"People get ready, strip down your houses because it's the FALL TRACKS BALLOT ROLL- OUT!" - PART TWO The Tracks (Pre-wray)

	Score	Track	Vote
			
1	513	Totally Wired	21
2	512	The Classical	17
3	438	How I Wrote 'Elastic Man'	18
4	404	Winter	15
5	385	Leave The Capitol	15
6	381	Wings	13
7	332	Paint Work	16
8	275	Hip Priest	11
9	271	New Puritan	9
10	257	Garden	10
11	253	No Bulbs	11
12	248	New Face in Hell	10
13	239	Gut of the Quantifier	10
14	219	Rowche Rumble	9
15	217	I Feel Voxish	10
16	214	The Man Whose Head Expanded	10
17	208	Bill Is Dead	8
18	206	Eat Yrself Fitter	13
19	202	Cruisers Creek	8
20	196	The N.W.R.A.	7
21	190	New Big Prinz / Big New Prinz	9
22	190	Theme From Sparta F.C. / Sparta 2XX	9
23	173	Hit The North	7
24	165	An Older Lover etc	6
25	163	Lie Dream of A Casino Soul	6
26	158	Jawbone and the Air-Rifle	7
27	158	Weather Report 2	7
28	153	Spectre Vs Rector	6
29	152	Container Drivers	7
30	147	Prole Art Threat	6
31	145	Blindness	7
32	144	Tempo House	6
33	134	impression of j. temperence	6
34	131	Slates, Slags, Etc.	5
35	127	Smile	6
36	125	Middle Mass	6
37	122	Guest Informant	5
38	120	LA	6
39	120	Marquis Cha-Cha	6
40	118	Gross Chapel - British Grenadiers	5
41	117	English Scheme	5
42	114	Bonkers in Phoenix	4
43	112	Bremen Nacht	3
44	112	City Hobgoblins	5
45	110	Rebellious Jukebox	5
46	109	Fortress/Deer Park	4
47	106	Hotel Bloedel	4
48	106	Kurious Oranj	4
49	102	Glam Racket	4
50	98	Free Range	6
51	96	Frightened	3
52	96	Kicker Conspiracy	5
53	96	Spinetrak	5
54	95	Mere Pseud Mag. Ed. 	4
55	94	Frenz	4
56	93	Iceland	3
57	91	Your Heart Out	4
58	89	Edinburgh Man	3
59	88	I Am Damo Suzuki	5
60	88	Spoilt Victorian Child	4
61	87	and this day	3
62	87	Touch Sensitive	6
63	84	I'm into C.b.	4
64	84	Just Step Sideways	4
65	82	My New House	3
66	80	Slang King	4
67	78	Hurricane Edward	3
68	77	Telephone Thing	4
69	73	Psykick Dancehall	4
70	71	Hexen Definitive/Strife Knot	4
71	70	M5	3
72	70	Service	4
73	70	Victoria	4
74	67	Athlete Cured	3
75	67	Flat of Angles	3
76	66	A Figure Walks	2
77	66	Fit and Working Again	3
78	66	The Chiselers	3
79	64	Mr Pharmacist	3
80	64	pat-trip dispenser	3
81	63	Hard Life in Country 	4
82	63	Oh! Brother	2
83	63	u.s. 80's-90's	3
84	61	Barmy	2
85	61	Lay of the Land	3
86	61	look, know	3
87	60	c'n'c / stop mithering	3
88	60	Midnight in Aspen	3
89	60	Telephone Thing	3
90	59	Australians in Europe	2
91	59	Words Of Expectation	2
92	58	Various Times	2
93	56	4 1/2 Inch	3
94	54	Before the Moon Fals	2
95	53	Why Are People Grudgeful?	2
96	52	Couldn't Get Ahead	2
97	52	No Xmas for John Quays	2
98	51	Fiery Jack	3
99	49	2x4	2
100	49	fantastic life	2
101	49	Ludd Gang	3
102	49	Stephen Song	2
103	48	Deer Park	2
104	48	What You Need	2
105	47	Cab it Up!	3
106	47	Who Makes the Nazis?	3
