Just a simple song but God I love it Embedded in me, so bittersweet I’m addicted, I’m a melancholic Sing it again, I’ll be your Poll forever: THE BOO RADLEYS - ILM artist poll #60 or new numbering #65

yes, the only song of the three singles from C'mon Kide that made my list. love how the songs sort of ends but doesn't.

so onto the Top 20.

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20. Twinside
From: Wake Up!
Released: Oct 9, 1995
234 Points, 8 Votes

a song i didn't know i was going to vote for until i re-listened to Wake Up!. then it was like, i remember how much i love this song.

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19. Everything Is Sorrow
From: C’mon Kids
Released: Aug 14, 1996
241 Points, 9 Votes

"Everything Is Sorrow" was not released as a single but i still found artwork for it. does anyone know the story behind that? also that picture looks like what might have been the C'mon Kids prop?

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18. Fairfax Scene
From: Wake Up!
Released: Oct 9, 1995
243 Points, 8 Votes

"Even though I'm keeping busy
there's something more that still escapes me
I had it then, but now it's gone away"

Love Ride The Tiger. Very happy to see it place. Always thought it wasn't an obvious single choice but I guess there weren't many obvious ones on that album.

Twinside has always been one of my favourite Boo songs. I wish they'd put it out as a single. This poll is making me realise I don't think they did the best job choosing singles.

Everything Is Sorrow is such a brilliant song. I'd forgotten how great that whole album is.

Bee, I had no idea that was where your name came from. That's so cool. I didn't know that song until you mentioned it on another Boo thread a few years ago. It's a lovely song.

I love Put Your Arms Around Me... (it was my #6) and for many many years it was the only Boos track that I didn't "officially" own in any format. I was so sad when they screwed up the release of the Kingsize deluxe edition a few years ago and left out many tracks, but I finally got the song earlier this year when I got the vinyl version of the album!

― Tomiboo, Saturday, April 25, 2015

Was it easy to get a vinyl copy? It's the only one I don't have on vinyl and wouldn't mind getting a copy.

I don't really like the lyrics to Everything Is Sorrow.

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17. Bullfrog Green
From: C’mon Kids
Released: Aug 14, 1996
246 Points, 9 Votes

https://youtu.be/l1KH0XCQX78

this is quite simply one of my all-time favorite songs.

"Everything Is Sorrow" was not released as a single but i still found artwork for it. does anyone know the story behind that?

Was it easy to get a vinyl copy? It's the only one I don't have on vinyl and wouldn't mind getting a copy.

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16. Rodney King (Song for Lenny Bruce)
From: Giant Steps
Released: Aug 31, 1993
One Vote For: Rodney King (St. Etienne Remix)
259 Points, 10 Votes

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I got lucky and found a reasonably cheap (around 20 euros) copy on eBay a few months ago. I hadn't really been looking for it that actively before, but I've never seen it in record stores here in Finland... which isn't really much of a surprise. There were a few a bit more expensive copies for sale when I bought mine, but even though there doesn't seem to be any on eBay right now, I'm sure that you'll be able to find one if you really want. There seem to be a few used copies for sale on Discogs, but I've never bought anything on that site so I don't know how reliable it is.

― Tomiboo, Saturday, April 25, 2015 10:19 PM

Thanks for the info. I've used Discogs a lot and will just keep an eye out on there. I haven't had a good look for it yet.

Bullfrog Green is such a wonderful song. Probably had it too low on my list.

interesting placing for " Rodney King (Song for Lenny Bruce)", never thought of this as a stand out on the album.

As I said already on the other thread, I like it, but I think of it as part of 'Butterfly McQueen' - if I could have voted for the two combined they would have been higher up my ballot - they both seem incomplete without the other

Ride The Tiger is great, especially the ending is beautiful, but for some reason I don't like it as much as I used to. A few years ago it would have been pretty high in my top 25, now it didn't make it on my list.

I'm actually a bit surprised that Twinside made it in the top 20! I've never heard anyone praise it before, and while I do like it, it's not in my favourite Wake Up! tracks either.

Everything Is Sorrow is gorgeous, it's one of my favourite "feeling miserable" songs. I find the lyrics pretty cool...

Fairfax Scene was my #3! It's such a beautiful little pop tune.

Bullfrog Green also made it on my list (#22), the lyrics are so hilariously weird that you just gotta love that song. It's like The Boos' own "I Am The Walrus".

