The CaterPOLLar -- ILM Artist Poll #23 -- The Cure -- voting thread

yeah and all the songs are like playing some music and then having some other instruments play some more music and then usually singing on top, ugh get some new ideas guys

you know what, "Lost" is a totally bad-ass song; the whole slow creep mixed in with the ramping up of the vocal line and how it goes higher and higher with each restatement of the verse as the music swirls together in a dissonant vortex, the bitter venom Robert is spitting by the end of the song until everything kind of deflates into hollow wistfulness... how the whole thing swings from disassociation into fury and back into timid realization

fukkin love that song

I hope I'm not giving too much away to say it's going to need a lot of love before Wednesday if it's going to make the top 100.

;_; it couldn't find itself

DJP's #1 was "my computer"

still super pissed that I forgot about "Burn" and "Carnage Visors"

Ballot sent. The video list was the hardest part because I had a hard time choosing which of my 6 faves to exclude. :-(

i finishing this tonight...help me.

Less than 24 hours to go, 26 ballots received. Happy with that.

I haven't done mine yet.

plz put "Carnage Visors" at #1

I've got down to 86 songs.

I missed this one — are you still accepting ballots?

There is time! Vote.

my "shortlist" was something like 95 songs? and I still wanted to vote for them all

and I still forgot 2 off of it, at least one of which had a very good chance of being on my ballot

Yeah voting is still open, til midday UK tomorrow.

I know this poll is going to end up reinforcing Cure orthodoxy and all of the big placers will be pop singles, but I'm super interested in the early stages to see what, if any, bizarro songs place

also this is a pre-emptive "you all have terrible taste" in anticipation of "Push" making the top 20

Haha, that was my #2.

Is it really about catching the train to Brighton while wearing a dress? Or was Robert taking the piss?

I've never been less sure about my ballot in these single artist polls. There were so many things I wanted to vote for, I kept waffling on the rankings ... kicking myself already for leaving certain songs off my ballot ("Trust", "High", "All Cats Are Grey" ...)

you will get mine in about 12 hours, i need to go to work. still working the video list but pretty much done.

HOW THE HELL COULD YOU LEAVE "ALL CATS ARE GREY" OFF OF YOUR BALLOT

seriously, that was one of five songs that were absolutely no question destined to be on my ballot

Considering I scrambled at the last minute to get this together, I'm pretty pleased with my ballot. I didn't have to relisten to much because I know the band pretty well anyway. Still, I even surprised myself when I found a genuine obscurity had made it into my top ten.

Here's my breakdown of albums and how many songs off each made my list:

Three Imaginary Boys/Boys Don't Cry — 4
Seventeen Seconds — 3
Faith — 3
Pornography — 2
The Walk EP/Japanese Whispers — 3
The Top — 1
The Head on the Door — 5
Kiss Me — 2
Disintegration — 2
Mixed Up — 0
Wish — 3
Wild Mood Swings — 1
Bloodflowers — 2
The Cure — 2
4:13 Dream — 0
Non-album/b-sides — 7

Funny other things I just realized:
Wish barely scraped my top albums picks at #5, but three Wish (or Wish-related songs) are in my top ten.
Disintegration did not make my top albums list.
A song from the self-titled album made my top ten. I hate that album, how did THAT happen?

Really hope I got my ballot in on time. This was fun. Can't wait to see the final tally.

~Austin

Listening to THOTD in its remastered form, which I received in the mail a few hours ago, I'm thinking the only dud is "Six Different Ways." Every song is distinct, opening a door to a genre excursion on which the band could have gone.

The Head on the Door really is a great piece of work. They managed to pack so much, so well, into such a great, concentrated package.

I like 'Six Different Ways.' Although, it did take me hearing the great Peel Session recording of it to fully appreciate it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjgvXuSGQF4

Scatting, squealing vocals Bob at his best.

got my list down to 70, just dropped Carnage Visors, RIP DJP

;_;

it's really sad, it was gothy rose-tinted glasses

says the guy who just heard subdivisions

sorry <3

Three Imaginary Boys/Boys Don't Cry — 5
Seventeen Seconds — 2
Faith — 2
Pornography — 3
The Walk EP/Japanese Whispers — 4
The Top — 2
The Head on the Door — 4
Kiss Me — 4
Disintegration — 5
Mixed Up — 1
Wish — 4
Join the Dots (B-Sides) - 6

I'm a huge fan, so can I just go on record right now and say that 'Carnage Visors' is extremely overrated?

Ballot sent. I can't believe this band, every last song on my list I can relate a specific memory to, it's outrageous.

34 ballots received. In your face, Paul Simon!

"six different ways" is my second favorite off the album, after "close to me"

When're you doing the countdown?

TIB/BDC - 3
SS - 2
Faith - 2
Pornography - 2
The Top - 2
Head - 3
KMKMKM - 6
Disintegration - 5
Wish - 2
WMS - 1
Bloodflowers - 1
Cure - 3
4:13 Dream - 2
other singles/b-sides - 6

Semi-serious response to DJP, I was trying to balance out my ballot a bit (i.e. not getting sentimental and voting for 15 songs from KMKMKM) and a bunch of songs fell through the cracks. Is "4:13 Dream" as good as "Wish" and "Pornography" (I voted for two songs from all of them)? Definitely not, but there are a few really good individual songs there, and I didn't want to ignore that (or any) album completely.

So yeah, I already regret not finding room for certain songs, but I feel really good about my top 20-25 though (=where most of the points will come from).

I'm hoping to start about 9 tonight with the albums, videos and tracks 50-41.

rad.

A load of ballots in the last few hours (as someone predicted) means I need to do a lot of number crunching when I get home but hopefully my spreadsheets are up to doing most of the work. I'll never forgive myself if I fuck these results up.

POLLography: The Cure poll results, ILM artist poll #23

btw Boris is the fucking BEST, I still maintain that ppl would like the later material more had he drummed it instead of Jason Cooper

althrough the evidence of Entreat Plus suggests it mightn't have made much difference