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
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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
"Photo Jenny" was my #5. I'm amazed people are confused by the subject matter! But I agree with Chinaski's reading as SM's allegory for defeating ME (going out of the house) as coming out as trans.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 13 December 2018 17:13 (five years ago) link
Just catching up. My 3 was I Don't Love Anyone. I thought that would be much, much higher.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 13 December 2018 17:16 (five years ago) link
that lip dub made me happy, thanks bendy
― big crime for a SPECIAL WHATEVER (voodoo chili), Thursday, 13 December 2018 17:20 (five years ago) link
yes that was nice
― Dan S, Thursday, 13 December 2018 17:25 (five years ago) link
Jonathan David is too low!!!
the one on this list so far that I most regret not voting for is I Didn't See It Coming
― Dan S, Thursday, 13 December 2018 17:35 (five years ago) link
My overall thoughts after a deep Belle and Sebastian immersion for this poll: their faster ones are much better than their slow ones.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 13 December 2018 17:37 (five years ago) link