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

haha, ILx: You have posted 10,000 messages

Wow, what a milestone.

i was thinking about adding Super Furry Animals

― Bee OK, Saturday, May 9, 2015 2:22 AM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This would be brilliant!

SFA would be great indeed, they're the only modern band that come close to the brilliance of The Boos. I'd definitely vote in that poll.

Wilder ..... and the way the Pet Soundsy train bell gets cut off. I adore that bit.

visions of martin carr singing "I need to have something to keep me on my feet" with an acoustic guitar to an empty factory hall.

if anyone is interested, i will make a Spotify of the Top 40.

still so proud of this poll, my crown achievement on ILM and i did the Steely Dan and New Order polls.

I liked it much more than I thought I would.

The one poll ballot that had a 'should we do this' poll.

if I recall, the answer is no.

iirc that was a response to my Blur poll. Some dude got a bee in his bonnet about me doing an artist poll as a ballot thing and the whole never-ending list for the schedule of artist polls was born as a result. In part of the row/discussion about this, I think the idea of a Boo Radleys was floated as an example of a ridiculous thing that nobody would be interested in. And then some people said they would be. And then a poll was held. And most people were against the idea. And then a great deal of time passed. And then the poll actually happened. And it was good.

Yeah, so ner to that lot.

The one poll ballot that had a 'should we do this' poll.

ha, i found it: Boo Radleys Tracks Poll - Interested or not?

13 people said they would vote and 21 end up voting...success!

haha, cleaning out the closet (or artwork that didn't make this poll):

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/u1QWr5nKX4-HZbStQkLaSCwR100rUpb5E_3hunsvgGc=w1024-h768-no
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/vtiN9HEepOe1FIR7jHKol6VlAmhnxSiLjK_-n4ikwE8=w600-h597-no
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/EHwY59yn9tbaFFQpz7C8jdWvHC85kcfne8AZjqkqonA=w600-h590-no
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/HRoteOshA8KDoPklPcx7TI7rk9B-xFe2CgikvfJ-LpU=w1024-h768-no
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/U57zAzJSKcfuFupP6gtZNM5xdZLdx8_uVkuMwzoY4hA=s600-no
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/bwx6lnya2rBLNX5wBlMJUIdcnEYCpU4Etw6WpZ2n5ao=w950-h911-no
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/rZIJ9AosE5Bc67jEIvt-thTircerbA8CIJQ7pSWwW6g=s582-no
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/2keWEfTr2-GbPjeIHODv-TmE8XVXC3IO9LJiCqZ5AsE=w598-h600-no
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/2IUm126wC6ZdJ9uxylVm1vu5htZqLn7fPv1rml1B_y4=w600-h521-no
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/U_lQLjvnUlUUYKV2Jp4_hFahBHNF74va2LKkF0-58Ko=w593-h600-no

seems there is a 10 image limit:

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/sXpi25sYLdW0ZGwR6kya6WnK55sgjg4ZavTHjMjtcPw=w599-h597-no
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/wnN-eNhsvW_wSr8AO0neNJe1UrFqUFitiQvgGpXre8k=w599-h604-no
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/f6lSiu5Ed_DGESV39t2F_ZKe38U-Vt5mzqFap2Aszso=w538-h534-no
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/dvpZB00nrdXc5kSH7BsBEzRD96sW9jqcm7-rVvJ8a5A=w501-h497-no

Yeah, I got that last one along with the full album promo (looks identical to that except the track listing) about a month ahead of release.

have to update thread as results have fallen off page:

Full Results:

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, Single/EP, Points, Votes, Number Ones (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

Albums:

9 Ballots received
10 Different Albums:

Ranking, Album, Points, Votes, Number Ones (if any):

1. Giant Steps 338 Points, 9 Votes, 5 Number ones
2. Everything’s Alright Forever 281 Points, 9 Votes
3. Kingsize 263 Points, 8 Votes, 2 Number Ones
4. C’mon Kids 258 Points, 8 Votes, 1 Number One
5. Wake Up! 243 Points, 8 Votes
6. Ichabod and I 134 Points, 5 Votes
7. Learning To Walk 128 Points, 4 Votes, 1 Number One
8. Eggman - First Fruits 82 Points, 3 Votes

