was that their very first single? Their early Aussie stuff is like some weird mirror image of the American 60s folk scene
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 15:34 (eleven years ago) link
According to wiki, yes. Cracked the top 100 in their homeland.
― Lee626, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 15:54 (eleven years ago) link
can we talk for a second about what a funny/bizarre/compelling oddity Maurice's "Lay it on me" from 2 Years On is, especially in light of his age/alcoholism at the time...
Don't you drink with me 'cos you know that I'm a loserAnd I'm proud of that fact as you can plainly seeNever did what people said, I should'veI'm just a low down critter who never did any goodI'm just a low down critter who never did any good
I spend my life working up a sweat to be a bad boyGetting girls into trouble every dayGoing from town to town, now I tell you I've been aroundI'm just a low down critter who never did any good[ From: http://www.elyrics.net/read/b/bee-gees-lyrics/lay-it-on-me-lyrics.html]I'm just a low down critter who never did any good
Lay it on meYeah
Don't you drink with me 'cos I tell you that I'm a loserAnd I'm proud of that fact as you can plainly seeGoing from town to town, now I tell you I've been aroundI'm just a low down critter who never did any goodI'm just a low down critter who never did any good
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 15:57 (eleven years ago) link
votey vote vote vote
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 17:16 (eleven years ago) link
this is depressing
― retro-shittified (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 15:54 (eleven years ago) link
Don't panic. I said I'd vote 'n I will. I finally located my copy of To Whom It may Concern this morning.
― Jeff W, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 16:01 (eleven years ago) link
I'm still not in yet either. I've narrowed it to 34 songs!
― Naive Teen Idol, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 16:49 (eleven years ago) link
8 ballots in
― retro-shittified (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 7 June 2012 16:07 (eleven years ago) link
*crickets*
― retro-shittified (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 7 June 2012 20:44 (eleven years ago) link
Will vote a bit later today. My ballot will just list song titles though, since it seems daft to try and distinguish between different artist versions in most cases. Hope that's acceptable, Shakey.
In the meantime, I just stumbled across this exhaustive commentary on all things Gibb:http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/beegees/version2.html
Narrative starts here and then you can click through year by year:http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/beegees/62.html
The web 1.0 was such a wonderful place.
― Jeff W, Friday, 8 June 2012 10:23 (eleven years ago) link
Sorry I can't vote in these ballots unless I really immerse myself in the artists, and I've just done the ABBA immersion thing and am still coming up for air. Need to be spaced out more for me to contribute.
― Tom D (Tom D.), Friday, 8 June 2012 10:28 (eleven years ago) link
Then get spaced out, man
― Pacific Trash Vortex (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Friday, 8 June 2012 13:04 (eleven years ago) link
Best bit of advice I've had this year.
― Tom D (Tom D.), Friday, 8 June 2012 13:55 (eleven years ago) link
Finally sitting down and working on this. Hard to go deep when there are so many hits, but hard to concentrate on hits when the catalogue is so fucking deep!
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 8 June 2012 23:45 (eleven years ago) link
Really feeling "Nobody's Someone" the last couple days. It was a leftover from Odessa (a leftover!). All class, this song.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 9 June 2012 00:08 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ziso7sQyyFs
I repped hard for Paradise upthread, but one more from Living Eyes is going to make my ballot: Cryin' Every Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-S4_bJlamT0
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 9 June 2012 00:15 (eleven years ago) link
okay voted. How many does that make now?
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 9 June 2012 01:02 (eleven years ago) link
bumping for more votes. I don't want this poll to die prematurely.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 9 June 2012 01:36 (eleven years ago) link
sorry I've been absent today, been home sick.
I got 3 ballots today, so that brings the total to 10
― retro-shittified (Shakey Mo Collier), Saturday, 9 June 2012 01:59 (eleven years ago) link
you started a poll which started the whole board yawning
― buzza, Saturday, 9 June 2012 02:02 (eleven years ago) link
Not yawning, it's just that an unexpected poll of a 1000-song discography didn't leave me much time to explore the deep cuts. I'll get a ballot in b4 midnite PST.
― Lee626, Saturday, 9 June 2012 03:53 (eleven years ago) link
ballot sent.
