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

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?

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Helter Skelter @ #3, dlp9001 I like yr style! Their version doesn't sound too far away from how You Can Live At Home with that big weird bassline going on.

My ballot:

New Day Rising
Eight Miles High
Something I Learned Today
Don't Want To Know If You Are Lonely
The Girl Who Lives On Heaven Hill
Whatever
Games
Every Everything
Private Plane
You Can Live At Home
Amusement
I'll Never Forget You
Books About UFOs
Divide And Conquer
Could You Be The One?
Bed Of Nails
The Biggest Lie
In A Free Land
Celebrated Summer
Flip Your Wig

Thanks so much for taking this on Mr Plains!

1. Eight Miles High
2. Girl Who Lives On Heaven Hill
3. Celebrated Summer
4. Dead Set On Destruction
5. Reoccurring Dreams
6. Turn On The News
7. Don't Want To Know If You Are Lonely
8. Keep Hanging On
9. New Day Rising
10. It's Not Funny Anymore
11. Something I Learned Today
12. Terms of Psychic Warfare
13. Books About UFOs
14. She Floated Away (live)
15. Divide and Conquer
16. Makes No Sense At All
17. Flexible Flyer
18. Eiffel Tower High
19. She's A Woman (And Now He Is A Man)
20. Perfect Example

Only one I'm bummed didn't make it is "Dead Set."

Who else voted for "Reoccurring Dreams"? Always thought they could/should have done more sprawly stuff like that. It's like the furthest possible extension of turn it over-era Tony Williams' Lifetime.

I would've voted for Reoccurring Dreams, tarfumes

Great work on the poll and thank you. For what its worth, "Eight miles high" was the first Husker Du song I ever heard - I'd just started listening to John Peel's show in the summer of 84 and he played it and I was blown away. I knew and adored the Byrds' version but I'd not heard anything like this before, it was reverent but irreverent too, and the way Bob just seemed to lose it on the vocals and just SCREAM in such an incoherent but powerful way. It was a great record to hear when I was 15. A great introduction to a great band.

Ok I was in a meeting but wild applause and hugs for everyone.

My ballot is the best fyi

1 New Day Rising
2 Something I Learned Today
3 From the Gut
4 Chartered Trips
5 Eight Miles High
6 The Tooth Fairy and the Princess
7 Terms of Psychic Warfare
8 In a Free Land
9 Green Eyes
10 What Do I Want?
11 Back From Somewhere
12 Celebrated Summer
13 Statues
14 It's Not Funny Anymore
15 Turn on the News
16 I'll Never Forget You
17 I Apologize
18 Somewhere
19 She Floated Away
20 Sorry Somehow

Yeah, thanks for the poll work pp. And great graphics!