Boo Radleys Tracks Poll - Interested or not?

I've honestly been trying to think of another band besides Pavement and Blur who has a wide array of non-album tracks and quite a few albums and, most importantly, has a bunch of fans on ILM with very strong opinions. Sonic Youth came to mind immediately. Pulp did too, but I've never seen a whole lot of actual division in Pulp opinion. Guided By Voices could be fun, but I don't think they'd inspire a good turn-out (or the voting would be impossible).

And then there are juggernauts like The Beatles and The Rolling Stones who would just be kind of boring. The Kinks on the other hand...hmmm.

Aphex?

total duh moments I just had...

The Fall! I'm not personally well-versed enough in The Fall's legacy to competently vote, but I'd love to see the results.

Prince! and Prince proteges! This could fun for a variety of reasons, but "Purple Rain" would probably win (maybe?).

Well, Blur has:
1) A large but not massive discography
2) four (or five) different musical 'sides' that have their supporters
3) a minimum of consensus regarding their 'best' tracks
4) a few hidden gems for the afficionados to big-up.

I'd want bands who:

• are popular
• have 'hidden' bits
• which are of decent quality
• have different styles or periods
• you can have a casual interest in without necessarily being a fan

A Bowie poll would be awesome.

Pulp, The Fall, Pavement not cutting it for me I'm afraid.

i dunno, i think such polls would work just fine with less massive acts, so long as they have healthy catalogs and plenty of dedicated ILM fans. the likes of pavement, the fall and sonic youth make ideal candidates in this sense.

Yeah, not saying don't do it, just that it wouldn't be for me. We ought to keep them occasional though.

Pavement is definitely a boutique choice, but like I said before I chose them because of how spirited the participants of this type poll would be with them as the band in question.

All of your suggestions are good ones, and I'd feel comfortable and knowledgeable (enough) voting in each one of them (except maybe solo Sting and solo Phil Collins, because I dropped out long ago).

A Bowie poll would be awesome.

This is very much true. I'd rank it only behind Prince in the polls I'd like to see done.

Technically, the first one of these done was R.E.M., but it was organized a little differently. (If it was attempted before then, I don't know about it.)

R.E.M. was a really good subject imo. Wish I would've participated.

As I said on the Blur poll, I'd be keen to see polls on Bowie, Kate Bush, St Etienne and the Pet Shop Boys. Prince would be a good 'un too but I think that may be a bit more predictable than the others.

Prince poll would probably feature very few tracks recorded after, say, 1993. So yeah. BUT, there's so much goodness that came before that (and also why I suggested incorporating proteges and/or songs he'd written for other acts).

PSB would be great for a lot of people, I guess, but after Behavior it's all really hazy for me.

(Has anyone mentioned Dylan? I'm not officially mentioning Dylan. I'm just asking if anyone has.)

;)

Kate Bush, although an awesome act, probably qualifies less in terms of having different style periods. OK, basically I guess the first couple of albums were kind of different, but otherwise, Kate Bush has been pretty much typically Kate Bush all along, with no style changes, but always very unique and unlike all other acts.

but always very unique and unlike all other acts

Until she became the influence du jour about five years ago, I guess.

For PSB, I'd also include the handful of productions they did, Dusty/Liza Minelli/Eight Wonder/Cicero, even god forbid Ian Wright if you're a masochist.

Oh I remember that:

"You're out of your mind!! by eating string
nana na nah, do the right thing.."

Bowie

....wow!

so we are doing this right?

13 plus people is more than enough to run something like this.

plus, i would think people would like being turned on to the best band of the 90's stuff!

Yeah I'd love a Bowie one too.

Yeah I'd love a Bowie one too.

Let's wait until the Pavement and hiphop polls close and then assess whether it's worth doing. 13 people ain't bad, and we may get a couple more ballots. If people don't wanna get involved it's no biggie.

Maybe make it less than 22 for the Booz

yeah.

Might as well put this here:

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/cardiffonline/cardiff-news/2011/06/08/thousands-witness-welsh-couple-s-live-twitter-birth-91466-28839416/

haha, yeah i was following that. Carr's commentary was jokes - more about beer and TV than the actual birth, but I'm sure he was being tongue in cheek.

He didn't call his kid "Sailor" though, surely??

I had pics of Amber and Alice both up within the day of their births, for interested family members..

Xpost No, he called her Little Sailor.

The Boos have been creeping into my conscious lately - maybe because my g/f is upping sticks to study in Peterborough and a lot of Carr's songs were about having to move around the country cos of his relationship at the time.

I dreamt I saw a reformed Boo Radleys play at a festival. They asked me to join them on back-up for Lazarus, for which the crowd went wild. But then they played Almost Nearly There (an acoustic b-side number) and the crowd left the tent with the soundman turning the set down halfway through the song. Such a shame! I remember feeling quite disappointed about this.

So in the absence of a poll, can we talk about favourite tracks, deep cuts, b-sides again?

Hey George Michael you don't know me but I know you very well, they can't take that away from you.

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

Hey George Michael you don't know me but I know you very well, they can't take that away from you.

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Possibly my number one? The Wake Up version at least. Pisces did you happen to see my Giant Steps anniversary piece I did the other day?

the answer to this question is YES, as i have signed up for it. i'm really, really, really excited for it.

think it got decided that not enough people would vote. i wouldn't mind a mini poll though.

Not so, it's in the list of "forthcoming ballots"

oh no i didn't see the Giant Steps thing? i'll have a nosey.

xpost, it is?? yay! when / who is running it?

Pisces: http://thequietus.com/articles/13477-boo-radleys-giant-steps-review

Thread for coordinating the order and timing of ILM ballot polls

60. P-Funk - Shakey Mo Collier
61. Iggy Pop, incl. Stooges - flopson
62. Boo Radleys - Bee OK
63. XTC - Shakey Mo Collier
64. Italo - daavid

Which number we up to now?

43, so probably another year or so to wait

That's cool, I'll just sit here and wait till it happens.

i have also taken over ownership of that thread and thought about switching my next poll Steely Dan with this Boo Radleys poll instead. however, i would be hanged by ILM if i did that.

here are going to be my polls:

37. New Order - Bee OK (finished)
50. Steely Dan - Bee OK
62. Boo Radleys - Bee OK
73. Spoon - Bee OK
84. Bauhaus/Love and Rockets-Tones on Tail/Peter Murphy - Bee OK
96. Talking Heads - Bee OK

and will never top that New Order poll