POLLSTAL BLOWFISH - ILM Artist Poll #8 - Guided By Voices - ReSuLtS!!!

So far three of my songs have appeared in the countdown including the 60-51 bonus portion. (Big Boring Wedding, Gleemer, and Do The Earth)

And like justfanoe, I easily could have included Closer You Are and As We Go Up We Go Down but I already included a handful of Alien Lanes' tracks. Just too too many damn great songs...

45. "Girls of Wild Strawberries" (Half Smiles of the Decomposed, 2004) [156 points, 7 votes, 1 #1 vote]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oahhlvwZKk

I'm pleased with the amount of love some songs from Half Smiles have gotten so far. I didn't vote for this one or Raincloud, but I did for Huffman Prairie and a couple others. Def an underrated album.

(xpost) that's a good one. I didn't vote for anything past Isolation Drills but yesterday I was thinking this one could/should have made it. or maybe Back to the Lake.

Wild Strawberries is a good melody - I always wanted to hear it with a more energetic tempo. boomp boomp boomp boomp zzzzzzz

I totally expected As We Go Up We Go Down to be top 20

This came on my iPod this morning, and I was struck by how brilliant it was. Didn't vote for it, mind.

Seeing these Alien Lanes songs come in that I did not vote for makes me realize that I could have just voted the first 20 AL songs with an exception here or there and been pretty happy with my ballot.

sooo much OTM right there. an the start I actually wanted to pull this one off as a kind of a joke (a joke that still would be pretty close to the truth)

44. "Acorns and Orioles" (Under the Bushes Under the Stars, 1996) [157 points, 6 votes, 1 #1 vote]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxVmVJ2ZGd4

*swoons*

wth was i doing putting it at only #13?

My #03! Love love love it so

Number 1 voter come forth and be praised

I can't believe only 6 people voted for it.

i can't believe i forgot about it!
i'm ashamed

what a great song

Yeah, especially freakin' great on headphones, with that constant threatening droney sound in the background

I thought this would finish higher but, then again, I didn't vote for it either so I guess I can't complain.

oof yeah i should've voted for acorns & orioles!

So basically it would've been the number one if so many people hadn't forgotten to vote for it! I suspect that will happen with more songs in this poll :)

Great song, sorry to omit it! Always loved the Peel wersion of "Cut-Out Witch" with the "I can't tell you anything" refrain stuck in at the end.

I've never heard that version, or session. Was it officially released?

43. "Unleashed! The Large-Hearted Boy" (Propeller, 1992) [157 points, 8 votes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zM8JTHgOfRM

yaaaay "do the earth" and "U!TLHB"

I'm away for two hours and we're already at 43! Just wanted to mention that 'Everywhere with Helicopter' was the only song on my ballot that I hadn't heard before this poll and that I added thanks to the voting thread.

xxxp the bootleg called To Trigger A Synapse has these, suppose they weren't released officially?

"Unleashed" bassline intro reminds me heavily of a similar intro in JD's "Disorder"

LBI: only know it through less-than-legal downloads, but it's on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVz7RhAkiDE

Hey thanks!!

"Acorns and Orioles" always makes me think of R.E.M.

42. "Man Called Aerodynamics" (Under the Bushes Under the Stars, 1996) [159 points, 7 votes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PFlJ0hapXM

(see also, the BBC session youtube posted above...it's the second track.)

This song is a force of nature, btw.

"Unleashed" bassline intro reminds me heavily of a similar intro in JD's "Disorder"
― V79, Tuesday, September 27, 2011 6:19 PM (14 minutes ago)

'Digital'?

xp the bassline also (kinda) resembles the Pachelbel canon, which is a popular chord movement after all. but I assure you, the moment I first heard "Unleashed" it made me think of "Disorder" :)

This song is a force of nature, btw

The way this song starts it sounds like you're in the middle of a tornado. No matter how many times I listen to it, it still takes me a second or two to get my bearings.

Brilliant record opener, and OTM about the tornado effect. Sounds like a few seconds were cut off on the master tape.

BTW: I always thought that instead of a 'book mobile' he was talking about this thing :)
http://images.wikia.com/mafiawars/images/c/ce/Popemobile_Real.jpg

don't know if he gets called out too much but kevin fennell can be a pretty impressive drummer -- the beat on aerodynamics is relentless.

The whole song, for me, is a frantic build-up to the moment Pollard sings the song's title and stretches out the "aeeeroooo-dy-namics".

I feel like I just won the lottery by the time he gets to it.

I suddenly realised what the bassline of 'Unleashed' reminded me of:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OArdM4Cb-ho

41. "Peep-Hole" (Bee Thousand, 1994) [164 points, 6 votes, 1 #1 vote]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUjzXV9bIGA

Gotta admit I don't get "Peep-Hole" being this high, much less getting a #1.

now that's a hell of a crazy tune.

^^^ well that's the GBV - even the strangests of cuts have their own charm, that few may find very appealing

i voted for peephole, just one of those gorgeous melodies that sounds effortless, but is actually pretty complex/strange.
christ it's a cluttered mess!

This song is fine but it just seems too slight to rank on a top 20 list.

I voted for "Cigarette Tricks", I can understand anything that happens in this poll

Man Called Aerodynamics is such a great song! Listen to the demo version first, and then the full version and it's like getting a blast of wind in the face. Head clearing!

Haha. xp

It and the Sprout song after it are like lagniappes. Nice, but not essential.

"It" being 'Peep-Hole' xpost