That was one of my two token DTAS votes, way down in the Jungle Roomat the bottom of my list.
― She Thinks I Will Dare (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 12 October 2020 23:57 (three years ago) link
in the name of LL and also at my own behestTOOOOOO LOW re “Shiftless When Idle”
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 13 October 2020 00:01 (three years ago) link
Paul on Prince
― She Thinks I Will Dare (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 October 2020 00:05 (three years ago) link
You came to mind as I was posting "Shiftless" :) [XP: VG]
Also: I recorded such data, but I have forgotten to mention it, as it wasn't expressed much in the end but: with every DTAS track between 1-3 votes were explicitly said to be for the Dead Man's Pop renditions, namely Matt Wallace mixes.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 13 October 2020 00:06 (three years ago) link
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#26Johnny's Gonna Diefrom Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out The Trash (1981) Score: 226Votes: 13 (0)Youtube: audio track
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 13 October 2020 00:13 (three years ago) link
Cool, 'Achin' To Be' was on my ballot but I didn't think it'd make it once we got to #30. Some of my favourite tender Westerberg lyrics.
'Johnny's Gonna Die' sticks out like a sore thumb on Sorry, Ma - the further from punk.
― aphoristical, Tuesday, 13 October 2020 00:14 (three years ago) link
Too low! I had it at #5
― She Thinks I Will Dare (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 October 2020 00:15 (three years ago) link
Incidentally, I was *determined* to shoehorn the Bob memorial bench in here somewhere. May as well be this mortality-related number.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 13 October 2020 00:15 (three years ago) link
And it does stick out on Sorry, Ma
― She Thinks I Will Dare (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 October 2020 00:16 (three years ago) link
johnny's gonna die, go, and takin' a ride were all on my ballot
― president of my cat (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 13 October 2020 00:25 (three years ago) link
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#25Talent Show from Don't Tell a Soul (1989) Score: 249Votes: 17 (0)Youtube: audio track (DTAS)Youtube: audio track (Matt Wallace mix)
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 13 October 2020 00:30 (three years ago) link
i'm one of probably a thousand writers who at some point had the opportunity to ask johnny thunders for his thoughts on this one. iirc, johnny was not particularly impressed, and noted that he had not in fact died. yet :(
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 13 October 2020 00:30 (three years ago) link
love every word of that
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 13 October 2020 00:39 (three years ago) link
I’ll pour out a Too Low for Talent Show. That live version in Inconcerated is insane.
― campreverb, Tuesday, 13 October 2020 00:44 (three years ago) link
Brother of a guy who played in the regular Monday night gig of a band Steve Almaas has started long after Steve Almaas left at The Ludlow Street Cafe used to do sort of standup routine during his own musical performances at Manitoba’s in which he would often do a bit about people talking about Johnny Thunders death. “It’s a conspiracy!” he would quote them saying and then he would say “it’s a conspiracy he didn’t die sooner!” and would go on about how he often expected to see Johnny Thunders booted feet sticking out of the CBGB bathroom like the Wicked Witch of the East’s Ruby Red Slippered feet under Dorothy’s house in The Wizard of Oz.
― She Thinks I Will Dare (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 October 2020 00:45 (three years ago) link
“Talent Show” was my other one from DTaS
_Paul on Prince_love every word of that
― She Thinks I Will Dare (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 October 2020 00:46 (three years ago) link
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#24Never Mind from Pleased to Meet Me (1987) Score: 261 Votes: 18 (0)Youtube: audio track
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 13 October 2020 00:47 (three years ago) link
in the name of LL and also at my own behest
TOOOOOO LOW re “Shiftless When Idle”
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, October 12, 2020 7:01 PM (forty-one minutes ago)
agree and thank you! that song is the only song about being a chronically restless person that i really identify with
speaking of, huge soft spot for "achin to be" based on a memory of sitting in my backyard on a hammock i had strung up myself and listening to my walkman and feeling understood for like 3 min <3 i did want to be him (based on my limited knowledge of what he was actually really like, which was definitively NOT how i wanted to be)
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 13 October 2020 00:49 (three years ago) link
Best song on DTAS' second side until "Skyway."
― Patriotic Goiter (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 October 2020 00:50 (three years ago) link
er PTMM.
i had "never mind" very high, a very very solid power pop track
― ufo, Tuesday, 13 October 2020 00:57 (three years ago) link
I had it at #26 but maybe could have been a little higher.
