I'm concerned that's going to be Sarah's only entry.
― Alba, Thursday, 13 December 2018 14:09 (five years ago) link
wow i thought this one would be much higher, it's right up with their very best. it builds so well the whole way through but when it really gets going in the middle section when the synth line comes in is fantastic
― ufo, Thursday, 13 December 2018 14:09 (five years ago) link
Huh. A #1 vote even...
― enochroot, Thursday, 13 December 2018 14:11 (five years ago) link
Dress Up In You would be a lot higher if I'd voted. A LOT higher.
― frame casual (dog latin), Thursday, 13 December 2018 14:19 (five years ago) link
“i didn’t see it coming” is way too low
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 13 December 2018 14:20 (five years ago) link
dress up in you was my #6. the least life pursuit-y track on life pursuit. the horn solo kills me (a theme on my ballot)
― big crime for a SPECIAL WHATEVER (voodoo chili), Thursday, 13 December 2018 14:20 (five years ago) link
both way too low!!
― resident hack (Simon H.), Thursday, 13 December 2018 14:21 (five years ago) link
Voted for I Didn't See It Coming, easily the best thing on that Write About Love, have not heard that remix before, not bad but not a patch on the original IMO
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 13 December 2018 14:24 (five years ago) link
i thought "i didn't see it coming" would show up somewhere in the top 30, that's where that sort of late career highlight often falls, but i guess this band really just has too many good songs
― ufo, Thursday, 13 December 2018 14:25 (five years ago) link
http://i67.tinypic.com/1znu8g1.jpg
48. Jonathan David From Jonathan David (2001)Original promo videoPoints: 221 Votes: 12 #1 Votes: 0
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Thursday, 13 December 2018 14:28 (five years ago) link
ok I'm gonna have to stop myself from saying "too low!!" every time
― resident hack (Simon H.), Thursday, 13 December 2018 14:28 (five years ago) link
"beautiful" is prob my biggest "too low," i love everything about that song
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 13 December 2018 14:32 (five years ago) link
I have swung a few times between love and hate for this one, the harmonies in last minute or so are perfection, but afraid I find everything about the vocal/lyric sort of embarrassing for some reason.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 13 December 2018 14:33 (five years ago) link
glad people voted for "ease your feet into the sea" which fell off the edge of my ballot
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 13 December 2018 14:33 (five years ago) link
Obviously know the song and album but I still had to look up "Ease Your Feet," which I did not recognize by title alone.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 13 December 2018 14:36 (five years ago) link
looks like a lot of the ones people big-upped on the voting thread are placing around now...
― big crime for a SPECIAL WHATEVER (voodoo chili), Thursday, 13 December 2018 14:37 (five years ago) link
I was the #1 vote for "Didn't See it Coming". Easily my most listened song by them over the past...ten years? Perfect vocals!
― john. a resident of evanston. (john. a resident of chicago.), Thursday, 13 December 2018 14:38 (five years ago) link
http://i64.tinypic.com/hryf5s.jpg
47. Photo Jenny From Lazy Line Painter Jane (1997)Live at Bowlie Weekender, 1999Points: 228 Votes: 16 #1 Votes: 0
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Thursday, 13 December 2018 14:46 (five years ago) link
Just noticed it, but it sounds like Photo Jenny quotes "Wichita Lineman" with that guitar line at about 2:30?
― enochroot, Thursday, 13 December 2018 14:49 (five years ago) link
Didn't make my 30 but the way he sings "Get some fish and chips / La la la la la / What's on the box? 'Man about the house' with Paula Wilcox" is hard to beat.
― Alba, Thursday, 13 December 2018 14:50 (five years ago) link
Now this I expected to be much higher. Think perhaps the twee name / subject matter distracts from quite how good it is.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 13 December 2018 14:51 (five years ago) link
I've no idea what comment he's making about gender or sexuality in this song. Or really anything about what he's getting out apart from wanting a photo of Jenny.
― Alba, Thursday, 13 December 2018 14:52 (five years ago) link
love this song, also fell off of my ballot
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 13 December 2018 14:53 (five years ago) link
I Know Where the Summer Goes is too low! Delicious melancholy.
― Have the Rams stopped screaming yet, Lloris? (Chinaski), Thursday, 13 December 2018 14:56 (five years ago) link
the most obvious reading of 'photo jenny' to me is that it's from the perspective of a trans woman but it's not the clearest narrative
― ufo, Thursday, 13 December 2018 14:57 (five years ago) link
it's 1995, the girls are just friends
― J. Sam, Thursday, 13 December 2018 15:05 (five years ago) link
I love this one.