9. Brave Captain Advertisements For Myself 28 Points, 1 Vote
10. Martin Carr - The Breaks 24 Points, 1 Vote

Songs:

21 Ballots received
98 Different Songs:

Ranking, Song, Points, Votes, Number Ones (if any):

1. Lazarus 641 Points, 19 Votes, 6 Number Ones
2. I Hang Suspended 455 Points, 15 Votes
3. Butterfly McQueen 398 Points, 13 Votes
4. Wish I Was Skinny 387 Points, 13 Votes
5. From The Bench At Belvedere 374 Points, 11 Votes, 1 Number One
6. New Brighton Promenade 362 Points, 12 Votes
7. Lazy Day 348 Points, 11 Votes
8. Kingsize 343 Points, 11 Votes, 1 Number One
9. Reaching Out From Here 324 Points, 10 Votes
10. Firesky 308 Points, 10 Votes
11. I've Lost The Reason 306 Points, 10 Votes
12. Stuck On Amber 294 Points, 9 Votes, 1 Number One
13. Spaniard 272 Points, 9 Votes
14. The Old Newsstand at Hamilton Square 261 Points, 10 Votes
15. Does This Hurt? 260 Points, 10 Votes
16. Rodney King (Song for Lenny Bruce) One Vote For: Rodney King (St. Etienne Remix) 259 Points, 10 Votes
17. Bullfrog Green 246 Points, 9 Votes
18. Fairfax Scene 243 Points, 8 Votes
19. Everything Is Sorrow 241 Points, 9 Votes
20. Twinside 234 Points, 8 Votes
21. Ride the Tiger 228 Points, 8 Votes
22. Put Your Arms Around Me and Tell Me Everything's Going to Be OK 223 Points, 7 Votes
23. Upon 9th and Fairchild 221 Points, 8 Votes, 1 Number One
24. Four Saints 215 Points, 7 Votes
25. Smile Fades Fast 210 Points, 7 Votes, 1 Number One
26. Memory Babe 205 Points, 7 Votes
27. Naomi 199 Points, 7 Votes
28. Foster's Van 194 Points, 6 Votes
29. Best Lose the Fear 189 Points, 7 Votes
30. Heaven's at the Bottom of This Glass 187 Points, 7 Votes
31. C’mon Kids 183 Points, 6 Votes
32. Sometime Soon She Said 176 Points, 6 Votes
33. Everybird 170 Points, 6 Votes
34. Let Me Be Your Faith 161 Points, 6 Votes
35. Wake Up Boo! 160 Points, 5 Votes
36. Song For Up! 152, 5 Votes, 1 Number One
37. Boo! Forever 151 Points, 4 Votes, 1 Number One
38. Take The Time Around 150 Points, 5 Votes
39. Comb Your Hair 145 Points, 5 Votes
40. (Tie). Joel 138 Points, 4 Votes
40. (Tie). One Last Hurrah 138 Points, 5 Votes
If You Want It, Take It 134 - 4
Thinking of Ways 132 - 4
Friendship Song 126 - 4
Almost Nearly There 123 - 4
Kaleidoscope (One Vote for Ichabod & I version #1) 120 - 4 - 1
Furthur 115 - 4
Song for the Morning to Sing 115 - 4
Petroleum 108 - 4
Barney (…and me) 102 - 4
Eurostar 98 - 3
Wilder 93 - 3
Leaves And Sand 88 - 3
What's in the Box? (See Whatcha Got) 88 - 3
Get on the Bus 86 - 3
Skyscraper 86 - 3
Swansong 85 - 3
Find the Answer Within 83 - 3
The White Noise Revisited 83 - 3
Peachy Keen 82 - 3
Blues for George Michael 79 - 2 - 1 Number One
Jimmy Webb Is God 79 - 3
Room At The Top 77 3
Vegas 75 - 2
Blue Room In Archway 69 - 3
Annie and Marnie 68 - 3
Sparrow 67 - 2
Tortoiseshell 68 - 2
Vote You 65 - 2
As Bound as Tomorrow 63 - 2
Roadie 62 - 2
Safe at Home 61 - 3
Oh Brother 59 - 2
Paradise 59 - 2
Hi Falutin 58 - 2
4AM Conversation 56 - 2
Catweazle 56 - 2
Nothing To Do But Scare Myself 56 - 2
Charles Bukowski Is Dead 55 - 2
Towards the Light 55 - 2
Bodenheim Jr 54 - 2
Aldous 51 - 2
Melodies For The Deaf (Colours For The Blind) 39 - 2
The Future Is Now 29 - 1
High As Monkeys 29 - 1
Losing It (Song for Abigail) 29 - 1
Song from the Blueroom 29 - 1
The Finest Kiss 29 - 1
Spanish Lizards 22 - 1
Eleanor Everything 20 - 1
In a Galaxy Far, Far Away 19 - 1
Meltin's Worm 19 - 1
Superintendent 19 - 1
Crushed 18 - 1
I Feel Nothing 18 - 1
(I Wanna Be) Touchdown Jesus 17 - 1
I Will Always Ask You Where You've Been Even Though I Know The Answer 17 - 1
There She Goes 17 - 1

