POLLography: The Cure poll results, ILM artist poll #23

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#31 - Siamese Twins, 360 points, 11 votes

Pornography, 1982

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFMWZ8g8ueM

lol

TOO LOW BOTH OF THESE

"Siamese Twins" is my number two.

"Lament" and "M" were both in my Top 10. "M" is just a perfect song. The bass, the guitar, the keyboards, the lyrics, the guitar solo, the slowing ending. Perfect.

that was great fun, too bad i won't be around tomorrow for the live roll out.

Lament was my #3 (iirc) and The Upstairs Room was in my top 10 (maybe #10). Glad to see them make it, though, I expected them to be higher. No big deal.

TY Pandemic. To EGREGIOUSLY TRADUCE my posting code, I'd add that I actually voted for 4 tracks off 17 Seconds, not 3, because I snuck At Night in at the bottom at the last second

...and to explain my lack of Disintegration voting - it's a good album but its very consistency means that I can ignore all of its tracks, happy in the knowledge that everyone else will vote for the right ones. Plus I just don't like it as much as I probably should. That's not really putting it right. I don't need to listen to it, ever, although I recognise its brilliance.

Whoever can guess my #2 wins a prize or something idk (clue: won't place)

Oh! Oh! Much Pornography!

My ranking of the album was

The Figurehead
Siamese Twins
One Hundred Years
Pornography
A Strange Day
A Short Term Effect (so wonderfully weird, so completely dreamlike)
Cold
The Hanging Garden (N.B. I may have ranked it 8th but it is also my Official 22nd Favourite Cure Song Ever so it's not like I don't adore it)

Are we not going down to #21 today?

That was the plan but probably not, I'm tired and need to go to bed soon. I'll do another 5 tonight, maybe 15 tomorrow and the top 10 on Saturday.

#30 - The Drowning Man, 361 points, 12 votes

Faith, 1981

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOWejXDs-D0

oh fucking lol

:D

THE TOP IS FUCKING AMAZING BTW

― once a week is ample, jeudi 16 août 2012 20:37 (55 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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it really pained me to not have this on my ballot

Only four songs post-1985 so far. Definitely wasn't expecting that.

My #4

Let's just say that my 'guess my #2! (it won't place)' game fell rather flat

Aldo, are you my long-lost brother? Am I Master Pornography?

(four times a week is definitely ample but this is THE CURE)

#29 - The Kiss, 364 points, 13 votes, 1 #1 vote

Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me, 1987

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yshUFah31iQ

once a week, dunno, but this is weird.

almost every song that is showing up is a surprise.

They certainly knew/know how to open an album these guys. The first song played at my very first concert attended. Long intro, then a screen dropped, and there they were in all their magnificence.

if we both put A Forest at 3 then from now on all your posts are mine xxp

#28 - A Strange Day, 366 points, 15 votes, 1 #1 vote

Pornography, 1982

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiSpGqjcl04

lol it's the pornography hour

nice, quite simply one of their best songs.

haha

"A Strange Day" is so wonderful, that bridge is just wau

also I'm trying to think of a song that opens a Cure album that I dislike and I'm coming up blank because they're all awesome

That's where we differ then, I have always thought A Forest was massively over-rated.

My #3 is a title track. BUT WHICH ONE?

Well, The Top is my #4 so it's obviously that one, bro

clearly it's well-loved album track "The Cure"

Oh, and Dan's just reminded me that I have one Wild Mood Swings song on my ballot (pretty fkn obvious which one), meaning that the only albums I've completely ignored are 4.13 Dream and Disintegration :D

One thread per week, by this point, clearly -_-

The Kiss was my no.1. Pandemic otm about it being a great opener - I did my listening chronologically and tbh was finding it a bit hard work after the early rush. Then I got to Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me and woah! It's nothing flash either, just a wah pedal and an echo, but so effective.

#27 - Like Cockatoos, 368 points, 12 votes, 2 #1 votes

Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me, 1987

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-kf6IIZy38

"Drowning Man" and "Strange Day" both in my Top 10. So brilliant.

"Like Cockatoos" is what I used to place on mixtapes to divide the dilettantes from the fans.

Oh wow, there goes my #2!

My favourite Cure song to sing along to for some reason. Not that I can sing mind you.

love love love "like all the faces that quiz when you smile"

this is another awesome "how good is your breath support" song

if you can get through all of "and he was standing at the corner where the road turned dark a part of shiny red like blood the rain fell black down the street and kissed his feet she fell her head an inch away from heaven" you are doing well

the guitar strumming on this track is sick

guess i'm a dilletante cuz "cockatoos" doesn't do much for me

DILETTANTE DILETTANTE DILETTANTE DILETTANTE DILETTANTE DILETTANTE

it's okay, there's plenty of Cure for dilettantes too, I mean look at "Mint Car"

(srsly though, do you know "Halo", one of the FIIL b-sides? I bet you'd dig that: http://youtu.be/wmqJBm72WP8)

i've kept 2cd-rs worth of stuff from join the dots, you butt

Last one for tonight!

#26 - The Lovecats, 378 points, 19 votes

Japanese Whispers, 1983

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jk08Zb6oyf8

I'm really surprised this one made the top 50.

I'm really surprised it isn't in the top ten.

will admit "cockatoos" has sick guitar strumming and amazing breath control

like cockatoos