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Peggy Lee's was the version I knew and loved -- it's Leiber and Stoller!

many similarities with Giant Sand (whose 'Tucson' album is something all should hear) version, yet much more "carnival" and "come-what-may" in it's delivery than PJs dirge. Peggy Lee's harps on burlesque, and divine.

Victory seems kinda low. Thought that would be much higher.

Re: Inspiral Carpets
While listening to everything (some of it for the first time in years) before making my ballot I made a couple of strange connections. 'Meet Ze Monsta' reminded me of Spacemen 3 - Losing Touch With My Mind (just one of the guitar sounds really) and something about the bass in the early parts of 'Angeline' made me think of Joe Jackson - Geraldine and John.

47. The Devil - 112 points, 6 votes

outrageously low, shameful

http://vimeo.com/22956489

http://991.com/newGallery/ZZ-Top-Legs-289364.jpg

46. Legs - 112 points, 6 votes

Not great dinner party music

didn't realize it was a cover

xp, great song, i mean "the devil". somehow i did not include it in my ballot. in the beginning of the video her high-pitch singig makes me think of oskar matzerath, the kid drummer from the "tin drum" by grass. and i expect the water glass to burst. miraculously it does not break.

just a minor request: would it be possible to put the album in brackets after the song, nbs?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM-tIpWtqYk

I really like The Devil. It's such a great title, I'd probably have voted for it anyway even if it wasn't such a fine tune.

^ satanist

46. Legs - 112 points, 6 votes
DAMMIT!

I'm surprised but happy about how "White Chalk" is doing. I've always thought it was really underrated.

The album, that is.

http://images6.fanpop.com/image/photos/32800000/Catherine-Tate-ginger-heads-32891554-280-390.jpg

45. Catherine (Is This Desire?) - 113 points, 5 votes

wow, shockingly low for one of the highlights - if not THE highlight and centrepiece - of the album that placed second...

― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Friday, April 26, 2013 10:30 AM (Yesterday)

re: "white chalk". otm. it is the highlight and centerpiece of the album. expected it to place in the top 20.

that's probably true re: "the devil" but i think i love "dear darkness" from wc even more. and i expect it to place.

Gave you my heart/you left the thing stinking

When Under Ether will probably be the highest from White Chalk, but still, the title cut wuz robbed! Far too low. It's one of the creepiest songs you'll ever hear.

http://www.gardenvisit.com/assets/madge/clandon_park_dutch_garden/original/clandon_park_dutch_garden_original.jpg

44. The Garden (Is This Desire?) - 116 points, 7 votes

Catherine and The Garden were both late cuts from my ballot.

Catherine was one of my re-discoveries from ITD?

For confusion that's how I approve of acronyming ITD?

another phantastic powerful song (that bass!) which should have been in the top 20.

"and there was trouble taking place"

http://www.usingenglish.com/resources/letter.gif

43. The Letter (Uh Huh Her) - 122 points, 8 votes

Erk. Just noticed a foolish error.

So..... I foolishly forgot to put a column in the spreadsheet for the position of each song in the chart and was reading their positions from the row number, but obviously there were two blank rows at the top (with headings) which means every position I've given so far has been two too low. Fortunately I've noticed this early enough for it not to be a big deal - the poll would have been somewhat anticlimactic if it had built up to number three and then stopped (although I suppose it would have been funny seeing people scratching their heads trying as we entered the top five trying to work out what on earth could possibly be in it that they hadn't been expecting).

So you need to subtract two from every position I've given so far. I'll post a proper countdown shortly, but first we need to go back to the *real* number 60 and 59....

bonus results...nice

http://www.drugson-line.info/images/photos/ecstasy.jpg

60. Ecstasy (Rid of Me) - 80 points, 4 votes

http://imgc.allpostersimages.com/images/P-473-488-90/55/5548/F6ELG00Z/posters/richard-l-anson-people-floating-in-pool-on-rubber-rings.jpg

59. We Float (Songs from the...) - 81 points, 5 votes

eek

re: the letter. another one of my faves. how come that all those raw songs place so low? some great, subtle drumming on that one.

Er...Stories from the....

*must concentrate*

i am assuming the low placing of the letter is more a reflection of general antipathy towards UHH, because that is one of her best singles

It was the only track from that album that I could actually remember when I started this poll. Once I'd re-listened to the album a bit I really liked It's You as well.

'the garden' is p hot

I was wondering if PJ had a song called "The Innertube."

swimsuit otm

The (correct) countdown so far:

60 Ecstasy - Rid of Me
59 We Float - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
58 The Darker Days of Me and Him - Uh Huh Her
57 Snake - Rid of Me
56 Fountain - Dry
55 One Line - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
54 The Mountain - White Chalk
53 Easy - 4-Track Demos
52 The Last Living Rose - Let England Shake
51 Black Hearted Love - A Woman A Man Walked By
50 Meet Ze Monsta - To Bring You My Love
49 Working for the man - To Bring You My Love
48 White Chalk - White Chalk
47 All and Everyone - Let England Shake
46 Victory - Dry
45 The Devil - White Chalk
44 Legs - Rid of Me
43 Catherine - Is This Desire?
42 The Garden - Is This Desire?
41 The Letter - Uh Huh Her

I am already regretting giving To Bring You My Love the shaft in my voting. Right now I'd put both "Meet Ze Monsta" & "Teclo" high on my ballot, like the album's finally making sense to me (& I got it the day it came out!). funny how long it can take.

To Bring You My Love is another album where I tend to twin the tracks, which played out in my voting: I went for "The Dancer" over "Teclo", "Long Snake Moan" over "Meet Ze Monsta", "C'mon Billy" over "Send His Love To Me"... though in each case the preference is marginal or even basically non-existent (could easily have switched the last choice, for example).