Just a simple song but God I love it Embedded in me, so bittersweet I’m addicted, I’m a melancholic Sing it again, I’ll be your Poll forever: THE BOO RADLEYS - ILM artist poll #60 or new numbering #65

Tomorrow is an amazing cover. I love it when bands pick songs to cover which could easily have been written by themselves. This (and to an extent Zoom), really do sound like Boo Radleys songs. I've not really heard the original mind you. Vaguely recall being shown Bugsy back in primary school but I was only about 5 and couldn't really understand it.

'Naomi' off Every Heaven is great, 'Tortoiseshell' is quite good, the other two tracks I probably hadn't listened to in over 20 years until this poll.

That looked like "There she goes" got two votes on the "Cover Versions" rundown, up there...

I'm glad that you making a mistake means Boo! Forever has more votes Bee. Had it high on my list. The title track is such an amazing song.

I'll admit I only ever played the "Learning to walk" once. Liked "Boo Faith", but.

i didn't know 'boo forever' was named after a richard brautigan poem

Good work Bee!

"Tomorrow" is a worthy winner, even though I voted "There She Goes". The original by The La's gets played quite a lot (often in advertisements) but in my opinion the Boos cover is better!

The top singles/EPs poll was a very difficult one. I didn't even notice until now that I hadn't picked any pre-Giant Steps era singles or EPs... "Boo! Forever" or "Every Heaven" could easily have made it on my list. I'm a bit disappointed to see "Barney & Me" only at #12 though - it's up there with my favourites (but not #1). "Barney & Me" is a cracking pop song, "Tortoiseshell" is weird but very cool (although the version that's on "Every Heaven" is better), "Zoom" is an excellent cover, and "Cracked Lips, Homesick" is just a lovely little acoustic song.

Will comment on the top albums and tracks later...

Ha, I never noticed that about "Tortoiseshell"

sorry everyone, this poll was suppose to start around five hours ago, something came up. it should be on track on Friday and it looks like now Saturday.

on top of all that i lost my phone or i should say it stopped working, so today has not been my day.

That looked like "There she goes" got two votes on the "Cover Versions" rundown, up there...

not sure how this is happening, i'm using excel. but you are right, so two songs got two votes.

Ha, I never noticed that about "Tortoiseshell"

Never noticed what?

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10. Kingsize
From: Kingsize (Promo only)
Released: 1998 Canceled
70 Points, 2 Votes, 1 Number One

Featuring:

Kingsize
Tomorrow
Superintendent
Last Night I Dreamt Of God.

i know i wanted to vote for the Kingsize single but didn't have room in my Top 7.

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9. I Hang Suspended
From: Giant Steps
Released: 1993
91 Points, 3 Votes, 1 Number One

Featuring:

I Hang Suspended
Rodney King (St. Etienne Remix)
As Bound As Tomorrow
I Will Always Ask Where You Have Been Even Though I Know The Answer.

cool the opening post has been modified, thanks mods.

I seem to recall IHS was my #1, even though I probably don't need to hear the 'A-side' again. The other tracks are kinda bonkers and fresh-sounding to this day IMHO, my criteria for greatness, seemingly.

i don't remember the remix but those other two songs are solid.

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8. Wake Up Boo!
From: Wake Up!
Released: 1995
93 Points, 3 Votes, 1 Number One

Featuring:

CD1:

Wake Up Boo!
Janus
Blues For George Michael
Friendship Song

CD2:

Wake Up Boo! Music For Astronauts
And Tomorrow The World
The History Of Creation Parts 17 & 36.

i tried to listen to all the singles before this poll but was not able to. started from the beginning and only got through the Giant Steps singles. so i only remember these songs from Wake Up Boo and didn't make my ballot. wonder how it would have turned out if i did listen to everything again.