I'm still very confused as to why Blues For George Michael didn't even place.

it didn't make my ballot but i do believe that it was in my Top 30. i re-listened to everything before doing this poll. i think it was ranked pretty high but finally got pushed out in the end.

Happy ONE year anniversary poll! The poll i had the most fun running as this music is so, so good. To celebrate here is Finally the Spotify playlist:

ILM The Boo Radleys

i made a Spotify Top 50 list. the thing is not all songs are on Spotify, i think around seven were missing from the Top 40. the Spotify list is for the first 50 songs that are actually on Spotify.

i have a bunch of these playlist from ILM artist polls that is listen to but i really play this Boo Radleys playlist, by far, the most and it really isn't even close. it trips me out how good they are and how they don't even get close to the respect that they deserve.

https://open.spotify.com/user/beeok/playlist/51IuwMpvkvO5ih212anqCW

"Bills and heartburn, pills and soaps
And flicking through the books that you've read before
Tears come easy, words come hard
But there really isn't much to say no more"

Every once in a while, I avail myself of one of those deluxe sets.

I found 'C'mon kids' to be perfectly fine, even though I only played it twice back in the day and preferred the b-sides of the time.

Even 'Wake up' was like meeting an old friend I'd had too much of back then.

I might track down "Giant Steps" but I have too many already (the 2lp, the CD the Japanese one, the promo) but then again, hey.

Its just a shame the 'Kingsize' one was a bunt, and there isn't a 'Everything's alright forever' one, let alone a 'Ichabod' one.

'Learning to crawl' should be a three disc set plus additional peel sessions - You know it.

Oh, and I do have those 'Giant Steps' demos someplace, but they noisy!

We finally get a Spotify playlist after all this time? Sweet!

a Learning to Walk reissue would be a wonderful thing. I still consider it an album rather than a comp

Well, you're still wrong ;-)

Aye

if Learning to Walk was a proper album i would probably rank it third or fourth best. behind Kingsize, Giant Steps and probably C'Mon Kids.

This Spotify playlist is fucking amazing. Sad that the tracks from Learning To Walk are missing but it was expanded...

I listened to Wake Up the other day and was surprised to find that Martin Doom! It's 7 O'Clock was the standout this time round. It's a really great song, so I'm surprised it didn't feature in the poll at all. Did no one vote for it?

Spotify: ILM The Boo Radleys

since the band came up in the SFA thread today i decided to listen to the ILM playlist instead of an album. still so proud of this poll! this poll ended up getting 21 ballots which i didn't think would be possible really. on top of that, even though it is not my order, ILM did a fantastic job at picking songs. i put on this playlist on my way home from work today and say the Top 25 is top tier stuff, really impressed with this order. it really made me fall in love with this band all over again.

not to discount the rest of this playlist at all...

