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

Nooooooooooo!!!! This means my #1 really has no shot of showing up on the poll.

Charlotte Sometimes so strongly evokes being 15, gazing out of the living room window, dreaming. Such a beautiful song

Love Charlotte, never cared much for Primary.

I'd honestly forgotten there was a time when Robert Smith would wear suits onstage. Him in that Primary clip is agl. (Him now looks like the smelly guy who used to bum cigarettes from me downtown.)

Both of these songs are totally badass, I believe both were on my ballot

Never knew people loved "Primary" so much. It's pretty bad ass, but didn't make my ballot. (lol x-post)

#7 - Inbetween Days, 616 points, 24 votes

The Head on the Door (& single), 1985

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuSnLfr24pM

Primary is prob my favorite track off Faith. even more than the great big mopey one. you know the one I'm talking about.

At the time, "In Between Days" was one that I liked less on Standing On A Beach. Can't figure out why now. It's their pop song I go back to the most.

I hope you're talking about the one I thought wasn't gonna make it anymore. It's giving me some hope.
Maybe "Friday I'm In Love" won't place after all... (x-post)

What's wrong with Friday? It's a great pop song, and it wouldn't surprise me if its top 5

I like Friday I'm In Love but at the same time it makes me cringe. didn't make my top 40.

It's a great pop song

If I had to guess 2 weeks ago what would be #1, I would've said the song that's at #5.

Sorry, I meant the song at #6. This one:

#6 - Plainsong, 619 points, 19 votes, 4 #1 votes

Disintegration, 1989

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

Nothing's wrong with "Friday" except that it's competing with my #1 for a spot on this list.

We're not getting Friday. I came to the list fresh, with no biases, and am always open to a huge pop hook, and even I found twenty-odd tracks that do it for me more.

#5 - 10:15 Saturday Night, 628 points, 24 votes, 1 #1 vote

Three Imaginary Boys (& Killing An Arab b-side), 1979

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF-m7Qet6xo

drip drip drip

There's a wonderful gawkiness in their stab at teenage ennui.

I thought it'd be my no.1 when I first heard it, but when I realised it's the source for The Libertines it started dropping down the list. Not very far in fairness, I do love it.

#4 - All Cats Are Grey, 663 points, 22 votes, 3 #1 votes

Faith, 1981

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFKnu49wmms

dan is euphoric

Smith plays the keyboards on the original recording, no?

So nice to see this place in the top 5. Apparently it was written by Lol!

#3 - Close To Me, 692 points, 23 votes, 3 #1 votes

The Head on the Door (& single), 1985

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pzcyGKu11M

luv the breathing sounds in this one

I knew Just Like Heaven and A Forest would battle for #1, but I honestly have no idea which will take it.

It's quite amazing that those two only actually had a total of one #1 vote between them.

"Punish Me With Kisses" #1 upset shocka?

#2 - Just Like Heaven, 845 points, 26 votes

Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me (& single), 1987

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBXwo6wGLkc

I was hoping it was the other way around, but I'm not gonna moan about it at #2. :D

no point dragging it out any longer

#1 - A Forest, 938 points, 30 votes, 1 #1 vote

Seventeen Seconds (& single), 1980

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyebnhDD5Cw

wau @ the point jumps for the top three

It's the right result. Probably.

Thanks Nate!

My ballot:

Part 1: Tracks

01 All Cats Are Grey
02 Primary
03 Faith
04 The Drowning Man
05 The Upstairs Room
06 Pictures Of You
07 Push
08 The Exploding Boy
09 Just Like Heaven
10 Just One Kiss
11 The Walk
12 Punish Me With Kisses (The Glove)
13 Mouth To Mouth (The Glove)
14 Let's Go To Bed
15 Inbetween Days
16 Other Voices
17 The Funeral Party
18 The Holy Hour
19 The Figurehead
20 Lament
21 Perfect Murder (The Glove)
22 The Hanging Garden
23 Untitled
24 The Same Deep Water As You
25 At Night
26 Seventeen Seconds
27 A Forest
28 One Hundred Years
29 Charlotte Sometimes
30 Siamese Twins
31 The Baby Screams
32 The Lovecats
33 The Caterpillar
34 The 13th
35 2 Late
36 Halo
37 A Letter To Elise
38 Shake Dog Shake
39 Burn
40 Disintegration