― Lee626, Saturday, 9 June 2012 06:41 (eleven years ago) link
ABBA did okay with 19, so maybe just leave the deadline open until you get somewhere close to that?
rly disappointed in ILM right now.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 9 June 2012 18:52 (eleven years ago) link
buncha jerks
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 9 June 2012 20:16 (eleven years ago) link
Did you get the 30 vote ballot I sent? I emailed you a few times -- but don't want to keep spamming you.
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 9 June 2012 21:10 (eleven years ago) link
VOTE BABY VOTE (unless Shakey Mo is no longer accepting ballots, that is)!
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 11 June 2012 15:15 (eleven years ago) link
so 13 ballots received so far (m@ttw3iner that includes yrs, but I was unable to send a confirmation e-mail for some reason)
I'll keep balloting open if more people are going to actually vote and just haven't had time to compile a ballot yet
― retro-shittified (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 11 June 2012 15:29 (eleven years ago) link
i think maybe people respond to deadlines, though? like if you set a new date and put it in the subject line, people will know how much time they have and work on it. i know that at least for me, personally, i'm not gonna take the time if there's a good chance that the poll is just going to randomly close at any minute before i'm ready.
― shipl.de.al (some dude), Monday, 11 June 2012 15:32 (eleven years ago) link
are you referring to yrself? cuz so far people have not responded to deadlines, but maybe the ABBA poll was distracting people or something
― retro-shittified (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 11 June 2012 15:40 (eleven years ago) link
I mean if there's another pool of voters out there I'm fine with setting a new deadline, but if there aren't then I'm not going to bother
Is there anyone upthread who's said "I plan to vote, honest" but hasn't pulled their finger out yet?
― Biff Wellington (WmC), Monday, 11 June 2012 15:41 (eleven years ago) link
i'm speaking broadly, if you extend the deadline without updating the thread title or saying what the new deadline is, a lot of people will just assume the poll closed already or they won't have time. if you care about maximizing the # of late ballots you get at this point.
― shipl.de.al (some dude), Monday, 11 June 2012 15:42 (eleven years ago) link
yeah yeah I know, I can't update the thread title myself so I was asking if there are actually any other people who want to vote before I set a new deadline is all
― retro-shittified (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 11 June 2012 16:09 (eleven years ago) link
(m@ttw3iner that includes yrs, but I was unable to send a confirmation e-mail for some reason)
Great. Kickback was probably bc I was emailing my ballot from my Evernote account. I just wanted to make sure my full 30 vote ballot made it in -- after all, cutting those masterpieces from High Civilization and Magnet were hard enough!
― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 11 June 2012 17:10 (eleven years ago) link
I'm not hearing much from prospective voters aside from some dude... sooooo, let's extend the deadline to this Friday, the 15th and that'll be it.
Can a mod put the deadline in the thread title plz? thx
― retro-shittified (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 11 June 2012 20:41 (eleven years ago) link
If you don't start voting soon, people, I'm going to post sequential photos of me disrobing. NOBODY WANTS TO SEE THAT, BELIEVE ME!
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 11 June 2012 20:44 (eleven years ago) link
this makes me v sad
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 11 June 2012 22:20 (eleven years ago) link
Deadline added.
― Biff Wellington (WmC), Monday, 11 June 2012 22:20 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtsAMnNlxEc
― retro-shittified (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 15:44 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKAvkPO7uxk
― retro-shittified (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 17:31 (eleven years ago) link
(^^^entire movie is absolutely amazing fwiw, but that is the only Bee Gees song in it. He does do "Bridge Over Troubled Water" later tho)
― retro-shittified (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 17:34 (eleven years ago) link
Robin's song about his dog >>>>>> Macca's song about his dog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sjSRfY8o2s
― a dense custard of infinity (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 22:48 (eleven years ago) link
er, BARRY'S song
gonna vote in this & hope my deep cut #1 will place high b/c of bad turnout
― Euler, Tuesday, 12 June 2012 23:41 (eleven years ago) link
entirely likely!
― a dense custard of infinity (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 23:43 (eleven years ago) link
epichttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0L_3SehWCk
― a dense custard of infinity (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 15:41 (eleven years ago) link
four Andy Gibb songs on my ballot! I think all were Barry co-writes
― Lee626, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 17:12 (eleven years ago) link
14 ballots in so far
― a dense custard of infinity (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 20:56 (eleven years ago) link
It will be weird if this actually gets as many ballots as Abba.
― Naive Teen Idol, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 21:30 (eleven years ago) link