"Sad songs are easier to play, I'm afraid"

I have only voted in two of these artist polls that are done around here and this was one of them. It was fun reliving the 90s again and had a blast when this poll was live.

Thanks for reminding me of that Spotify!

I've been thinking about Kingsize really. Surprised by a lot of the results on this poll as it's missing a bunch of faves (Still sore about 'Blues For George Michael' not even placing). 'Lazarus' is a great song, but I wouldn't call the EPs essential.

And also Kingsize placing third in the albums above C'mon Kids and Wake Up! I'd almost forgotten this album existed. Its release was so muted and the single Free Huey was so horrid, it put a pall over it for a long time for me. Plus very few of the songs seem to have placed in the upper reaches of the tracks poll.

But I've been thinking about it again recently. Decided to dig it out. Like C'mon Kids, but unlike Wake Up!, it suffers from production that dates it considerably. That Aphex Twin snare rush on Blue Room In Archway is almost comedically 1998, and there are bits where you can tell they'd been told by someone to 'make it sound more like Be Here Now'.

It's also a little bit too long and out-stays its welcome by about two songs.

Still, production aside, it has some great tunes. I figured it would be fun to play around with the tracklisting and invoke God Mode on it. Shame ''Put Your Arms Around Me And Tell Me Everything's Okay' isn't on Spotify or I'd have found a way to include that:

1. Blue Room In Archway
2. The Old Newsstand At Hamilton Square
3. Kingsize
4. She Is Everywhere
5. High As Monkeys
6. Eurostar
7. Spanish Lizards
8. Adieu Clo Clo
9. Monuments For a Dead Century
10. Song From The Blueroom
11. In A Galaxy Far, Far Away

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5HEFXCBuXwxfSPTqrurLoD?si=uUzIEpSaRl2QZhc2WVAyoQ

And here's where you shout at me for taking off Heaven's At The Bottom Of This Glass and Future Is Now

"Put Your Arms Around Me and Tell Me Everything's Going To Be OK"

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Bee OK (username) as i thought it was going to be the very last new song i would ever hear by them. turns out there were some "Kingsize" B-sides that were yet to come my way.

i'm going to have to pour me a glass of wine and listen to your tack listing. i could live without "The Future is Now" as that always sounded like a b-side to me and out of place on this album. i would have to add back "Jimmy Webb is God" as that is where i got the title for this thread. more to come...

xpost you could have ended up being "Superintendent "

Apparently Martin wanted 'The Future Is Now' as the first single (!?!) But Alan McGee said 'not on your nellie'

I'm starting to think I should have kept in 'Jimmy Webb'. Such a simple song, but God is it fawning, and the swirling orchestra at the end sounds quite a bit lower budget than what I imagine they had in mind.

Oh shit, Oh wait I forgot about the Kingsize B-Sides. Some of those are fantastic. Sadly they're not on Spotify so I can't include them :-( I'd definitely include their version of Tomorrow.

Anyone know if the 'Find A Way Out' compilation ever got released on vinyl?

i bought the CD version of Find the Way Out because i wanted a copy of "Tomorrow" and some of those early songs that were never on CD. i also love those Kingsize B-sides and still don't own it. i have been looking for years for it but have never been able to score a copy of that single.

i listened to your version of this and overall it's a better album but have an issue with a few things. because "Kingsize" is the pinnacle song on the album, i think it being third is just too soon. they have it sixth track on the original listing and to me that makes the most sense. i already talked about how i would have to include "Jimmy Web is God" but i also feel "Comb Your Hair" is such a good song that it should have been a single. to be clear, i actually really like "The Future is Now" it just sounds sort of out of place on this album and is not a great closer. i do love that you end with "Song from the Blueroom," that makes so much sense to me.

check that, you actually end with " In a Galaxy Far, Far Away." i'm in America and that song is grayed out and didn't play. i can't remember the song off the top of my head, will have to dig out my CD single and see it that make sense as an ending to me.

fun exercise Dog Latin, i might have to do something like this on the 25th anniversary or something...

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'.