Rodney King is obviously also great. (I probably should stop repeating this, as I don't think that it's possible that there are any tracks in the top 20 that I do NOT like!) It's one of those songs that nearly made it on the list but had to be dropped in the end. I guess it's a bit too repetitive. Does anyone know if the weird lyrics are just played backwards or is it some weird/imaginary language?

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15. Does This Hurt?
From: Everything’s Alright Forever and Boo! Forever
Released: June 8, 1992
260 Points, 10 Votes

Video released on the 4th of June 1992

lol at that video. it's not bad, just so the time i guess.

It's been a long time since I've seen that Does This Hurt? video... thanks for posting it.

And speaking of Boos videos, how about this one for Ride The Tiger?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kU8pfwlPF4I

The video hasn't aged that well, but it was quite jaw-dropping at the time it was released... and apparently cost quite a lot to make too. I love it how all those weird "Boo items" from different eras make an appearance in it. I guess it might be my favourite Boos video, even if I normally prefer the simple videos that aren't very artistic.

(Oh, and I forgot to mention in my previous post that Everything Is Sorrow was my #18 - one place higher than its actual position!)

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14. The Old Newsstand at Hamilton Square
From: Kingsize
Released: Oct 9, 1998
261 Points, 10 Votes

YouTube

love you ILM for placing this so high.

Heh, I feel bad for not voting it, but it too had to make way for other songs...

I was just thinking it was about time for another song from this album. Fantastic song.

Kingsize has got to be in top 10, but apart from that I think we'll see at most one other track from the album after this. Could be Eurostar... or Jimmy Webb Is God... or She Is Everywhere... or... well, pretty much any one of them!

i have never seen that "Ride the Tiger" video and when i tried to play it there is some country restriction on it. when i go to American YouTube it is not there.

oh well.

btw, only going to 11 today, will do the Top 10 tomorrow.

also this poll title is from Kingsize, the song is "Jimmy Webb Is God" for those who might not know.

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13. Spaniard
From: Everything’s Alright Forever
Released: March 1992
272 Points, 9 Votes

YouTube

beautiful and one of my last cuts.

why haven't i been placing YouTube's all along? it's neat to listen to as this goes on.

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12. Stuck On Amber
From: Wake Up!
Released: Oct 9, 1995
294 Points, 9 Votes, 1 Number One

YouTube

this band really is that good. this song never even crossed my mind when i was putting a ballot together. it's great however.

"Bills and heartburn, pills and soaps
And flicking through the books that you've read before
Tears come easy, words come hard
But there really isn't much to say no more"

I remember from the "Adrenalin" fanzine, that they were planning an acoustic gig with a school orchestra, and were thinking of reviving "Spaniard" for it.

Wonder if that ever happened...

If anyone is interested or is going to ask, my daughter was not named after the number 12 track.

Stuck On Amber! My number one! I was secretly hoping that it could sneak into top 10, but #12 is still better than I expected. Words can't describe how amazing that song is. And you've just quoted my favourite piece of lyrics there, Bee OK...

lol, so that wasn't you who had it at number one then?

haha, xpost

all songs from here on out got double digit votes. "Rodney King (Song for Lenny Bruce)," "Does This Hurt?" and "The Old Newsstand at Hamilton Square" also got over 10 votes.

Stuck On Amber is so great. Yet another incredible chorus.

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11. I've Lost The Reason
From: Giant Steps
Released: Aug 31, 1993
306 Points, 10 Votes

YouTube
Bonus: I've Lost the Reason (the Beat)

i can't describe how much i love this song. "i'm only twenty-three...I got more to fine" indeed, this song spoke to me in 1993. very high on my ballot. also love the second You Tube video, yeap, they should have been massive.

If nothing else, I'm glad for this poll forcing me to revisit Kingsize and properly appreciate "The Old Newsstand..." The only 'late' track that didn't eventually fall off the end of my ballot.

I really had no idea "Foster's Van" was at all popular before the previous thread. The only track on Boo Up! I DIDN'T vote for, IIRC!

I've Lost The Reason is such an incredible song. Love how it leads up to The White Noise Revisited. Always thought Giant Steps was sequenced really brilliantly.

I just made a list of songs that I think could place in the top ten with fifteen songs on it. Some seriously amazing songs are going to miss out.

yeah i agree, their catalog is pretty strong. i love how the songs that have made the Top 40 are from all the different eras, it proves how deep that catalog actually is.