Tones on Tail!

"A yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, y-y-yeah!"

Performance/Shakes 12" wins. i'll say Shakes just to be stubborn.

Gosh, this is a tough one. I mean, hell.

yeah impossible

Impossible, but if I *HAD* to pick one, it just might be "OK This is The Pops!"

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

"Twist"

Oooh tricky stuff. <3 for this poll C.

Can't decide between "Christian Says" and "You, the Night and the Music". "Go!" will win even though I'm a bit sick of it.

maybe rain. maybe lions. yeah, i can't choose. love it all so much.

Lions

band was not serious enough, if you liked them you are not goth

Went with "Christian Says," but could be plenty of others on any given day.

"OK This is the Pops."

This album is the awesomest.

band was not serious enough, if you liked them you are not goth

http://www.epsilonminus.com/darquedungeon/dd_7.gif

Debbie OTM

I like how dark her makeup is. She looks crazed.

wld nvr say fuck in real chick tract

However, members-only jacket adds promise.

Tones on Tail > goth

Let me state here that I am the first member of and founder of the gothtimist movement.

Will rehab goth in the eyes of rockists and gay dance men everywhere.

everything by this band is awesome but "Rain" definitely one of the coolest songs I've ever heard.

libcrypt OTM

had to go with "War" but haven't played them in forever.

I always pref'd Tones on Tail to Love & Rockets to be honest.

it's strange for me to think of these songs as individual songs, if that makes any sense

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Lions at 45rpm.

No one voted for Now We Lustre or There's Only One! Oh the horror. I admit I didn't vote, though.

nowadays I would totally vote "A Bigger Splash"

it is very good advice to believe only what an artist does

here comes trouble

It's all great. But probly Real Life for me if I have to choose.

this seems to be the only Tones on Tail thread.

Weird Pop is a 2011 19-track double LP features all of Tones On Tail’s crucial tracks including most of the Pop album, the best songs from Tones On Tail EP, and the singles ‘Go!’, ‘Twist’, plus ‘Christian Says’. This new compilation brings back the classic vinyl sound and includes previously undiscovered rarities like the original (some say better) version of ‘Performance’, a never before released studio version of ‘Heartbreak Hotel’, the single edit of ‘Go!’, plus an extended version of ‘Twist’.

I'm devastated at the relative shittiness of the studio "Heartbreak Hotel"

Have yet to hear this band, but I always hear their name to the tune of "Girls on Film".

it's strange for me to think of these songs as individual songs, if that makes any sense

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 10:42 (3 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

People interested in painting might be fascinated by an arm...

This is really working with my mood lately (ie kind of fractured, with a leak in the ceiling and a load of mould in the corners, lit by a bare bulb)

So, "Rain." Or rather, the secret song IN "Rain"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssHZYVl9hG4

Read the full description for details.

so looking forward to exploring their catalog again when they come up in the Bauhaus poll, sometime in 2016? right now my mind set is that Love and Rockets is much better but will see who gets more songs into that poll.

how the hell did "performance" manage only 1 vote? such a jam!

I'm the one who voted for it!

Performance is my favorite too.

Performance sounds like New Order if they weren't sort of terrible.

the drums are so cool... the motion, the lift

Listening to them right now for the first time since the 80s

<i>Performance sounds like New Order if they weren't sort of terrible.</i>

I have no idea what you meant, and yet, I'm still infuriated by your reply.

Fucking italics tag.

You know what I meant to do there.

Performance/Shakes is mine now as well, as somehow I'd never paid it much attention back then (fuckknows how).

It's the middle of summer. Time to binge on Tones on Tail again. They seem to be one of the ultimate summer bands for me, which makes zero sense. "Happiness" is an anomaly in the ToT repertoire, but nothing sounds better at half past 2am.

"Happiness" was robbed

PERFORMANCE

so looking forward to exploring their catalog again when they come up in the Bauhaus poll, sometime in 2016? right now my mind set is that Love and Rockets is much better but will see who gets more songs into that poll.

― Bee OK, Saturday, July 13, 2013 7:53 PM (2.5 years ago)

looks like i was right on track, lol.

i do hope to open the Bauhaus-Love and Rockets/Tones on Tail poll in the beginning of 2016, don't think i can jump that many places to make it this year.

So anyway, Daniel and Kevin and Kevin's daughter aka the artist Diva are touring as Poptone -- it's as close to a Tones on Tail show as I'll ever see! Playing tonight here in SF, heard good things from friends who have seen earlier shows. Supposedly also playing Bauhaus and L&R cuts too, and why not.

ned how was the show? thinking about going to see them in a couple weeks

Quite great! "Slice of Life" from Bauhaus, a few L&R cuts as noted but otherwise near wall-to-wall ToT, and it was lovely finally hearing all those songs live. About the only song I wanted to be on the set list was "Real Life" but they pretty much did everything else one way or another -- hell, they even started with "Heartbreak Hotel"!

excellent! thanks for the info. it's the same night as converge/neurosis so it is a tough decision indeed

Well think of it this way -- Converge and Neurosis have been around, releasing albums, steady veterans. But you may never get a chance to see this lineup do these songs ever beyond this.