specials not been available.

― Pashmina, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 19:55 (nineteen years ago)

Embarrassment of riches here but if it's one, it's Get Happy!!

― ellaguru, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

Dirty Mind very closely over Second Edition. Tons of could-have, though.

― Matos W.K., Wednesday, 16 May 2007 21:55 (nineteen years ago)

Matos OTM on choice and second choice. But some of these I've heard so much -- London Calling, Pretenders -- that they're rarely played around my house anymore.

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 23:43 (nineteen years ago)

I enter a message.

― Rockist Scientist, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 23:46 (nineteen years ago)

Second Edition, edging out Dirty Mind (third place: Off the Wall, I guess. Fourth place: maybe X, which actually surprises me! Honorable mention: Iron City Fucking Houserockers (though in reality Have a Good Time (But Get Out Alive) isn't all that much better than their previous and heavier Love's So Tough.

― xhuxk, Thursday, 17 May 2007 11:30 (nineteen years ago)

Album lists I have always kind of liked (though some of them only for the Rossington Collins and Brains and J Geils and Donna Summer etc selections):

TOM CARSON: The Clash: London Calling (Epic) 20; Public Image, Ltd.: Second Edition (Island) 20; Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band: Doc at the Radar Station (Virgin) 12; Elvis Costello & the Attractions: Get Happy!! (Columbia) 9; Peter Townshend: Empty Glass (Atco) 9; The Brains (Mercury) 9; David Bowie: Scary Monsters (RCA) 6; Ramones: End of the Century (Sire) 5; Iron City Houserockers: Have a Good Time (But Get Out Alive) (MCA) 5; The Rossington Collins Band (MCA) 5.

BARRY MICHAEL COOPER: Junie: Bread Alone (Columbia) 15; Bootsy: Ultra Wave (Warner Bros.) 15; Devo: Freedom of Choice (Warner Bros.) 12; Herbie Hancock: Mr. Hands (Columbia) 12; Stevie Wonder: Hotter Than July (Talma) 8; Al Green: The Lord Will Make a Way (Myrrh) 8; Cameo: Feel Me (Casablanca) 5; Talking Heads: Remain in Light (Sire) 5.

MIKE FREEDBERG: Prince: Dirty Mind (Warner Bros.) 15; Change: The Glow of Love (Warner Bros.) 15; Smokey Robinson: Warm Thoughts (Talma) 15; Geraldine Hunt: No Way (Prism) 10; Diana Ross: Diana (Motown) 10; Earth, Wind and Fire: Faces (Columbia) 10; George Benson: Give Me the Night (Warner Bros.) 10; Stevie Wonder: Hotter Than July (Talma) 5; Teena Marie: Irons in the Fire (Gordy) 5; Cameo: Feel Me (Casablanca) 5.

GREIL MARCUS: Gang of Four: Entertainment! (Warner Bros.) 15; Image Publique S.A.: Paris Au Printemps (Virgin import) 15; Iron City Houserockers: Have a Good Time (But Get Out Alive) (MCA) 15; the Clash: London Calling (Epic) 15; Carlene Carter: Musical Shapes (Warner Bros.) 15; X: Los Angeles (Slash) 5; Roxy Music: Flesh + Blood (Atco) 5; Black Uhuru: Sensimilla (Mango) 5; Robin Lane & the Chartbusters (Warner Bros.) 5; Dire Straits: Making Movies 5.

DAVE MARSH: Bruce Springsteen: The River (Columbia) 30; Donna Summer: The Wanderer (Geffen) 17; Stevie Wonder: Hotter Than July (Talma) 12; Smokey Robinson: Warm Thoughts (Talma) 10; Van Morrison: Common One (Warner Bros.) 8; Peter Gabriel (Mercury) 8; J. Geils Band: Love Stinks (EMI America) 5; Public Image Ltd.: Second Edition (Island) 5; the Clash: London Calling (Epic) 5; Peter Townshend: Empty Glass (Atco) 5.

JON PARELES: Lydia Lunch: Queen of Siam (Ze) 20; Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band: Doc at the Radar Station (Virgin) 10; Talking Heads: Remain in Light (Sire) 10; Steve Reich: Octet/Music for a Large Ensemble/Violin Phase (ECM) 10; David Bowie: Scary Monsters (RCA) 10; Gang of Four: Entertainment! (Warner Bros.) 10; the Cars: Panorama (Elektra) 10; Laraaji: Ambient #3 Day of Radiance (Editions EG) 10; ; Bootsy: Ultra Wave (Warner Bros.) 5; Peter Gabriel (Mercury) 5

― xhuxk, Thursday, 17 May 2007 11:34 (nineteen years ago)

Oops, also (Greil's PiL choice and Lester's Clash choice are somewhat amusing, I think):

LESTER BANGS: Public Image Ltd.: The Metal Box/Second Edition (Virgin import/Island) 30; Otis Rush: Groaning the Blues (Flyright import) 30; Talking Heads: Remain in Light (Sire) 5; the Sex Pistols: The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle (Virgin import) 5; the Clash: Black Market Clash (Epic Nu-Disk) 5; Rolling Stones: Emotional Rescue (Rolling Stones) 5; Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band: Doc at the Radar Station (Virgin) 5; Ramones: End of the Century (Sire) 5; Lydia Lunch: Queen of Siam (Ze) 5; Sid Vicious: Sid Sings (Virgin import) 5.

― xhuxk, Thursday, 17 May 2007 11:40 (nineteen years ago)

Last day to vote.

― JN$OT, Thursday, 17 May 2007 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

And I find it kind of funny how an album who has had to deal with a lot of shit on ILM through the years wins the entire poll. :)

― Geir Hongro, Friday, 18 May 2007 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, but it wasn't much of a poll; only 42 votes total.

― JN$OT, Friday, 18 May 2007 13:23 (nineteen years ago)

Probably not worth continuing.

― JN$OT, Friday, 18 May 2007 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

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