The Name of This POLL Is...- ILM artist poll #82 - TALKING HEADS - (voting is open until Sunday March 26, 2017)

Already halfway through an A to Z relisten.

this is going to be fun...

Yes!

Have been waiting for this poll a long time. I guess now is the time to finally listen to True Stories, Life in the Bush of Ghosts, and the Tom Tom Club albums

whoa, even though there is a thread dedicated to the timing and order of ilm ballots, i didn't know this was coming! i can't wait!

Way more excited about "Drugs" on Name Of This Band than on FOM

I cannot believe that talking heads haven't already been polled

might submit a ballot just for "Everybody Hates Ned Flanders"

modern lovers gonna sweep this

woooooooooooooooo

OH MY GOD!!
Haven't taken part in a poll in ages but this is THE POLL OF POLLS

only 25 choices? I'm stumped at the first album as to what to leave out.. and it's not even my favourite album

Lol I can put "Roadrunner" in my top 10 Other Group tracks, can't I. Seems weird

"Lightning Crashes" in shocking #1

classic poll title, i am looking forward to relisten to their catalogue. only 12 days left, no time to waste.

Can't wait 'til 'Once In a Lifetime' tops this poll!

oh yeh
we are just rolling out first place right?

Can never do these things, but don't sleep on The Catherine Wheel.

I once played a Casual Gods tape at home and my dad asked what the racket was.

I have a lot of relistening to do.

Can never do these things, but don't sleep on The Catherine Wheel.

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, March 14, 2017 7:45 AM

I got both doors open!

I slipped and I got POLLED, POLLED up

this is gonna be agonizing

I can probably do a ballot from memory, but I'm gonna do some relistening anyway. I was totally immersed in this band during late high school/early college.

shoutout to "A Clean Break" as an early peak

Can't wait 'til 'Once In a Lifetime' tops this poll!

― Coolio Iglesias (Turrican), Tuesday, March 14, 2017 11:24 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'd place a friendly bet on you being wrong.

"Totally Nude" will hit #1 imo

That's actually a cool song that has only just dropped off the end of my ballot.

I don't feel like I can vote for the Modern Lovers, it feels wrong

ok i'm gonna participate in this if only just to (spoiler) v v prominently vote for "what a day that was"

Modern Lovers seems too much its own thing to be part of Talking Heads' orbit.

I need to relisten to decide where this band sits with me now. There's a lot of good songs that I'm not so interested in hearing anymore, like "Psycho Killer" and "Found a Job", and I doubt that I'll be voting for those.

suggested: "sugar on my tongue"

yeah that's another great early one

I suggest voting for any TH song with the word 'Pull' or 'Pulled' in the title

for pete's sake let's not forget about "the good thing", which everyone always forgets about. that's right, everyone - every single person on earth, and always - without exception, every single person on earth has forgotten about "the good thing".

suggested: "sugar on my tongue"

― Not raving but drooling (con tenderizer)

Raise your hands if Sand in the Vaseline meant a lot to you!

my first talking heads album! and yes yes yes

The Catherine Wheel is great, it's the missing link between Remain in Light and Speaking in Tongues

are the songs from it that Talking Heads performed on the Stop Making Sense tour eligible for both they solo & band track polls then?

For those that don't know about them, the 5.1 mixes are absolutely worth checking out

Raise your hands if Sand in the Vaseline meant a lot to you!

― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, March 14, 2017 10:56 AM (twelve minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

my first talking heads album! and yes yes yes

― Karl Malone, Tuesday, March 14, 2017 10:59 AM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^

*revisits debut*

*finds it difficult to not vote for every song on the debut already*

haha i think 3 of my top 5 are from 77
subject to change of course :)

are the songs from it that Talking Heads performed on the Stop Making Sense tour eligible for both they solo & band track polls then?

― ufo,

The Catherine Wheel is essential if you're a Heads fan imo

i'm trying to put together a list of side projects/solo albums to listen through. somehow i missed "bonzo goes to washington" all these years. lyrics by the Gipper!

Lifetime Piling up is a great outtake. So is Sax and Violins.

How will the poll differentiate between studio and live versions? Cause the Name of This Band version of "Houses in Motion" stomps all over the studio version.

Do these polls ever differentiate between studio and live versions?

"Sugar in my Tongue," "Sax and Violins," "Lifetime Piling Up," "I Want to Live" would make any list I'd write of essential outtakes.

looking forward to this one.

was going to say re live versions. the SMS versions of the Speaking In Tongues songs being a different league to their studio mixes etc. but i guess it can't be done.

