Hey Paul, Hey Paul, Hey Paul, let's have a POLL: ILM Artist Poll #69 • Pixies (results!)

Jimmy Mac has always been a deceptively skilled drummer, because Cannonball is hard as fuck to play.

1. The Breeders - Divine Hammer (235 points, 4 first place votes)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9il_iQ8bDM

Divine Hammer has always sounded like too traditional a pop song to me, and that's not what I seek The Breeders out for. ILM will be ILM, though.

wut

Divine Hammer	160	75	235			235
Cannonball		185	185			185
Headache	40	120	160			160
Safari	120	35	155			155
Doe		150	150			150
Saints	80	60	140			140
Iris		120	120			120
Do You Love Me Now?	80	25	105			105
Invisible Man		105	105			105
Bragging Party		95	95			95
Metal Man	40	55	95			95
Oh!	40	55	95			95
When I Was a Painter		90	90			90
Fortunately Gone	40	45	85			85
Breaking the Split-Screen Barrier	40	30	70			70
Off You	40	25	65			65
White Noise Maker	40	20	60			60
Hag		55	55			55
Glorious		50	50			50
Lime House		50	50			50
Bullet	40		40			40
Speedy Marie	40		40			40
Too Alive	40		40			40
Only in 3's		35	35			35
Los Angeles		30	30			30
Thalassocracy		30	30			30
21 Reasons		25	25			25
Don't You Rile 'Em		25	25			25
Drivin' on 9		25	25			25
Flipside		25	25			25
Shocker in Gloomtown		25	25			25
Tipp City		25	25			25
(I Want to Live on An) Abstract Plain		20	20			20
Back to Rome		20	20			20
Every Time I Go Around Here		20	20			20
Happiness Is a Warm Gun		20	20			20
Huffer		20	20			20
Opened		20	20			20
Superabound		20	20			20
Forced to Drive		15	15			15
Full on Idle		15	15			15
No Aloha		15	15			15
Overglazed		15	15			15

one of the greatest, weirdest, fiercest acts of the era and ilm votes for the song that sounds like a cover of "feed the tree"

Though actually I rate "Feed the Tree" above "Divine Hammer" and would probably place it 4th or 5th on Last Splash if the Breeders had chosen to cover it, mind you

Thanks, JF, this was awesome!

Can you remind me how to read this chart though?

It's tough.

I scored ballots like this: 40:30:25:20:15. But the pivot table I made threw together the results without the number of votes, so the only important numbers to look at here are, in the cases where a song received a first place vote, is to notice the multiple of 40 closest to the song title and the final point total farthest away from the song title.

W T F ,

can you guys just listen to this and concede it crushes "headache" like a grape

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMT0BXosu3g

Great to see all the love for both "Safari" and Safari.

I haven't investigated solo Frank that much outside of the debut. The big alt-theatre company down here staged a musical based on Bluefinger a few years back and it ruled.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FYR2hkQD6k

Wait what!? There was a side project poll? Why did I not know this?

side poll makes you think Kim was the true creative force behind pixies.

surely all (most) those Divine Hammer votes must have been tactical, trying to break an assumed Cannonball stranglehold

can you guys just listen to this and concede it crushes "headache" like a grape

nope

I mean, okay, I listened, and nope

the only post-Doolittle Blank Frank record I own is the Headache 7" with the acoustic version on the B-side, but I liked the first album

[checks Teenager track listing]

Whatever Happened to Pong?, (I Want to Live on an) Abstract Plain, Bad Wicked World - heard all those on a '90s radio session ten years ago, also p good iirc

Still repping for Speedy Marie, still don't really get to complain because I didn't vote :(

top three seemed pretty obvious, in some order. never really need to hear any of them again. pleased that safari, do you love me now and iris placed well.

thanks JF for the whole shebang, great stuff

surely all (most) those Divine Hammer votes must have been tactical, trying to break an assumed Cannonball stranglehold

I guess? But to me this is one of those areas where popular judgment basically got it right. "Cannonball" was a giant hit because it was unstoppably great. I voted "Do You Love Me Now" #1 but it was a close thing between those two.

Cheap truckdriver key change at the end, thin sound

Truckdriver key change usually refers to a whole-step modulation -- "Headache" jumps up a 5th, from B to E!

one of the greatest, weirdest, fiercest acts of the era and ilm votes for the song that sounds like a cover of "feed the tree"

eh I feel this stupid need to insist that "Feed the Tree" is p. great and weird, if not fierce, and "Divine Hammer" has reasonable scores for all 3 imo (OK maybe more "lyrically unconventional" than "weird"), but I get your point

I didn't vote in either poll because I didn't feel my knowledge was encyclopedic enough but if I'd paid attention to the fact there was a side-projects poll and thought about how much of the 90s I spent listening to the Breeders (and all related bands) and pre-Catholics FB I should probably have got something together

But to me this is one of those areas where popular judgment basically got it right. "Cannonball" was a giant hit because it was unstoppably great.

yes, I agree, one of the two best pop singles of the '90s - which is why I assume people overthought their voting, because it should have won.

or if beaten, only been by Safari

Whatever Happened to Pong?, (I Want to Live on an) Abstract Plain, Bad Wicked World - heard all those on a '90s radio session ten years ago, also p good iirc

still an overall great album – white Noise Maker also got a vote from me in the side poll and Thalassocracy came close.

can you guys just listen to this and concede it crushes "headache" like a grape

i will also "nope" this. 'tis a fine song, but for me Headache is an all all-time great song.

wheay-hey-hey-hay, isn't so great, since you learned karate, chop chop CHop chop...

I remembered reading an article about the Pixies about 20 years ago where it described the Velouria video as "the band members running in slow motion in the buff" and this thread somehow jogged that out of my memory banks so I just went to YouTube to watch the video and realize that it was actually "the band members running in slow motion down a bluff".

lol

Cannonball: Love Shack:: Divine Hammer: Roam

good call!

wow there is something so deeply, deeply right about that analogy

I'm ranking for fire!.