107	46	Bombast	2
108	46	R. O. D	2
109	44	C.R.E.E.P	2
110	44	Hey! Student	2
111	44	Pay Your Rates	3
112	44	The Mixer	3
113	43	Dr. Bucks' Letter	2
114	43	Putta Block	3
115	42	Behind The Counter	2
116	42	There's A Ghost In My House	2
117	41	The Container Drivers	2
118	40	Just Waiting	1
119	40	Lost In Music	2
120	40	Repetition	2
121	40	Room to Live	2
122	39	Susan vs Youthclub	2
123	37	Hey Luciani!	2
124	36	Contraflow	1
125	36	Hilary	1
126	36	Ladybird (Green Grass)	1
127	36	Vixen	2
128	35	Bingomasters Breakout	2
129	35	Ten Houses of Eve	2
130	33	Boxoctosis	1
131	33	Papal Visit	1
132	33	Psycho Mafia	1
133	33	Stepping Out	1
134	33	Time Enough at Last	1
135	31	disney's dream debased	2
136	31	living too late	2
137	31	Riddler!	2
138	30	Copped It	1
139	30	Two Steps Back	1
140	28	High Tension Line	1
141	28	Job Search	1
142	26	Backdrop	1
143	26	Session Musician	1
144	26	Sing!Harpy	1
145	26	The Reckoning	1
146	25	50 year old man	2
147	25	Carry Bag Man	1
148	25	It's The New Thing	1
149	25	Masquerade	1
150	25	Twister	1
151	23	CnC Hassle Schmuck	1
152	23	Craigness	1
153	23	In My Area	1
154	22	2nd Dark Age	1
155	22	Gentleman's Agreement	1
156	22	HOW	1
157	22	Put Away	1
158	22	Shift-Work	1
159	21	Antidotes (Peel Session)	1
160	21	Bury Pts. 1 & 3	1
161	21	Cyber Insekt	1
162	21	Don’t Call Me Darling	1
163	21	Futures & Pasts	1
164	21	Ol' Gang	1
165	21	Pacifying Joint	1
166	21	The Littlest Rebel	1
167	21	Y.F.O.C. - Slippy Floor	1
168	20	Extricate	1
169	20	Feeling Numb	1
170	20	Green Eyed Loco Man	1
171	20	The Steak Place	1
172	19	Blood outta stone	1
173	19	British People In Hot Weather	1
174	19	Bug Day	1
175	19	Get a Hotel	1
176	19	Octo Realm/Ketamine Sun	1
177	19	To NK Roachment: Yarbles	1
178	18	Choc-Stock	1
179	18	Hot Cake	1
180	18	Lucifer Over Lancashire	1
181	18	Muzorewi's Daughter	1
182	18	Oswald Defence Lawyer	1
183	18	The Birmingham School Of Business School	1
184	18	The Crying Marshall	1
185	18	The War Against Intelligence	1
186	18	White Lightning	1
187	17	industrial estate	1
188	17	Live At The Witch Trials	1
189	17	Mark'll Sink Us	1
190	17	Reformation	1
191	17	Return	1
192	17	Two Librans	1
193	16	Can Can Summer	1
194	16	He Pep!	1
195	16	Pinball Machine	1
196	16	Stay Away (Old White Train)	1
197	15	das vulture ans ein nutter-wain 	1
198	15	Dr. Faustus	1
199	14	2 * 4	1
200	14	Bournemouth Runner	1
201	14	Latch Key Kid	1
202	14	Midwatch 1953	1
203	14	rose	1
204	14	Shoulder Pads #1B	1
205	14	Tommy Shooter	1
206	14	Wrong Place, Right Time	1
207	13	A Past Gone mad	1
208	13	Clear Off! 	1
209	13	Dr Faustus	1
210	13	Idiot Joy Showland	1
211	12	a day in the life	1
212	12	And Therein	1
213	12	I'm a Mummy	1
214	12	Kimble	1
215	12	Shake-Off	1
216	12	Systematic Abuse	1
217	12	Xmas with Simon	1
			