Part 2: Albums

01 Faith
02 Seventeen Seconds
03 Pornography
04 The Head On The Door
05 Disintegration

Part 3: Videos

01 Close To Me (the original!)
02 Why Can't I Be You?
03 The Walk
04 Let's Go To Bed
05 The 13th

The results in full:

#1 - A Forest, 938 points, 30 votes, 1 #1 votes
#2 - Just Like Heaven, 845 points, 26 votes, 0 #1 votes
#3 - Close To Me, 692 points, 23 votes, 3 #1 votes
#4 - All Cats Are Grey, 663 points, 22 votes, 3 #1 votes
#5 - 10:15 Saturday Night, 628 points, 24 votes, 1 #1 votes
#6 - Plainsong, 619 points, 19 votes, 4 #1 votes
#7 - Inbetween Days, 616 points, 24 votes, 0 #1 votes
#8 - Primary, 600 points, 24 votes, 1 #1 votes
#9 - Boys Don't Cry, 593 points, 24 votes, 0 #1 votes
#10 - Charlotte Sometimes, 591 points, 23 votes, 0 #1 votes
#11 - Jumping Someone Else's Train, 587 points, 25 votes, 1 #1 votes
#12 - A Night Like This, 564 points, 25 votes, 2 #1 votes
#13 - Disintegration, 563 points, 23 votes, 2 #1 votes
#14 - One Hundred Years, 536 points, 23 votes, 0 #1 votes
#15 - Play For Today, 516 points, 21 votes, 0 #1 votes
#16 - Fascination Street, 506 points, 21 votes, 2 #1 votes
#17 - Pictures Of You, 497 points, 19 votes, 2 #1 votes
#18 - Let's Go To Bed, 473 points, 20 votes, 2 #1 votes
#19 - Lovesong, 461 points, 17 votes, 0 #1 votes
#20 - Lullaby, 443 points, 17 votes, 0 #1 votes
#21 - The Funeral Party, 433 points, 16 votes, 0 #1 votes
#22 - Fire In Cairo, 414 points, 20 votes, 0 #1 votes
#23 - Killing An Arab, 409 points, 17 votes, 0 #1 votes
#24 - Faith, 403 points, 16 votes, 0 #1 votes
#25 - Push, 387 points, 15 votes, 0 #1 votes
#26 - The Love Cats, 378 points, 19 votes, 0 #1 votes
#27 - Like Cockatoos, 368 points, 12 votes, 2 #1 votes
#28 - A Strange Day, 366 points, 15 votes, 1 #1 votes
#29 - The Kiss, 364 points, 13 votes, 1 #1 votes
#30 - The Drowning Man, 361 points, 12 votes, 0 #1 votes
#31 - Siamese Twins, 360 points, 11 votes, 0 #1 votes
#32 - The Hanging Garden, 352 points, 18 votes, 0 #1 votes
#33 - The Upstairs Room, 350 points, 13 votes, 1 #1 votes
#34 - Untitled, 344 points, 12 votes, 0 #1 votes
#35 - Shake Dog Shake, 330 points, 17 votes, 0 #1 votes
#36 - M, 325 points, 14 votes, 0 #1 votes
#37 - The Caterpillar, 323 points, 16 votes, 0 #1 votes
#38 - Lament, 311 points, 12 votes, 0 #1 votes
#39 - The Figurehead, 307 points, 12 votes, 2 #1 votes
#40 - The Walk, 295 points, 15 votes, 0 #1 votes
#41 - High, 286 points, 10 votes, 0 #1 votes
#42 - Why Can't I Be You?, 277 points, 9 votes, 0 #1 votes
#43 - Three Imaginary Boys, 275 points, 13 votes, 0 #1 votes
#44 - If Only Tonight We Could Sleep, 272 points, 14 votes, 0 #1 votes
#45 - Six Different Ways, 259 points, 11 votes, 0 #1 votes
#46 - Grinding Halt, 258 points, 11 votes, 0 #1 votes
#47 - Open, 257 points, 11 votes, 0 #1 votes
#48 - In Your House, 255 points, 14 votes, 0 #1 votes
#49 - Other Voices, 255 points, 13 votes, 0 #1 votes
#50 - A Man Inside My Mouth, 253 points, 9 votes, 0 #1 votes
#51 - How Beautiful You Are, 249 points, 11 votes, 0 #1 votes
#52 - Prayers For Rain, 245 points, 13 votes, 0 #1 votes
#53 - A Few Hours After This, 241 points, 9 votes, 1 #1 votes
#54 - The Exploding Boy, 226 points, 9 votes, 1 #1 votes
