"Rewind" is all right though, I will grant you that
― Tina Tina Cheneuse (DJP), Thursday, 16 December 2010 20:57 (thirteen years ago) link
"This video contains content from Vevo, who has blocked it in your country on ow my head grounds."
― Rage Against the Man-Cream (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 16 December 2010 21:00 (thirteen years ago) link
hahaha
― Tina Tina Cheneuse (DJP), Thursday, 16 December 2010 21:00 (thirteen years ago) link
ok i am rapidly being convinced that an instrumental version of megatop phoenix would be awesome, but such dreams are not to be
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 16 December 2010 21:18 (thirteen years ago) link
ok listened to more of this album uh just never mind
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 16 December 2010 21:28 (thirteen years ago) link
lol
― Tina Tina Cheneuse (DJP), Thursday, 16 December 2010 21:29 (thirteen years ago) link
I had forgotten this Furs song and it is pretty good.
― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 16 December 2010 21:51 (thirteen years ago) link
holy sh!t these are all untouchable
Siouxsie and the Banshees - "Peek-A-Boo" (2 weeks)Psychedelic Furs - "All That Money Wants" (3 weeks)The Replacements - "I'll Be You" (1 week)The Cure - "Fascination Street" (7 weeks)Love and Rockets - "So Alive" (5 weeks)Tears For Fears - "Sowing the Seeds of Love" (1 week)The Jesus and Mary Chain - "Blues From A Gun" (3 weeks)
― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Thursday, 16 December 2010 21:56 (thirteen years ago) link
The only possible way to choose between these is to narrow it down to "songs that are superb and that I'm worried won't get votes," so it's "Stand" or "Come Anytime" for me. But which? The Hoodoo Gurus are way more forgotten and ignored (not even mentioned on this thread, I think!) and they represent very well this weird genre of straight-ahead rock record that was "alternative" only by virtue of being kind of unpopular (see also: The Smithereens) On the other hand, "Stand" is a masterpiece which is wrongly hated by everyone from REM themselves on down. That chugging run of decending open-E bar chords under "If wishes were trees..." -- amazing!
But I'm not going to change anybody's mind about "Stand" so I'll vote for the Gurus.
It might actually be the case that "Love Shack" is the song I most admire here.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 17 December 2010 01:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Charlotte Anne
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 17 December 2010 02:23 (thirteen years ago) link
my Top 5 would look something like this:
The Cure - "Fascination Street" (7 weeks)Love and Rockets - "So Alive" (5 weeks)The Jesus and Mary Chain - "Blues From A Gun" (3 weeks)Siouxsie and the Banshees - "Peek-A-Boo" (2 weeks)The B-52s - "Love Shack" (4 weeks)
― World Series champion San Francisco Giants (Bee OK), Friday, 17 December 2010 02:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Screw you guys, I love "Just Play Music" (Don Letts amateur deejaying and all) and "James Brown" (West Side Story sample is genius) and "Around the Girl in 80 Ways" (Prince ska)! But not "The Globe" or "Rush." P.S. I also wore spandex shorts in 1988.
How did a boring CVB cover of "Pictures of Matchstick Men" make it to modern-rock No. 1? We will agree to disagree. "The Mayor of Simpleton" is nice but to me this list epitomizes the dullness of late-'80s "modern rock" MOR college crap except the B-52 singles, which are transcendent, and maybe "Peek-A-Boo." The rest is just the sound of programmers strenuously ignoring hip hop, metal, house, or punk. "Orange Crush" is timeless, I guess, but it's opaque to the point of seeming pro-war... which was just great for the late '80s.
― Pete Scholtes, Friday, 17 December 2010 04:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Pro-war? It's a dude who got poisoned in Vietnam! (I think.)
