"A yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, y-y-yeah!"
― Jazzbo, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 16:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Performance/Shakes 12" wins. i'll say Shakes just to be stubborn.
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 16:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Gosh, this is a tough one. I mean, hell.
― Bimble, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 16:51 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah impossible
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 16:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Impossible, but if I *HAD* to pick one, it just might be "OK This is The Pops!"
― Alex in NYC, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 18:38 (fifteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― ILX System, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 23:01 (fifteen years ago) link
"Twist"
― Mackro Mackro, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 23:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Oooh tricky stuff. <3 for this poll C.
― Trayce, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 23:20 (fifteen years ago) link
Can't decide between "Christian Says" and "You, the Night and the Music". "Go!" will win even though I'm a bit sick of it.
― Trayce, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 23:21 (fifteen years ago) link
maybe rain. maybe lions. yeah, i can't choose. love it all so much.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 23:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Lions
― onimo, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 23:50 (fifteen years ago) link
band was not serious enough, if you liked them you are not goth
― J0hn D., Wednesday, 14 May 2008 00:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Went with "Christian Says," but could be plenty of others on any given day.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 01:14 (fifteen years ago) link
"OK This is the Pops."
This album is the awesomest.
― Abbott, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 01:24 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.epsilonminus.com/darquedungeon/dd_7.gif
― Mackro Mackro, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 02:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Debbie OTM
― J0hn D., Wednesday, 14 May 2008 02:32 (fifteen years ago) link
I like how dark her makeup is. She looks crazed.
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 02:38 (fifteen years ago) link
wld nvr say fuck in real chick tract
― libcrypt, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 03:11 (fifteen years ago) link
However, members-only jacket adds promise.
Tones on Tail > goth
― Curt1s Stephens, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 03:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Let me state here that I am the first member of and founder of the gothtimist movement.
― libcrypt, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 03:14 (fifteen years ago) link
Will rehab goth in the eyes of rockists and gay dance men everywhere.
― libcrypt, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 03:15 (fifteen years ago) link
everything by this band is awesome but "Rain" definitely one of the coolest songs I've ever heard.
― uncannydan, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 03:25 (fifteen years ago) link
libcrypt OTM
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 04:03 (fifteen years ago) link
had to go with "War" but haven't played them in forever.
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 06:01 (fifteen years ago) link
I always pref'd Tones on Tail to Love & Rockets to be honest.
― Trayce, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 06:08 (fifteen years ago) link
it's strange for me to think of these songs as individual songs, if that makes any sense
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 10:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― ILX System, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 23:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Lions at 45rpm.
― Raw Patrick, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 23:40 (fifteen years ago) link
No one voted for Now We Lustre or There's Only One! Oh the horror. I admit I didn't vote, though.
― Bimble, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 23:49 (fifteen years ago) link
nowadays I would totally vote "A Bigger Splash"
― ᵒ always toasted, never fried (crüt), Tuesday, 1 June 2010 12:09 (thirteen years ago) link
it is very good advice to believe only what an artist does
― ᵒ always toasted, never fried (crüt), Tuesday, 1 June 2010 12:12 (thirteen years ago) link
here comes trouble
― The Black Keys - white boys can still throw down (crüt), Saturday, 19 June 2010 21:32 (thirteen years ago) link
It's all great. But probly Real Life for me if I have to choose.
― Nate Carson, Saturday, 19 June 2010 22:49 (thirteen years ago) link
this seems to be the only Tones on Tail thread.
Weird Pop is a 2011 19-track double LP features all of Tones On Tail’s crucial tracks including most of the Pop album, the best songs from Tones On Tail EP, and the singles ‘Go!’, ‘Twist’, plus ‘Christian Says’. This new compilation brings back the classic vinyl sound and includes previously undiscovered rarities like the original (some say better) version of ‘Performance’, a never before released studio version of ‘Heartbreak Hotel’, the single edit of ‘Go!’, plus an extended version of ‘Twist’.
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 05:25 (twelve years ago) link
I'm devastated at the relative shittiness of the studio "Heartbreak Hotel"
― Doctor Madame Frances Experimento LLC (SNM), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 07:26 (twelve years ago) link
Have yet to hear this band, but I always hear their name to the tune of "Girls on Film".
― kkvgz, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 12:06 (twelve years ago) link
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― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 12:45 (twelve years ago) link
People interested in painting might be fascinated by an arm...