#55 - Friday Iím In Love, 212 points, 10 votes, 0 #1 votes
#56 - Sinking, 208 points, 10 votes, 0 #1 votes
#57 - The Same Deep Water As You, 200 points, 8 votes, 0 #1 votes
#58 - At Night, 192 points, 12 votes, 0 #1 votes
#59 - Catch, 186 points, 12 votes, 0 #1 votes
#60 - Never Enough, 183 points, 9 votes, 0 #1 votes
#61 - End, 181 points, 10 votes, 0 #1 votes
#62 - The Blood, 177 points, 8 votes, 0 #1 votes
#63 - Bananafishbones, 176 points, 8 votes, 0 #1 votes
#64 - Throw Your Foot, 172 points, 7 votes, 0 #1 votes
#65 - Harold & Joe, 167 points, 9 votes, 0 #1 votes
#66 - Last Dance, 165 points, 10 votes, 0 #1 votes
#67 - From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea, 165 points, 8 votes, 1 #1 votes
#68 - The Baby Screams, 159 points, 8 votes, 0 #1 votes
#69 - Give Me It, 153 points, 7 votes, 0 #1 votes
#70 - The Top, 152 points, 6 votes, 0 #1 votes
#71 - Seventeen Seconds, 146 points, 8 votes, 0 #1 votes
#72 - Cold, 146 points, 7 votes, 0 #1 votes
#73 - New Day, 144 points, 7 votes, 0 #1 votes
#74 - 2 Late, 133 points, 8 votes, 0 #1 votes
#75 - Just One Kiss, 133 points, 7 votes, 0 #1 votes
#76 - Kyoto Song, 132 points, 9 votes, 0 #1 votes
#77 - Hot Hot Hot !!!, 127 points, 9 votes, 0 #1 votes
#78 - This Twilight Garden, 126 points, 6 votes, 0 #1 votes
#79 - Piggy In The Mirror, 126 points, 6 votes, 0 #1 votes
#80 - To Wish Impossible Things, 121 points, 6 votes, 0 #1 votes
#81 - Doing The Unstuck, 118 points, 5 votes, 1 #1 votes
#82 - Burn, 107 points, 6 votes, 0 #1 votes
#83 - A Letter To Elise, 106 points, 8 votes, 0 #1 votes
#84 - Accuracy, 94 points, 4 votes, 0 #1 votes
#85 - Apart, 90 points, 6 votes, 0 #1 votes
#86 - To The Sky, 89 points, 3 votes, 0 #1 votes
#87 - Secrets, 88 points, 4 votes, 1 #1 votes
#88 - Closedown, 86 points, 6 votes, 0 #1 votes
#89 - Mr Pink Eyes, 84 points, 5 votes, 0 #1 votes
#90 - Pornography, 84 points, 3 votes, 0 #1 votes
#91 - The 13th, 79 points, 5 votes, 0 #1 votes
#92 - So What, 76 points, 3 votes, 0 #1 votes
#93 - Stop Dead, 75 points, 6 votes, 0 #1 votes
#94 - Splintered In Her Head, 74 points, 4 votes, 0 #1 votes
#95 - One More Time, 73 points, 7 votes, 0 #1 votes
#96 - Homesick, 72 points, 4 votes, 0 #1 votes
#97 - The Wailing Wall, 69 points, 4 votes, 0 #1 votes
#98 - Breathe, 69 points, 3 votes, 0 #1 votes
#99 - A Thousand Hours, 69 points, 2 votes, 0 #1 votes
#100 - Another Day, 66 points, 2 votes, 0 #1 votes
#101 - A Short Term Effect, 64 points, 4 votes, 0 #1 votes
#102 - Want, 63 points, 3 votes, 0 #1 votes
#103 - Screw, 63 points, 3 votes, 0 #1 votes
#104 - Dressing Up, 60 points, 4 votes, 0 #1 votes
#105 - The Holy Hour, 59 points, 5 votes, 0 #1 votes
#106 - Forever, 59 points, 3 votes, 0 #1 votes
#107 - Plastic Passion, 56 points, 4 votes, 0 #1 votes
#108 - Hey You!, 54 points, 3 votes, 0 #1 votes
#109 - Watching Me Fall, 53 points, 2 votes, 0 #1 votes
#110 - Halo, 52 points, 2 votes, 0 #1 votes
#111 - It's Not You, 52 points, 2 votes, 0 #1 votes
#112 - (I Don't Know What's Going) On, 52 points, 2 votes, 0 #1 votes
#113 - A Chain Of Flowers, 52 points, 2 votes, 0 #1 votes
#114 - Birdmad Girl, 50 points, 3 votes, 0 #1 votes