― would like a calmer set (Eazy), Friday, 17 December 2010 04:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Then, now, forever: Love Shack. As I said on the Cosmic Thing thread, I've adored them since their first van tour to Minneapolis in 1979. The very idea that a tacky little dance band from Georgia could parlay that first DB Records single into cult success on a major label, lose their founding member to AIDS, regroup a decade later and release a GAZILLION-selling worldwide hit still completely boggles my mind. Time (and wedding receptions) have not dimmed its luster for me. Anyone who hates Love Shack, well, I'll make like Fred and just holler "I can't HEAR you!!!"
― He stayed true to what he is. Now he murders deer! (Dan Peterson), Friday, 17 December 2010 15:14 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLGsT_dEQ8U
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 17 December 2010 15:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Sund4r, I can't believe it, I was thinking of that exact Beavis & Butthead clip. I was even thinking of looking for it, although I'd forgotten it was for that particular song (but I figured it had to be from close to the same time).
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 17 December 2010 15:56 (thirteen years ago) link
I was once told I sing like Fred Schneider, which saddened me because I thought I was going for a Jello Biafra style.
― http://tinyurl.com/ccccccccccccccccc (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 17 December 2010 17:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Now I can't hear one without thinking of the other (PS: I've long stopped singing in public.)
Aw man, don't let that stop you singing! Fred, Jello, Dylan, Mark E. Smith-ah... if it's in you, work with the voice you got.
― He stayed true to what he is. Now he murders deer! (Dan Peterson), Friday, 17 December 2010 17:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Haha, thanks Dan. I really stopped singing in public because I'm a homebody now. Trust me, the family gets the full brunt of my vocal stylings on a nightly basis.
But really, try to listen to "Holidays in Cambodia" and picture Just Fred.
― http://tinyurl.com/ccccccccccccccccc (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 17 December 2010 17:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Hm, that might actually help me hate the B-52s a little less.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 17 December 2010 18:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Monday, 20 December 2010 00:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Inspired by this (and other) threads, I busted out Channel Z instead of the obligatory Love Shack at a Christmas party I DJ'd on Saturday. Sounded awesome, and crowd loved it.
FWIW, segued into Voodoo Cadillac Blues by Southern Culture On The Skids and the place erupted. I've never spun it at a DJ gig. Love this song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYoLGS6uzao
― He stayed true to what he is. Now he murders deer! (Dan Peterson), Monday, 20 December 2010 15:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 00:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Totally agree with this top 2.
― Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 00:06 (thirteen years ago) link
wow i didnt foresee a siouxsie victory but can't argue!
― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 03:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Wow, can't believe I'm the only one who voted for "So Alive"! I thought it would be a contender!
― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 03:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, that's curious considering how much talk there was about it.
― Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 03:42 (thirteen years ago) link
6 ppl voted for 'mayor of simpleton' - DISAPPOINTED IN YOU PPL!
― balls, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 03:59 (thirteen years ago) link
i swear this is my true #1 but somehow i clicked on "Fasc. St." instead... slip o the finger
― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 04:05 (thirteen years ago) link
a bit sad that Veronica only got one vote.
― Kim, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 13:12 (thirteen years ago) link
The B-52s - "Channel Z" (3 weeks) 0
Shame on all of you
― Tina Tina Cheneuse (DJP), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 13:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Was me. I like singing that one at karaoke.
― lindseykai, Wednesday, 22 December 2010 05:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Wow, can't believe I'm the only one who voted for "So Alive"! I thought it would be a contender!i swear this is my true #1 but somehow i clicked on "Fasc. St." instead... slip o the finger― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Monday, December 20, 2010 11:05 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark
― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Monday, December 20, 2010 11:05 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark
prob would have voted for this if I'd remembered to vote :|
― jerkstore cowboy (Pillbox), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 05:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Unexpectedly strong showing for Hoodoo Gurus! Worthy winner, though.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 05:49 (thirteen years ago) link
I gave these years a go.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 8 February 2019 02:28 (five years ago) link
awesome thread
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 8 February 2019 08:18 (five years ago) link