― Pureed Moods (Trayce), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 04:29 (eleven years ago) link
This is really working with my mood lately (ie kind of fractured, with a leak in the ceiling and a load of mould in the corners, lit by a bare bulb)
― Pureed Moods (Trayce), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 04:30 (eleven years ago) link
So, "Rain." Or rather, the secret song IN "Rain"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssHZYVl9hG4
Read the full description for details.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 11 July 2013 04:27 (ten years ago) link
so looking forward to exploring their catalog again when they come up in the Bauhaus poll, sometime in 2016? right now my mind set is that Love and Rockets is much better but will see who gets more songs into that poll.
― Bee OK, Sunday, 14 July 2013 02:53 (ten years ago) link
how the hell did "performance" manage only 1 vote? such a jam!
― regular speed of candy on chrome (brimstead), Sunday, 14 July 2013 04:08 (ten years ago) link
I'm the one who voted for it!
― LeRooLeRoo, Sunday, 14 July 2013 19:12 (ten years ago) link
Performance is my favorite too.
― brotherlovesdub, Sunday, 14 July 2013 23:27 (ten years ago) link
Performance sounds like New Order if they weren't sort of terrible.
― Peaceful Oat Goblins (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 15 July 2013 03:55 (ten years ago) link
the drums are so cool... the motion, the lift
― regular speed of candy on chrome (brimstead), Monday, 15 July 2013 04:00 (ten years ago) link
Listening to them right now for the first time since the 80s
― Moodles, Monday, 15 July 2013 05:19 (ten years ago) link
<i>Performance sounds like New Order if they weren't sort of terrible.</i>
I have no idea what you meant, and yet, I'm still infuriated by your reply.
― Austin, Monday, 15 July 2013 05:36 (ten years ago) link
Fucking italics tag.
You know what I meant to do there.
― Austin, Monday, 15 July 2013 05:37 (ten years ago) link
Performance/Shakes is mine now as well, as somehow I'd never paid it much attention back then (fuckknows how).
― It is like ganging up on Enya (Trayce), Monday, 15 July 2013 08:44 (ten years ago) link
It's the middle of summer. Time to binge on Tones on Tail again. They seem to be one of the ultimate summer bands for me, which makes zero sense. "Happiness" is an anomaly in the ToT repertoire, but nothing sounds better at half past 2am.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 24 July 2014 06:25 (nine years ago) link
"Happiness" was robbed
― welltris (crüt), Wednesday, 18 November 2015 14:12 (eight years ago) link
PERFORMANCE
― brimstead, Wednesday, 18 November 2015 19:24 (eight years ago) link
so looking forward to exploring their catalog again when they come up in the Bauhaus poll, sometime in 2016? right now my mind set is that Love and Rockets is much better but will see who gets more songs into that poll.― Bee OK, Saturday, July 13, 2013 7:53 PM (2.5 years ago)
― Bee OK, Saturday, July 13, 2013 7:53 PM (2.5 years ago)
looks like i was right on track, lol.
i do hope to open the Bauhaus-Love and Rockets/Tones on Tail poll in the beginning of 2016, don't think i can jump that many places to make it this year.
― Bee OK, Thursday, 19 November 2015 02:38 (eight years ago) link
So anyway, Daniel and Kevin and Kevin's daughter aka the artist Diva are touring as Poptone -- it's as close to a Tones on Tail show as I'll ever see! Playing tonight here in SF, heard good things from friends who have seen earlier shows. Supposedly also playing Bauhaus and L&R cuts too, and why not.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 June 2017 19:11 (six years ago) link
ned how was the show? thinking about going to see them in a couple weeks
― adam, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 19:25 (six years ago) link
Quite great! "Slice of Life" from Bauhaus, a few L&R cuts as noted but otherwise near wall-to-wall ToT, and it was lovely finally hearing all those songs live. About the only song I wanted to be on the set list was "Real Life" but they pretty much did everything else one way or another -- hell, they even started with "Heartbreak Hotel"!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 20:19 (six years ago) link
excellent! thanks for the info. it's the same night as converge/neurosis so it is a tough decision indeed
― adam, Wednesday, 19 July 2017 13:36 (six years ago) link
Well think of it this way -- Converge and Neurosis have been around, releasing albums, steady veterans. But you may never get a chance to see this lineup do these songs ever beyond this.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 19 July 2017 13:55 (six years ago) link