#115 - Speak My Language, 48 points, 3 votes, 0 #1 votes
#116 - Mouth To Mouth (The Glove), 47 points, 2 votes, 0 #1 votes
#117 - The End Of The World, 46 points, 3 votes, 0 #1 votes
#118 - Shiver and Shake, 44 points, 2 votes, 0 #1 votes
#119 - Carnage Visors, 44 points, 2 votes, 0 #1 votes
#120 - Mint Car, 43 points, 3 votes, 0 #1 votes
#121 - Cut, 43 points, 1 votes, 0 #1 votes
#122 - Lost, 42 points, 2 votes, 0 #1 votes
#123 - All I Want, 39 points, 4 votes, 0 #1 votes
#124 - Before Three, 39 points, 2 votes, 0 #1 votes
#125 - Out of This World, 39 points, 2 votes, 0 #1 votes
#126 - The Big Hand, 39 points, 2 votes, 0 #1 votes
#127 - Underneath The Stars, 38 points, 4 votes, 0 #1 votes
#128 - Wrong Number, 36 points, 2 votes, 0 #1 votes
#129 - Perfect Murder (The Glove), 36 points, 2 votes, 0 #1 votes
#130 - Jupiter Crash, 36 points, 2 votes, 0 #1 votes
#131 - Cut Here, 34 points, 2 votes, 0 #1 votes
#132 - Uyea Sound, 34 points, 1 votes, 0 #1 votes
#133 - I'm Cold, 32 points, 2 votes, 0 #1 votes
#134 - Gone!, 32 points, 1 votes, 0 #1 votes
#135 - The Snakepit, 31 points, 3 votes, 0 #1 votes
#136 - Do The Hansa, 31 points, 2 votes, 0 #1 votes
#137 - Another Journey By Train, 30 points, 2 votes, 0 #1 votes
#138 - The Perfect Girl, 30 points, 2 votes, 0 #1 votes
#139 - Punish Me With Kisses (The Glove), 30 points, 1 votes, 0 #1 votes
#140 - Labyrinth, 29 points, 2 votes, 0 #1 votes
#141 - Maybe Someday, 29 points, 1 votes, 0 #1 votes
#142 - 39, 29 points, 1 votes, 0 #1 votes
#143 - Doubt, 26 points, 1 votes, 0 #1 votes
#144 - Happy The Man, 25 points, 2 votes, 0 #1 votes
#145 - Fear Of Ghosts, 25 points, 2 votes, 0 #1 votes
#146 - Play With Me, 25 points, 1 votes, 0 #1 votes
#147 - I'm a Cult Hero, 25 points, 1 votes, 0 #1 votes
#148 - Us or Them, 24 points, 1 votes, 0 #1 votes
#149 - A Japanese Dream, 23 points, 2 votes, 0 #1 votes
#150 - Wailing Wall, 22 points, 1 votes, 0 #1 votes
#151 - Descent, 21 points, 2 votes, 0 #1 votes
#152 - Babble, 19 points, 2 votes, 0 #1 votes
#153 - The Promise, 19 points, 1 votes, 0 #1 votes
#154 - Torture, 18 points, 2 votes, 0 #1 votes
#155 - A Foolish Arrangement, 18 points, 1 votes, 0 #1 votes
#156 - Last Day Of Summer, 14 points, 1 votes, 0 #1 votes
#157 - Snow In Summer, 14 points, 1 votes, 0 #1 votes
#158 - Numb, 14 points, 1 votes, 0 #1 votes
#159 - Pillbox Tales, 12 points, 1 votes, 0 #1 votes
#160 - Home, 12 points, 1 votes, 0 #1 votes
#161 - Play, 10 points, 2 votes, 0 #1 votes
#162 - Mr Alphabet Says, 10 points, 1 votes, 0 #1 votes
#163 - The Dream, 10 points, 1 votes, 0 #1 votes
#164 - Switch, 10 points, 1 votes, 0 #1 votes
#165 - The Only One, 10 points, 1 votes, 0 #1 votes
#166 - Temptation Two (aka LGTB), 9 points, 1 votes, 0 #1 votes
#167 - Going Nowhere , 9 points, 1 votes, 0 #1 votes
#168 - It's Over, 6 points, 1 votes, 0 #1 votes
#169 - Alt.End, 3 points, 1 votes, 0 #1 votes
#170 - Three, 3 points, 1 votes, 0 #1 votes
#171 - Bloodflowers, 3 points, 1 votes, 0 #1 votes
#172 - Subway Song, 2 points, 1 votes, 0 #1 votes
#173 - Object, 2 points, 1 votes, 0 #1 votes
#174 - Fake, 2 points, 1 votes, 0 #1 votes
#175 - Icing Sugar, 2 points, 1 votes, 0 #1 votes