Ah, forgot the number ones..

Just those, then...

	Score	Track	Vote	No:1
2	512	The Classical	17	3
3	438	How I Wrote 'Elastic Man'	18	1
4	404	Winter	15	2
5	385	Leave The Capitol	15	2
6	381	Wings	13	4
8	275	Hip Priest	11	1
9	271	New Puritan	9	3
10	257	Garden	10	2
11	253	No Bulbs	11	1
12	248	New Face in Hell	10	1
17	208	Bill Is Dead	8	2
19	202	Cruisers Creek	8	1
20	196	The N.W.R.A.	7	1
27	158	Weather Report 2	7	1
34	131	Slates, Slags, Etc.	5	1
35	127	Smile	6	1
42	114	Bonkers in Phoenix	4	1
43	112	Bremen Nacht	3	1
45	110	Rebellious Jukebox	5	1
56	93	Iceland	3	1
72	70	Service	4	1
76	66	A Figure Walks	2	1
91	59	Words Of Expectation	2	1
116	42	There's A Ghost In My House	2	1
118	40	Just Waiting	1	1

Half of me wants to kiss whoever voted for their version of 'I'm a Mummy', half of me wants to smdh and tell them to listen to the Bob McFadden version instead.

Their version of 'There's a Ghost In My House' does rule, though.

xpost it was me, and I alredy knew/had the Bob & "Dor" version.

Didn't mean to imply that you didn't know it, just that the Bob version is inimitable and should be listened to regularly.

Mark - 'Telephone Thing' is in the long list twice, at #68 and #89

hate to say, but i gave "totally wired" my #1 slot. i'm always glad to hear it. perhaps you discarded my ballot in curdling disgust?

nbd, maybe i sent it to the parole board by mistake

Will check

Yep. add 1 to the "Number One" amount for "Totally Wired"

I did collate your votes, otherwise..

hmmm, I'm with Noodle on these results.

the definitive #1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3i4U6DwhBw

the biz. "my heart and i agree..."

can't imagine anyone not loving that song and wanting to muss it's greasy little hairs up down by the molesting station

totally wired is undeniable. I once even caught my non-fall-loving wife singing it.

"fortress/deerpark" and "deerpark" entries should have been collected?

yeah..

Consider it up from 46 to 28

Same with Dr. Faustus, i was not the ONLY one to vote for it. Only bumps it up to 28 points though. You fools! BANANA!

STUNNED by lack of support for Kicker and My New House!!!

with the exceptions of Iceland and John Quays, I was surprised at how my top choices reflected majority taste in this poll. Here's my ballot:

1. New Puritan (Peel session)
2. Iceland
3. Totally Wired (live, A Part of America, Therein)
4. Leave the Capitol
5. No Xmas for John Quays
6. New Face in Hell
7. Hip Priest (Peel Session)
8. Winter
9. How I Wrote Elastic Man
10. The Container Drivers
11. Wings
12. The Classical
13. New Big Prinz
14. No Bulbs
15. The Man Whose Head Expanded
16. An Older Lover, etc
17. Putta Block
18. Gut of the Quantifier
19. Hey Luciani!
20. The Mixer

oh boy, sharing time! note slots 1, 6 & 12:

1. Totally Wired
2. No Bulbs
3. Psycho Mafia
4. Copped It
5. The Classical
6. Hit the North Pt. 1
7. Rowche Rumble
8. How I Wrote ‘Elastic Man’
9. L.A.
10. My New House
11. Blindness
12. Cab It Up!
13. There’s a Ghost In My House
14. Riddler!
15. Big New Priest
16. Putta Block
17. Prole Art Threat
18. Tempo House
19. Slang King
20. Vixen

i think my new house suffers from sitting next to paintwork on tnsg.

Winter 1
My New House 2
Kicker Conspiracy 3
Garden (Peel version)4
Impression of J Temperance 5
Guest Informant 6
Gut of the Quantifier 7
What You Need 8
Blindness (Peel Version)9
Middle Mass (Peel version)10
No Bulbs 11
Mere Pseud Mag Ed (live, Hip Priest & Kamerads) 12
Free Range 13
Hard Life In Country 14
Ten Houses of Eve 15
I Feel Voxish 16
Weather Report 2 17
Look, Know 18
Dr Faustus 19
Frightened 20

Almost 50% of my top 10 did not place ;_;

Regret not voting for psychomafia!

Thanks Mark G.!