For those that don't know about them, the 5.1 mixes are absolutely worth checking out

― Isi

yes, and if someone would be so kind as to PM me with the 5.1 Downmix version of "Life During Wartime", it was corrupted in my DL and my OCD brain craves it

Way more excited about "Drugs" on Name Of This Band than on FOM

― that's not my post, Tuesday, March 14, 2017 1:18 AM (ten hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^

I overlooked the debut when I first got into TH cos I was more interested int he mid-period stuff but yeah it's all-killer no-filler that one. As far as songs are concerned, Speaking In Tongues is a fantastic album overshadowed by the fact the live versions are better, but I like the reggae-tinged moments on that one a lot.

How many hours left?

In all the re-listening, I finally realized that "Lifetime Piling Up" is the same song as "Carnival Eyes" on Rei Momo

TH has been a favorite band since fifth grade — a bit too late (1990, shortly before their disillusion was announced, and then I was confused and hopeful at the release of "Sax and Violins" on the Until the End of the World OST).

I'm mainly curious to see how the TTC/Byrne solo stuff does; as far as the TH poll everything from the first five albums deserves to place, it's just a question of the order. (77 places would make room for most of the band's catalogue — the question would be which songs from the last three or four albums don't make it.)

It was made for the independent Channel 4 btw, nothing to do with the BBC. Channel 4 broadcast loads of cool docs like this in the early 80s.

my bad, but good to know! i just believed the youtube description, which is definitely right at least 15% of the time

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I wonder how many people think "David Byrne sucks solo" yet have never heard The Catherine Wheel.

You know, they were okay, but I had forgotten about them. Didn't know he produced it or whatever.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrome_(Catherine_Wheel_album)#/media/File:CatherineWheelChrome.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2o1VwhbFX6w/TMUT89EPciI/AAAAAAAAA4s/dw0KSD7e0TE/s1600/cw+chrome.jpeg

Wait, you say you were talking about what?

oh man, do i feel

https://thebrokenrecorddotcom.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/david-byrne-head-slap.gif

I've really gotta sit down and listen to The Catherine Wheel

tempted to really test the limits of propriety with a liquid days vote

so looking forward to the results roll out.

Know what's great on The Name Of This Band? Memories Can't Wait.

This is a) true b) the reason MCW is on my ballot

c) this will ruin it for you: https://www.songsterr.com/a/wsa/talking-heads-memories-can-wait-tab-s64715t1

I love how TNoTBiTH elevates Fear of Music tracks, but the RiL stuff is just bad. Mostly, I love TNoTBiTH for A Clean Break.

almost forgot about this, slapped it together very quickly

sent

Sent mine too

Submitted.

I've found live versions re-igniting enthusiasm for RiL this week, by emphasizing different elements from the tightly-packed studio arrangements that have grown familiar over decades.

Re TNoTBiTH, it's certainly responsible for "Love->Building On Fire" being on my ballot. Loose and smeary works there IMHO. And, yep, "A Clean Break" too.

sent!

I Can't believe A Clean Break isn't on any of the studio albums. I'm sure I've heard it somewhere other than TNOTBITH

I'm listening to the first disc now, and while the second disc is indeed amazing, this one just has so much raw energy and enthusiasm. band is tight AF and Byrne is on it like a car bonnet

hi Bee OK, did you get my ballot?

i will be sending out another round of confirmation emails but yeah i got it.

i know a lot of you are thinking, poll closes on Sunday, the roll-out starts on Monday. this is not the case as this is not a 100 song roll-out, pplains and i still have some behind the scenes work to do and i still have to go work on Monday and Tuesday of this week.

no worries man, thanks for your work here

thanks, Bee OK!

Thanks Bee OK! And pplains too.

So glad pplains is doing the images!

i know a lot of you are thinking, poll closes on Sunday, the roll-out starts on Monday.

nah, there's no reason to rush. take as much time as you need.

Thanks but we are going to start tomorrow after work. Got a shit load of ballots for this one.

i keep obsessively checking this thread even though i know it's not rolling until tomorrow

haven't received a confirmation message. did you send out the latest round, bok?

Yes I got yours, the last few email confirmation will go out tonight.

VOTING IS OFFICIALLY CLOSED

all ballots have been accounted for, everyone should have received an email confirmation,.

i just sent off the results to pplains. i'm sort of blown away right now, these results are absolute incredible. all i can say is that we are in for a treat.

sounds awesome
cheers for sorting this guys!

don't you miss it, don't you miss it
some 'a you people just about missed it

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