seriously, that was one of five songs that were absolutely no question destined to be on my ballot
― Lil Swayne of Pie (DJP), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 15:39 (eleven years ago) link
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 — 4Seventeen Seconds — 3Faith — 3Pornography — 2The Walk EP/Japanese Whispers — 3The Top — 1The Head on the Door — 5Kiss Me — 2Disintegration — 2Mixed Up — 0Wish — 3Wild Mood Swings — 1Bloodflowers — 2The Cure — 24:13 Dream — 0Non-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
― Austin, Wednesday, 15 August 2012 01:43 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 15 August 2012 01:47 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Austin, Wednesday, 15 August 2012 01:52 (eleven years ago) link
got my list down to 70, just dropped Carnage Visors, RIP DJP
― ʘ (sic), Wednesday, 15 August 2012 02:06 (eleven years ago) link
;_;
it's really sad, it was gothy rose-tinted glasses
― Lil Swayne of Pie (DJP), Wednesday, 15 August 2012 02:22 (eleven years ago) link
says the guy who just heard subdivisions
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 15 August 2012 02:33 (eleven years ago) link
sorry <3
Three Imaginary Boys/Boys Don't Cry — 5Seventeen Seconds — 2Faith — 2Pornography — 3The Walk EP/Japanese Whispers — 4The Top — 2The Head on the Door — 4Kiss Me — 4Disintegration — 5Mixed Up — 1Wish — 4Join the Dots (B-Sides) - 6
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 15 August 2012 04:21 (eleven years ago) link
I'm a huge fan, so can I just go on record right now and say that 'Carnage Visors' is extremely overrated?
― Austin, Wednesday, 15 August 2012 04:24 (eleven years ago) link
Ballot sent. I can't believe this band, every last song on my list I can relate a specific memory to, it's outrageous.
― Hotblack Desiatos #1 Hits 1942 (Spectrist), Wednesday, 15 August 2012 07:57 (eleven years ago) link
34 ballots received. In your face, Paul Simon!
― nate woolls, Wednesday, 15 August 2012 09:42 (eleven years ago) link
"six different ways" is my second favorite off the album, after "close to me"
― nicky lo-fi, Wednesday, 15 August 2012 11:12 (eleven years ago) link
When're you doing the countdown?
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 15 August 2012 11:38 (eleven years ago) link
TIB/BDC - 3SS - 2Faith - 2Pornography - 2The Top - 2Head - 3KMKMKM - 6Disintegration - 5Wish - 2WMS - 1Bloodflowers - 1Cure - 34:13 Dream - 2other 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).
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Wednesday, 15 August 2012 11:40 (eleven years ago) link
I'm hoping to start about 9 tonight with the albums, videos and tracks 50-41.
― nate woolls, Wednesday, 15 August 2012 11:49 (eleven years ago) link
rad.
― charlie h, Wednesday, 15 August 2012 11:51 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― nate woolls, Wednesday, 15 August 2012 12:05 (eleven years ago) link
POLLography: The Cure poll results, ILM artist poll #23
― nate woolls, Wednesday, 15 August 2012 20:13 (eleven years ago) link
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
― ʘ (sic), Wednesday, 15 August 2012 23:50 (eleven years ago) link