Didn't make my 30 but the way he sings "Get some fish and chips / La la la la la / What's on the box? 'Man about the house' with Paula Wilcox" is hard to beat.― Alba, Thursday, 13 December 2018 14:50 (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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I think out of all their songs this is the B&S moment that pops into my head most frequently.
― Gavin, Leeds, Thursday, 13 December 2018 15:05 (five years ago) link
the girls are holding handsdon't be a foolit's 1995, the girls are just friends
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 13 December 2018 15:07 (five years ago) link
b&s, my favorite weirdly religious but also weirdly super gay band
It was my number one.
Didn't make my 30 but the way he sings "Get some fish and chips / La la la la la / What's on the box? 'Man about the house' with Paula Wilcox" is hard to beat
Agreed.
― the salacious inaudible (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Thursday, 13 December 2018 15:08 (five years ago) link
it feels a little weird that "straight to the point of boring" man stuart murdoch wrote so many songs with very queer narratives, but i guess i appreciate it?
― ufo, Thursday, 13 December 2018 15:15 (five years ago) link
I suppose it fits in with his self-styled ME origin story, but so much of his songwriter self is vicarious - the effete voyeur too afraid to touch the ground lives through the experiences of others.
― Have the Rams stopped screaming yet, Lloris? (Chinaski), Thursday, 13 December 2018 15:17 (five years ago) link
dress up in you was my #6. the least life pursuit-y track on life pursuit.
i had it at #8. a little shocked at how low it is. i love the life pursuit, but this song kind of towers over the rest of the album.
― J. Sam, Thursday, 13 December 2018 15:21 (five years ago) link
loving the images! voted for these so far, of which the first and last two are, as they say, too low:
If You Find Yourself Caught in Love The Blues Are Still Blue I Fought in a War I Know Where the Summer Goes Beautiful Dress Up in You
― devvvine, Thursday, 13 December 2018 15:21 (five years ago) link
xps That's such a bland point. I guess it's a rejoinder to folk who I've heard say his whole schtick is appropriative and sinister.
― Have the Rams stopped screaming yet, Lloris? (Chinaski), Thursday, 13 December 2018 15:22 (five years ago) link
I thought it was well put.
― Alba, Thursday, 13 December 2018 15:23 (five years ago) link
You're a star now / I am fixing people's nails
― frame casual (dog latin), Thursday, 13 December 2018 15:25 (five years ago) link
And you've suddenly made me think of Stuart Murdoch in this era as a Harvey Darger like figure with his Story of the Vivian Girls.
― Alba, Thursday, 13 December 2018 15:26 (five years ago) link
"Dress Up In You" is one of their most convincing character studies.
― resident hack (Simon H.), Thursday, 13 December 2018 15:27 (five years ago) link
have had 2 show up, Is it wicked not to care and I know where the summer goes.somewhat surprised by the former.
― campreverb, Thursday, 13 December 2018 15:27 (five years ago) link
Henry Darger, I mean!
― Alba, Thursday, 13 December 2018 15:30 (five years ago) link
Not Harvey Danger?
― Vinnie, Thursday, 13 December 2018 15:33 (five years ago) link
i've got a boyfriendi've got the feeling that he's seeing someone elsehe always had a thing for you as well
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 13 December 2018 15:34 (five years ago) link
That's what was infecting it in my brain, Vinnie!
― Alba, Thursday, 13 December 2018 15:34 (five years ago) link
"I am sick and I'm not well"
― Mark G, Thursday, 13 December 2018 15:34 (five years ago) link
This lip dub brought "The Blues are Still Blue" to my attention and ensured a spot on my ballot. Wonder if the staff or the students chose the song? Laundry as a metaphor for romantic befuddlement works for me on it's own.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CB-1BFWWkcU
― eva logorrhea (bendy), Thursday, 13 December 2018 15:37 (five years ago) link
I wonder if the Darger thing does hit home in some ways. As in the music is always about the outside, yet Murdoch was always too self-aware to truly be outside anything.
― Have the Rams stopped screaming yet, Lloris? (Chinaski), Thursday, 13 December 2018 15:51 (five years ago) link
Didn't manage to vote for "Photo Jenny," how could I not have? Expect i'm gonna have this feeling a lot.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 13 December 2018 16:16 (five years ago) link
i'm waking up to us this poll
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 13 December 2018 17:01 (five years ago) link
so far i voted for...
i don’t love anyonei want the world to stopi fought in a war
I like I Fought in a War a lot but it does have one fatal flaw: the implausible concept of Stuart Murdoch having fought in a war.
so otm. also, let me say without evidence that i fought in a war led directly to the decemberists
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 13 December 2018 17:04 (five years ago) link