The Wheel and the MayPOLL: The XTC Poll Results Thread

and awaaaaaay we go

The meeting place!

Here's a collaborate Spotify playlist: http://open.spotify.com/user/mondosalvo/playlist/2OLN1q23VJKY1CRSjjIZ1w

Yay, might go about making a YouTube playlist too - to account for the (at least in the UK) lack of later album stuff of Spots

My brain just started playing Great Fire as a mental soundtrack.

Hooray for Peter Pumpkinhead!
(You people should be so glad I didn't vote)

it's sad, he had a harmonica

my super tuff songs better place high or I'm gonna have to break out MY WEAPON!!!

Lump check yr email...

Wait, sorry for being lame but, where, exactly, are the results? I don't see a list?

lol it's a countdown, enjoy the suspense

that was a great opp to do a pretend reaction to a fake list

haha thinking about it i guess there's no funny number 1s

Right then, thanks and sorry again.

Dominique claiming to be a songwriter & keyboardist in the Barry Andrews class, bold

sorry waitin on some graphics bear with me folks

There's a graphics bear with you? Tell him I said hi.

Graphics bears are notoriously slow, though, so we understand.

All of a sudden we find the cupboard bear

ok slight change of plan! going to count down the top 60 (although I will post a complete list at the end)

60. I'd Like That (556 points, 8 votes)
http://i1086.photobucket.com/albums/j449/HideousLump/XTC%20ILM%20Top%2060/60-IdLikeThat.jpg

would like to say that Lump really outdid himself with the images here we are in for a treat

59. Ten Feet Tall (559 points, 7 votes)
http://i1086.photobucket.com/albums/j449/HideousLump/XTC%20ILM%20Top%2060/59-TenFeetTall.jpg

58. Dear God (569 points, 8 votes, 1 No. 1 vote))
http://i1086.photobucket.com/albums/j449/HideousLump/XTC%20ILM%20Top%2060/58-DearGod.jpg

whoa these images

57. Brainiac's Daughter (583 points, 8 votes)
http://i1086.photobucket.com/albums/j449/HideousLump/XTC%20ILM%20Top%2060/57-BrainiacsDaughter.jpg

irl lol @ this img

56. English Roundabout (586 points, 8 votes)
http://i1086.photobucket.com/albums/j449/HideousLump/XTC%20ILM%20Top%2060/56-EnglishRoundabout.jpg

55. Dear Madam Barnum (599 points, 9 votes)
http://i1086.photobucket.com/albums/j449/HideousLump/XTC%20ILM%20Top%2060/55-DearMadamBarnum.jpg

"Dear God" so low!

also, too high, screw u kitchen person lol (re: atheist rights anthem)

Omg, my #4! Colin's greatest moment, seminal beauty, key changes forever, utter loveliness (English Roundabout)

also, too high, screw u kitchen person lol (re: atheist rights anthem)

― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago)

Ha! Very happy to see my number one vote helped it make the list.

Ten Feet Fall is shockingly low. I just assumed that was an XTC favourite.

in doing this poll I realized I had not listened to the officially released version of Dear God in maybe 20 years or so. I have the original LP version of Skylarking which doesn't have it on it, so I'd pretty much forgotten about it. In retrospect while Mermaid Smiled is a great song, Dear God seems to fit the album-song-cycle thing better, the spiritual questioning coming in between Man Who Sailed Around His Soul and Dying makes more sense.

just assumed that was an XTC favourite.

― Kitchen Person

every song is an XTC favorite

So true.

great graphics!

Just noticed the initials on the images. Amazing!

These graphics are amazing Bear.

every song is an XTC favorite

bingo. I can't think of any song sans "Respectible Street" or "Chalkhills and Children" where I'll be able to say, "wow, that was too low"

54. Pale and Precious (602 points, 8 votes, 1 No. 1 vote))
http://i1086.photobucket.com/albums/j449/HideousLump/XTC%20ILM%20Top%2060/54-PaleAndPrecious.jpg

love this song a lot, it's funny to think that Partridge didn't really hear any of the late 60s Beach Boys stuff right up until this time, that it was fresh and new to him and he was like "oh I can bang out a pastiche of that, here we go" and have it come out so perfect

53. Roads Girdle the Globe (613 points, 8 votes)
http://i1086.photobucket.com/albums/j449/HideousLump/XTC%20ILM%20Top%2060/53-RoadsGirdleTheGlobe.jpg

