That's probably about how I break it down too. Of his solo stuff, I liked 'You Little Thief' at the time, but listening to it now, what a vicious little song it is! Never knew the backstory to it before (from Wikipedia):
"You Little Thief" is pop vocalist Feargal Sharkey's first single of 1986 and follow-up to previous hit A Good Heart...The single was written by member of Tom Petty's band Benmont Tench about his relationship with Maria McKee who had wrote Sharkey's previous hit single A Good Heart, based on Tench. Sharkey placed them next to each other on his debut album.
The single was written by member of Tom Petty's band Benmont Tench about his relationship with Maria McKee who had wrote Sharkey's previous hit single A Good Heart, based on Tench. Sharkey placed them next to each other on his debut album.
― Heaven knows I'm thirsty and miserable now (NickB), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 13:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
The lyrics:
You little thiefYou let me love youYou saw me stumblingYou watched me fallYou left me brokenShattered and bleedingBut there's no hard feelingsThere no feelings at all
You little thiefYou little savageYou little beautyYou little whore
You've taken everythingI had to believe inNow there's nothingTo believe in at all
So tell me how does it feelTo make a grown man wanna dieDoes it make you uneasyDoes it every cross your mind
You little dreamYou little nightmareYou little nothingYou little girl
You left me broken ...There's no hard feelings ..Cos when I needed youYou watched me fall
― Heaven knows I'm thirsty and miserable now (NickB), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 13:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
Appalling really, Maria McKee must have been delighted to receive her copy of the album.
― Heaven knows I'm thirsty and miserable now (NickB), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 13:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
1 Feargal Sharkey A Good Heart Oct 1985 5 Feargal Sharkey You Little Thief Jan 1986
I guess Maria won, in this particular battle ground.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 14:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
there are so many good songs on these CDs but this is the tops:
The Jags – "Back Of My Hand (I've Got Your Number)"
such clean guitars and memorable hook.
― skip, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 21:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
The Motors - "Dancing The Night Away"
is the bestest
― Euler, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 21:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
my favorite Boys track is "Weekend":
― skip, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 21:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
Boys' "First Time" is stone classic, guess I should look into those guys further!
― Euler, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 21:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
Schooldays.
― Look at how funky he is! (jer.fairall), Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
Voting "Airport", but this is impossible. Couldn't you at least made separate polls for each compilation?
― The GeirBot (Geir Hongro), Thursday, 24 May 2012 10:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
Toughest poll ever!
Shortlist: So It Goes, Whole Wide World, Dancing The Night Away, Another Girl Another Planet, Into The Valley, Get Over You, Up The Junction, Back Of My Hand, Time Goes By So Slow, Where's The Boy For Me, White Mice.
Voting for Dancing The Night Away, as it's the track I want to play the most right now.
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 24 May 2012 10:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
Besides being an awe-inspiring collection of songs, the compliers really sweated the presentation and sequencing of these discs. It's not just a jumble of great songs; careful attention was paid to sequencing and flow. "In My Schooldays" may never have meant to segue into "Girl of my Dreams", but it sure sounds like it was if you'd only heard them on these comp CDs. Few "real" albums flow together this well.
― Lee971 (Lee626), Sunday, 27 May 2012 12:29 (11 months ago) Permalink
What other comps of this ilk are comparable? My favorite is the 1-2-3-4 Punk & New Wave box set.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Sunday, 27 May 2012 14:21 (11 months ago) Permalink
So OTM. I cannot possibly understate how blown away I was when I first heard Starry Eyes or how well it's held up in the years since.
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Sunday, 27 May 2012 14:39 (11 months ago) Permalink
i love love love that set.
― mario bataille (get bent), Sunday, 27 May 2012 18:29 (11 months ago) Permalink
Teenage Kicks, AGAP or Up The Junction
― da croupier, Sunday, 27 May 2012 18:33 (11 months ago) Permalink
What other comps of this ilk are comparable?
Rhino has a Poptopia power-pop comp; the '70s disc has some overlap with these two, though the song selection is somewhatless punk-influenced than these and with less indie representation.
