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

20 Xmas with Simon

you rule

re: levitate, I wanted to vote for both Eve and Hurricane Ed, but in the end only Eve made the cut, mostly for the breathtaking transition to the hallucinatory 'if only the shards. could relocate. back. in place.' moment

Feeling da croupier's ballot for "Old White Train" and especially, uh, "Words of Expectation."

1 Words Of Expectation
2 Hotel Bloedel
3 Gut Of The Quantifier
4 I Feel Voxish
5 Job Search
6 And This Day
7 Leave The Capitol
8 Impression Of J. Temperance
9 Weather Report 2
10 Room To Live
11 Y.F.O.C. - Slippy Floor
12 Prole Art Threat
13 New Puritan
14 Dr. Bucks' Letter
15 Paint-Work
16 City Hobgoblins
17 Big New Prinz
18 Service
19 Blindness
20 Spinetrak

Really, though, that whole long list just gives me a nice warm feeling inside. Favorite discoveries of poll research: "Bremen Nacht" and "4 1/2 Inch."

Updated Spotify link (w/ correct "Deer Park" placing) is here.

1. Bremen Nacht
2. Leave the Capitol
3. Frightened
4. Cruiser’s Creek
5. Hip Priest
6. Sing!Harpy
7. Container Drivers
8. New Face In Hell
9. Repetition
10. Shift-Work
11. Don’t Call Me Darling
12. Feeling Numb
13. Telephone Thing
14. Ten Houses of Eve
15. Psykick Dancehall
16. No Bulbs
17. Totally wired
18. Lost In Music
19. Eat Y’Self Fitter
20. 50 year old man

REGRET NOT VOTING FOR:

Contraflow
It’s a Curse

Thanks for the Spotify link.

I think you have two of the tracks as 'local' i.e. on your laptop/whatever. (Paintwork and Cruisers Creek), which means 'we' can't access them.

Only 4 of these ended up in the top 20. Either I have really dopey taste in Fall songs or, as Hincklepicker suggested, this poll would come out vastly different every few months (or maybe both).
Looking over all the other votes, I could make a few completely different top 20s that I'd still like more than most other bands' music.
Whatta group!

1 Slates, Slages, Etc
2 New Big Prinz
3 Container Drivers
4 Frenz
5 Hit The North
6 Bill Is Dead
7 Bremen Nacht Alternative
8 Vixen
9 CnC Hassle Schmuck
10 The NWRA
11 Telephone Thing
12 Paint Work
13 Glam Racket
14 Kurious Oranj
15 The Chislers
16 Can Can Summer
17 Touch Sensitive
18 Victoria
19 Eat Yrself Fitter
20 Sparta 2XX

I think you have two of the tracks as 'local' i.e. on your laptop/whatever. (Paintwork and Cruisers Creek), which means 'we' can't access them.

Thanks, fixed it!

Looking over all the other votes, I could make a few completely different top 20s that I'd still like more than most other bands' music.
Whatta group!

OTM

me too

Everybody needs to give a good (re-)listen to "Before The Moon Falls":

01 Wings
02 Before The Moon Falls
03 Winter
04 The Man Whose Head Expanded
05 Take An Older Lover
06 Fantastic Life
07 Various TImes
08 Leave The Capitol
09 New Puritans
10 C'n'C-S Mithering
11 Gut Of The Quantifier
12 Hip Priest
13 Sparta FC
14 No Bulbs
15 Bill Is Dead
16 Who Makes The Nazis
17 Paintwork
18 Spinetrak
19 I'm Into C.B.!
20 Totally Wired

These are my selections wot didn't make it:

7. It's The New Thing
11. Hexen Definitive/Strife Knot
17. Flat of Angles
18. I Am Damo Suzuki
19. Disney's Dream Debased
20. Ludd Gang

Some not that far out of contention, I see. But I'm quite alone with my "It's the New Thing" luv.

I did this:

01. Smile
02. City Hobgoblins
03. Athlete Cured
04. Guest Informant
05. Gut of the Quantifier
06. Lay of the Land
07. 2x4
08. I Feel Voxish
09. Bremen Nacht (LP version)
10. Totally Wired
11. Frightened
12. The Steak Place
13. Hexen Definitive/Strife Knot
14. The Classical
15. The Man Whose Head Expanded
16. New Face In Hell
17. I Am Damo Suzuki
18. Shoulder Pads #1B
19. Riddler!
20. Bill Is Dead

..but really agonized over some of the tracks I left off.

Also, NO ONE else voted for Shoulder Pads?!? What is wrong with you people etc.?

i know, i wrestled w myself over that one. since i tried to skew pop, i should have made room. it really is a favorite. hey! luciani too. tbh, i cruelly shortchanged bend sinister/domesday payoff, my real first fall LP.

New Face in Hell
How I Wrote 'Elastic Man'
Rowche Rumble
Leave the Capitol
Flat of Angles
Psykick Dancehall
LA
An Older Lover etc.
Container Drivers
Jawbone and the Air-Rifle
Lie Dream Of a Casino Soul
Bonkers in Phoenix
4 1/2 Inch
Before the Moon Falls
Iceland
Wings
Fiery Jack
Hurricane Edward
Winter
Kicker Conspiracy

Total points by year:

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b356/olem/ilx_The_Fall_points_by_year_zps006e9f47.png

Dates generally assigned by first appearance of studio version on album or single, or of live album release when no studio version exists. Exceptions/notes:
-- "Blindness", "Job Search": 2004 Peel session broadcast date used.
-- "Stepping Out": Taken as the 1978 Live at the Electric Circus track.
-- "Session Musician": Date of live recording (1981) used, rather than 2005 live album release.
-- "Antidotes": As the Peel session is specified, assigned to 1998 (date of broadcast) rather than 1999 (when it appeared on The Marshall Suite).
-- "Hot Cake": Taken as the 2010 album track, as the 2009 single track has a "Part 2" in the title.

That's pretty far from SD

"Container Drivers" and "Dr Faustus" also twice in list, the former should thus be pushed up to #21 if I calculate correctly.

Also "2 x 4".

Number of tracks per year:

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b356/olem/ilx_The_Fall_count_by_year_zps5538bde3.png

Average score of each track by year:

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b356/olem/ilx_The_Fall_avg_by_year_zps232c2459.png

where the hell is fizzles??

Good question. Might be under cosh at work?

feel like i haven't had time to sit in this thread.

I enjoyed glancing at every ballot and thinking 'yes, great ballot'. In other polls I think, 'no, come on, really?'; not here.

Thinking I should have done a post-90 or 95 ballot myself. I've enjoyed listening to that end more.

Funny how even a band as long-lived and multi-faceted as the Fall emerges with a huge emphasis on the early years.

That IS interesting.
Even though many (most?) of us have loads of time for much of their last 30 years, I guess when push comes to shove...

Most bands' golden 'early years' don't last as long as that though.

The longer the fall go on for, the longer time period the "early years" takes up.

^^^ well put

where the hell is fizzles??

― Flat Of NAGLs (sleeve), Thursday, May 2, 2013 4:42 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yes, don't fizzle out, this thread needs you

Forgot to thank Mark for taking on the mammoth task of a fall ballot.

fizzles has taken a pilgrimage to marcelo trotta's birthplace which he will desecrate with two sainsbury's shopping bags of his own excrement iirc

Having a "Fall" time...

Kinda look back bore