A Bowie poll would be awesome.
― immer wieder, ralf & günther (NickB), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 09:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
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.
― contenderizer, Tuesday, 7 June 2011 09:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
Yeah, not saying don't do it, just that it wouldn't be for me. We ought to keep them occasional though.
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 7 June 2011 09:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
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).
This is very much true. I'd rank it only behind Prince in the polls I'd like to see done.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 7 June 2011 09:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
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.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 7 June 2011 09:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
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.
― Cluster the boots (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 09:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
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).
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 7 June 2011 09:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
PSB would be great for a lot of people, I guess, but after Behavior it's all really hazy for me.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 7 June 2011 09:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
(Has anyone mentioned Dylan? I'm not officially mentioning Dylan. I'm just asking if anyone has.)
;)
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 7 June 2011 09:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
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.
― Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 09:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
but always very unique and unlike all other acts
Until she became the influence du jour about five years ago, I guess.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 7 June 2011 09:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
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.
― Cluster the boots (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 10:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
Oh I remember that:
"You're out of your mind!! by eating stringnana na nah, do the right thing.."
― Mark G, Tuesday, 7 June 2011 10:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
Bowie
― The Boy Who Can Go Inside The TV (dog latin), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 10:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
....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!
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 03:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
Yeah I'd love a Bowie one too.
― ◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝ (Moka), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 08:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
― And the piano, it sounds like a carnivore (contenderizer), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 08:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
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.
― The Boy Who Can Go Inside The TV (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 08:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
Maybe make it less than 22 for the Booz
― Mark G, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 08:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah.
― The Boy Who Can Go Inside The TV (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 09:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
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/
― nate woolls, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 10:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
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.
― The Boy Who Can Go Inside The TV (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 10:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
He didn't call his kid "Sailor" though, surely??
― The Boy Who Can Go Inside The TV (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 10:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
I had pics of Amber and Alice both up within the day of their births, for interested family members..
― Mark G, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 10:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
Xpost No, he called her Little Sailor.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 10:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
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.
― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Thursday, 3 May 2012 12:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
So in the absence of a poll, can we talk about favourite tracks, deep cuts, b-sides again?
― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Thursday, 3 May 2012 12:01 (1 year ago) Permalink