The CaterPOLLar -- ILM Artist Poll #23 -- The Cure -- voting thread

OH SNAP

oh shit also "Halo" and "Scared of You"

this is way too hard guys

i know no one is going to vote for it, but i love this cover of "pirate ships" so much that i feel like bringing it up just in case ppl haven't heard it
it's so pretty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BnGQ31YOYM

Ballot sent.

I'd never actually thought about what my favourite Cure song was before now and it's not what I expected. Easier to pick the whole 40 than to settle on the top one.

― Get wolves (DL)

Same for me, I got my top 40 pretty quickly but then really struggled to pick between about five songs for my number one. For most of my other favourite bands there is usually an obvious favourite. Very happy with what I decided to put at number one.

Really looking forward to the results of this one.

(Seventeen Seconds/Faith/Pornography are as defining for me as I I have ranted about the Cocteau Twins elsewhere)

hah -- and those are the three albums I can barely finish!

One thing I've really enjoyed about trawling the discography is that their arrangements and production are always subtly evolving and inventive. Which is true for most of the acts getting polled, actually, but still a pleasant surprise for a band operating in an idiom that isn't particularly imaginative.

But those three albums are the flat ones imo, and not in the uniquely flat way that makes their earliest stuff a slightly weird joy.

It struck me what an odd relationship I've had with this band. Discovered them at 14 via the Lullaby video, loved Disintegration, got all their previous albums, played them all intensively for a couple of years, then lost interest overnight as soon as the first single from Wish came out. Didn't listen to them at all for a decade, to the point where I was embarrassed about having liked them - lol moody teenager - and then came to appreciate those 80s albums again as an adult, but nothing post-Disintegration has any kind of emotional resonance for me. Considering how easy it was to choose 40 songs I loved, it's weird that my serious fandom lasted for such a short period.

This excellent K-Punk blog about Seventeen Seconds/Faith/Pornography helped reignite my passion around the time the first reissues came out.

http://k-punk.abstractdynamics.org/archives/006087.html

It's so weird, that's almost exactly the same with me, except I was 14 and the video was In Between Days.

one thing about this poll that has enraged me is the unavailability of Join the Dots on US Spotify

ugh, ballot sent

3 TIB/BDC
0 SS (! wtf)
3 Faith
4 Pornography
2 Japanese Whispers
2 The Top
1 HOTD
3 KMKMKM
3 Disintegration
2 Wish
0 WMS (shocker, lol)
0 Bloodflowers
1 The Cure
2 4:13 Dream
3 Blue Sunshine
11 non-album tracks (lol fanboy)

ended up voting for 5 singles and 16 songs that appeared as a B-side (including live versions)

I could submit an entirely different ballot with maybe a ten song overlap

0 SS?? i know where you live and i'm gonna find you and i'm gonna find some stairs and i'm gonna throw you down the stairs

4 SS tracks floated around the fringes of my ballot and ended up not being on it when I finally said "fuck it, send it now or else you never will"

also lolling a little that a good chunk of my late period boosterism started to fade once I started ranking songs, I only have four songs from 1996 or later on my ballot, a lot of them falling victim to b-sides

Yeah wtf? 0? I haven't even actually begun to think about a real list yet but I just thought quick about 17 seconds and mine will without a doubt have 2 if not 3 songs off it.

pretty psyched to see your ballot, DJP. My ballot wound up really hits-centric, about 70% a-sides, 30% album tracks (with 1 b-side that I really hadn't noticed before revisiting everything), but I'm interested to see a more idiosyncratic, esoteric mix.

i think i had 2-5 songs from every full-length through (and including!) WMS, and nothing after.

I would make a Spotify playlist but almost a third of it would be missing ;_;

I def won't have anything after WMS and probably not anything from it either.

My distribution is sort of comical (but unapologetic)

6 TIB/BDC
1 SS
2 Faith (if you count the 2005 expanded edition)
0 Pornography
3 Japanese Whispers
1 The Top
8 HOTD
10 KMKMKM
8 Disintegration
1 Wish

About to send. No surprise that my ballot leans heavily on THOTD.

2 Faith (if you count the 2005 expanded edition)

o fuck I forgot about "Carnage Visors"

FUCK

I def struggled when I got to #30 though.

Hit 20 ballots! Thanks all!

still super pissed I forgot "Carnage Visors", that had a realistic chance of placing high on my ballot

deadline still today?

deadline was never today, it was Friday, but it's been pushed past the weekend

Anyway, I have to extend the voting period because it's my son's birthday this weekend and I'm away Tuesday night, so voting will now end at MIDDAY on WEDNESDAY 15th. So get your ballots in, folks.

― nate woolls, Tuesday, August 7, 2012 2:29 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Just made an initial list.

TIB/BDC comes in with the most picks at 8.

HOTD, KMKMKM and Disintegration all wound up with five though that could change a bit as I'm only at 35 and will probably pick five more before submitting.

I realized after the fact that I'd included every song from Staring at the Sea except for one.

I am curious to see what the latest song to make the poll will be

I def won't have anything after Wish.

not even this? http://youtu.be/4hkWX9gUFgE

i actually have one non-album single post WMS (which I think narrows it down to two possibilities, SPOILER) but yeah, considering how many songs people love pre-WMS i'd be surprised if anything then on makes the cut

ah ok it says Deadline:Friday August 8th, 10pm UK time above & I just remembered the 8th

also ppl, don't neglect yr b-sides from any era

http://youtu.be/bFDORnYFnqU
http://youtu.be/S5Y_npen7wA
http://youtu.be/OJIeEIwZJtk
http://youtu.be/4UFhIxaXZcs

omfg I really fucked up my ballot ;_;

plz everyone put "The Big Hand" on yr ballots because I completely forgot that it existed

as long "This Twilight Garden" made yours

well duh

It'll take me a while to work out which albums my songs come from. I actually own nothing by The Cure, but one of my best friends at university (91-94) was a Cure obsessive so I taped loads of stuff off him.

don't neglect yr b-sides from any era
I voted for two of those

^_^

fyi I'm listening to a playlist of all the songs I was considering that I could find on Spotify and it's really the fucking best

TIB/BDC: 5
SS: 3
F: 5
P: 4
TT: 4
THOTD: 2
KMKMKM: 4
D: 4
W: 2

Singles/B-sides not on any 'proper' albums: 7

poor Blue Sunshine is going to get shafted in this

http://youtu.be/7tEcRZTLEGM
http://youtu.be/WCD9bQnTgaQ
http://youtu.be/0B1FeXyjQS8
http://youtu.be/W_XGBF0O_tA
http://youtu.be/c7AvGQivgP0
http://youtu.be/E8LzZpZVfxM

I'd be curious to know what the latest track to hit *any* poll is. Most of these artists are still trying hard, yet Timbaland's the only one I can think of who's sneaked one in from this century.

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good old Dave

"Punish Me With Kisses" is an excellent song

I would take Blue Sunshine over pretty much every post-Disintegration Cure album

I think the latest track on my ballot was "Burn"...so, 1994?