― She Thinks I Will Dare (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 October 2020 00:59 (three years ago) link
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#23I.O.U.from Pleased to Meet Me (1987) Score: 267Votes: 15 (0)Youtube: audio track
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 13 October 2020 01:02 (three years ago) link
Ah my PTMM tracks are coming in now!
― campreverb, Tuesday, 13 October 2020 01:03 (three years ago) link
sad but not surprised to see "waitress in the sky" place so low... i was the #1 voter. (i had originally picked one of the more canonized tracks in my number 1 slot, but in the end, I had to vote my conscience: i've just enjoyed the hell out of that one over the years)
― enochroot, Tuesday, 13 October 2020 01:06 (three years ago) link
IOU kicks ass, easy vote
― covidiot wind (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 13 October 2020 01:17 (three years ago) link
"i.o.u." was, for me, the perfect realization of their loud fast roots married to big $$ production and i wished they had kept exploring that path but maybe they didn't quite have it in 'em. it's an amazing last gasp. nirvana and butch vig pretty much picked up exactly where "i.o.u." left off.
also, i love the chorus that they make us wait till the end of the song to hear. nirvana never had *that* in them.
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 13 October 2020 01:19 (three years ago) link
Yeah! And yet it somehow never occurred me to how late it comes until literally 10 minutes ago.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 13 October 2020 01:22 (three years ago) link
"occurred to me" rather.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 13 October 2020 01:23 (three years ago) link
I forgot this one - should have included it. Also forgot Color Me Impressed - I find Hootenanny wildly inconsistent so forgot about it.
― aphoristical, Tuesday, 13 October 2020 01:23 (three years ago) link
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#22The Ledge from Pleased to Meet Me (1987) Score: 279Votes: 20 (0)Youtube: origial promo video
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 13 October 2020 01:24 (three years ago) link
"original promo". Geez.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 13 October 2020 01:26 (three years ago) link
Did you see that that footage was used three different times for three different songs?
― She Thinks I Will Dare (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 October 2020 01:26 (three years ago) link
I linked upthread under a mysterious name
― She Thinks I Will Dare (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 October 2020 01:27 (three years ago) link
Here: I hate ILoveMusic, it's got too many POLLS - Artist Poll #104 - THE REPLACEMENTS - RESULTS
― She Thinks I Will Dare (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 October 2020 01:28 (three years ago) link
Already too far in the last for zing to work :(
I voted for “The Ledge,” had it at #25. Sometimes worry that it is a little cheesy but something about it sticks to me. It’s a little better done than it could be. Is it related to “Can’t Hardly Wait” somehow?
― She Thinks I Will Dare (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 October 2020 01:30 (three years ago) link
XP: Yes. And it's fabulous. Hehe. I mined the videos for stills weeks ago but I'd have preferred they didn't appear together like this. :)
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 13 October 2020 01:33 (three years ago) link
i resented "the ledge" for hogging all the "pleased to meet me" radio play.
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 13 October 2020 01:37 (three years ago) link
I'm not a fan of Westerburg's lead guitar, but it works here.
― Patriotic Goiter (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 October 2020 01:41 (three years ago) link
Good point. Are you spelling his name with a ‘u’ for any special reason?
― She Thinks I Will Dare (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 October 2020 01:45 (three years ago) link
i had the ledge as my #19, i really like it a lot
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 13 October 2020 01:45 (three years ago) link
xpost feeling German
Oh is that the spelling in Heathers?
― She Thinks I Will Dare (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 October 2020 01:46 (three years ago) link
No idea what wizardry you collectively employed to engineer four PTTM tracks in a row...
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#21Valentine from Pleased to Meet Me (1987) Score: 297Votes: 17 (0)Youtube: audio track
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 13 October 2020 01:49 (three years ago) link
"Johnny's Gonna Die" is such a great, thoughtful song: there's a real person there under the caricature, it says, the same caricature they'd fall into themselves. Thought "Go" would be up near the top.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 13 October 2020 01:51 (three years ago) link
fourth ptmm track in a row and the third straight of my votes. valentine was top ten for me. it’s a powerhouse, comprised of three different choruses stacked atop one another
― covidiot wind (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 13 October 2020 01:53 (three years ago) link
When listening to "IOU" for the first time in a long time for this poll, I was struck by how much it sounded like the Georgia Satellites, and then realizing 'of course' because they were buddy bands.
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 13 October 2020 01:53 (three years ago) link
I was going to stop at 21, but I maybe I'll slip one further entry in if folks are still about...
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 13 October 2020 01:58 (three years ago) link