― Lee971 (Lee626), Sunday, 27 May 2012 19:05 (11 months ago) Permalink
Yeah, I know the Poptopia series, and "The Roots Of Power Pop" is damn good too. It seems to be an under-anthologized genre though.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Sunday, 27 May 2012 22:32 (11 months ago) Permalink
Rhino comps are the best.
― Look at how funky he is! (jer.fairall), Sunday, 27 May 2012 22:34 (11 months ago) Permalink
I have a couple from a series called "The Indie Scene" - one disc for each year between 1977 and 1985. The later ones are a bit dodgy but the first 3 or 4 are solid.
― everything, Sunday, 27 May 2012 22:55 (11 months ago) Permalink
Here's the tracklist from the 78 one, which I think is the best.
01 THE UNDERTONES / Teenage Kicks02 STIFF LITTLE FINGERS / Alternative Ulster03 THE LURKERS / Ain't Got a Clue04 ANGELIC UPSTARTS / The Murder of Liddle Towers05 THE MEKONS / Where Were You?06 THE FALL / Bingo Masters Breakout07 TV PERSONALITIES / Part Time Punks08 SNATCH / All I Want09 WAYNE COUNTY / Eddie and Sheena10 KLARK KENT / Don't Care11 JILTED JOHN / Jilted John12 LENE LOVICH / I Think We're Alone Now13 TV PERSONALITIES / Where's Bill Grundy Now?14 THE UNDERTONES / True Confessions15 RUDI / Big Time16 BUZZCOCKS / Ever Fallen In Love17 THE NIPS / All the Time In the World18 DOLL / Desire Me19 THE STRANGLERS / Five Minutes20 PROTEX / Don't Ring Me Up21 TEARDROP EXPLODES / Sleeping Gas22 JOY DIVISION / Glass23 THE NORMAL / Warm Leatherette24 TUBEWAY ARMY / Bombers
― everything, Sunday, 27 May 2012 22:58 (11 months ago) Permalink
i liked the burning ambitions comp, though i haven't had a copy in quite a while:
1) Boredom - Buzzcocks 2) Bingo Masters Breakout - Fall 3) 12XU - Wire 4) Life - ATV 5) Keys to Your Heart - One O Oners 6) I'm Alive - Nine Nine Nine 7) Gary Gilmore's Eyes - Adverts 8) (Get A) Grip (On Yourself) - Stenglers 9) Baby Baby - Vibrators 10) Identity - X Ray Spex 11) (I'm) Stranded - Saints 12) Chinese Rocks - Hearbreakers 13) Love Song - Damned 14) In a Rut - Ruts 15) Stranglehold - UK Subs 16) Flares and Slippers - Cocney Rejects 17) The Wait - Killing Joke 18) Holiday in Cambodia - Dead Kennedys 19) Dead Cities - Exploited 20) Last Rockers - Vice Squad 21) Someone's Gonna Die - Blitz 22) City Baby Attacked by Rats - GBH 23) Russians in the DHSS - Attila the Stockbroker 24) Lust for Glory - Angelic Upstarts
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Sunday, 27 May 2012 23:47 (11 months ago) Permalink
stenglers?
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Sunday, 27 May 2012 23:48 (11 months ago) Permalink
I remember their live album, "Stenglers in Knightsbridge"
― Mark G, Sunday, 27 May 2012 23:54 (11 months ago) Permalink
I guess it's a cliche, but for me this is an endless, irresolvable battle between "Another Girl, Another Planet" and "Teenage Kicks". Been listening to these two songs for most of my life, sometimes on endless repeat, and I haven't yet tired of either one. Today I'm giving the victory to The Only Ones, but tomorrow it might well be The Undertones.
