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

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.

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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!.