1. The Classical
2. Spectre Vs Rector
3. Bonkers in Phoenix
4. I'm into C.b.
5. Garden
6. Winter
7. Your Heart Out
8. I Am Damo Suzuki
9. Rowche Rumble
10. New Puritan
11. The NWRA
12. Paintwork
13. Hotel Bloedel
14. Muzorewi's Daughter
15. How I Wrote Elastic Man
16. Eat Y'Self Fitter
17. Totally Wired
18. Smile
19. Fit And Working Again
2o. Container Drivers

I actually dont like Totally Wired but 2-10 is amazingly unfuckwithable. Great job ILM!

Here's my ballot. 17 of the 20 placed. Can't believe I was the only one to vote for Backdrop, that song is a fucking monster.

1.New Puritan
2.Tempo House
3.Rowche Rumble
4.Totally Wired
5.Deer Park
6.Backdrop
7.Hip Priest
8.Gut of the Quantifier
9.No Bulbs
10.The Impression of J.Temperance
11.Lie Dream of a Casino Soul
12.Leave the Capitol
13.Wings
14.Container Drivers
15.Slates, Slags, etc.
16.Eat Y'Self Fitter
17.Spectre vs. Rector
18.Wrong Place, Right Time
19.The Man Whose Head Expanded
20.Hard Life in the County

Gotta admit I'm surprised the classical did so well. While I can ignore the first lines when playing Hex, it does kind of damper its click-pick status in my book

then again I've got "Jew on a motorbike" on my ballot so don't take that to be too pious a stance

1. Hip Priest
2. Garden
3. Cruiser's Creek
4. Tempo House
5. The Classical
6. Leave The Capitol
7. Paint Work
8. 2x4
9. Middle Mass
10. I Feel Voxish
11. Bury Pts. 1 & 3
12. I am Damo Suzuki
13. Bug Day
14. Pat Trip Dispenser
15. Mark'll Sink Us
16. He Pep!
17. Dr. Faustus
18. Totally Wired
19. Free Range
20. L.A.

1. Winter
2. Mere Pseud Mag Ed
3. Stepping Out
4. Life Just Bounces
5. Hey! Student
6. I Feel Voxish
7. How I Wrote Elastic Man
8. Totally Wired
9. Free Range
10. Big New Prinz
11. Paint-Work
12. Frenz
13. Words Of Expectation
14. The Birmingham School Of Business School
15. Oh! Brother
16. Stay Away (Old White Train)
17. Pay Your Rates
18. Theme From Sparta FC
19. Touch Sensitive
20. Garden

Wings was my #1 and it looks like it received the most #1 votes. I almost left Totally Wired off my ballot but once I remembered, I placed it at 10. Can't believe No Xmas for John Quays did not place in the top 50. I thought it was more well-liked around here.

1. Wings
2. Jawbone and The Air Rifle
3. The Classical
4. Fortress/Deer Park
5. Lie Dream of a Casino Soul
6. Gut of The Quantifier
7. Mere Pseud Mag. Ed.
8. No Xmas for John Quays
9. Gross Chapel/British Grenadiers
10. Totally Wired
11. Marquis Cha-Cha
12. Slates, Slags, Etc.
13. I'm into C.B.!
14. Room to Live
15. Big New Prinz
16. Paintwork
17. Tempo House
18. 2 * 4
19. Clear Off!
20. Cab it Up!

righteousmaelstrom u did not vote for the song from which yr dn derives!

iirc

I think the only thing in this poll that surprised me was Wings placing above Voxish, Garden and (way above) Tempo House. But I've changed opinions about the PBL tracks a lot over the years, so maybe that'll be the next one...

lol I know. I actually pulled it from the live stage rant at the end of Putta Block.

#1 The N.W.R.A.
Winter
Wings
Deer Park
Slang King
Eat Y'self Fitter
Jawbone and the Air-Rifle
What You Need
The Classical
Totally Wired
Lay of the Land
The Container Drivers
Paint Work
Who Makes the Nazis?
Fit and Working Again
Psykick Dancehall
Garden
Marquis Cha-Cha
Kicker Conspiracy
How I Wrote 'Elastic Man'

i threw my ballot together without thinking too much and could easily swap half these tracks for others. considering the showing for all the other slates tracks i thought fit and working again was a lock for the top 10. kicker conspiracy is great but i think being about football affects its reception - a friend of mine hates it for this reason.

My ballot. I only did songs.