If it weren't for those two world-crushing ringers, I'd have a hard time choosing between:
Squeeze - "Take Me, I'm Yours"XTC - "This Is Pop?"Rich Kids - "Ghosts Of Princes In Towers"Undertones, The – "Get Over You"Squares, The – "This Is Airebeat"Squeeze – "Up The Junction"The Records – "Starry Eyes"
Love The Boys, but "Brickfield Nights" isn't a particular favorite. Would be more tempted by "Soda Pressing" or "T.C.P."
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Monday, 28 May 2012 00:55 (11 months ago) Permalink
Love the Records track but Too Much Joy's cover still kills the original.
― Look at how funky he is! (jer.fairall), Monday, 28 May 2012 01:01 (11 months ago) Permalink
think this is my favorite "starry eyes", tbh
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Monday, 28 May 2012 01:12 (11 months ago) Permalink
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 00:01 (11 months ago) Permalink
If you are in the mood to dig a little deeper check out the Shake Some Action 8-CD set. http://powerpopcriminals.blogspot.com/2012/03/shake-some-action-volumes-1-8-2003-all.html
I would also add the Yellow Pills sets, especially the Prefill double CD. The main YP sets are mostly 90s/00s cheese, which some of us like but aren't in the same vein as the stuff in these polls.
― skip, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 15:22 (11 months ago) Permalink
i'll add a good word for yellow pills v.4, which i am on. track 10. mid-80s cheese.
― Thus Sang Freud, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 15:42 (11 months ago) Permalink
"Carolina"!
I meant to mention that the Power Pop Criminals and Power Pop Overdose blogs both assemble their own compilations that sneak in some really good stuff. I downloaded one called See the Antz Waltz that had an amazing song by Chris Twinning called "Netherlands."
Burning Ambitions is very good, but past the Vibrators' "Baby Baby," it's pretty much straight punk.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 15:58 (11 months ago) Permalink
Without a doubt the toughest poll I have ever had to consider on ILX. "Another Girl Another Planet," "Get Over You," "Up The Junction, "Where's The Boy For Me," "So Good To Be Back Home Again," and "Back of My Hand" all all-time classics. But for me it comes down to the two question songs: "Ever Fallen In Love?" vs. "Is She Really Going Out With Him?" And I have to go with Joe Jackson, just on grounds that when i heard this song it blasted open for me whole new worlds of what rock songs were allowed to to. So even though this is one of the only songs here DIDN'T hear first on the comp, I'm voting for "Is She Really Going Out With Him?"
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 16:16 (11 months ago) Permalink
And you know what? As much as I love both volumes of this comp, they are only the second- and third-most frequently played Rhino cassette comps in my car from 1995 through 2009, thanks to the amazing THE MODERN WORLD (UK PUNK II 1977-78)
http://www.amazon.com/DiY-Modern-World-Punk-1977-78/dp/B000008F4L/ref=pd_sim_m_4
Have we polled that?
(Overall most-played cassette in my car = London 0, Hull 4, natch.)
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 16:21 (11 months ago) Permalink
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 00:01 (11 months ago) Permalink
Who voted for "Girl Of My Dreams" along with me? Let's party on Outloud.fm!
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 00:50 (11 months ago) Permalink
How the hell did I miss this?
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 00:53 (11 months ago) Permalink
I love so many of these but probably would have voted Ever Fallen in Love. It's so wonderful.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 00:54 (11 months ago) Permalink
XTC - "This Is Pop?" 0Rich Kids - "Ghosts Of Princes In Towers" 0
sad, love these with an unreasonable passion
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 01:04 (11 months ago) Permalink
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, May 29, 2012 8:50 PM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I'd listen to that! Great track.
― skip, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 01:16 (11 months ago) Permalink
I'd love your DJ set, Contenderizer.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 01:19 (11 months ago) Permalink
Honestly, you could do another poll of the songs that got 0 votes on this poll and it would still be a way better set of choices than most polls. For me it would be "So Good To Be Back Home Again" by a neck over "Where's The Boy For Me?"
