Gotta Make Polls for the Polls I Make - ILM HUSKER DU POLL RESULTS

First Husker Du song i ever heard, thank you Radio Luxembourg

Shocking development. I had no idea this song was so popular.

Ditto. I was afraid it wouldn't make the cut. Glad it did.

Is there a no-You Tube rule effect?

Only question left is whether this will be the first of these polls with a cover at #1.

(I sort of hope not, since the other song in contention would be a perfect #1 itself. But they're both amazing so whatever.)

I like to think that could happen to Hendrix too, so they're in good company

Is there a no-You Tube rule effect?

It doesn't bother me, but for some people, 30 Youtubes on one thread really messes with the loading. It's why I've been linking everything.

This was my No. 1. I could listen to it morning, noon, night, 20 years ago and five minutes from now and would love hearing it all just the same.

Anyway, decisions have been made; the die has been cast.

Geez, I better see Adventureland.

No hurry.

So this is Celibate Summer vs. 8 Mile, Sigh amirite?

I'm blanking out on the obvious second-song everyone's figured out. The cover, I know. The other one...I don't think it's the one I'd want, so I don't know.

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Unless there's something very wrong in that ballot pool...

So no "Real World" or "Everything Falls Apart" (or did I miss them)? Surprised. But yeah, I forgot about "Celebrated Summer."

Unexpected last-minute surge for "Ultracore."

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2. “Celebrated Summer” - 419 points / (1 vote for first place)
• Live in London, 1985
• Bob Mould, 2009
• Anthrax cover
• Detroit remix

I thought this would be #1.

I didn't know my love of "Chartered Trips" was shared so widely.

First one in the top 10 I didn't vote for. Don't mind it being here, though.

so it's eight miles high

no "Newest Industry" = sadface

no "Standing in the Rain" = sadface

no "It's Not Peculiar" = big sadface

no "Back from Somewhere" = sadface

No Private Plane = sadface

Same sadface for "Newest Industry," my #3.

man i'm nervous and I'm the one looking at the list.

okay here goes

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wait wait wait wait, hold on, let me readjust this for a sec...

Not "The Baby Song"??

I voted for "Buck Hill"!

Guys? It wasn't even close.

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1. “Eight Miles High” - 562 votes / (5 votes for first place)
• Live in Philadelphia, 1983
• Dutch festival, 1987
• Alternate non-single Byrds version
• Byrds isolated backing track
• Roxy Music cover, 1980
• Ventures cover
• Nineteen-minute version by Golden Earring

no "Erase Today" = big sadface smh

I will say this, the cover is downright definitive, and one of the few to match the iconic original.

Something hilarious about capturing the essence of Husker Du in their Byrds cover and their cover of the Mary Tyler Moore Show theme. In tandem, that's the band right there. Plus, of course, ample bllllaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrgh!

Yeah I got no problem with it, even tho it didn't make my top 10 (mostly because I couldn't put a cover above so many original songs that I love).

'84 Pazz & Jop:

1. Prince: "When Doves Cry"/"17 Days" (Warner Bros.) 111
2. Bruce Springsteen: "Dancing in the Dark"/"Pink Cadillac" (Columbia) 71
3. Tina Turner: "What's Love Got To Do With It" (Capitol) 61
4. Hüsker Dü: "Eight Miles High" (SST) 56
5. Van Halen: "Jump" (Warner Bros.) 52

#1, 2, 3, and 5 are all fine songs--great songs, if you like, I won't argue. But at the time, being 22 (and really caring about things like Pazz & Jop), seeing "Eight Miles High" right there in the middle of them felt really, really important.

Love how Mould changed the lyric to "not known for its sound". Also love everything about this record ever for all time.

Thanks for doing this poll, pp! Your graphics have set a new standard in results-rolling-outedness.

the 7" was probably the first I bought

This was good fun. Excellent graphics, pplains!

Here's mah ballot:
It's Not Peculiar - 40
Makes No Sense At All - 36
No Promise Have I Made - 33
Actual Condition - 30
Something I Learned Today - 28
Real World - 26
Hardly Getting Over It - 25
Chartered Trips - 24
The Girl Who Lives on Heaven Hill - 23
Charity, Chastity, Prudence and Hope - 22
Eight Miles High - 21
Pink Turns to Blue - 20
Don't Want to Know If You Are Lonely - 19
Green Eyes - 18
Turn on the News - 17
If I Told You - 16
Sorry Somehow - 15
Dead Set on Destruction - 14
New Day Rising - 13
Never Talking to You Again - 12

Pink Turns to Blue
Makes No Sense at All
Books About UFOs
Flip Your Wig
Celebrated Summer
What's Going On
I Apologize
She's a Woman (and Now He Is a Man)
New Day Rising
Green Eyes
Don't Want to Know If You Are Lonely
If I Told You
These Important Years
Hate Paper Doll
Sorry Somehow
Eight Miles High
Diane
Could You Be the One?
Back From Somewhere
Real World

Great job, pp. More music I love here than anything this side of the Beatles and Neil Young polls (Dylan and the Velvets, too, when we get around to those).

1. “Books About UFOs” (40)
2. “Divide and Conquer” (36)
3. “Newest Industry” (33)
4. “Makes No Sense at All” (30)
5. “Eight Miles High” (28)
6. “Real World” (26)
7. “Something I Learned Today” (25)
8. “Love Is All Around” (24)
9. “Everything Falls Apart” (23)
10. “Perfect Example” (22)
11. “Flip Your Wig” (21)
12. “You’re a Soldier” (20)
13. “It’s Not Funny Anymore” (19)
14. “All Work and No Play” (18)
15. “Hate Paper Doll” (17)
16. “I Apologize” (16)
17. “59 Times the Pain” (15)
18. “She’s a Woman (And Now He Is a Man)” (14)
19. “Dead Set on Destruction” (13)
20. “Friend, You’ve Got to Fall” (12)

This was fun. It was my pleasure. Thanks to all of you who voted and who participated here. Look forward to doing the Metallica list in 2014.

A few notes:

• The Spotify playlist.

• You can view the spreadsheets I used.

• Zen Arcade and New Day Rising both placed seven songs in the Top 30. Flip Your Wig a close second with six.

• The two albums that received a vote for every song were Zen Arcade, which surprised me because even the piano interludes received votes, and Candy Apple Grey, surprising since no one named it as a favorite album and it's traditionally been shunned by the HD crowd for the most part.

• Not one single vote for that MTM cover. Not a one!

It was #8 on mine!

FOUL!

Even if they're not my *favorite* band polled to date, this is probably my favorite poll so far. I only managed a top 10 and then gave up trying to rank things. Side 2 of Zen Arcade is now my favorite thing they did, which is a pretty big contrast w/1980's me.

1. What's Going On
2. Eight Miles High
3. Helter Skelter
4. Celebrated Summer
5. Whatever
6. She Floated Away
7. Eiffel Tower High
8. She's A Woman (And Now He Is A Man)
9. Somewhere
10. Masochism World

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Are you sure all those Ohio precincts are in?