Bravo, Nate!

The top 100 in a Spotify playlist:

http://open.spotify.com/user/nathanwoolls/playlist/0cnsQZacWxATLVfmUq6N2h

Hope nobody caught a spoiler in the Lindsay Lohan thread.

Wait, how many people voted again? I'm thinking "A Forest" was on nearly everyone's ballot.

34 I think. It was on mine certainly:

1. The Kiss
2. Killing An Arab
3. The Lovecats
4. Fire In Cairo
5. A Forest
6. If Only Tonight We Could Sleep
7. Shake Dog Shake
8. 10:15 Saturday Night
9. Hot! Hot! Hot!
10. Gone!

11. Lullaby
12. Boys Don't Cry
13. The Blood
14. M
15. Last Dance
16. Lovesong
17. Play With Me
18. Want
19. Disintegration
20. It's Not You

21. The Baby Screams
22. Dressing Up
23. High
24. Mint Car
25. Play For Today
26. A Night Like This
27. Friday I'm In Love
28. Numb
29. I'm Cold
30. To Wish Impossible Things

31. Open
32. Sinking
33. From The Edge Of The Deep...
34. Secrets
35. Torture
36. Jupiter Crash
37. Apart
38. Doing The Unstuck
39. Seventeen Seconds
40. End

AND FIVE ALBUMS:

1. Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me
2. Wish
3. Wild Mood Swings
4. Three Imaginary Boys
5. Disintegration

Thanks to everyone who voted, it was fun & interesting!