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7. Ride The Tiger
From: C’mon Kids
Released: 1996 (CRE248)
94 Points, 3 Votes

Featuring

CD1:

Ride The Tiger
Vote You
A Part I Know So Well
Everything Is Sorrow (Grantby Mix)

CD2:

Roadie
Safe At Home
C’mon Kids (Mekon Mix)

Excellent

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6. Boo Up! EP
From: Stand alone single and also on Learning To Walk
Released: 1991 (Rough Trade)
109 Points, 3 Votes, 1 Number One

Featuring:

Everybird
Sometime Soon She Said
Foster’s Van
Song For Up!

my number two so i'm happy with this ranking. also the highest of the three Rough Trade singles.

all three made this countdown and got votes.

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5. Wish I Was Skinny
From: Giant Steps
Released: 1993 (CRE169)
132 Points, 4 Votes, 1 Number One

Featuring:

Wish I Was Skinny
Peachy Keen
Furthur
Crow Eye.

This one is kind of the opposite of "I Hang Suspended" in my wee brain. Luv the title track beyond all rationality, but never got much mileage out of the 'B-sides'.

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4. Boo! Forever
From: Everything’s Alright Forever
Released: 1992 (CRE128)
135 Points, 5 Votes

Featuring:

Does This Hurt?
Boo! Forever
Buffalo Bill
Sunfly II: Walking With The Kings.

mistake corrected. 5 votes but no number one.

Some of my favourite B-sides on those singles. Peachy Keen, Roadie and Boo! Forever are all amazing songs.

Okay, Carr would be happier with that placing. :P

On the other hand, LOL...

@Martin_Carr: "There were a couple of things that made me cringe they were so bad. Adrenalin ep, some b-sides, first bc albums. Yikes."

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3. From The Bench At Belvedere
From: Stand alone single
Released: 1995 (CRE214)
142 Points, 4 Votes, 1 Number One

Featuring:

From the Bench at Belvidere
Hi Falutin’
Crushed
Almost Nearly There

my number 1. the bookends is what sets it apart.

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2. Adrenalin EP
From: Everything’s Alright Forever
Released: 1992 (CRE124)
144 Points, 5 Votes

Featuring:

Lazy Day
Vegas
Feels Like Tomorrow
Whiplashed

This is the moment I got on the wagon as a schoolkid. Not at all sure what aspects might be so conspicuously inferior, in Carr's estimation.

i don't get it either. i love those songs and i did vote for it but was number 7.

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1. Lazarus
From: Giant Steps
Released: 1992 (CRE137) (CRE187) (American - CSK6205)
160 Points, 5 Votes, 1 Number One

Featuring:

Original:

Lazarus
Let Me Be Your Faith
At The Sound Of Speed
Petroleum.

Remix singles:

Lazarus
(I Wanna Be) Touchdown Jesus
Lazarus (Secret Knowledge Mix)
Lazarus (Ultramarine Radio Mix)
Lazarus (Acoustic)
Lazarus (St. Etienne Mix)
Lazarus (Secret Knowledge Mix)
Lazarus (Ultramarine Radio Mix)
Lazarus (Augustus Pablo Mix)
Lazarus (12” Mix)

The Lazarus EP (American promo):

Lazarus (The Flood Remix, Edit}
(I Wanna Be) Touchdown Jesus
At The Sound Of Speed
Lazarus (Acoustic)
Peachy Keen (Acoustic)
Lazarus (The Flood Remix)

the original Lazarus is a deserving winner as i love that EP.

Martin is right about those first Brave Captain albums. They're not great.

Results so far:

Cover Songs:

8 Ballots received
6 Different Songs

Tomorrow (2 Votes)
There She Goes (2 Votes)

Boo! Faith
Alone Again Or
The Queen Is Dead
One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later)

Singles/EP's:

7 Ballots received
15 Different Singles/EP's

Ranking, Song, Votes, Number 1's (if any):

1. Lazarus 160 - 5 - 1
2. Adrenalin EP 144 - 5
3. From the Bench At Belvidere 142 - 4 - 1
4. Boo! Forever 135 - 5
5. Wish I Was Skinny 132 - 4 - 1
6. Boo Up! EP 109 - 3 - 1
7. Ride The Tiger 94 - 3
8. Wake Up Boo! 93 - 3 - 1
9. I Hang Suspended 91 - 3 - 1
10. Kingsize 70 - 2 - 1
11. Every Heaven EP 69 - 2
12. Barney (...and Me) 66 - 2
13. What’s In the Box (See Whatcha Got) 59 - 2
14. Kaleidoscope EP 58 - 2
15. Find The Answer Within 56 - 2

hey Bee OK. okay, I'll concede you Jimmy Webb. Never enjoyed Comb Your Hair. Sice sounds like he's straining and a bit bored at the same time, and I remember thinking it reminded me too much of 'Something Changed' by Pulp, although listening back they don't really.

