Someone vote for Ian Gomm, charity dudes!
I'm voting for the Ramones. It's the rules.
― Mark G, Monday, 12 May 2008 07:37 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah with ian gomm, brinsley schwarz is as well represented here as blondie and benatar.
― tipsy mothra, Monday, 12 May 2008 13:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Cheap Trick
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 12 May 2008 14:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Driver's Seat (a-wooh)
― gnarly sceptre, Monday, 12 May 2008 14:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Nick Lowe
― Euler, Monday, 12 May 2008 14:45 (fifteen years ago) link
holy crap my dad had this before he sold all his vinyl for a dollar
― latebloomer, Monday, 12 May 2008 14:52 (fifteen years ago) link
let me just mention again how awesome heartbreaker is. i wish had the 45 picture-sleeve they show there at the beginning.
― tipsy mothra, Monday, 12 May 2008 15:07 (fifteen years ago) link
Heartbreaker's pretty sweet (my girlfriend found the vinyl for a buck a couple weeks ago), but I've been loving Joe Jackson lately (also vinyl for a buck a few weeks ago). Maybe I'll tell her to come here and our votes can cancel each other's out.
― I eat cannibals, Monday, 12 May 2008 17:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― ILX System, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 23:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Great album, not one bad cut; I've taken my copy to DJ gigs, even. Voted for Sniff N the Tears, though traditionally I would have gone with "Pop Muzik." (I had no idea there was an alternate Canuck version!)
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 00:41 (fifteen years ago) link
"Cars"
― Curt1s Stephens, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 00:42 (fifteen years ago) link
The two songs I like the least, strangely enough:
I Want You To Want Me - Cheap Trick (which was never anywhere near one of their best songs) We Live For Love - Pat Benatar (she had plenty that were better than this, including "Heartbreaker")
Better than "Hold On" by Triumph, Wilson Phillips, or En Vogue (and probably lots of other people):
Hold On - Ian Gomm
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 00:44 (fifteen years ago) link
My friend's uncle was Sniff 'n the Tears!
― Mark C, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 15:24 (fifteen years ago) link
It annoys me that Ian Gomm is the one thing I don't know here. I'll have to seek that out.
― Bimble, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 16:50 (fifteen years ago) link
"Call Me" is just one of those songs that's so deeply embedded in my psyche from early on in my childhood I can't not vote for it.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 19:52 (fifteen years ago) link
This LP looks like almost the entire playlist of Minneapolis' first modern rock radio station in 1979, esp. Sniff and Gomm -- the safe face of new wave.
― Dan Peterson, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 20:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Damn, submitted before I was finished and sounded like a cynical crank. Safe face of new wave yes, but I loved (and still love) almost all of these songs. Might opt for "Heartbreaker."
― Dan Peterson, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 20:50 (fifteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― ILX System, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 23:01 (fifteen years ago) link
congratulations to mr. sniff and his tears.
― tipsy mothra, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 23:31 (fifteen years ago) link
I remember when I was in Belgium in 1991 that Sniff song was a hit there at the time and I was like "what? That song is ancient!"
― Bimble, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 23:50 (fifteen years ago) link
That's how I felt about the same year when I was in Spain and Blue Swede's "Hooked On A Feeling" was a hit. Which I later found out was because it was in a commercial for the department store El Corte Inglés.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 15 May 2008 00:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Thanks for the YouTube link -- that's definitely a song I never had a visual connection to. Had to laugh over the poster's qualified comment, though: "'Driver's Seat' is perhaps the most popular song by British new wave band Sniff'n The Tears." Yes, perhaps.
― briania, Thursday, 15 May 2008 02:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Someone vote for Ian Gomm, charity dudes!-- Mark G, Monday, 12 May 2008 07:37 (3 days ago) Bookmark Link
-- Mark G, Monday, 12 May 2008 07:37 (3 days ago) Bookmark Link
And, they didnt!
also: One Way Or Another - Blondie 0
Hmm! And didn't this win a different poll?
― Mark G, Thursday, 15 May 2008 08:26 (fifteen years ago) link
I would have voted for Ian if I'd known it was gonna turn out like this- that's a good song.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 15 May 2008 10:20 (fifteen years ago) link
HAH!
They all SAID they were going to vote for Ian.
― Mark G, Thursday, 15 May 2008 10:39 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm not sure if I'm going crazy or what but I'm almost entirely certain that the version of Rock 80 that I bought when I was a kid did NOT have that shitty song from Ian Gomm... I'm sure that instead there was a track from Delbert McClinton: Givin' It Up for Your Love..! Does anyone else remember that.!?
― Kol'beer, Monday, 24 November 2014 18:13 (nine years ago) link