01 The Classical
02 Australians in Europe
03 U.S. 80's-90's
04 Totally Wired
05 Lie-Dream Of A Casino Soul
06 No Bulbs
07 Twister
08 Guest Informant
09 Gut of the Quantifier
10 Telephone Thing
11 Futures & Pasts
12 Rowche Rumble
13 British People In Hot Weather
14 Lucifer Over Lancashire
15 The Man Whose Head Expanded
16 Paint Work
17 Fiery Jack
18 Bournemouth Runner
19 Hip Priest
20 Kimble

Well done to the other Australians in Europe voter (I know. It's shooting stereotypical fish-in-a-barrel, but it still rocks).

Aus in Europe has been stuck in my head for like a week! I maybe shd have voted for it. Several b sides of that era I regret not including. Mark'll Sink Us... Bormann...

EuuuRUP! UP! UP-UP! UP!

The Annotated Fall

Oh yay hurray, that v cool site has saved me the task of typing in the awesome ad-lib portion of the live in Iceland version of The Classical:

On live versions, variant lyrics often would appear at this point. One more or less typical example (from Austurbaejarbio, recorded in 1982): "Dear customer, prior to delivery, this fine Ford Kawasaki Excel Escort was given a thorough inspection by Fred here in the white coat...please note, um, the, um, coin-spots on the dashboard...please note the fuel exhaustion limit reader...please note the elephant house odor of the dashboard, and most importantly the axels and the hubs which are immune to snow, extreme heat, rain, hailstones, sleet, and HAIL! The Classical!"

Not evoked by transcription is the amazing phrasing but it's something like

PLEASE NOTE!
the FUEL...
EXHAUSTION...
LIMIT...
READER...
PLEASE NOTE!
the elephant...
HOUSE!
odor...

That same live album has a great variant on Look, Know:

HE
Was the first
To wear
an idiotic
JACKET
in the club...

Container Drivers and I'm Into CB were robbed

This Poll in Number One in my list of Polls by the way.

Also I think this is the type of band and catalog that you could do one of these every six months and come up with quite a different result. Can we do that?

Jeff W! 'Twas I. This was my somewhat unreconstructed response to hearing it for the first time ever:

Australians In Europe - Holy hell, so catchy! And there's a subtle chord-change. This IS the poppy post-Bend Sinister burbling and it's AWESOME. And wow, that vocal echo thing! Playing with content AND form here. I'd not expected something quite so righteously joyful! It's still heavy; the bass and drums ensure that. But it's also a romp, a blast, perhaps the blinding chords of the Ketamine Sun shining onto our damned forms. I can't quite explain how bizarre this song's alchemy is. OH SHIT! The power-chord middle section!!! What's happened to The Fall?! This is completely insane! And then the guitar builds beneath, the bass changes, and MES comes back in...it's maybe one of my favourite 5 Fall moments so far? Hahahahaha, this band NEVER fails to amaze me. WOW. This has rapidly become one of the best pop songs I've ever had the privilege to hear. And there's still over a minute left!!! It's all going a bit Complicated Game. I ain't complaining. FUCK. I have no more rational argument about this. Why isn't it automatically mentioned every time the Peel Sessions are brought up? Beautiful solo during the fade-out too. YES

Anyway, here's my ballot. Hurricane Edward was fucking ROBBED my friends! Go on, give it another listen, it's the end of time

Bonkers In Phoenix
Hurricane Edward
Winter
Weather Report 2
Hip Priest
Garden
Gross Chapel - British Grenadiers
New Puritan
Australians In Europe
4 1/2 Inch
Ol' Gang
Blindness
Octo Realm/Ketamine Sun
The Crying Marshall
Two Librans
Paintwork
Hexen Definitive/Strife Knot
Midwatch 1953
50 Year-Old Man
Eat Y'Self Fitter

I tend to go for the dare I say 'more avant-garde' sort of Fall song - things like Hit The North and Totally Wired may reach me eventually - certainly I'm not going to make a distinction between 'interesting Fall' and 'boring Fall' because it's all part of the same creative process, really

REALLY REGRET NOT VOTING FOR:

Mexico Wax Solvent
The Birmingham School Of Business School
Antidotes

i forgot to vote for "autralians", stupid considering i made room for most every other would-be pop hit

it does look like a whopping great pop anomaly in my ballot doesn't it. but it's an unbelievably intense, bizarre and plain fucken rocknroll pop song, it's a righteous pop maelstrom