52. The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead (615 points, 8 votes)
http://i1086.photobucket.com/albums/j449/HideousLump/XTC%20ILM%20Top%2060/52-BalladOfPeterPumpkinhead.jpg

TIE 51. Runaways (640 points, 9 votes)
http://i1086.photobucket.com/albums/j449/HideousLump/XTC%20ILM%20Top%2060/51-Runaways.jpg
TIE 51. Greenman (640 points, 8 votes)
http://i1086.photobucket.com/albums/j449/HideousLump/XTC%20ILM%20Top%2060/51-Greenman.jpg

50. Beating Of Hearts (644 points, 9 votes, 1 No. 1 vote))
http://i1086.photobucket.com/albums/j449/HideousLump/XTC%20ILM%20Top%2060/50-BeatingOfHearts.jpg

ok that's it for a little bit

"Runaways" one of the first of mine to make it.

hooray for Peter Pumpkin so low

hooray for Roads Girdle the Globe placing, I wasn't sure if that would make it

I know RGTG is a dry-run for No Language On Our Lungs but it's still p spectacular :)

I'll upload the rest tomorrow.

so. gorgeous. many thanks.

thank you HL!!!!!!

YESSSSS

can't let these Partsy-approved images vanish into obscurity!

https://i.imgur.com/EOq8JCJ.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/oyRnZgt.jpg

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https://i.imgur.com/iYuMaxN.jpg

(Guy looks like David Gilmour)

https://i.imgur.com/zwLo8Xu.jpg

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https://i.imgur.com/4uRLyFR.jpg

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https://i.imgur.com/H3EDW69.jpg

@xtcfans Did you see last week's poll of ILX members' Top 60 XTC tracks? Great graphics http://t.co/itpnLMJaoi

— Paul Joyce (@PaulJoyce11) October 21, 2014

@PaulJoyce11 BEAUTIFUL CHOICE of illustrations.As for the poll,totally disagree,but fun eh?

— XTC (@xtcfans) October 21, 2014

https://i.imgur.com/9eO2l3b.jpg

ha! i never saw that tweet from Andy. this poll was run a year and a half before i got into XTC, bummed i didn't participate. was curious to see where Snowman placed, #23 sounds right (maybe a little low).

lol he shudda done a ballot

the entire graphic for grass is one of my favourite things, so beautiful

thanks for reposting these :D

one of the shittest things about Spotify is the fact The Wheel And The Maypole isn't on it

the entire graphic for grass is one of my favourite things, so beautiful

― nxd, Wednesday, April 25, 2018 3:41 AM (seventeen hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

One of four works by Albrecht Dürer

Grass
Easter Theater
The Disappointed
Dear God

I could have done the entire poll with Dürer.

those illustrations are marvellous. it's got me wanting to listen to the albums again (it's been a while).

re the initial poll: i have no fucking idea what i would pick as my favourites because they change almost daily, but the wheel and the maypole would always be top 3. what a way to end a career.

this. thread. rules.

'Empires crumble in / Wedding cake starts to turn and spoil...' yeah it's undeniable. If it hadn't been for this poll I'd never have heard it.

Let's rank my favorites, mm?

I think I agree. As much as I love half of or most of or some of all the other albums, Black Sea is the only one that's really even in terms of songwriting - quality, sound, and style.

Wouldn't put many of the tracks on a personal best of, but it's the album I'd choose to listen to in full over all the others.

I'm one of those must-have-every-note-Andy & Co-produced:

1. Big Express
2. Black Sea
3. Drums And Wires
4. English Settlement
5. Skylarking
6. Apple Venus
7. Oranges And Lemons
7. Mummer
8. Nonsuch
9. Go 2
10. White Music
11. Wasp Star

And if I could include these two they'd place:
4.5 Psionic Sunspot
6.5 Rag & Bone Buffet

I apparently voted in this but never participated -- my ballot (which upon reflection seems a little too simplistic):

1. Jason and the Argonauts
2. Senses Working Overtime
3. Complicated Game
4. Generals and Majors
5. Travels in Nihilon
6. No Thugs In Our House
7. Respectable Street
8. Making Plans for Nigel
9. When You're Near Me
10. Summer's Cauldron
11. Grass
12. Rocket from a Bottle
13. Sgt. Rock
14. Your Gold Dress
15. The Meeting Place
16. Chalkhills and Children
17. Harvest Festival
18. Down in the Cockpit
19. Helicopter
20. Vanishing Girl