1. The Breeders - Divine Hammer (235 points, 4 first place votes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9il_iQ8bDM
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 6 November 2014 04:39 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 6 November 2014 04:40 (nine years ago) link
wut
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 6 November 2014 04:41 (nine years ago) link
Divine Hammer 160 75 235 235Cannonball 185 185 185Headache 40 120 160 160Safari 120 35 155 155Doe 150 150 150Saints 80 60 140 140Iris 120 120 120Do You Love Me Now? 80 25 105 105Invisible Man 105 105 105Bragging Party 95 95 95Metal Man 40 55 95 95Oh! 40 55 95 95When I Was a Painter 90 90 90Fortunately Gone 40 45 85 85Breaking the Split-Screen Barrier 40 30 70 70Off You 40 25 65 65White Noise Maker 40 20 60 60Hag 55 55 55Glorious 50 50 50Lime House 50 50 50Bullet 40 40 40Speedy Marie 40 40 40Too Alive 40 40 40Only in 3's 35 35 35Los Angeles 30 30 30Thalassocracy 30 30 3021 Reasons 25 25 25Don't You Rile 'Em 25 25 25Drivin' on 9 25 25 25Flipside 25 25 25Shocker in Gloomtown 25 25 25Tipp City 25 25 25(I Want to Live on An) Abstract Plain 20 20 20Back to Rome 20 20 20Every Time I Go Around Here 20 20 20Happiness Is a Warm Gun 20 20 20Huffer 20 20 20Opened 20 20 20Superabound 20 20 20Forced to Drive 15 15 15Full on Idle 15 15 15No Aloha 15 15 15Overglazed 15 15 15
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 6 November 2014 04:42 (nine years ago) link
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"
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 6 November 2014 04:44 (nine years ago) link
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
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 6 November 2014 04:45 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 6 November 2014 04:48 (nine years ago) link
W T F ,
― Nancy Whank (jed_), Thursday, 6 November 2014 04:50 (nine years ago) link
can you guys just listen to this and concede it crushes "headache" like a grape
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMT0BXosu3g
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 6 November 2014 04:52 (nine years ago) link
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
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 6 November 2014 05:48 (nine years ago) link
Wait what!? There was a side project poll? Why did I not know this?
― Moka, Thursday, 6 November 2014 06:46 (nine years ago) link
side poll makes you think Kim was the true creative force behind pixies.
― Moka, Thursday, 6 November 2014 06:47 (nine years ago) link
surely all (most) those Divine Hammer votes must have been tactical, trying to break an assumed Cannonball stranglehold
― the incredible string gland (sic), Thursday, 6 November 2014 07:32 (nine years ago) link
nope
― the incredible string gland (sic), Thursday, 6 November 2014 07:34 (nine years ago) link
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
― the incredible string gland (sic), Thursday, 6 November 2014 07:37 (nine years ago) link
[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
― the incredible string gland (sic), Thursday, 6 November 2014 07:40 (nine years ago) link
Still repping for Speedy Marie, still don't really get to complain because I didn't vote :(
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 6 November 2014 12:01 (nine years ago) link
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
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 6 November 2014 12:40 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 6 November 2014 13:46 (nine years ago) link
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!
― Οὖτις Δαυ & τηε Κνιγητσ (Phil D.), Thursday, 6 November 2014 13:55 (nine years ago) link
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
― club mate martyr (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 6 November 2014 14:14 (nine years ago) link
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
― the incredible string gland (sic), Thursday, 6 November 2014 14:53 (nine years ago) link
still an overall great album – white Noise Maker also got a vote from me in the side poll and Thalassocracy came close.
i will also "nope" this. 'tis a fine song, but for me Headache is an all all-time great song.
― AKA Thermo Thinwall (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 6 November 2014 18:58 (nine years ago) link
wheay-hey-hey-hay, isn't so great, since you learned karate, chop chop CHop chop...
― AKA Thermo Thinwall (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 6 November 2014 19:04 (nine years ago) link
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".
― how's life, Thursday, 6 November 2014 20:43 (nine years ago) link
lol
― AKA Thermo Thinwall (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 6 November 2014 20:58 (nine years ago) link
Cannonball: Love Shack:: Divine Hammer: Roam
― livid in America (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 7 November 2014 01:47 (nine years ago) link
good call!
― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 7 November 2014 03:19 (nine years ago) link
wow there is something so deeply, deeply right about that analogy
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 7 November 2014 04:17 (nine years ago) link
I'm ranking for fire!.
― The Silky Veils of Alfred (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 1 October 2018 01:53 (five years ago) link