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

The Cure's top forty history in America:

Just Like Heaven #40
Lovesong #2
Friday I'm in Love #18

not quite as great as "To The Sky"

i remember taping this off the radio! still totally love that song

#18 - Let’s Go To Bed, 473 points, 20 votes, 2 #1 votes

single, 1982

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w8vhe_LiuQ

I was looking at my grim, dour ballot and thinking "I don't really want to change any of this, but something's not quite right..." and then I put "Let's Go To Bed" on at #40 and went "perfecto"

<3 lovesong and let's go to bed

I was looking at my grim, dour ballot and thinking "I don't really want to change any of this, but something's not quite right..." and then I put "Let's Go To Bed" on at #40 and went "perfecto"

Yeah, me too although I think it was 38 from memory.

"Let's Go To Bed" has the best lyrics for any chorus in the world, and singing to match.

yeah, it's kind of too bad that Robert can never remember them

would have been in my top ten for sure, maybe top 5

btw is there a Banshees poll in the pipeline?

there should be!

I'm amazed this didn't make the top 10

#17 - Pictures Of You, 497 points, 19 votes, 2 #1 votes

Disintegration, 1989

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcMEx4OHLOs

you know what I'm about to post, right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoGxbrGqNL8

It was my #1.

I am too, but also I didn't vote for it.

It's the drumming that I love on the original though.

It was in my teens.

basically I love this song, but I REALLY love that remix

the drumming on the original is great but I really dig the guitar/bass interplay and how the synths divebomb in on it, and then the counterpoint between everything as every instrument noodles along on its own complimentary melody line while Robert floats his vocal line over the top

I also love how, in the remix, this organized chaos drops in and out over the dub beat

it was not on my ballot but I totally love it

"slow drowned you were angels" thru to "open my eyes but i never see anything" is perfectly written and perfectly sung

yes

#16 - Fascination Street, 506 points, 21 votes, 2 #1 votes

Disintegration, 1989

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

this and 'like cockatoos' have great run on sentences/lyrics.

I'm amazed this didn't make the top 10

Me too -- my #5.

"Fascination Street," I remember I was dubious about it when I first heard it ahead of the album release. After all the color and energy of KMKMKM it seemed awfully murky and moody. But it clicked for me when I heard it in the context of Disintegration.

I'm amazed this didn't make the top 10

real talk

My #4:

#15 - Play For Today, 516 points, 21 votes

Seventeen Seconds, 1980

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkehf2JjoVQ

I didn't think i was going to vote for Fascination Street, but the "move! to! the beat!" part squeaked it in at the bottom.

Who was my co-#1 Fascination Street friend?

TOO LOW

I have just got back from the pub and am watching The Armageddon Factor to accompany it. Oh, Mary Tamm. (to Would Have Smashed I go)

#14 - One Hundred Years, 536 points, 23 votes

Pornography, 1982

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Idf-KBT-Wxs

Catching up here a bit. "Lovesong" was famously kept off the #1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 by Janet Jackson's "Miss You Much".

"Fascination Street," I remember I was dubious about it when I first heard it ahead of the album release. After all the color and energy of KMKMKM it seemed awfully murky and moody. But it clicked for me when I heard it in the context of Disintegration.

I'm glad my gamble worked and "Play For Today" and "Pictures Of You" placed, even though I had to cut them off my ballot at the last minute.

#13 - Disintegration, 563 points, 23 votes, 2 #1 votes

Disintegration, 1989

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2V2bJxFu-U

Wow @ "Disintegration" beating all the singles from the album!

Play for Today far too low. Guess that just leaves A Forest off of 17S still to place

my number one.

that instrumental hook. song gives me chills. it's so good.

And "One Hundred Years" was the last from Pornography. Still one left from Disintegration though, probably Top 10... (x-post)

Always Jumping Someone Else's Train not made an appearance yet either, which surprises me. Top ten?

Another one I thought would be top 10 for sure:

#12 - A Night Like This, 564 points, 25 votes, 2 #1 votes

The Head on the Door, 1985

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ssu_6MXDcDA

Never been a big fan of this one, despite it containing a bunch of things I like in a song.

i am a huge fan of this one! good voting, folks.

Always Jumping Someone Else's Train not made an appearance yet either, which surprises me. Top ten?

So close..

#11 - Jumping Someone Else's Train, 587 points, 25 votes, 1 #1 vote

Jumping Someone Else's Train (single), 1979

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-L9_IDjtH0

Top 10 tomorrow.

d'oh!

I'm amazed that placed so high, really...

I'm thinking Robert Smith, pop genius, won this poll. His gloomy goth side didn't fare so well....

I had 'Jumping' at 27.

A lot of my picks have started showing, though only two of my top ten have made it so far.

I was away in Rome when this was polling, otherwise I'd have voted, and it would all have been the pop stuff, soz. Including "Lets -> Bed"

I'm thinking Robert Smith, pop genius, won this poll. His gloomy goth side didn't fare so well....

I wouldn't quite say that. 14 out of 40 are from SS/Faith/Pornography (more than half the total songs from those albums), plus all those Disintegration album cuts. But yeah, if you write a bunch of great pop songs, those will probably show up in a poll.

Was sure "A Night Like This" would be Top 10 too!
Was starting to think "Jumping..." wasn't gonna make it at all. Nice to see it so high.

Kind of getting worried that my #1 won't place. It's either gonna be 7 big singles, 2 album tracks and 1 b-side OR 8 big singles, 1 album track and 1 b-side (hoping it's the former).