Oooh, it was not far out of the running after all:

#54 - The Exploding Boy, 226 points, 9 votes, 1 #1 votes

Thanks Nate!

"Just Like Heaven" wins on points!

Actually, I voted for all of 52, 53, 54 and 56.

On the other hand I seemingly gave "I'm a Cult Hero" its sole vote plus one of only two votes for "Carnage Visors". Haha.

My ballot:

TRACKS:

All Cats Are Grey
Siamese Twins
The Hanging Garden
Another Day
The Same Deep Water As You
To The Sky
A Strange Day
Lament
Shake Dog Shake
Prayers For Rain
From The Edge of the Deep Green Sea
Like Cockatoos
New Day
Three Imaginary Boys
Primary
Faith
The Kiss
Disintegration
Lost
Open
A Japanese Dream
A Man Inside My Mouth
The Snakepit
Mouth To Mouth
This Twilight Garden
A Chain of Flowers
Perfect Murder
The Figurehead
Splintered In Her Head
Home
Charlotte Sometimes
Mr. Alphabet Says
10:15 Saturday Night
Harold and Joe
Play
It's Over
Underneath the Stars
Piggy In The Mirror
Inbetween Days
Let's Go To Bed

ALBUMS:

Pornography
Disintegration
Faith
The Top
Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me

VIDEOS:

Lullaby
Close To Me
Never Enough
The Lovecats
The Hanging Garden

Btw I am SUPER ECSTATIC about how well "All Cats Are Grey" did

Me too!!! You guys have great taste!

"Wailing Wall" is at #97 and #150, so added up it should be at #85.

My ballot:

Top 40 songs:

1) All Cats Are Grey
2) Like Cockatoos
3) M
4) Charlotte Sometimes
5) A Night Like This
6) If Only Tonight We Could Sleep
7) Lament
8) A Strange Day
9) The Drowning man
10) Push
11) In Your House
12) Just Like Heaven
13) Plainsong
14) Three Imaginary Boys
15) Breathe
16) Sinking
17) Secrets
18) 2 Late
19) A Few Hours After This
20) How Beautiful You Are
21) The Kiss
22) The Wailing Wall
23) Fear Of Ghosts
24) Boys Don't Cry
25) Doing The Unstuck
26) The Lovecats
27) From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea
28) The Figurehead
29) New Day
30) Killing An Arab
31) Faith
32) Just One Kiss
33) Shake Dog Shake
34) The Snake Pit
35) Jumping Someone Else's Train
36) A Forest
37) Last Dance
38) Fascination Street
39) One Hundred Years
40) A Japanese Dream

Top 5 Albums:

1) Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me
2) Seventeen Seconds
3) Disintegration
4) The Top
5) Pornography

Cool, I had "Plainsong" at #1 but really wasn't sure it would be top 10. Nice to see it so high. Also glad to see my highest-ranked non-finisher landed just outside, at #51.

Mine:

Plainsong
In Between Days
How Beautiful You Are
Just Like Heaven
Pictures of You
Fire in Cairo
The Walk
Kyoto Song
Jumping Someone Else's Train
Close to Me
Six Different Ways
Why Can't I Be You?
10:15 Saturday Night
Charlotte Sometimes
Let's Go to Bed
Boys Don't Cry
The Kiss
Fascination Street
Grinding Halt
Lullaby
The Love Cats
The Blood
A Night Like This
A Forest
If Only Tonight We Could Sleep
Like Cockatoos
Catch
Screw
Killing an Arab
The Baby Screams
Hot Hot Hot!!!
Lovesong
Friday I'm in Love
The Same Deep Water as You
The Funeral Party
The Caterpillar
Prayers for Rain
Snakepit
Hey You!
Closedown