In A Galaxy Far Far Away does the same job as Future Is Now, but is about 2 or 3 minutes shorter.

I'll put Jimmy Webb at track 3. I also have Spanish Lizards in there, which you might not be able to hear for the same reason as IAGFFA

I feel like this album has a lot of songs that are structurally and musically quite similar. 'Adieu Clo Clo', 'Eurostar', 'Comb Your Hair' and possibly a few others are earnest mid-tempo ballads about longing and yearning, with Sice doing this anthemic falling cadence that should be very beautiful but is hampered slightly by the production of the time'.

I believe "Jimmy Webb" was Martin Carr's favourite, and also "Comb your hair" Was why he split the band, the inevitability of going out and promoting it as "the third single"..

did he not like the song, or was it something otherwise?

I get the remarks about some tracks being a little similar tempo-wise in the second half, but I'd leave the tracklisting as is. Free Huey b-sides brilliant too, but not sure they fit

Xpost I believe he didn't like it much.

I could guess why, but I'd be guessing.

"Comb Your Hair" is what broke up the Boo Radleys? what a strange concept. i actually love the song to death. it felt like a single, so hearing it would have been the third seems to make so much sense to me. it's all about being at the place where you start to figure thing out, song is very catchy. "Comb Your Hair">>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>"Free Huey," the only song i actually dislike. i would have been ok as an off album single but sort of ruined the album.

"remember how i used to be, my energy"

a lot of nostalgia on this album. remembering those good times in life, especially with the lads.

I don't think it broke them up, just lead to Martin doing it then, rather than after.

In the highly unlikely event one of the four or five people who write on this thread is on ILX right now and reading this, please answer this question (if you can):
In 'Naomi' (off the Every Heaven EP from 91) is the repeated lyric in the blizzard of noise towards the end "Am I still dreaming again?" or "I must be dreaming again"?

i just dung out the EP and played it on my old stereo system, sounded so nice. i believe Sice is singing "I Must Be Dreaming" with dreaming being stretched out. will see what other's think he is saying.

*dug, one day i will actually read my post before posting.

Cheers

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Currently the little clarinet solo in "Best Lose The Fear" is my favourite few seconds of music

I've been thinking to myself that I'd like to get some of my favourite Boo Sides cut to a one-off vinyl. But which ones, and in which order?

Started making a longlist and given the quality of their non-album work, it's hard to pare down to just two sides.

I've decided to forego most of the early shoegaze era, not because I don't like it (I do very much), but because I have most of the early EPs and a lot of that material appeared on Learning To Walk (pleeeease someone re-release this!)

Ideally, I'd do some nice editing so the tracks kind of flow together nicely as a suite, a bit like on Giant Steps.

This is what I have so far. Not sure which of these darlings I'd kill

...And Tomorrow The World
Blues For George Michael
Friendship Song
Sunfly II: Walking With The Kings
I Will Always Ask You Where You've Been Even Though I Know The Answer
Let Me Be Your Faith
From The Bench At Belvedere
Annie & Marnie
Nothing To Do But Scare Myself
Spanish Lizards
Wallpaper
Superintendent
Tomorrow
Put Your Arms Around Me And Tell Me Everything's Going To Be Okay
Almost Nearly There
In A Galaxy Far Far Away

Might have to drop either "I Will Always Ask You" or "Nothing To Do But Scare Myself" as they pull similar tricks.

"In A Galaxy" is a nice final track and I would have preferred it as a closer to Kingsize. But maybe there are too many "final-sounding" tracks here. Is "Put Your Arms" too similar to "Almost Nearly There"? But which is best?; they're both great!