ah ok. rad
― charlie h, Thursday, 23 September 2010 07:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Either pitch the baby for the sequencers or iceblink luck for sounding like New Order - because those were the two songs I was most into when this came out. Nowadays though I love every song on this.
― I am using your worlds, Thursday, 23 September 2010 08:47 (thirteen years ago) link
in before system
― dayo, Friday, 8 October 2010 00:38 (thirteen years ago) link
One of my favorite albums from one of my all-time favorite bands. I could vote for any song really, there's no filler here. Going with the epic closing track.
― LeRooLeRoo, Friday, 8 October 2010 19:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Friday, 8 October 2010 23:01 (thirteen years ago) link
1. Cherry2. RR&R
Album is compositely flawless.
― cee-oh-tee-tee, Saturday, 9 October 2010 00:31 (thirteen years ago) link
title track or fotzepolitic. every song is amazing though.
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Saturday, 9 October 2010 02:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Saturday, 9 October 2010 23:01 (thirteen years ago) link
damn, i missed this. i would have voted for 50/50 clown - love that balearic bass line
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Sunday, 10 October 2010 10:06 (thirteen years ago) link
love results where two songs are tied for first
― dayo, Sunday, 10 October 2010 10:19 (thirteen years ago) link
when the snare hits kick in on frou frou foxes = my heart melts
― dayo, Sunday, 10 October 2010 12:19 (thirteen years ago) link
also I like the symmetry
8-8-6-4-4-3-2-2-0-0
Fuck an ILM for zero votes for "I Wear Your Ring" in this poll.
― Tim F, Sunday, 6 November 2011 11:56 (twelve years ago) link
frou frou foxes! i've listened to that song like 10 times in a row on occasion
― bluelips, Sunday, 6 November 2011 15:31 (twelve years ago) link
fifty-fifty clown for that gorgeous vocal at 1.58
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Monday, 9 October 2017 03:51 (six years ago) link
btw does anybody know why lou reed appears to have a songwriting credit for road, river and rail?https://play.google.com/music/preview/Tpud4qhwn5kyt6eu3ifsum2j4gm?lyrics=1(at the very bottom)
― palko, Friday, 13 October 2017 14:55 (six years ago) link
i didn't know how much i liked this band but 'fotzepolitic' just came on some sort of random spotify thing and hooooooly shit where has this been all my life
― imago, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 20:33 (six years ago) link
turns out the rest of the album is slightly less imago-tastic. but man, that song. that ENDING. why doesn't it go on for eight minutes? whyyyyy
― imago, Thursday, 23 November 2017 17:59 (six years ago) link
the last song is my favorite
― understood by moron level and above (brimstead), Thursday, 23 November 2017 18:39 (six years ago) link
"frou-frou foxes in midsummer fires"
― understood by moron level and above (brimstead), Thursday, 23 November 2017 18:40 (six years ago) link
that was up there too, along with 'pitch the baby'
― imago, Thursday, 23 November 2017 23:20 (six years ago) link
This album is so good that the two songs that received no votes are fire
― ur-oik (rip van wanko), Thursday, 23 November 2017 23:42 (six years ago) link
Fuck an ILM for zero votes for "I Wear Your Ring" in this poll.― Tim F, Sunday, 6 November 2011 11:56 (six years ago) Permalink
― Tim F, Sunday, 6 November 2011 11:56 (six years ago) Permalink
me otm
― Tim F, Friday, 24 November 2017 01:30 (six years ago) link
this album is redonkulous
― trife's rich padgett (rip van wanko), Thursday, 18 January 2018 03:31 (six years ago) link
I have listened to it since age 15 and it just gets better
biggest crime is wolf in the breast getting no votes, the song's outro smokes
this album has held up the most in the cocteau's canon for me. Victorialand and Love's Easy Tears were always my go-to favorites, but Heaven or Las Vegas is their perfect dream pop record.
― kolakube (Ross), Thursday, 18 January 2018 03:53 (six years ago) link
I have fallen hard for this record…I heard it vaguely at the time, but oddly heard Four Calendar more, based on a co-worker playing it a lot in the office in 1994…
the title cut made me cry as I was walking around Prospect Park on this glorious spring day, watching little girls play and thinking that my 16 month old will be doing that soon. Its the slide after the choruses that gets me…is it Guthrie or Raymonde that played the —I hesitate to use the following term— solos?
― veronica moser, Friday, 11 May 2018 20:25 (five years ago) link
How did I miss this poll? I'd have gone for Fifty-Clown. Liz's voice sounds like a choir of angels there.
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Friday, 11 May 2018 20:59 (five years ago) link
Fifty-fifty clown of course.
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Friday, 11 May 2018 21:00 (five years ago) link
Yeah that track is gorgeous. Re the solo - the fairly-literal video shows Fraser, Guthrie, Raymonde performing (vocal, Gretsch, Fender VI) as well as Mitsuo Tate (Jazzmaster) and Lincoln Fong (?) (Strat) who were in the touring band. I think it shows Guthrie doing the solo on a hideous green PRS.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KnYw4EwYGc
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Friday, 11 May 2018 22:14 (five years ago) link
Oops, no, Ben Blakeman on Strat. Neither he nor Tate played on the record I believe.
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Friday, 11 May 2018 22:20 (five years ago) link
yknow, being that I'm a novice, It's hard for me to hear who the artists that 'fluenced them might be. They did something with Harold budd, but I don't hear minimalism. Were they into eno and the berlin trilogy?
― veronica moser, Saturday, 12 May 2018 23:39 (five years ago) link
It doesn't help much but I know they were way into The Birthday Party at the outset, it's why they sent their demo to 4AD.
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Sunday, 13 May 2018 00:16 (five years ago) link
best album ever
― flopson, Sunday, 13 May 2018 00:22 (five years ago) link
Kinda surprised at the low showing for Iceblink Luck tbh
― Colonel Poo, Sunday, 13 May 2018 00:56 (five years ago) link
I hear my baby crying
― Free jazz baser (Ross), Sunday, 13 May 2018 02:57 (five years ago) link
I love that you can hear Liz's (quite strong!) Scottish accent on Road River and Rail. Does she do that anywhere else? It's particularly strong in the chorus and on the title-line.
― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Thursday, 30 August 2018 17:36 (five years ago) link
Rrroad Rrrivurr and Rrray-ull.
Rrright?
― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Friday, 31 August 2018 00:02 (five years ago) link
Love the anecdote that Simon Raymonde was delighted she'd written a song about fishing - y'know, "Rod, River and Reel".
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Friday, 31 August 2018 07:03 (five years ago) link
+1 for I wear yr ring
― yuoowemeone, Friday, 31 August 2018 07:55 (five years ago) link