All You Cruisers - THE KATE BUSH VOTING THREAD (ilm artist poll #24: deadline Saturday 25 August)

thanks man. i think this might be the kick up the arse i need.

I'll be submitting a list this evening - just come back from holiday and am having a Kate day. Just checking - presumably the deadline is 11.59pm UK time?

Yes, but I'm not going to be too strict about it - if it arrives before I turn my mind to it tomorrow it'll get counted.

i done it!

Which would be preferable, a short ballot that's basically a ranking of The Whole Story, or no ballot at all?

I'm going to (controversially) say no ballot at all - I haven't tallied for a while, but there were some interesting things showing up last time I did and I wouldn't want to see them pushed down by all the singles getting an unfair boost. Do join us for the countdown though!

Alfred - there's an anomaly in your ballot, check your mail.

Fair enough! I was dubious about casting an uninformed ballot just for the sake of voting. I will save my save my ballot and see how it compares to the results.

alright, sent. lemme know if you didn't get it, ismael.

the kick inside - 3
lionheart - 2
never for ever - 3
the dreaming - 3
hounds of love - 4 (worked hard to cut this down, could have been half my ballot)
the sensual world - 3
the red shoes - 2
aerial - 2 (both disc 1)

director's cut - 0
50 words for snow - 0 (only because it's so new to me)
non-album - 0

I've just acknowledged one that doesn't say 'contenderizer' but I think is yours, try again if you don't get my hearty thanks

I'll try to get one ready by the deadline. time's never on my side anymore

yep, that's the one. thanks again, IK!

IK, thanks for the massive work you are doing here and taking over from my absent bottom. Will run up hills to get that ballot to you before midnight.

sort of half-improvised my list which led to this:

the kick inside - 0
lionheart - 0
never for ever - 2
the dreaming - 4
hounds of love - 3
the sensual world - 2
the red shoes - 3
aerial - 4

director's cut - 1
50 words for snow - 0
non-album - 1

intense kate bush listening marathons that led to that list also made me realize i like the red shoes a lot more than the sensual world

I have given up. I started to think about a week ago that there was no way I would manage it and I have proved myself right. Every time I listen to an album I completely rewrite the ballot.

boo to all the early album haters. if you can't get behind crazy progmetaltheatrefolk 70s kate bush, i, i, i just don't know

i don't hate them! they're just not on my ballot for some reason?

jk ;)

have had VIOLIN VIOLIN running through my head for days

intense kate bush listening marathons that led to that list also made me realize i like the red shoes a lot more than the sensual world

I'll send a wedding invitation on Monday

check your email, Alfred

NTI - you've listed the same song at nos. 9 and 13 - pick another no.13 please

goddammit. i just realized i sent in a list of 22 songs. which i suppose just means that the bottom 2 get cut. thinking about losing those two makes me second guess the end of my list, which makes me second guess the rest of my list, but fuggit. what's done is done. just cut those last two off IK.

Sent in my ballot! Yay!

Wish Bimble would've still been around to take part in this, fuck :-(

xp yes, I just cut the last two off. Quite a few people have submitted five albums, rather than three, and I've done the same there

I'm going to sleep now. I'll close voting when I get up in the morning.

Wish Bimble would've still been around to take part in this, fuck :-(

sent!

the kick inside - 2
lionheart - 1
never for ever - 2
the dreaming - 3
hounds of love - 4
the sensual world - 5 (!)
the red shoes - 0
aerial - 2
director's cut - 0*
50 words for snow - 0

non-album - 1

damm you

ha genuinely didn't realize that breakdown until i typed it out up there - my top 25 had two from red shoes and one from 50 words of snow (the one about YETI). NEVER would've pegged me for a sensual world dork before this (still don't really - dreaming all the way), felt vaguely challopsy putting it in my top 3 albums.

Ballot submitted:

the kick inside - 1
lionheart - 0
never for ever - 2
the dreaming - 5
hounds of love - 6
the sensual world - 3
the red shoes - 1
aerial - 2
director's cut - 0
50 words for snow - 0
non-album - 0

mine btw:

kick inside - 3
lionheart - 1
never for ever - 3
the dreaming - 3
hounds of love - 2
the sensual world - 3
the red shoes - 0
aerial - 4
director's cut - 0
50 words for snow - 0
non-album - 1

Anybody else? Last chance to get one in

I'll try to get one in in the next hour.

Grand. I have one space left on my chart, so I'll wait for yours then I'll close things off.

So ... hard ...

There we are.

Okay, voting is now closed. Thank you everyone for your contributions.

wait, i've changed my mind, i wanna redo the whole ballot

kick inside - 2
lionheart - 1
never for ever - 4
the dreaming - 5
hounds of love - 4
the sensual world - 1
the red shoes - 0
aerial - 2
director's cut - 0
50 words for snow - 1
non-album - 1

actually, non-album should read 0

i wanna redo the whole ballot

I know. I've done the adding up and now I know exactly how I should've voted.

How long a countdown do we want? A hundred songs have received votes; there are natural breaks at nos. 15, 25 and 50.

how many ballots? i'd say 50

36 ballots

That's a pretty good turnout, I was worried there'd be fewer than 20.

Yes it's excellent, we did really well. Twenty was my basic target and I got twelve in the first few days, so I knew not to panic when I then went about three days with nothing. And I got eleven yesterday and three more overnight, so you really stepped up at the end, thanks.

And it was only nine days, no need to drag these out unduly.

OTM -- "Do or do not, there is no 'try'," saith the little swamp critter.

took a short road trip with a family of friends this afternoon and picked ipod tracks as we drove around. among other things, i played "violin" off N4E - mostly because i'm obsessed with it, but also cuz mr. friend is a "weird music" fan and had mentioned that he only knew kate bush through "don't give up." he dug it a lot, and mrs. friend thought the vocal swoops were hilarious, but man, their five-year-old daughter just HATED it. complained at first, then plugged her ears the way through. nothing else bugged her, either. she seemed to enjoy sonic youth, fall out boy (a lot), grimes and lindstrom. felt kinda bad for her, but it's good to learn young that art = suffering.

haha, i'm not surprised that a kid would dislike that song, it's pretty abrasive in it's own way