The Name of This POLL Is...- ILM artist poll #82 - TALKING HEADS - (voting is open until Sunday March 26, 2017)

I Hate People When They're Not POLL-ite

I'd suggest something close to

POLL up the roots

But it might be confusing for future ILX searchers

will send a ballot tomorrow, btw

POLL to Nowhere

They think they know what's best
They're making a POLL of us
They like to laugh at people
They're making a bad example

Poll Polls About Polling And Polls

We've heard this little scene, we've heard it many times.
People fighting over little things and wasting precious time.
They might be better off I think the way it seems to me.
Making up their own POLLs, which might be better than T.V.

but these are not real, ufo otm etc

Uh-Oh, POLL Comes To Town
This Must Be The POLL

one of these

POLLs can hurt you too

I Wouldn't Live Here If You POLLED Me.

High on the hillside, the trucks are loading. Everything's ready to POLL

This Must Be The POLL

only acceptable option besides ufo's suggestion IMO

The POLLverload

Divine, to define, she is moving to define, so say POLL, so say POLL

The POLLS Want to Be With the POLLS

Sent! Couldn't do a solo tracks ballot, & I'm not at all convinced of the lower reaches of my album picks. Really looking forward to the rollout!

Letting the POLLS go by

POLLS are simple, POLLS are straight

someone needs to let Balls and Some Dude and ... know that this is the last weekend to vote. starting to miss so of our better peeps on this board.

soME

work asked me today if i could come in next week and throw some OT at me. i did think about delaying this poll for one week but decided not to. so this will be the last weekend to vote.

(i'm also probably getting a promoting in the next billing cycle which does start that next week)

could not delay this, it was too important.

Just voted.

last weekend to vote and here is some inspiration:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wp2qhoop9U

just found this vid and now having serious voter's remorse at not having voted for it
https://youtu.be/DFeforW2ycI

Bee OK - do what you need to do. Talking Heads polls can wait

I came to the conclusion the other day that TH are my favourite all time musical act. More than Autechre or the Boo Radleys or Scott Walker or even the Beach Boys or any if the bands I harp on about round here. I became a fan after seeing SMS back in 2006 and the visceral requirement for them to be in my life has never waivered. There's little else out there that sums up how I feel about the world. TH are basically my life #drunkpostofcourse

Funny, out of this thread I was saying like a week ago to musician friend that TH are my concept of a cool rock band and that a 1980 show is like my platonic ideal of awesome concert, that'll be my show in heaven.

ha ha

i hate to break it to you hunt3r, but heaven is a place, where nothing....

oh nm

song where nothing happens

Remain in Light TOWERS over the rest of their discography except the live records at least to me.

yet live remain in light songs are the worst, not including crosseyed and painless of course

ugh, I really hate 'Heaven'. Will anyone rep for it? A real stumbling block right near the beginning of SMS too, which I almost always skip

Heaven is fine on Fear of Music and The Name of this Band but doesn't really play to any of their strengths, they can do a lot better than just 'fine'. The only one of the stripped down songs I like at the start of SMS is Psycho Killer, Thank You For Sending Me An Angel is especially hurt by the lack of the second guitar.

Heaven is wonderful, especially the SMS version.
it's the lyric/the song that counts there, arrangement is secondary.

POLL To Nowhere
This Must Be The POLL
- my choices

I Wouldn't Live There If You POLLed Me
Uh-Oh, POLL Comes To Town
- hilarious as well, but less universally known as titles, therefore less effective at a first glance.

Know what's great on The Name Of This Band? Memories Can't Wait.

I'm listening to Fear Of Music today. I really love about half the songs on here while finding the other lot a bit ploddy and dirgey. I really don't understand things like Paper and Electric Guitar. Mind is growing on me, but for me TH are at their best when they're not trying to be all dark and postpunky.
And yeah I just really dislike Heaven. Might have something to do with how it shares a lot of melodic similarities with 'It's A Kind Of Magic' (unintentional of course because the Queen song came out later), still it just does nothing for me.
Still, Air, Animals, Cities and Life During Wartime are alltime TH for me.
It took me ages to work out that Byrne wasn't singing 'Air in her tutu'. It bugged me so much I had to look up the lyric online.

You need something that will change your mind?

(Miiiiiiiiind)

ugh, I really hate 'Heaven'. Will anyone rep for it?

wtf

I am revoking yr fan card asap

top 5 easy

I love "Heaven." I even recently citied the chorus in an essay I wrote on the Mary Gaitskill short story of the same name. If the music is "boring," it is for the explicit purpose of matching the lyrical content--the band performing as the band in a Heaven "where nothing ever happens."

I'm still shuffling my ballot around (and relistening to some of the later albums that I had never bothered with before, just to be sure), but "Heaven" is going to be way up there.

y'all better list "Listening Wind."

no room :(

Heaven was top 10 for me. I didn't specify a version.

voted!

If I had specified versions my ballot would basically look like the tracklist from Stop Making Sense. I love that movie, way more than any of the albums. I haven't heard The Name of This Band though, for whatever reason.

if you like SMS I think you'd love TNOFBITH, although I adore SMS for the sheer performance of it. Still need to see Live In Rome 1980

Voted.