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 (1 year ago) Permalink
Who voted for "Girl Of My Dreams" along with me? Let's party on Outloud.fm!
― 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 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'd love your DJ set, Contenderizer.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 01:19 (1 year 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 (1 year 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 (1 year 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 (1 year 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 (1 year 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 (1 year 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 (1 year 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 (1 year 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 (1 year 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 (1 year ago) Permalink
Mike, thanks for Spotifization!
― Trey Imaginary Songz (WmC), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 12:50 (1 year 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 (1 year 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 (1 year 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 (1 year ago) Permalink
"Where's the boy for me"
― Mark G, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 14:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
― skip, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 14:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
sorry
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 16:43 (1 year 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 (1 year ago) Permalink
kind of want to change my vote to "Starry Eyes."
― skip, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 19:30 (1 year 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 (1 year ago) Permalink