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 01:21 (11 months ago) Permalink
Man, I kept coming back to this and kept finding it impossible to choose. Even eliminating "Teenage Kicks" (an all-time favorite that earned me accolades from the band and other strangers when I live-band karaoked the hell out of it), it was just too much. I vacillated between ""Girl Of My Dreams", "Starry Eyes", "Time Goes By So Slow", "Ever Fallen In Love...", etc. Ugh. ALL SO GOOD.
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 01:34 (11 months ago) Permalink
Would love if somebody made a Spotify playlist of these two and the US comps from the other Rhino thread going on right now. I don't have the time or I'd do it.
― Trey Imaginary Songz (WmC), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 02:21 (11 months ago) Permalink
an all-time favorite that earned me accolades from the band
I guess you mean the band that was backing you, but when I first read this I totally thought you meant the Undertones were in the audience and were like "damn, Deric, you nailed it"
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 02:25 (11 months ago) Permalink
Feargal gave me the publishing rights to their back catalog that night, iirc.
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 02:27 (11 months ago) Permalink
I was the other vote for "Girl Of My Dreams". I like it because I thought it was just Bram singing a love song for his girlfriend until i listened more closely to the lyrics and realized the "of my dreams" part is literal. Plus I like how there's about five different kinds of verses before anything repeats.
"Ever Fallen In Love?" is probably the best song here, but I wanted to choose something I don't often hear in other contexts - I have several Buzzcocks albums, but nothing from, say, the Starjets.
― Lee971 (Lee626), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 07:37 (11 months ago) Permalink
I forgot to vote because I couldn't decide between at least 4 of these (and that was after ruling out the absolute classics which I currently feel no need to hear ever again, e.g. "Ever Fallen In Love").
RIP "Into the Valley" and "Top of the Pops", half of my 4 with no votes between them. (The other half were "At the Hop" and "Another Girl, Another Planet", both of which have done quite nicely.)
― instant coffee happening between us (a passing spacecadet), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 08:27 (11 months ago) Permalink
Inevitably incomplete Spotify playlist; I had to substitute a Rezillos Peel session version and a Revillos demo version, but they aren't so very far from the single versions.
http://open.spotify.com/user/miketd/playlist/6xd3iHvoZfnAHr2cbsR3Nv
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 09:50 (11 months ago) Permalink
Forgot to vote, would probably have voted for one of the top finishers, of the unloved on this poll would have gone with "Marie Provost."
― Ian Hunter Is Learning the Game (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 11:21 (11 months ago) Permalink
Mike, thanks for Spotifization!
― Trey Imaginary Songz (WmC), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 12:50 (11 months ago) Permalink
Was pleasantly surprised when I realized that it's totally worth just going ahead and getting everything the Revillos/Rezillos put out.
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 13:05 (11 months ago) Permalink
Well it's just the one Rezillos CD, innit? I have a Revillos comp and a BBC sessions disc, enough for me.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 14:06 (11 months ago) Permalink
Yeah, one reason I wasn't too tempted to vote for "Where's The Girl For Me?" is that it's no "(My Baby Does) Good Sculptures."
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 14:18 (11 months ago) Permalink
"Where's the boy for me"
― Mark G, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 14:21 (11 months ago) Permalink
― skip, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 14:23 (11 months ago) Permalink
sorry
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 16:43 (11 months ago) Permalink
For the Revillos you need Rev Up, the Radio Sessions CD and Attack of the Giant Revillos, a comp which gathers all the best post-Rev Up material. Otherwise you're missing the studio versions of Bongo Brain, Hip City, Mind Bending Cutie Doll, and a couple of other essentials. I see Captian Oi! released a new, slightly different version of this, just called Attack, so they are presenting it as a version of their lacklustre second album. Attack! is okay but did not have any of the tracks I just mentioned.
― everything, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 18:14 (11 months ago) Permalink
kind of want to change my vote to "Starry Eyes."
― skip, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 19:30 (11 months ago) Permalink
Hey everything, are you sure about "Attack" vs "Attack Of The Giant Revillos"? Amazon reviews seem to indicate the Captain Oi version, which looks like it has all the same tracks, is the superior release.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 20:27 (11 months ago) Permalink